May 1, 1974 John F. Kennedy High School, Plainview, NY. Just then Frampton came on and I do not know what happened to the girl. I remember feeling sorry for the Mummers while wondering WHY were they on stage at a rock concert!? In 1964, it was renamed John F. Kennedy Stadium in memory of the 35th President of the United States who had been assassinated the year before. On June 20, 1981, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, 38 Special, Marshall Tucker, and The Allman Brothers Band rocked Philadelphia's JFK Stadium in what was billed as The Roundup. some actualy made it.others were climbing up onto thr light stands to get a better view. John F. Kennedy (3) Joshua L. Chamberlain (2) Ladd and Whitney (1) Library (23) LIBRARY LIST (4) Library Visits (90) We ended up on the 50 yard line right next to the sound booth tower. Why? What a hot day. Benefit Concert on September 19, 1988. ? If only I was alive for that!!! Blondie concluded their Tracks Across America Tour here, on August 21, 1982. We agreed and thanked him. And then it just was hot. He said Steve was upstairs and the rest was in the bar. awesome day- got there - with my friend rob- had to meet some other peeps- they had a pair strawberry boxer underwear on a pole so we could find them in the middle of the field- we never left- until show was over- food fight was awesome- the fire in the stands - oh and the bands- oh and we forgot where we parked-forgot who drove or what car we took-. Frankford beat Archbishop Wood, 27-7, in heavy rain in 1978.[9]. The South Philadelphia stadium was on the east side of the far southern end of Broad Street at a location now part of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. And boy there were more there than a pharmaceutical wholesaler supply in one day. It was estimated that a 130k fans showed up to the event! The laser lights were something beyond belief. They played Starship Trooper and the campers go wild. I remember the day starting off with the fairly long early morning drive from NYC, where I grew up, to Philly for the event. I was there but don't remember too much, lol. "PCP ,sun and no water means you will miss the rest of the concert" coming over the PA system several times.People being assisted by medical staff for booze,drugs and too much exposure to the sun.Just watching all of these events unfold was very surreal and at times comical and hours before YES took the stage.Waiting for YES was torture but well worth it.Amazing stage dezign..incredible lights and lasers and of course unbeleivable sound. ahh.. To be seventeen again. Sadly, I did not go to that concert. The reason the Bicentennial Dollars were minted was to honor the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, signed by many of the most notable United States Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776 to proclaim the sovereignty of the nation. Great set and at his peak. John F. Kennedy Stadium, formerly Philadelphia Municipal Stadium and Sesquicentennial Stadium, was an open-air stadium in Philadelphia that stood from 1926 to 1992. I know I did not dream this.who else remembers? i arrived early enough with my friends to settle in front of the stage on the field, but we decided to sit all the way up the stands to the left and front (if facing the stage. Six Op Sail events have been held to date, in 1964, 1976, 1986, 1992, 2000 and 2012. And there we waited, and waited, and waited. The infamous fires which definitely DID occour actually were started twords the end of Yes's set - it did get quite cold in the evening after being a very hot, sunny day. BTW I turned 60 yesterday. Met my husband at that show. U.S. States House of Representatives elections: This page was last edited on 12 January 2023, at 14:39. But yeah, There was 130,000 people there., Apocalypse I went with a friend, we were 18-19 years old now very old. The concert was more than music. Were celebrating the return of YES Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakemen to Kimmel Center ( 10/1 ) with our say YES to Prog Rock Weekend. So we did the same thing for this concert. 1 talking about this. the beachballs. WOW, some great memories are sure flying after reading these review's. I remember Smoking Large amounts of panama red and Listening to Close to the Edge on Eight Track on the way down 95. Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning great with coffee! As for my 23 years as a Yes fan, I can tell you that I've been there for the good and bad. You have no judgement. I'm not sure. The show started at 3pm and also featured Elvis Costello & The Attractions, A Flock of Seagulls, and Robert Hazard & The Heroes. By then the sun was going down. This was a great summer of concerts for me and my friends. No I remember they played in the bright daylight, just before a big name band, maybe it was Gary Wright. After The Stones finished their set, rowdy concert goers began throwing anything they could get, onto the stage that was shaped into The Rolling Stones "tongue" logo. Also opening the show was Jeff Beck, Bob Seger, & Black Oak Arkansas. I graduated high school that day. The initial meeting in 1920 favored building the stadium as a memorial to the nation's war dead and placing it in Fairmount Park at its entrance to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.