1971 is a BOC gig desert... they played lots of clubs all over the NE - but I don't have any venues or dates - and at the end of the year managed to secure their first major tour support slot with John McLaughlin & the Mahavishnu Orchestra and The Byrds.
In October they recorded their first LP at The Warehouse... and that's about all I know for sure...
Pathetic, isn't it? Well, there's only one way to remedy this sad situation: have you got anything to contribute to help develop this page into a page worth displaying? Reviews, missing info, ticket stubs, posters etc etc - if so, let me .
We played at Conry's East in Levittown NY from Jan 5 to Jan 10. I have the tapes. We recorded all 6 shows.
Here's the set list for Jan 5/6 Not in order. Plus lots of duplicates:
Do you know of any SFG/BOC gigs for February 1971 that I'm missing?
If you do, please let me ...
OK, this ad is interesting not just because it shows that in March 1971, SFG were still doing "moods" at Stony Brook, but also because it shows that the band were still gigging as "Stalk-Forrest Group".
I've long been trying to pin down the point where SFG became BOC, and I now know it has to be sometime during the 6 months between this gig and the 29 Oct gig in Uniontown (which they played as BOC)...
Do you know of any SFG/BOC gigs for April 1971 that I'm missing?
If you do, please let me ...
Do you know of any SFG/BOC gigs for May 1971 that I'm missing?
If you do, please let me ...
Do you know of any SFG/BOC gigs for June 1971 that I'm missing?
If you do, please let me ...
We played Tony Mart's in July, probably the 9th and 10th...
We played here in August, probably the 13, 14, 15...
This was not a New Year's gig. It happened later in the year when we were starting to record our first album. We drove there after a night of recording, probably September or October.
The above image (kindly sent to me by Peter Nielsen of the thinlizzyguide.com) appeared in the 29 October 1971 edition of the Uniontown PA Evening Standard. It doesn't specify any sort of date - it appears just as you see it above.
This is a bit confusing - does it indicate that BOC played at this venue on the 29th as well as the 30th October? If you examine the advert from this same publication for the next day's gig, it explicitly specifies that the show is "tonite"...
I'd have expected some sort of date to be mentioned on the 29th Oct advert if it referred to the next night's show...
The ticket image above has been ruthlessly cropped from a great photo I noticed on Flickr, thereby ruining a nice composition, so check out the original here:
One of the oddest grouping of bands that I've seen was at a $3. concert at Cortlandt College.
Lowest billed was Blue Oyster Cult. After them, this guy we never heard of came on stage, with SHORT hair, and a double-neck guitar. It was an early appearance of The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin. Blew us away. Revved up the orange sunshine in us.
And, headlining, very definitely anti-climactically, was The Byrds. Go figure.
According to the poster above, BOC weren't lowest on the bill - they seem to have been billed second...