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Meltdowner
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^ I'll stop complaining then
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ClemofNazareth
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Unfortunately I had the double-whammy of living in a small town in Montana and having very religious parents so there were precious few concerts prior to moving out on my own in the early 80s. I did get to attend a few album-smashing and burning events in the church parking lot, for whatever that's worth, and was summarily booted from parochial school for playing Cheech & Chong's Wedding Album on the PA.
First ten: Kansas (w/Cheap Trick, 1978 and a bunch of times after that) The Gap Band (1980) Loverboy (twice in 1981 and 1982) Quarterflash (twice in 1981 and 1983) Rolling Stones (Tattoo You, 1981) Genesis (Abacab, 1982) Neil Young (Everybody's Rockin, 1983) Yes (90125, 1984) Violent Femmes (can't recall the year, sometime in the 90s)Camper Van Beethoven (several times, first one in the early 90s) |
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
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micky
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in case I haven't told you recently Bob ... you rule... |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Cosmiclawnmower
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Err.. Actual concerts.. (saw, not working on or at..) Camel, Bristol 1979 Barclay James Harvest, Bristol 1979 Hawkwind, Bristol 1979 Peter Gabriel, Taunton Odeon 1980 Hawkwind, Worthy farm 1980 Hawkwind, Taunton 1980 Wishbone Ash Taunton 1980 Uriah heep/ Budgie/ Samson Taunton 1981 Glastonbury festival 1981 Hawkwind/ Gong/ Roy Harper/ Ginger Baker/ Climax blues band etc Hawkwind/ Gong snapper music festival, Barnstaple, Devon 1981
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cstack3
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Goodness, I have to dial this 'way back! July 28, 1972: Captain Beyond & Alice Cooper - Amphitheater, Chicago, Illinois September 22, 1972: The Eagles & Yes - Arie Crown Theater, Chicago October 10, 1972 - Wild Turkey & Jethro Tull - Chicago Stadium March 24, 1973: Hookfoot, Focus, Foghat - Kinetic Playground, Chicago April 20, 1973 - Peter Frampton & King Crimson - Kinetic Playground August 1973 - Flash & Wishbone Ash - Auditorium Theater, Chicago March 20, 1974 - Maggie Bell, Frampton’s Camel, Foghat - Auditorium Theater, Chicago June 23, 1974: Montrose, Spooky Tooth, Frampton's Camel - Auditorium Theater, Chicago November 16, 1974: Gryphon, Yes (Relayer) - Horton Fieldhouse, Normal IL September 2, 1977 - Yes with Donovan, "Going For The One" tour - Chicago Amphitheater. I'm leaving out a ton (ELP, Queen etc.), but this is a good sampling of life back in the day! Edited by cstack3 - February 18 2016 at 17:02 |
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presdoug
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^that is a pretty awesome list, Chuck. You sure lived through some real music history!
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twalsh
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Toronto (mediocre AOR type band) 1981ish
Scorpions with Bon Jovi 1984 Iron Maiden with Twisted Sister 1985 Judas Priest 1986 David Lee Roth with DOA 1988 Poison with Tesla 1988 The Who 1989 Queensryche 1991 Lollapalooza, featuring Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers 1992 Metallica1992ish It was a long time ago.
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More heavy prog, please!
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The.Crimson.King
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Saw both nights at the Oakland Arena and Donovan told the exact same bad jokes both shows (something about an astronaut using his space suit for toilet)
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cstack3
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Thanks Doug! I forgot Triumvirat and Fleetwood Mac, that was 1974!
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infocat
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My memory is very bad, but here's what I can think of...
