a concert review from May 1970

[Partridge]

I don't think this review has been posted here before.

I realize I could just clip the "Ronstadt" piece but I thought a reminiscence about the others acts of the day might be in order:

[erik]

It's also in the Scrapbook Clippings section (1966-1970)

[Partridge]

Thanks. I guess I won't need to go searching for the correct place to stick it.

[Dianna]

So much for Goose Creek.

[fabtastique]

Yeah .... Who??

[moe]

I would like to know what kind of sound system is "below par" for country music to the extent that it works for Goose Creek but fails Linda ?  Also is a "canyon of sound" the bastard cousin of Phil Spector's "wall of sound?

[erik]

Quote by moe:

I would like to know what kind of sound system is "below par" for country music to the extent that it works for Goose Creek but fails Linda ? Also is a "canyon of sound" the bastard cousin of Phil Spector's "wall of sound?

Evidently somebody had too much time on his hands back in May 1970; it has all the hallmarks of a wanna-be critic who writes fancy phrases that make precious little sense (IMHO).

[Tony]

For something that is headlined as a Linda Ronstadt concert review, he really tells us nothing about her concert other than it was pure country (apparently not to his liking).

I recall the opening act when I was in college-- I think they were called Goose Creek Symphony.  I always thought they were named after Goose Creek which is a small town just outside of Charleston, SC, but apparently I am wrong, because they have been inducted (as was Linda Ronstadt) in the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame.

[erik]

Quote by Tony:

I recall the opening act when I was in college-- I think they were called Goose Creek Symphony. I always thought they were named after Goose Creek which is a small town just outside of Charleston, SC, but apparently I am wrong, because they have been inducted (as was Linda Ronstadt) in the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame.

And if I remember right, one of that band's members was Ed Black. He almost went on a tour with Gram Parsons in early 1973 as the steel guitar player in GP's Fallen Angels, but he backed out, perhaps spooked by Gram's drug-addled behavior, and went with Linda instead.