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Jared 
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 Posted: December 31 2007 at 11:16 |
 Blacksword wrote:
First gig was German metal gods 'Accept' at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1986. I'll never forget that night or the mixture of terror and excitement I felt looking up at the PA tower!
First prog gig was Hawkwind later that same year. A very strange and quite hostile crowd, and lets just say they 'played on 11' It was the loudest noise I'd ever heard in my life.  |
Accept  ....lets just say that even at the tender age of 16, I was discerning enough never to want to put my balls to the wall.... 
that said...first gig, Manowar in 1983 at Bristol Colston Hall.... 
talking of which, I also saw Hawkwind in 1986, at Bristol Colston Hall...with an incredibly docile crowd...all the hairy bikers around me spent the gig 'relaxing' to a spliff or three.... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Blacksword
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Posted: December 31 2007 at 06:59 |
First gig was German metal gods 'Accept' at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1986. I'll never forget that night or the mixture of terror and excitement I felt looking up at the PA tower!
First prog gig was Hawkwind later that same year. A very strange and quite hostile crowd, and lets just say they 'played on 11' It was the loudest noise I'd ever heard in my life.
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ita_prog_fan
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Posted: December 31 2007 at 06:09 |
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P.F.M. ...i was 14 or 15
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Posted: December 30 2007 at 15:26 |
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I saw Dream Theater this year at Zagreb, Croatia (I disslike mentioning stupid local concerts).
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asimplemistake
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Posted: December 14 2007 at 02:23 |
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backstreet boys with my mom and sisters......i was really young...it was 5th grade i believe
my first prog concert was Porcupine Tree which was totally amazing
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Tuzvihar
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Posted: December 13 2007 at 16:41 |
Roger Waters in Warsaw 07.06.2002 
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
Charles Bukowski
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Ghandi 2
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Posted: December 13 2007 at 09:55 |
Never, but it would have been Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. I don't want hearing loss though, so I didn't go (or go to the 65daysofstatic gig).
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Dean
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Posted: December 13 2007 at 08:34 |
Jim Garten wrote:
For myself, my first ever paid for gig was these chaps:
999 - saw them at the Marquee in 1978; me a terrified 15 year old, surrounded by very menacing looking punks; good gig though...
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Power-pop!
We've heard it all before
We've learning to ignore
You must confess this awful mess
Isn't just a bore
It's more than we could bear
But you don't really care
Kiss of life to save our life
All you do is stare...
brilliant stuff 
Jim Garten wrote:
First prog gig was Pink Floyd at Earls Court the first night they played 'The Wall' in London 1980...
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gosh, thanks  however, I don't remember being nice to anyone. 
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What?
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clarke2001
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Posted: December 13 2007 at 08:27 |
Abraxas, local fusion/salsa band doing mostly Santana covers in 1985.
My first (and the best experience of my life so far) prog jig was Leb i Sol in 1993.
First "big" prog name was Jethro Tull in Spilimbergo, Italy, two years later.
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A B Negative
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Posted: December 13 2007 at 08:25 |
Jim Garten wrote:
A B Negative wrote:
Iron Maiden on the Killers Tour at The Odeon in Edinburgh in 1981, with Paul Di'Anno on vocals. The support band was Trust |
Trust's drummer replaced Clive Burr in Iron Maiden 18 months later & still occupies the drum stool - 24 years later (so why do I still think of him as the 'new' drummer?  ) |
I still think of Bruce "Bruce" Dickinson and Janick Gers as the new boys. I even think of Gers as the new Gillan guitarist.
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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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Jim Garten
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Posted: December 13 2007 at 08:07 |
A B Negative wrote:
Iron Maiden on the Killers Tour at The Odeon in Edinburgh in 1981, with Paul Di'Anno on vocals. The support band was Trust |
Trust's drummer replaced Clive Burr in Iron Maiden 18 months later & still occupies the drum stool - 24 years later (so why do I still think of him as the 'new' drummer? )
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Raff
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Posted: December 13 2007 at 08:04 |
Jim Garten wrote:
First prog gig was Pink Floyd at Earls Court the first night they played 'The Wall' in London 1980...
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As far as I can remember, that was my first prog gig too... I actually remember having been to only two live shows before that - one by Italian folk group Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare (they played at my school!), and the other by Chilean folk group Inti Illimani.
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toolis
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Posted: December 13 2007 at 07:57 |
Gamma Ray - 1995
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-music is like pornography...
sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more...
-sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue...
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Jim Garten
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Posted: December 13 2007 at 07:52 |
For myself, my first ever paid for gig was these chaps:
999 - saw them at the Marquee in 1978; me a terrified 15 year old, surrounded by very menacing looking punks; good gig though...
First prog gig was Pink Floyd at Earls Court the first night they played 'The Wall' in London 1980...
...much nicer crowd.
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Jim Garten
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Posted: December 13 2007 at 07:45 |
prog-chick wrote:
Pendragon Marquee 1985
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Rachel! Are you telling me I saw them before you?
Reading 1983:
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Ooh! Nice pyjama bottoms Nick 
Edited by Jim Garten - December 13 2007 at 07:46
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Teh_Slippermenz
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Posted: December 13 2007 at 01:19 |
The Chieftans. In 2001. *facepalm* Today, I regard my first concert as being the Genesis concert in at The Palace of Auburn Hills in MI, September 30th, 2007. Now, I have never been happier while listening to "The Cinema Show".
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: December 12 2007 at 20:37 |
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AC/DC on their Back in Black tour in 1980 at 14 years old.
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Shakespeare
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Posted: December 12 2007 at 20:28 |
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Porcupine Tree.
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fungusucantkill
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Posted: December 12 2007 at 20:26 |
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"HELLO NEW ORLEANS! WE. ARE. METALLICA!!!"
ah man. good show.
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Zwerg Bart
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Posted: December 12 2007 at 16:31 |
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Tool on the Lateralus tour was my first real concert (not counting local shows). It is still one of if not the best show I've ever been to.
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"Freud's cranium is a snail!" - Dali
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