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When AC/DC played Dallas in October 1985, the band “threw the dog a bone” by performing “Jailbreak” for their earliest American fans who were in San Antonio and Dallas/ Ft. Worth ten years earlier when the Aussie’s were just struggling to get known by playing Texas clubs.
Back in 2015 when the Rolling Stones were playing tight and right, presciently Mick Jagger knew that they had better do something special for the Rolling Stones’ fiftieth anniversary of the landmark album “Sticky Fingers”, albeit six years early. The Stones played every song from it at the LA Fonda Theater, including this spirited version of “Brown Sugar”.
Eras in music no more follow the calendar than Mother Nature does. Thus fifty years ago in mid-March 1971 the last live performance of the Sixties in effect may actually gone down when the Rolling Stones ended their brief Scottish/ English tour at London’s Roundhouse with this final performance of “Honky Tonk Women”.
On a maximum scale of five stars, the 1977 debut by Cheap Trick receives AllMusic.com’s highest rating. And the even more melodic, better sounding sophomore effort “In Color” in the same year earns 4 1/2 stars. Then Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander, Tom Petersson, and Bun E. Carlos wrote and recorded the masterpiece “Heaven Tonight” in May 1978, yet again scoring a critics’ perfect five star rating. So in hindsight it would appear that recording the Rockford IL quartet’s set while performing the strongest material from these three killer studio albums, in front of an adoring audience in one of the world’s premiere venues, would be as obvious as a sumo wrestler in your shower stall.
The Van Halen free concert ( you read that right, FREE ) in the streets of downtown Dallas on the afternoon of December 4, 1991 included this performance of “The Best of Both Worlds”.
It’s the 55th anniversary of Three Dog Night “Naturally”. Between their 1968 debut album and the mid-Seventies, it was virtually impossible to turn on an American radio without hearing Los Angeles-based legendary hitmakers Three Dog Night and one of their twenty-one hit singles…Here is my April 2005 interview with dearly departed Cory Wells and Danny Hutton “In the Studio”.
Highest claps-per-dollar? A mirror ball; “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” the hottest show on television in the late Nineties, starring the late Regis Philbin and a giant ring of Vari-Lites; architectural lighting from the Empire State to the Las Vegas Strip with Irideon; 500 employees and $100+ million annual revenues; IPO on NASDAQ October […]
Jim calls out the companies big and small who were first offered the VariLite …and passed (it’s a big club, they should print up jackets ); Genesis manager Tony Smith catches the Hail Mary pass; wire-wrapping thousands of microprocessor card connections by hand, flawlessly, & delivering 55 VariLites to Genesis in nine months, Sept 1981; […]
Showco Jim Bornhorst pt 1
Listening now to the epic title song to “Tarkus”, the second studio album in June1971 which followed quickly after their stunning 1970 debut, with Greg Lake’s voice delicately yet nimbly bounding along to Keith Emerson’s piano runs, it’s clear that Emerson Lake and Palmer were much less “Be Bop a Lula” in their melodic grandeur and much more “Andrew Lloyd Weber”. Here In the Studio is the story in their own words of progressive rock’s first supergroup.