Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert - 45 yr ago

Subject: Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert
From: wishwillow
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 11:30 AM

This month marks the 45th anniversary of the great Bud & Travis concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

I wonder if any of you were there or have any recollection from friends who were.

For those of us who only had the record, it certainly felt like we were in fifth row center, and playing the LPs has been something which has never lost its flavor over four decades.

The music was special and even the humor (save the line about poisoning cranberries) hasn't become dated. I shared the album with a couple guys in their twenties last week, and they thought the banter was terrific.

Anybody played the CD of the show?

Best to all / Lee

Subject: RE: Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert - 45 yr ago
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 12:56 PM

I wasn't aware of this CD. Apparently, it's available on the Folk era label. I found a track listing at this Bud & Travis Website (click).

Tracks

(All even numbered tracks are spoken introductions.)

Disc One

1. Myra
3. They Call The Wind Mariah
5. Amor De La Calle
7. Delia's Gone
9. Young Lord
11. Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
13. Cloudy Summer Afternoon
15. E La Bas
17. Malaguena Salerosa
19. Rioting In Africa (Merry Minuet)
21. My Mary
23. Guess I'll Go Home
25. Last Train To San Fernando
27. Vamos Al Baile (Come To The Dance)

Disc Two

1. Angelico
3. La Vaquilla Colorado
5. Suzanne (Every Night When The Sun Goes In)
7. Raspberries, Strawberries
9. All My Sorrows
11. Bonsoir Dame
13. Two Brothers
15. Carmen Carmella
17. The Clock
19. La Bamba
21. Sloop John B.
23. Everybody Loves Saturday Night

Subject: RE: Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert - 45 yr ago
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 03:49 PM

I never met Bud, but I used to go down to the Ramada Inn Lounge in Tucson, Arizona once or twice a week to hear Travis Edmundson play live in the early '70's. I've got a couple of their albums and can't say enough good things about their playing, harmonizing and between song comments. These guys set the bar high and most of the folk acts of the '60's tried hard to emulate them. I still play their music and love it.

Mike

Subject: RE: Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert - 45 yr ago
From: Susan of DT
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 04:24 PM

CAMSCO carries it.

Subject: RE: Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert - 45 yr ago
From: iamjohnne
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 08:12 PM

I never had the opportunity to see or hear Bud and Travis. However, Travis Edmundson wrote one of my favorite songs. "I'm a Drifter" as done by Vince Martin on the Martin and Neil album "Tear Down the Walls". Great song.

Subject: RE: Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert - 45 yr ago
From: Chris in Wheaton
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 11:57 AM

The Homecoming concerts at Occidental College in the early 60's were:
'61 - some new group of youngsters - Peter, Paul and Mary.
'62 - Bud and Travis - they basically re-did the Concert - one or two new jokes would have been good, but music was great. A folk show in LA also played the records of the Mexican duo that B&T used for their arrangements.
(or was it the other way round? I forget.)
'63 - Tito Puente - went to the Ash Grove instead.
Also, Dick Dale's Friday shows at the Pasadena Civic were good too, but the Ash Grove became the plave to be for me.
Come to the Friday night jams at the Folk Era offices - good group.

Chris in Wheaton

Subject: RE: Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert - 45 yr ago
From: GUEST,early B&t fan
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 03:53 PM

I bought the CD of the concert, and was greatly disappointed to find that it was only in mono. For a duo act! Hard to understand. Anybody know why this was done? The original was released in stereo.

Subject: RE: Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert - 45 yr ago
From: GUEST,Nancy Newton
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 10:49 AM

Nancy Newton:

I found that a little strange too about the concert being released in mono on CD. My LP isn't stereo, and I was looking forward to finding out what the guys were each saying in the intro to Sloop John B, which I could never quite understand.

Checked through forum files, and see that the CD was released in neither mono nor stereo, but 'concert' sound. Does anyone know what that is?

Subject: RE: Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert - 45 yr ago
From: GUEST,Nicole
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 04:52 PM

I was born on March 24, 1960, and my father gave this record to my mother on my first birthday. She made a tape of it, and preserved the album in its pristine condition. We also got Volume 2.

I grew up on the Santa Monica concert recording, and love it as much today as ever. B&T were tops.

Over the decades my favorites have changed radically. Loving the loud songs when I was a kid, the ultra romantic ones when I got into my teens, and now, the more complex ones like All My Sorrows, The Clock and Every Night When the Sun Goes In.

Nicole Redmond

Subject: RE: Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert - 45 yr ago
From: GUEST,Eric
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 02:04 PM

I have never heard Bud and Travis [I'm from UK] but their name arose on the John Stewart list [bloodlines] that I am on when Travis came to a Kingston Trio Fantasy Camp a couple of years ago in Scottsdale. As I recall he and his wife went to a couple of the sessions and one of the Bloodliner dinners at which he gave an impromptu performance which was excellent given his age. He is a firm favourite of many of my US friends on bloodlines and one or two of them still see him around in Arizona.

Subject: RE: Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert - 45 yr ago
From: Chris in Wheaton
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 01:56 PM

I sent an e-mail to the owner of Folk Era and asked if he wanted to answer the question above.

My favorite records are the Ian and Sylvia releases where the stereo separation for each voice was reallly clear. I sure wish other recordings, especially the great Nanci G duet records, had the two parts clearer.

On a good day, I can sing either Sylvia's or Ian's parts on a lot of their greats - of course, not at the same time -- or as good!!

Chris in Wheaton

Subject: RE: Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert - 45 yr ago
From: GUEST,Geraldine Routher
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 11:43 AM

Is March 24, 1960 really 40 years ago today? I can't believe it, especially when I listen to the Bud & Travis album of the concert!

Subject: RE: Bud & Travis Santa Monica concert - 45 yr ago
From: lesblank
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 12:03 PM

Today marks the 45th anniversary of one of the greatest events of my life !! On March 24, 1960 , I and my betrothed, who bought me the tickets for a birthday present, sat in row 11, seats 7 and 8 in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and reveled in the greatest folk music concert ever presented. I have seen Bud and Travis perform three times since then, the last being in 1966 at a small folk club in Buena Park, California , just after they had gotten back together after a rift - they were as good then as they were that very first time and debuted a new song that night - "Anna". They broke up for good shortly after that and each went his separate way. I later met and talked to Bud when he was teaching flamenco guitar techniques at McCabes in Santa Monica (one of the shrines of folk mucic history in the 60's). These two will never be surpassed for pure talent, showmanship and downright stage magnetism. Long live Travis and rest well, Bud from a devoted fan !!