Performers: Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Boz Scaggs
Date: July 25, 1976
Venue: Schaeffer Stadium
cost of ticket: $10
Schaeffer/Sullivan/Foxboro Stadium is the home of the New England Patriots in the eastern part of the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts. HUGE PLACE = YUCK. I love the Eagles, so I know I was front and center spirtually to see them, however I don't think I had very good seats! Fleetwood Mac had Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks performing with them by now, so they were hot and very popular.
Did you see this concert? If so, please leave your memories, comments, thoughts and ideas . . .
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great concert, the summer before my senior year in high school. I was already a fan of the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac and I went out and bought Silk Degrees. I was the only one in our group who had even heard of him.I dont think we had bad seats wasn't it general admission.Framptom Comes Alive was played over and over again at every High school party we went to that summer... great memories
I was there too! I liked all of the performers. It was general admission and it got a little crazy but even though I'm older, I'd do it again (but assigned seats please). I guess I'm showing my age! lol
I was there as well. Thought it was awesome!! Ran into a few of my couins while I was there (believe it or not!).
Yeah, it was an awesome concert. Lots of food. Lots of drink. Lots of ... and Lots of music. Got home at 4am, then had to work at 7. One of the most memorable concerts I've been to. General admission wasn't the greatest idea, though. The concert seemed to go on forever.
Hard to believe that was 35 years ago. I was there, too. It was a terrific concert. I wanted to see Fleetwood Mac. Stevie Nicks was mesmerizing. What a woman....
Chuck
was the first summer after freshman year at University of Vermont. My roomate that year was from Norwood MA. 7 of us planned on crashing at his house. Six of us vermonters took the drive down to Norwood that afternoon which provided plenty of time to roll all the weed we had into nice thick stogies...we got to the stadium and realized that we really did not have any money or food or drink....It was a long show. We began trading joints for food and drink with other concert goers around us. what a party and show....Wow Boz Scaggs opens for Fleetwood Mac and then the Eagles.....A memory forever...
Is there a live recording of this available for download on Dime or someplace else???
Great concert indeed, I was 17 and my first concert and it was TREMENDOUS. General admission was a bit funky. Started way in the back when Boz started playing and midway through Fleetwood we were in the front row on the grass and ended with the Eagles. Great concert in a real dive of a stadium lol
My first concert also. Great show! I was an Eagles fan; didn't know the other bands but loved them! Went out and bought "Silk Degrees" and "White Album" and "Rumors". My husband was there too (but we didn't meet until years later).
Like the other comment, we didn't get home until 3 or 4...the traffic getting out of there was unbelievable!
best concert ever at foxboro.joe walsh came back on stage after two encores and stated 'were not leavin here to we play every song we ever wrote.'summer 0f high school graduation i am 54 years old and remember it like yesterday.will never happen again
I was there,, remember it well,,well sorta, HUGE crowd,,lasted LONG time !
Now I'm going to see Fleetwwod Mac some 37 years later at Comcast Center,,but at 52 I will behave for this one !!
Was there too. One of my favorite memories. I saw Elton John there several weeks before (7/4//76) and although that was a great concert... I place this show a notch higher,
Best memory (or at least what I think I remember!) is the last song... Take it to the Limit.... I remembr the crowd of thousands waving lighters. It was beautiful. Oh if only we could go back in time...
I had just graduated high school, and had been at the Elton John concert at Schaefer a few weeks earlier on our country's bicentennial, so I knew what GA and parking/traffic would be like.
Got "talked" into going by a girl I knew who was going with her boyfriend, but really wanted to be with me. How's that for an ego stroke. She had a extra ticket so I agreed, plus the boyfriend drove. All good for me. At some point early in the long day, the boyfriend took off, and the 2 of us kind of got immersed in each other. Long story short, we were left without a ride home. We ended up thumbing/walking the 40 mile route, and I remember being home pretty early. Had no problem with rides for about 80% of the way and walked the other 20%. Oddly, we never hooked up again after that night. But, seeing 3 great bands was awesome!!
I saw this same concert, that summer, at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh. I can never find any info about it, cost of tickets, etc.....I was a college student at Youngstown State University, and I still think of it as my all time favorite concert!
First date with my gf/wife to be! Awesome missed most of boz scaggs but pre show in parking lot was good! Music blaring swapping food for ...... then the concert! It was awesome! Joe Walsh was kinda new as an Eagle WOW!
I went with my brother and his friend Danny Zanes, who would have been a HS sophomore. Danny of course later had his own band, the Del Fuegos. As I remember it the crowd on the field was packed so tightly that you couldn't fall down if you passed out. There was plenty of room in the stadium seats though.
And no one was listening to the Boz Scaggs set...probably because it was still light.
I went to that show. Had a great time! Loved the Eagles arriving/departing via copter... added that extra cool factor to it! I remember took hours just to get out of the parking lot too! Memorable show!
I went to that concert. It was a great show. It got cool that night. I think I remember people lighting their soda cups on fire and waving them back & forth. Think they should have a reunion
Thought it was a fantastic show but I was a little put off by the Eagles performing the Doolin' Dalton/Desperado Reprise separate from the main songs. I thought it worked very well on the lp but not the concert.
I was there as well. I thought that Poco played as well and had some sort of a mishap with a bass player passing out.. does anybody else remember this or am I confusing it with another concert..?
Went to this concert on a whim after a little "afternoon delight" (we were in Weymouth) with my girl (6 months later my wife). We loved this concert, went to see the Eagles and Boz. We were playing the daylights out of Silk Degrees at her place. I had her on my shoulders so she could see the Eagles. Cost me a few trips to the chiropractor but it was worth it.
