Last update July 2007

The Who Put the Boot In . Celtic Football Club .Glasgow. 6-5-76 The Who, Sensational Alex Harvey Band ,Little Feat, Outlaws,Streetwalkers, Widowmaker .

The Who - I've seen them play 3 times. Parkhead in 1976 was the best. It was the first time I'd been there, being a Rangers supporter. They were a tremendous live band. It was an all-day, open air concert where they had a competition to win the organ from 'Tommy', which a local boy won, then Keith Moon set it on fire. Also playing were The Streetwalkers, with Roger Chapman, ex lead singer of The Family. They were garbage and got booed off. Roger Chapman said "the sun's been playing while my bands been playing, but now its going to piss down on you all."     Then The Outlaws played. They had to throw bottles of Jack Daniels into the crowd to calm them down. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were next, great in their home town. They had the crowd behind them. They were a great live band. Little Feat were 3rd top of the bill. They were good but they were an album rather than a singles band. The opening band were Widow Maker, who's lead singer was Steve Ellis who used to be in Love Affair.    At last found someone who remembers the Parkhead Who/Alex Harvey concert.   What a day, although I missed the JD throwing incident and to be honest all the rest. AlI I really remember is Alex Harvey almost stealing the show from the Who but when they turned on the lasers everyone was giving it Ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....................    Fantastic day of music in Gods country, now one of my old schoolfriends is financial director of Celtic. Sweet 19 at the time, dropped off by my mates Dad and stayed sober the whole concert, Why? David.

Went to the Glasgow show at Parkhead. Don't remember much about the Streetwalkers and Widowmaker but the Outlaws were  a good country band- some excellent guitar work.    Alex Harvey was a real spectacle. Not many people were 'showmen' in those days but he and his band were theatrical as well as musically entertaining.    The overriding recollection for me was Little Feat. It was the first time I had seen or heard the band, and for me, they blew the rest of the bands, including the Who, off the stage. This was around the time of their 'Last Record Album' release and in Lowell George, they had one of best slide guitarists in the world. Their rhythm section was also brilliant. A great day. Cheers Sailin' Shoes    I thought a great thing was the way they recreated Tommy with the laser lights. I think there were three lights but using reflectors it looked as if 12 lasers were coming out of Daltreys head. Remember? Frank

 

I was at the Who concert at Parkhead and although I'd been to a few concerts (Slade at Falkirk/Grangemouth/Reading) I'd never seen anything like the Who live. They were fantastic. I remember Alex Harvey made a good impression, performing on home territory. The thing I also remember was the much vaunted laser-show, which was a technology new to us up in Scotland, at that time. Reviews from earlier in the tour suggested it was going to be something fantastic, but unfortunately the promoters had not factored in the fact that in June it doesn't get dark until after 11pm in Glasgow. As a result the laser show, which started about 9pm was conducted in what was almost broad daylight, much to the detriment of its real potential. Couldn't detract however a storming performance by the Who. The picture, which unfortunately has been non-digitally tampered with, shows Doug Smith (left) a journalist who went on to become show biz editor of the Evening News, Myself (lying down in the hoop shirt) I was working as journalist for the Grangemouth Advertiser, and reviewed the concert in my music column. The guy on the right is a very young Brian Guthrie, who went on to promote and pioneer bands like the Rezillos, and many of the punk bands that came out of Scotland. Brian's younger brother Robin formed The Cocteau Twins. Jim Ferguson

 This is one of my favorite gigs of the 70s.
I still have my Alex Harvey band badge and the Who Put The Boot In badge
My only regret on the dat was not buying the complete Alex Harvey set of badges ..I only have the teacher Alex.
All the bands on the day were good . but the Sensational Alex Harvey Band the Who were both excellent
I had previously sen the Who at the Apollo in Renfield St now sadly gone on the day a guy called Derek William Dick was at the gig, he later became known to us all as Fish from Marillion .

Faith Healer will always have a special place in my heart .

BrachtThunder

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