Beach Boys (8/22/1975)
A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook
Artist(s): Beach Boys w/ Ambrosia
Date: 22 August 1975
Tickets: $6.50/$7.50 (general admission)
Attendance: 8,000
Notes: First advance sellout concert
Setlist (Beach Boys*): Sloop John B, Do It Again, Help Me, Rhonda, In My Room, The Trader, Sail On Sailor, California Saga: California, Surfer Girl, Little Deuce Coupe, California Girls, Wouldn’t It Be Nice, I Get Around, Good Vibrations, You Are So Beautiful (Billy Preston cover), Barbara Ann (The Regents cover), Surfin’ U.S.A., Fun, Fun, Fun.
Setlist (Ambrosia): Holdin’ On to Yesterday, Duke of Earl (Gene Chandler cover), (others)
*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on performances around the same time (Pittsburgh, PA).
Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 10 August 1975, p.A-23, (right top) 3 August 1975, p.C-12, (right middle) 7 August 1975, p.D-2, (right lower) 14 August 1975, p.D-3, (right bottom) 20 August 1975, p.B-14. Kalamazoo Public Library
Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 August 1975, p.B-10, (inset left) 10 August 1975, p.A-24. Kalamazoo Public Library
Articles
“Stadium Show”
Kalamazoo Gazette. 3 August 1975, p.C-12.
“Biggest Sale”
Kalamazoo Gazette. 7 August 1975, p.D-2.
“Beach Boys Span The Generation Gap”
Kalamazoo Gazette. 10 August 1975, p.A-23.
“Sell-Out Looms”
Kalamazoo Gazette. 14 August 1975, p.D-3.
“Concert Sold Out”
Kalamazoo Gazette. 20 August 1975, p.B-14.
“15 Years—And Still Packing Them In”
Kalamazoo Gazette. 22 August 1975, p.B-10.\
“Beach Boys’ Old Magic Charms A New Generation”
Kalamazoo Gazette. 23 August 1975, p.A-7.
“Didn’t Pay For ‘Pot Party’”
Kalamazoo Gazette. 3 November 1975, p.A-7.