Saw BTO, Marshall Tucker and that " we built this city" band...

[Shorty Medlock]

Ok.... bought tickets in February. Decent seats at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, WI.

Opening act was kinda like a bunch of musicians role playing to the hits. But the female singer and male lead guitar player had dome talent.

Marshall Tucker was better although the lead singer likely had some voice issues after doing two weeks of one nighters.

Randy Bachman and his group were stellar... worth every penny. They played the BTO hits, plus his Guess Who tunes and plenty of other rock standards in a fast paced finale.

My wifes favorite song of all time is Talin Care of Bidness but we left before they played it... likely was the finale.

Overall a fun night.

A whole lotta old people there!

 

[telemnemonics]

Marshall Tucker is alive???
Doug plays tambourine?
Saw them a long long long time ago…

 

[sammy1974]

Marshall Tucker is alive???

Evidently died two years ago, but of course he was not a member.

 

[Peegoo]

As 'Blue' Lou Marini said, "CHICKEN wire?"

 

[SnidelyWhiplash]

Most of the original MTB are no longer with us...

 

[telemnemonics]

Most of the original MTB are no longer with us...

train done run outta track…

 

[sax4blues]

If the first act was Starship the guitar player is Jude Gold. He’s a San Francisco Bay Area native who has a great podcast interviewing players

 

[Shorty Medlock]

Marshall Tucker is alive???
Doug plays tambourine?
Saw them a long long long time ago…

The BAND is alive... non of the original members are afaik.

Around '78 I was heading east thru the Gorge on I-40 in TN/NC when the Marshall Tucker bus passed me. I broke out in song on my CB singing "Heard it in a love song"....

i got some applause from the band members on the bus but Toy, the lead singer, hated my rendition of HiS song...

I was young and I got over it!

At least I didn't get threatened like Chubby Checker did to me in Nevada on a lonely stretch of I-80

 

[24 track]

looks like a fun night,
Jefferson starship is not the same with out Grace Slick a monster talent with naughty tendencies.( she was always getting into trouble )

 

[Old Plank]

Opening act was kinda like a bunch of musicians role playing to the hits. But the female singer and male lead guitar player had dome talent.

Ok you're making me feel not so bad that I had to eat tix last Sunday for the role-playing act, at a benefit concert here. Thank you!

 

[Shorty Medlock]

As 'Blue' Lou Marini said, "CHICKEN wire?"

Well we were sitting behind the dugout at a baseball stadium hence the fence.

Around '85 we played at Barney's which was a bar on campus of UW-Oshkosh... we did a 5pm gig for the basball fans that just got back from a Milwaukee Brewers home game.

The had two kegs of beer on the bus.

We had a roadie go buy some plastic garbage bags to cover US and our equipment when the locals chose to copy the Blues Brothers bar scene at Bob's Country Bunker...

 

[Peegoo]

the guitar player is Jude Gold.

Jude's a beast of a player.

In the late 90s/2000s he was chief editor at Guitar Player mag or Guitar for the Practicing Musician mag (I cannot remember which).

 

[Grandfunkfan]

Doug Grey is the lead singer for Marshall Tucker and is still very much alive. We opened for them at a State fair show in 1979. Great band in their hey day. Country rock but with a little jazz vibe that separated them from the other southern rockers.

 

[Vibroluxer]

MT played in our little town of 3,500 last summer. I don't know who was in the band but I sure had a good time.