Your first rock concert
Don Zeigler
bands and events attended with your parents don't count... ;-)
Mine was Grand Funk Railroad at Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, 1971.
This wasn't the quartet of "American Band" fame, this was a power trio
who got no airplay, whose sound literally made your fillings rattle. It
was the loudest thing I had ever heard in my life.
TrueToBrad
>bands and events attended with your parents don't count... ;-)
>
Back in 76 my brother took me to see Black Oak Arkansas when I visited him
during my vacation to Yankton, So. Dakota. I really didn't know who they were
and the only song I knew was "Jim Dandy", but I was excited just the same - MY
FIRST CONCERT!
Doug Rau
They are still my favorite band and I've seen them so many times since then
that I've lost count.
-Doug
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Heidi Kane
I too went to see them on December 16 but my ticket stub shows 1977.
This concert was at Madison Square Garden, up in the nosebleed section
and the ticket cost $7.50. I was 20 and it was my first experience
seeing people do marijuana. I guess this country girl should have
gotten out more.
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Sun Jan 15, 1978 Chicago Stadium. I was 14 and a friends mom took us and sat
thru the show, and she said she loved it.(What a trooper). What can I say,
it was great. I'm still a fan and have seen them many times since then, most
recently on the reunion tour.(which was also great.) You definitly get your
moneys worth when you see them.
John
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remember more than 5 minutes of it...First concert that I actually watched was
Alice Cooper...but a lot of great shows were seen & immediately forgotten due
to the interesting pharmaceuticals of the day...
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Afioresi2
>>bands and events attended with your parents don't count... ;-)
Foghat (wow my age is showing). I don't think they were just a "local" band
but us Californians, we think that eveyone knows all about us ::smiles::
ang
Floyd D. Barber
Don Zeigler <donze...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> So what was the first bona-fide rock concert you ever attended? Local
> bands and events attended with your parents don't count... ;-)
>
Bachman-Turner Overdrive Springfield Illinois, about Jan 1975. If I
remember correctly,
(which isnt easy) the concert was at a skating rink, and there was no
seating. Everyone
stood and wandered around. Saw some pretty amazing things there.
The show was good , too.
Raphael
Don Zeigler wrote in message ...
>So what was the first bona-fide rock concert you ever attended? Local
>bands and events attended with your parents don't count... ;-)
>
>This wasn't the quartet of "American Band" fame, this was a power trio
>who got no airplay, whose sound literally made your fillings rattle. It
>was the loudest thing I had ever heard in my life.
Mine wasn't even in the 70's...the first concert I went to see was
"Beatlemania". Hmm...think that was the 2nd one, as well... Never really
was one for going to concerts. And now, hardly any come here anymore.
Erin
John J Hogan
and the Doobie Brothers. Hard to remember much with all the bowls being
passed down the line, but I do remember my first love making session with
an "older" 18 yo girl (I was 17) back in the bushes. GREAT concert!!
G.T. Tyson IV
were touring to promote their "Metamorphosis" album. Nobody told me they
were gonna be that damn LOUD, and the acoustics in the steel and concrete
arena were atrocious. My 6th-grade ears rang for days afterwards but I
didn't care. I had attended a rock concert with the college crowd so of
course that made me more sophisticated than my friends who were still into
the Archies. Until years later when I stood near a 747 preparing to take
off, that was the loudest thing I had ever heard in my life. My mother
was waiting for me out in the parking lot and said she could hear every
note.
GTTysonIV
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Dixonhayes
>seeing people do marijuana. I guess this country girl should have
>gotten out more.
I mentioned in another post going to a Kansas concert in '79 (or then again,
was it '78?) where the guy next to me offered me a jay. That waws my first,
both going to a rock concert and seeing people casually smoking pot. Beaver
Cleaver here obviously didn't get out much either.
