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DAY ON THE GREEN # 3 1979

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 21, 2019…BILL GRAHAM’S ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ CONCERTS WERE CONCERTS THAT WERE THE PROTOTYPES FOR FESTIVAL SHOWS. STAGED ON THE LAWN OF THE OAKLAND COLISEUM, THE ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ CONCERTS WERE A SUMMER SERIES OF CONCERTS THAT GRAHAM STARTED IN 1973 AND THEY CONTINUED UNTIL SHORTLY AFTER HIS DEATH AS A RESULT OF A HELICOPTER CRASH IN 1991.

ON THIS DATE IN 1979 IT WAS DAY ON THE GREEN # 3 TIME. THIS SHOW WAS ALSO KNOWN AS THE “MONSTERS OF ROCK” DAY ON THE GREEN, WITH THE LINE UP FEATURING MAHOGANY RUSH, AC/DC, TED NUGENT, AND AEROSMITH. INCREDIBLY, THE TICKETS FOR THIS MEGA SHOW WERE ONLY

$12.50, OR $15 AT THE DOOR.

HERE ARE THE SETLISTS FROM THE “MONSTERS OF ROCK” DAY ON THE GREEN:

MAHOGANY RUSH

The Answer

Dragonfly

I’m a King Bee

Johnny B. Goode

Who Do You Love?

Electric Reflections of War

The World Anthem

Purple Haze

FRANK MARINO AND MAHOGANY RUSH

AC/DC

Live Wire

Problem Child

Sin City

Highway to Hell

Bad Boy Boogie

The Jack

Rocker

Dog Eat Dog

HERE’S THE ENTIRE SET FROM AC/DC

AEROSMITH

Back in the Saddle

The Train Kept A-Rollin’

Mama Kin

Big Ten Inch Record

Reefer Head Woman

Lick and a Promise

Think About It

Seasons of Wither

Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)

Lord of the Thighs

Sweet Emotion

Get the Lead Out

Walk This Way

Draw the Line

Same Old Song and Dance

Come Together

Toys in the Attic

AEROSMITH MAKING THINGS HAPPEN AT THE ‘MONSTER’S OF ROCK’ DAY ON THE GREEN.

TED NUGENT

Stormtroopin’

Just What the Doctor Ordered

Free-For-All

Dog Eat Dog

The Great White Buffalo

Cat Scratch Fever

Need You Bad

Paralyzed

It Don’t Matter

Stranglehold

Encore:

Motor City Madhouse

THIS IS TED NUGENT’S FULL SET AT ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’