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re: Led Zeppelin in Baton Rouge 1977
Posted on 5/3/12 at 10:28 am to TreeDawg
Posted on 5/3/12 at 10:28 am to TreeDawg
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BR was a top 5 tour stop back then (until Ossie vs Ozzie).
This hardly ever gets mentioned. I wasn't born yet, but I find it hard to believe that a lot of the older posters don't make a bigger deal out of it. Ossie all but ruined Baton Rouge. Seriously, we could have been a lot more like Austin, but he wanted us to be a lot more like Denham.
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Posted on 5/3/12 at 10:34 am to Jester
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I find it hard to believe that a lot of the older posters don't make a bigger deal out of it. Ossie all but ruined Baton Rouge. Seriously, we could have been a lot more like Austin, but he wanted us to be a lot more like Denham.
I know Ossie's son and blame him for being such a teenage delinquent.......
I was driving a huge Bread Van as an electrician back then. It was dirty and I scratched "OSSIE vs OZZIE" on the side, real big and drove it around town. The Advocate snapped a pic and put it in the paper........
Still pissed I missed seeing Randy Rhoads because of this........
Posted on 5/3/12 at 11:03 am to Jester
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This hardly ever gets mentioned. I wasn't born yet, but I find it hard to believe that a lot of the older posters don't make a bigger deal out of it. Ossie all but ruined Baton Rouge. Seriously, we could have been a lot more like Austin, but he wanted us to be a lot more like Denham.
The AC/DC concert in 1980, on the heels of the tragedy with The Who in Cincy, killed the BR music scene and BR has pretty much been blacklisted by promoters ever since. The stuff that went down at the J. Geils concert in the early '80's didn't help, either. (Peter Wolf had the audacity to stop the show to complain about the heavy-handed security and "incited a riot" by asking concertgoers to contact their council representatives.) It's hard to believe now that BR was one of the hottest music venues in the South behind the likes of Austin, Athens, and New Orleans.
This post was edited on 5/3/12 at 11:07 am
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