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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswhat was the first rock concert you attended and how old were you?
me - KISS, Oct. 21, 1979 at the Summit in Houston (now a megachurch, lol) I was 11 years old.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)pepperbear
(5,648 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)you should go see Nine Inch Nails when the come to NY. You may hate it but it will be a great anthropological experience.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)Telluride. You will see rock concerts as they should be seen and hear them as they should be heard. You will fall in love with the experience.
You can see other kinds of music in those places, too.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I loves me some Justin. He needs to see some rock and roll. BTW I can't think of Red Rocks without thinking of U2.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)I've probably seen then 10 times since.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)I was way too young for this one but still...just the idea. arrrrgh.
kentuck
(110,950 posts)It was a wonderful experience.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)The locals mingle with the festival goers. We went to The Ride rock festival last year and fell in love with the place and the people.
kentuck
(110,950 posts)The clear cold stream, the waterfall, the aspens and the blue spruce backdrop and the wonderful people that gather there.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Jazz concerts for certain, but not rock...
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I was 15 and they were already old.
If not, then it was Van Halen. I was 17 and they were AWESOME!
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,251 posts)but 16
intheflow
(28,407 posts)Or maybe at least the same tour. Me: 14 years old in 1978, Springfield (MA) Civic Center. Mike Love's voice cracked hitting the high notes, in an old man kind of way.
You?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Dynasty Tour.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)That was my 3rd concert, after the aforementioned Shaun Cassidy, followed by Andy Gibb.
Needless to say, my concert-going improved considerably over time
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)who opened for them? I remember there was an opening act, and I couldn't have cared less because I was about to see KISS. I even looked up that tour on Wikipedia and it had the dates and the set list but no mention of opening acts.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I can't remember what I had for dinner two nights ago, but that's how it is
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)there obviously could have been different opening acts, but that does sound familiar. I was kinda hoping I had seen Van Halen or somebody else who got big later and was oblivious to it. that would have made my first concert story cooler.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I just checked my ticket stub collection, it was Kiss and New England on July 5, 1979
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I only knew the exact date of mine because I looked it up. I just knew it was the Dynasty tour in Houston, some time in '79.
Rock on, a1
arcane1
(38,613 posts)When I moved out of the house, my organizational skills stayed behind
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)New England was an American rock band that was mainly active from 1978-1982. The group was best known for the song, "Don't Ever Wanna Lose Ya", which received heavy radio exposure on Album-oriented rock (AOR) stations and reached #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1979. "Hello, Hello, Hello" also received some airplay at the decline of the first single.
John Fannon, Jimmy Waldo (Alcatrazz), Gary Shea (Alcatrazz) and Hirsh Gardner formed the band in the Boston area, discovered by legendary Kiss manager Bill Aucoin. Paul Stanley helped the band record and produce their debut album, along with famed producer Mike Stone, best known for his work with Queen and Asia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_(band)
arcane1
(38,613 posts)pizzadave
(46 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)This is Lounge material
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)But a piss-poor response. You should wait a minute or two before you respond.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)Mr. Wet Blanket .....
burnodo
(2,017 posts)how so?
steve2470
(37,457 posts)No, I don't have the link handy, but I distinctly remember him saying that.
burnodo
(2,017 posts)And what threads don't. That's all.
Violet_Crumble
(35,954 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/124311642
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Violet_Crumble
(35,954 posts)flying rabbit
(4,612 posts)A little light hearted fare goes a long way.
Control-Z
(15,681 posts)Why not have a little fun for a change? It has been so damned depressing around here lately.
burnodo
(2,017 posts)But rules do seem to be fairly selective around here sometimes
Iggo
(47,489 posts)There are SOP's and there are Community Standards.
You feel one of those is being violated? Feel free to hit the alert button.
Til then, rock on!!!
burnodo
(2,017 posts)I'm sure that's news to the admins and the moderators
Ohio Joe
(21,656 posts)We have Hosts... Who do what the name implies.
burnodo
(2,017 posts)I just find it kind of fascinating
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...color me a little skeptical.
burnodo
(2,017 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Is there anything else that may have gone over your head? Or did you just not listen to any of the other replies, either?
burnodo
(2,017 posts)I guess intelligence is not one of your strong points?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...in response to what what were merely flippant, humorous comments.
Perhaps you're the one who should get a clue--and a sense of humor. Oy!
burnodo
(2,017 posts)I have posted elsewhere in this thread about my first concert. The question I posted above here was legitimate and there never really was an answer, other than violet_crumble's. I said "Fifth" because you were the fifth separate person to respond in this subthread. Do try to keep up
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)It is shit like these kinds of condescending comments that undermine discussion at DU.
Seems like "Don't make DU suck" is especially relevant advice these days...
*no smilie*
burnodo
(2,017 posts)And you're blaming me for the quality of discussion? I just told you why I thought it was you who hadn't been paying attention to what was being said above. You didn't address that. You just did a non-sequitur.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And you seriouly call them out for not following the discussion? What part of "No soup for you" tells you it's a serious comment in the discussion? Do you think, perhaps, it may simply have been a humorous comment on your attempts to quash a thread you see as inappropriate in GD?
And, fyi, hosts and juries tend to give greater leeway to more-frivolous threads in GD that might otherwise not be allowed to stand during the week. IT'S THE FUCKING WEEKEND, DUDE.
That's just the way it is. Deal with it. Smilie face:
HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)quite funny, as was your play on Ludwig Van's Fifth Symphony (or possibly his Fifth Piano Concerto, the so-called 'Emperor Concerto," also quite wonderful -- especially the slow movement). Can't believe this poster engaged you ad nauseum on this - some people really seem to have a problem with keeping things in perspective.
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Earth_First
(14,910 posts)You must be a blast in social situations...
Whatever floats your boat. I guess.
Logical
(22,457 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)I'll try to remember that.
Logical
(22,457 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)I guess you do?
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)that's all I was saying
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)tkmorris
(11,138 posts)THEN perhaps we can tell you why that happened. Or agree with you that it shouldn't have. Until then you're just peeing in the public pool, which is not cool.
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Control-Z
(15,681 posts)Angels Stadium, Anaheim, Ca. Late 70s.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)and would love to have an experience like that.
Still Waters
(107 posts)I was very young and in love with Davy.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I only know of his existence because my mom had an LP of his in the 70s. it seems the monkeys had a TV show I watched on syndication as a small child.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)of The Monkees songs.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)I know I read that somewhere.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)their other songs too,but can't remember what.
sweetloukillbot
(10,814 posts)Just saw them last night actually. They only played one song that Davy Jones originally sang - Daydream Believer. Mike Nesmith was back with them and they played lots of stuff off Head and Headquarters.
shawn703
(2,702 posts)June 26, 1998 at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Age 21 (I was a late-blooming concert goer).
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I was 30 at the time. I still have the shirt.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)pizzadave
(46 posts)shawn703
(2,702 posts)To work for a company at the time that had an executive suite at the Palace, and if nobody needed the tickets to schmooze with clients, they'd let them go first come first serve to any employee who wanted them. I saw the Korn All in the Family tour, and even a WCW wrestling event (and I'm not even much of a wrestling fan - but it was still fun). I couldn't get the suite for the Pearl Jam concert that year, so ended up having to come out of pocket for that one.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)time did *not like* Led Zepp. Unfortunately I was too young and stupid then to realize that this was an absolute deal-breaker.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,698 posts)I was 15. Didn't scream.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Didn't scream. Could you hear anything for a while afterwards? I couldn't
greatauntoftriplets
(175,698 posts)Took a while to hear anything after that. It was loud.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)The best time ever
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)the Maui High School on Maui, The Byrds were playing somewhere else and were in the audience. I was 12. Yeah, I'm old.
