…was at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, in 1970, when I was 15 years old. So imagine my surprise when I saw this poster on the Internet.
We went to see Boz Scaggs, but the two acts at the bottom of the bill were better. At least that’s the way I recall it today, 35 years later. Most of the details of that night are, let’s say, somewhat hazy today.
Imagine my even greater surprise when I saw that the opening act, Mason Proffit, has reunited. I became huge fans of this band, which was one of the very first groups to authentically fuse American roots music (country, folk, bluegrass) with rock. They were only around for about five years, but they made some great music before breaking up in 1973. It’s odd to see that both of the Talbot brothers, who originally founded the band, turned to religion in the early 1970s. One is now a Franciscan monk, the other has made a name on some Christian music labels. The new band has some genuine talent in Al Perkins and Bruce Kurnow.
I’m definitely going to order their compilation CD.
Ed Bott 
There’s a law firm of two brothers here in St. Louis who in their commercials do not solicit for business, but instead spend the minute telling you about a concert they attended at some point of their life. They traveled the country going from the big acts, such as Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, to smaller ones, of all kinds of rock and folk music. They display pictures, the original tickets, any hat or shirt they bought along with what was unique to that performance. It’s so refreshing that these guys are a huge hit at Cardinal baseball games.
Too bad that if Mason Profitt were starting out today, he would never get a contract because of the insanity of today’s corporatized music.
Oh, and the first concert I ever saw was the Stones in Chicago followed by the Eagles in Shreveport, LA, in 1972.