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Date yourself: Your first concert?

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Posted on June 27, 2021 at 19:32:35
B. Scarpia
 I hesitate to call it a concert but after much thought, it had to be when some former friends dragged me to a small Cleveland venue, La Cave, for The Fugs, Summer, 1965.


First concert I didn't run screaming and puking from, same venue, Blood, Sweat and Tears (the real one with Kooper), two years later.

 

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Boston, Vancouver , posted on June 27, 2021 at 19:44:18
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 Maybe... 1980?

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 27, 2021 at 20:34:23
HoosierAudio
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 The Animals Westbury Music Fair Long Island NY 1966??

HA

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 27, 2021 at 20:40:38
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 How about the Beatles in INDY, and a couple other places. Of course you could add Bob Seger and REO in that same time period. Yet the real early one was sneeking in the back door of the old White Front to see Wes Montgomery and Mel Ryne flat set the place on fire (around 1959 or 1960 I guess). Think about that one! The best picker on the planet with the best B3 player ever and on the same stage.
gary
Gary

 

Chicago at Winnipeg Arena '72 (nt), posted on June 27, 2021 at 21:35:05
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 nt


"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."




 

July 15, 2001..., posted on June 27, 2021 at 22:47:00
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 Jersey Stadium:

Lactose Intolerant headlined.

Pukemeister and Udder Embarrassment opened.

I left curdled.


"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

Del Shannon 1963, posted on June 28, 2021 at 00:13:20
PAR
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 One of those package tours so prevalent in the 1960s. Venue was The Odeon Lewisham (London UK). Or it could have been The Undertakers playing the ballroom above Burtons the Tailors(!), Lewisham, also 1963.

"We need less, but better" - Dieter Rams

 

Procol Harum - Colgate Univ. 1974 ~nt~ , posted on June 28, 2021 at 05:15:52
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Your interest may vary but the results will be same. (Byrd 2020)

I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)

Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)

Why don't catfish have kittens? (Moe Howard 1937)

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 28, 2021 at 05:18:24
marlin
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 James Gang, Salem Armory 1970.


Without music what is there?

 

Sabicas, Town Hall, NYC, 1963 n/t, posted on June 28, 2021 at 05:36:33
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 nt

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 28, 2021 at 05:38:07
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 Black Sabbath 1977... I was 16.

My friend barfed in the car on the way to the concert. We were a mess but stayed out of jail... somehow.

 

Jethro Tull, Buffalo NY, 1970 , posted on June 28, 2021 at 05:47:31
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 Below is an Asylum link to a post of mine where I included ticket stubs to at least some of the concerts I attended.

 

Stan Kenton Orch., Edgewater Beach (Celina Ohio) 1946, posted on June 28, 2021 at 05:48:07
Dave Pogue
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 Beat that!

 

Kansas, Chicago Amphitheater around 1980, posted on June 28, 2021 at 05:52:26
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 The opener was John Cougar and the Zones playing I Need a Lover that Won't Drive me Crazy. Kansas rocked and I was hooked on progressive rock music.
Gsquared

 

A Day of Rock and Roll, posted on June 28, 2021 at 06:01:52
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 Superdome in 1979. Boston, Van Halen, Heart, Nazareth, Blue Oyster Cult, and Sammy Hagar. Not too shabby for a first concert :)

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 28, 2021 at 06:19:44
dee eye why
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 As much as I hate to admit it, my first concert was the Carpenters. It was "in the round" with a rotating stage in the middle of the arena. I was in the fourth or fifth grade. I saw a production of Jesus Christ Superstar around the same time. The next concert was Grand Funk.


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Freak out...Far out...In out....

 

Creedence Clearwater - 1970 Los Angeles Forum (nt), posted on June 28, 2021 at 06:23:09
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RE: In your mother's loving arms doesn't count (nt), posted on June 28, 2021 at 06:26:08
B. Scarpia

 

RE: Creedence Clearwater - 1970 Los Angeles Forum (nt), posted on June 28, 2021 at 06:37:14
mg16
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 1974, Led Zeppelin.
Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Fantastic.

 

RE: In your mother's loving arms doesn't count (nt), posted on June 28, 2021 at 07:31:12
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 Mother's loving arms wouldn't have been able to cope with 17-year-old me.

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 28, 2021 at 07:40:40
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 Madison Square Garden 1969: The Doors

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 28, 2021 at 08:00:35
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 Bo Diddley, 1959?, Lubbock Texas fairground auditorium

 

George Benson sometime in the 70's, posted on June 28, 2021 at 08:01:59
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 Close enough.

