In the spring of 77 I saw Dan in Chicago. It was shortly after the release of Netherlands. My god I was captivated. I became a life long fan. I also had prostate cancer that was treated in September 2001. I am thankful to have had so many more years to listen to his songs. Ever On.

This is pretty astounding. I was at this concert. I sat in the 3rd row and took still photos. My friend recorded it with a cassette recorder in her purse and we had every single moment of this concert memorized. We listened to it hundreds of times. It's incredible to see it all here after all these decades.

THANK YOU SO MUCH... WE HARD CORE FANS WHO HAVE BEEN WITH HIM SINCE THE 70'S ARE SURE THIS IS A TREASURE

I'm fighting prostate cancer myself. Dan's was very aggressive and he had one of the best cancer centers in the world in Boston. Men: get your PSA number ASAP. Even if you're young, you need a baseline. Don't delay. I have a chance because my team and I caught it early because I had a PSA test earlier than most guys and we could see a trend. Again, men, get your PSA test!

SONG LIST: -The Show Begins -Stars -Crow -Old Tennessee -Don't Spoil The Charts -Dan's Mother Requests "Lessons Learned" -Instrumental Sketch -Looking For A Lady -To The Morning -Once Upon A Time -Song From Half Mountain INTERMISSION (Fool's Gold) -Morning Sky -Captured Angel -Comes And Goes -Next Time -I Will Run -Anyway I Love You -Long Way Home (Live In The Country) -These Days -Part Of The Plan -As The Raven Flies -There's A Place In The World For A Gambler

This excellent video didn't happen all by itself and all Dan Fans have Gene Tourangeau to thank for putting it together and loading it up. RIP Gene....

Have to share a memory....At one of the concerts I attended, Dan was sitting at the piano and began to play the intro to "Same Old Lang Syne." The audience responded with an excited murmur. Dan kept tinkling away on the piano and said, "This is probably the song I get asked about the most. People wonder if this really happened to me." He paused and said, "Naw, it is just a song I wrote." There was a huge groan/sigh of disappointment from the crowd as obviously so many connect with this song and the belief that Dan was writing about his own experience. He let the disappointment sink in and then said, "Just kidding!" and launched into the song. A very special and poignant moment for all in attendance.

While I have posted these feelings before, I must give Thanks to Dan for allowing me, to share his fear during his early days. It was a concert @ Rich Stadium in the early 70's. He followed Seals n Croft, the stadium was rocking. Dan came on and started with a ballad. The crowd ignored him. It was then that, we connected visually. The fear in his eyes was almost palatable. He stopped playing. Suddenly, the fear disappeared and he broke out with Part of the Plan.....the rest is history. RIP Dan.

Please NEVER take this video down

We need music like this today 2021.....he was a true musician/songwriter 😌

Gene, hard to find the right words watching this!!! Priceless.. Dan in concert in 1976.. I am mesmerized. I fell in love with his music in Fall 1975. I love his early music.. He was one of the best songwriter- singers we will ever have. No one writes or sings like him. He played so many instruments and just always blew me away when I had the pleasure to see him in person. It is a bit hard, still, for me to watch him.. he is missed so so much.. Thank you this priceless video. EVER ON.

Awesome!!! I named my oldest son after him My son passed away last year at age 29. Wish we could have seen Dan Fogelberg in concert together, I think he would have liked it!!

A rare and singular talent who provided the soundtrack to a time in my life, and who continues to influence my own songwriting and playing. Taken from us far too soon. The country boy from Illinois. Thanks for posting this!

This is BAD ASS. RIP Dan~

I too had the privilege of seeing Dan, on the NETHERLANDS tour at the Blossom near Cleveland, Ohio. He opened with NETHERLANDS and one other song on piano, asking the audience to please quiet down, that there would be lots of time to rock when the band came out. He did one song on acoustic guitar and the audience was still yapping for rock. He was visibly upset and SLAMMED his guitar in a stand. It rung out over the audience as he walked to the mike. Aside from the ringing of the guitar, you could hear a pin drop as he said "I'll be back with the band" in disgust. It was a moment I will never forget, and in spite of the audience, he came back out and tore the place apart. He was brilliant...

