TORONTO SHUCKS!
Ever been in Toronto at 12 midnight with 55¢ (Canadian funds 54¢, U.S., 1¢) and two (Canadian) cigarettes? That’s the upshot of what Toronto Pop 1969 did to me. The two day fiasco will probably be remembered in the music industry & the hype of the century.
TORONTO SHUCKS!
DAVE MARSH
SOUTH END
Ever been in Toronto at 12 midnight with 55¢ (Canadian funds 54¢, U.S., 1¢) and two (Canadian) cigarettes?
That’s the upshot of what Toronto Pop 1969 did to me. The two day fiasco will probably be remembered in the music industry & the hype of the century. The promoters alone should win dozens of awards for everything from “most overhyped acts’1 to “least professional arrangements,” to “most insulting to a crowd.” Compared to. the Toronto shysters, Russ Gibb and Bill Graham look like the patron saints of street people.
The first day, Saturday, started off with a real bang when we found out that the tickets the South End was to have had reserved, weren’t. “Never heard of you.” Luckily we then ran into Dan Carlisle of WABX and he laid some tickets (regular, net press) on us.
I talked to Carlisle, Kramer, and John Detz (WABX station manager) Sunday and they, voiced concern for the people. If the promoters in Toronto had one tenth of that concern, things would have been 1007c better,,
Jhe first name band to appear after the fiasco'was resolved was die AI