Boy you it the nail on the head, I got to see the Passion Play & didn't know what to expect but went & brought the album after the Show. Still one of my top 10 concerts. Btw one of the 10 Queen songs probably won't be "The Great King Rat". 🎶🎶🎶✌️

Cool "concept" for a video! I loved seeing the Circus magazines. I had a subscription (still have many). All the albums you showed are in my collection and played frequently. Wonderful presentation. 😊

I have Thick As A Brick box and it's fantastic. Passion Play is an album I respect more than I like. It makes for an uncomfortable listen for me. Love that you have those Circus and Creem msgs. I read those religiously in the mid 70's. Alice Cooper's "Nightmare" is my favorite record of his. I watched the ABC-TV special at the time It was fun. Wondering why Alan Parsons Project didn't get any love from you. Their first three releases all work for me as quality concept pieces. As aLways a pleasure to see your selections. You and I would have some great discussions about music..

Excellent idea and very nicely put across. And so true. I can remember seeing the Lamb performed in its entirety in April 1975 at Wembley and having absolutely no clue whatsoever what was going on as I hadn't heard the album. On a personal level, the whole show was saved by the encores of Watcher of the Skies & The Musical Box, if memory serves. The irony being that the Lamb subsequently became my second-favourite Genesis album. I am pretty sure that the final European shows were also cancelled because of poor ticket sales too, btw. And in seven weeks time (I apologise for mentioning it again), I shall be entertained by a certain Mr. Wakeman performing the whole of 'Journey' live at this year's Cropredy!! That'll be a lot of fun, I think.

Solid video - thank you! The Kinks RCA period is A miss for me - and I'm a HUGE Kinks guy! Muswell Hillbillies being the exception- that's a go to album. One of my fave Kinks albums. Same with Tull - it seems like instead of trying out concept album after concept album Ian Anderson changed the whole idea of Tull as a band. I LOVE their Heavy Horses permutation and saw all these shows at the time. I don't blame inflation as much as the sheer greed of corps like Ticketmaster and such. My first Springsteen show in 78 was 8$. I've NEVER spent a better 8$ and I probably talked a girl into springing for tickets anyway. Rock on!🤘😎🤘

I love how The Alan Rosenberg Show presents atypical music topics, as is evidenced by this very interesting and insightful video. What was it about rock concert audiences in the 1970s (and the late 1960s) that made them so different from those of today (and recent decades)? Unlike today’s audiences, they were not only open to hearing new music at concerts, but they genuinely were excited about listening to songs they never before heard by the bands they were into. They looked forward to the possibilities of discovering great new treats for their ears. I know because I was part of some of those audiences. The first rock concert I ever saw was Yes performing the entire “Tales from Topographic Oceans” LP. As the album had not yet been released at the time of the concert, it was a first-time listening experience for all the audience members in the sold-out arena. During the roughly two and a half hours it took to play the entire double album at New York’s Nassau Coliseum, I, like my fellow audience members, was mesmerized. I remember seeing no one near me leave their seats during the performance, seemingly not to miss hearing any new music. Bathroom and alcohol needs apparently were taken care of prior to the start of the concert. - at least as far as I could tell. As “Tales…” is a complex and totally noncommercial album, the concert was a testament to the love of, excitement about and loyalty to Yes by the band’s fans. I also saw Led Zeppelin perform most of the songs on “Physical Graffiti” a couple of weeks before the double album dropped. My fellow audience members at the Madison Square Garden show were ecstatic about hearing never-before-heard songs by the band. At both the Yes and Zeppelin concerts, just a few fan favorites were included at the end of the respective shows, as the double albums were long. Nobody was disappointed that new songs took spots that could have been filled by plenty of well-known numbers. That was obvious by the enthusiastic after-concert discussions in which opinions about new songs were eagerly shared. Maybe the difference between those audiences and today’s concertgoers is that in the ‘70s (and late ‘60s) listening to music was frequently communal, and talking about music was a big part of socializing with friends. In today’s world, the norm for listening to music is for people to pop in ear buds while going about their personal business. As you pointed out, Alan, music nowadays often is relegated to the background. And today’s concertgoers are preoccupied with filming the entire if not most of the show on their cell phones. They are not in the moment, but rather focused on letting social media followers know they’re part of something cool. They want to film performances of a band’s classic, played-to-death songs because those songs get the best responses and, in turn, heighten the coolness factor. At the risk of over generalizing, the thoughts I have stated stem from my personal concert experiences. While I appreciate the use of cell phones as a way of documenting “part of” a happening, I think that their overuse at concerts is annoying - and detrimental to what a concert experience should be. Maybe I’m just too old school, but to me nothing compares to tens of thousands of cigarette lighters (not cell phones) being held up at the end of a concert.

Great idea Alan. Our generation were spoilt. So many bands pushing the envelope. I saw The Tubes at Knebworth and they had a pretty impressive stage show. Missed Spinal Tap doing Stonehenge live sadly.

Nice episode... gotta correct you on the Genesis section (i'm a long time obseessed fan)... the Circus magazine cover is not Rael, that is Peter's "Watcher" costume. They did Watcher as an encore on many of the Lamb shows. Also the last show was cancelled in France... not in the States where they were becoming a much more well known band at this point and they were able to play larger halls during the lamb tour.

I forgot to mention that I love the Slipperman picture from Circus magazine.