Tikki
(14,539 posts)In Seattle...Civic Center.
The Tikkis
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)I was obsessed with them at the time.
Tikki
(14,539 posts)&list=PLTd6WxERZYZ3qCTOLg-HngAOdV10kjYKh
..still some of my all time favorite songs..
Tikki
madamesilverspurs
(15,784 posts)Somewhere in LA, late '60s. I think.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)I was 22 at the time. First concert ever was Toby Keith (hey, I was young and stupid at the time!) at 16.
Favorite to this point was Paul McCartney just a few weeks ago.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)was Charlie Rich (Livestock show in Houston when I was about 6)
google him if you aren't familiar
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Galileo126
(2,016 posts)Twas 1983, at Colt State Park in Bristol, RI. Me and two buddies from high school went the day/night before senior finals.
We almost flunked them because we stayed up all night having a good time!
Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)I was 16 and high as a kite that night.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,411 posts)All I know is that I loved the concert and planned to see many more and I did.
Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)dembotoz
(16,739 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)and second only because another DUr saw the Beatles.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)They were touring for the Undertow album then, they were still playing clubs rather than the big stadium shows they are playing now. Back then there were no special effects during the show, today they put on some of the most visually spectacular live performances of nearly any band. I have now seen them six times and they just keep getting better.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,485 posts)Kansas City (stationed there in the service) 1969 I was 19
Tikki
(14,539 posts)Their music set me in search of variable styles of that music for the rest of my life.
Tikki
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Chicago Amphitheater, maybe 12 or 13
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)awesome. seriously that blows my mind.
vanlassie
(5,637 posts)"She Loves You, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!"
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)vanlassie
(5,637 posts)the stage and the Fab Four jumped into a waiting armored car and it was over! Probably staged....!
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)The Stones did in 1967. The Beatles played their last U.S. concert in San Francisco in 1966.
Are we confused?
Melinda
(5,465 posts)I wish tho. Damn, lots of memories. Time has sure flown. Bummer.
Did you graduate High School in Fresno, Taz? I've often wondered but never asked. Me - I was McLane, class of '72. Oh, and my first 'formal' concert was at Selland Arena- Cream and Blue Cheer in 1968, but my first real vast experience was April 15, 1967 when I marched against the war in SF ('67) from the embarcadero to GG Park and we heard Jesse Colin Young (Youngbloods) Eric Burden & Animals, Jefferson Airplane was there too - I think. Lots of music, busy day for a 13 yr old. Lots to absorb, lots that shaped and helped to form the person I am today. I remain a virulent anti-war protestor to this day. My goodness.
Melinda lost in memories
SalviaBlue
(2,910 posts)I would have gone to McLane but we moved.
I think my first Selland concert was Donovan. I can't remember any Ratcliff concerts but my sister saw the Stones there.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)in 1969 (same year I attended the Santana concert) and I didn't move back until 1975. I graduated high school in Southern California in 1973. I never saw the Youngbloods or Jefferson Airplane but I saw Eric Burdon years later, post Animals and War. Now, when we moved to L.A., uh, yeah. I was fortunate enough to see just a whole mess of bands. My favorite was seeing Bonnie Raitt for the first time at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach. It was 1972, Paul Butterfield was playing and he introduced a "new" artist and she came up and did a couple of songs. In walks this little bit of a woman with flaming red hair and the meanest bottle-neck guitar I'd ever heard.
OK, now it's LTH lost in memories.
vanlassie
(5,637 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)The first was one show at the Amphitheatre September '64, then an afternoon and evening show at Comiskey Park in August of '65, then an afternoon and evening show again at the Amphitheatre in August of '66. My best friend Becky and I were at 'em all! Huge George Harrison fans.
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I used to hear at my pot dealers house in the 80s?
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)I love king diamond tho I have a king diamond tattoo.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I liked King Diamond much more than Venom.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)pitbullgirl1965
(564 posts)brucefan
(1,549 posts)Dec 9 1980 Philadelphia Spectrum.It was the night following the murder of John Lennon."If it wasn't for John Lennon we'd all be somewhere else tonight".Been a huge fan ever since.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)people's ages, or initials, or the schools they attended, or the cities in which they lived.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)paranoid much?
Arkansas Granny
(31,484 posts)Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show and Rare Earth.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)I was a pre-teen. Don't remember who was there, especially since all my subsequent concerts included all bands from the Beatles to the Stones and all in between. Nice living in NYC. They ALL go there.
Link Speed
(650 posts)My mother got a press pass for me. I was 14 years old. I still have that pass in one of my guitar cases.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)Anne Murray opened.
At Universal Studios in L.A..
I was 14.
brewens
(13,400 posts)Poco was awesome with him but mediocre without him.
virgdem
(2,119 posts)saw them in 1972 at the Bushnell Auditorium in Hartford, Ct with Jim Croce as the opening act. He died in a plane crash the year after-I was fortunate to see him perform, great as always.
dawnie51
(959 posts)Dick Clarks Rock and Roll Revue, feat. Jackie Wilson, Jerry Butler, the original Supremes, the original Temptations. I was 13.
Tikki
(14,539 posts)PROPS to whoever took you....
The T.A.M.I. show
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.A.M.I._Show
Tikki
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I see a future wormhole I will disappear into and kill hours.
Tikki
(14,539 posts)Tikki
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)thanks
DrewFlorida
(1,096 posts)It was just before Kiss became famous.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I never saw Sabbath. Want to go see them on this current reunion tour. Bill Ward the drummer has dropped out though; those guys are still fighting over money after all these years.
DrewFlorida
(1,096 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)mattclearing
(10,091 posts)It was a good show. The fill-in for Ward isn't the same, and Ozzy's singing is erratic, but I'm glad I went. Iommi and Butler were awesome.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Saw the dead there in 94
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)...soon after my 16th birthday. I had just acquired my driver's license and drove from Idaho Falls with a couple of friends. About 4 months after the release of In Search of the Lost Chord
bhikkhu
(10,708 posts)Which was a great concert, he was on fire then and played for about three hours. I was 17 and walked five miles to get there, didn't tell my parents.
Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)In Lawrence, Kansas I was around 20yrs old
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Awesome show.
Freddie
(9,232 posts)At the Spectrum in Philly. I was 19. Totally wonderful show.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)Bobby Goldsboro was on the bill too. Small venue, maybe three or four hundred in the crowd.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)I recall not much of that particular venue except that it was in a tiny back room of a restaurant, and I was sitting about 10 feet from him while he played the entire Visions of the Emerald Beyond and much of the Birds of Fire album with the original band just before they split up: Jerry Goodman, Jan Hammer, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Rick Laird.
Violet_Crumble
(35,954 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 10, 2013, 07:10 PM - Edit history (1)
It should have been ABBA in 1977 in Sydney, but Sydney was a long way to go for a 13yr old whose parents ruined her life at the time by refusing to take her
On edit: This is the sort of stuff INXS were doing back in the very early 80's
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Mosby
(16,168 posts)I was barely a teenager.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)bowens43
(16,064 posts)sweetloukillbot
(10,814 posts)onenote
(42,383 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Igel
(35,197 posts)Some venue west of Baltimore and east of DC.
onenote
(42,383 posts)Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)boguspotus
(284 posts)It was the Women and Children First (3rd Album) Tour.
