Chapter 10 A Star Is Born At the end of 1975 I got another phone call from Bill Graham, but this time he was calling for advice. He was going to put on a concert at ASU Stadium in the spring of ’76, for a remake of the classic Judy Garland picture A Star…
Chapter 9 Keeping My Head Above Water: The Very First Shows The show went on, but I had to take Journey off the bill. Of course, in no time Journey would go on to become one of the biggest names in rock music. I hated being the guy who had canceled on Journey just as…
Chapter 8 “Who Do You Think You Are, Bill Graham?” KDKB was playing the hell out of a self-titled record called Buckingham Nicks, by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who were a couple back then. This was before they joined Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham Nicks was produced by Keith Olsen, who has produced a lot of great…
Chapter 7 The Sun Comes up on Sundown Productions After the Led Zeppelin show was over, I found myself boarding an airmail flight with a few guys from Bill Graham Presents. Back then, you could get $10 tickets between LA and San Francisco by riding with the air-mail on the midnight flight. I got into a great conversation Arnie Pustilnik, one of…
Chapter 6: DJ-ing for Led Zeppelin Where is that Jimmy Page hiding anyway? After a mind-blowing Alice experience, which I flashback a little later, my next gig came from one of Bill’s main guys, Dave Furano, who had offered me some new work while at the Alice Show in Tucson. This time it was…
Chapter 5 Alice Cooper and Shep Gordon They Broke the Mold Making connections wasn’t exactly easy. Phoenix was a small desert town back then, but there was this incredible radio station called KDKB. They played Billy Joel, Jackson Browne, ELO, and broke Jerry Riopelle and Bruce Springsteen back when these acts were still new, and they…