I saw Yes several yrs ago.Bruford on drums and Tony Kaye on the keyboards.The critics said they didn't even have the original band.I'm thinking somebody needs to do their homework.Peter Banks was the only one missing from the original band

Loved Brick from day one. Took me awhile to love APP.

Wait a minute.....you ought to know about the Queen catalog selling.....you bought it!!😂 I saw the Thick As A Brick, Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, and School Boys In Disgrace tours. All were great shows. Those school boy outfits were too much😂🤣 Those were the days my friend. Unfortunately, they ended. Yes, I'm channeling Mary Hopkins😂

Another cool video ... good topic ... one to potentially consider is Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds which is just such a great album ... been re-recorded / updated over the years... and still touring / selling out arenas ... it will be in Aberdeen next year ... still a must see event ... epic story ... epic tunes .... still can't beat the majestic original release with Richard Burton's superb story telling voice ... CMcG, Aberdeen, Scotland

Loved the video Alan. Just wanted to leave a Happy 4th of July message from a rainy Oslo. Cheers from Morten 🇺🇸🥳🇺🇸

how could you leave out the Bay City Rollers and their magnus opus “The Life & Times of One Alan Rosenberg”? I think they did 56 sold out shows at the Dew Drop Inn on Nantucket Island of that one.

This was a great idea and very enjoyable. Except for Alice Cooper and Wakeman solo I've seen all those bands live but unfortunately not on the concept album tours. BTW Gerald Scarfe is married to Jane Asher.

So here's another fun idea for a show and this is just a fun suggestion by the ways 60s and 70s concept albums movies good bad and ugly so just for fun an good example would be Ken Russell's 1975 adaptation of the who's Tommy and bad can be the 1978 disaster Sgt pepper's lonely heart's club band with Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees would love your take on this topic

The one that comes to my mind is Utopia doing "Singring and the Glass Guitar" and Todd would climb the pyramid and belt out guitar riffs at the top. Total theatrics with a concept album.

Great shirt bro. :) I saw a lot of those Tull concerts. Fantastic stuff!

Always loved Keith Richards comment on Jethro Tull. If your into a guy playing a flute while standing on one foot, then they’re your band

Very interesting Video Alan. As for Queen and value. Well, first I think their music IS worth more for advertisers and who ever owns their music because it has a more universal impact. Catchier, perhaps a bit less bound by time, easy to insert into adds and movies and had a potencial future use in more musicals and Broadway type shows? Also, the money is spread on 3 people and an estate and if John Deacon is still responsible for the bands economics? He is a recluse but a shrewd one if memory serves me well 😄 Seen some insane prices here as well, but Keane last month wasn’t too bad (400 NOK = 37 US$).

Have a complete genesis lamb lies down on Broadway concert from Palm Beach 1975

There was also Styx doing Kilroy Was Here on tour and that whole brouhaha.

Hey Alan. I really dug this video. Concept albums are works of art no doubt. After doing some research, I never realized that the earliest "concept" ideas date back to the 1940s. I was wondering what your thoughts are on modern concept albums? For example, Primus did a Willy Wonka one and Tool's Lataralus is considered a concept album. Strangely enough, even Taylor Swift is now being written up as concept work nowadays. Thoughts? Great video. Cheers, Darryl.

Regarding ticket prices, my very first concert was Aerosmith and that was $7.50. Fun fact: There were two openers, and the one of them was Buffalo band, Talas, that featured Billy Sheehan on bass guitar. OH! Just out of curiosity, Alan, did Rick Wakeman have anything interesting to say to you when he signed your posters? Or anything to say at all? Was he surprised you had them?

Interesting indeed Alan...and I too miss those times very much. I did not personally see any of the shows you highlighted, as I really didn't start going to concerts until the early 80s, but it was a very different time. While watching it though, I couldn't help but constantly think of what was going on with punk music at that time, and how it really throttled the industry. Honestly, the theatrical thing got a little too much for me, personally...and though I was not necessarily some big punk music fan back then, looking back, something needed to wipe the slate clean, if you know what I mean. Some of the concepts were not just huge, but outrageous! I mean, it makes the pop up phallus the Stones did in '75 look pretty quaint, no? (Btw, didn't Miley Cyrus use that same phallus in her shows not too far back???) Some of the 'stories' got to be a little tiresome to me, too, and a little too much like an albatross. At some point, I would begin to think, shut up and play your guitar,--thank you, FZ. I mean inevitably, it did get self-indulgent. In fact, Frank himself kind of lampooned the whole concept album/tour thing with his overly obscene Joe's Garage... But are we getting some of that same thing now in some of these overly theatric shows done by, say, Taylor Swift or Katy Perry? My wife put on a couple of their DVDs, and some of this stuff kills me--I'm seeing these massive set pieces with one of those dingbats floating over it on an elevated swing-set, strumming their acoustic guitar...or floating in water while a group of Vegas style dancers gyrate through a heavily choreographed routine on some LED platform....or opining in a mock tree house with chirping birds nearby...or emoting on an immaculate white grand piano--covered in moss???? I mean, forget about $100s of dollars, some of these people are paying well into the thousands for such shows. But then, rock music sure ain't doing that anymore.

Talking back catalogs, have the Stones ever tried buying their Abkco era stuff back? I mean, Mr. Klein has passed...

What, no Quadrophenia '73 tour?