This concert must have taken place sometime after the group recorded their live album at the University of Utah, also in 1970. Keyboardist and trumpet player Richard Thompson had replaced Russ Giguere by this time. Three of the songs, “Movin,’” “Mayba Iowa Ames” and “Faith,” I have never heard before. I don’t believe they recorded those three songs on any of their albums. When I saw The Association two years later in Central Park, I remember that Terry Kirkman sang lead on a stirring song about pollution I had never heard before. In addition, the late, great Larry Ramos sang lead on a song that sounded like an Otis Redding song. In any event, the audience at this concert really seemed to enjoy The Association’s performance that night. As an avid fan of this superb group, I wish they had recorded five more albums and not just the final “Waterbeds in Trinidad” album they recorded for Columbia Records in 1972. I look forward to seeing The Association this June at The Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ as part of The Happy Together Tour, fifty years after I first saw them perform. It only seems like yesterday.
Two years after this -- who was in the band at this point? Brian Cole died in 1972, do you recall if he was there? Was it an expanded band or just the seven?
@@marks.3303 The night I saw The Association in Central Park, it was in either July or August of 1972. That night, there was this young guy, who played bass guitar; I had never seen him perform with the band before. Brian Cole only sang during the concert. He sang “Little Road and a Stone to Roll,” from the group’s “Waterbeds in Trinidad” album. Tragically, two months later, Brian Cole was dead of a drug overdose. The next time I saw The Association was on a Saturday, late-night music show called “In Session,” hosted by The Everly Brothers in 1975. Terry Kirkman had previously left the group. The band had a new drummer, Maurice Miller, and a new guy playing bass guitar. Ted Bluechel sang and played other percussion instruments, congas, etc. Maurice Miller sang lead on rousing rendition of The Band’s “Life is a Carnival.” And the band also performed “Rainbows Bent” and “Along the Way.” This was just as VCRs were coming out. So I taped the performance on my cassette recorder. I wish that You Tube would find and post that memorable performance here. It was very good.
@@kensellers4082 I was also at the Central Park show.I think it was in June.Same line-up as this show.Russ had left.Brian was still alive and was playing in the band.
@@MrLatch0208 Anthony, I think that the old WNEW-FM or WCBS-FM in NYC simulcast that Association concert at Central Park. I wish I had known that before the concert and had gotten one of my brothers to tape that great concert for me.
Great post... Like listening to a new album by them
Thank you for the first live "Silver Morning" I've ever heard ... in the City of the Angels, no less.
This concert must have taken place sometime after the group recorded their live album at the University of Utah, also in 1970. Keyboardist and trumpet player Richard Thompson had replaced Russ Giguere by this time.
Three of the songs, “Movin,’” “Mayba Iowa Ames” and “Faith,” I have never heard before. I don’t believe they recorded those three songs on any of their albums.
When I saw The Association two years later in Central Park, I remember that Terry Kirkman sang lead on a stirring song about pollution I had never heard before. In addition, the late, great Larry Ramos sang lead on a song that sounded like an Otis Redding song.
In any event, the audience at this concert really seemed to enjoy The Association’s performance that night. As an avid fan of this superb group, I wish they had recorded five more albums and not just the final “Waterbeds in Trinidad” album they recorded for Columbia Records in 1972. I look forward to seeing The Association this June at The Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ as part of The Happy Together Tour, fifty years after I first saw them perform. It only seems like yesterday.
Two years after this -- who was in the band at this point? Brian Cole died in 1972, do you recall if he was there? Was it an expanded band or just the seven?
@@marks.3303
The night I saw The Association in Central Park, it was in either July or August of 1972.
That night, there was this young guy, who played bass guitar; I had never seen him perform with the band before. Brian Cole only sang during the concert. He sang “Little Road and a Stone to Roll,” from the group’s “Waterbeds in Trinidad” album.
Tragically, two months later, Brian Cole was dead of a drug overdose.
The next time I saw The Association was on a Saturday, late-night music show called “In Session,” hosted by The Everly Brothers in 1975.
Terry Kirkman had previously left the group. The band had a new drummer, Maurice Miller, and a new guy playing bass guitar. Ted Bluechel sang and played other percussion instruments, congas, etc.
Maurice Miller sang lead on rousing rendition of The Band’s “Life is a Carnival.” And the band also performed “Rainbows Bent” and “Along the Way.” This
was just as VCRs were coming out.
So I taped the performance on my cassette recorder. I wish that You Tube would find and post that memorable performance here. It was very good.
@@kensellers4082 I was also at the Central Park show.I think it was in June.Same line-up as this show.Russ had left.Brian was still alive and was playing in the band.
@@MrLatch0208
Anthony,
I think that the old WNEW-FM or WCBS-FM in NYC simulcast that Association concert at Central Park. I wish I had known that before the concert and had gotten one of my brothers to tape that great concert for me.
Larry WHO?
Hllo-like it!unreal -friend- =)
Has anything more from this concert turned up?