I still have my ticket stub but the Boz part is not showing. My sister reminded me
that Boz was the opener. I just saw Boz at Twin River casino in RI, he was great!
He played some new stuff and a lot of songs from Silk Degrees. Back to the 1976 concert, I had just graduated from hs in 76, we came up from the Cape, my Mom and two sisters. I sat next to a man I had a crush on in the stadium sets and my sister Judy went on the lawn close to the stage. At the end of the concert, we spent a lot of time searching for her. The concert was thrilling and inspiring, the music was so good! Probably smoked some weed. There was a real community feeling in the crowd. 39 years ago, great times and memories.
I was there and favorite memory was the amazing colorful sunset while Fleetwood played "Over My Head." The pill I took only made it better. Go ask Alice....
I was there and it was great! The show started in the daylight with Boz Scaggs and they definitely set the great vibes for the remainer of the show :-) I then managed to get myself right down in front of the stage when Stevie Nicks was singing with Christine McVie! Seeing those 2 that close was so, so awesome!! The Eagles out on one great show and Joe Walsh using the talk box was totally awesome too!
I was there for Eagles, Fleetwood Mac & Boz Scaggs, but My ticket says July 19th. & We paid $9.00. ???
I was at this concert. It was great. Seems there was a problem with people trying to break in during Fleetwood Mac. I have cassettes of most of Eagles & Fleetwood Mac. Eagles encored with Chuck Berry's "Oh Carol". Bought bad Eagles tshirt that shrunk to size 12 the first time it was washed, lol. Long but great music.
Yes, I was a month shy of 19 at the time making it 40 years ago this July. Time flies. The thing I remember was how amazing the sound was despite the fact it was held in a large outdoor football stadium filled to capacity, 60,000 I think. Especially the Eagles. It was as you were listening to them on your stereo. I guess the other thing about 4 years earlier as a freshmen at UConn I walked into the gym with my roommate for the annual spring concert on campus to hear a band call Renaissance but they hand not started yet. The warm up band was somebody called Fleetwood Mac. We stayed for about 5 min and left! One of my most painful regrets. Lastly, I know when Im asked about the best concert I ever attended i think about Bruce Springsteen in '75 with him playing songs from his "Born to Run" album (truly a religious experience), and the time when my wife and I heard Bonnie Raitt at an concert in CT in '91 singing from her grammy winning "Luck of the Draw" album with her parents in the audience. In the end, it always comes back to that night in 1976 at Schaefer stadium in Foxboro listening to three amazing acts at their very best. Going that night was one of the best decisions I ever made!
Yes, I was a month shy of 19 at the time making it 40 years ago this July. Time flies. The thing I remember was how amazing the sound was despite the fact it was held in a large outdoor football stadium filled to capacity, 60,000 I think. Especially the Eagles. It was as you were listening to them on your stereo. I guess the other thing about 4 years earlier as a freshmen at UConn I walked into the gym with my roommate for the annual spring concert on campus to hear a band call Renaissance but they hand not started yet. The warm up band was somebody called Fleetwood Mac. We stayed for about 5 min and left! One of my most painful regrets. Lastly, I know when I'm asked about the best concert I ever attended I think about Bruce Springsteen in '75 with him playing songs from his "Born to Run" album (truly a religious experience), and the time when my wife and I heard Bonnie Raitt at an concert in CT in '91 singing from her Grammy winning "Luck of the Draw" album with her parents in the audience. In the end, it always comes back to that night in 1976 at Schaefer stadium in Foxboro listening to three amazing acts at their very best. Going that night was one of the best decisions I ever made!
I was in the infield at Three Rivers Stadium, feeling fine! What a show! My sons now listen to that music and I tell them I was at this concert with their mom, They say to me, yea right you did, like I didn't! I tell them to go ask their mother..........
Was at the Three Rivers Concert, what a show!
I was there and was 21. Great concert. It was general admission. I spent a lot of time down on the field. Weather was perfect. Biggest memory is the Eagles playing what seemed like a long version of Take it to the Limit (one more time). They kept hitting that last verse over and over and the music was echoing through the stadium. Good memories.
I think Boz Scaggs was a replacement for someone like Steve Miller (who was now too big to open for Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles). When I heard he was added to the show I immediately got tickets with a few friends because I was a huge fan of all three. Highlight for me was "Good Day In Hell" which was a just OK track from On The Border. In concert The Eagles blew the lid off the place with that song and the stadium didn't even have a lid!
Enjoyed this as my very first concert! I was a sophomore in HS and went with my cousins It was amazing! They flew in the bands on helicopters and it was GENERAL admission. We sat mid field center on blankets with coolers and so many fans!! I remember when it came time to find a bathroom, because we were on the field....we had to go up to go down under bleachers. So, people picked us up and passed us up the crowd and then down the crowd to get there. CRAZY night I will NEVER forget!!
I think one poster commented already on the Coke containers coated with wax about a quart size, everyone lit them on fire and because of the wax they were like huge candles glowing. I was 18 back then and to this day I sometimes think about that show it was one of if not the best ever!
I had just graduated high school in June. (NNHS-76). A whole bunch of us from our class decided to go. It was the beginning of the end for our crew. Most of us drifted apart after that. It was OUR "Woodstock" in that it signified the end of an era.
Yes I was there! I was 16 at the time. Had the best time. I sat with my friends (who were lame by the way) and a few rows down there were a bunch of people having a great time. They called me down to sit with them. They were all from Hyde Park. We drank Lancer wine and smoked a whole lot of weed. When I returned to my friends (who were still lame) I couldn't begin to tell them what a great time I had! I will never ever forget that night! I am 59 now and it's still fresh in my mind.
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