http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613 Bakersfield can be a tough audience. We booed Johnny Carson, a decision that spawned Bakersfield to become the butt of late-nite humor for decades. Now comes a tidbit from a blog chronicling the career of The Three Stooges. The Stooges, struggling to make a comeback late in their careers, apparently fell flat in a performance at a Bakersfield Holiday Inn. Reads the blog: &quot;The first presentation of the new act couldn&rsquo;t have been more disappointing. The stooges performed at a Holiday Inn in Bakersfield, California. Nobody laughed; even worse, some of the patrons, a little tipsy, started to heckle the trio. &ldquo;Silence, you&rsquo;re going to wake up my friend!&rdquo;, yelled one, to what Moe replied: &ldquo;You have thirty two teeth right now, wanna see how it is like having none?&quot;&hellip; But is Bakersfield really any tougher an audience than any other city? I grew up in Fresno, and heard stories about Led Zeppelin being booed offstage at a local show in the late 1960s. And I personally saw a concert by the then-relatively unknown Police, whose leader Sting -- offended that Fresnans were sitting instead of standing before his greatness -- vowed never to play Fresno again (they did, in a stadium show a few years later that earned them big bucks). What do you think? Are we power haters or just being singled out for honest &quot;feedback&quot; back in the day?&nbsp; Bakersfield can be a tough audience. We booed Johnny Carson, a decision that spawned Bakersfield to become the butt of late-nite humor for decades. Now comes a tidbit from a blog chronicling the career of The Three Stooges. The Stooges, struggling to make a comeback late in their careers, apparently fell flat in a performance at a Bakersfield Holiday Inn. Reads the blog: &quot;The first presentation of the new act couldn&rsquo;t have been more disappointing. The stooges performed at a Holiday Inn in Bakersfield, California. Nobody laughed; even worse, some of the patrons, a little tipsy, started to heckle the trio. &ldquo;Silence, you&rsquo;re going to wake up my friend!&rdquo;, yelled one, to what Moe replied: &ldquo;You have thirty two teeth right now, wanna see how it is like having none?&quot;&hellip; But is Bakersfield really any tougher an audience than any other city? I grew up in Fresno, and heard stories about Led Zeppelin being booed offstage at a local show in the late 1960s. And I personally saw a concert by the then-relatively unknown Police, whose leader Sting -- offended that Fresnans were sitting instead of standing before his greatness -- vowed never to play Fresno again (they did, in a stadium show a few years later that earned them big bucks). What do you think? Are we power haters or just being singled out for honest &quot;feedback&quot; back in the day?&nbsp; en-us Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:55:55 PDT <p>You left out Steinbeck....</p> <br /> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416614 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416614 <p>You left out Steinbeck....</p> <br /> <p></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Was Steinbeck the one who edtied the Pumpkin Center Review for a while?</p> <p>--virgil &nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416622 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416622 <p></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Was Steinbeck the one who edtied the Pumpkin Center Review for a while?</p> <p>--virgil &nbsp;</p> <p>In 1978, Black Sabbath played the Civic Auditorium and was booed mercilessly.&nbsp; Everybody wanted the warm-up band back on...a little group no one had ever heard&nbsp;of then called Van Halen.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416656 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416656 <p>In 1978, Black Sabbath played the Civic Auditorium and was booed mercilessly.&nbsp; Everybody wanted the warm-up band back on...a little group no one had ever heard&nbsp;of then called Van Halen.</p> <p>Hmm, there's an idea, I love Hayseed Dixie, the bluegrass band that started out covering AC/DC , How about Buck Sabbath?</p> <p>Tiger by the tail...done to the tune of War Pigs?&nbsp; BLT...get on that will ya.....</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416700 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416700 <p>Hmm, there's an idea, I love Hayseed Dixie, the bluegrass band that started out covering AC/DC , How about Buck Sabbath?</p> <p>Tiger by the tail...done to the tune of War Pigs?&nbsp; BLT...get on that will ya.....</p> <p>I thought I was the only one that's heard of Hayseed Dixie.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>I would rather see Sabbath over van halen any day of the week. I'd rather see Hayseed Dixie than van halen if you really want to know.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416736 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416736 <p>I thought I was the only one that's heard of Hayseed Dixie.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>I would rather see Sabbath over van halen any day of the week. I'd rather see Hayseed Dixie than van halen if you really want to know.</p> <p></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muyqMrsuLXw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muyqMrsuLXw</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;:&nbsp; )</p> <p>--virgil</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416738 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416738 <p></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muyqMrsuLXw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muyqMrsuLXw</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;:&nbsp; )</p> <p>--virgil</p> <p>Hey, thanks for picking up my story!!!&nbsp;Very nice of you. Just for the record, that part of my story about the Stooges is extracted from Moe Howard's autobiography, so I guess it must be true...</p> <p>Now do I&nbsp;think Bakersfield being a tough audience... I&nbsp;don't think so. Well, at least not in this case. The guys were clearly misbooked...</p> <p>Best regards from an Argentine in Waterloo, Ontario (Canada). I hope you liked the Stooges series (2 episodes to go)...</p> <p>--Gabriel</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416741 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_416741 <p>Hey, thanks for picking up my story!!!&nbsp;Very nice of you. Just for the record, that part of my story about the Stooges is extracted from Moe Howard's autobiography, so I guess it must be true...</p> <p>Now do I&nbsp;think Bakersfield being a tough audience... I&nbsp;don't think so. Well, at least not in this case. The guys were clearly misbooked...</p> <p>Best regards from an Argentine in Waterloo, Ontario (Canada). I hope you liked the Stooges series (2 episodes to go)...</p> <p>--Gabriel</p> <p>I was at the Fresno Ratcliffe Stadium show with The Police, The Fixx, Oingo Boingo, and Thompson Twins. Boingo got booed a little bit, but the place was sold out and it was a pretty long day. Sometimes you gotta get to the headliner. Hip-hop acts have that problem today, especially in Bakersfield - TOO MANY OPENING ACTS...zzzzzzzz.....</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_419333 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/46613/#c_419333 <p>I was at the Fresno Ratcliffe Stadium show with The Police, The Fixx, Oingo Boingo, and Thompson Twins. Boingo got booed a little bit, but the place was sold out and it was a pretty long day. Sometimes you gotta get to the headliner. Hip-hop acts have that problem today, especially in Bakersfield - TOO MANY OPENING ACTS...zzzzzzzz.....</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>