Talk:Concert 10

message: Here is one reference to the concert:
http://musicrocker.com/2005/04/18/edgar-winter-is-coming-to-the-brentwood-corn-festival/
Here is another one:
http://forum.lostpedia.com/archive/index.php/t-1272.html
I just ordered a copy of The Americana Annual, 1973: An Encyclopedia of the Events of 1972 from Amazon for 28 cents and 3.99 shipping. It will be here in a few days. Under no circumstances is Viriditas allowed to continue railroading this topic until I have a chance to view this source.Morgan Wright (talk) 23:09, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you aware that I did not add that source to the article?  It was added by another editor.  As for the count, there are two RS on the deletion discussion page that quote 200K.  A third source quotes 250, but it is an advertisement for a rock band, and does not meet RS guidelines.  Once again, I will ask you, please stop making accusations and personal attacks. —Viriditas | Talk 23:23, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
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message: This appears to be a website run or maintained by User:Morgan Wright, who has now added the blog reference to the external link in order to get around the sourcing guideline. —Viriditas | Talk 01:35, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further reading: hyzercreek.com 

message: Greetings, I recently discovered incorrect information in a Wikipedia article titled, “Concert 10” about the July, 1972 music festival named Concert 10 held at Pocono International Raceway in Pennsylvania. In the History section, here is the erroneous sentence: “66 people were hired from Bill Graham's road crew in Dallas to maintain the sound reinforcement system.” 
The above erroneous sentence should be replaced by this correct sentence: “The festival-scale sound and lighting systems, the vast double stage and the associated specialized crews were provided by Showco, an international touring concert production company based in Dallas, TX.” Please add this link to the corrected sentence: Showco
I know this because I was employed by Showco from 1971 through 2000, and I was one of the Showco sound crew that worked the 1972 Concert 10 Pocono Festival. Incidentally, Showco's entire crew for the festival sound, lighting and stage was composed of approximately 20 people from Dallas, not 66. As with many festivals and concerts, our crew was augmented by local stagehands.
Showco was one of the largest and best known touring sound, lighting, staging, set, design, special effects, manufacturing and production management companies in the world - from 1970 to 2000. Please see the related Wikipedia articles, Showco and Vari-Lite. 
It appears the erroneous Wikipedia sentence ​might have been transcribed - incorrectly - from this July 9, 1972 New York Times article about the Concert 10 Pocono Festival: https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:8ff2eeca-45b0-3604-a91b-f6716d9929e0 Please see the first highlighted sentence in the NYT article, 2nd page of the 2 linked pages. In the Wikipedia sentence, the commas from the corresponding NYT sentence are missing and the wording is slightly changed, altering the meaning. And the NYT sentence referred to the Dallas "sound crew's" (i.e., Showco's) work for Billy Graham, the legendary evangelist - not the legendary rock promoter, Bill Graham, as the name is spelled in the Wikipedia sentence. In 1972 Bill Graham was based in San Francisco, had no 66 person road crew in Dallas and had nothing to do with Showco's involvement in the Pocono Festival.Giddyup409 (talk) 17:19, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct erroneous sentence in Wikipedia article titled, "Concert 10" 

message: Here is a link to the New York Times article about the Concert 10 festival that I mentioned above - from the NYT archives. 
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/07/09/91335213.html?pageNumber=36 Giddyup409 (talk) 01:55, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional source link to "Correct erroneous sentence in Wikipedia article titled, "Concert 10""