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Blues In The Night
Since its opening in 1928, and for the next hundred years, The Florida Theater (Great Southern Music Hall) stood commandingly at the center of Gainesville’s musical universe. One Saturday morning (3AM), JOHNNY HINES,* a well known, local Bluesman, with his guitar, straw hat, and brown-paper bag, called it a night outside The Hall.
“Deep Down In Florida”
Muddy Waters*
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alligator
U2 at The Rathskeller
May 2, 1981 — I remember the night well. I paid $2 for a ticket, and I met Bono and the band after the show. It was 700 jammed into the Rathskeller, with its maximum occupancy of 200. But nobody was complaining, and we were all having a good time. Not many had heard of U2 then, having just released its first album, Boy, But the band was young, energized, and in complete command of the room, the room that screamed for an encore after the band left the small stage. U2 obliged with extended versions of “I Will Follow” and “Out of Control.” Bill Perry (UF)
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Muddy Waters* (((AUDIO)))
“Deep Down In Florida” (1977)
Johnny Hines* (dave hogerty)
Tom Petty* (Homecoming ’81)
O’Connell Center Security (sandy felsenthal and dave hogerty)
The Eagles*
w/ Jimmy Buffett* @ Florida Field
Return to Forever
@ Great Southern Music Hall (john moran)
Pat Travers
@ Great Southern Music Hall (Michael Kooren)
Grateful Dead (1980)
SGP FALL PLAYLIST (1981)
Rick James
w/ Teena Marie
Pat Benatar* (Florida Gym)
w/ David Johansen
Tom Petty* (Homecoming ’81)
Homecoming ’81*
Frank Zappa*
Halloween Ball*
Devo
UP ON THE ROOF (Bob Self)
U2 at the Rathskeller (1981)
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ALLIGATOR MUSIC COLLECTION
GAINESVILLE PLAYLIST
NORTH FLORIDA PLAYLIST
PAT TRAVERS (PLAYING GAINESVILLE)
University Avenue
BLUES IN THE NIGHT*
AFTER MIDNIGHT*
Johnny Hines*
MUDDY WATERS*
Down In Florida: A Gainesville Love Story*
BO DIDDLEY*
BB KING @ THE COTTON CLUB*
Chitlin’ Circuit*
MEMORABLE SHOWS*
Music in a small, college town
PLAYING GAINESVILLE
MUSIC LIST
TOM PETTY ’81 (FATHER KNOWS BEST)
MUDCRUTCH (1971) TOM PETTY INTERVIEW
EAGLES w/ JIMMY BUFFETT* (1980)
JIMMY BUFFETT (KEY DREAMING) 1978
PAT BENATAR @ THE FLORIDA GYM
FRANK ZAPPA (HALLOWEEN ANGEL)
TALKING HEADS (NEW WAVE @ THE BANDSHELL)
SUWANNEE RIVER (BLUEGRASS)
MAYPORT (JAZZ)
THE POLICE (DISNEY ADVENTURE)
ROLLING STONES (STONED IN ORLANDO)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (TICKET QUEST)
SUMMER IN THE CITY (NYC)
moving still pictures*
SUWANNEE RIVER (BLUEGRASS)
MAYPORT (JAZZ)
Southbound
Songs of the North Florida South
ALLMAN BROTHERS (FLORIDA NATIVES)
@ THE BANDSHELL
SEA LEVEL (CHUCK LEAVELL)
THE DIXIE DREGS (SOUTHERN FUSION)
TOM PETTY (HOMETOWN BOY)
MUDCRUTCH (TOM PETTY INTERVIEW 1971)
“YOU GOT LUCKY” (TWO TICKETS TO TOM PETTY PARADISE)
road trips
movies
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Al Di Meola
Tim Weisberg
The Cars
Elvis Costello
Talking Heads
Weather Report
Peter Tosh
Eddie Money
Plasmatics
Romantics
Little River Band
Spyro Gyra
Roy Buchanan
Marshall Tucker Band
B.B. King
Allman Brothers
Sea Level
RICHENBACHER’S — “Kids today don’t know what it’s like to drive in a real man’s car” Pennsylvanian Fusion, blue Stratocaster guitar, Phillips screwdiver (stiff whammy bar).
