The CARD Foundation is pleased to announce its 5th annual Big Sky Bash concert to benefit the Center for Asbestos Related Disease (CARD). Legendary music icons, Three Dog Night and local favorite Copper Mountain Band will be performing in Libby on Saturday, July 11th, 2015, with gates opening at 6pm, and music playing from 7pm until midnight at J Neils Park.
Legendary music icons, Three Dog Night celebrate their 4th decade, performing to sell-out crowds and bringing along some of the most astonishing chart statistics in popular music including 21 consecutive Top 40 hits, including 3 #1 singles, 11 Top 10's, and 12 straight RIAA Certified Gold LPs.
Copper Mountain Band is a high-energy, mainstream, country music group with family roots that lie deep in the history of Montana. Copper Mountain Band appeals to all audiences as they incorporate music from many genres and styles into their performances. They have found a way to give cover tunes a whole new dimension and they have outstanding original material as well. They have also received praise for their rendition of Cher’s "Just Like Jesse James". They are a one-of-a-kind group with a fiery passion for their craft.
The concert was bring your own seating, else sit on the grass. We brought folding chairs to sit on.
Three Dog Night has more hits than I remembered. Surprisingly, while I like their music, I never owned any of their albums.
The band played most, but not all of their hits. Not played was Pieces of April. The original members - who must be in their mid to late sixties, were good though age appears to have limited their vocal range. Their playing was excellent. They played two recent (2009) songs and both very very good.
They were also excellent on "Mama Told Me Not To Come". They had fun with the song with a funny interlude where they updated the song to be current, or a rap song, complete with the singer looking like a rapper. Here is how they performed the song back in 1970 -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKaQzQAlNn4
Three Dog Night.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Dog_Night
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| Official photo (the person on the right side died of cancer this past May) |
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| Here is the view from the stage. I'm in the crowd on the left side. |
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| Three Dog Night performing |
Sitting in front of us and to our side were a half dozen women (grandmas). I wouldn't be surprised if they had attended Three Dog Night's concerts back in the 1970s. A ladies night out with only one husband along. And they were drinking. And drinking. And they were dancing. Fortunately they only danced nearby for a short time. For most of the concert they danced in front of the stage.
When they came back after Three Dog Night finished (although two of them met the band backstage and got their autographs on several of the band's original album covers), they were all lit up. When the woman next to me sat down she fell over in her chair and landed against and on me. She was embarrassed and very drunk. We then had an amusing conversation. The women left before the next band came on stage. Fortunately the woman who fell on me said she would not drive and was calling her husband to come get her. I wonder how much of the concert she remembered the next day. And many of these women looked to be in their sixties while acting like teenagers. Wow.
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| Sunset between musical acts |
After Three Dog Night left the stage after almost an hour and a half performance, the Copper Mountain Band (http://www.coppermountainband.com/) performed. Or part of the band. One member was in the local crowbar hotel (jail); one member was missing, and the remaining three members played the concert. Near the end of the concert the female lead singer said this would be their last performance and that the band is going "on hiatus". It sure sounded like the band was breaking up. Before she left, the drunk woman who fell on me had told me her friend told her that the band wasn't going to play tonight as they broke up because "they had issues".
At any rate the three remaining band members still put on an excellent high energy show that lasted till midnight. I don't remember the title of the last song they played, but is was really appropriate lyrics as it was a sad "it's over breakup song". The female lead singer invited a half dozen women up on stage to dance to the last song of the night.
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| Copper Mountain Band (Three members with one member's aunt sitting in on keyboards for the 'Knocking on Heavens Door' song) |
Here is one of the Copper Mountain's original songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4rVcs7fkao
A lot the the audience had dwindled away by concert's end. Walking in front of us - until we could pass them - were a group of drunk middle aged women. When walking on the pavement from the grass one complained her feet were now hurting. She was too drunk to realize she wasn't wearing shoes. These were grown middle aged women - not kids.
Then we had an almost two hour drive back to Kalispell getting back at 2 am. We only saw one deer on the side of the road and it was still as a statue, fortunately.
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