AT Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 07:08:31 Hersh wrote:

>Oddly enough, for me it was a KISS concert at Maple Leaf Gardens, Concert 
>Bowl set-up, around 1975 >or so.  I think Ted Nugent and a Hammersmith 
>opened.  I was stage left near Gene right next to the >wall of speakers.

Ah....HAMMERSMITH. The band that Mercury Records thought was going to be the 
next BTO. They were from Calgary and probably hold the record for the act to 
have changed its name the most and still gotten a record deal under every 
incarntion:

49th Parallel
Painter
Hammersmith
Qwest
The Dan Lowe Band


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