The Met had horrible sound, but I sure had a blast!! On edit - I was 15.
boguspotus
(284 posts)I was 14. It was the Wild and Crazy Guy Tour. He did King Tut - which was great. But that doesn't make it a rock show though. Still fun.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Like 1983. 1979 would probably had been VH second album.
boguspotus
(284 posts)But Women and Children First came out right after in March in 1980. Fair Warning was next in '81. That's another great record.
msongs
(67,199 posts)UK, we sat in the balcony and threw jelly babies at the screaming kids on the floor below lol
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)@ the old Wembley Empire Pool, now Wembley Arena - '81 I think. As old as I felt at the time - I was still stuck in August 1960 anyway.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)and I was 17 years old.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)What's new pussycat?
It was at Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)ladies throwing their underwear at him ?
zappaman
(20,605 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 11, 2013, 12:10 PM - Edit history (1)
November 29, 1977
Capital Centre Landover MD
Great show!
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Ron Green
(9,821 posts)or 1960. High school auditorium in East Texas. I was 12 or 13. He kicked the piano bench back across the stage behind him and dancing suddenly erupted. The sheriff stopped the show and cleared the hall.
Next one was the Beatles in Dallas in '64.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Spring 1969. This was before Santana had released their first album (with the lion's head). I walked in, saw 2 percussionists and thought, "holy shit!" Cold Blood's Lydia Pense had it all over Janis Joplin, imho but was overshadowed by her. Saw Pense YEARS later (1980's?) and she was like 9 months pregnant and still rockin'.
Melinda
(5,465 posts)Maybe even one of the Kings, like a BB or Albert. They all seemed to mix it up and play together at diff times in Fresno. Did you see them at the Rainbow? I was there a LOT. We've probably scraped elbows. Ms Pense is a GODDESS and never, imo. got her due.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)or one of the Kings. I want to say it was Quicksilver Messenger Service but I couldn't swear to it. The concert was at the Exhibit Hall at Sellend Arena. If we scraped elbows I would have been in the back passing the ganja and the Jack Daniels (yes, at 13, almost 14 -- I was a wild child). I'll just never forget the 2 percussionists. It just fascinated me, I'd never seen anything like it. I was just wowed and I've LOVED LOVED LOVED Santana ever since. That was the same summer that Led Zeppelin came out and I achieved rock N Roll Nirvana. Iirc the Beatles White Album came out as well that year. It was a GREAT year for music.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)the stones got on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_You_Hear_Me_Knocking
MuseRider
(34,060 posts)I was 16 or 17 saw The Turtles (with Flo and Eddie) and Steppenwolf at The Red Dog Inn in Lawrence, Kansas. I had to sneak in since it was a small venue and they sold beer but it was really crowded so easy to get into. I remember being there, I remember the music but the details escape me they might have been elsewhere and we ended up the evening at the Red Dog. All I know was I had a great time, loved the concert and will never forget the experience.
Pool Hall Ace
(5,849 posts)at the late, great Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland.
derby378
(30,252 posts)I went mainly for Metallica, but Ozzy's set was good, too. I was only 19 years old then.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,163 posts)That's all I remember, dude.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)rainy
(6,083 posts)PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,649 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)16
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Natalie Merchant opened. Great show.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Next in 88 or 89 I saw Siouxsie and the Banshees in L.A. (I can't remember which venue -- maybe the universal amphitheater?), The Cure at Dodgers Stadium for the Disintegration tour, Depeche Mode (during Violator) at Dodgers Stadium, and the first Lollapalooza tour with Siouxsie and the boys on the bill, David Bowie Sound and Vision Tour at Dodgers Stadium (mind-blowing), Sting (maybe Hollywood Bowl?), then Duran Duran for The Ordinary World tour in the early 90s in the Bay Area (a smallish venue...it was awesome to be so close to John Taylor and Simon Le Bon). I was going to college in the Bay Area at the time. Loved seeing Duran in the 90s -- they were a whole new band at that point musically, and they put on a fantastic, very intimate show.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Saw Siouxsie and the Banshees at the first Lollapalooza (also in Dallas). Duran Duran was one of those bands I secretly liked but wouldn't tell my friends.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)-- and that was in the wake of grunge. Thirty years on I am now convinced that Rio was a brilliant album, and the music was overshadowed by their looks and the whole New Romantic MTV phenomenon. That album was and is a new wave masterpiece, and it belongs up there with Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures and Closer and Gary Numan's early stuff as genre-defining pieces of work. Throughout the 80s I shunned D2 though -- I loved The Police, as Sting was SO much more intellectual (sarcasm).
Did The Cure open with Plainsong? They did in our case, and it sounded gorgeous in that huge space. Smith sang only a line or two though from Lovecats and my young heart was greatly disappointed as it was and is still one of my Cure favorites. The KROQ DJs in attendance noted that everyone (including myself) was wearing black. Of course.
I have always adored Siouxsie. I saw her at least three (maybe four...) times, and each time she put 150% into her performance -- a punk chick with the soul of a rocker and a Goth aesthetic that was at times quite beautiful. I think quite a few of today's ladies have stolen right and left from Siouxsie. I can only imagine what it would have been like to see her in England in the 70s.
Texasgal
(17,029 posts)For their "4" tour.
I wanna say 1981 or '82 at the Frank Erwin Center Austin, TX. It was awesome!
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)was sort of the soundtrack to my Jr. High prom and ushered in my trouble-making/getting into trouble years.
Texasgal
(17,029 posts)I remember them singing "Urgent" too and the smell of pot wafting through the air. LOL!
Shortly thereafter I saw Journey! HA! I'm dating myself here!
ananda
(28,783 posts)I was 15 or so and my sister was 13 or so when we went
to see the Beach Boys at Dallas Memorial Auditorium...
... though I wouldn't exactly call The Beach Boys rock. LOL
We had a good time. It was great fun!
Not long after that, the Beatles came along and that was
really cool and fun. My sister and her friend from down
the street dressed up as two of the Beatles and performed
their own concert for us in the den. My sister just had to
be Paul, he was her favorite. It was early Beatles then, so
the songs were really trippy. We also saw the movie, A
Hard Days Night... and the night they appeared on Ed
Sullivan was a great must watch in our house. We were
big fans.
But we liked everybody, call us celeb hounds: Ricky Nelson,
Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, Paul Anka, Frankie Avalon,
Fabian, Wayne Newton (yeah, Danke Schoen , lol), and
who knows who else. Life was so much fun and sort of
innocent in those days. We even loved Disney and Gidget!
But getting into the rock and roll era was fantastic because
it was so much more than that. It had politics and activism,
counterculture and subversion, attached to it, and there was
such an electric energy coming into the 70's. Sometimes I
wish I could go back there and enjoy it from this perspective,
but it was what it was and it's over now.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)we used to paint our faces like KISS in the late 70s. I was always Ace Frehley.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)boston bean
(36,186 posts)Hall and Oates, mid to late eighties in Hartford, CT, if my memory serves.
I've been to David Bowie when it was Schaefer Stadium in Foxboro, MA (where the pats play)
Heart, in Worcester, MA
Elton about 3 times, Providence, Worcester.
Boston a bunch of times, in Worcester.
Rod Stewart, in Mansfield, MA
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I worship Bowie and have never seen him.
gvstn
(2,805 posts)He was great! Very professional and looked like he was having fun.
I think that was his last big tour, so I am glad I got to see him live.
I have to say that I think my all time favorite concert was Roxy Music. I had great seats and could see every expression on the band's faces. Bryan Ferry is one of those guys that just oozes "cool".
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)gvstn
(2,805 posts)He doesn't care that he is singing to 100,000 people, he sings his song just the same as he would to 8 people in some dive bar. He could have picked from so many crowd pleasers like "Love is the drug" if he chose. Haha!
