http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/in-the-early-70s-kansas-city-was-young-high-and-horny-and-everyone-went-to-the-ballroom/Content?oid=2194656 Comments On: In the early '70s, Kansas City was young, high and horny, and everyone went to the Ballroom by Jason Harper en-us Copyright 2013 Pitch. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Pitch readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Pitch. neilk@atiba.com (Pitch Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss > I had a friend during that time named Steve Mitchell, but it was in 1970 to the mid-to-late 1970s. He was childhood best friends with a friend of mine who lived in my neighbourhood in West Independence near 31st & Hardy Avenue.
> The Steve Mitchell I knew grew up down in East Kansas City between 27th Street & I-70 on Poplar, Chelsea, or Wenzel...
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God, things had cooler names back then...
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Turns out my father, one Steve Mitchell, met my mother (Susan - she used to work at the Cowtown Ballroom and the Genuine Article, among other places) at a concert he was playing there at Volker Park (would've been 1968, I guess - I was born in July of '69).

She mentioned that he played at The Aquarius on 39th and Main, and I used to have two clippings from the KC Star (1969 - 1971, I think, can't remember exactly). It's hard to locate old articles on microfiche at the library without an index - I did manage to find one of the two there a few years back, but it was just a small, wide-angle photo and caption.

One of them (the one I found again at the library) showed him playing at Westport Road and Pennsylvania (near Kelly's), and the other showed him playing guitar onstage at Volker Park, along with an interview with him and some lyrics from a song of his.
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