Haunting! I had forgotten how much I loved his music. Almost like sneaking a peek into the heavens and hearing him perform for the angels. Thanks for sharing this!

He's truly stunned to hear an audience member request "Lessons Learned."

Gene, who are you and how do you have this!? We were there. This was maybe the second time my BFF and I saw DF. If memory serves, I believe the first was when he opened for the Eagles. I would go so far as to say we were groupies... probably saw him over 50 times after that. We were kids and he was our world. And we snuck a cassette recorder into the Capital that night (and many after that! I have quite a bootleg collection somewhere LOL shhhh!) and have probably listened to this hundreds of times on that little tinny cassette player. My BFF was a photographer, and would sneak her camera in, too. I'd forgotten about all the intermittent comments he made, and his interactions with the audience. At one point, we had every second of this concert memorized note for note, comment for comment. As I watch this, it all comes flooding back. I'm floored. Totally floored. Thank you for posting this!!! He got me through more tough times that I can remember, and continues to do so in my old age. This is making me feel young and old at the same time. Only hope that he knows how he effected so many of us.

rip Dan ~ thoughts of you and your music brings tears rolling down my face. You knew how to reach the depths of the soul. I will be forever grateful for your music. What a gift you are/were ~

I got hooked on Fogelberg in the mid 70's. I saw him live 3 times and have all of his albums through the mid 80's. He left us much too soon, and coincidentally ten years to the day after one of my favorite female musicians...Nicholette Larson, whom I was also fortunate enough to see live before she left us. Their music will live on forever.

There is a song called Lessons Learned off the "Nether Lands" album, which was recorded in May 1977. This convert was recorded March 20, 1976. Go to the 24:02 mark of the concert and listen to the LEGENDARY exchange Dan has with someone in the audience. Remarkable!! you just don't see people interact with their fans like this any more. Fogelber loved his fans ... and, of course, vice versa.

Thank you so much for sharing. Dan had not contemporaries in my opinion. He had the technical chops, the voice and the poetry of an ancient bard!

Thank you, Gene. Saw Dan at Red Rocks, Colorado circa 1980, when I was in college at Regis. It was a benefit concert for Gary Hart for President. Wow, did he choose badly and waste that money. It was the best concert I ever saw, though. This video brought those memories flooding back, along with one of the first dates with my wife at his concert in Poplar Creek, Illinois. (married 26 years now). I feel sorry for my kids, that they don't get music like this anymore. Romantic, but yet masculine. Spiritual, philosophical, but not doctrinaire We were so blessed to have him.

Gidday there. I am in Australia. I can't believe this has been uploaded. I dreamt to see footage of this vintage. Thanks mate. You made my day.

I saw Dan on this tour in Chicago at the Auditorium Theater. To say I'm a fan is not saying it . I'd have his new LPs soon as I could get my hands on them, and put the precious vinyl on my turntable, and sit with the jacket and lyrics...just taking everyone note, every chord. How did he know what my life was about, what she and I were saying - doing, just how I felt? There are tunes like The Last Nail (Laurie), Ever On, As The Raven Plays, Wysteria, Netherlands, Innocent Age, Scarecrow's Dream, and Dan talks about "Lessons Learned", how stunning is that tune, and he was apparently working on it. To say Dan's music will be missed is to not say enough. The waiting for his next album is gone from our lives. Ever On friends. Smile. Ron K.

I am in New Jersey, this is my first concert, in the past few years I've made 100 of tribute videos featuring Dan's music from "Home Free" to "Love In Time", trying to bring the imagery beauty of his music for the world to see, may his legacy ever on...thanks for sharing the treasure memory

Saw him live in Ames, Iowa a long time ago. One of the BEST concerts in my life. On Halloween and they were in costumes. The crowd called him back for FIVE encores and wanted another......just F%&#ing amazing. Songwriter extraordinaire and a multi-talented musician. Gone too soon.

