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Faron Young had an absolutely great voice.
Faron Young - It's Four In The Morning 1973
| Source: | https://youtu.be/pxR50aaLNhY?t=152 |
| Published: | Jun 2, 2017 |
| Author: | When The Cowboy Sings |
| Post Date: | 2020-02-27 19:47:22 by BTP Holdings |
| Views: | 3568 |
#1: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Life was so much realer then! It's all lies all the time now.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-27 21:15:22 Reply Private Reply
#2: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed, BTP Holdings (#1)
Why? Because if it was pleasant, the set would be too white.
StraitGate posted on 2020-02-27 21:23:41 Reply Private Reply
#3: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
Faron Young died of self inflicted gun shot. Not sure why that happened.
But some of the best shows I worked were the country shows, George Strait, Garth Brooks, The Highwaymen, Randy Travis and more. Some of the most violent were where they had mosh pits.
I hear at the old Aragon Ball Room now there are no longer any chairs. I recently read about someone that was there for a concert. They said Security did not care what went on.
When they removed the chairs, naturally it left the floor wide open. The sound board used to be in the middle of the floor. If it still is I bet it is surrounded by bicycle racks. Maybe even two rows of them. Even if they are hooked together they can still be moved if the crush is hard enough. Not much that can be done with crowd control in that instance. I bet they have a mosh pit down front too. Just like Medusa's about a mile south of Wrigley Field on Sheffield. Not sure if there is still a guest section down front. If there is maybe those are the only chairs in the place.
I knew a young lady who was at Medusa's for a show. When the band started up she was caught down front in the crush when everyone started moshing. I grabbed her by the arm and pulled her out of there.
Mosh pits were the worst place to be. Out at Woodstock 94 the mosh pit was a muddy mess. A few girls were body surfing naked. Some of the guys were reaching and putting their fingers in the forbidden zone. Needless to say their fingers and hands were muddy. That is the best way to explain it without being too graphic. LOL
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-27 21:31:16 Reply Private Reply
#4: BTP Holdings To: StraitGate (#2)
Some of the worst shows we worked were the black and Mexican shows.
At one of the black shows in the round, it was Sinbad as the headline act. A black woman opened for him. When she came off stage she had a gold bracelet. She handed it to one of the roadies. He put it on a table near the stage stairs.
The show was in the round so they had us all strung out holding back the crowd. Some black girl slipped in there and grabbed the chain. Someone saw her do it. They searched her and could not find it. So they called for Verna, the black girl on the crew.
As soon as the black girl saw Verna, the chain magically appeared. I guess she had it in a secret place. ROTFLMAO!
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-27 21:39:56 Reply Private Reply
#5: Lod To: BTP Holdings, country music fans, the rest (#0)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faron_Young
Lod posted on 2020-02-27 21:59:45 Reply Private Reply
#6: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#2)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-27 22:15:06 Reply Private Reply
#7: Lod To: BTP Holdings, 4um (#4)
Out where the bright lights are glowing
You're drawn like a moth to a flame
You laugh while the wine's over flowing
While I sit and whisper your name
Four walls to hear me
Four walls to see
Four walls too near me
Closing in on me
Sometimes I ask why I'm waiting
But my walls have nothing to say
I'm made for love, not for hating
So here where you've left me, I'll stay
One night with you is like heaven
And so, while I'm walking the floor
I'll listen for steps in the hallway
And wait for your knock on my door
Four walls to hear me
Four walls to see
Four walls too near me Closing in on me
Closing in on me
Lod posted on 2020-02-27 22:20:29 Reply Private Reply
#8: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#3)
Am I imagining things or is moshing one of the dumbest ideas ever? I beleve you're mostly talking about 'country rock' artists here. When rock went country it united its person with a prostitute.
wikid: 'Though new country acts including BR549 were putting his music before new audiences in the mid-1990s, Young apparently felt the music industry, which had undergone a revolution of sorts in 1991, had mostly rejected him (a sentiment shared by a number of artists of his generation).[1] A combination of that particular theory and despondency over his deteriorating health were cited as possible reasons'.
