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This Country's Rockin 32x32in multi signed 1/1 concert poster from May 6 1989 at the Pontiac Silverdome. 50 autographs hand signed including the legendary Ted Nugent, Carl Perkins, Larry Paxton, Sawyer Brown, William Lee Golden, Etta James, Levon Helm (from The Band), Brian Setzer (from Stray Cats) and many more. Comes with a full letter of authenticity from Cardboard Memories
Item Description - This is an original 1/1 32x32 This Country's Rocking concert poster that has been hand signed by 50 legendary artists/bands including Ted Nugent, Carl Perkins, Larry Paxton, Sawyer Brown, William Lee Golden, Etta James, Levon Helm (from the Band), Brian Setzer (from Stray Cats) and many many more. The concert was held on May 6 1989 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan. This comes with a full letter of authenticity from Cardboard Memories
Concert information: With a cast and crew of some 500, a production tab of $2 million and
tickets that sold as poorly as caviar at a K mart, the 23-act
country-rock crossover hoedown in Detroit's Silverdome could have been a
megawatt disaster. Instead, it turned into a 13-hour marathon of
pickin' and riffin' that was as much celebrity bash as staged spectacle.
The fans, who numbered a peak 18,000 in late afternoon but even then
rattled around in the 50,000-seat arena, had paid prices ranging from
$22.50 (in advance) to an empty Coca-Cola can (at the gate) to see Gregg
Allman, Ted Nugent and the Marshall Tucker Band on the same bill with
the Stray Cats, Sawyer Brown and Ronnie Hawkins.
But crowd size was irrelevant. The point of the This Country's
Rockin' concert was to produce a 10-hour tape that will air on cable
television July 4. The bill was designed, said promoter Jim Fitzgerald,
"to break down the barricades and show how rock, country and blues have
all been influenced by each other, and that good music is good music."
Emcee Nugent teasingly threatened to make "everybody chewing tobacco
swallow it at the door," but decided that "most country artists are just
frustrated rockers anyhow." David Crosby and Stephen Stills performed
separately but spoke briefly. The Band's Levon Helm, Garth Hudson and
Rick Danko caught up with country rocker Ronnie Hawkins, whom they
backed up in the early '60s. Former Oak Ridge Boy William Lee Golden
toted along sons Chris and Rusty, who perform as the country-rock group
the Goldens. Country singer T. Graham Brown rented a Lear jet so he
could keep a later gig in Austin, Texas. Gregg Allman, too, found it
important enough to fly in for the afternoon. And rockabilly granddad
Carl Perkins, 57, accepted credit for inventing the genre when he wrote
"Blue Suede Shoes" in 1956. "Somebody said, 'Carl, you really opened up
that rock and roll door,' and I said, 'Yeah, and I stood in it and got
run over by every damn one of y'all.' " But Perkins saw the beauty of
the musical merger as he took the stage at 3 A.M. for a hardy holdout
crowd of 3,000. "It's like iced tea," he said. "You got tea to make it
hot, ice to make it cold, sugar to make it sweet and lemon to make it
sour, but it all comes out tastin pretty good.
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