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Originally Posted by baddog
As I was making my post I was recalling that an album cost more than a concert.
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Certainly did for me, since my mother was a choreographer/producer and could get me free seats whenever a concert was on in the theater which staged her shows. I remember the Beatles really early on and (this seemed bizarre even at the time) Gerry and the Pacemakers, at the time when "Ferry Across the Mersey" was in the charts, appearing in the Christmas pantomime, "Babes in the Wood"
Music in town really took off when the local council decided to earn a bit extra by boarding over the municipal (indoor) swimming pool every Monday night. Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band were regulars performers and it seems amazing now, that then for around 35 cents you could watch a chart-topping band play for a couple of hours. Memories. Funny now to think of people like The Pretty Things, Downliners Sect, Long John Baldry and whole bunch of other (mainly) R&B artists playing on a swimming pool.