Word: allmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the rains and the Band were through, the Allman brothers' technical crew took over two and a half hours to set up, and it was hard for the crowd to keep patient, there was no outlet for frustration, either. But a lot of people cheered when firecracker flares were aimed at the Allman brothers when they finally took the stage, without apology. Bill Graham introduced them as a rock band "with balls." The P.A. announcer had refined his routine so much that he underestimated the crowd size and refrained from commenting on the spirit of the whole enterprise until...
...Allman Brothers. 20,000 tickets. I four hours. And half the band is dead. I never even saw an ad, for Chrissake, and I'm still not sure whether this thing is for real or not. The Brothers are starting a metamorphosis into the kind of cult phenomenon the Dead have been for so long. Before this tour started, there were even rumors that the Dead and the Allmans would play a string of nine hour marathons across America. I think it's all too bad, because I genuinely love the Allman Brothers. I once got close enough to Dicky...
FRIDAY: In Concert. Two back-to-back replays of rock-music simulcasts from last year feature Alice Cooper, the Allman Brothers Band, Blood Sweat and Tears, Curtis Mayfield, Seals and Crofts, Chuck Berry, Poco, and Bo Diddley. CH.5. WBCN-FM. 11:30. Color...
This concerns Alice Cooper and the simulcast insofar as both media are visual. Kopkind's complaint is not so much over the simulcast as it is with Alice Cooper's particular appearance on it. (If he finds creeping fascism in the Allman Brother's brilliant performance last week, then he's in worse shape than I gave him credit for), On the highest level, his major complaint is with Alice Cooper's performance, and what he assumes is gratuitous violence similar to that displayed in the films. More on that later...
...watched the second "In Concere." And I thought, within the limitations imposed by the greedy general atmosphere of television, that the show was excellent. This may've been the music--my love for the Allman Brothers borders on mania--but the tendency to underplay the visual effects was refreshing after the nightmare of split screening in Woodstock. WBCN's choice of what obnoxious commercials to air was just irrational enough to be interesting. "In Concert" has the potential to please that segment of the rock listening public tired of fighting rip off ticket prices and obnoxious audiences. And, even before...