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THE YEAR EVERYTHING CHANGED [1980]
The Last Word
John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy, The Pipeline (cable radio) memorial, played after announcing Lennon had been shot and killed the night before.
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ALLIGATOR MUSIC PAGES
GAINESVILLE PLAYLIST
NORTH FLORIDA PLAYLIST
PAT TRAVERS (PLAYING GAINESVILLE)
Blues In The Night
Muddy Waters
Johnny Hines
Bo Diddley
Allman Brothers
Tom Petty ’81
THE POLICE @ DISNEY WORLD
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (TICKET QUEST)
EAGLES w/ JIMMY BUFFETT
FRANK ZAPPA (KISS MY ASS)
HALLOWEEN ’79
PAT BENATAR @ THE FLORIDA GYM
TALKING HEADS @ THE BANDSHELL
MAYPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL
SUWANNEE BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL
ROLLING STONES @ THE TANGERINE BOWL
Southbound
Songs of the North Florida South
ALLMAN BROTHERS (FLORIDA NATIVES)
@ THE BANDSHELL
SEA LEVEL (CHUCK LEAVELL)
THE DIXIE DREGS (SOUTHERN FUSION)
Cowboy
Steve Forbert
Dickey Betts
Les Dudek
Outlaws
Blackfoot
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Marshall Tucker Band
B.B. King @ O’Connell Center
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Sea Level
Dixie Dregs
Steve Forbert
Eagles
Marshall Tucker Band
B.B. King
Don Felder
Stephen Stills
Marty Jourard
Brother From Another Motel (Vacancy)
Swimming Pool Qs
Wendy O. Williams
Eagles
Linda Ronstadt
Frank Zappa
Pat Benatar
Pat Travers
Little River Band
Al Di Meola
Tim Weisberg
Talking Head
The Cars
Elvis Costello
Devo
The Romantics
Peter Tosh
Weather Report
Eddie Money
U2 (The Rat)
Hyde & Zeke’s
Radio
WORJ
BLOW BY BLOW
IMAGINARY VOYAGE
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
1975 — THE WHO
Saturday, Jacksonville, Gator Bowl, with Black Oak Arkansas and Labelle, Mushroom Tea, Mayport Sailors, Good Sensi, and a long ride south. Sunday, Miami Baseball Stadium, Monsoon, Montrose …
1976 —
Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, Ronnie James Dio, Lakeland Civic Center
1977 — PINK FLOYD
Tampa @ Tampa Stadium, Flying Pigs, and various other Animals. Years later (1988) on way back to Gainesville, extra ticket to the Tangerine Bowl. Waiting in the rain, and under the stands, eighth row, but when the lights went down, chose to leave, and drive on the G-land.
1978 —
One Week @ Church Street Station
Sea Level
Billy Cobham
Spyro Gyra
Valentiyne’s — Mofro @ Social, Black Box familiar, then notice the stained glass “V” hidden in the rafters.
Orlando Sportatorium
Outlaws w/ The Fat Chance Band
WORJ tickets
Fat Chance next weekend Cocoa Beach @ The Thirsty Turtle (patio)
Minuteman Causeway
Jonathan’s Pub (Screwdrivers and Darts)
Brassy’s (Rare Earth)
Canaveral Pier
7th Street (Clay Courts)
Pumpkin Center
Al Nueharth
Chauffer Bill Johnson (left Al and Gannett VPs on the Pineda Causeway)
U2s After Midnight (Patrick Air Force Base)
Trident Launch (“This isn’t the fifth road”)
UFO (Hovering over the swamp grass alongside Barnes Blvd.)
Nuclear Submarines and Shrimp boats at the (small) Port Canaveral
Growing Up with Rockets (filmmaker) at Cocoa Beach High School reunion
(interviews)
Mel Fisher with Cynthia Green (1978) and the treasure on display at WPB Auditorium (1986).
Hurricane David — Al Neuharth “Flirts and Teases The Coast” Sexist (as the AP stylebook warned) Headline (1979)
1979 — PAT TRAVERS
Orlando @ The Great Southern Music Hall, “Boom Boom Out Go The Lights,” Pam Platt, George Benson, Smooth Jazz, and Power Trio Rock N Roll.
1979 — THE POLICE
Disney World @ Tomorrowland …
King Crimson in Cin City (1975) First trip to Gainesville to visit Rockledge High School mates who had left for UF the first year after graduatig in 1974. Kevin Oates, Gus Oenbrink (Bachman Turner Overdrive, “Blue Collar”), Tom Daymude (Doobie Brothers), Kathy Hollister floating in pool, Alligator front page (1979).
After Art Show Jam at Kevin’s (1980) Watercolorist and family from Bat Cave, North Carolina. In town, on the Art Show traveling carnival. Wife bathing two toddlers, a boy and a girl, in Kevin Turley’s white, cast iron tub, typical of the 1930s wooden houses built around downtown Gainesville (Duck Pond). Open door and big, four-pane window looking outside. Grilling hotdogs and burgers, leftover beer in last night’s keg, still on ice. Kevin’s friend, happy hour (afternoons) at O’Grady’s, playing the old, standup piano in the middle of the sparsely furnished living room. Acoustically rustic, 12-foot ceilings, stomp dacing on the weathered, hardwood floor. Barbara Hansen, room over garage, Uelsmann print with tire track, Watching the Miracle on Ice, 4-foot bong, terrazzo floor, Turley knew the result, and throughout jokingly threatened to reveal the end.
