X-Roughneck Strike 3
Well-known member
Tom,
I loved my four Cotton Bowl Shows (Texas Jams) the best. Just being at a Huge event was out of the norm, for me anyway. Small town guy, in the Big City. Good thing we could read paper maps...
Get 80,000- 100,000 people together, well the crowd could get very entertaining...
Long waits to stand there and bake between acts, so scantilly clad crowd participants, people almost falling perched off the light poles, etc. were just a added bonus for being there!
To sum up on my personal level only... The Number #1 the best live Performance, With Crowd Participation that I have ever seen, Electric!! We are talking PACKED cotton Bowl...
#1: Van Halen, 11:00 AM, Live Cotton Bowl Dallas Texas, 1 July 1978. Texas Jam #1. I was standing in the shade of the stage the entire show! Crowd was 80,000 plus 3/4 of field pretty packed as the show had barely kicked off. Van Halen was like act 3 of the day? Walter Eagen (Hammer and Steel), Eddie Money, then a act or so later.... Van Halen? Very True. I was there....
They played the entire First Van Halen Album, and they were tearing it up on stage. Big Sounds, Blaring from Eddie's Guitar! RIP: Eddie!
To this day, and I am getting up there myself, I have never been in a more Electricity Charged Atmosphere in my life.
Rock and Roll...has a vibe to it.
I was standing just feet away from the stage, in the mix of the crowd, as Eddie Van Halen set the Cotton Bowl on Fire! He burned it Down I might add!
Back in those days....Circus Magazine to catch who was putting out Albums, so we could go to Hastings Record Stores and buy them...Out here in Po Dunk, Texas. We would sit there and listen to them over.
....Our Radios did not pick up the FM Rock Stations out of Dallas, Ft Worth, Austin.
I will say the ZZ Top Eliminator Tour, at Frank Erwin Center, Austin was a very Close #2 Place, for my personal experiences.
The ZZ Stage of the Eliminator Dash Board of the Old Hot Rod, and half way thru changing to a Digital Dash Board with Lasers was pretty spectacular. Frank Erwin Center has seating like a Funnel so there is not a bad seat in the house. They do alot of "In the Round" or did, I think, back in the day. Great Venue!
I loved my four Cotton Bowl Shows (Texas Jams) the best. Just being at a Huge event was out of the norm, for me anyway. Small town guy, in the Big City. Good thing we could read paper maps...
Get 80,000- 100,000 people together, well the crowd could get very entertaining...
Long waits to stand there and bake between acts, so scantilly clad crowd participants, people almost falling perched off the light poles, etc. were just a added bonus for being there!
To sum up on my personal level only... The Number #1 the best live Performance, With Crowd Participation that I have ever seen, Electric!! We are talking PACKED cotton Bowl...
#1: Van Halen, 11:00 AM, Live Cotton Bowl Dallas Texas, 1 July 1978. Texas Jam #1. I was standing in the shade of the stage the entire show! Crowd was 80,000 plus 3/4 of field pretty packed as the show had barely kicked off. Van Halen was like act 3 of the day? Walter Eagen (Hammer and Steel), Eddie Money, then a act or so later.... Van Halen? Very True. I was there....
They played the entire First Van Halen Album, and they were tearing it up on stage. Big Sounds, Blaring from Eddie's Guitar! RIP: Eddie!
To this day, and I am getting up there myself, I have never been in a more Electricity Charged Atmosphere in my life.
Rock and Roll...has a vibe to it.
I was standing just feet away from the stage, in the mix of the crowd, as Eddie Van Halen set the Cotton Bowl on Fire! He burned it Down I might add!
Back in those days....Circus Magazine to catch who was putting out Albums, so we could go to Hastings Record Stores and buy them...Out here in Po Dunk, Texas. We would sit there and listen to them over.
....Our Radios did not pick up the FM Rock Stations out of Dallas, Ft Worth, Austin.
I will say the ZZ Top Eliminator Tour, at Frank Erwin Center, Austin was a very Close #2 Place, for my personal experiences.
The ZZ Stage of the Eliminator Dash Board of the Old Hot Rod, and half way thru changing to a Digital Dash Board with Lasers was pretty spectacular. Frank Erwin Center has seating like a Funnel so there is not a bad seat in the house. They do alot of "In the Round" or did, I think, back in the day. Great Venue!