Strand Theatre (Ithaca, NY)
My Early and Late Show stubs.
After seeing the Stones in Buffalo coincidentally my next show was Peter Tosh, back at the Strand Theatre in Ithaca (see previous posts about the Strand). Tosh of course had been the first additional artist on Rolling Stones Records, and had put out a great hit single with Jagger adding vocals. That was way back in 1978, and by the fall of 1981 it was turning out to be a big year for the Stones.
In any event I had been a Tosh fan and the 1979 performance he did at the Bottom Line was the first cassette I recorded on my brand new Technics (Panasonic) tape deck I got for college. Now here came Mr. Tosh to Ithaca and, as noted in other posts, Ithaca was a robust scene for reggae music by this time. An exciting opportunity, and I went to both the Early and Late shows. I kept one of the posters announcing the shows in Ithaca.
