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Whassup in the 518? Friday, June 27th The Beach Boys, The Palace, Albany, 7:30pm As The Beach Boys mark more than a half century of making music, the group continues to ride the crest of a wave unequalled in America’s musical history. The Beach Boys – who have become synonymous with the California lifestyle and […]
By Mike Stampalia. 40 years ago: Eric Clapton @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center This was the Clapton everybody had heard before and expected, the wronged and downtrodden, content to let these melancholy melodies flow through and shiver his slender posture as if he were a public lightning rod on unrequited love and sorrow. After […]
The Turd: An American Journey, Chapter 11 – Xperience Monthly – by Liam Sweeny. Lysette pulled back their curtains, Navy blackout, to get a peek at the crowd, which had neither grown nor shrunk since they showed up. Cops didn’t want any part of it, told them to call 911 if it got feisty, their […]
(Image: The Pointer Sisters @ SPAC, 6/24/85 – photo by Bruce Squiers for the Saratogian) By Mike Stampalia. 40 years ago: The Pointer Sisters @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center The Pointer Sisters, Ruth, Anita and June told a Saratoga Performing Arts Center of 8,000 they’d been up partying all night with Phil Collins, the […]
(image: Phil Collins entertains 27,000 fans at SPAC, 6/23/85 – photo by the Saratogian) By Mike Stampalia. 40 years ago: Phil Collins @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center Collins’ voice was great all along, especially in “Against All Odds,” the movie soundtrack he wrote that was hacked to death during the Oscars. The singer who performed […]
By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Benny Goodman @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center With his band dressed in burgundy outfits, Goodman marked his appearance on stage dressed in white and immediately drew applause. The warm welcome of the sudience lasted the whole performance through and before Goodman could make his opening remarks one woman in […]
(Featured Image: Dan Fogelberg @ Tanglewood, 6/21/1985 – photo by Mark Mitchell for the Berkshire Eagle) By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Ramsey Lewis @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center 40 years ago: Dan Fogelberg / Chris Hillman Band @ Tanglewood He sings lots of personal love songs and borders on being overly sentimental, but […]
Jukebox. Jeff Scott Solo Rock vocalist Jeff Scott Solo, who sang on Yngwie Malmsteen’s first two albums, had advice for musicians starting out. When asked about lessons learned from his time with Yngwie, Scott noted that rather than learning what to do, he learned what not to do. Seeing the way things had functioned as […]
(Featured image: A violent storm shuts down Alive at Five, 6/24/2024 – photo by Timothy Reidy) By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Herbie Mann / Joe Farrell @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center After a standing ovation and the first of two encores, the spectators began piling into the orchestra pit, forming a conga line and […]
10 years ago: Train / The Fray / Matt Nathanson @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center His shrill, but full, falsettos were exceptional–a level of singing rarely seen on recordings, and virtually never seen live. When Train played Aerosmith’s “Dream On” during their encore, Monahan’s singing was chill-inducing. The audience was left to decide for themselves […]
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