Jim Virga’s friend Pat at Mai Kai (1982) Road trip to Fort Lauderdale with Jim Virga, a new photographer on the Alligator staff. Drove down to see his friend Pat, a Rock N Roll guitar player, at the Legendary Mai Kai Tiki bar on Federal Highway. Long, to the waist, hair, a white, suede suit with fringe on the sleeves. Most memorable, a jam in a Chicago cover. Years later in West Palm Beach, Contemporary Jazz, Linen jacket and a Fedora, Later still at the Bahia Cabana. Travis McGee slip, Dion (“Abraham, Martin, and John”) down the road. Hear “Black Magic Woman,” good enough that it could have been Santana himself, but it was Pat, sitting on a stool, solo with a beat box.
Game Day at Kurt Lishka’s — October 3, 1992 UF vs. Kentucky, FSU vs. Miami in Tallahassee, Despite losing a Sugar Bowl bid if Miami beat the Seminoles, the UF-FSU rivalry was so intense that those in the house still wanted to see UM win. the Sugar Bowl if Miami beat FSU, those in the room still rooted against FSU. Last second field goal (?). The sweet smell of fresh cut buds, David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, “Dogs,” Che Guevara. Keg on the small stoop, save the dolphins, Dana (bjorn borg-looking) guitar, Pink Floyd.
SPACE TRUCKIN’
MUSIC IN A SMALL SOUTHERN TOWN
MUDCRUTCH (1973)
THE POLICE (ROADTRIP TO TOMMORROW)
DIRE STRAITS (VINNY’S NIGHT IN JACKSONVILLE)
ROLLING STONES (TANGERINE BOWL)
•ROAD TRIP CONTENTS
music
in a small, college town*
PLAYING GAINESVILLE
Space Truckin’
BLUES IN THE NIGHT
HOMEGROWN ROCK N ROLL
MUDDY WATERS (PAINT IT BLACK)
Gainesville Love Story
Southbound
Songs of the North Florida South
SPACE TRUCKIN’
MUSIC IN A SMALL SOUTHERN TOWN
MUDCRUTCH (1973)
ALLMAN BROTHERS (FLORIDA NATIVES)
@ THE BANDSHELL
SEA LEVEL (CHUCK LEAVELL)
THE DIXIE DREGS (SOUTHERN FUSION)
COWBOY
STEVE FORBERT
DICKEY BETTS
Tom Petty (Homecoming ’81)
EAGLES w/ JIMMY BUFFETT
FRANK ZAPPA (KISS MY ASS) HALLOWEEN 1979
PAT BENATAR @ THE FLORIDA GYM
TALKING HEADS (ART PUNK) AT THE BANDSHELL
QUEEN OF THE BALL ’81
GATORS FROM ANOTHER PLANET
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (TICKET QUEST)
SUWANNEE RIVER (BLUEGRASS TRADITION)
SUWANNEE RIVER (GHOST STORIES)
MAYPORT (JAZZ)
road trips
“ON THE ROAD” WITH CHARLES KURALT
Wakulla to the Moon
MAYPORT (JAZZ)
SUWANNEE (BLUEGRASS)
close to home
Devil’s Millhopper
Payne’s Prarie
CEDAR KEY (BACK IN FLORIDA TIME)
CRESCENT BEACH
CROSS CREEK
MICANOPY
ICHETUCKNEE
A1A (FLORIDA’s EAST COAST)
CASSADAGA (PSYCIC-DELIC)
WEEKI WACHEE / 301 / SEMINOLE WIND
A BEACH FOR ALL SEASONS (COCOA BEACH)
ENERGY DANCE (SEBASTIAN INLET SURF)
ENERGY DANCE (SEBASTIAN INLET) ALT.
HOME IS WHERE THE ROCKETS FLY
BOUND FOR PORTUGAL
SUMMERTIME
SAIL AWAY (FORT LAUDERDALE KEY WEST)
IN THE PRESENCE OF THE POPE (JOHN PAUL II IN NASSAU)
SUMMER IN THE CITY
NYC (A FACELESS CITY)
SATURDAY IN THE PARK
MARDI GRAS MAGIC (TRIP TO NEW ORLEANS)
MIDNIGHT LIGHTNING (TURTLES IN THE MOONLIGHT)
I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
DAY TRIPPING
day tripping
A BEACH FOR ALL SEASONS (COCOA BEACH)
ENERGY DANCE (SEBASTIAN INLET SURF)
ENERGY DANCE (SEBASTIAN INLET) ALT.
SAIL AWAY (FORT LAUDERDALE KEY WEST)
IN THE PRESENCE OF THE POPE (JOHN PAUL II IN NASSAU)
SUMMER IN THE CITY
NYC (A FACELESS CITY)
SATURDAY IN THE PARK
MARDI GRAS MAGIC (TRIP TO NEW ORLEANS)
CEDAR KEY (BACK IN FLORIDA TIME)
MIDNIGHT LIGHTNING (TURTLES IN THE MOONLIGHT)
I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
SPACE COAST (NASA) TIMELINE
EXTRA! 1975
FLORIDA SUGAR: HOW SWEET IS IT?
EXTRA! (PG3) RETRO ’74
Sugar (Raw Alternative)
“ON THE ROAD” WITH CHARLES KURALT
Sopchoppy, Florida to the Moon
MUSIC IN A SMALL NORTH FLORIDA TOWN