I would give anything to go back and hear Annie Lennox sing this live!
I tend to love songs that make you feel good by felling bad. (Don't get me wrong I like some "car" music --that just makes you feel great no matter how crappy a song it is but my all time favorites are sad songs.)
Crank this one up in your car and it sounds great!
But Joan Armatrading is more my style.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)DevonRex
(22,541 posts)He's cool now. Very cool.
Violet_Crumble
(35,954 posts)Don't you dare say that, not in a thread where people are proud to say they saw KISS! You know what a musically opinionated and judgemental person I am, but thanks to Hall & Oates, I regularly have 'You Make My Dreams Come True' (the remastered version) playing in my car! For some unfathomable reason, it's one of my favourite songs of all time. But everything else they did reeked...
btw, I saw David Bowie as well. He was pretty awesome....
YAY FOR HALL & OATES!
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)after the group started doing fusion jazz. The Outlaws when I was still in college. Bob Dylan when he was making his first comeback. All of the concerts were paid for by student activity fees. Those were golden days that would shape the rest of my life.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Lithos
(26,397 posts)Janis Joplin and Lightning Hopkins. My parents took me. They also took me to see a lot of acts in/around Austin from the late 60's thru the early 70's though most of those would be blues, jazz and what would turn into progressive country (Willie, etc.)
If you want that I went by myself - Kinks, 1977ish.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)at the Hollywood Paladium. Think about that for a minute. The Kinks. In Hollywood. Lots of, uh, interesting people there. I have MANY MANY stories about that night but my favorite was when Ray Davies started singing "Lola," THE MOST MAGNIFISCENT DRAG QUEEN I've ever seen, platform boots, easily 6 inches, headdress probably 3 feet, sequence from head to toe, walked in through the middle of the crowd and the sea parted. She literally sauntered over to Ray Davies and he sang the song right to her. It was GREAT!
Lithos
(26,397 posts)It is also where Ray lost his pants after crowd diving.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)I don't remember Davies losing his pants but there was so much shit that happened that night, 40 years later I still shake my head in amazement.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)And maybe 15 others, hard to remember.
[font size=+1]But I will never forget seeing the Isley Brothers! [/font]
--imm
Tikki
(14,539 posts)+ others...grand show. Let me guess: 1963?
Tikki
immoderate
(20,885 posts)Isleys were in tuxedos, no bell bottoms. Also all hair was "proced" -- no Afros.
I'll have to admit to a kind of secondary interest in rock n' roll at the time. I was totally occupied by jazz musically, except if it came to dancing. I was along with my friends. But the Isleys really got my attention. US Bonds also.
--imm
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Tragic how his life turned out later.
aka-chmeee
(1,129 posts)If they do, I was 19 and it was 1968.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)stuckinodi
(113 posts)Age 13, Oakland Coliseum
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)"what was that band that used to dress up like Paul Revere and the raiders?"
true story
Tikki
(14,539 posts)Was her name Sarah Palin...
...about Paul Revere:"He who warned uh, the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed."....
Tikki
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Tikki
(14,539 posts)Always a fun show...
Tikki
classof56
(5,376 posts)It was 1965 at the Seattle Center. I took my teeny-bopper cousin to see Herman's Hermits, and the opening act was these guys who walked out wearing tricorner hats and Revoluntary War uniforms. What a sight for my mid-twenties eyes! Needless to say, I was stuck in the 50s were R&R was concerned. Anyway, the air was filled with the sound of shrieking teenage girls, and at one point my sweet l'il cousin looked up at me and asked, "Is it okay if I scream?" Always one of my favorite memories, and to this day, 48 years later, I have yet to attend another rock concert. Still like Herman, the Hermits and the Raiders, though! Thanks for posting the video.
Cheers!
Tikki
(14,539 posts)We went to at least half a dozen shows at the Seattle Center in the 60's when we
lived in Seattle.
The Tikkis
indepat
(20,899 posts)a guitar as therapy for the younger daughter who was recovering from a compound-fractured arm. As we left the store, String and Things, with guitar in hand, all four teenagers were literally freaking out and my wife and I had not a clue as to why. It happened that KISS (in street clothes) had been in the store. As for me, my first rock-type concert was in Biloxi, MS in 2004 at age 69 to see Jackson Browne: that then 14-year-old daughter took us on that odyssey.
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)Spill.
Rex
(65,616 posts)You won't tell my parents?
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)Or who might have been one of your older siblings, since they like to tattle.
Rex
(65,616 posts)from the apparent international incident of urinary dismissal onto public grounds prior. I think it started a war or two between the UK and Texas.
I was there for the peace treaty, I think he only bit one bat head off that night.
DevonRex
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wtmusic
(39,166 posts)The first time I smoked pot, too. A bit scary, but unforgettable.
Tree-Hugger
(3,364 posts)David Bowie - July 9, 1990. Sound and Vision Tour at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. I was 11 years old.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)never saw him. if he ever tours again I will.
Just Saying
(1,799 posts)Outdoor arena-what a show and what a crowd that was!
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Tree-Hugger
(3,364 posts)I was in high school. It was an amazing show.
Tree-Hugger
(3,364 posts)Always awesome, never pretentious. They always seem to cost way less than the bands du jour my friends see. I hope he squeezes one more tour out.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)The next one was Van Halen 1984 when I was 14. My friend and I both thought Sammy Hagar was better.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Monsters of Rock 1988.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)It was after I had seen Def Lepperd, AC\DC, Boston, Bon Jovi, and a few others. Needless to say, I thought it sucked. lol
I think I had just lost my taste for Van Halen. There was a lot of talent forced into foolish showmanship.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)but it was the only time I got to see Eddie rip. So i'm glad I went.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)But my memory of that concert is mostly why I think he is a complete idiot now.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Texasgal
(17,029 posts)LOL!
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)The t-shirts had pictures of road signs that glowed in the dark. lol
CANDO
(2,068 posts)Best concert I've seen? ....... ZZ Top at the same venue.
Others in my earlier days... Kansas/38 Special, Van Haggar, Bon Jovi/Cinderella, Whitesnake, Aerosmith/Black Crows, Metallica, AC/DC.
OutNow
(862 posts)I was listening to great music on WMMR 93.3FM in Philadelphia in 1967 and began going to concerts and spending all my money from my part time job on weed and albums and concerts starting in 1968. Blue Cheer came to my hometown and played in a small indoor venue at the Fairgrounds in Allentown. They played Summertime Blues for about 30 minutes at VERY HIGH VOLUME and I thought I was in heaven. in the next year I saw Iron Butterfly, Small Faces, 3 Dog Night, the WHO, Deep Purple, The FUGS, David Peel and the Lower East Siders, and got expelled from school for my long hair. And never looked back.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)with Rod Stewart (which would be very cool).The Small Faces were never allowed to tour in the U.S. because of a drug bust.
OutNow
(862 posts)CANDO
(2,068 posts)eom
OutNow
(862 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Widespread Panic was my favorite. Saw them in Austin 1990-something.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Although I habe to be in a mood for it.
flying rabbit
(4,612 posts)It was damn good. I was like 15?. Best concert ever: Roger Waters doing The Wall.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I remember my 7th grade art teacher playing the Stroke over and over. She would be fired and make Yahoo top stories for that today. The school where I teach doesn't even have art classes these days.
flying rabbit
(4,612 posts)although Queen blew him away. Damn shame about the art classes. It seems to color the world just a little more banker grey.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)My older brother had "Don't say no" on cassette,and I listened to it so many times on my Walkman I wore it out (remember those days...)
