Campus Concerts
Page West was on the Student Entertainment Committee for three out of four years, and he kept a log of Campus Concerts.
1970 -71
1971-72
1972-73
1973-74
Groups that were booked but cancelled out
Other groups that performed during our time on campus:
Notes from Page:
Don McClean played coffee house fall our freshman year. He was an unknown at the time. "American Pie" wasn't released until a year later. No one else "major" played there. I thought Bonnie Raitt might have, but in 73 she played Colgate and a bunch of H kids went to the concert there.
Notes from Jim Kennedy:
John Prine and James Cotton shared House Party Weekend billing in February of '73. According to the Spectator archives, there was a bit of a dustup over who got to be the feature act, with Prine winning the day (night).
And two blues legends played on the Hill: the Reverend Gary Davis and, later, his protege, Larry Johnson. I think the Rev played the chapel and I know Larry appeared in the Coffee House. I remember these guys because I had the honor of ushering them to their quarters in Bristol at the end of the evening. I recall Larry being in awe at the fact he was sleeping in the same bed his idol had occupied the year before. He felt like he was in a shrine.
- Livingston Taylor
- Mothers of Invention
1971-72
- Al Kooper
- Grin
- John Prine
- Lighthouse
1972-73
- Orleans
- Tom Rush
- Billy Cobham
- Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
- John Prine / James Cotton Blues Band
- Wayne Cochran & CC Riders
1973-74
- Mark Almond Band
- Seatrain
- Brewer & Shipley
- Taj Mahal
- David Bromberg
- Sha-na-na
Groups that were booked but cancelled out
- Youngbloods
- Delfonics
- Byrds
- Kinks
- Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth
- Commander Cody
- Sly & Family Stone had cancelled out the winter before we arrived on campus.
Other groups that performed during our time on campus:
- Country Granola
- Tom Rush
- Lighthouse
- Wayne Cochran & CC Riders
- Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
- Reverend Gary Davis
- Larry Johnson
- NRBQ
- Return to Forever
- Persuasions
- Orleans
Notes from Page:
Don McClean played coffee house fall our freshman year. He was an unknown at the time. "American Pie" wasn't released until a year later. No one else "major" played there. I thought Bonnie Raitt might have, but in 73 she played Colgate and a bunch of H kids went to the concert there.
Notes from Jim Kennedy:
John Prine and James Cotton shared House Party Weekend billing in February of '73. According to the Spectator archives, there was a bit of a dustup over who got to be the feature act, with Prine winning the day (night).
And two blues legends played on the Hill: the Reverend Gary Davis and, later, his protege, Larry Johnson. I think the Rev played the chapel and I know Larry appeared in the Coffee House. I remember these guys because I had the honor of ushering them to their quarters in Bristol at the end of the evening. I recall Larry being in awe at the fact he was sleeping in the same bed his idol had occupied the year before. He felt like he was in a shrine.