 

Anyone prior to this?, posted on June 28, 2021 at 08:06:28
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 In 1950 or '51 (I was very young) my parents took me to see Louie Armstrong and the All Stars at the major theater in town. No idea why they decided to include me at that age but I've been forever grateful.

I can still remember the excitement of those huge burgundy stage drapes opening and the band and music doming forth.

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing, if you can fake that you've got it made." Groucho

 

RE: Great-Grandpa Pogue was born the year Bonnie met Clyde , posted on June 28, 2021 at 08:11:50
B. Scarpia
 You're not even in the same Area Code.

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 28, 2021 at 08:41:24
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 Beach Boys, 1963 at Lagoon, Salt Lake City UT

 

Beatles at Shea, posted on June 28, 2021 at 08:42:34
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 Don't remember the details but my brother still has the stubs somewhere. You could barely hear them play over all the screaming.

 

Here's a harder question: What was your SECOND concert?, posted on June 28, 2021 at 08:44:51
zacster
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 Or second girl/boy friend, second time on an airplane???

 

Jefferson Airplane, Dallas TX 1969 or 70, posted on June 28, 2021 at 09:42:13
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 The Volunteers tour. I was 16; JA was my favorite band. They played well, and had an awesome projection light show.

 

Steppenwolf or Procol Harum in 1971, posted on June 28, 2021 at 09:48:57
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 Both at the Wildwood (N.J.) Convention Hall on the Boardwalk. The latter with Robin Trower, too.

Edit: Now that I think about, Trower had already departed the band by this show and Dave Ball had replaced him.

 

Eric Burdon / animals , posted on June 28, 2021 at 11:02:50
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 n/t

 

Outlaws opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd, posted on June 28, 2021 at 11:59:25
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 And the Outlaws blew everyone else off the stage, including Steve Marriott and his All Stars as the second act.

 

RE: Eric Burdon / animals , posted on June 28, 2021 at 12:02:17
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 Shower of Stars, Birmingham, Alabama, November 29, 1969: Canned Heat, Bobby Sherman, Grass Roots, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, Evie Sands, Billy Joe Royal and The Buckinghams.
I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having it's motives questioned.

 

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, and I did have to date myself., posted on June 28, 2021 at 12:04:45
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 Broke up with my girlfriend about a week before the show. Sold her ticket to a scalper.
Anyway they were touring in support of Night Moves whenever that was, '76, '77, something like that.



The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.

 

The nuns told me I'd go blind if I kept dating myslef., posted on June 28, 2021 at 12:33:28
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 Just a heads-up.

KP

 

RE: 27 replies before the obvious double entendre reared (ahem) etc. and so forth, posted on June 28, 2021 at 12:37:10
B. Scarpia
 Ghost wins!

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 28, 2021 at 12:39:40
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 Led Zeppelin, 1969, Macon, Ga. I was at Ga. Tech and a friend of mine was going to Mercer so we decided to take the plunge and see what all the fuss was about. Didn't take long to find out. It cost us two bucks each.

 

Saw Led Zeppelin in 1973..., posted on June 28, 2021 at 14:32:19
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 Hairy palms, dammit.

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

I'm looking forward to continually taking my hat off to you..., posted on June 28, 2021 at 14:36:24
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 and it ISN'T an "age" thing!


"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 28, 2021 at 19:17:28
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 Beatles Carnegie Hall-seventh row-cpl seats away from some Rockefellers'

 

Hendrix, Independence Hall, Baton Rouge, July '68. Soft Machine (bleh) opened^, posted on June 28, 2021 at 19:42:24
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"E Burres Stigano?"


 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 28, 2021 at 21:02:16
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 America , was my first concert in Manila , the Philippines 1980

 

RE: Hendrix, Independence Hall, Baton Rouge, July '68. Soft Machine (bleh) opened^, posted on June 28, 2021 at 21:04:40
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 1959, Stockholm Consert Hall, George Lewis and his New Orleans Band. I was 13 years old and this was a life changing experience. I still listen to George Lewis with great pleasure. Unlike most of the posters here I have never been to a rock or pop consert.

 

Motley Crue - "Dr. Feelgood" Jun 9, 1990 in Vancouver NT, posted on June 28, 2021 at 21:56:34
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Motley Crue fans, posted on June 28, 2021 at 23:47:27
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In the late-80s, my friends, relatives, and I attended many rock concerts, here in the Bay Area. Regardless of venue or acts, Motley Crue fans were notorious, for starting unprovoked fights. No, my friends and I were not the ones starting fights!