I saw Dan in a solo concert on Boston Common about 30 years ago and he was amazing. I'll never forget that show. I miss Dan.

I simply cannot get enough of this talented man's music.

Wow! An early Dan Fogelberg concert. I never would have thought one existed. Oddly, the period of some of the best music is weak on video, but there was no commercial outlet for video back then. I don't even mind the picture quality, it reminds me of the Nether Lands cover. Thanks!

So profoundly sad that his creative voice is gone......I have his physical on my CD...and cherish morsels such as those above... I am so grateful that Dan Fogelberg existed in my lifetime!

Heard from my youngest son today ,,what a joy ,he said he thinks he can come over here oct-nov. looking foward to seeing him😊😊

Perfection in performance,perfectionist in all things. Master song smith and musician. The unsung hero,there will never be another.

As Joe Walsh said years ago, "the kid can sing". Thanks for this vid.

Thank you for this early concert! I saw Dan at Carnegie Hall in NYC right after Netherlands came out--1979??. His voice was at its peak. With the perfect acoustics of Carnegie Hall, I swear he sounded like an angel. This concert captures that time. So sad he's gone.

Such a rare treasure - gone but never forgotten...

An amazing talent. I have every album and all 167+songs he composed and recorded. Yes I'm a fan.

Finally a full DF concert with decent sound quality! I saw Dan solo, twice in the early 80's and even then neither was as good as this one. Thanks for posting this!

I saw Dan in January this same year (1976) and probably the same tour at the Orpheum Theater in Boston. 3 encores, Still one of three or four most outstanding concerts I ever have seen... His solos, on piano and guitar, we're outstanding. His first his first 3 albums helped me through some rough emotional times. Always have appreciated Dan and the music he created and left us. A shame that the good must die young.

I first saw Dan solo acoustic during the Netherlands tour. Blessed enough to have great seats ,his remarkable talents were not lost on this 'Rock and Roller'.He disarmed me with 'Plastered in Paris','Don't Reverse the Charge', and 'Theme For Black Orpheus'. I left the Philadelphia Academy of Music with a broader sense of songwriting and performing than I'd had before I walked in.What was in my opinion 'chick music' had woven it's way to my very core by the end of the show.

OMG!! Thank you for sharing this. I never got the chance to see him perform live. This is just too cool for words. :-)

Another long day tomorrow hope you have a good day ! Thankyou for sharing songs with me love this laying down enjoying your mind!😊

I had no idea he played so wickedly!

I saw Daniel Fogelberg (solo and with a band at diverse venues in Northeast Ohio), and met him briefly, along with Timothy Schmidt, backstage at the State Theater in Cleveland. Very nice guys. Dan seemed pretty drained. I could tell he leaves every drop of emotion on stage.He was exactly my age, and I was shocked to see that relatively so few people noticed when he passed. What a privilege to have been around to watch this supremely talented man sing and play his unique and so moving compositions in person. I understand completely the statements and intensity of appreciation of the other commenters here. God damn!

And on its 10th year here this is my 1st listen, wow, this is some from the vault stuff, wow, thank you Gene, this is wonderful.

OMG! I was at this concert.

just found this... watched it... remembered seeing him and the power of his influence on my music... RIP and thanks for posting this concert.

What an amazing talent! This was taken when he was at the peak of his abilities. Thanks for posting.

Awesome !!! I was in 10th grade at the time . Thanks for posting this show. I wish Dan where still with us. God Bless

Thaks for posting. This was around the time i started getting into Fogelberg but never caught this tour. i saw the Netherlands tour a couple years later but this is really special with the pedal steel player. So talented...Dan was incredible in the studio too. RIP brother.

This is a wonderful gift for the many fans of Dan Fogelberg. Thank you very much.

I like how the audience and Dan have a clear stream of dialogue with each other. The shouting, yelling, and his acknowledgments are warmly humorous.

An incredible artist and musician!

