My Concert Photos from 70's. Can you guess who they are?

**muse77** · **02-06-07, 08:49 PM**

I just wanted to tell you a little about myself and what I used. I live in the St.Louis Missouri area and these were taken in different venues. At the time I used my dads 35mm that he bought in the 50's. It was through the viewer not lens so I never was sure how the pictures would turn out. I used slide film, doubled the ASA film speed on the camera and then had it sent off to lab to developed. I bought a film scanner and scanned most of the photo's. I thought I would post them for your enjoyment. These are a few of the pictures. I wanted to try two sizes 3x5 and 4x6 to see which one would work best. They are at 75dpi. I will put the bands in different post to try and make it easier to refer to.

Can you figure out who they are?
Have Fun.

These two were taken in 1977.
Led Zep Band.jpg
Led Zep30.jpg

**muse77** · **02-06-07, 08:53 PM**

These were taken in 1977 also. This bands been around many years.
Black Sabbath 18_77.jpg

Tony Iommi 1a.jpg

OZZY 20_78.jpg

The start of Heavy Metal

**muse77** · **02-06-07, 08:54 PM**

Hmmm.
sammy hagar.jpg

**muse77** · **02-06-07, 08:57 PM**

This band opened the show for the next band. This band was known for the Fusion rock they played at the time.
Journey 7.jpg

Journey 13.jpg

Interesting.

**muse77** · **02-06-07, 09:01 PM**

Only have a few good ones of this band. They headlined the show.
ELP 23.jpg

ELP 2.jpg

That's all for now but there is more to come. Let me know what you think.
Bryan

**Sonnie** · **02-06-07, 09:43 PM**

Well this has everything to do with music and concerts, so I'm moving it to this forum. I'm stumped on all but the first one, which I identified elsewhere, so I'll let someone else have it.

I was actually more into disco in the late 70's and didn't really get into what is now considered classic rock until the mid 80's.

**majorloser** · **02-07-07, 09:53 AM**

1. Led Zeppelin
2. Black Sabath/Ozzy
3. Sammy Hagar
4. Journey (before Steve Perry)
5. Emerson Lake and Palmer

**muse77** · **02-07-07, 06:57 PM**

You got it. Majorloser. I'll post another batch.
Seeing Neil Shon with that afro and Journey opening the show for ELP.
I also saw a Boston, Ted Nugent concert with Sammy opening the show. At the time I asked my friend,"Who's Sammy Hagar?". He replied, " I think he played with Montrose".

Quote:

Sonnie wrote:

I was actually more into disco in the late 70's .

You got steel balls. I'm not sure I would admit to that.

Bryan

**majorloser** · **02-07-07, 07:32 PM**

I cheated

The first two were easy, but it didn't matter. Next time change the file names. Mouse over the pics and the file name pops up.

**Sonnie** · **02-07-07, 11:19 PM**

haha... I didn't catch that at first.

**Wayne A. Pflughaupt** · **02-08-07, 11:31 AM**

Quote:

Sonnie wrote:

I was actually more into disco in the late 70's

What Bryan said - takes a lot of courage to admit that!

Great that you were able to get those pics, Bryan. I don’t think they’ll even let you in the hall with a camera anymore! I tried taking my camera into a Hiroshima show back in the early nineties, and they made me put it away.

By the way, folks – in case you didn’t know, taking good pictures of a concert is very difficult. You must have some great gear there, Bryan!

Regards,
Wayne

**Sonnie** · **02-08-07, 12:49 PM**

Hey... disco is where the ladies were... what can I say...

**muse77** · **02-09-07, 07:45 AM**

Disco....Ladies??? All these years I find out I've been scammed.

It was probably guys like you in this area saying Disco wasn't cool so they could eliminate the competition.

I'll have to watch out for file names. I was wondering if that would happen.

Wayne. Thanks for the compliment on the photo's. Actully the camera I used was my dad's. It was all manual adjustments and the viewer had a white frame to show you where the picture would be.
It took me about 4 concerts before I finally started getting decent pictures. Believe me I learned the school of hard knocks on what not to do. The worse was seeing Pink Floyd in Chicago 1977 on the "Animals" tour and finding out the next day that my film didn't wind up in the camera.

