Mike Stampalia
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By Mike Stampalia. Forty years ago: Tom Jones @ the Coliseum Theatre Dierks Bentley / Chase Rice / Mae Estes @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center As a side note from someone who’s seen hundreds of rock concerts over the decades but is a neophyte to country shows, do country crowds, apropos of nothing, […]
image: drummer Max Roach (1955) By Mike Stampalia. 70 years ago: The Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet @ Berkshire Music Barn RIGHT NOW as this is written the clicking of the typewriter sounds rather futile with the memory of Mr. Roach’s drums still beating on the occipital lobe. His drumming is the most and any […]
By Mike Stampalia. 30 years ago: Mary Chapin Carpenter / The Mavericks @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center While Carpenter offered her version of Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman” purr during “I Feel Lucky,” it was Raul Malo, the big-voiced frontman of opening act the Mavericks, who conjured up the ghost of the Big O. With power-house […]
image: KRS-One at Alive at Five, July 11, 2024 – photo by Timothy Reidy for RadioRadioX 60 years ago: The Beau Brummels / The Chiffons / The Shirelles / Bobby Comstock and the Counts at Boys Club of America (Pittsfield) The kids (boys too) have solved the problem of being made to sit down during […]
(image: Black Flag in 1985) By Mike Stampalia. 60 years ago: Ian & Sylvia @ Berkshire Music Barn There was a hint Saturday that the Tysons’ performance lacked the force it had a year ago, and that their music was beginning to wear a little thin. Perhaps they have been with the same tunes […]
By Mike Stampalia. 30 years ago: Yanni @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center The most popular performer continues to be Karen Briggs, the charismatic jazz violinist, who received an ovation at her entrance before the performance began, which pretty much matched Yanni’s own. Briggs has a definite following, some of whom came to the concert […]
(Image: Trustworth Samende of Mokoomba at Music Haven, 7/7/2024 – photo by Timothy Reidy) By Mike Stampalia. 10 years ago: Ben Williams and Sound Effect @ Skidmore College’s Zankel Music Center While Williams’ aggression puts him apart from the pack, it was his hushed work in the clear towards the end of the […]
(Image: Dave Mason – photo by the Morning Call) By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Dave Mason / Livingston Taylor @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center The entire night broke loose when Mason went into “All Along the Watchtower.” It got crazier when he played “Only You Know and I Know” and “Feelin’ Alright,” a […]
By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: The Bee Gees / Revelation @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center The audience was especially impressed with “Jive Talkin’,” which obviously gives the group hope that their new image may be taking hold. – Steve Grandin for the Saratogian 50 years ago: Tom Rush / Orleans / Wendy […]
(Image: Orleans headlines the 4th of July celebration at Empire State Plaza, 7/4/24 – photo by Timothy Reidy) By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Blood, Sweat & Tears / Chick Corea and Return to Forever @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center ..early in the evening, his microphone failed, but Clayton-Thomas hung in there and merely […]
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