Iron Maiden with Vinnie Vincent Def Leppard with Tesla Metallica with Queensryche Monsters of Rock (Van Halen, Scorpions, Dokken, Metallica, Kingdom Come) Pink Floyd Stevie Ray Vaughan Rush with Mr. Big Marillion with John Wesley The Cure with Cranes I'm sure I'm missing some in between. |
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Sean Trane
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Wow, this is going to take some remembering, but I'll take away bands that played at my Toronto high-school, except for three that went out to go big
Not sure the list will be all that chronological ("if you remember the 70's, you weren't there" thing), but all of them should be before the passing of the 70's Rush (I guess this was 2112 or Caress Of Steel High-school tour, given the set-list I remember >> totally too high that evening) Max Webster (Borrowed Shoes HS tour, if I guess by the set list... But at least four times afterwards) Supertramp (Moments tour) Triumph (RnR Machine tour + two more times before the Just A Game album) Genesis (ATTWT tour) Goddo (An Act of Goddo high-school tour, I think) Yes (this became the YesShows tour album) Neil Young (Rust never Sleeps tour >> see DV of same name) The Police (Outlandos at The Edge ... only 13 people in attendance, all of them had won tickets from the Q-107 FM radio, yours truly as well) Also in there somewhere: Grateful Dead (in Syracuse NY State, but not sure this is in my first 20 concerts or a bit later) ELP (in Montreal at Olympic Stadium) Harmonium (In Montreal for l'Heptade tour) Alvin Lee solo (got in under-aged at the El Mocambo club) Rory Gallagher (see above) Canada World Music Festival (this would summer 79, I think and well, it should've been the CBS North Am Music Festival really, incl Mahogany Rush, Aerosmith, Nugent, Nazareth, Ramones, Goddo (again), Johnny Winter) >> another totally too high day I had tickets in my hands for the Stones' "free concert" (in Oshawa) for the Blinds after Richards' drug bust, but couldn't afford them, so I passed up on it. (Same thing later for Floyd's the Wall tour in New York) Edited by Sean Trane - February 19 2016 at 01:48 |
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The Beatles Revival Band
Manfred Mann's Earthband Novalis & Fuehrs/Froehling Sky Genesis & King Crimson Kraan Tangerine Dream Camel Edit: I saw Eloy earlier than at least one of these, but which...? The first four are surely the first four, but then memory becomes patchy. Edited by Lewian - February 19 2016 at 18:28 |
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Grand Funk Railroad (1972)
Dr. John (1974) Rasputin (1975) Chicago (1976) Thin Lizzy/Queen (1977) Genesis (1977) Donovon/Yes (1977) George Bensen (1977) Return to Forever (1977) The Beach Boys (1977) |
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Loved it ... thought it hilarious, but kept thinking ... too stoned to know the difference, but at that age ... yeah ... still great, and I bet you can "reach" these in the dreaming time, if you really needed/wanted to!
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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GKR
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Well, lets see:
1 - Black Label Society (yeah) 2 - Ian Anderson (TAAB2 tour) 3 - Focus 4 - Jorge Mautner 5 - Uli Jon Roth 6 - Gal Costa 7 - Milton Nascimento 8 - Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull Rock Opera) 9 - Ney Matogrosso 10 - Elza Soares (will be my tenth show now in 1st April!) Edited by GKR - February 20 2016 at 15:32 |
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Flight123
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Some great lists here - I had quite forgotten that bad Donovan joke. One Yes-related footnote: after my first 10 (listed above), in 1979 I saw Hillage on the Open tour (his last for many years) and the support was one Trevor Rabin. I couldn't believe it when he joined Yes a few years later - all I can recall was a fairly average hard rock act...
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Piffol_Four_Times
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That would be the first ten acts at Live Aid, Wembley, 1985. As that was my very first live rock music event.
So: Status Quo Style Council (although I took that opportunity to go for a piss and get some food and drink) Boomtown Rats Adam Ant Ultravox Spandau Ballet Elvis Costello Nik Kershaw Sade Sting, Phil Collins, Branford Marsalis.
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Procol Harum, John Mayall (with Mick Taylor), Paul Butterfield, Lee Michaels - 1968 Palm Springs Pop Festival
Alice Cooper - 1969 Whisky A Go Go on the Sunset Strip (1969 - 71 in the Army, no concerts) The Kinks - 1971 the Lola tour Rory Gallagher - 3 times '73 to '76 The Jeff Beck Group (second version) - Swing Auditorium Beck, Bogert & Appice - Long Beach Arena The Rolling Stones - 1972 The Forum with Stevie Wonder opening Ten Years After - The Forum Rush - Fly by Night tour at the Shrine Auditorium Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak tour at the Long Beach Auditorium Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water tour (Rory Gallagher, Fleetwood Mac with Bob Welsh) Johnny Winter - The Hollywood Palladium Wings Over America - 1976 The Forum Jethro Tull, Robin Trower, Rory Gallagher, Starcastle - 1976 L.A. Coliseum (sponsored by Chrysalis Records) |
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