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Topic: What's the LARGEST CROWD you've performed for? |
Jim Eaton
From:
Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 15 Jun 2004 12:07 pm |
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I played a set about 6 months ago with a singer/songwriter friend of mine at a little place in North Hollywood called "Kulacks Woodshed". There were about 5 people in the room with us and 3 of them were camera operators for the "LIVE WEBCAST" to the entire internet. No estimate of how many were logged on to see our show, but we got an e-mail from a guy in Sweden that loved it!
JE:-)> |
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Terry VunCannon
From:
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 15 Jun 2004 12:17 pm
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| I played at a local American Cancer Relay event where there were over 8000 people. That was very fun. We were on a football field with the crowd all around us. |
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Gerald Menke
From:
Stormville NY, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2004 8:26 am
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Cool question, on bass, did a shed tour with band, we played for betw. 3-7000 every night. The week before that tour I was playing bars in New York for 30 people.
On steel, at Webster Hall in New York earlier this year played with a band for about 900 souls. TV show later that week, who knows 100,000 or so? Hard to say it was late night stuff.
I think the great and eloquent Bill Hatcher's gonna win this one. |
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Ron Sodos
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2004 9:02 am
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I played at the Buffalo Convention rock festival outside of Seattle in a rock band (late 1960's). There was around 100,000 people. It scared the crap out of me.........  |
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Len Amaral
From:
Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 21 Jun 2004 3:13 pm
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| Last year, my band opened up for Leroy Parnel and then for Marty Stuart at different events. Lots of people but I don't know how many. |
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Ron Randall
From:
Dallas, Texas, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2004 6:09 pm
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played for 10,000 folks in Dallas, playing rhythm guitar behind Chuck Berry! That was the biggest...but THE BEST?
4,000 wigglin' screamin' jigglin' cheerleaders in a packed auditorium. Seems it was a cheerleader camp at SMU. Those Pompons were bouncing every which way.
Ron |
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Jack Shults
From:
Canadian, Oklahoma U.S.A.
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Posted 21 Jun 2004 6:19 pm
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The first big crowd I played for was when I was 19 years old and there was 35,000 people there.
Yep! I was scared.
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Jack Shults
MSA U-12
Evans Amps
Stereo Steel
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 23 Jun 2004 7:35 am
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I Played with a polynesian group at a nudist
colony to about 400 people who were nude.
Most were swimming in the pool when the group
was performing.
The leader asked me to play a solo and I picked "Bye Bye Blues" I received a standing
ovation,,you should have heard the applause when they all sat down wet on the marble sides of the pool with their bare wet butts.
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Tony Orth
From:
Evansville, Indiana, USA
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Posted 23 Jun 2004 8:38 am
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15,000. September "03, Race for the Cure,
Evansville, In. What a rush! |
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Brad Sarno
From:
St. Louis, MO USA
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Posted 23 Jun 2004 12:32 pm
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My old band Blue Dixie got to open for the Doobie Brothers at the Kansas City Spirit Fest back in around '94. We went first and the crowd grew to maybe 10k by the time we finished. The stage was about 20' tall and the Doobies monitors were set at super-deaf-old-guy levels. I wished I had my earplugs in. It was a very nervous hour.
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Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 23 Jun 2004 4:56 pm
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Well, I never played for crowds like Ray and you guys. Unless you count playing in a big parade at the Grand Traverse Cherry Festival Parade in Traverse City , Michigan., about 40 or 50 thousand lining the streets.
One I remember in Phoenix, AZ in about 1972 was playing at the Governors Ball, about 2000 guests.Dinner and dancing.
Tex Williams was the Guest Artist and we had Bass,Lead,,Drums and me on my Emmons Steel."The Country Counts"
He sang "Smoke ,Smoke That Cigarette". Then did his Famous recitation of "Battel Hymn of the Republic", I had to play the solo very quietly in the background. You could hear a pin drop. He did a great job....ah those were the days.........al
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My Website..... www.cmedic.net/~almarcus/
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Ernie Pollock
From:
Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2004 11:43 am
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I guess the largest crowd I ever played for was a festival they used to have here in Maryland, at the Rocky Gap State Park. I have played there several time & I do recall one of those where there were around 15,000 people in the audience. I did some of the 'Closer Walk with Patsy Cline' Shows in at a theater locally, we had packed house for each of the 24 shows, but I don't think it was anywhere near the 15,000 mentioned above, although it was a lot of fun, had to kick the show off each time with the curtain going up & steel guitar rag was the tune they used.
Ernie Pollock http://www.hereintown.net/~shobud75/stock.htm
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