re: #212 Eventual Carrion

Looks like we stomped around the same turf in those days. I grew up just north east into PA from Youngstown and remember Glass Harp. Good music. Michael Stanley is still going strong in this area also. And my areas claim to fame was producing Trent Reznor (my dad still has one of his family’s heaters in his pole barn :-)).

I’m from the Mansfield Ohio area. Glass Harp used to play concerts in Mansfield quite often. We had them do a concert at my high school my senior year. The show with Joe Walsh and the James Gang was at Ashland (OH) College.

And I worked with Trent Reznor’s cousin at my last job. And, I have a guy I do some freelance work for that is still one of The Michael Stanley Band’s biggest fans. As you probably already know Dan Pecchio played bass with Michael Stanely after Glass Harp broke up. I think he is retired now.

Ohio always had a very active music scene. My best times were at the Agora in Columbus, where I moved after high school to go to college. I probably saw over 200 or more shows there and other places in Columbus. Two strong memories of those days was seeing Canned Heat at a Midnight show and those guys “boogied” until the wee hours of the night. Also, saw Genesis on their very first tour through America. Lots of Brit bands would start their American tours in Ohio at the three Ohio Agora Ballrooms. One was in Toledo, one in Cleveland and one in Columbus. It would allow the bands to have three venues they could tune up their acts over three nights within 200 miles of each other.

And, the Agoras always turned out the audience. That is except for Genesis who were almost unknown in America at that time. If there were 100 people at their Columbus show they didn’t let it bother them. My buddies and I plopped down on the floor right in front of Peter Gabriel and were totally entranced with the show. They did a full two hours with all the costumes and backdrops, videos and lighting. It was fantastic and the small crowd let them know it. I know I did!

I’ve always loved music, especially live. And as you can tell I love talking about it too! Those were great days. Not quite the same these days. There are still decent shows here in Columbus, but the days of seeing three and four bands at a venue or an outdoor concert aren’t like they used to be. It seemed in the early 70s there would be an outdoor show somewhere in Ohio every weekend. We used to joke that you could see Foghat, Aerosmith, REO Speedwagon, Montrose or Ted Nugent (groan…I want my money back!) and a few others almost any weekend.