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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 4350982, member: 127"]
Saw Elton at the War Memorial in the early 70’s. Had seats in the 5th row on the floor and back then the cost was pretty cheap (less than $10). He was awesome, had the place going crazy. He was very young, I was even younger just in college. He’s a phenomenal pianist but he was very athletic back then in his early concerts. He would jump from the floor to the piano bench all while playing then somehow catapult himself on top of the piano, bend down facing the keyboard playing backwards, playing and singing. He’d even play doing short handstands. He was like some young musical savant, part acrobat. He put on an awesome show earning like 4 encore returns with his fingers bleeding from playing. Unbelievable energy level.

It was an amazing enough night back then but because many of the concert goers were smoking (legal and illegal), a plume of smoke was all throughout the War Memorial. As a result, they opened the side stage doors to the outside allowing people to breathe and anyone on State St to hear a free concert. Unforgettable, fun concert - only 3 people on stage creating all that music - a drummer named Nigel Olsen, a guitar player (can’t recall his name) and Elton John at the piano and encore after encore. Generous entertainer with his time.

Hope he finished his career in Syracuse even half as exciting as his concert around 1971 was.
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