Photo above is from summer of 1989, just before The Crue came out with Dr. Feelgood. That was the windward side of Oahu. My brother and I were wearing Girls, Girls, Girls era shirts.

Sometime during the next school year, a bunch of friends and I saw The Crue at the Oakland Coliseum. I *think* Faster Pussycat were the opening act, but we were late, in coming over from San Francisco. But man, once we got there, everywhere we went, it was fight after fight after fight. And this was a concert where we had a few nerdy girls with us. One of them got shoved (accidentally), causing her glasses to go flying. One of the lenses got scratched.

Another girl had a cigarette butt flicked into her hair. Oh, and some drunk jerk tried to pull off one of our girls' shirt.

Still, the flashy Tommy Lee was phenomenal. His performance reminded us audiophiles that the key to PRAT is getting the snap and pop of the snare drum right.

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 29, 2021 at 06:01:19
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 Buddy Morrow Commodore Ballroom Lowell,MA

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 29, 2021 at 06:27:18
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 ZZ Top in 1975 in The Summit, Houston.

My grandfather played in the Houston Shriner's Band with Billy Gibbon's father, so my grandmother called up Billy's mom and wangled some tickets for me and a friend. My grandmother probably also had a few things to say to his mom about his beard and respectableness, but the beard thing they were doing was pretty cool to my friends and I.

 

Not prior, but..., posted on June 29, 2021 at 06:56:43
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 ...my first concert was also Louie Armstrong and the All Stars. I don't recall the exact year, but it was in the early 60's. After the concert my family went backstage, met the musicians and got autographed photos.

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 29, 2021 at 07:31:05
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 It was either Peter, Paul and Mary or the Kingmen or Paul Revere and the Raiders. This was in the early 1960's


 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 29, 2021 at 07:38:57
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 Mine might have been the Jefferson Airplane, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, late 1965 or early 1966. I "borrowed" my mom's car. It also could have been The Doors at Ciro's on Sunset Strip, New Year's Eve 1966.

That same year I remember seeing The Seeds at Pandora's Box....a really small place, but great energy. I remember thinking about how long their hair was, especially the keyboard player, whose hair was way past his shoulders. Mine was long, but not THAT long. This was early 1966. I thought, with such long hair, where did they work?

 

Yes in 1973 . . . , posted on June 29, 2021 at 07:46:03
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 Memphis. Nice.

 

Heard the same thing. Hairy palms, too., posted on June 29, 2021 at 07:50:19
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 But in 66 years, hasn't happened yet.



The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.

 

Old man Pogue, posted on June 29, 2021 at 10:38:47
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 I knew Dave is older than me. But I didn't have time to read other replies when I posted to see if he or anyone else posted something earlier than my concert.

With respect, Dave was born prior to my brother who was a little more than 10 years older than me. Now I'm feeling like a kid again! ;^)

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Monkees, '67 or '68, posted on June 29, 2021 at 10:51:28
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 Followed in no particular order by Led Zep, Bad Co., Ozzy, Who, Stones, usually as part of a medical back-up crew through an ambulance co. I worked with at the time.

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"with such long hair, where did they work?"... , posted on June 29, 2021 at 12:04:15
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 Pandora's Box.

Nice memory to share, thanks!

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

RE: Heard the same thing. Hairy palms, too., posted on June 29, 2021 at 12:05:11
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 Guess you haven't been trying hard enough...

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

Can't remember how long it's been..., posted on June 29, 2021 at 14:51:47
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The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.

 

RE: Can't remember how long it's been..., posted on June 29, 2021 at 17:21:25
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 Pink Floyd. summer of 79. World Series Of Rock Cleveland stadium

 

Chicago/Doobie Brothers/Kansas in '74, posted on June 29, 2021 at 20:13:29
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 Some chick streaked across the stage between the Doobies and Chicago...

 

RE: Jefferson Airplane, Hartford, CT, August 1972, posted on June 29, 2021 at 20:40:42
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 I had recently turned 14 and was taken by some friends. I had no idea who they were, but I do remember (or think I do--many substances were ingested prior to and during the concert) a certain young woman named Sunshine who followed them around, and at some point in their concerts took most of her clothes off as she danced around the stage.

