...that came through our city to do the 3 band shows every Monday at the hockey rink.
We had backstage passes to every show & I can't remember a time when those guys weren't trashed.
Not surly drunks; still friendly, but wasted.
They used to smash those Gretsch Falcons at every shoe, then one summer we saw a guy gluing them back together.
They were not real Gretsch guitars. The were plywood facsimiles and they'd smash them, then glue them together.
I didn't yet play guitar then, but I noticed they only played those fakes for the last song. They probably weren't goodvenough to use all night.

We met lots of bands.
We had backstage passes every show (10-12 per year) for 4 summers.
My dad was tangentially involved with the production.
The local KCs got a cut of the gate, plus 4 backstage passes each week. Good deal for us teenagers.
We met Rare Earth, Blue Oyster Cult, Rufus, Bloodrock, BOA, Head East, Starcastle,....
Pretty fun.