Gigs - Comments by 23skidoo

Gigs - Comments by 23skidoo

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
23skidoo 8th Aug 2023		Live Music The London Rock And Roll Show @ Wembley Stadium (1972)	Clifton's film has been released on DVD in several different edits (is the film public domain?). Some DVD releases omit Haley performing "Shake, Rattle and Roll".
23skidoo 8th Aug 2023		Live Music Bill Haley And The Comets @ Empire Pool, Wembley (1972)	Is there any way of indicating cancelled shows? Should they even be listed? I can see this being confused with the London Rock and Roll Show concert at Wembley in 1972 that did take place and is indexed.
23skidoo 8th Aug 2023		Live Music Bill Haley's Original Comets @ Viper Room (2005)	I don't have exact date, etc details for an index but this was a follow-up to a concert at the same venue held in March 2005. I was present at the show and I remember seeing Jane Wiedlin, late of the Go-Gos, in the audience.
23skidoo 8th Aug 2023		Live Music Bill Haley's Original Comets @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2005)	I don't have a list of what songs were performed, but I think it was their usual set at the time. Rock Around the Clock was videotaped and webcast. I was there and Shake Rattle and Roll opened the set and they would have done See You Later Alligator and Saints Rock and Roll too, with Rock the Joint (with a reprise of the final verse of Clock) as a finale. As I recall the drum set Dick was provided with was missing a hi-hat cymbal so at the last minute a member of what I guess was an in-house band at the JPL lent him his.
23skidoo 15th Dec 2017		Live Music Bill Haley And The Comets @ The Bitter End (1969)	A performance of Malaguena by guitarist Nick Nastos is also believed to have been performed during this gig, but no recording of it has surfaced to date. (Edit: the source for this is on the extended version released by Bear Family, between two songs, Haley can be heard acknowledging Nastos as having just played "Malaguena". It may have been a victim of the same sound problem that required There Goes My Everything to be performed twice. Both of Haley's introductions to that song survive, by the way: one is only available on the extended CD issue of the Scrapbook album; Bear Family did not include this on their release, but rather Haley speaking about the song needing to be redone.)