I just can't stand it -- because I remember civilization too well, and I only ever knew the tail end of it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPia1ap_Wb8
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-27 22:22:06 Reply Private Reply
#9: Lod To: NeoconsNailed (#6)
Lod posted on 2020-02-27 22:31:52 Reply Private Reply
#10: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed (#8)
- from Barbara Fairchild's 1976 version of Theunissen's Mississippi
StraitGate posted on 2020-02-27 23:00:25 Reply Private Reply
#11: StraitGate To: Lod, NeoconsNailed (#5)
StraitGate posted on 2020-02-27 23:03:36 Reply Private Reply
#12: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#11)
My grandmother's family came from NOLA and pronounced words like girl and whirl 'gihl' and 'whihl' -- it's impossible to describe, a not unpleasant cross between Britain and Brooklyn.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-27 23:13:01 Reply Private Reply
#13: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#10)
I was disgusted to see Jim Seals (am I repeating myself? Prolly) of Seals and Crofts abandon folk-pop for faux-country at this time, singing such material on TV -- pure whoredom.
Of course this all didn't happen in a vacuum -- Help Me Make it Through the Night ('I don't know what's wrong or right') dates from 1970, You've Never Been This Far Before ('my trembling fingers touch forbidden places') 1973.....
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-27 23:31:06 Reply Private Reply
#14: NeoconsNailed To: Lod (#9)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-27 23:32:46 Reply Private Reply
#15: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed (#13)
StraitGate posted on 2020-02-28 00:10:28 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-28 00:42:52 Reply Private Reply
#17: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#12)
How could this be? NOLA has a lot of French since Louisiana territory was bought from France. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-28 02:25:32 Reply Private Reply
#18: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#13)
Dan Seals is Jim's brother.
I remember Conway Twitty. He is dead a long time.
Sammi Smith did Help Me Make It Through The Night.
When I started listening to country music in the 70s that song was still being played heavily.
The boss at the florist shop said it was the worst music this side on Nashville. I disagreed. What would he know anyway. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-28 02:35:26 Reply Private Reply
#19: BTP Holdings To: Lod (#7)
Jim was killed in Tennessee when his private plane crashed. He was 40 years old. You know the old saying, only the good die young. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-28 02:40:43 Reply Private Reply
#20: Lod To: NeoconsNailed (#14)
Conway did have the most sexually suggestive lyrics back then.
Lod posted on 2020-02-28 08:02:50 Reply Private Reply
#21: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#18)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqwLjkqj8Gw
I always tho't they were singing "I'm not talking 'bout millennia" ;)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-28 09:12:34 Reply Private Reply
#22: NeoconsNailed To: Lod (#20)
en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Conway_Twitty
Could you imagine choosing such a name for yourself, even if born Harold Lloyd Jenkins? Why Twitty -- what could be sillier?
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-28 09:24:41 Reply Private Reply
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en.wikip edia.org/wiki/Cockney#Cockney_speech
www.findagrave.com/memorial/46853544/claire-marie-coci
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-28 09:36:40 Reply Private Reply
#24: Lod To: NeoconsNailed, 4um (#22)
conwaytwitty.com/about/
Lod posted on 2020-02-28 09:53:04 Reply Private Reply
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Lod posted on 2020-02-28 10:26:04 Reply Private Reply
#26: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#0)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-28 10:30:54 Reply Private Reply
#27: NeoconsNailed To: Lod (#24)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-28 10:33:24 Reply Private Reply
#28: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#13)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-28 17:08:43 Reply Private Reply
#29: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#28)
Lots of them shouldov done so, but it's more macho to perform from memory.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-28 18:25:53 Reply Private Reply
#30: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#29)
I worked The Highwaymen in Chicago. I was personal security for Johnny Cash during the meet and greet after the show. He was quite a guy.
I saw a video of him not long ago. It was his last live appearance before he passed away. Crew helped him out of wheel chair and then sat him down so he could pick the guitar. He was pretty darn grey haired.
BTW, they invited him to Woodstock 94. But when they told him he could not perform on main stage he would not go. He should have gone even if it was on B stage. I would have gone over there to catch his act.
Oh, I saw some guy at local Wal Mart that was wearing a Poison T-shirt. It turned out his brother worked for Upstaging. They ship that equipment all across the country.