Dixon
Don Zeigler
> >>So what was the first bona-fide rock concert you ever attended? Local
> >>bands and events attended with your parents don't count... ;-)
>
> Foghat (wow my age is showing). I don't think they were just a "local" band
> but us Californians, we think that eveyone knows all about us ::smiles::
I saw Foghat in '75 at the Scope in Norfolk, VA. That was one of the
best concerts I have ever attended. The lead guitarist (forget name)
tore that slide and wahwah UP... :-)
hughkeller
I can identify with the ears ringing. I saw Ted Nugent several times in the
late 70s, and it usually took two to three days for my hearing to be back to
normal.
Hugh
Marlene Blanshay
donze...@bigfoot.com (Don Zeigler) wrote:
Foghat, awesome! I love those ol' 70s southern type bands. Even if they
weren't southern but sounded like them. Guitarists who look like Randy
Johnson playing Firebirds!
For me it was Electric Light Orchestra, April 1976, Montreal Forum. I
can't recall who the opening act was (gee, I wonder why? Duhhh. Probably
it wasn't anyone really good, if it had been I'd have remembered it,
stoned or not).
J.Wright
Alice had quite a stage show back then, went to the gallows and
everything.
Army guys were bringing back pot from vietnam that was laced with
herion.
Don Zeigler
> For me it was Electric Light Orchestra, April 1976, Montreal Forum. I
> can't recall who the opening act was (gee, I wonder why? Duhhh. Probably
> it wasn't anyone really good, if it had been I'd have remembered it,
> stoned or not).
I saw ELO once and was blown away. We had all assumed that there was no
way they would get the lush sound of their albums in a live performance.
Boy, were we wrong!
BTW, their opening act for this concert was a virtual unknown named
Robert Palmer.
Rebecca
Don Zeigler wrote:
> So what was the first bona-fide rock concert you ever attended? Local
> bands and events attended with your parents don't count... ;-)
>
Both my lil sister and I attended our first concert together in 1986...
Huey Lewis and the News at the Summit in Houston. We had won the tickets
from a local radio station (93Q, before it went C/W) and were SO excited
that we were going to be able to stay out late and not have our parents
sitting behind us. Of course, it _was_ Huey Lewis after all; my parents
must have felt we would be safe from all drugs... which we were. One of my
sister's schoolmates and her sister came along with us and we just
screamed/sang our heads off... we all wanted Johnny to play his guitar
right to us! lol Went to school the next day and got into trouble with my
choir director... I'd screamed the voice right out of me and he was _not_
happy about it, using me as an example for the rest of the class as how not
to go to concerts and yell your head off. Embarrassing? Naaaah, I had a
great time at the show so I didn't care what that guy said or did.
Becky
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and was totally in awe!!! my very first concert however was none other
than DR. HOOK!!! LOL!!!
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Don Zeigler wrote in message ...
>So what was the first bona-fide rock concert you ever attended? Local
>bands and events attended with your parents don't count... ;-)
>
>Mine was Grand Funk Railroad at Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, 1971.
>This wasn't the quartet of "American Band" fame, this was a power trio
>who got no airplay, whose sound literally made your fillings rattle. It
The Man From Mars
12 on January 15 , 1978. Alot to remember about that day. I remember
watching the Dallas Cowboys (lifelong Cowboy fan) beat Denver in Super Bowl
XII that day. It lifted my spirits, to this day I think God gave me that
win as a special present. I had prayed the night before they would win!
Thank you Lord! Also I remember reading a book about serial killer Ted
Bundy and that was the night (again 1-15-78) that he went beserk at a
Florida State sorority house and killed 2 girls and injured 3 others
(Idiot). Enough of my rambling , I saw KISS 3 times in the 70's. March of
76', January of 77', and December of 79'.
John Greenan wrote in message ...
>Kiss was also my 1st!
>Sun Jan 15, 1978 Chicago Stadium. I was 14 and a friends mom took us and
sat
>thru the show, and she said she loved it.(What a trooper). What can I say,
>it was great. I'm still a fan and have seen them many times since then,
most
>recently on the reunion tour.(which was also great.) You definitly get your
>moneys worth when you see them.
