I realize tng's question is about our dream concert that we didn't see, but how can we help mentioning a real concert. (Probably another hubski discussion already exists on this topic.) I was at my dream concert: this concert. I still don't believe the line-up. Event: Toronto Rock and Roll Revival
Date: September 13, 1969
Location: Varsity Stadium
Attendance: 20,000
Concert Promoters: John Brower and Ken Walker
Concert duration: 13 hours featuring:
The Doors
Plastic Ono Band John Lennon, Yoko, Eric Clapton +
Bo Diddley
Chicago Transit Authority
Tony Joe White
Alice Cooper
Jerry-Lee Lewis
Chuck Berry
Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys
Gene Vincent
Junior Walker & The All-Stars
Little Richard
Doug Kershaw
Screaming Lord Sutch
Nucleus
Milkwood
Tony Joe White
Whiskey Howl http://beatles.ncf.ca/live_peace_in_toronto_p1.html And the most amazing thing was that I was wandering in Queen's Park - a big park behind the Parliament Buildings in Toronto - with two friends when a man asked us if we wanted tickets to a concert. He was giving them away.
"Sure," we said. We hadn't even heard it was happening.
Eight months later, the Beatles officially broke up.
A year and a half later, Jim Morrison would be dead.
you saw Screaming Lord Sutch !?
he is my political hero.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/1999/jun/19/guardianobituarie...
That is an awesome story Lill! This is why when someone offers you concert tickets you say "yes." Do you recall the performances? Any standouts?
This whole post got me checking YouTube and the web for documentation and articles on it. I see there's quite a few, so that should help the memory. There's a YouTube video of John and Yoko together doing "Give Peace a Chance" at this concert Original experienced memories? Here's some:
It was an all-day thing in an outdoor downtown stadium. There was lots of comraderie. When night fell, I made my way to the front and was there when John and Yoko came on.
I most of all remember Yoko in a bag howling through two songs.
I remember someone arriving in a helicopter - maybe the Doors. This was towards the end of the evening. When they began "Light My Fire" - there was that kind of 2000-people-oneness that the great concerts create. Now if I had kept a notebook, I'd have more to share. To the Hubski majority of 18-25 year olds. Keep a notebook with you when you are experiencing extreme life. You will appreciate it in forty years. When you are wondering what you did and not sure how to navigate the masses of tweets, texts, and data; you might still be able to pull out a notebook. Number and date your notebooks.
(ha ha, like that's going to happen.) Luckily BLOB_CASTLE is helping people remember how to handwrite with his penpal project!
Heyo! I actually do keep a journal on me at all times. I don't write too much in it unless I'm feeling inspired. In fact, the other day I woke up and had two stanzas of a poem in my mind. Instead of doing the homework I woke up early to finish I ended up writing a poem. I regret nothing.