When Pearl Jam played in Chicago it was same stage as Woodstock 94. Once they started to body surf there was no way to keep them off front of stage.
There was a barricade out in the crowd with 15 guys standing around doing nothing. I call Supervisor there on radio and said, "Send half your crew up on front of stage to help out."
My boss was hollering he didn't want anyone on front of stage. I told him, "You're not going to be able to keep them off. It's going to be just like Woodstock." ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-28 18:55:24 Reply Private Reply
#31: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#30)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-28 19:02:31 Reply Private Reply
#32: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#31)
The main stage was set up higher. There was an area on front we would stand on and then the stage was higher up still.
The B stage was level with the ground and a bit smaller.
When Green Day was performing the crowd rushed the stage and the drummer got his arm broken.
That can happen even if there are barricades in front of stage. Those guys were just overwhelmed. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-28 19:09:39 Reply Private Reply
#33: StraitGate To: BTP Holdings (#30)
What the heck is a Poison T-shirt? Is that anything like a radioactive sweater?
StraitGate posted on 2020-02-28 21:04:06 Reply Private Reply
#34: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed, BTP Holdings (#13)
StraitGate posted on 2020-02-28 21:19:50 Reply Private Reply
#35: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#34)
Billy and the boys were singing it at a Wallace rally when the hero was worse than assassinated. I see Bremer is still alive -- why aren't the media interviewing him to ask if he acted alone, etc? They never do such -- already know the answers and don't want us to. That would be journalism!
en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Arthur_Bremer
He's right in style today -- planned to kill Nixon too, and quoth "Shooting segregationist dinosaurs wasn't as bad as harming mainstream politicians."
Gliberals actually think they have the right to kill us all. The only reason they don't is the threat of prison and execution. Pardon my jaundice....
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-28 22:44:28 Reply Private Reply
#36: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#32)
Why do ppl rush stages -- fans are obviously a menace half the time.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-28 22:51:56 Reply Private Reply
#37: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#36)
Oh yes. Why do people try to get onstage at all?
We were there to keep people from doing just that. Many times we stopped those crazy women and others who tried.
One time a guy got past us and band security nailed him. We took his ticket and threw him out the back stage roll up door that trucks would use.
He got back in and jumped the rail along the stairs trying to get onstage again. I was sitting next to my boss and I jumped up and grabbed him.
Myself and a cop hustled him up the stairs. He was struggling the whole time. When we got to the top, I pulled his left arm straight out and jammed it up behind his back.
When you make those joints move in ways they were not intended it really puts the hurt on them.
We told the cops at the front door we had thrown him out before so they charged him with trespassing. After all, he didn't have a ticket on him since we had taken it previously. Someone screwed up and allowed him in again without showing his ticket. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-29 02:20:49 Reply Private Reply
#38: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#37)
What a story. I'd venture to say everything was lost as soon as boomer musicians started needing trucks.
Everything has to become more than it is -- and everybody else, because there are no foundations or shared givens. The wall of amplifiers is a perfect symbol for the sheeple's deaf and blind act on anything that really matters.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-01 20:52:20 Reply Private Reply
#39: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#38)
Sometimes the buses would pull in down there too for the band.
But the groupies would hang out in back. These were the people that loved the band but did not have connections for back stage passes.
We would tell them, "We might be able to get you back stage." They would say, "Really?"
Then we would tell them, "Yeah, and we might even let you speak into the microphone." And they would say, "Wow!" LOL
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-01 22:04:23 Reply Private Reply
#40: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#39)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixa4Vl7Zu8s
I don't know why he keeps praising the little slut's looks -- well,I guess I do.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-02 08:13:15 Reply Private Reply
#41: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#40)
I knew this really cute blond from Valparaiso, Indiana who came to concerts with another chick that wrote about the bands for Daily Southtown newspaper back in the 80s.
One time we were at the Aragon Ballroom. She was in the balcony and leaned over the rail and said something to me.
I yelled up at her, "If you are going to jump, you can land on my face." Then I stuck out my tongue. ROTFLOL
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-02 08:34:54 Reply Private Reply
#42: BTP Holdings To: StraitGate (#33)
Nope. Poison is the name of a band. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-02 08:38:07 Reply Private Reply