Black Oak Arkansas - Dixie - Charlotte, North Carolina 1974
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- Rest In Peace Stanley "GobberGrin" Knight and Jimmy "Soybean" Henderson
Black Oak Arkansas
Charlotte, North Carolina
Motor Speedway
August Jam
Saturday, August 10, 1974 bathroomdarkroom.com/?p=113 - เพลง
the people that flew that flag back then weren't racist. they just loved DIXIE. Southern Rock was the best!
The media is the most racist people we know,and they try to instill it in US
I know people rite now that fly the battle flag of dixie, not a racist bone in their body
They even get mad over the Norwegian flag, because it looks similar. Unbelievable these people.
I was at that concert. August Jam Charlotte Motor Speedway 1974
That flag meant nothing to us other than the part of the country that the baddest rock and roll in the country came from. We were long haired freaks and more liberal than most people.
flying the great battle flag and passing joints, don't get any better than that!!!
You got it from another old timer and a class mate of Pat D and Goober in Jonesboro ark
Have you seen our great flag flying high over the tops of S.C. pine trees at the off ramp of Hwy.221 onto I-85 Business towards Greenville,S.C. and the new I-85 ? In Spartanburg,S.C. !!! Huge Battle Flag ! And thanks to TH-cam for posting Black Oak Arkansas' Dixie .
Jim has the greatest vocals ever! My opinion since 1973.❤️🎶
I was a rising senior from Florida, visiting relatives and we went to this concert!
We "sat" right in front, half way between the stage and the bleachers! Oh man! This was the best concert ever! We got there Friday before it started and stayed til the very end!
August jam on my 18rh birthday. Great show
Jim Dandy always the showman....these guys were one of the best live acts of the 70's....just smokin'
RIP Ricky Lee 😢
I love reading the comments; the 70s were awesome. Gosh 40+ years ago. I loved the long hair, hip huggers, bell bottoms, halter tops - and the companionship we all had with one another. Fun times for sure! So many concerts, mostly outdoors. A lot of them had several bands; festivals. From 45 to album, reel to reel, 8-track and cassette. And we had Jim Dandy to the Rescue :)
+KCinTX I think out of all the things you mentioned that I loved, I miss the companionship the most. We were all ready to lend a helping hand to anyone that needed it and befriend anyone we met. The 70's were awesome and we lived through one of the greatest times ever! Do any of you here belong to the Facebook group? It's only for those that were actually there as we share lots of stories and the few photos some of us took. So, it's private. If you were there, come share your stories with us! We are 240 strong!
facebook.com/groups/AugustJam74/
wavygr I don't think any of us remember much, but there's stories and pics but the best part is the camaraderie of the group.
those were great times. prolly never to repeat, sadly..
The VN War sure changed things for sure.
Literally the Best thing Musically to ever had happend and the world is so thankful for Jim Dandy and Band such a an amazing group of guy love y'all
My childhood was radically changed after finding their album in my best friend's mom's collection.
"Gravel Roads", oddly is my favorite song. Thank you for the wonderful memories!
Love from the frozen north
Days of long since past but Dixie will always be in my heart.
In the Great State of South Carolina and proud to be be in Dixie....!
One hell of a show back in 74
Jimmy - whatta great guy. Very sweet and TALENT. Also Rickie Lee - wonderful heart and funny!
My first concert, I'll never forget it! I went to see Marshall Tucker, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and most of all the Allman Brothers and was looking forward to Black Oak too. BOA spiked the energy of that crowd more than any other act!!!!
I was there too. Biggest concert Charlotte ever had. It was August and so hot.
Thanks for posting this time piece classic and great concert!
I went there too, got there a week a head of time. We were on the road hitch hiking from the Sedalia, Mo. concert.
We stayed in the vegetable stand right across from the speedway. That was our home from the 9 days we were there.
We had no money so we hired on to set up a huge circus tent at the speedway. The tent turned out to be the biggest head shop I've ever seen.
The radio station from the area, the head D.J. set up and donated his house for the many people around there for people to sleep, eat and party. It was a cool thing to do and everyone there respected his property for the few hundred that used it.
Some really cool bands played there. I just remember a few. Emerson Lake and Palmer, and the Almond Brothers.
@Lebo leigh Leigh LOL. Yeah, I heard they opened for Crunch Berry.
Love flying the flag.
old56timer amen!
My dad used to talk about going to this concert before he died. Sounds like it was a blast
i want to go back to 1974!!!!
YES GAS WAS 74 CENTS AGAL ALSO
YEP
debra jewell It was good times. Senior in high school.
We can't go back, but we can keep it alive in our memories and stories. I am now 62 and still consider the August Jam to be one of the biggest and best concerts of my life, and trust me when I tell you, people of my age have seen some cool concerts!
Me too I was eleven years old
These guys were just spectacular!
