.The tickets for 6:30pm show sold out in minutes. I was able to buy 2 tix for 10:30pm show..neither my 23 yr old sister nor I drove yet so my 19 yr old sister and mom in my sister's pink Rambler station wagon dropped us off in the parking lot. Mama said we will be back at 2:30am as the first concert is at 6:40 pm you shouldn't be let out before 4 hours! We had seats on the floor level. Row 33..sometime during the show I saw 5 empty seats 3rd row center! We ran up there, looking over our shoulders..and settled in. NO ONE showed up for the seats! Did not know who Terry Reid was..BB King sat on a chair to play Lucille. I remember him swearing when mike malfunctioned. Ike and Tina were phenomenal! Ikettes bending at the waist and back up flipping the long wings back and forth while dancing and singing and Tina was front and center along with the girls! I remember Tina grabbing the mike and sexually singing to the head of the Mike while singing and Ike answering her within the song..the time flew! By the time the Stones got on stage I looked at my watch. 2:20am! They sang for 2 solid hours! I remember the black outfit and long red scarf! The overhead lights on when Mick said he wanted to see "all of you" (us )...The VERY BEST concert of my life (I saw Elvis 3x!) We made it out to the now steamed up windowed pink Rambler station wagon well after 4:30am. We found mama and Brenda huddled together in a big hug, trying to stay warm as the car heater did not work. It was December 1969. I thought we would be in trouble. Mama asked if we had a good time. (Boy did we ever ). She said they could hear the Stones singing well into the parking lot. Her only comment was "They sure were loud!" We know! We were 3rd row center!! Thank you to the author of this article. I am 71 now and reminiscing the cocert was a "heck of a blast!" 🎼🎵🎶🎸
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Was 9 years old and was there. I remember them saying the delay was because their equipment was set up for 220v and they were fixing it. My mom and I debated this years later, she didn't remember that being said :)
Nice reading that I did in fact hear what I've remembered all these years.
Thanks for this great write up, nice trip down memory lane.
Boy did this make me long to relive that part of the long-gone past—made me contact high too. I was at the Stones Garden concert Lucian mentions, also with Voice credentials. What showmen they were, in crackling times. I saw them from more distant seats a few years later in Atlantic City; Guns N' Roses opened. The Stones were still great, the times weren't. We had to enter the Coliseum from a Trump casino. Already no fan, I didn't spend a nickel.
I went to the concert at the garden when Ike and Tina opened. It was a tad more than memorable from the 4th row, press tickets through the Voice. Those were the days.
I was 17
.The tickets for 6:30pm show sold out in minutes. I was able to buy 2 tix for 10:30pm show..neither my 23 yr old sister nor I drove yet so my 19 yr old sister and mom in my sister's pink Rambler station wagon dropped us off in the parking lot. Mama said we will be back at 2:30am as the first concert is at 6:40 pm you shouldn't be let out before 4 hours! We had seats on the floor level. Row 33..sometime during the show I saw 5 empty seats 3rd row center! We ran up there, looking over our shoulders..and settled in. NO ONE showed up for the seats! Did not know who Terry Reid was..BB King sat on a chair to play Lucille. I remember him swearing when mike malfunctioned. Ike and Tina were phenomenal! Ikettes bending at the waist and back up flipping the long wings back and forth while dancing and singing and Tina was front and center along with the girls! I remember Tina grabbing the mike and sexually singing to the head of the Mike while singing and Ike answering her within the song..the time flew! By the time the Stones got on stage I looked at my watch. 2:20am! They sang for 2 solid hours! I remember the black outfit and long red scarf! The overhead lights on when Mick said he wanted to see "all of you" (us )...The VERY BEST concert of my life (I saw Elvis 3x!) We made it out to the now steamed up windowed pink Rambler station wagon well after 4:30am. We found mama and Brenda huddled together in a big hug, trying to stay warm as the car heater did not work. It was December 1969. I thought we would be in trouble. Mama asked if we had a good time. (Boy did we ever ). She said they could hear the Stones singing well into the parking lot. Her only comment was "They sure were loud!" We know! We were 3rd row center!! Thank you to the author of this article. I am 71 now and reminiscing the cocert was a "heck of a blast!" 🎼🎵🎶🎸
Well, thank you, Bella. And the others who commented. I hope you'll be encouraged to subscribe, free or paid (comments are now limited to paying subscribers) for both "blasts from the past" and new music commentary of interest to lifelong rock music fans. BTW, my Elvis Presley concert review is in the archives here too.
Was 9 years old and was there. I remember them saying the delay was because their equipment was set up for 220v and they were fixing it. My mom and I debated this years later, she didn't remember that being said :)
Nice reading that I did in fact hear what I've remembered all these years.
Thanks for this great write up, nice trip down memory lane.
RIP Tina
Thanks Craig. I just heard about Tina myself.
Boy did this make me long to relive that part of the long-gone past—made me contact high too. I was at the Stones Garden concert Lucian mentions, also with Voice credentials. What showmen they were, in crackling times. I saw them from more distant seats a few years later in Atlantic City; Guns N' Roses opened. The Stones were still great, the times weren't. We had to enter the Coliseum from a Trump casino. Already no fan, I didn't spend a nickel.
I went to the concert at the garden when Ike and Tina opened. It was a tad more than memorable from the 4th row, press tickets through the Voice. Those were the days.