Category: On this date
The Grateful Dead’s Europe ’72 is 50
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.
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.
Sad! 