It's not the same.
I can read any book from the library.
But, I really love it when my granddad tell me the whole story.
I can read any book from the library.
But, I really love it when my granddad tell me the whole story.
You'll get a better idea of how the gear was used by watching online videos of them playing live, and as a bonus actually hear how it sounded.
Cheers
I grew up in Miami. The Beatles played there in 1964. I was 12 years old and did not go to the mostly private show for live TV, the Ed Sillivan show. it can probably be found on the web somewhere. I did however use our backdoor method to get into this and other shows at the Dinner Key Auditorium. There are multiple conflicting stories as to what actually happened that night, and they vary depending on the substances consumed by those telling the stories. The venue was an old seaplane hangar made of steel with a ramp for taxiing amphibious airplanes indoors for storage. There was no air conditioning or even decent ventilation. The bottom half of the steel doors over the ramp had long ago rusted away, so access was easy for those of us who wanted to wade through the brown murky water in pre-cleanup Biscayne Bay surrounded by thousands of boats in their slips or anchored in the Bay at a time when their toilets legally flushed directly into the Bay.
I saw Steppenwolf, Grand Funk Railroad, the Doors and several others for free this way. I believe that the PA system was the same for nearly every show since there was always a 15 inch speaker without a dust cap in the right hand column of speakers. My guess is that they belonged to the City of Miami, owner of the venue, or a local sound company. This was 1969, by then most bands used a touring sound company that travelled ahead of the band and set up the sound system for each show.
A student I knew at the University of Miami had done an internship with Clair Brothers Sound in 1970. They are still in the touring sound business as Clair Global:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Global
O, substances.
Pardon me asking, what substance involved in this story.
I'm into the Doors.
I'm Jim Morrison impersonator, smaller build though.
I also do live show on a radio performing The Beatles.
I love this kind of story.
Does Jim Morrison look like a human?
Because I wish he is a God.
Clair Global is amazing. I like it. Maybe they kept record about their past projects with some of the legends in music.
Pardon me asking, what substance involved in this story.
I'm into the Doors.
I'm Jim Morrison impersonator, smaller build though.
I also do live show on a radio performing The Beatles.
I love this kind of story.
Does Jim Morrison look like a human?
Because I wish he is a God.
Clair Global is amazing. I like it. Maybe they kept record about their past projects with some of the legends in music.
The venue, Dinner Key Auditorium, was located where Miami Citty Hall is now, on Biscayne Bay near a park that was known as "hippie park." This area has been completely renovated. Bayside park, Peacock park, and Regatta parks occupy much of that space now. At the time anything from marijuana to heroin or LSD could be found cheap in hippie park. Many of the concert goers had been to the park before the show as was the custom for most rock concerts. Who knows what they did there.
From what I saw Jim showed up late, slammed a bottle of some libation down on one of the amp heads, and grabbed the mic. He messed up some of what he sung as he was obviously quite drunk. He kept working his way back into "five to one baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive." He was criticized by the press for being shirtless. Most of the audience was also shirtless including a few females since it was 90+ degrees F inside the building. I never saw him do anything "lewd" or "lascivious" as he was charged, unless performing fellatio on a live microphone counts. Some fans were becoming quite angry and began throwing stuff, so that was our cue to leave by the water route that we took when we came in. We usually just walked out with the rest of the crowd after a show was over.
From what I saw Jim showed up late, slammed a bottle of some libation down on one of the amp heads, and grabbed the mic. He messed up some of what he sung as he was obviously quite drunk. He kept working his way back into "five to one baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive." He was criticized by the press for being shirtless. Most of the audience was also shirtless including a few females since it was 90+ degrees F inside the building. I never saw him do anything "lewd" or "lascivious" as he was charged, unless performing fellatio on a live microphone counts. Some fans were becoming quite angry and began throwing stuff, so that was our cue to leave by the water route that we took when we came in. We usually just walked out with the rest of the crowd after a show was over.
There are other similar companies now, but I lost contact with the U of M crowd when I left Miami in 1972.
For me your story is very much like a candy to a child.
