It Is Possible to Do All Those Things You Used To Do While Drunk, Sober... Even Rock Concerts... But You Will Need Earplugs if You Fail to Smoke Marijuana.

Once I went to a Rock Concert Without Marijuana and the Guitar Solos Seemed Too Long and Pointless... I'm Sure The Allman Brothers Band Would Have been Better if I was Stoned... But at That Time There was NO Weed Available... Out of Season!

There's a Magic World Outside!

I remember at a Santana Concert outdoors near Yuba City we did not have any Marijuana but... I had the Realization that I could simply DANCE Myself into a Trance... and I Did! --- What was Funny at that Show was Santana Played First and THE WHO Played Later... and all the Mexican American People LEFT after Santana Finished Playing... MISSING the Entire WHO Concert... 

Anyway... a Friend was Wondering IF She should attend an Indoor Concert next week BUT... She was Concerned About Getting COVID-19 or MONKEYPOX and was Planning to wear a Mask the entire Concert... However, She Said that would make it difficult to drink during the Show... Well, I automatically assumed she was talking about drinking Alcohol... but someone Else Pointed out that she wouldn't be able to drink WATER Either... I Had Never Considered That! In Fact, It would be Difficult to Drink Anything while wearing a Mask... So Going to a Concert is OUT!

SO... I realized that I never go to Gatherings of People anymore... Neither Indoors or Outdoors... I Just Don't GO... and In My Life I Loved Large Crowds... I remember 500,000 People in Washington DC on the Fourth of July with the Beach Boys in Concert with Jimmy Page and Joan Jett... That was FUN... Fireworks... and I got stoned on Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Seeds... a Mild form of LSD... I have Stopped Going to AA Meetings... and I Have Dropped out of the Group Sing Along Band at the Folsom Senior Center... We Had Fun There... Singing all those "Old Timey" Songs... but They Closed the Folsom Senior Center Entirely for a Year and I Just Never Went Back after it Reopened...

To get back to the Main Part of the Story... While there has been a Tradition of Drinking Alcohol and Then Having Sex... I joined Alcoholics Anonymous... and The Rest of This story is CENSORED... It's Nunya Beezwax! 

One Thing I DID Notice was that Our Club Seemed Like a Swinging Singles Meeting... and I DID Marry a Member... and We Stayed Married for 15 Years and We are Still Friends... but we live in different cities... 

 

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List of All the Rock Concerts I've Ever Gone To. Since I've Started to Experience Dementia, I'm Writing this all down so I'll Be able to read it later... and say... OH YEAH! I Remember That!

To Simplify Things... Here is a List of Bands I Did Not See... Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Janis Joplin, The Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac or The Beatles...

My First Concert Was... The Loading Zone at the Presbyterian Church in Los Gatos, CA... as a High School Freshman... 

The Tower of Power at The Chateau in Los Gatos... Outdoors in the Redwood Forest... I was High on LSD.

I Worked as a Security Guard at Forbes Mill in Los Gatos. We Had Live Bands on Friday and Saturday Nights and Folk Singers on Wednesday. I Don't Remember Any Names... They Were all other High School Classmates... 

The First Fillmore West Show Was: The Youngbloods - "Come on People Now, Smile On Your Brother. Everybody Get Together Right Now", Chicago Transit Authority and Coliseum...

another Fillmore West Show (also Known as The Carousel Ballroom) was Lee Michaels...

and Yet another Fillmore West Show was Johnny Winter And Rick Derringer... 

Winterland! An Ice Skating Rink in San Francisco - Recycled into Bill Graham's EPIC Concert Hall... Maximum Attendance about 5,000... 

1972 - The Grateful Dead, The New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Sons of Champlin... With My Girlfriend Liz Dunbar, Joe Franck and Rachael Ludlum... The Big Song of the Night was "Casey Jones."

1972 - The Rolling Stones and Stevie Wonder - Twice in One Day.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer (Tarkus) and The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McGlaughlin --- ELP again on their Pictures at an Exhibition Tour... 

Traffic - Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason

Yes - The Guitar Player Played too Much and Rick Wakeman Didn't Play Enough...

Quicksilver Messenger Service

David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars on Halloween...

The Allman Brothers...

Johnny Winter, Foghat and Peter Frampton - He was The Best! 

Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo

I Guess That's All the Winterland Shows... 

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The Grateful Dead at University of Reno Football Field playing thru the Wall of Sound... I was high on LSD...

It's a Beautiful Day at Flint Amphitheater at Stanford... 

Ike and Tina Turner Review at San Jose Civic Auditorium...

I was High on LSD...

Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and the Comets at San Jose Civic Auditorium...

BB KING with My Wife JoAnn Humphrey at Circle Star... San Carlos... Near San Francisco... 

The Grateful Dead and Santana on New Years Eve at the Cow Palace. The Bands Merged into One... 

The Grateful Dead at San Francisco Civic. I Ate Magic Mushrooms... and We Played Volleyball before the Concert... 

