Yes, 1969. I didn’t know any of it made it to the album. Mick Taylor was new on guitar at that time.
The funny thing was, I had a friend who bought two tix at $7.50 each, being quite confident he’d easily get a date to see the Stones. But he struck out, so I bought one of his tickets off him for $5!
You have no idea how I’ve fetishized Ya-yas since my father and I bought a scratchy used LP at a Puerto Rican Day streetfest in New York City in 1979, when I was nine years old (do the math — I was a fetus while you were enjoying the show). My father passed away a year later.
Ray Davies? Of the Kinks? Still going strong! But Jim Rodford, the Kinks bassist from the late 70s - mid 90s, who was also in Argent and The Zombies died recently. Saw him with both the Kinks and the Zombies. Chatted to him in the Gents after one of the Zombies gigs…
Others on my list include Bowie, Prince, Zappa, Garcia, Beefheart, Cash, Stockhausen, Daevid Allen of Gong, Chris Squire of Yes, Bob Hite (and others) of Canned Heat, the original Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jackie Leven, Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream… and no doubt others I don’t recall from gigss I’ve seen over the decades.
I peed next to Neal Young in a bar in Denver. He and his band were in a private room watching a boxing match. He invited me to watch the fight. He’s still alive.
Back in 1996, I got to see Douglas Adams on a tour that he gave when he came to my university.
I really don’t remember most of it, he gave a talk about writing and stuff, then read a dramatic reading from “Last Chance to See”, as well as taking some audience questions and naming a cat.