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Friday, July 23, 1971 New York City, New York Gaelic Park 51 years, 7 months and 25 days ago
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Mike W Saturday, August 21, 2021 4:02 PM Gaelic Park is not now and never was a sand lot baseball field. Gaelic Park was where the Irish came out to watch and play sports, Gaelic Foitball and Hurling,from their homeland. It was also the host of many dinner dances. Today, it is Manhattan College home field in addition to still hosting Gaelic Games. your_host Friday, July 31, 2015 4:22 PM some corrections: 1) Gaelic Park is not in the South Bronx. It's in the far Northwest Bronx. It was a multipurpose athletic field (and dance hall!), not just for baseball. The Park is still there, run by Manhattan College now. 2) The WNEW-FM host was Scott 'Scottso' Muni, who passed away in 2004 3) It's doubtful that they borrowed instruments. Pictures show Howe playing his acoustic 'vachalia' as well as his usual hollow-body Gibson. oliastales i seriously doubt they did not have their instruments. They were on tour. They definately had their instruments Brennan Zerbe This show by Yes, at Gaelic Park, was a seminal moment for rock music in New York, because it brought a new style of music into the City. Gaelic Park, which is a sand lot baseball field in the South Bronx, had been a venue for rock bands for several summers. We all sat on blankets or the grass and watched the various shows, which featured big name as well as rising talent. There was always the headline act and a warm up band, and sometimes local bands played as an early warm up. Tickets that summer were $4. On this date, Scott Mooney of WNEW-FM came on stage and introduced Yes as the "new band from England". They had not been scheduled to play here and were stopping by at the end of their tour. In fact, they had to borrow instruments to play their songs. Scott announced that Yes had just signed a new Tour contract and that they were on their way somewhere else and could only play a few songs. As the band began to play, we looked around at each other and commented to each other that these guys were good. Before the end of their short set, everyone was on their feet cheering. We shouted out "Yes" to show our satisfaction. The odd thing about this show was that as we enjoyed subsequent bands, Humble Pie and Mountain, everyone shouted "YES" after their great songs. The show ended before Mountain, and the audience, was satisfied (despite other reviews), which led to some bottle throwing at the stage set. But we all knew that we had seen something very special. I went home that night, told my brother Bob, and have been a Yes fan ever since. Seen a lot of bands since then, and I've seen Yes several times since then...but never something as electric as that late afternoon outdoor performance by Yes. Absolutely wonderful. Gary Adamson After seeing, and being blown away by Yes for the first time on 7/15, I was anxious to see them again. Gaelic Park was the soccer field for Manhattan College, which strangely enough, is in the Bronx! Yes opened for, once again, Humble Pie, and this time, headliner Mountain. One of the great, little known, concerts of all time. All the bands were outstanding. Yes more than held their own with the better known, more experienced bands. The bands played long into the night, and since there was a curfew for noise in the area, the power was turned off during one of Mountain's many encores. Felix Pappalardi, Mountain's bassist and singer, had to yell out to the crowd without benefit of a PA system, that the show was over. No one, however, left unhappy! Steven Sullivan [When asked what is It's Love] Its a Young Rascals song *much* redone by Yes in fact your can hear Anderson announce it as such.
before 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Announcer:Hi there and welcome to Gaelic Park. We'd like to welcome some very unique talent from Britain, please welcome Yes. before 'Yours Is No Disgrace' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Announcer:Hi there and welcome to Gaelic Park. We'd like to welcome some very unique talent from Britain, please welcome Yes. before 'I've Seen All Good People' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Steve Howe:Thank you. Jon Anderson: Thanks a lot, thanks a lot. We’ll do a little bit of change of scenery. Steve’s going to do a quick tune up and then get on with the vachalia, which is like a Portuguese monstrosity for thrashing with your bare hands and..uh, we’re going to do a song, it’s a song for that young lady that I was speaking to before, bless her. Right on. It’s nice to be here. Our..our light man’s got a real easy job tonight. Yes, beautiful. We're happy to play outside -- we haven't played outside for so long. Here's a song called 'Your Move' and the second part is 'I've Seen All Good People'. before 'Clap' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you. Thank you. Steve Howe: We've really got some competition tonight with the wind here. Jon Anderson: Uh..we've been thinking about this next few minutes where, for the last couple of hours in fact, and..uh just about the time that we're going to introduce Steve to you here. Yeah, uh. The twelve minutes past eight train is going to back up here, gotta do and..uh Steve's going to play some acoustic things for you. So, alright. Yeah, here’s Steve. Yeah. Here’s a few things called the 'Clap'. before 'Perpetual Change' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:There you go folks. Steve Howe: Thank you. Jon Anderson: There you go. Steve Howe. Steve Howe: Well, we might have one more to do this evening. It's bit of a long song, so hopefully it keeps you satisfied. This is another track. Right on yeah. We’re just checking a few, uh, funny things like this synthesizer deal. It really is nice to be playing like, you know, this kind of side of the country again, really fine. Thanks especially to Howard Stein, somebody we like very much -- he’s promoting us tonight. We'll carry on with..uh another track from our current Atlantic album, we've got going tonight. This is the last track on the whole album, if you've..uh bought it. If you haven't, you should do and listen to this particular track on the record. This one's called 'Perpetual Change'. after 'Perpetual Change' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you. Take it easy, have a nice time. Steve Howe: Thank you very much. We have to go now so we’ll see you soon. Thank you very much. And thanks for coming to the Capitol too. So long. Chris Squire: Yeah, thank you all. before 'It's Love' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you, I don't want to give you any bullshit but we've had fucking good time while we've been over here. Yeah, we hope to see you all very, very soon. We’re gonna do a, boogaloo, and get up and rock 'n roll, we’re going to do something called..an old Rascals number, do you like The Rascals? ..whoo.. it's called 'It's Love'. |