I'd see Roger now, but oh to have seen Floyd in the Dark Side era.
orleans
(33,987 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)So young I have no idea when it was, my parents brought us.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)thanks for posting and recing. I'm in a definite find what you have in common mood tonight.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)brown before the break, and then did it again during the second half, it was obvious to me that this woman was something very special. (Hey, maybe that's why I like good bourbon to this day!?)
My only other extra-special concert experience was seeing one of Lynyrd Skynyrd's very last shows at Colorado Sunday #?.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)It also made the hard right turn to stupid extra hard to see, however.
Bennyboy
(10,440 posts)1965. ten years old. Went with Donna Butterfield and my parents drove us. We got all dressed up and everything. Rents dropped us off and we had a great time. HH were okay with my parents, they weren't like the "hippies" the Beatles or evil incarnate, The Rollling Stones, but They were the clean bunch.
of course they had never heard of the Who (neither had I) and I really hated them. To aggressive, too loud, to everything the opposite of Herman's Hermits.
I got over it not long after that. Saw many many many Who shows over the years including the show where Keith moon passed out and they asked for a volunteeer to finish the rest of the set. Saw them at Winterland in 75 and they were IT. the most powerful band i ever saw. There is a huge photo on the wall at the Flimmore with The last note that looks out in the crowd. One great photo. I look for myself but I can't pick myself out.
Saw Moonies last show too at the Oakland Col with the grateful dead as the opener both days. Not sure if KM played again with them again., but I know it was his last US performance.
Seen em many times after that too. in 2003 I got a poster at one show (that I was not pleased with) that was signed by John Entwhistle featuring his art. But they sold it and I didn't have a tube (and they didn't supply me with one either and that is LAME) so the corner got nicked. So I bought the frame but didn't put it together due tot he corner. For a long time. Then one day I decided to frame it anyway (it looks great) and my wife came home and she said "Did you hear that John Entwhistle died"... My mind was blown. How did i pick that ever day to frame that after a few years?
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)And I saw Herman's Hermit in Ptown in 1976 .
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)Before that I had only been to soul and jazz performances.
aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)A modern day warrior
Mean, mean stride
Today's Tom Sawyer
Mean, mean pride
PDJane
(10,103 posts)But I do remember seeing Paul Anka....and hating his music. I was barely a teen at the point, and thought it was stupid. I didn't like Elvis either, by the way, and that I had to listen to all the time. I remember seeing the Four Lads, too, when I was about twelve. I saw Bruce Cockburn too.
My hearing has been really bad since an accident in '71, and I haven't been attending music concerts much since then; in order to hear properly, I have to block the high frequencies in my left ear! You get some really odd looks when you sit there nodding your head to the music with a finger in your ear.
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)Stones, a very long time ago, at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. The warm up group was a band nobody had ever heard of called the Jefferson Airplane
Edited to add; I played in a garage band with one of the now members in Journey. Lets see, I think I was in like eighth grade. It was a LOONG time ago. Does that count? Edited to add, nah, couldn't have been the eighth grade anyway, it was about 1963 caus I remember I wanted an amp for my 13th B-day and didn't get it.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)We got into his printshop one day when he was away and printed us up some buiseness cards. Go figure.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)only because of posters who saw the beatles and Hendrix. not that you should give a shit about my opinion. sounds like you have lived some cool living.
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)Saw Hendrix several times. Hell, I saw everybody. Tickets were three bucks. Went to Altimont, my first wife went to woodstock. If I never see another rock concert again, it will be too soon.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I have a friend who lived in the Haight in those days. I can listen to him for hours.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)I was a little kid who made her older teenage sisters take her to see them for her birthday in October 1966.
The Yardbirds' final days: the Page era
Beck was fired from the group for being a consistent no-showas well as for difficulties caused by his perfectionism and explosive temper,[11] after a tour stop in Texas in late October 1966; as such, the Yardbirds continued as a quartet for the remainder of their career. Page became the new lead guitarist and introduced his technique of playing with a cello bow (suggested to him by session musician David McCallum, Sr.[12]) and the use of a wah-wah pedal.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)Loved them then, love them now.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)Poor things were crammed on a bus together, all the bands. A Greyhound. Gary Lewis & The Playboys were on that tour. My sisters loved him.
But the Yardbirds were always my band.
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)DevonRex
(22,541 posts)&feature=youtube_gdata_player
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)DevonRex
(22,541 posts)markiv
(1,489 posts)yardbirds are in it, released Dec 1966, most libraries have it
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)Yardbirds (w/Jimmy Page). Gawd, I actually used to know all their names.
markiv
(1,489 posts)set in swingling 1966 london, a photographer thinks he caught a murder on film
it's an art firm, a philisophical movie, about whether things exist or have meaning, without acknowledgement from others
some think it's a very loose alegory of the jfk assasination and it's cover up, 3 years earlier, although never specifically claimed so by it's itlalian producer
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Anaheim Stadium, general seating. $5.00 for parking, only brought $10.00 with. Had 2 cousins from back east who didn't chip in. Then waited for the gates to open in the morning. Wandering off looking for a store to buy a soft drink. NONE. Amazingly enough finding my cousins and one was in the drink line. I gave her my other $5.00 and she comes back with 2 drinks and tells me she'll pay me later.
Sitting in the nose bleed seats we are entertained by some circus performers, getting hungry and sun burnt. Come 7 pm, opening song Miss You, as we are leaving. I often regret leaving so early, but all 3 of us weren't burnt out, and I was a little pissed. My next concert made up for it. Van Halen at the Forum 1980. Good times.
I was just 16, and had gotten my license in June and I drove to Anaheim
brewens
(13,400 posts)I think.
ruffburr
(1,190 posts)Been so long I can't remember exact year around 66-68 Bands were Clover and Blue Oyster cult, I'm almost 60 now so around 12-13 (P.S. In those days it was a private Beach)
Hun Joro
(666 posts)I might have been 15, it was a looooooong time ago.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)we have cranked out some talent to be backwoods
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Rare Earth warmed up .
lady lib
(2,933 posts)There were several of them within a one-year time frame, but I think Aerosmith was the first. I also saw KISS, Led Zeppelin and Queen at the Garden. Ticket prices were reasonable back then.
burnodo
(2,017 posts)14 yrs
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I wonder what happened to those guys (REO). they had huge hits when I was in Jr. High. Then nothing.
burnodo
(2,017 posts)They formed the year I was born! I did not know that
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)charmay
(525 posts)Not much of a rock concert, but for a young farm girl, it was the most exciting thing that I'd ever seen.
Ohio Joe
(21,656 posts)I had just turned 14... It was cool for 14
moondust
(19,917 posts)With Clarence White on guitar.
Been to a lot of them including Lez Zeppelin in San Francisco, Neil Young in Berkeley, The Eagles at Ontario Motor Speedway, Paul McCartney in Berlin, The Who in London Wembley, James Taylor & The Dixie Chicks (front row seat in concert hall), more. I frankly can't remember them all.
I was a musician myself several lives ago.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)outside of Cleveland around 1987, making me 19. Or 1988/20
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)and several others.
I was 13-1/2.
Tikki
(14,539 posts)I know he played piano...I would give anything to know if it was Gene playing piano on this 1968 release:
...the show you went to sounded excellent.
Tikki
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)I was there for Chad & Jeremy and the McCoys. <g>
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)in Kansas City in 1975 .The Made in the Shade tour. I was 14. My 2nd concert was Iggy Pop and the Dead Boys at the Uptown Theatre in KC when I was 16.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Not rock and I was only a small child - remember lauging at them because they were silly. Also saw gerry and the Pacemakers.
later on in my teens I saw Status Quo and Queen - can't remember which was first (70s)
shanti
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hollywood bowl, 1973, and i was 17.