Dixie Dregs
Steve Forbert
Cowboy
Roy Buchanan
SPACE TRUCKIN’
BLUES IN THE NIGHT
HOMEGROWN ROCK N ROLL
Tom Petty (HOMECOMING ’81)
MUSIC IN A SMALL SOUTHERN TOWN
MUDCRUTCH (1971)
TWO TICKETS TO TOM PETTY PARADISE
FATHER KNOWS BEST
LONG DISTANCE LOVER (“LITTLE GIRL BLUES”)
Music in a small southern town
b/ Marty Jourard
Apollo 14*
Countdown to Insurrection
Bo Diddley
Stephen Stills
Don Felder
Tom Petty
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
EAGLES w/ JIMMY BUFFETT
FRANK ZAPPA (KISS MY ASS / HALLOWEEN 1979)
PAT BENATAR (@ THE FLORIDA GYM)
TALKING HEADS (POST PUNK AT THE BANDSHELL)
Road Trips
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (TICKET QUEST)
THE POLICE (ROADTRIP TO TOMMORROW)
DIRE STRAITS (VINNY’S NIGHT IN JACKSONVILLE)
ROLLING STONES (TANGERINE BOWL)
MAYPORT (JAZZ)
SUWANNEE (BLUEGRASS)
“The ‘A’ Bomb Woke Me”
1979 —Swimming Pool Qs
((( Apocalyptic Neighbors )))
alligator file
GATORS FROM ANOTHER PLANET (SWIMMING POOL Qs)
WENDY O. WILLIAMS (PLASMATICS) HALLOWEEN ’81
1979 — UF graduate Jeff Calder (’74) put the Swimming Pool Qs together, and being in Atlanta, the band frequented the University of Georgia in Athens, and Gainesville, including opening for Wendy O’ Williams and the Plasmatics in what’s know as the most decadent Halloween Ball (’81) of which Calder reminisced in a story he wrote for the Qs’ website.
tom petty (HOMECOMING ’81)
YOU GOT LUCKY (TWO TICKETS TO TOM PETTY PARADISE)
FATHER KNOWS BEST (MEET EARL, TOM’S DAD)
A LITTLE GIRL’S BLUES” (TOM’S LONG DISTANCE LOVER)
MUDCRUTCH (1971) THE INTERVIEW
southbound
Songs of the North Florida South
ALLMAN BROTHERS (FLORIDA NATIVES)
@ THE BANDSHELL
SEA LEVEL (CHUCK LEAVEL)
THE DIXIE DREGS (SOUTHERN FUSION)
EAGLES w/ JIMMY BUFFETT
FRANK ZAPPA (HALLOWEEN 1979)
PAT BENATAR (@ THE FLORIDA GYM)
TALKING HEADS (POST PUNK AT THE BANDSHELL)
road trips
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (TICKET QUEST)
THE POLICE (ROADTRIP TO TOMMORROW)
DIRE STRAITS (VINNY’S NIGHT IN JACKSONVILLE)
ROLLING STONES (TANGERINE BOWL)
MOVIES (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
COOL #9 (SAVE PLUTO)
NAKED LAUNCH
NAKED LAUNCH (ALT.)
DIAMOND TEETH MARY McCLAIN
’70s QUIZ
LOOKING BACK BEFORE MOVING FORWARD
dave.
road trips
Pensacola
Tallahassee
Wakulla
Apalachicola
Ichetucknee River
High Springs
Fort White
Palatka
Crescent Beach
St. Augustine
Cedar Key
Payne’s Prarie
Micanopy
Silver Springs
Ocklawaha River
OCALA (NATIONAL FOREST)
SR 40 — YANKEETOWN TO ORMOND BEACH
Orlando
SR 50 — WEEKI WACHEE TO CAPE CANAVERAL
Home is Where The Rockets Fly
Sacred Ground
28°36′30.2″N 80°36′15.6″W
Complex #39 A/B
Last Stepping Stone to The Moon
VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building)
Before The Heartbreakers, Tom Petty led a band called Mudcrutch. He and Gainesville were in the middle of a musical revolution, defining what would become Southern Rock. The North Florida and Georgia neighborhood was filled with so many of the originators:
The Allman Brothers,
Lynyrd Skynyrd,
Outlaws,
Sea Level,
The Dixie Dregs,
Atlanta Rhythm Section,
Blackfoot,
.38 Special
Molly Hatchet (“GATOR COUNTRY”)
Gainesvillians:
Don Felder (Eagles), and
Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young)
“Oh Camil” (Graham Nash)
“Ain’t No Sunshine”
Tom Petty (Gainesville’s Favorite Son)
((( ! )))
john moran
After playing a show at The Great Southern Music Hall, Muddy Waters was referred to, generically, as a “black entertainer,” and then goes on in an over-the-top effort at poetry to say …
His face reflects the turmoil that gives rise to a vision called the Blues.
The Florida Theater, later called The Great Southern Music Hall, was Gainesville’s premier venue when it was built in 1933, and it was still alive and well fifty years later. In 1974, the Alligator‘s John Moran was the theater’s house photographer, and he was fortunate to see the country’s finest musicians, many who called Gainesville home.
“Deep Down In Florida”
Where the Sun shines damn near everyday.
