I am not a big fan of their long jams but there are a lot of excellent songs on this album which was a 3-record set. I love the version of “Comberland Blues”. I think this was their best period. I saw them in 1973 and the concert was not as good as this.
Category: On this date
The great WKRP Turkey Drop – 10/30/78
Turkeys don’t fly. That was news to some on the show WKRP in Cincinnati
Game 7 of the 1979 World Series – 10/17/79
I was there. The Pirates beat the Orioles in Game 7 in Baltimore. As an Orioles fan, this was terrible. The Orioles had a 3-1 series lead with 2 of the 3 final games in Baltimore. I saw all four Baltimore home games and they only won the first one.
The end was very strange. There were very few Pirates fans there. There were 30-40 people jumping up and down on the field while over 50,000 Orioles fans left in stunned silence.
The only World Series Perfect Game – 10/8/56
The Band (brown album) was released on 9/24/69
My second favorite rock album ever (after Exile on Main Street).
Jim Croce died on September 20, 1973
Jim Croce died in a plane crash on September 20, 1973. I saw him at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh on March 3, 1973. He was opening for Loggins and Messina
(The rest of the text below is also in another post I wrote.)
Ken Kesey born 9/17/35
I saw Ken Kesey speak at Shepherd University in West Virginia. I am guessing it was in the 1990s. He was rambling but entertaining. I think anyone in West Virginia who had ever been a hippie was there. I felt like I was in a 1960s time warp.
You’re old if you knew M*A*S*H was a movie before it was a TV show
It was a book before it was a movie – a novel written by a doctor who had served in the Korean War.
The 1970 film M*A*S*H was directed by Robert Altman. I saw it in a theater in downtown Philadelphia and thought tickets were expensive because they were $3.00.
I believe that Gary Burghoff (Radar) was the only actor who played the same role in the film and TV show.
Orioles triple play 9/18/22
The Orioles turned a triple play today. I have seen two triple plays in person – both in 1979. The one by Oakland was so fast they could have gotten 4 or 5 guys out. As I recall, it was the first game their second baseman, Mickey Klutts, played at second.
Covers: We’re Gonna Make It
“We’re Gonna Make It” was recorded in 1965 by Little Milton who was born in September 7, 1934. I’m glad that Taj Mahal remembered it and covered it in 1995.
Sad! 