The Who @ Charlton....

[whitelion]

31st May 1976. Anybody else there? I can remember carrying a box of beers to the ground.

The Who were amazing but the highlight for me me was The Sensational Alex Harvey band doing Faith Healer, Tomahawk Kid and their version of Delilah sung by 60,000+ in the pouring rain.

Who Put the boot In charlton FC stadium 1976

Brilliant!!!!!!!!

 

[Hiney]

AWESOME gig

At their peak, The Who were the best live band in the World.

I've got a DVD of some of the 1974 Charlton concert plus an interview Pete Townshend did with Russell Harty

 

[whitelion]

AWESOME gig
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Where were you in the stadium?

For me I was on the large open terrace opposite the stage.

 

[Hiney]

Where were you in the stadium?

For me I was on the large open terrace opposite the stage.

Same.

It was WET!

 

[whitelion]

It was WET!

It was but FUN!!!!

 

[Hiney]

Amazing

Wasn't the gig recorded as 'the loudest gig ever'?

 

[whitelion]

Amazing

Wasn't the gig recorded as 'the loudest gig ever'?

Probably, though can't recall that.

 

[1959]

I was there, right down at the front for Alex Harvey and The Who (directly in front of Townshend).

I was also at this one........

summer of 74 charlton FC stadium 1974

Same venue, two years earlier. Much, MUCH better gig by The Who.

 

[simonsimon]

On the left handside terrace facing the stage.

Excellent gig.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

I was there too.

 

[Pinkie Brown]

I was there! Did it piss down or what?! NEVER been so wet in my life. I was sitting on the old South Terrace where The Brighton masses would have been today.

Who remembers the nutcase who scaled a floodlight pylon to the top then dangled upside down from one of the girders? No idea what he was on? Had he fallen, he have probably killed a few on the ground as well as himself.

In those days, forging tickets was kids play with security checks non existent. They estimated over 80.000 in the Valley that day. The pitch plus that huge east terrace & other stands were a sea of mass humanity.

 

[NMH]

74 and 76.
Remember the idjit swinging like a monkey on the floodlights? I was just a few yards to the right of chimpy - and wondering WHEN, not if, he was going to fall off.

Bloody almost got crushed when everyone crowded for the gates afterwards. I lifted my feet off the ground and the wedge of a human current carried me through the bottleneck like a sardine!

 

[1959]

Who remembers the nutcase who scaled a floodlight pylon to the top then dangled upside down from one of the girders? No idea what he was on? Had he fallen, he have probably killed a few on the ground as well as himself.

Yes! I'd forgotten all about him! Oh my god.

 

[Black Dalek]

Yep, I was there, I think the stage was to the right of where we stood at the match! Best Concert ever! Blackbush takes some beating!

 

[NMH]

Yep, I was there, I think the stage was to the right of where we stood at the match! Best Concert ever! Blackbush takes some beating!

Blackbush Aerodrome with Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton was indeed awesome, but.....different kettle of flounders to a WHO gig I'd say.

 

[sullyshuffle]

Was there in 74...seemed to remember that Lou Reed could hardly stand up!
Hot day, and had to walk back into Victoria station after the game as all the additional trains/busses had gone by the time I got out of the ground.
Don't remember the threat of violence that Pete T commented on...just a great day out with the Who firing on all cylinders!
Memories!

 

[VAL1850]

Yes

Went to both

1974 Hot and sunny - I have the DVD great memories as a 16 year old

1976 Pissed down all day - still a great concert though