perhaps symbolized best by the Mighty Juke but if you stop there you miss the point
The Greatest Day in Rock (i.e .catching the Stones and Bonnie in one day) has been chronicled pretty well but there were many other spectacular concerts including a couple of six figure crowds: Mount Pocono and Watkins Glen; Wild Horses sung on the boardwalk then off to the Smoke In in DC on the 4th of July, Jethro Tull (Slick attending just about two dozen shows by the end of the 340 era), Rolling Stones (making my 18 Stones shows lifetime pale), Motown (F & M hosted Smokey and Hamilton Bohannon and more), Grateful Dead (their F & M show, pre-328, is one of the Dead Heads legendary shows), the last concert I attended before 328 (KISS, Rush, Blue Oyster Cult) remains one of the best I ever saw, the Village & Old Colony, The West Philly Speed Boys, Sharks, Randall Stoltzfus, my loud rock or Slick's edgyier tweeners (oh he could rock too ... finding Mott before anyone else), music (and beer) defined the 340.
The 340 earned its place as the 3rd best nite club in the county.
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