>
>John
>
>Heidi Kane <kan...@juno.com> wrote in message
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>> Kiss was also my first concert. THiS IS SCARY!!!
>> I too went to see them on December 16 but my ticket stub shows 1977.
>> This concert was at Madison Square Garden, up in the nosebleed section
>> and the ticket cost $7.50. I was 20 and it was my first experience
>> seeing people do marijuana. I guess this country girl should have
>> gotten out more.
>>
>>
>>
Kevver
It was '73 or '74 after the "The Serpent is Rising" LP was released.
I think I was 15 or 16.
It was at a local Community College gym (sitting on the bleachers).
After I got home my coat reeked (like burned leaves maybe?).
I saw them a few times at local high schools around Chicago later.
Kevin Smith
Don Zeigler
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 03:04:19 -0400, Don Zeigler
> <donze...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> >I saw ELO once and was blown away. We had all assumed that there was no
> >way they would get the lush sound of their albums in a live performance.
> >Boy, were we wrong!
>
> How did they do the violin sounds in songs like "I turn to stone?" Did
> they use real violinists or a synthesizer?
I recall an actual violinist as well as a fellow playing cello or viola.
IIRC, there was also a keyboard player. The reason I recall the violin
is because he did a 5 minute solo, feeding the sound through an Echoplex
and a phase shifter. :-)
Scott Martin
still a 70s band! I went with my older brother- whoopee. It was right
after "Amanda" was popular I only knew about 4 songs. They had like FIVE
encores! It just kept going and going... They sounded great!
speaking of concerts- I'm so ashamed to admit it, but my friend dragged me
to a MILLI VANILLI concert! I can't even believe it!
Also- saw Adam Ant at a free concert once, and (this actually happened) he
was doing ok until the record he was lipsincing to SKIPPED! It was so
funny- people started laughing and he actually ran off the stage in mid-song
and refused to come back on! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
-Saw Blue Oyster Cult last year at a local bar and they ROCKED! They had so
much energy and sounded really great- I'd love to see them again. I wonder
how they were in the 70s?
-Judy
Dixonhayes
>to a MILLI VANILLI concert! I can't even believe it!
How in the world could Milli Vanilli put on a concert, anyway? Wouldn't the
lip synching be a little more obvious, not to mention their actual lack of
musical talent?
That must've been quite a show...
Dixon
hughkeller
I saw BOC many times back in the 70s, and just saw them a year or so ago at
a local club. As near as I can remember, they sounded exactly the same.
They are one of the few bands I've seen over the years whose live sound is
almost identical to their albums. It was a real trip getting to stand 7-8
feet in front of them, after seeing them years before in a crowd of 8,000 to
10,000 people!
Hugh
David
show even to this day.
Andrew Stewart
Hammersmith Odeon, London.
David Bowie.
Ziggy Stardust's farewell concert.
What a start.
(np: Best Of Bowie 74/79)
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>remember correctly,
>(which isnt easy) the concert was at a skating rink, and there was no
>seating. Everyone
>stood and wandered around. Saw some pretty amazing things there.
> The show was good , too.
OH your so lucky!!!! (I mean about seeing BTO back in 75!)
I didn't see them till 92 and they're still awesome!!!
Sandyfour
Wow...thats awsome!
Billy Wajdak
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donze...@bigfoot.com (Don Zeigler) wrote:
> So what was the first bona-fide rock concert you ever attended? Local
> bands and events attended with your parents don't count... ;-)
>
> Mine was Grand Funk Railroad at Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, 1971.
> This wasn't the quartet of "American Band" fame, this was a power
trio
> who got no airplay, whose sound literally made your fillings rattle.
It
> was the loudest thing I had ever heard in my life.
>
>> Las Vegas, in 1970. I was 12 years old. it was first time
>> I ever took LSD-25. and one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
check out my concert list
>> http://members.xoom.com/100rockbands/page20/
>> Big John
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