1992-93 was kind of a melancholy year all around at Duke. That was also the year of Ricky Lamont Coffin and Amy Geissinger.
What was the name of the small joint off campus where the Hot Nuts used to play in the 60's. That venue and group has 100% of my vote!😉😆
1992-93 was kind of a melancholy year all around at Duke. That was also the year of Ricky Lamont Coffin and Amy Geissinger.
"I swear Roy must redeem extra timeouts at McDonald's the day after the game for free hamburgers." --Posted on InsideCarolina, 2/18/2015
I actually got paid to work the Go-Go's and the Dead shows in Cameron. My job was to keep people on the floor from going backstage. Completely forgot about Flock of Seagulls opening; my roommate at the time was a big Go-Go's fan. (we didn't last past the semester).
Everybody gave Neil a hard time back then for that rockabilly record, but that show was phenomenal. No one really came to hear the set with the Shocking Pinks, but those musicians were first-rate and they blew the roof off. Neil also played Carmichael the year before. I recall he said something like "I hear you have a pretty good basketball team here" and there was a chorus of boos from the Dukies and the State fans in attendance, which caught Neil by surprise. I had tapes of both shows, plus a handful of Dead shows on cassette that were in a travel case stolen from my car a few years later. (AOOGAH AOOGAH! GEEZER ALERT! GEEZER ALERT!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!) Alas, a couple of efforts to see what Neil shows can be found online were unsuccessful.
And others: Mike Cross, Lionel Hampton, Wynton Marsalis in "PaIge", Chick Corea in Duke Gardens...
Janis Joplin on Carolina Weekend in 1969. Six inches of snow outside, and Cameron 3/4 emply.
Some of my favorites from 90-94... Mostly in Page:
Lemonheads
Big Head Todd
Soul Asylum
Blues Traveler
Widespread Panic
the Samples
Dillon Fence (the coffee house and cats cradle numerous times)
DMB (cats cradle for maybe $10!)
The Connells (cats cradle)
“Coach said no 3s.” - Zion on The Block
"I swear Roy must redeem extra timeouts at McDonald's the day after the game for free hamburgers." --Posted on InsideCarolina, 2/18/2015
Some tidbits about the poster for that show.
http://blog.postercentral.com/2013/1...orth-carolina/
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
I had the same job on the right side of the stage for the Dead show and a few others. Good old Student Labor. We also worked rolling out all those brown mats to cover the floor the night before.
BTW - You can find sort of a list of Duke concerts here based on the records of the Major Attractions committee:
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/uaduuma/
Some of them are false alarms of records when they were trying to book a show. For example, there is apparently a folder on an attempt to get The Police to play in 1983, but they never made it to Duke.
Saw the Hot Nuts at a formal at some motel in Raleigh in 1979. Doug Clark is no longer with us, but apparently you can still book the band for your party.