[3]. We saw Frampton last Sept. + can't believe 31 yrs. A few minutes later several other's started climbing some of the other towers. But Frampton was Great! It was 1976. [2], Leaders of Philadelphia's sports organizations gathered at the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce in March 1920 and announced their intention to build a 200,000 seat sports stadium to attract national and international sporting events. Or did I dream it? Wow what a concert. However I think Kevin took too much acid or suffers from some memory loss due to the 'temple-balls' we smoked that day, because both Cheryl (who had a car) and Rudy (the whinner) never went. They were playing Led Zepplin's Prsence on the PA system at a very low volume which I remember being very annoying and that's when it began and spread all the way around the stadium. What a memory. to get tickets from Ticketron. The Beatles played their second and final Philadelphia concert here on August 16, 1966. My two best friends - and one of the guy's girlfriend. I'll never forget my mom said, "I remember what it was like to be young." The day John Hammond died. Genesis was the headliner and used the open air stadium for one of their spectacular nighttime laser and fireworks shows. Aug 6 1976 The Beach Boys at Metropolitan Stadium, Bloomington, MN, USA Artist: The Beach Boys , Tour: 15 Big Ones Tour , Venue: Metropolitan Stadium, Bloomington, MN, USA Edit setlist Aug 6 1976 Boz Scaggs at Metropolitan Stadium, Bloomington, MN, USA Artist: Boz Scaggs , Tour: Silk Degrees , Venue: Metropolitan Stadium, Bloomington, MN, USA I got out, and it wouldn't be until late that night, there she was probably panicked out of her mind, but there I was. [5] The Pennsylvania Railroad and its successors, Penn Central and Conrail, offered game-day service to all Army-Navy games, using a sprawling temporary station constructed each year on the railroad's nearby Greenwich freight yard. You try and explained to friends what happened and you can't, they just don't get ityou had to be there! FRAMPTON WAS GREAT. The streak was briefly broken during World War II, when travel restrictions forced three games to be held on campus and one game to be played in Baltimore. The Quakers won the league championship but the league folded after one year. Each section of the main portion of the stadium contained its own entrance, which displayed the letters of each section above the entrance, in a nod to ancient Roman stadia. The pot has mostly gone by the wayside; Yes has never done so. As the day wore on, I became de-hydrated and had a massive headache. Live Aid was primarily a dual-venue concert held on July 13, 1985. Genesis was the headliner and used the open air stadium for one of their spectacular nighttime laser and fireworks shows. July 4, 1976. It was built of concrete, stone, and brick on a 13.5-acre (55,000m2) tract. With a group of teens my age that needed a ride back over the bridge. i'd smack him two or three times, bang his head on the bench till his eyes opened, rolled to the back of his head and then up front again to stare at me and then complain that he had to go to the boys room to pee. The Beatles played at the stadium on August 16, 1966.. Judy Garland gave her last concert in America here in 1968.. Was a junior in High School at the time and a group of four of us went down to JFK for a momentous day. the music, the lasers gleaming off everyone. This was the first concert I ever went to. On that day, along with 60,000 other fans, I got to see Elton . Got drunk before entering the stadium, but being a soon to be pharmacy student, I stayed clear of the drugs. The show was headlined by Sting and Peter Gabriel and also featured Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Tracy Chapman, Youssou N'Dour and Joan Baez. The original Led Zeppelin never played in the US again, although the surviving members performed at Live Aid. PEOPLE JUST HELD ME UP. The Gates of Delirium The Rolling Stones. Does anyone remember that? Search; Browse Concert Archives . You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. We walked over to one of the Hotels in the distance and as we walked in the Hotel Jon Anderson was at the front desk, we ran up to him and he was great talked wit us for a couple of mins and then we asked where the rest of the band was? My girlfriend, Arlene(wife now), and I will always remember that concert. never the less i would not have missed this one for anything. Rare 1976 Kennedy half dollars error coins value! The only thing I haven't read on here is about the hundreds of cut feet they had to treat in the hospital tent from all the broken glass bottles.My boyfriend and I (my husband today) were very much in love, high school was finally over, and we were about to travel on trains across 5 countries in Europe for the summer.What a day. the weed,the hash. (Hamilton won, 24-18, in what remains the only regular-season CFL game played between two Canadian teams outside of Canada.). At the front of the stage we plopped, too exhausted for anyone to argue with. it was the show to compare all others to. Mark NOT from Philly - (At the time anyhow), I scored 8 tickets for $12.00 ea. The stadium also played host to Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! The Grateful Dead were only allowed to perform due to strict no-smoking regulations that had been enacted some time before. That was also the first time with a girl I met, we went into the men's room. after my dileriam earlier i passed up many opportunitys to get stoned. The stadium's first tenants (in 1926) were the Philadelphia Quakers of the first American Football League, whose Saturday afternoon home games were a popular mainstay of the Exposition. [19][20][21][22], The 1993 Philadelphia stop for the Lollapalooza music festival was held at the JFK Stadium site on July 18, 1993. Together they did six shows including one at the now defunct John F. Kennedy Stadium in South Philly. And everyone that was there that just helped make my journey through concert life the best. The Bob Welch and Steve Miller sets were marred by PA system problems. It was a co-headlining show with the band America - very appropriate to celebrate the country's Bicentennial! Thanks so much to the other reviewers for bringing back many lost memories of this special day. I was really pretty far back from the stage in the stands - we considered fighting our way down twords the stage on the field but it was obvious there was some very rowdy behavior going on and we thought better of that. Commonwealth professor of English and former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove receives the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. it was full and came up over the stage like it was part of the show lasers and all.