Byrds Live, Louisville, KY 1965

Rick_Harper · Post by **Rick_Harper** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 9:06 am

Thought y'all might like to see these. Taken with my Kodak almost 37 years ago when I was 11. They kicked me out but I was able to get these 3 shots. You wouldn't believe how loud they were, and their mics were plugged into their amps!
The club they played was at an amusement park (now demolished because of racial strife in '70)right on the Ohio River... there were complaints of the noise from the Indiana side! I remember Hillman and Gene Clark rode my girlfriends (now my wife) horse...
Hope this image isn't too big to post.
Regards!

ps
well, I can't figure out how to add an attachment so I'll send 'em to anyone who emails me.

Rick Harper

admin · Post by **admin** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 9:31 am

Thanks for the great memory Rick and the very nice photos. Sorry you couldn't stay for the concert.

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 9:49 am

Rick: do you remember what the crowd was like size-wise?? Were there any other bands on the bill?? And yes, FANTASTIC pics!!!

admin · Post by **admin** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 10:04 am

Lefty: Rick will fill us in, I am sure, once he returns to comment on his photos. Here is some additional photographic information that may shed some light on your question.

Rick_Harper · Post by **Rick_Harper** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 11:15 am

Lefty:
My ISP won't let me link to you.
But:
It was crammed. Place held about 500est.
I remember they had a bus and a buncha scruffy looking girls for "dancers"... I'd never seen "free form" stoned dancers before. Tho if I were to see them today I'm sure I would think diff. I was in the 5th grade and hated girls. I was into the Beatles, man!
The rest of that roll of 8 pix is The Dave Clark 5 at a press conference in Louisville. Oh Brother.
The Oxfords and The Rugbys (how Anglo!) opened. The Oxfords had a regional hit w/ "Always Something There To Remind Me" on the Mala label; whilst The Rugbys had that awful "You, I" record circa '68. If you were to know the political situation in Lou at the time, you'd be amazed they got to play there at all...
Altho' I wasn't able to "see" them i could sure as hell hear them from outside (along with alot of other kids) and YOU COULD NOT HEAR THE VOCALS.

Rick Harper

rick12dr · Post by **rick12dr** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 12:59 pm

Ya don't see Roger wearing white pants too often, do you??

tomcat · Post by **tomcat** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 1:33 pm

Rick & Peter: Many thanks for making those most excellent rare Byrds photos available. Those were certainly the days, all right. McGuinn had just turned a ripe old 23* only a couple of weeks before those Louisville photos were taken.

* (b. July 13, 1942)

Rick_Harper · Post by **Rick_Harper** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 2:12 pm

Memories keep getting jogged.
I recall emailing these pics to a girl who was one of the dancers on that tour. Said she remembered that gig as Crosby had just bought the green cape in Chicago a few days before, and she had just turned 16!

Rick Harper

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 2:51 am

Rick: Many thanks for the stories...it must have been running through McGuinn's mind at the time, "If this thing only had a third pickup...the sounds I could get!!!!" My sister met Dave Clark when they played in Florida in 1965; she had about the same reaction as you did!!