Muddy Waters
1977 — Hard Again w/ Johnny Winter
((( ! )))
Muddy Waters
Bo Diddley
Pat Travers
Spyro Gyra
Roy Buchanan …
Lillian’s Music Store
Hippodrome Theater
Dub’s …
Southbound
Songs of the North Florida South
ALLMAN BROTHERS (FLORIDA NATIVES)
@ THE BANDSHELL
SEA LEVEL (CHUCK LEAVELL)
THE DIXIE DREGS (SOUTHERN FUSION)
EAGLES w/ JIMMY BUFFETT
FRANK ZAPPA (HALLOWEEN 1979)
PAT BENATAR (@ THE FLORIDA GYM)
TALKING HEADS (POST PUNK AT THE BANDSHELL)
road trips
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (TICKET QUEST)
THE POLICE (ROADTRIP TO TOMMORROW)
DIRE STRAITS (VINNY’S NIGHT IN JACKSONVILLE)
ROLLING STONES (TANGERINE BOWL)
MOVIES (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
“Don’t Do Me Like That”
Tom Petty (Gainesville’s Favorite Son)
((( ? )))
john moran
Court of the Crimson King
“21st Century Schizoid Man” — visiting high school friend at his Cin City apartment (just behind the Majic Market), hearing King Crimson for the first time.
THE WHO
Jacksonville @ The Gator Bowl
w/ Labelle
Black Oak Arkansas
Miami @ The Baseball Stadium
w/ Montrose
WORJ (ORLANDO)
1975 — On The Radio
Stormbringer
Imaginary Voyage
Blow by Blow
Tommy Bolin
Will Not Appear Tonight
Jeff Beck
Robin Trower
Jethro Tull
Black Sabbath
Peter Frampton
Thin Lizzy
Queen
Jefferson Starship
Sea Level
Outlaws
@ Orlando Sportatorium
Dirt floor, bleachers, Rodeo Ring
w/ Fat Chance Band
Next night @ The Thirsty Turtle
Patio, Sliding Glass Door, Blustery, Cocoa Beach, Where cars drove down onto the sand beach, Jonathan’s Pub …
Rare Earth at Brassy’s
Blue Oyster Cult
Brevard Junior College
Pat Travers
at The Great Southern Music Hall
Orlando
ONE LAST WEEK IN ORLANDO
1979 — Billy Cobham, Sea Level, Spyro Gyra. Valentine’s (“Pancakes” — Lead clarinet, arthritis, MOFRO @ SOCIAL (54 N Orange Ave., Downtown Orlando)
The Police
(FIRST ROADTRIP TO TOMORROW)
Thunder Road
Pass the bright green, algae-covered pond. Grazing cows, part of some sort of agricultural and veterinarian research. Just past the experiment, the road becomes more of an oak-shaded canopy, until turning into Buster’s hidden drive. Inside his one-room apartment, a large compressor dominated the room, sitting next to his “drawing” table. He did draw, but the Airbrush was his preferred tool. He painted surfboards all through his years at Satellite Beach High School. [Pancho, Dexter, and Kevin]
Halloween On The Prarie
Payne’s Prairie
Weeds of Eden (Itchetucknee River)
Suwannee River Bluegrass Festival
Mayport Jazz Festival
Florida Theater
Bo Diddley
Muddy Waters
Return to Forever (John Moran)
Eagles
Linda Ronstadt
Jimmy Buffett
Allman Brothers
Sea Level
Dixie Dregs
Steve Forbert
Cowboy
Fat Chance Band
Outlaws
The Police
Dire Straits
Bruce Springsteen
Frank Zappa
Pat Benatar
Talking Heads
Weather Report
Peter Tosh
Little River Band
The Cars
Elvis Costello
Andy Kaufman (Wrestling)
Al Di Meola
Tim Weisberg
Spyro Gyra
Wendy O. Williams
Eddie Money
U2 at The Rathskeller
Little River Band
Roy Buchanan
Rolling Stones
Jam at Kevin’s
The Pipeline — Cable Radio
WRUF — University of Florida (Journalism College) radio.
Hyde & Zeke’s —
Tom’s Used Grooves —
Spec’s Music (first corporate signage on University Avenue)
Reitz Union Lawn (Little River Band)
University Galleries
Florida Museum of Natural History
George A. Smathers Libraries (East and West)
The Hub — Fast Food and School Supplies
The Rathskeller (U2)
Richenbacker’s — “Gainesville’s Only Jazz Bar”
Sea Level, Pennsylvania (Fusion) band, Blue Stratocaster, Philip’s head screwdriver whammy bar, “kids today, don’t know what it’s like to drive in a real man’s car.”
ROSIE O’GRADY’S (KEVIN’S HAPPY HOUR FRIEND)
Great Southern Music Hall — Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Return to Forever, Roy Buchanan, Spyro Gyra (tunes on Access album), Pat Travers
DOWNTOWN
UNIVERSITY AND 1st STREET
MAIN STREET LOUNGE — Romantics,
Artificial Ingredients — Bob Block, Mike Brennan, Joel Benjamin, Daryl Pinsky, Patty Avick.