Sopwith Camel at De Anza College Outdoors...

Boz Scaggs at De Anza College Indoors... 

Procol Harum with Robin Trower - Berkeley Community Theater...

George Harrison with Ravi Shankar and Billy Preston - Oakland Coleseum

Paul McCartney & Wings RFK Stadium - Washington DC

The Grateful Dead - RFK Stadium - On Some Unknown Psychedelic That Someone Dosed Me With - I Think it was MDMA... Don't Know

The Grateful Dead - Capitol Center, Landover Maryland - Many Times

The Grateful Dead - Meriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia Maryland - Six Times - LSD & Magic Mushrooms

The Grateful Dead - Madison Square Garden

The Grateful Dead - Balitmore Civic Center

The Grateful Dead - University of Maryland Boys Gym

Crosby Stills and Nash & The Grateful Dead - Three Rivers Stadium - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Furthur Festival - Shoreline, Mountain View

The Grateful Dead - Oakland Colesium - LSD

The Grateful Dead - Hampton, Virginia

The Grateful Dead - Levi Stadium, Santa Clara - Farewell Tour - Two Shows - Ate a Lot of Cannabis Cookies

Frank Zappa DAR Constitution Hall Washington DC

Tangerine Dream - Warner Theater, Washington DC

KRAFTWERK - Warner Theater, Washington DC

Kitaro - Warner Theater, Washington, DC

The Beach Boys -Oakland Stadium

The Beach Boys with Jimmy Page and Joan Jett - The Washington Monument in Washington DC on the Fourth of July with Fireworks. 

Blondie - Meriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia Maryland

James Taylor - Meriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia Maryland

Willie Nelson with Soon to be President Jimmy Carter and Family - a fundraising Concert for His Election Campaign... Meriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia Maryland

Willie Nelson and Leon Russel at an Amusement Park in Virginia.

Pat Matheny and Lyle Mays - Meriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia Maryland

ASIA - Meriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia Maryland

Edgar Winter Group - Wax Museum, Washington DC

Weird Al Yankovich - Wax Museum, Washington DC

Asleep at the Wheel - Wax Museum, Washington DC

NRBQ (New Rhythm and Blues Quartet) - Wax Museum, Washington DC

BETTY - and Many Local Bands at The Washington Monument, Washington DC

Root Buy Slim and the New Hope For The Criminally Insane - The 9:30 Club, Washington DC

Parlament/Funkadelic - CALNEVA Lodge Lake Tahoe

Parlament/Funkadelic - La Salles, Chico, California

Jeff Pershing Band - Central Plaza, Chico, California

and Many other Bands at the Friday night Concert in the Park... Every Friday Night All Summer Long... 

Humboldt Calypso Band in Arcata, CA - Creamery Festival

David Lindley at Humboldt State University

Samba Parade Many Times at Humboldt State University

Tim Day's Band - Blue Rhythm Revue - Arcata's Plaza

Tim Day's Band - Old Town Eureka

Calamity Jane! - Old Town Eureka

Unknown Punk Rock Band at a Iraq War Protest March... First they Observed a Moment of Silence for the Dead... and Then They Observed a Moment of NOISE for the Dead...

Tofu Mike Schwartz did the PA Sound System

Humboldt Folklife Festival in Blue Lake (twice)... Many Bands... including Lila Nelson and Mike Schwartz... Ukesperience, Fortuna Bandemonium, Rooster McClintoc... 

Slewfoot String Band - a Practice Session in Manila, Ca and then a Concert at the AA Bar and Grill in Eureka, CA 

Led Zeppelin, Lee Michales, The Tubes - Kezar Stadium, San Francisco

SNACK Concert - Students Need Athletics Culture and Kicks - Kesar Stadium - Many Bands - Bob Dylan, The Band

Trouble Funk - George Washington University, Washington DC

Herbie Hancock - George Washington University, Washington DC

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some more I Just Remembered

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John Cage - Composer: at National Science Foundation Auditorium

Gamelan Orchestra at the National Art Gallery East Wing (Modern Art)

Chip Davis: The Guy from Mannheim Steamroller at National Art Gallery West Wing (Old Paintings)

Jerry Garcia Band: 

Keystone Palo Alto, 

DAR Constitution Hall - With Robert Hunter, 

San Jose State Boys Gym

Bobby Weir Solo... Bobby and The Midnights, Kingfish

Phil Lesh and Ned Lagin: Seastones

Harry Belafonte at Wolftrap

1812 Overture with Cannons at Wolftrap

Henri Mancini at the US Capitol July Fourth

Beethoven's Ninth Conducted by Leonard Bernstein at the Kennedy Center

Japanese Techno Pop Group at the Kennedy Center

MUSICALS:

Oklahoma - Saratoga Drama Group

My Fair Lady - Saratoga Drama Group - I Worked as a Stagehand and Painted Sets... 

Carousel - Woodminster in the Oakland Hills

HAIR - Some Theater in San Francisco