God bless Dixie!
I really wish all the members of Black Oak Arkansas were friends again, especially Tommy Aldridge. They are ALL brothers, you know!!
I was there!! I was 24 know I’m 70 years young! Love those days! Good herb, nice chicks!! Be safe
🙏🏻😻
Thanks!
When I Was Young , 19 years old in 74 , Stationed at Ft Bragg N.C. August Jam I remember it well ! It rained the night before the concert .
These guys were a little ahead of my time and there time as well but they were true Rock and Rollers all around. I love there music to this day. Does anyone out there think they should be given consideration for the Rock and Roll hall of fame ? They get my vote.
Go Jim Dandy Gooooo !!!!
NASCAR has banned all displays of the Confederate flag at their events and venues, so what Jim Dandy is doing in this video would get him evicted from the premises today. Strange days. It didn't offend anyone for over 140 years, now it does? Bullshit.
I was there @ the age of 15!!
Named after my family name what an honor! Lots of pride to live up to!
FYI Wolfman Jack sang along with ruby star on song Jim Dandy to the rescue at August Jam
What a concert!!! Ive never seen so many crazy people! I was 16 and lovin it!
I had forgotten the smoke bombs. How about the bags and bottles of pills and hash openly hawked by people in the back near the toilets? One guy was carrying an empty bottle offering "air". What a trip. I have never smelled so much weed in my life. When the cool dampness caused the air to hang low on Friday night, it looked like we were in the smoke of a forest fire down by the front of the stage from the thousands upon thousands of burning bowls and joints. Absolutely surreal.
We were all so stoned ... the additional smoke in the air just kept us going ... what memories !
This is when Rock was King. And man we had fun then. My son said listening to my old albums Dad ya'll knew how to have fun.
This is great. I was at this concert with my older brother Stephen. We lived in Lenoir, NC at the time. We had the best time there. Has it been that long? WOW
How bizarre that this same event now would be considered "racist". Looks like a good time, wish I'd have been there.
I was there. Good times!
Jackie if you're on Facebook, search for 1974 August Jam. We have a closed group for those who were there!
Ridiculous comment. The event had no reason to be considered racist. Flying that flag, and while playing that song, that would be asking for the deserved racist accusation in this time period.
I was there!!!
ACAB = All Communists Are Bastards.......God save confederate flag
drove from Eagan Minnesota spent the summer traveling the Smoky Mountains and going to concerts....memorable summer.........
I was there!
Me too!
I was there! It was absolutely awesome. I was in the Army stationed at Ft Bragg so I'll be the one in the crowd with the short hair.
Ft Bragg N.C. 1973 to 1976 August Jam memories....
I was at Charlotte Jam....1974.....Was a Blast MesCulin (However Ya Spell it) when got there, Lots of Pot, The Eagles didn't show, that was a Bummer, dropped 3 hits of Window Pane and ELP Emerson Lake and Palmer were Bad ass, All the Music was on a 4 way System, After ELP The Almond Brothers Played, Mellowed us out a Bit..Great Venue and Jim Dandy was Bad ass also
I was at this concert...
i was there what memories
United We Stand!
You don't dare to that song today,you'd be thrown in jail or something.
I keep waiting on it to get yanked off TH-cam. I have tried to explain to people that this flag wasn’t a racist thing…. But no one will hear me now. It was just good ol’ Southern Pride. And everyone deserves to be proud of their home. I am proud to be from the South. ❤️
I was there, I was 16 years old...and rockin' my butt off!
I was 16 when I went there . Arrived about 12:00 am Friday morn. Now 42 years later I get to see what was there for . Life is good !
at memorial with the Finest and DOUBLE VISION with Ted closing the show!!
I saw this live!!
Love flying the flag. snow flakes can get over it.
I was there too
I went with my brothers, David and Fred and late friend Mike Owen. I was 15. We drove from Brevard, N.C, got there Friday noon and spent two days dead center stage on the front row. Police confiscated many cameras, & the Governor censored coverage, declaring on national TV that "N.C will never have another outdoor concert", undoubtedly leading to its unfamiliarity. He's dead and forgotten but not this incredible experience which I've never seen matched. Well over 200,000 people attended.
was there for ELP (can U say hanging from a crane, spinning piano) & Allman Bros. final encore @ 4 Sunday AM. Both played 4 hours each
Phil Brock Oh yeah! I tell people this and they don't believe me! Glad to see this comment! lol
+Phil Brock i was there. I remember the spinning piano with the tower of speakers out in the crowd. What a sound system. That was smart. I don't understand why other artists didn't take hints from that and do the same thing. That would be so cool to have a tower of speakers out in the crowd while someone was doing a guitar solo. That is a true stereo sound. I remember Allman Brothers coming out so late and playing so long. I was absolutely wore out. So tired I could hardly stand it. I had been up for about 30 hrs. That was cool how they had the groups set up on flatbeds on railways so they could keep the concert going. Smart! It's so cool to hear from people that were there.
