The Byrds 1971-02-27
United States Naval Academy Gym Building, Annapolis, MD
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My memory is that it was during a late Summer month or an early Fall day because it was so warm that evening. In fact it was on February 27th 1971 but it was unseasonably warm that day. Turns out it was a freak weather day with a daytime high of 69 degrees.
Just 25 days earlier it was only 8 degrees in Annapolis.
A huge thanks to Mr Alan Bershaw for his research aid on 12/26/2024:
"That Byrds concert at the Naval Academy Gym in Annapolis was on February 27, 1971. One of my dearest friends (and an archive mgmt client) is Dinky Dawson, who was The Byrds soundman from 1970-1972. I just looked it up in his itinerary database."
there's also this:
the underground mag 'Harry' from Mar 12, 1971:
"The Byrds at the Naval Academy? Far out! Even if someone was putting us on, it was still worth looking into. As we pulled into the Naval Academy Saturday night, things didn't look to good. Billions of sailors in white gloves and academy threads all over the place, and as we approached the auditorium, our tension was steadily mounting. But the freaks started coming and, by the time the concert started, several hundreds of them made their way into the Field House, and the combination of the two cultures was too much.
"The sailors were really digging it, but it's too bad the Naval Academy has rules for everything. The sailors had to have special permission to take off their jackets when things got hot, and smoking and drinking in any form would be considered outrageous. Even one of the Directors of the Academy was overheard as saying, 'Isn't it a shame half of these hippies are high on pot.' [...] The Byrds are still warm and sincere people who just dig entertaining people, whether they be sailors or freaks, and have definitely proved that Air Power has supremacy over Naval Power."
Just 25 days earlier it was only 8 degrees in Annapolis.
A huge thanks to Mr Alan Bershaw for his research aid on 12/26/2024:
"That Byrds concert at the Naval Academy Gym in Annapolis was on February 27, 1971. One of my dearest friends (and an archive mgmt client) is Dinky Dawson, who was The Byrds soundman from 1970-1972. I just looked it up in his itinerary database."
there's also this:
the underground mag 'Harry' from Mar 12, 1971:
"The Byrds at the Naval Academy? Far out! Even if someone was putting us on, it was still worth looking into. As we pulled into the Naval Academy Saturday night, things didn't look to good. Billions of sailors in white gloves and academy threads all over the place, and as we approached the auditorium, our tension was steadily mounting. But the freaks started coming and, by the time the concert started, several hundreds of them made their way into the Field House, and the combination of the two cultures was too much.
"The sailors were really digging it, but it's too bad the Naval Academy has rules for everything. The sailors had to have special permission to take off their jackets when things got hot, and smoking and drinking in any form would be considered outrageous. Even one of the Directors of the Academy was overheard as saying, 'Isn't it a shame half of these hippies are high on pot.' [...] The Byrds are still warm and sincere people who just dig entertaining people, whether they be sailors or freaks, and have definitely proved that Air Power has supremacy over Naval Power."
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Fri Dec 27 2024 13:27:35 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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