JohnK

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on June 29, 2021 at 21:35:00
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 I've been to concerts since I was a child..... The first concert of a recognized group was Rush "Power Windows" Tour in 1986........ Listening to "Spirit of Radio" live for the first time was one of the epiphonic musical moments of my lifetime..... Back was Neil Peart (RIP) used an acoustic glockenspiel...... (The experience at later Rush concerts wasn't the same when he played an electronic glockenspiel.)

The Fugs were a hilarious group by the way...... My favorite song was "The Ten Commandments".............


 

We seen most everthing, posted on June 29, 2021 at 21:38:55
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 Ballet, opera, symphony, mainstream country, outlaw country, alt country, rock (tons), pop (tons), jazz (only local stuff), musicals.
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"E Burres Stigano?"


 

That's a fine start, posted on June 29, 2021 at 21:40:17
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 one of the groups I really wanted to see that I missed
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"E Burres Stigano?"


 

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, posted on June 30, 2021 at 07:35:38
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 Performing at Chelmsford Corn Exchange 1968 just before it was demolished. He performed his signature "Fire" number in a tin hat with a trough of lit Kerosene round the top of his head.
Complete nutter!

 

Cat Stevens, Waikiki Shell, 1974, posted on June 30, 2021 at 10:00:10
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I think we did this before not too long ago. Note the ticket prices!

 

RE: The McCoys 1965, posted on June 30, 2021 at 12:59:59
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Bachman Turner Overdrive - Winnipeg Arena 1975, posted on June 30, 2021 at 13:13:08
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 I was going to college, first time in the big city. I thought the warmup band was a lot better and could have listened to more of their stuff.

It was some nobody called Bob Seeger, doing that solid rock and roll that even that had that drive, energy and impact.

 

RE: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, posted on June 30, 2021 at 16:15:23
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 The keyboard player in that song sounded more like Ray Manzarek than Ray Manzarek...............

 

AC/DC Hammersmith 1982, posted on July 1, 2021 at 08:29:22
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 So loud. Y&T supported. Angus worked his way passed us as he did his shoulder-ride through the crowd. The guitar was bigger than him.

 

Blue Oyster Cult - early 1980's, posted on July 1, 2021 at 09:02:31
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RE: Blue Oyster Cult - early 1980's, posted on July 1, 2021 at 10:25:42
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 Don't jazz fans go to concerts? So far I seem to be the only one posting in this thread.

 

George Benson, V.S.O.P., posted on July 1, 2021 at 11:44:22
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 I saw George Benson around 1980, V.S.O.P. in the late 70's, both in Minneapolis. I also saw the Dixie Dregs, who were something of a jazz/rock band, around the same time. They just weren't the first show I saw... Then there's Ray Charles and Diana Krall, and probably more that are shrouded by the mists of time.

Regards,

Steve

 

Your first concert? Deep Purple 1974, row CCC on the Floor., posted on July 1, 2021 at 12:48:58
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 Best? KISS, 1975 and my first hit of Purple Barrel!


John Kuthe...

 

Bad Company 1975, posted on July 1, 2021 at 15:53:12
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 Tucson, with Ted Nugent and maybe Black Oak Arkansas. That was my first concert - didn't see another one for about 25 years.

 

The Commodores, The Emotions '77, posted on July 1, 2021 at 20:06:17
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 age 16; belly bottoms, long collars galore (no platform shoes because me and my bud had to walk 5 miles to the stadium, so we wore our gym shoes).









 

Summer of '74, posted on July 2, 2021 at 04:44:13
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 Dave Pogue's got me beat, but Santana, then Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and a couple of others was one fine day in the summer of '74, Buffalo, N.Y.

 

Jefferson Airplane (Feed Your Head), posted on July 3, 2021 at 16:51:15
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Adam O


 

The Doors with, Jim Morrison, posted on July 3, 2021 at 16:54:01
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Adam O


 

RE: The Commodores, posted on July 3, 2021 at 19:41:33
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 The Commodores was my first concert, but fall of 1981.

 

Almost not a start . . . , posted on July 4, 2021 at 13:52:15
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 The Fire Marshall spent an hour telling people to not sit in the aisles or the concert would be canceled. It's amazing how hard-headed doped-up hippies can be!

