Comments on: Dream Concert

By: Quaid

Quaid — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:49:36 +0000

That would be a very wise decision for them.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:24:18 +0000

There is going to be a Gold City reunion this year with Jay, Jon, Tim, and Mark. Here’s just hoping they TAPE IT!!!

By: Quaid

Quaid — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:07:40 +0000

I actually saw a recent “dream concert” on November 1st, 2002 in Lancaster, Ohio. Gold City (Jay, Jonathon, Danny, Tim, Channing, Adam, Doug) and Carolina Boys (Jerry Martin, Randy Crawford, Tim Surrett {his first booking with that group}, Ray Dean, Nick Succi, Jason Selpth, & Brandon Reese)

As for a future event, I’d love to see a Gold City reunion video taping with every former member.

By: Quaid

Quaid — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:03:00 +0000

I’d give just about anything to see the Cathedrals live. My first exposure to them was the Farewell video.
Ed Butler, you were blessed indeed to see Roy, George, Haskell, Glenn, and George live!
But at least those of us who never saw them have some great video footage to cherish. I have watched “Travellin Live” again, and again, and again and again. It’s absolutley amazing that one group could have so much talent at one time, and even more so that they repeiced the group together after personall changes with lineups that easily rivaled the previous.

As for my dream concert, place it around 1983. That way you could have the Cathedrals with Danny, Gold City, and The Kingsmen with Ernie Phillips.

By: John C

John C — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:24:47 +0000

Grigs, let’s pretend this concert was held around 1961. That would make the personnel
Oaks: Willie Wynn, Smitty Gatlin, Ron Page, Herman Harper, Tommy Fairchild
Blackwoods: Bill Shaw, James & Cecil Blackwood, JD Sumner, Wally Varner
Speers: Mom, Dad, Brock & Ben Speer, Ginger Smith
Statesmen: Rosie, Jake, Doy, Chief, & Hovie

Since this is a “dream” concert, maybe I need to provide a set list for them, too!

By: Grigs

Grigs — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:48:04 +0000

John C,
Which personnel for those groups? Crumpler or Rozelle? JD or Liles? I’m guessing Smitty Gatlin at lead for the Oaks.

By: Ed Butler

Ed Butler — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:15:51 +0000

OK – I have been thinking again. Perhaps the very best concert in my life was in ‘76 featuring “only” the Thrasher Brothers and the Cathedrals. I would love to be at that concert again. I had been following the Thrasher Brothers for years and they were high-energy and very exciting. But it was my first time to hear the Cathedrals and I was blown away by their smooth harmony. Roy Tremble sang tenor the way it should be sung. No screamers at tenor between the Thrashers and Cathedrals.

JEB

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:24:54 +0000

I think people who live in areas less frequented by SG concerts are much less likely to have a dream concert that leaves the audience begging for more.

By: John C

John C — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:51:16 +0000

Oak Ridge Boys: 35 minutes
Blackwood Brothers: 40 minutes
Speer Family: 40 minutes
Statesmen Quartet: 40 minutes
Encore with all groups together: 15 minutes

This program will be more than entertaining and will leave the crowd begging for more. I usually don’t like a program to run more than three hours.

By: lashay

lashay — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:50:27 +0000

Wow, Daniel….that’d be a great concert….a long concert, but a great one.

I like Ed’s idea. Just give me the DE’s for a couple hours and I’ll be good to go.