I remember Crystal Blue well from those days! I was a young inexperienced kid and used to go see her a lot. Annette, you said that you knew her. Any idea whatever happened to her later on?
I attended a show at the NY Academy of Music on 12/31/73 with headliners Blue Oyster Cult and openers Teenage Lust, Iggy & the Stooges (Raw Power-era band) and Kiss. This was Kiss’s first major NYC show and no one knew who they were yet. They were the first band out that night and even at that early hour me & my buddy who I went with were already half out of it (it was New Years Eve, after all…) and we were shocked by their show. No one had seen anything that crazy before. The other band’s added to the nuttiness of the night and Blue Oyster Cult brought the oom-pah band over from Luchow’s next door to play before their set. It is a show that is still in my memory after all these years and is one of those shows that when you tell people about it they go “wow, you were there?”. I saw many other shows at the Academy after this and always had a great time. I miss that theatre being a part of New York and it’s a damn shame that NYU saw fit to tear it down along with Luchow’s only to build more friggin' condos. The academy rocked and will live on in my mind and others who attended shows there.
Also, Annette, are you on Facebook?
I remember Crystal Blue well from those days! I was a young inexperienced kid and used to go see her a lot. Annette, you said that you knew her. Any idea whatever happened to her later on?
I attended a show at the NY Academy of Music on 12/31/73 with headliners Blue Oyster Cult and openers Teenage Lust, Iggy & the Stooges (Raw Power-era band) and Kiss. This was Kiss’s first major NYC show and no one knew who they were yet. They were the first band out that night and even at that early hour me & my buddy who I went with were already half out of it (it was New Years Eve, after all…) and we were shocked by their show. No one had seen anything that crazy before. The other band’s added to the nuttiness of the night and Blue Oyster Cult brought the oom-pah band over from Luchow’s next door to play before their set. It is a show that is still in my memory after all these years and is one of those shows that when you tell people about it they go “wow, you were there?”. I saw many other shows at the Academy after this and always had a great time. I miss that theatre being a part of New York and it’s a damn shame that NYU saw fit to tear it down along with Luchow’s only to build more friggin' condos. The academy rocked and will live on in my mind and others who attended shows there.