Billy Strings is the best live show going right now (if you are into that kind of music). We first saw them in '18 before they BLEW UP! Have seen them about about 15 times now and just scored ticket for the Greensboro show in April. If you have an opportunity, go see them. Billy is an incredibly special talent and has surrounded himself with a top level band - culminating in some of the best music I've ever seen live. Happy for them but not happy about how packed the shows are now or how hard it is to get tickets
This is kinda like I felt when I saw Cream, Johnny Winter and Ten Years After back in 1967. These were tiny clubs or high school gyms with maybe 200 people. Half of them we not even expecting the performance each gave…and within weeks they exploded. It’s great that they reached the levels of success but that intimate contact was gone
Johnny Winter was at the Seminole Indian Music And Arts Festival..not scheduled to play this night but wanted to get his name out there, so they let him play another night…what a show
Cream was a Catholic high school auditorium for $3.00
Ten Years After was a converted bowling ally. Day-glo paint and posters all over the place and a 12” tall stage…$3.00 cover charge
There we so many great bluegrass players in NJ when we moved here and we’d go to the Englishtown Music Hall to see so many. These shows were also on PBS public television mid 1970’s
I took my 4yr old son to the Summer Nationals at Raceway Park, late ‘70s… pit tickets…$40 each. (Again late ‘70s..$40 was a touch pricey)
The first dragster runs down the strip…we are 50’ away and he starts to cry and carry on…. Ok, on the way home 4 minutes later…
Track is closed… developments in the area eventually complained loudly enough. It started with noise limits, limited running hours..mandatory days closed..and finally…done! WHAT IDIOT BUYS A HOUSE NEXT DOOR TO A DRAG STRIP!!!
When I saw that news flash, I could not really think how much time has elapsed..my first exposure was back in 1972. My most memorable being RFK in D.C. and Watkins Glen. Only a few yrs ago we saw him at Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ. Time does have a way of slipping by.
I had to go north today for work…this commute after 39 years is a bitch. I hate it with a passion …any distraction is fine. I found a thumb-drive I had made about 7-8 years ago with a bunch of old music. This one stood out
I have widely diverse taste in music except for rap. Any guitar guys might enjoy this. I have seen these guys at a local university theater teamed up with the Montreal Guitar trio…6 magnificent guitarists playing everything from rock to Bach…