I don't know if you know this or not, but at the time that was the largest concert ever. Even more people than Woodstock. About a year later there was another concert in NY that had more people than August Jam.
Now they have the really big concerts over in England, but what a great time it was. NO VIOLENCE! My how times have changed. Now because of all the violence everyone gets searched before concerts. I wish people knew what it was like back then and how peaceful things could be. The world has really changed. Great to talk to ya.
+dryvur I've argued with a male friend that I know about this concert for ages. He was at Woodstock and swears it was the biggest and the best and The August Jam was nothing more than a drop in the pond. I am going to send him this link but he will never change his mind. But he wasn't at the Jam!
+Phil Brock
Do either of you know about the Facebook group for the August Jam attendees? Come join us, lots of stories and some photos. It's private and only for us the August Jammers! facebook.com/groups/AugustJam74/
+qtbrniis No, I don't know about the facebook for August Jam, but I will certainly look it up. You will probably never change his mind, but if you look at the number of people at Woodstock and how they weren't all together really close up and then look at August Jam at how all of the people were just jammed together you can see why there were more people there.
It was a concert like no other. Who would have thought up things like putting a tower of speakers out in the crowd to give you the sense of true stereo while playing a MOOG synth. Look up MOOG on you tube and read about all the things that ELP did with this. Look at the pics on YOUTube. You will see them using the old plug and play MOOGs. The plug and play Moogs were not easy to use. There was nothing like it at the time.
Listening to a MOOG going from one side of the crowd to the other side of the crowd was so incredibly smart.
It was way ahead of it's time. Unless someone else comes up with the idea of doing that, you will never again hear a sound like that again.It was absolutely incredible.
Like I said, I don't understand why other artists are not doing this because it is such an incredible sound.
At the time no one knew why the tower of speakers were out there in the crowd until ELP came out and the crowd went absolutely crazy when they heard the synth going from one side of the crowd to the other(you know what I"m saying)...it was an such an incredible sound that I don't know if it will ever be duplicated.
If you were there then you were truly blessed with a sound that you probably won't ever hear again.
And one of the things I don't understand is why it's not being duplicated today. Such a waste!
I have played music all my life and still do and that is still one of the most amazing concerts I have ever seen and I even saw The Young Rascals in 1969.....such incredible talent.
Glad to talk to you. I could write for hours about this stuff.
dryvur Now that you remind me, I do remember that sound! At first the group I was with was wondering where it was all coming from. It was all around us and when we thought the sound was coming from one direction, it'd change and come from another. It Was a sound like no other! I hope you find the group on FB and share this with them, copy & paste it word for word, it may jog a lot of memories! This has been a truly special group. I found it right before the 41st anniversary of the jam. We were all sharing stories and pictures and getting a little misty eyed from the memories. I'm sure you'd enjoy the group. I haven't looked up Moog synthesizer yet, but I will. I did look it up a few years ago but will read more in depth than I did then. Good to talk to you as well! If you hadn't shared that I wouldn't have remembered, so thank you so much! Truly awesome memories!
I was there!!!
I was there. (followed Black Oak anywhere) Some random (nice) guy let me stand on his cooler to get a better look...a few months later, I met the same guy (in Georgia!) Now that's quite a coincidence considering there were 200,000 people at that concert! Small world.
The good ol days
Yes, it was crazy, and Black Oak lifted the spirits of the crowd who had been dampened a bit by the earlier rain and humidity. People jumped to their feet.
First saw this on the Midnight Special!Wow!
GOD BLESS DiXiE !!!!
I was in the aisle between the mixing tower and the stage that Saturday as a 15-year-old wannabe pro photographer whose dad was working the show. I'm teaching film photography to our daughter, pulled some August Jam photos from the accordion file to show her some of the work her dad used to shoot and then develop and print in his parents' bathroom darkroom, needed to check a few facts before posting the photos on www.BathroomDarkroom.com, stumbled upon this video and was able to show her the exact moment when I made an image of Jim Dandy holding the flag. Shivers went up my spine when I saw the exact spot on the film.
Whomever shot and posted this film made film this dad's day by making it possible for me to take our now-16-year-old daughter back four decades for a little history lesson.
Stop by BathroomDarkroom.com to take a look at some other August Jam photos. I need to go back through my negatives to see what else is in there that didn't make the printing list forty years ago. And Clap for the Wolfman!
Alan Cole Thank you! Visited your site and left a comment. I hope you find more photos!
Prayers for a speedy recovery to Piper Dandy & her fiance Ronnie Ford who were on their motorcycle Nov 26th and hit by a car in LA. Both are ok but Piper had surgery on her leg 11/28/15.
Piper's a sweetie!
