4-14-73 Winterland
The Kinks
Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
Mason Profitt
Another bizarre Bill Graham bill, but an irresistable one. I remember that
when we sat down, we discovered that a close friend's older sister and her
boyfriend coincidentally were there in the seats right in front of us,
which
was very ironic, since she had been the person who had introduced me to
Hicks' music a few years before, and had taken her brother and me to see
them at a little nightclub on San Pablo Ave in Berkeley called the New
Orleans House.
Mason Profitt I guess was a Chicago band; Zeke remembers them well. I
don't
recall much about them, except that they were a pretty good rock band.
Dan Hicks and crew didn't disappoint, playing all the great songs and most
of the new ones from the "Last Train To Hicksville" album. We figured the
title indicated this would be their final tour as a group, and it turned
out
to be just that. They weren't the quaint, funny little swing band we'd
seen
years before; they now had a drummer, and a guitarist, but they were still
very good.
I'd always liked the Kinks, in fact their first album was my first album.
But I had little idea of how they were live. Of course, if you've ever
seen
the Kinks, you know that they completely rocked in concert, and we were
absolutely blown away.
A fine night at the old skating rink!
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