1979 Wings Stadium Kalamazoo Mi. my Cheap Trick ticket was 7.50 I seem to recall.
Wished I had brought ear plugs.
Felt like the old electric football games you crank up the power on and players move around on the surface. Only full power and they all wreck. L.o.l..
Brought Ladyfried to a Z.Z. Top concert during thier Deguello tour.
[“I played it through a Marshall Major, a short-lived two-hundred-watt beast, which had one blown tube,” noted Gibbons. “Hence the rather bulbous, rotund sound. There’s also a little bit of digital delay for that Bo Diddley impersonation at the tail out, and a Maestro Ring Modulator, which produces the strange tag to each verse. It appears three times, and it’s a pretty funny sound. That is one insane effect put to good use.”
But perhaps the defining addition on
Degüello was the Hohner Clavinet keyboard that was sprinkled on the tracks and set up the band’s synth-heavy 80s output.
“By this time, Memphis had made its mark with us in a really positive way,” Gibbons said. “I don’t think anyone can go there and not be affected by all of the great music, especially stuff from the Stax/Volt era. Before we left, the song
I Thank You came on the car radio. Isaac Hayes played this badass clavinet part that made the Sam & Dave version so distinctive.
“I was in the studio, talking to the engineer, and I remarked about how magical the sound of the clavinet was on that song, and he said: ‘Well, lo and behold, that very same clavinet is right out there in the other room’. We put it on
I Thank You,
Cheap Sunglasses – it started showing up on a lot of tracks.”]
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