Oh my god I just saw this! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WELL WISHES! It’s people like you guys that got me through that super tough time. ❤️ from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
I was there it was an awesome experience! I wish I could find that guy I meet there
I was there too. Anyone remember the helicopter that flew over and dropped out BOA paper visors? What a concert!
Home Sweet Home...
I was there. Just graduated HS and came up from Charleston SC. Heck of a party.
i was there ....seemed like i was there for a week.....got there right when the fence got taken down
I was there. Played cards all night on the 3rd turn the night before the concerts started. Some great memories, some not so great.
It rained the night before the show , I was a solider then, Ft Bragg
Oh hell yes!
people riped though the fencing to get in;set off purple smoke bombs,were yelling what kind of "stuff" they had to offer. naked guys climbing speaker towers lol , streakers everywhere! I followed behind a crowd of them to get to the tolit faster, bands comming in by air, sliding around in the mud, and the music, my first big jam. lets do it again
Hey y'all...
JIM DANDY COME TO TOLEDO OHIO IN 2014 OR 2015 NEED A PLACE TO STAY YOU GOT IT IN OUR HOME ALWAYS
I was there guys
3:43 ohh lala.. thes 70's chicks with halters whoa the audience is a time capsule in itself!!!
Seen BOA back in 76 Cleveland! Super cool show, Todd Rundgren and Utopia, Ted Nugent of course! Lol Ted was everywhere back in the day! Lol
HAVE YOU SEEN THE HUGE FLAG ON I-85 SPARTANBURG,SC ? GO THERE !!! NOT RACIST , JUST ANCESTORS AND LIFE IN S.C. ALWAYS.
GREAT!!!!
45 years ago tomorrow!!!
2020 BAM
I was there. 13 years old.
I always felt that David Lee Roth took a lot from Jim Dandy like his moves and stage presence. Even a little from his singing style. ( See VH Full Bug and Take your whisky home. )
Was there too got a t shirt and still got it don't fit as good but hey that was(just like yesterday) just got out of high school now 62 and glad my grandson showed me how to look up all my music Me and my best friend Preacher Bobby Earls showed up there and The Lord Had Mercy On Our Souls HairBear
I was there
If it weren’t for Jim,there wouldn’t have been wild-eyed Southern Boy rasslers.
The date is wrong I was there. It was 1973 and it was my first away from home with a bunch of Hippies experience. Fucking Great time.
After looking back through 6 boxes of old high school memorabilia I found the poster I stole . I stand corrected you are correct, but in my defense that was a lot of drugs ago. Foghat was the band I most wanted to see, and Black Oak Arkansas well made me a Mutant of the Monster.
I was there,don't know how I remember tho
2:45, pretty girl
1:59
hello my jim dandy i wanted to ask where did you get all of the rare footage of the band
also how long have you been a BOA fan i've been a fan for about 2 years or so my grandpa got me into them and i have most of the bands albums on vinyl cd and mp3
www.amazon.com/Black-Oak-Arkansas-First-Years/dp/B00008K771
I was there too! and have also tried to find the girl I met there, she was from Lumberton, N.C,!
Tony Phillips dude you don't want her, me and my midget friend have passed her around like a pack of cigarettes over and over, she's worn out
We had $15.00 tickets and walked in through a hole in the fence. Never saw so much decadence in one place again. I was propped back with my arms on a girls legs, watching the show and out of a quarter million hippys my girlfriend shows up and says ( might know I would find you between some girls legs. ) . She told that to my wife not long ago.
before liberals started destroying our country ! this would be banned today ! but you know what ? we're taking her back baby ! the south will rise again !
is that Waylon Jennings drinking a beer ?
Sorry it too so long to answer. Its Wolfman Jack.
thank you @@myjimdandy
No one has any idea WHY Dixie was called Dixie . The Government had issued a bi-lingual currency , English on one side , French on the other . The French word for 10 is " Dix " . At the time the French controlled the area known as Louisiana which was in the South . Traders from places near the Mississippi like Chicago would come South " to DIXie "and use the money to eradicate language barriers prohibitive to trade .
Probably my second favorite Death Metal band . Early Cannibal Corpse will always be my favorite . Black Oak Arkansas is right up there with Deicide , and Morgoth . Jim Dandy Mangrum had some of the sickest Cookie Monster growls . He had to have been a huge influence on Chris Barnes .Long live 1970s Death Metal
Destroying those vintage guitars wow
Thankfully the guitars that Goober, Burley and Soybean smashed were not the real thing!
@@myjimdandy thats good to know...I was very disappointed
I love the fact that these guys have no clue.
wild!!!the band was great!!!it was like a small version of woodstock.i loved it.
do not FForegt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They’re from Arkansas & proud to wave the rebel flag! Arkansas was part of the Confederacy, why wouldn’t they sing Dixie??