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)Stood 3 rows, if you could call it that from the stage. When the guy behind my handed a peace pipe up to the band, I freaked out.
I knew what was in that thing.
jasond54231
(51 posts)In Los Angeles. One of the best times of my life.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I love RH. Someone once said the 90s began with Seattle grunge and ended with Radiohead. That sounds about right.
yourout
(7,521 posts)Pyrzqxgl
(1,356 posts)It was 1953. I saw Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps at the Town Hall Party in about 1955 or so.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Tikki
(14,539 posts)and I am jealous...even though I saw him in the 70's.
Tikki
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)backwoodsbob
(6,001 posts)was 13 years old
He had to have the piano retuned between sets.
Had BLAST
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)my mom took me to his club in Pasadena (TX) when I was about 11 or 12 - peak of the Urban Cowboy thing.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Went to Gilley's a few times, although I wasn't really a "country" kind of girl.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)But I think it was the Righteous Brothers when I was 19 or so. No, wait, I saw James Brown when I was 14 or 15. That would have been 1966 and 1962 respectively.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Righteous Brothers was in 1964 in the Music Hall.
I was nine. The grand-units were completely shell shocked and deaf. Clean cut white boys singing that "Nigra music"!!!! They must have thought they were gospel singers. I can't think of any other reason we were able to talk them into buying tickets....
Saw Paul Revere and the Raiders not too many years after that, also at the Music Hall. Sat on the 4th row, but did not know they had a song about the "little girl on the fourth row".
Other bands, lots of big names that came thru Houston.
I think I saw the Beach Boys around 65-68?
I know I saw the Young Rascals. Don't remember if they were the headliner or the opening act.
I would not have been caught dead anywhere near Gilley's. My dad told me what assholes Sherwood Cryer and Mickey Gilley were, from being a refinery worker.
pizzadave
(46 posts)1982, Cobo Arena we went to see Sammy Hagar wsg Molly Hatchet at Cobo Arena. I was a junior in highschool and the tickets were $12.50. No parents and...wait for it...beer.
I saw Kiss last year as a 46 year old and it was too loud!!
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)and yeah, I had no idea what I was starting with this thread. DUrs who saw the Beatles, Hendrix, etc.
janlyn
(735 posts)At Mesa, Az. Amphitheater. It was 1980 and my brother took me for my 15th birthday. After that no other concerts could measure up!!
sweetloukillbot
(10,814 posts)I've heard some glorious stories about those 80s shows in the Valley. I'm still pissed at Ed Mann for blowing up the 88 tour before it came west.
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)Phoenix, AZ, America West Arena
23 years old
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)Peaceplace80
(38 posts)I was 12 years old. Haven't thought about that in awhile now I am gonna have to listen to Everybody's working for the weekend lol.
brewens
(13,400 posts)going! Boy, was that ever a great move! Loverboy show in Spokane, WA. I don't remember what album they were promoting but "Hot Girls In Love" was the big hit at the time!
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)I saw Jesus Christ Superstar a few weeks before
Codeine
(25,586 posts)My friend's mom took us because we wanted to see Oingo Boingo and she wanted to see Men at Work. It was "New Wave Day", so we saw INXS before they were anyone over here, The English Beat, a crappy performance by Stray Cats, and we would have seen The Clash (of whom I knew less than nothing at that age, admittedly) but Eric's mom wanted to leave before they came on to avoid traffic.
I mostly remember heat, dust, and an absolute fuckton of people. And Men at Work sucked.
I haven't been to a concert since Morrissey played in San Diego two or three years ago.
mick063
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I have seen many, many bands, but this was my first.
Best performer/musician I have ever seen? Chuck Berry. Hands down the best. Crystal clear note precision. No distortion. He even accepted a "supercharge" (reverse bong hit) from a fan crowding the stage, prior to his first song. Way cool in the mid-late 70's.
If you missed Woodstock, the next best thing was the Grateful Dead. Time travel to the summer of love.
Second favorite concert of all time?
Ringo's All Star Band (with Dave Edmunds, Joe Walsh, Todd Rundgren, Burton Cummings, and Ringo Starr)
Third Favorite concert of all time?
Rare Earth (You can't help but move to their awesome percussion section)
Bands seen that come to memory (to many to remember them all):
Steve Miller
Van Halen
Neil Young
Judas Priest
Kiss
UFO
Bob Dylan
Bill Withers
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Marshall Tucker Band
Traffic
The Doobie Brothers
Journey
Pat Benatar
Joe Satriani
Johnny Winter, Rick Derringer, and Edgar Winter (together)
Blue Oyster Cult
The Guess Who
Kiss (1975 Spokane Washington, still have the ticket stub, admission $6.00)
The Beat Farmers (memorable group that no one has heard of)
Blonde Bruce (Yep, you never heard of this great band either)
The Cars (Not good live. Difficult to reproduce their music without studio engineering)
Nick Gilder
ZZ Top
Blue Man Group
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)also, I wish you posted more. I have enjoyed you for years.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)And thanks for your kind comment!
brewens
(13,400 posts)That was a hard core touring act in the early to md 70's. They put on quite a show.
There was a two year stretch there where they were number seven in the world in record sales. Hard to believe considering what they were up against around '73 and '74. They did it on the road. They played everwhere.
Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)I loved that stuff back then
brewens
(13,400 posts)mick063
(2,424 posts)Jim Dandy broke apart his wash board and I caught a piece. Some gal scratched the hell out of me trying to take it.
"Hall of Karma" is my favorite Black Oak tune.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)still crank up the radio when it is on.
brewens
(13,400 posts)that song and played that vicious harmonica on it and he was in his 70's when he did it! I shit you not! Rickey had been in and out of Skynard and is with them to this day.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)sweetloukillbot
(10,814 posts)They played Supper's Ready in its entirety and I was too young to appreciate it. Next show was The Who's first farewell tour with The Clash opening. Again, too young to appreciate the glory I was seeing.
Iggo
(47,489 posts)...but it was actually Styx Paradise Theater tour.
sweetloukillbot
(10,814 posts)I'm personally not counting the Captain and Tennille show my parents took me to when I was 6.
brewens
(13,400 posts)First they cancelled the "Pieces of (shit) Eight" tour show where Thin Lizzy was supposed to be the warmup act. My only chance to have seen Thin Lizzy. They rescheduled it in the spring. Tacked it on to the end of the tour. They played for about 45 minutes and bailed. No encore or anything. Styx never got a dime of my money after that.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)brewens
(13,400 posts)I've never gone back and listened to all of it.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)some of my favorites.
but i like the fact that fm has different eras, & each era has its own sound.
NOLALady
(4,003 posts)1970, July 4th weekend.
Jimi Hendrix played the Star Spangled Banner at midnight.
OutNow
(862 posts)I was sleeping when the fire works started and I looked up at the sky and heard Jimi start the Star Spangled Banner. That was un-fucking-believable. I actually bought tickets for that concert and, since it became a free festival on the first night, I kept them. Wonder what they're worth now?
I was sleeping also!
I awoke in a daze saying something like "Dang! That sounds like Jimi Hendrix!" My roomate countered with"That IS Jimi Hendrix, Wake the Hell up!"
Only half of us had tickets. But we got there late that Friday night and everyone was just walking in.
I brought bars of Ivory soap. It was a big hit at the pond, floating on the top and all and everyone diving for it.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)plus Ravi Shankar!
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)all other bullshit aside
you fucking rock
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Funny comment from that video considering our other conversation about TV.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Skink
(10,122 posts)I was old, 25 but had gone to many Jazz oncerts before that.
