tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2091714924588660529.post2217701734154038165..comments2023-08-25T05:16:40.313-04:00Comments on Growing Old With Rock & Roll: Mott The Hoople "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, 1973" (Bonus Video Friday)Ricki C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04687745258304549097noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2091714924588660529.post-92072037542896948092022-04-02T13:07:21.404-04:002022-04-02T13:07:21.404-04:00Hey Anonymous, thanks for writing! I didn't re...Hey Anonymous, thanks for writing! I didn't really understand the nature of blogs when I started GOWR&R back in 2012. The guys from Watershed - the band I was a roadie for at the time - convinced me to write down some of the rock & roll stories I told them in the van (they were almost 20 years younger than me) before they were lost to time (or a bad heart & cancer).<br /><br />I never really thought people would still be reading the blog ten years down the line as they are now. (I still get anywhere between 15 to 50 hits a day, some banner days I hit a hundred; it's kinda gratifying.) <br /><br />I saw that tour you're talking about here in Columbus; Queen's "replacement" band here was Kansas, who I hated then and despise to this day. (I've always seen "Dust In The Wind" as the anthem for Midwest stoners to just smoke themselves into a stupor and never really TRY to DO anything constructive. In that respect it was the polar opposite of punk, which at least TRIED to spur rockers on to some kind of activism.)<br /><br />But I digress.......THANKS FOR READING & COMMENTING! (I wish more people would send their own stories in to GOWR&R.) Ricki C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04687745258304549097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2091714924588660529.post-17057001965685713982022-03-30T03:25:18.404-04:002022-03-30T03:25:18.404-04:00Great site! I saw Mott in 1974 at the Shubert Thea...Great site! I saw Mott in 1974 at the Shubert Theater in Philadelphia. The warm-up band was supposed to be Queen, but Bria May was ill so REO Speedwagon opened instead. They were fantastic, but Mott was in their prime, even though Mick Ralphs had left for Bad Company. Ariel Bender, born Luther Grosvenor, had honed his chops with Spooky Tooth ("Spooky Two" is one of the most underrated albums ever. He shines on that disc.) Anyway, Mott released what I essentially heard a year or so later on their live album. The medley that ends the concert I attended and the record is one of the most chilling and powerful sonic sleigh rides of all time. Bender crushes it in th end. If you have not heard the live medley, access it on YouTube, some of it in two parts, some the whole thing. To be played at maximum volume! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com