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electric_blue68

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8. Cool! The Beatles were more by luck, i guess. My friend's dad who was...
Tue May 19, 2026, 05:57 PM
17 hrs ago

in rhe restaurant business got us tckets for Shea Std in '65. Yes, I screamed there; but also looked through my friend's binoculars. So we sort of heard them.

The funny thing in '66 we could hear them much better! Turned out decades later Steve Van Zant (Little Steven, Silvio) tells the story he was sitting in the area where we were, and said it was a fluke however the sound was, that we could hear them that well! Lucky us!
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Decades later I saw Ringo Starr's All Star Band in the early ?'00s for free down in a park in Coney Island. Great fun!

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