DBoon
(22,288 posts)18 yrs old
Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles
flvegan
(64,389 posts)Unfortunately, Ted Nugent opened. Though it was cool to hear "Stranglehold" live (I was a big Von Erich fan as a kid) he otherwise sucked. KISS had their showmanship going full throttle though.
taught_me_patience
(5,477 posts)I was completely and totally blown away at how loud it was.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I graduated HS in 86.
cspanlovr
(1,470 posts)Eardrum shattering noise. Our ears rang the whole next day.
neverforget
(9,434 posts)d_r
(6,907 posts)was the police w/ Joan jett oppening in 1982, I was 14.
The first show I *remember* (with parents there) was a country singer named Jackie Ward at the Jessamine County fair in Nicholasville KY. around 1978. There was this young newcomer girl opening for him - her name was Reba McEntire.
demwing
(16,916 posts)went with my mom and sister, I was 14.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)Sometime in the summer I don't remember the exact date.. I was 13. And they sucked.
brewens
(13,400 posts)it's well known that they had serious problems. Too many people will tell you a show was awesome just because they were there. Either they don't know the difference or just won't admit they got screwed!
You'd think that about that time Aerosmith and Golden Earring would be a dream show! How was Golden Earring, or did you mean they also sucked? Both bands together, were certainly capable of putting on a show that could have been your best ever, if they felt like it.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)except for Radar Love. At 13 years old I was just happy to be there. I saw Aerosmith 3 times and they sucked every time. After vowing never to see them again I won a pair of tix on a radio show so I went and they were actually sober and they played a good show.
Purplehazed
(179 posts)17 with my aunt and boyfriend. They asked be if I could buy them some home grown at my highschool
Capt.Rocky300
(1,005 posts)performed at my high school a week before their album "The Doors" was released. I never understood why they did that. They had to know they were on their way. Why do a high school gig? I did take a wiz next to Jim Morrison in the gym's "Boys Room". Man, was he stoned.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Did you get to talk to him or was he um in a hurry ?
Capt.Rocky300
(1,005 posts)as an innocent 17 year old, I was just too stunned to react to the first person I'd ever seen stoned.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Capt.Rocky300
(1,005 posts)crappin' their pants and obviously didn't understand what they had signed up for by hiring the Doors. Of course, none of us kids knew who the hell they were either when they walked onto the stage. But I can tell you, when their album came out a week later, we all headed to the record store to get our copies. After that, my girlfriend would melt whenever "Light My Fire' came on the radio. Thanks Jim. Just because of that I put some flowers on his grave during a layover in Paris many years later.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)You are so lucky to have seen them.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Yep. I'm a dork. I was 15.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Sometime in the 70's. Can't remember the year. Had too much to drink at the Kid Rock/ZZTop concert I just got home from.
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)Spirochete
(5,264 posts)at Memorial Coliseum in Portland. I was 17 at the time.
dflprincess
(28,057 posts)I was 12. My aunt dropped my 13 year old cousin & off and picked us up after the concert. I can't imagine letting kids that age go to a concert alone now.
We had the most expensive seats - $5.50 (yes five dollars and 50 cents) a ticket. I think I read once that the Fab Four were paid something like $50,000 for the gig.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)but I had to go to Scout camp.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)Later that night I got to meet him in person as he played the local bar for fun.
ornotna
(10,763 posts)At the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
Some good memories from the shows that I've seen at SPAC.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)I guess my first "real" concert, if not rock per se, would've been the Roots in summer 2003. I was 18.
William769
(55,124 posts)Still like a Rock.
ETA: I was 15 at the time.
Little_Wing
(417 posts)I was 15 and ecstatic to be seeing them live!
Also saw them in '65 in Toronto (they didn't come to Detroit that tour), then in Detroit again in '66.
What fab memories, they were amazing in person, and I only wish the screaming hadn't been such a "thing," as I know it drove them away from touring.
Chipper Chat
(9,637 posts)Fort Wayne Indiana
Tikki
(14,539 posts)Tikki
stopwastingmymoney
(2,028 posts)I was 16, this thread is great. I always said that I wish I was older because I missed so many great shows in the 70's. My hubby saw the last Zeppelin show, I'm especially jealous of anyone who saw Queen!
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)stopwastingmymoney
(2,028 posts)Waters wasn't along on that tour.
I didn't know enough at the time to realize, since then I've seen Floyd with Waters and no Gilmour on DVD. I miss Gilmour's guitar, he's key to the sound for me.
The new stuff from that album was really good too, the show is available on DVD, it's called 'Delicate Sound of Thunder'. I recommend it
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)i was about 14. had lots of artists. it was around 1955.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)i tend to remember "the Platters", the Everly brothers. there were so many performers. there's no way i can remember them all. it was about 58 years ago.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)Just Saying
(1,799 posts)The band in early 90s I was 23.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Actually not my first, as I'd already seen groups like the Association and We Five at the Ice House in Glendale.
But hey--the Beatles ticket was only $4.50.
Warpy
(110,913 posts)I've completely spaced who it was, but we got in free.
A year later, I was lighting them. The journey from point A to point B was utterly bizarre.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Stardust
(3,894 posts)My boyfriend, who did not exactly go in a Stones fan, left that concert totally enthralled with Mick Jagger. It was so cute! Afterwards, he kept singing, "I want you! You! You!" and pointing his finger with his arm outstretched, ala Mick.
NBachers
(17,007 posts)We stayed at the YMCA downtown, and flew back across Lake Ontario to Rochester, NY in a Mohawk Airlines DC-3! My buddy Otis and I were 17. I spent $21.00 on three radical Mod shirts to show off back home. My dad yelled at me for spending so much money on clothes.
The Outsiders came to our local dance 'n' music venue, if that counts. I was sixteen.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)NBachers
(17,007 posts)Kind of an ironic exercise in futility. We knew damn well we couldn't keep a whole stadium full of girls from screaming at The Beatles.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Girls and Beatles = Squeeeeee! (wish I WAS that person)
I will tell you that I saw Ringo Starr play in San Antonio with his band in 1995 or 96, I believe. I was no less giddy.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Icelandia, Dayton OH, probably mid-sixties.
And then... The Faces, Deep Purple, and Matthew's Southern Comfort at Hara Arena.
BTW, I accidentally booked this:
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bruce-springsteen/1976/ohio-university-memorial-auditorium-athens-oh-63d016db.html
Last-minute venue change, I happened to be in the CPB office when his agent called looking for a mid-size hall. Rushed the contract, printed up flyers, posted 'em all over town. Nobody believed it and when the show started the auditorium was nearly empty. Word traveled fast that, in fact, Springsteen was tearing it up on April Fool's Day and the subsequent rush caused considerable damage, including the entry doors knocked clean off their hinges. The best goddamned concert ever.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)skinny young kid named ....
Little Stevie Wonder
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=1320724&mesg_id=1320724
http://www.history-of-rock.com/stevie_wonder.htm
. I saw "Little Stevie Wonder" perform onstage for the first time..
( at least in a concert-type performance)..I had never heard of him before and he was about 13 ,I think...He sang Fingertips.. It was July 1963
I was at a club in Miami(Copa City) for teens..The headliners were Little Anthony and the Imperials.. During a break, they brought Little Stevie out to perform...
What a hoot and a half...
..........................................................................................................................
Copa City had been a very famous nightclub and the first to integrate
By the time the 50's ended, the "clubs" started to close.. The Copa was turned into a teen venue.. All the greats played there and recorded there..
