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[Inkfink]

Very Cool! I remember the days of covering every square inch of my room with posters and picts. Now I cringe at thumbtack holes in walls - not to mention double-stick tape!

[Illoman]

Very Cool! I remember the days of covering every square inch of my room with posters and picts. Now I cringe at thumbtack holes in walls - not to mention double-stick tape!

I cringe at the thumbtack holes in my *posters*!! LOL!!! I guess the worse thing I ever did was way back in 1974 I bought a Barry Smith Conan black light poster. My dad made a frame for it out of paneling, and staple gunned the poster to it!!! Ouch!!!

[dlhenderson]

Speaking of thumbtack holes, or lack thereof, I bought a concert poster (for a show I had just attended) when I was around 16 yrs. old for $5. It was screen printed on heavy card stock. I stuck it to the wall of my room with "poster putty". About half the room was wood paneling, the other half was cement. Fortuitously, I used the putty to adhere it to the cement wall, so there were no pin holes in the piece. I sold it to a collector of concert posters last month for eighteen thousand dollars. It took him two years of haggling before I decided to let it go. I had mixed feeling about it, but now that it's all said and done, I'm glad to know the poster in in a great collection.

[Hepcat]

Wow! What was the concert?

[bigbud]

Hep is right, dlhenderson! You can't just leave us hanging on that! What concert?    Bud

[dlhenderson]

Oh, sorry; here's a shot of the poster.
I'm afraid this thread has gone off the Weird-Oh track!

[Hepcat]

Wow! The Jimi Hendrix Experience together with Vanilla Fudge! great concert.

Is there a book of concert poster prices?

[dlhenderson]

There are a number of web sites devoted to this stuff. Wolfgang's Vault is one of the most comprehensive.

[Illoman]

I'm more impressed that you got to see Ted Nugent with the Amboy Dukes!! Can you tell me what you remember about that?

[bigbud]

Tim Bogart on bass with the Fudge.......that would be impressive!  Buddy

[dlhenderson]

Hi Illoman. There were two shows that day (as mentioned on the poster). I was at the afternoon show. Actually The Soft Machine was pretty interesting. It seemed like "orchestrated noise" and I always kind of enjoyed the experimental stuff. The Amboy Dukes were energetic. At one point Ted jumped off the stage and just kept on playing. According to my calculations, he was just 19 years old at the time. Hendrix followed with a fairly subdued set. But, of course, all he had to do was stand there and play and I was electrified (as was the entire room). I head later that The Amboy Dukes didn't play the evening show. There was speculation that Ted and the boys had tried too hard to upstage Jimi and were bumped for that reason. I have no idea if that's true or not. In my mind no one could have upstaged the power trio of Jimi, Mitch and Noel.

[Illoman]

Hi Illoman. There were two shows that day (as mentioned on the poster). I was at the afternoon show. Actually The Soft Machine was pretty interesting. It seemed like "orchestrated noise" and I always kind of enjoyed the experimental stuff. The Amboy Dukes were energetic. At one point Ted jumped off the stage and just kept on playing. According to my calculations, he was just 19 years old at the time. Hendrix followed with a fairly subdued set. But, of course, all he had to do was stand there and play and I was electrified (as was the entire room). I head later that The Amboy Dukes didn't play the evening show. There was speculation that Ted and the boys had tried too hard to upstage Jimi and were bumped for that reason. I have no idea if that's true or not. In my mind no one could have upstaged the power trio of Jimi, Mitch and Noel.

Thanks. I saw Ted around 1979 with AC/DC opening. Loudest concert I ever heard. I had ear plugs and *still* had that after concert ear ringing for two days!! My friends were in the cheap seats and were breaking off cigarette filters and stuffing their ears with them! For Ted's encore I took the ear plugs out to hear Ted raw. It literally felt like someone was inside my chest, bating on my rib cage. I don't know how else to describe it.

I snuck my girl friend's camera in, and was able to get one shot of the Ted. Right after I snapped this shot all the security guys came rushing over to see who took it. (I used a flash.) I was too scared to take another one.

[Scatter]

EXCELLENT shot!! 

[dlhenderson]

He looks downright satanic in that shot!

[Illoman]

The way I remember it (and I was sober at this one!!) he saw the camera and made that face! It was awesome. I really wish I could have gotten more snaps but really didn't want to risk it.

At the end of his encore he hit a feedback note, and while the guitar hummed away he set it on a guitar stand and bowed down to it!! Great, great showmanship.