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’