That I wish I can see it as a film. It would be fantastic.
I never wanted past wars broke again, but reenactment from time to time as a holiday pleasure somewhat entertaining.
I never wanted the so called turbulent times during 60s strikes again, but it would be like heaven if I can participate in reenactment of the past times when Jim Morrison in his peak time.
I believe many people has some memories about the old times, but maybe they have some difficulties to write it.
During the times of your life in the Dinner Key Stadium, were you noticed that the sound you listen is different depend on your position relative to the stage?
Because I think ideal concert sound system should be able to deliver the same quality wherever we are relative to the stage, no one gets too loud or otherwise.
That I wish I can see it as a film. It would be fantastic.
I never wanted past wars broke again, but reenactment from time to time as a holiday pleasure somewhat entertaining.
I never wanted the so called turbulent times during 60s strikes again, but it would be like heaven if I can participate in reenactment of the past times when Jim Morrison in his peak time.
I believe many people has some memories about the old times, but maybe they have some difficulties to write it.
During the times of your life in the Dinner Key Stadium, were you noticed that the sound you listen is different depend on your position relative to the stage?
Because I think ideal concert sound system should be able to deliver the same quality wherever we are relative to the stage, no one gets too loud or otherwise.
The Dinner Key Auditorium had poor acoustics since it was designed from concrete and steel to house airplanes, not people. After Pan American Airways exited the sea plane business the building sat empty for some time before being used for a smallish convention hall (10,000 people max). Many concerts were oversold so there were more people than seats. The Doors concert was no exception. We "came in through the bathroom window" so to speak, thus had no assigned seats or tickets. We stayed in the back out of the way, but where we could see, the sound quality was pretty bad. Sometime after I left the Miami area the auditorium was closed down. After a period if disuse it became a set / studio for the filming of the TV show Burn Notice which ran on network TV for several years. Once that ended parts of the building were torn down and other parts became part of the Miami City Hall government building.
Also in the "bad places to have a show" department was the Hollywood Sportatorium. Here we have another non airconditioned concrete and steel building placed out in the middle of nowhere on some drained swampland for the purpose of televised wrestling matches. "Championship Wrestling Live From Florida." Built in 1969, this place was big enough for nearly 20,000 people and used for concerts ranging Elvis Presley to Pink Floyd and the Moody Blues. On the same plot of land and sharing the same parking lot was the Miami Hollywood Speedway Park which featured a 1/4 mile dragstrip with a long enough "shut down" area for a 5 second pass. I have raced on that track. Every once in a while both venues were operational on the same evening. There was only one two lane road that ran 12 miles out to the place. It often took several hours to go those 12 miles. I had a free entry path for a few shows to that place too, but the only notable concert I saw for free was Stevie Nicks. After several incidents with people having heat stroke the venue finally got AC in 1975. Somewhere in the early 1990s it was demolished. There is a Cuban grocery store there now.
There is plenty of information about these old places, one just needs to remember the name and roughly where it was. This can often be found by Googling your favorite bands name along with the word concert.
Also in the "bad places to have a show" department was the Hollywood Sportatorium. Here we have another non airconditioned concrete and steel building placed out in the middle of nowhere on some drained swampland for the purpose of televised wrestling matches. "Championship Wrestling Live From Florida." Built in 1969, this place was big enough for nearly 20,000 people and used for concerts ranging Elvis Presley to Pink Floyd and the Moody Blues. On the same plot of land and sharing the same parking lot was the Miami Hollywood Speedway Park which featured a 1/4 mile dragstrip with a long enough "shut down" area for a 5 second pass. I have raced on that track. Every once in a while both venues were operational on the same evening. There was only one two lane road that ran 12 miles out to the place. It often took several hours to go those 12 miles. I had a free entry path for a few shows to that place too, but the only notable concert I saw for free was Stevie Nicks. After several incidents with people having heat stroke the venue finally got AC in 1975. Somewhere in the early 1990s it was demolished. There is a Cuban grocery store there now.
There is plenty of information about these old places, one just needs to remember the name and roughly where it was. This can often be found by Googling your favorite bands name along with the word concert.