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Chuck Berry at Clemson?
Mar 18, 2017, 11:07 PM
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Are there any other old timers around here tonight? Do y'all remember Chuck Berry performing at Clemson in the old Fike Field House? I think 1967.. I loved that you could get right up to the stage in those days and actually speak to the performers.
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Thats pretty awesome***
Mar 18, 2017, 11:20 PM
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Re: Chuck Berry at Clemson?
Mar 18, 2017, 11:21 PM
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He played Littlejohn in the early 70's.....I believe the notoriously cheap Berry hired some kids from Seneca as his band that evening
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Re: Chuck Berry at Clemson?
Mar 18, 2017, 11:22 PM
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I remember when marty McFly played guitar for him
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That was his cousin, Marvin.***
Mar 19, 2017, 12:36 AM
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Re: That was his cousin, Marvin.***
Mar 19, 2017, 7:06 AM
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LOL, almost blew coffee through my nose!!!
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I think I was there.
Mar 19, 2017, 10:38 AM
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But not sure. I killed a lot of brain cells that night.
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Re: Chuck Berry at Clemson?
Mar 18, 2017, 11:48 PM
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I saw him at Littlejohn Coliseum sometime in either '73 or '74, I believe. Though a long time ago, I remember it as a fun time and good show. He could command an audience regardless of who he had backing him. He played all the hits. I believe a ticket cost about $7 or so for a concert at that time. Also saw the Doobie Brothers, Beach Boys, Leon Russell, the Edgar Winter Group, and many others at Littlejohn. Great times back at Clemson in those days.
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Lil john used to get amazing music.
Mar 19, 2017, 12:14 AM
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Pink floyd to the brothers!
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And quality basketball too.*****
Mar 19, 2017, 12:27 AM
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well played***
Mar 19, 2017, 10:35 AM
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Re: Chuck Berry at Clemson?
Mar 19, 2017, 1:13 AM
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E Winter play some awesome Jams, one of my favorites along with A Cooper. The ole micro Dot days!!!
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Re: Chuck Berry at Clemson?
Mar 19, 2017, 7:04 AM
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Went to many but Purple Dots were a no-no............Orange Sunshine Blotter was my fave!! How am I still alive??
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Re: Chuck Berry at Clemson?
Mar 19, 2017, 12:51 PM
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With the mention of the Sunshine's or the blotter, I wonder that myself. That was way to bright and scattered out there for me. I did the light weight stuff, I liked coming back by the next morning!!!
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Re: Chuck Berry at Clemson?
Mar 19, 2017, 10:05 AM
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I was at Littlejohn when Chuck was there. One of his audience participation songs was My Dingaling. We thought that was some cool stuff.. Lol
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Went to see Cheech and Chong at Littlejohn in the early 70's
Mar 19, 2017, 10:34 AM
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The warm-up band was someone nobody ever heard of, but they were awesome. The crowd booed when they left the stage and Cheech and Chong came out. They played this awesome song called...
Free Bird. And that was the first time that I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd in concert.
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Re: Went to see Cheech and Chong at Littlejohn in the early 70's
Mar 19, 2017, 10:52 AM
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That was a couple weeks after the Chuck Berry concert and Marshall Tucker followed Skynyrd if I remember correctly.
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The early 70's definitely rocked. I was
Mar 19, 2017, 2:30 PM
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At Chuck's concert as well. Other notable performers were Marshall Tucker, Rare Earth, Rod Stewart, and Deep Purple.
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Re: Chuck Berry at Clemson?
Mar 19, 2017, 10:29 AM
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If I recall correctly, he played at Littlejohn in the fall of 1973. Rufus and Marshall Tucker opened for him. I believe he used bass, keyboard and drummer from Rufus as his backing band.
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The Stones Death Valley - Steel Wheels Tour
Mar 19, 2017, 10:34 AM
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epic... and the traffic made gameday look easy
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Re: The Stones Death Valley - Steel Wheels Tour
Mar 19, 2017, 11:36 AM
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WE got this concert because of dumassery at USeC. The AD down there kiboshed them coming to Columbia making this memorable quote " next thing you know we'll have tractor pulls....Not as long as I am AD" (a paraphrase of course) Good ole King Dixon....
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