Who was the first band you ever saw in concert?
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Topic: Who was the first band you ever saw in concert?
Posted By: markosherrera
Subject: Who was the first band you ever saw in concert?
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 18:17
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Who was the first band you ever saw in concert???
Just curious who the first band was, that you saw live in concert?
My first bands in Venezuela :Tempano,Aditus,Resistencia,Pentagono and Giordano all in one afternoon and night in my city Maracay,after the first outside Venezuela was Alabama in Houston 1982 and after Ted Nugent in Cleveland in 82 too..
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 18:22
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Back in '99 I went to see Crosby, Stills & Nash with my folks. It was a killer show! My first prog show was Yes back in '02, with Porcupine Tree as an opening act. ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 18:22
Freddie and the Dreamers 
I was five.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 19:47
I think it was Iron Maiden with this.... *Bailey* when I was 15  but when I saw them on the reunion tour it felt much better |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 20:05
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KISS on the Creatures Of The Night tour with Molly Hatchet opening. Most vivid memory: A sprinting Paul Stanley going into a dramatic slide on his knees, only to have his knees catch on the surface and him toppling over in a heap of spandex, teased hair, and kabuki makeup. E ------------- 
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Posted By: Harry Hood
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 01:03
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Dave Matthews Band in 2003 with my dad. ------------- 
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 01:11
| Billy Idol! |
Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 01:15
Aside from local groups (the first of which I could never recall), it was Children of Bodom in '03, at the Back Room in Austin.. 
------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 01:17
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Saxon at a small club in '82, damn good show Sabbath a few days later (they opened for the Outlaws !  ) |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 10:47
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Iron Maiden on the Killers Tour at The Odeon in Edinburgh in 1981, with Paul Di'Anno on vocals. The support band was Trust (excellent heavy metal from France, their song Antisocial was later covered by Anthrax).
Next was Hawkwind on the Sonic Attack Tour, again at the Edinburgh Odeon.
After this it was Rush at the Ingliston Exhibition Centre. I went with my cousin and my brother, it was my brother's first gig. We went there by bus and my uncle was going to pick us up after the concert but his car broke down. We ended up having to get a taxi home, it was about 35 miles and cost my mum a fortune! ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 12:16
I was 13 when I went to a schoolparty in Scheveningen (part of The Hague, my hometown) in 1973, in the gymnastics hall was a band playing, I attended their concert because I was pleased by their swinging blend of several styles with great guitarwork and a good singer, later I heard that the name of the band was ALQUIN  !
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Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 14:19
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PF - Dark Side of the Moon Tour at Wembley Arena
Superb
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 14:25
| Pink Floyd Tribute band, playing "The Wall" in spring 2005. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 14:26
October 1972 or November 1974?
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limeyrob wrote:Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 14:27
MANOWAR.......
Death to false metal......
------------- 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 |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 14:34
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Deep Purple
Iron Maiden in 2000 era |
Posted By: wetton fan
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 14:36
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1972
Ten Years After,followed about a month later by KC ....that was enough to sell my six string and buy a bass.....
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 16:01
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Since I'm older than dirt I can't say for sure but I think it was The Five Americans singing their hit "Western Union" at the Bronco Bowl in the mid 60s. Or it could have been the Beach Boys about the same time. Well, you DID ask! ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 16:15
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The first big concert I remember going to was Ozzfest back in 1998, I must have been 12 or 13.
I remember seeing Sevendust, Limp Bizkit
 , and of course Ozzy. The first band we saw when we got there was the end of Incubus' set back before they were even close to popular.The worst part was that Tool was there, but I didn't like them at the time so I didn't pay any attention! |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 16:42
| First rock band Steppenwolf in 1970. |
Posted By: Snipergoat
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 17:42
| Download Festival this year was my first time seeing bands play live. Can't remember who I saw first. But if you mean first time going to a bands own show... well, see my sig :P |
Posted By: darkmatter
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 17:46
I saw Porcupine Tree in Glensdale, Pennsylvanina on October 7th (I think) last year. I wish I go back and experience that for the first time again! 
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Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 17:57
| I saw The Who, last year in October. They've still got it. |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 18:27
| Alice Cooper with Flo and Eddie opening in the early 70s. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 18:33
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Steeleye Span at the Liverpool Philharmonic in 1975.
I went to see Genesis at Stafford Bingley Hall the following year, my first prog gig. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 18:35
| Wow, I am jealous Easy Money, recently I bought the 1973 Billion Dollar Babies tour DVD, awesome footage and it brought me back to the early Seventies when I was 12 and made paintings from my hero Alice Cooper with his make up, so exciting when you are rebellious and searching for an ego! |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 18:36
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The mighty Mötorhead!!!! In a small school gym in the middle of nowhere in Ireland in 1981. Metal-tastic! |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 21:02
Yeah Alice was a part of a new generation of bands that spoke to my (our?) post-hippie generation. Deep Purple with Ian G, Black Sabbath and early ELP were all part of that. Back in the early 70s we pretty much considered Alice to be sort of toungue in cheek progressive rock. |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: December 05 2007 at 05:18
| Well Easy Money, yesterday evening I watched a Rock & Roll history DVD in which Alie Cooper explained that his music and theater was a reaction on the Love & Peace era, he was fed up with it and wanted to provoke with horror and heavy music! |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: December 05 2007 at 05:32
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I was taken to see the 'Six Bob tour' - Lindisfarne,Genesis and VdGG at Croydon Fairfields Hall in 1971.I was 11 at the time.My Uncle,who was a big Lindisfarne fan took me.He had played the album(s) to me and I liked them quite a lot.He knew that I was on school holidays at the time so, he and his girlfriend took me.