I was at this concert as well as every show Dan did at the Capital. The first time I saw him here he opened for America great great show

As a native dutchman, I never had the chance to see one of my heroes, Dan Fogelberg, live. Now I can. At least that's how this superb video feels to me. What an incredible show, what great musician and how beautiful his songs. Thanks so much for uploading this treasure, and thank you Dan, for having given us so much pure joy. Rest in peace.

Simply Awesome! Thank you! The first time I saw Dan was at The Troubador in Los Angeles in 1973.

Hearing Dan's work every so often is almost as rejuvenating to my soul as knowing that every day there are new fans who will appreciate him for years to come. Unquestionably one of the best from the Seventies with talent for all time

Wow, what a tremendous gift this video is. Thank you! I was 5 at the time of this show. I didn't discover Dan until circa 1989, but got to see him in concert several times after that. Dan provided the soundtrack for my 20s and 30s. A section of my heart permanently closed in December 2007. To think, he was in the middle of writing Lessons Learned when this show was recorded... that brought tears to my eyes. And hits like Leader of the Band, Same Old Lang Syne, and Longer weren't even on the horizon yet. Exquisite composer, brilliant musician, and beautiful human being. 💜💚💛

I would love how someone knew about a song he hadn't finished yet. I love lessons learned but I checked it wasn't released tip following year. He looked shocked when someone requested it. I wasn't old enought to go to concerts yet but I was already inLove with Fogelberg. Wish I could have been there!

A concert I never saw! WOW, amazing how Dan evolved through his years and exposure. So happy in his music!

Wow! This was a great find! I got to see Dan Fogelberg in 1985, 1991, and 1997, but this is so wonderful to see him when his voice was probably in its' prime--though we knew how much more of a great songwriter and musician he would become with the passage of each day, month, and year! Thanks for this gem! Sincerely, BobbyK

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this! Absolutely brilliant!!!!

This video is amazing! Thank you! I loved him so much. He was so good live! I had every one of his records. I heard his first record Home Free when my friends older brother bought it for a dollar in the sale bin in 1973. I couldn’t stop listening to it. When Souvenirs came out the next year I was so happy!❤

Can't believe I found this... thank you SO much for sharing!! I was actually at this concert at the Capitol and still have the ticket stub. There's some banter with the audience related to his a later song "Lessons Learned" which appeared on Netherlands, which I distinctly remember being referenced. Still recall how Gambler was amazing with everyone singing. He did that for most shows, but it stuck out for me that night probably since it was the first time I saw him. Remember that Vikings jersey as well. Been a huge Fogelberg fan since Homefree, and was lucky to see him more than a dozen times through the 70's, 80's and 90's. I live in northern NJ, and saw him at Princeton Univ. in 1978, as well as pretty much all of the major arena venues in the NY, NJ area... the Garden, Meadowlands, Nassau Col, PNC Arts Center, Waterloo Village (big tent concert a few times), Beacon Theater with Tim Weisberg (one of those shows is actually on DVD). That Beacon show might have been the last time I saw him in concert. His voice was starting to strain more around that time, but he was still great. Lol... I actually scalped (bought) a ticket for his concert at Carnegie Hall for $35, which was a ton of money at the time. Related to this particular show, I actually have both Fools Gold "records" as well, which I think are great in their own right ("Fools Gold" & "Mr. Lucky"; they're both available on CD, although I think I got the latter on Amazon as an import. You might want to check them out if interested; they're both worth it. The first one has two other songs that Fogelberg wrote or co-wrote, never recorded by Dan.) Just amazing...

Thank you, thank you, thank you for putting this up. What an endearing treat to see him "in concert" back in the same year that I discovered his music with the Captured Angel album. Since that day in 76, he has been my all-time favorite artist. Again, thank you.

Yes! The BEST! I know for SURE! Love you Gentlemen for making my life so good! Way to go Dan! Hero!

I was stationed at Balad, Iraq when I learned of Dan's passing. A part of my youth was ripped away.I recall how animals would be drawn towards him from the skittish studio cat which only Dan could handle to the wild ones on Bird Mountain.

