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Originally Posted by tophcfa
I will nominate one of my absolute all time favorites. From The Allman Bros. Album "Eat a Peach", in 1972, the song "Blue Sky".
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I was out with some friends, I just looked it up, it was Sept 6, 1969. We went to the Bayfront Center in St. Pete to see George Carlin at 8pm. The box office told us, the show is sold out, but come back at 10pm and we have tickets. There was nothing going on in downtown St. Pete at night in '69 for four guys that were 19.
We decided to go to the Electric Zoo, I had never been, but I heard a lot about the place. It was out by Sunshine Drag Strip, about 10 miles away. We got there about 9pm and I remember some girl said, do you guys have some money, I need $3.50 to get in. So we gave some change.
We go inside and there is a band that first thing I notice is they have two drummers, one white and one black. A guy on a red guitar with long blonde hair just wailing away. Some guy sitting down playing keyboards and singing. I never seen nothing like it, but then again, at 19 I had not seen that many bands, in fact Vanilla Fudge was the only concert I had seen at that point.
Anyway, it was fantastic and after they played for it seems like a couple of hours, the singer said, our first album comes out in 2 months and we hope you buy it, we're the Allman Brothers.
Three months later I'm in the Army and all of '70 and '71 I'm out of circulation, basic training, school, Korea 13 months. Finally 1972 I'm stationed in Savannah and I'm at this girl's house, in fact I took her to the Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick Concert, it was fantastic, best concert I've ever seen. Anyway, I'm flipping through her albums and I see these guys that look familiar, and I say, hey I've seen these guys a couple of years ago, and then I realized they made it.