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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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Teh_Slippermenz
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Joined: September 11 2007
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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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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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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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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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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...
...much nicer crowd. |
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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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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A B Negative
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Location: Methil Republic
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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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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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Dean
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Joined: May 13 2007
Location: Europe
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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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Ghandi 2
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Location: United States
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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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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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asimplemistake
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Joined: March 13 2007
Location: United States
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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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Guests
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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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ita_prog_fan
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Location: Italy
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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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Blacksword
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Location: England
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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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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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Jared
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Posted: December 31 2007 at 11:17 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
AC/DC on their Back in Black tour in 1980 at 14 years old. |
you poor sod, Jody...you never had a chance in life, did you??.... 
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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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Joined: June 22 2004
Location: England
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Posted: December 31 2007 at 12:02 |
fandango wrote:
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.... |
Sorry Jared, but Manowar beats Accept hands down, in the terrible first gig contest!
Now, was it the 'Sign of the Hammer' tour, or the 'Hail to England' tour you saw them on? and were they wearing their armoured cod pieces and thigh high boots?
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Guzzman
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Location: Germany
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Posted: December 31 2007 at 12:19 |
My first concert was Canned Heat back in the late 60s or early 70s. A couple of months later Deep Purple (don't recall much of it, was too drunk  )
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