Wow! This is Priceless. Where did you score this? The black and white makes it even more classic! I was 19 at the time of this Concert and was into the hard rock scene before I learned to appreciate the man and his music in the early 80's. I was in H.S. when he started releasing albums and remember buying them for my Sister as gifts. I didn't come around to his music until later and was hooked ever since.

Breathtaking. Amazing. Best two hours of my week. Thank you so much.

We popped this on Christmas morning. Perfect.

I falling in and out of love to Dan's music all through my teens back in the early 70's up till his double (vinyl) album "The innocent Age", after that I kinda lost touch, so this really is a much appreciated walk down memory lane. "Thank-You". ....A line that will live with me all my days "The woman is like the night she comes and goes, she'll break your heart and never know"....

Thank you so much for this excellent concert

What a treasure, thank you so much for posting this, brings me back to the Carnegie Hall solo show I was privileged to see

I have been feeling quite depressed lately and I needed this concert to lift my spirit. Dan helped so many people with his music by touching their hearts when no one else could. I thank you so much for uploading this video of Dan.

Thank you for posting this old concert of Dan from 1976. What a treat! Awesome..... : )

Thanks for posting, great memories!

I just started listening to DF and Wow, he really just holds it down on his own, pretty amazing stuff that first acoustic set, still watching :) Thanks for posting this!

Thanks so much for sharing these concert clips!!! I was unlucky to have not heard Dan's music until the late 70's (why?! I have no clue!!) but that first song hooked me ! Been a huge fan ever since, but always wished I had seen him in concert during this phase of his career, thanks for making that possible!!what an extraordinary talent this man possessed!!

Always my favourite. If only he could have sung with Joni Mitchell. Love Dan. Hard to say, how much we miss him.

Thank you for posting this

Dan was an amazing singer, songwriter, performer, and human being. He will be missed by many.

My new all time favorite KZfaq find. I love Dan Fogelberg ever since I saw him at the Dr. Pepper Concert Series at Central Park NY back on July 9th1977. What an awesome place for an awesome concert. Outside with great weather listening to some great music. I will never forget it.

Gene..I am in awe and mesmerized. That this exists with such well preserved audio is fantastic. I heard his first 3 albums in 1976 but did not get to see him until 1978 in Albany, performing solo just like this. Though I would see him again touring in Boston Common playing bluegrass and at George Mason after Exiles, this video is how I always see him in my mind's eye. I was unable to make it out to Peoria for this year's commemoration but hope to put something together here in Westchester, N.Y. to honor the 40th anniversary of Souvenirs. Thanks !

Saw Dan solo front row at Tanglewood in the Berkshire mountains in Ma. Netherlands tour 1977 ❤

OMG!!! how Wonderful... just the year.. when I first learned, and loved his music forever and always... my only concert I payed 93.00 (in 1993) for each ticket for my husband, myself, and my 3 yr old... My 3 yr old slept through most of it..It was wonderful..Thanks for sharing!!!

Saw Dan with Fools Gold for the first time in 1974 opening for The Eagles. St John's Arena on OSU campus was a crappy venue for acoustics and the crowd was in typical hurry-up-and-bring-on-the-Eagles mode, but after about 3 songs they settled down and Fogelberg had us for life. I even bought an album by Fools Gold, good stuff! Those first 4 albums by Dan was some of the best music ever recorded. Thanks for posting this concert and helping Dan live on forever.

