Mike Stampalia
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(Image: Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger at SPAC, 7/1/75 – photo by the Saratogian) By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center The pair played nearly three hours, taking only a 20 minute intermission in the middle of the evening. Throughout the performance, they played both together […]
By Mike Stampalia. 40 years ago: Commodores / Spyro Gyra / Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble / Dave Brubeck Quartet / Woody Herman All-Stars with Harry “Sweets” Edison, Al Cohn, Carl Fontana, John Bunch, George Duvivier, Jake Hanna & Buddy tate / Dr. John / Jackie Mcean/Rene McLean Sextet / The Johnny Otis Show […]
(Image: Jazz fans don their foul-weather gear during an early afternoon shower at the Kool Jazz Festival at SPAC, 6/29/85 – photo by Bruce Squiers for the Saratogian) By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Stephen Stills @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center His voice, the same one that led CSN&Y for years, failed him several […]
(Image: 1975 ad for Tanglewood Popular Artist Series) By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Stephen Stills / Tom Waits @ Tanglewood The opening act of the evening was singer Tom Waits. Waits looks and sounds like a Bowery wino who’s coming off a long binge. In a hoarse, guttural voice, he sang and growled […]
(Featured image: WAITING FOR THE DEAD – Grateful Dead fans wait to get into the SPAC grounds Thursday. The concert broke the attendance record as 40,231 “Deadheads” converged on SPAC. Photo by Bruce Squiers for the Saratogian.) By Mike Stampalia. 40 years ago: The Grateful Dead brought – still, to this day – the biggest […]
(Image: Advertisement for 2015 Solid Sound Festival) By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Eric Clapton / Santana @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center It was the recipe for the perfect rock concert. All of the right ingredients were there and in the proper amounts. One part performing arts center, one part good weather, two parts […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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