Yup..Del you hit it on the nose..a greast live LP! DDexpand your humble pie collection and pick up 'rockin the fillmore'...double album and every song is killer! i like it better than 'smokin'......
High-end stereo equipment was very inexpensive at Patch Barracks in West Germany for US military members. Reel-to-reels, the 'new' technology, cassette decks with Bose sound reduction, amps, pre-amps, tuners, turntables, blah, blah, blah, blah..........
My idiotic roommate came from a comfortable family in New Jersey and they sent Junior a few hundred dollars to buy his dream stereo system.
He loved Humble Pie and especially "30 Days In the Hole" and he played that song over and over and over and over. It's this song as well as "Stairway To Heaven" that prevents me from listening to an oldies station.
You can only hear a specific song so many times in a single lifetime. LOL
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GobwatsWhat years were you in the Stuttgart area? I remember all too well listening to a dozen or more tunes simultaneously as everyone played power wars with their amp/speaker combos. Really miss the concert scene over there in the late 70's.
Gobwats
I was stationed at Heilbron from June 1972 until July 1973 when I got an early out to go back to school. Our barracks were old pre-WWI calvary barracks. The horse stalls were in the basement which the Army used for storage and to hide stuff from the IG best I could figure out.
Not bad duty actually - doing the Army's 'hash tour' in Europe was definitely better than serving in Vietnam (the US Army's 'China White' and 'Cambodian Red' tour) or the Panama Canal Zone (the US Army's cocaine and 'Panama Red' tour)
The concert scene was incredible. Except for seeing Uriah Heep live and in person. That one concert was all it took to give away all of their albums.
The lead guitarist sounded like he was playing his Fender Stratocaster with mittens on and it was even worse for their base player. God that was some crappy music!
America was big. Grateful Dead sold out and recorded a live album in '72. Isle of Wright Concert was huge - cheap hash ($1.25 per gram on 'payday stakes' and $1.00 with cash), lots of variety - Chokin' Red, Paper Dynamite, Pakistani marketed as Afghani (LOL), Lebanese (my favorite) and Moroccan (which was basically kief pressed lightly - good stuff).
What years were you there?
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Baumholder
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Revox turntable, Nakamichi cassette, Crown Amps, Bose 901's
Smoked about every hash known to Europe!
My pal used to send me redbud...I was king.
Man what memories...
Saw LedZ there...many many others including Bon Scott, and the very next year, same venue (Manheim) Brian Johnson. Those lads never missed a fucking tick then, or since.
I had to add....
If one ever gets a chance to be up close and personal at an AC/DC show, one gets a true sense of what a rock and roll animal really is. Angus is THE rock and roll animal. No others even come close.