This is a very soulful concert, I caught Dan early on in 1971....a fried of mine I owned a record store and would give me his demo's...so in effect my very first listen to dan emerged in the form of a record store demo copy of Portraits given from friend to friend. My son Todd is now 44 and living in Montana along with my two wondrous grandchildren Ethan 8 and Katie 6. Me I still play and write.....this one is for Cynthia, Harley, and Cynthia....Thanks for sharing... Morning Light by Terrance Hill 11/31/2014 Oh half a life well contrived inside the many sepia colored walls of this pastoral kingdom There the fallen angels rise to embrace the kind morning star fleeing the earth in the last of night It is out there my heart goes to wing, past wooden cross, under a summer’s pale full moon… I stand alone on our shore, as the first sea birds wing to sand, I hear a tune of the meadow larks song; I witness the spirits dancing there as children… Oh my lovely child why has the blue abandoned my eyes, So I wonder, and believe the smile once cast upon me, never lived In the fury and blindness that’s pierced me, all along I’ve become an empty room of ashes, left for the wind entering the cracked window to scatter… My Imagination is a Monastery and I am its Monk - you must explain my metaphysics to yourself. I am in expectation of Prometheus every day.” And the forlorn take solace in my arms, which were lost to me just a day as I dreamt Of the fields of my youth wherein milkweed grew tall, and the Starling’s feather tickled my nose… My journey has cost but a pittance compared to the iron cauldron’s burning touch! The sun filled skies of autumn have laid down their blinding glare across the road and aft, These many pilgrims bound for kinder lands have found heroes to bind the cause As heroes all gave a shout to the golden rod and wisteria… I entered the forest’s narrow dirt path fired by an eagerness children practice, Holding firmly, gently, the Childs trusting hand, concerned for deliverance, From a planets determined course, a navigator of swirling seas of sadness, Breaking over the jagged slip of rocks, which broke many who sailed near their cove… An angry wind is forming, claiming devotion to compassion, yet all hatred burns a fast fire, Lo I am with you always, came forth the repentant cry, and departed into mist Once temple doors closed, and saintly faithful few stood accused of yesterday’s alien cry... A fading glory has passed across the doorsteps and guardian gates of the shimmering stairs to heaven have been replaced by invitation to enter the darkness untouched by a harvest moon’s soft glowing light…

Gone too soon. Today is Dan's birthday. Thanks so much for uploading this!

what an amazing video! Loved this guy for decades. My wife's favorite song is "The Reach" from the Innocent Age. In 1997 or 1999 we were in Vancouver WA and saw an ad in a newspaper that he was giving a concert at the Sokol Blosser Winery in Portland OR. I still remember my wife's friend saying, "Do you want to go? We could watch your kids." I declined and missed my only chance to see him. In 1994 I bought his 1977 album "Nether Lands" on a cassette tape at a thrift store. I had never heard any of the songs. So this 1977 album was new music to us in 1994! I loved "Promise Made" and my wife loved "Scarecrow's Dream" Thanks Gene.

24 and there's so much more. Thanks for posting. Awesome. I saw Dan for the first time just before this show, at Avery Fisher Hall on Jan. 28. It was great to see what I experienced 38 years ago. Tough to remember. It is pretty amazing to realize just how young he was at the time and to see him in his prime.

Stuff I've never heard before. What a treat!

Thanks so much for posting this wonderful video....although watching this breaks my heart. I used to see him in concert every year. The last time I saw him was in Chicago at Navy Pier June 2003. As he closed the concert he said, "See you next time." Well, I was looking for news of his upcoming tour the next year and did not see one. I went to his web site and there I read his words about his advanced prostate cancer. I adored his concerts and this video brought it all back to me, as bittersweet as the memories are now. His music was the soundtrack of my life.

Gene, you will never know how glad you made me with these old songs. I had wished for sooooooo long to see Dan in Concert at this age !!! THANK YOU !!!!!!! Greetings to you Gene and Dan Family from Germany!

the best - never be another like him ~

Thank you for this.

Stunning, superb and as for other great artists - will stand the test of time! This is akin to finding The Holy Grail! Tim - as a Dan fan of over 40 yrs and since Homefree, this is the best group of videos one could have hoped for. Very much, Miss Dan Our Man - who became a large part of my life for 4 decades, much like the Beatles, James Taylor, Bruce and the Eagles. (Good Company!!)

I was blessed to see him four times..one show in Orlando he was tinkering on the acoustic...said he was working on something about his crazy family..it was "Forefathers"..we loved it n he said..might have to record that.

Met him once in Indiana after a concert he was with the Eagles. Nice guy.

what a show We could have more of this kind of music in 2014. Great singer (y)

Oh my, what a treasure to find. My favorite musician ever.