Tickets Torn In Half: FACES @ Fillmore East 2/17/71

"Days and Nights of My Misspent Youth" AKA "Tickets Torn In Half” with a cast of knuckleheads, vagabonds, cronies, sidekicks, and compatriots…

February 17, 1971 @ Fillmore East: A mid week show on a very snowy Manhattan night for FACES (listed as SMALL FACES) /SAVOY BROWN/ THE GREASE BAND. The Grease Band was a disaster without Joe Cocker, Savoy Brown, the same without Chris Youlden and the gang which will soon become FOGHAT, so we had only one hope left , THE FACES. And, THE FACES did not disappoint, as a matter of fact they were one of the best, most fun, bands I had ever seen. Ronnie Wood kicked it off on pedal steel with SWEET LADY MARY, the band cranked it up with I DON’T WANT TO DISCUSS IT, Rod Stewart out did Paul McCartney on Paul’s new tune, MAYBE I’M AMAZED, followed by Ian McLagen, Ronnie Lane, and Kenny Jones playing their roles in AN OLD RAINCOAT NEVER LET’S YOU DOWN, GASOLINE ALLEY, THREE BUTTON HAND ME DOWN and an encore of Elton John’s COUNTRY COMFORT. All while we were seated in the second row center. T’was was a wonderful night, and we lucked out in catching the midnight train back home. Unfortunately it was still snowing and the drive to get my date home took longer than I had hoped, and then I still had to travel one hour back to my house in a heavy snow. Got home after 3 AM with snow piling up all around me. School in the morning. But on we go…

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