Needless to say I never never ever ever made that mistake again. I will plead guilty to being in an altered state of awareness and what an adventure that weekend was.

Another note. They stopped letting me take my camera in around 1980. I went to see Styx and Foreigner this past summer and they were letting people in with small digital cameras. I might try that.

Bryan

**muse77** · **02-10-07, 01:59 PM**

Here's a few more concert photos. I will include a little history of the bands without mentioning their names. As Wayne mentioned taking good photos is hard. Lighting place a crucial roll.

Here I had a problem where the lighting got in the way and couldn't get a good picture. The shadow is someone standing a couple rows in front of me.
Nyaa Nyaa Nyaa nyaa.jpg

This one I couldn't tell which end was up.
You have to try harder.jpg

Actually this was the best laser show I have ever seen at a concert. The band filled the Kiel with fog then shot the lasers through it. They actually had OSHA monitoring the concerts because of rumored complaints from peoples eyes hurting from the lasers.

Well here is the band. They loved to play rock and they did it well.
Maybe I will try subliminal messages.jpg
The band actually has 30 albums and are still around after 30 years, even with their ups/downs.
sdrawkcab gnihtemos ebyam.jpg

The odd shape guitar became the symbol for the band.

**muse77** · **02-10-07, 02:06 PM**

These pictures are actually from 1981 but they are the only ones from the eighties and I wanted to show them.

1981.jpg

1981a.jpg

This guy played in Woodstock, has put out 27 albums and still plays.

I have a few more pictures but if anyone has any pictures from the 70's that they want to share, feel free to post them.

Bryan

**muse77** · **02-16-07, 08:03 PM**

OK. Post #14 is Blue Oyster Cult
Post #15 is Alvin Lee

Hope you enjoyed them.
Bryan

**wutsurpt** · **04-28-07, 03:52 PM**

Quote:

muse77 wrote:

Here's a few more concert photos. I will include a little history of the bands without mentioning their names. As Wayne mentioned taking good photos is hard. Lighting place a crucial roll.

Here I had a problem where the lighting got in the way and couldn't get a good picture. The shadow is someone standing a couple rows in front of me.
Attachment 2232

This one I couldn't tell which end was up.
Attachment 2233

Actually this was the best laser show I have ever seen at a concert. The band filled the Kiel with fog then shot the lasers through it. They actually had OSHA monitoring the concerts because of rumored complaints from peoples eyes hurting from the lasers.

Well here is the band. They loved to play rock and they did it well.
Attachment 2234
The band actually has 30 albums and are still around after 30 years, even with their ups/downs.
Attachment 2235

The odd shape guitar became the symbol for the band.

Blue Oyster Cult

**muse77** · **04-30-07, 05:54 AM**

Blue Oyster Cult it is! I was at one of the Superjam concerts when they had the plug pulled on them because they wouldn't quit playing when their time was up. The last group was Styx.

Bryan

**lcaillo** · **04-30-07, 07:33 AM**

BOC was a great show. I remember seeing them with Rush in about 1979 in New Orleans. They didn't have the elaborate laser show but a great performance.

Going back up to the Pink Floyd Animals tour...the use of the big screens was certainly inspiring for the development of early home theater. We only dreamed of the kind of AV systems that we have now.

**muse77** · **05-12-07, 08:15 PM**

BOC and Rush, that would be a killer concert. BOC is going to play at a ribfest here in St.Louis over the holidays. I hope to make it.
Floyd "Animals" tour. Oh Yea. Big Screen and quad music. Where we sat in Soldiers Field, it was like wearing a pair of headphones with 100,000 people around you. I was listening to birds flying around the stadium before I realized it was a recording.

**majorloser** · **05-13-07, 11:00 AM**

Quote:

muse77 wrote:

Floyd "Animals" tour............. I was listening to birds flying around the stadium before I realized it was a recording.

Yeah, right! It was a recording?

Just couldn't quite the little birdies out through all the "smoke".

Last Pink Floyd concert I went to at the Orange Bowl in Miami had quite a haze rising out of it.

**jmprader** · **05-16-07, 12:26 PM**

Ahhh, the days of our misspent youth. I remember at Winterland, the kool-aid ran dry three rows in front of our seats. Good thing, I was driving...

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