Word: gigged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earned that designation by itself: everybody from John Sebastian to Country Joe and the Fish to Santana put in an appearance over the course of the three-day festival to end all festivals. Michael Wadleigh's integration of crowd scene footage into the basic frame work of the gig-by-gig sequence of bands has never been matched by any subsequent film chronicling the events of a music concert, rock or otherwise. Never has a three-hour chunk of celluloid flown by so quickly in recent memory, and I include the Godfather epics in that statement. Joan Baez' rendition...
Gypsy Soul. When a gig in Miami fell through in 1972, Buffett stayed in Florida and settled in Key West. The shrimpers' bars suited him perfectly: "I could go out at night and come home with a hell of a story." From the sandy Key West beaches sprang a string of albums during the next few years. Among them: AI A, named for the access road near his home, Havana Daydreamin' and the waggishly titled A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean...
...auditions on Monday nights. Fast talkers who knew they needed only ballpoint pens and promising new groups to become record company executives jostled in the Troub's murk with finger snappers who knew they needed only luck and chord books to become rock musicians. The Poneys wangled a gig at the Troubadour. They had hit the small time, but they were rock musicians...
Anyone else would have left for the gig 20 minutes ago. Not Gary Stewart, who, at 32, has suddenly become a star of the rowdiest brand of country rock -honky-tonk. Were he in a larger town, promoters and agents would be nervously pinching their digitals. But this is a languid evening in Fort Pierce, Fla., Stewart's home town, and the squeak of a front-porch rocker is music enough for now. Besides, one must rest after a supper of pork chops and okra. Digestion is a ritual, a time for introspective belching. "It stays nice and slow...
...born. One Brooklyn girl started staying up until 4:30 a.m. just to see his one-minute ad on TV. Another kissed the tube whenever he appeared. He booked a concert at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, and it sold out. Westbury asked him back for a one-week gig for $100,000. Love 76 has sold 43,000 copies, through mail orders drawn by the TV spots. Lemongello was becoming a household word of sorts-at least in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. But, as he ruefully admitted, "if you mentioned my name in Philadelphia, no one would...