Answer to the trivia question: Who was the first act signed to Swan Song Records?

Bad Company

Yes, the first recording artist signed to Led Zeppelin’s record label was the rock and blues band led by the great lead vocalist Paul Rodgers.

Climax Blues Band was a strong opening act as they did have some radio hits at the time.

Our seats atadison Square Garden were mid level and pretty dead center. Way back before tiered pricing, premium pricing, special packages, meet and greets, and worse year, dynamic pricing became commonplace business practices, an entire venue would be sold at one price from the front row to the last seat in the house. Unless you had a hook with someone who had a Ticketmaster machine, the odds of getting really good tickets were slim. In Flushing, Queens the Ticketmaster machine was located at the Jolly Joint on Main Street. The Zjolly Jount was a head shop specializing in selling pipes, bongs and rolling papers. When concert tickets went on sale a line would form up down the street but it seemed that the best seats were always long gone whenever you got in. Years later I learned that the owners of these machines would furiously print out the best seats in between customers. A really tough ticket could mean that you could be left in the cold without one after a really short amount of time on line. Most times we were just happy to go to the show as the best seats were out of out reach.

The most memorable moment of the Bad Company show was that someone for some reason set a seat on fire up toward the left of us. There were actual flames as the seat burned and the band played on.

Burnin’ Sky

Rock on!

GQ