LILLIAN’S MUSIC STORE —
HIPPODROME THEATER — “Death Trap” Bob Bartolotta (Lighting)
Florida Gym —
Grateful Dead
Pat Benatar
Frank Zappa
Eagles w/ Jimmy Buffett
1980 (TIMELINE)
The Long Run
Linda Ronstadt w/Livingston Taylor
O’Connell Center —
Tom Petty
Elvis Costello
The Cars
Al Di Meola
w/Jan Hammer, Anthony Jackson, Steve Gadd
Tim Weisberg (Muscle Shoals w/Duane Allman)
Roy Buchanan — Trio, Crack The Sky (bass), Tammy Wynett (drums)
(Andy Kaufman — Women Wrestling, SNL, David Letterman)
Marshall Tucker Band
B. B. King
Rick James
Pat Benatar w/David Johansen (Moved to Florida Gym)
Frank Zappa (Moved to Florida Gym)
Devo (Aug 2, 1980)
Allman Brothers Band (Jan 16, 1982)
Talking Heads (w/Bernie Worrell)
w/Psychedelic Furs (Sep 19, 1982)
Don Henley (Oct 10, 1982)
w/Randy Meisner
Marshall Tucker Band
w/B. B. King
The Wailers (May 22, 1983)
Oingo Boingo (Oct 30, 1983)
Living Colour (Mar 1, 1991)
FLA/GA CONNECTION: Allman Brothers, Sea Level, Dixie Dregs, Cowboy, Fat Chance Band, Outlaws, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steve Forbert at Lake Alice Field, a small, gator-filled lake at the bottom of Fraternity Row. The lake also serves as the center field “fence” for the softball field, which serves as a venue for such shows, with a stage set up at home plate. Also a center of attention of tail-gate parties and gatherings on Football Weekends.
1980 — John Lennon Assassination
The Day The Music Died Again — Futch and Bartalotta (Mourning in the Afternoon) Double Fantasy (Yoko Ono)
1985 — Miami Light Project
Coming Home
Tom Petty
& The Heartbreakers
Mudcrutch, Dub’s, Depot Street, Crystal River, “Out on 441, Like Waves Crashing on The Beach,” “Heartbreaker Beach Party” (Crescent Beach)
Earl Petty (b/ Diane Julin) Tom’s father still living in the small house in southwest Gainesville. He lives alone now, tending to the garden out back, and entertaining the teenage girls from Orlando, who make the 50-mile trip up I-75 to Gainesville to watch Tom’s videos with his dad. They feel that much closer to Tom himself.
1979 — The Police @ Disney World (Tomorrowland)
1980 — Music at The University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Ground Zero
Holiday Inn
Krispy Kreme — Pink Neon, Robert McClure’s Second-Floor Apt.
Leonardo’s
Hyde & Zeke’s
Burrito Bros.
Florida Bookstore (off-campus, text books and artistic, hand-made ‘zines)
1981 — American Pop
movies
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
1982 — New York City Diversion
“The Thrill is Gone”
Marshal Tucker Band
1976 — Fire on The Mountain
((( Country Blues )))
ROLLING STONES
(TANGERINE BOWL)
FLORIDA FIELD — South Stands (wooden bleachers, tall, thin palms, a barely bigger than a high school gym scoreboard, a small windowless press box, and 100 yards of natural grass. Artificial (Intelligence) Turf, an error in judgement, and a costly meltdown.
Southbound
Songs of the North Florida South
GAINESVILLE ROCKED
TOM PETTY (HOMETOWN BOY)
MUDCRUTCH (TOM PETTY INTERVIEW 1971)
“YOU GOT LUCKY” (TWO TICKETS TO TOM PETTY PARADISE)
ALLMAN BROTHERS (FLORIDA NATIVES)
@ THE BANDSHELL
SEA LEVEL (CHUCK LEAVELL)
THE DIXIE DREGS (SOUTHERN FUSION)
MOVIES
(Rocky Horror Picture Show)
movies
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
THE MOVIE WITHOUT AN END
Robert Johnson (WIKI)
Searching for Robert Johnson (Vanity Fair)
ROBERT JOHNSON (LOVE IN VAIN)
BLUE (THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF SIN)
THE DEVIL IS SINGING OUR SONG
ROBERT JOHNSON (HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL)
SACRED GROUND (A LIGHTER SHADE OF BLUE)
BLACKS AND BLUES (CHITLIN’ CIRCUIT)
HOLY TRINITY OF ROCK
HOLY TRINITY OF JAZZ
SCOTT PUTESKY
Running With The Devil [STORY]
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BRINGING AMERICA TOGETHER AGAIN.