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24 years ago. The LAWN at the Bowl is quite different from the LAWN at the Meadows.

01 – Intro
02 – The Lazarus Heart
03 – Too Much Information
04 – We’ll Be Together
05 – Englishman in New York
06 – Sister Moon
07 – Rock Steady
08 – Murder By Numbers
09 – Straight to my Heart
10 – If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
11 – One World (Not Three)
12 – Consider Me Gone
13 – Bring on the Night
14 – When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
15 – They Dance Alone
16 – King of Pain
17 – Be Still My Beating Heart
18 – Walking in your Footsteps
19 – Fragile
20 – Little Wing
21 – From Me to You
22 – Fortress Around Your Heart
23 – Don’t Stand So Close To Me
24 – The Secret Marriage
25 – Message in a Bottle

27 years ago. I drove my very new white truck.

01 – Master and Servant (instrumental intro)
02 – Something to Do
03 – Two Minute Warning
04 – Puppets
05 – If You Want
06 – People Are People
07 – Leave in Silence
08 – New Life
09 – Shame
10 – Somebody
11 – Ice Machine
12 – Lie to Me
13 – Blasphemous Rumours
14 – Told You So
15 – Master and Servant
16 – Photographic
17 – Everything Counts
18 – See You
19 – Shout
20 – Just Can’t Get Enough

31 years ago. On this night, Rainbow opened for Pat Travers. Coulda been called the substitutes tour – No Dio. No Bonnet. No Thrall. No Aldridge. But it was a Sunday night and the Forum was always a fun time. The place certainly did Boom Boom. But Rainbow had already put out the lights.

Rainbow

Ritchie Blackmore – guitar
Roger Glover – bass
Don Airey – keyboards
Bobby Rondinelli – drums
Joe Lynn Turner – vocals

01 – Spotlight Kid
02 – Love’s No Friend
03 – I Surrender
04 – Can’t Happen Here
05 – Catch The Rainbow
06 – Man On The Silver Mountain
07 – Keyboard Solo
08 – Lost In Hollywood
09 – Difficult To Cure
10 – Drum Solo
11 – Long Live Rock’n'Roll
12 – Over The Rainbow
13 – Lazy
14 – Fire
15 – Band Jam – Kill The King
16 – Long Live Rock’n'Roll

Pat Travers Band

Pat Travers – guitar, vocals
Peter “Mars” Cowling – bass
Sandy Gennaro – drums

01 – Hooked on Music
02 – Your Love Can’t Be Right
03 – Life In London
04 – Gettin’ Betta
05 – My Life Is On The Line
06 – Live My Way
07 – Crash And Burn
08 – Stevie
09 – New Age Music
10 – I Don’t Want To Be Awake
11 – Makes No Difference
12 – Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights)
13 – Snortin’ Whiskey

Eleven years ago. Following our triumphant return to Cali, Mrs. p took me out for my birthday. An enjoyable lineup of pieces.

Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No. 1
Dmitri Ratser, piano
Barber – Adagio for Strings
Mozart – Symphony No. 36, “Linz”

20 years ago. I took Mrs. p (before she became Mrs. p) out for her birthday. A splendid evening.

The playlist from Mrs. p’s big bash. There was plenty more, but this was all that played.

Was A Sunny Day – Paul Simon
Such A Night – Dr. John
Peaceable Kingdom – Adrian Belew
Reasons For Waiting – Jethro Tull
A Song For You – Leon Russell
Ashes To Ashes – David Bowie
Cuckoo Cocoon – Genesis
Prelude – Eddie Jobson / Zinc
Estimated Prophet – Grateful Dead
Bohemian Rhapsody – California Guitar Trio
Promenade – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Unquiet Slumber For The Sleepers… – Genesis
California – Joni Mitchell
Mack The Knife – Louis Armstrong
Passenger Of The Dark – Jean-Luc Ponty
Viking Funeral – Jah Wobble
Monk’s Mood – Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane
Your Silent Face – New Order
Interlock – Ginger Baker
Mercy Street – Peter Gabriel
Something About You – Level 42
2001 – Mike Keneally
Power Spot – Jon Hassell
Pavane – Jan Akkerman
A Man I Knew – Jah Wobble’s Invaders Of The Heart
I Love a Man in Uniform – Gang Of Four
What’s New Pussycat? – Tom Jones
Make It Rain – The KLF
Horizons – Genesis
Love Theme From “Pictures Of The Sea” – Al DiMeola
Let’s Make The Water Turn Black – Frank Zappa
The Way You Look Tonight – Frank Sinatra
The Musical Box [Closing Section] – Genesis
My Dream – Fleetwood Mac
Crosseyed And Painless – Talking Heads
Car On A Hill – Joni Mitchell
Hole In My Life – The Police
Tight Rope – Leon Russell
Warm Shift – Jon Hassell
Watching The Wheels – John Lennon
The Perfect Kiss – New Order
Sunscape – Ozric Tentacles
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) – Sly & The Family Stone
Chameleon – Herbie Hancock
Cabaret – Louis Armstrong
Here Comes The Flood – Peter Gabriel
One – U2
All I Want – Toad The Wet Sprocket
The Look Of Love – Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66
One Time – King Crimson
Reggatta De Blanc – The Police
This Masquerade – Leon Russell
Omaha – Counting Crows
Above The Clouds – Slightly Stoopid
I’ve Seen the Word – Blancmange
Tangled Up In Blue – Bob Dylan
Personals – Jon Hassell and Blue Screen
Counting Out Time – Genesis
Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters – Elton John
Summer ’68 – Pink Floyd
Lessons In Love – Level 42
Radian – Air
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic – The Police

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