This concert had assigned seating. We were on the third row from the stage. Or, so we thought. When the doors opened there was a universal mad dash to the stage and we ended up on the fourth aisle from the back wall. It was good though as we really got to hear the full quad effect the folks up front probably missed,

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on July 4, 2021 at 21:21:50
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 James Gang - Municipal Auditorium, Austin, TX 11/13/1971

If my memory serves me correctly, Cold Blood was the opening act.
"All thoughts are prey to some beast" - Bill Callahan

"I'll be your mirror
Reflect what you are" - Lou Reed

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein

 

Newport Pop Festival, Orange County Fairground Aug 1968, posted on July 6, 2021 at 10:58:17
kSpace
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 Newport Pop Festival, Orange County 1968. I was a whole 4.5 years old at the time.

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on July 6, 2021 at 19:24:17
Nadguy
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 Gene Autry in 1955. My mother took me and I was about 6 y/o. BTW he was a terrible singer.

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on July 7, 2021 at 20:09:44
rodge827
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 1978 Charlie Daniels Band Ocean Ice Palace Bricktown NJ

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on July 7, 2021 at 22:46:27
Boli46
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 I love Gene Autry's version of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer". In he 1970s I used to listen to it on a wind up gramophone on a mountaintop in Norway.

 

Rolling Stones, The Outlaws and Peter Tosh at Anaheim Stadium 1978...-, posted on July 9, 2021 at 10:12:08
Chris Garrett
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 It was an eclectic show, for sure.

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RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on July 9, 2021 at 12:09:14
DeeCee
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 Hmmmm. My first "real" concert was The Fifth Dimension... complementary tickets from a friend of the family; my mother and I along with a few kids from another family was there too. Not sure of the year but I am guessing about ca 1968 or so.

My First concert I bought and paid for was War in 1971 or 72.

 

Rolling Stones, The Outlaws and Peter Tosh at Anaheim Stadium 1978...-, posted on July 9, 2021 at 20:12:48
Chris Garrett
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 Double tap, for some reason.

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RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on July 13, 2021 at 09:47:32
itolduso1000timesb4
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 At seventy I can't remember that far.

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on July 13, 2021 at 16:10:00
milkdudd
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 Montrose, JoJo Gunne and Spooky Tooth. Masonic Auditorium, Detroit April 1974. Montrose with Sammy Hagar as the first of two warm up bands in a (relatively) small music hall. I thought Montrose stole the show by far. A little bit before that Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush at The Trading Post mall/arcade in Roseville, Michigan

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on July 16, 2021 at 14:15:54
JoeKool
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 Wow, thought I was old, but I'm like 'middle age' in the scale herein...
Swamp Dogg, 1971 or '72? Foggy brain syndrome. Musta been the MaryJane.

 

RE: Date yourself: Your first concert?, posted on July 23, 2021 at 15:46:48
milkdudd
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 I thought this thread mentioned how affordable tickets were back in the day but I must be thinking of another one. Either way concerts in the mid to late 70s were usually four to seven dollars for ticket. Making slightly more than minimum wage I could pretty much go to any show I wanted. When David Bowie tickets were $10 at the Michigan Palace nobody could believe it. 10 bucks that's nuts! Now I see the Rolling Stones are coming to Ford Field in Detroit, on November 15th. Tickets seem to go between $200 and $600 at Ticketmaster. Prices include $33 per ticket fee. Even with inflation just the Ticketmaster fee is about what we used to pay for a ticket. And my humble opinion is that the shows back then would blow away the shows of today

 

RE: Blue Oyster Cult - early 1980's, posted on July 25, 2021 at 10:10:40
bobschneider8
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 My first was John McLaughlin and the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, Auditorium Theatre Chicago, around 1973. Does fusion count as jazz?

 

RE: Blue Oyster Cult - early 1980's, posted on July 27, 2021 at 11:19:35
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 James Brown and the Famous Flames. Tulsa Assembly center, around 1964.

It was a fantastic show, where he would dance across the stage on one foot, and periodically collapse on the stage. The Flames would cover him with a red cloak and start to take him off the stage. Then he would fling off the cape, grab the mike and start singing again. He must have done it 3 times.

 

RE: Blue Oyster Cult - early 1980's, posted on July 27, 2021 at 16:47:02
M3Man
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 James Brown and the Famous Flames. Tulsa Assembly center, around 1964.

It was a fantastic show, where he would dance across the stage on one foot, and periodically collapse on the stage. The Flames would cover him with a red cloak and start to take him off the stage. Then he would fling off the cape, grab the mike and start singing again. He must have done it 3 times.

 

RE: Blue Oyster Cult - early 1980's, posted on July 28, 2021 at 00:00:34
milkdudd
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 That whole routine was still in James' show when I saw him in 1986. Seems like that was his trademark. The song he did it was Please, Please, Please

 

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