We also would all go down to SouthBeach when it was mostly boarded up hotels and restaurants.. Waaaay before it was cool again
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http://www.gdnrecords.com/englishcds/believeenglish.html
This below is from a Josephone Baker site:
GDN Records proudly presents Josephine Baker in what was to be her last recording. This American born songstress, actress and dancer unable to tolerate the segregational policies of her homeland, left for France at age 19 and spent the rest of her life using her fame combined with the invulnerability that came from being based outside America, to protest injustice wherever she saw it.
Upon her arrival in France, some 76 years ago, she took the country by storm. Her sensuous dances in her performances in "La Revue Negre" at the Champs-Elysé Theater, was something the French had never before seen. The influence of American music and dance, swept her audiences with her precision, risqué stage dress, her abandon, wildness and control, she held nothing back, she danced and sang as though possessed, yet her movements and were exact in their form and rhythm.
During the Second World War, instead of leaving France and enjoying life without risk, she worked for the Free French Government and was awarded the Medal of the Resistance for her work against Fascism. This soon led her to a commitment to the civil rights movement in the United States.
It started when Miami's segregated nightclub, the famed Copa City, began trying to get her to perform. She turned down ten thousand dollars a week because management refused to guarantee an integrated audience. But Josephine had her way, management gave in and she opened at Copa City in January 1951 before its first integrated audience. It became her standard practice, to insist on a nondiscrimination clause in her contract, guaranteeing that Black patrons would be admitted.
No entertainer before her had played to a non-segregated audience in Miami The breaking down of color lines in nightclubs, restaurants, and hotels became Josephine's special focus.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,816 posts)Salt Lake City and I was probably 19.
DiverDave
(4,877 posts)Salem Armory (Salem Or.)
Doobies had one album out, Steely Dan had none.
I was 14 I guess, 1971?
First time seeing everyone smoking pot out in the open.
ArnoldLayne
(2,060 posts)corkhead
(6,119 posts)they had a rotating stage, and Rick Wakeman had a lot of empty Heineken bottles at his feet.
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mattclearing
(10,091 posts)I was twelve. It was the first of several shows I saw at the Capital Centre, which got demolished a few years back.
xoom
(322 posts)we can do it
(12,118 posts)I was 17
G_j
(40,366 posts)'67 Commac Arena, LI, NY
onyourleft
(726 posts)...and Mary. Does that count? I was 19.
dem in texas
(2,672 posts)I am so old, that when I went to concerts, they did not call them Rock Concerts, but shows. I was a avid R & B fan. and went to almost every show held in Dallas. They were always held at the old Sportatorium which torn down in the 1980's. I saw Fats Domino, Etta James and the Peaches, Chuck Berry, the Clovers, Little Richard and almost every R & B star of that era.
Loge23
(3,922 posts)Johnny Cash with June Carter and the Carter Family (including Maybelle). Also on the bill were the Statler Brothers (Flowers on the Wall), and the now-legendary great Carl Perkins. A great, great show.
The place? Carnegie Hall in NYC - I think it was 1966, which meant I was 12. My older sister, who at that time worked on Madison Ave in a kinda "Mad Men" small adv. firm, got the tkts. We camped at the backstage door after the show and saw them all come out.
Carl Perkins came out carrying his guitar in case - no limo, no cab. Set down his guitar and talked with us and signed the album my sister took with her. Then he picked up and walked away down the street!
It wasn't until '68 that I saw another - this time at the old NY World's Fair site in the NY State pavilion. It was a awesome blues show with Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, I think Buddy Guy. But the headliners were a new "blues band" from England called Led Zeppelin. We stood right by the stage - there wasn't many left at that point, with the majority of the audience showing up to see the real legends.
Many, many since - one of the most memorable was Jimi Hendrix at the Fillmore, New Years Eve '69 - the Band of Gypsies show.
WyLoochka
(1,629 posts)in Tempe AZ at The Fifth Estate. I was 17
steve2470
(37,457 posts)We need more of these kind of threads in GD to make us smile and laugh and bring we Democrats/progressives together. God knows we have plenty to fight over and divide us lol
Initech
(99,915 posts)wickerwoman
(5,662 posts)I was 15 but in my defense the tickets were free and my second concert was Rage Against the Machine.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)The first time Ice Ice Baby came on the radio I cranked it up thinking it was going to be Bowie/Queen Under Pressure. Well imagine my disapointment. I saw Rage Against the Machine in 96 or 97. Great show.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Next in 88 or 89 I saw Siouxsie and the Banshees in L.A. (I can't remember which venue -- maybe the universal amphitheater?), The Cure at Dodgers Stadium for the Disintegration tour, Depeche Mode (during Violator) at Dodgers Stadium, and the first Lollapalooza tour with Siouxsie and the boys on the bill) -- then Duran Duran for The Ordinary World tour in the early 90s in the Bay Area (a smallish venue...it was awesome to be so very close to John Taylor and Simon Le Bon). There were many others but I remember all of these -- I seemed to go to a lot of concerts in those days.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)LA Sports Arena. A couple of years later I saw them again at the Anaheim Convention Center on a double bill with The Who. Odd pairing.
Boudica the Lyoness
(2,899 posts)Procol Harum and Jethro Tull.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Yes, my sister drove and cringed as my girlfriend and I screamed. I wore my mini skirt over matching shorts, age 14...
pitbullgirl1965
(564 posts)David__77
(23,220 posts)The night didn't end so well.
Hobo
(757 posts)I was 16 years old. yes, Peter Frampton, Gary Wright and the Pouchette-Dart Band. JFK stadium in Philadelphia Pa, which no longer exists.
Hobo
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,764 posts)My parents didn't allow me to go to rock concerts until I was 18 years old, but as soon as I turned 18, I went to this show. Aerosmith at Cooper Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. They had Joan Jett opening up for them, but we missed her entire performance drinking in the parking lot.
Interestingly enough, after having not seen a rock concert for 18 years, I went to a second show just one week later. Rush in Cleveland.
Go Vols
(5,902 posts)Edit: I did go to the Volunteer Jam with parents I didnt see until the show was over in '75.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Jam
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)in the early days as well. She was mesmerized by Baez's beautiful soprano, and Baez's ability to hold the audience's attention with her voice and a guitar. I grew up loving The Beach Boys -- sharing a love of the Beach Boys and SoCal beach life with my Dad.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)Moral Compass
(1,498 posts)Led Zeppelin Hampton Roads Coliseum, VA 1971. The first of so many I lost count--but always the best.
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
(2,022 posts)Moderators, a little help, please.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Obviously a lot of DUers are enjoying this thread and it's a nice break from the usual acrimony.That's a good thing.
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
(2,022 posts)Less clicking makes for a better user experience.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/124311642
I'm very confident if we start posting too many lolcats, the hosts and/or Skinner will crack down.
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
(2,022 posts)That's why I come here, instead.
Yesterday, there was a 'popular' thread in GD that kept poping up, getting in the way of our political discussions.
If this becomes a habit, it won't serve DU or it's users well.
no one is saying to delete it, just put it in the appropriate place.
Thank you for your consideration.
Iggo
(47,489 posts)Okay, thanks.
SugarShack
(1,635 posts)In the 70's
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Did I miss Elvis in this thread some place ?
Beaverhausen
(24,467 posts)I saw The Carpenters and Bette Midler earlier but this was my real first rock show.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)Pattie LaBelle was the warmup.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)What a fantastic concert. I will never forget it.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)1976 in Seattle, I was twenty and won the tickets on the radio. They were scalping for fifty bucks apiece, and that was a goodly sum of money to me in those days. Having a pair of them for myself and my girlfriend was one of the good things that happened to me in that year.