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Anyone remember summer of '70?

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DonK Newbie

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I definitely remember it: I was 16. I was a huge CSN&Y fan. Not a big fan of the Dead, but the video is cool! :thu:

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BTW nice avatar Don. I just saw Stephen Stills in concert earlier this month. Somebody gave me a pair of free tickets on the 3rd row - he can still play quite well. His voice is going, but the guitar chops are still there.

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BTW nice avatar Don. I just saw Stephen Stills in concert earlier this month. Somebody gave me a pair of free tickets on the 3rd row - he can still play quite well. His voice is going, but the guitar chops are still there.

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I agree. I saw him last year at a local club; got to sit at a front table, directly in front of him (maybe five or six feet away!). He tore it up on both electric and acoustic. He's a much better player than most people realize, especially on acoustic where he's pretty much a virtuoso in my book. Ever seen this video?

 

 

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I was alive and well then.

Here is a little anecdote - some years ago (15?) our daughter called her mom and I and said "I want to take you to a concert" I said "T, I'm not really into your music and I don't have any leather and studs". T said, "no, dig out some tie dye - Carlos Santanos is opening for the Dead and we have front row seats". Guess maybe I raised her OK after all.

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I agree. I saw him last year at a local club; got to sit at a front table, directly in front of him (maybe five or six feet away!). He tore it up on both electric and acoustic. He's a much better player than most people realize, especially on acoustic where he's pretty much a virtuoso in my book. Ever seen this video?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3_x2I8FQ8Q



Yeah, I came home and watched pretty much every Stephen Stills clip on youtube right after that show. :lol:

In the concert here he played pretty much every tune I would expect. He opened the show on his White Falcon with the band, then the band left and he played for about 45 minutes on a couple of different acoustics. When the band came back he played acoustic, the White Falcon, a Japanese sunburst Strat (which had something funky going on with the bridge, he was clearly bothered by it), and on one song he played a keyboard. He had Larry Rinker, PGA Tour pro, playing a Thinline Telecaster and singing backup vocals on the band songs.

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dimly... attended the GREAT ATLANTA POP FESTIVAL (July 3, 4 and 5 in Byron, GA). I was 19 and hitched from Michigan to see 3 days of "legends" including Hendrix (the night of the 4th - complete with fireworks!). The Acid was so good...

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Yeah, I came home and watched pretty much every Stephen Stills clip on youtube right after that show.
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In the concert here he played pretty much every tune I would expect. He opened the show on his White Falcon with the band, then the band left and he played for about 45 minutes on a couple of different acoustics. When the band came back he played acoustic, the White Falcon, a Japanese sunburst Strat (which had something funky going on with the bridge, he was clearly bothered by it), and on one song he played a keyboard. He had Larry Rinker, PGA Tour pro, playing a Thinline Telecaster and singing backup vocals on the band songs.


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That's cool info. I've seen him with the White Falcon many times, and of course his Martin D-45's - he doesn't take his pre-war ones on the road but rather has a couple of his D-45SS models and another one that has "Stephen Stills" inlaid across the fretboard. One question for you: he's used a variety of electrics over the year though I've seen him play a Firebird more often than not, that is until a couple of years ago. The last three times I've seen him (solo and with CSN&Y) he's mostly played a pair of sunburst Strats (and occasionally a butterscotch Tele), but I assumed they were vintage. How were you able to tell he was playing a Japanese model - I'd like to get one of those! ;)

 

I knew he was into golf; that's kind of cool that he had Larry Rinker playing along.

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How were you able to tell he was playing a Japanese model - I'd like to get one of those!
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Certain tell-tale signs - the dot markers, the hardware on the bridge, etc. I'm guessing that like the Martins, he's got more valuable Strats that he chooses to leave at home.

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Summer of 1970, Sunny South East Asia, bullet hole in my arm, playing a Martin 5-18 (1928).



depending on exactly where, I might take a bullet hole in my arm for a good 5 series martin. :)

BTW...today's your day. I hope all the injuries from then have healed.

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It's always great to see and hear these vintage concerts where they just stick a SM58-ish mic in front of a Martin and get a better tone than most of us do now days with all our fancy pres, pickups, etc. :)

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Summer of '70 ... oof .. I was all of 9.

Music-wise - I remember Mashmakhan's "As The Years Go By" constantly on the radio, with, if I'm not mistaken, The Poppy Family's "Which Way You Goin' Billy", The Guess Who's "Hand Me Down World", and CCR's "Lookin' Out My Back Door" not far behind.

I was still 4 years away from picking up a guitar ...

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It's always great to see and hear these vintage concerts where they just stick a SM58-ish mic in front of a Martin and get a better tone than most of us do now days with all our fancy pres, pickups, etc.
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Amen. :cool:

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Michael Martin Newbie

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Anyone remember summer of '70?

 

 

Of course. Got my driver's license on 7/16/70. And at some point that summer I bought the record that altered my psychic DNA forevermore--it was a live recording of a concert that took place on Valentine's Day that same year. I think I'd give up a leg to go back in time and experience it in person (but not an arm--might affect my guitar technique).

 

For some reason, I was paying almost no attention to the west coast stuff in those days--never got into the Dead as a kid. I was looking in the other direction I guess.

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Yeah, I remember the summer of '70. I was 6, running round in shorts and playing football (Sorry you Americans call it Soccer). Didn't get my first guitar 'till '77 - dad was teaching me trumpet and Jazz at that time.

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