Sep 3, 1969 (55 years ago) The Pavillion New York, New York, United States
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SEPT 3 : MC-5/ THE STOOGES/DAVID PEEL and The LOWER EAST SIDE @ THE PAVILION With only one full day of my senior year of high school under my belt I needed a rest so I took the afternoon off from work and travelled back to The Pavilion grabbing tickets at the door to see The MC-5, The Stooges with David Peel and The Lower East Side. These bands, two from Detroit, and Peel from NYC,were not my usual fare of British blues bands or San Franciscan hippies. These guys were what has been called “radical chic”. After seeing a TV news segment about The Stooges I knew that this band intrigued me and I should make an attempt to see them LIVE when they hit town. This particular show was enlightening to say the very least. It started late, finished later, and the crowd, not as dense in population as the Led Zeppelin show a week earlier, can best be described as “crazy”. The Stooges had a nice droning sound with a lead singer with....ah, charisma? Eventually he had no shirt and pants that barely stayed on his hips while shaking his skinny ass toward the crowd. His performance had every one’s attention...I WANNA BE YOUR DOG, 1969 OKAY, What were they doing? What were they saying? I didn't exactly know what was happening musically but I knew this was different, very, very different. The stars of the evening,The MC5 were awesome, almost in the way The Who did it for me a few months previously. These guys were loud, fast, riotous, revolutionary, all with a coordinated choreography. The dance steps were just as amazing as the music was loud. I took something away from this show… on the car ride home I heard a new Creedence song on the FM radio and thought to myself, "What is that shit?", yeah, The 5 and Stooges helped steer me in new direction; guitars, bass and drums...loud and louder if possible, and the lead singer doesn't necessarily need to know how to sing. Who needs love songs anyway? And I needed to skip school the next day.
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