I Can just about remember Lindisfarne playing.They were the singles chart act at the time after all! The first Prog(ish) gig that I paid to see was one of the 'Saturday Gigs' at the Chalk Farm Roundhouse. The Line up was U.F.O.,Strife and a couple of other bands.These were called 'The Saturday Gigs' as they took place during the afternoon because of the power-cuts brought on by the miner's strike. Within the year I saw Genesis at Wembley Empire Pool playing The Lamb... ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: December 05 2007 at 14:09
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Deep Purple March 72,Copenhagen.It was taped by Danish TV.
It is now out on DVD and I can watch my first concert over and over again.
I like it.
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Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: December 06 2007 at 12:15
November 1974
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: December 06 2007 at 12:26
Pendragon Marquee 1985
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 06 2007 at 14:49
Nice, Winter Tour '74 and the first airing of the proto WYWH songs.------------- What? |
Posted By: 3.1415926535897
Date Posted: December 07 2007 at 15:18
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I saw Yes in 2003 with my dad. At that point (I was 14) the only rock album I had ever heard was Fragile and I had listened to it about once, so it was an experience. I enjoyed the show, but sometimes I get frustrated remembering because it would have been so much better if I had known all the songs and who the musicians were, as I do now. ------------- Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened - Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: December 08 2007 at 09:12
| Barclay James Harvest, Newcastle City Hall 75 or 76, can't quite remember. I had seen a couple of local bands before that though but can't remember their names. |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: December 10 2007 at 14:48
The climax of the WYWH songs was shining a few spots onto a rotating mirrored ball flooding the arena with thousands of bits of light. Sounds a bit dated now but at the time it was really effective. Then there was the DSotM projection onto a large circular screen. I still have the Melody Maker review taped to the inner sleeve of my vinyl.
Ahh memories
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Posted By: Zwerg Bart
Date 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. ------------- "Freud's cranium is a snail!" - Dali |
Posted By: fungusucantkill
Date 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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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: December 12 2007 at 20:28
| Porcupine Tree. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date 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. -------------  |
Posted By: Teh_Slippermenz
Date Posted: December 13 2007 at 01:19
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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". |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: December 13 2007 at 07:45
Rachel! Are you telling me I saw them before you? Reading 1983: 
[edit] Ooh! Nice pyjama bottoms Nick  ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date 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. -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: December 13 2007 at 07:57
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Gamma Ray - 1995 
------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: December 13 2007 at 08:04
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. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: December 13 2007 at 08:07
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? )-------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: December 13 2007 at 08:25
I still think of Bruce "Bruce" Dickinson and Janick Gers as the new boys. I even think of Gers as the new Gillan guitarist. ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: December 13 2007 at 08:27
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 13 2007 at 08:34
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
gosh, thanks
however, I don't remember being nice to anyone.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: December 13 2007 at 09:55
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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). ------------- "Never forget that the human race with technology is like an alcoholic with a barrel of wine." Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Because in their hearts, everyone secretly loves the Unabomber. |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: December 13 2007 at 16:41
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Roger Waters in Warsaw 07.06.2002 ------------- "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 |
Posted By: asimplemistake
Date 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 |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 15:26
| I saw Dream Theater this year at Zagreb, Croatia (I disslike mentioning stupid local concerts). |
Posted By: ita_prog_fan
Date Posted: December 31 2007 at 06:09
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P.F.M. ...i was 14 or 15
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 31 2007 at 06:59
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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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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 31 2007 at 11:16
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.... ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 31 2007 at 11:17
you poor sod, Jody...you never had a chance in life, did you??....
 ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 31 2007 at 12:02
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? |
Posted By: Guzzman
Date 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  )------------- "We've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 06:44
...the Hail To England tour...when they fell out with openers, Mercyful Fate, who didn't show up as a consequence...actually, you can still read about this falling out, on King Diamond's Wikipedia page......oh, and no, I was just wearing a furry loincloth.... ------------- 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 |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 07:49
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I attended my first prog concert at age 7. Yeah, quite young, I know. It was Genesis on the "Trick of the Tail" tour. However, Jean beats me to it. She attended her first concerts as a baby, being carried around by her hippie parents. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 07:53
I must admit I have no recollection of it though; I only know it because my parents told me -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 09:00
Dont worry, there's probably people, on this very forum who went to many great prog gigs, in the glory days, and have absolutely no recollection of it, but for different reasons...
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 09:03
Well, at least you got into the spirit of things. I chickened out of wearing my 'Balls to the Wall' leather briefs for the Accept gig.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 10:42
...like the large, hairy bikers who were sat (almost) on top of me at a Hawkwind gig, back in the mid 80's...introduced a niave young lad to the true pleasures of passive smoking....
 ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 12:13
The first band I ever saw live was a Beligan metal band that went by the name "Dead Serious". At the time their best tracks were called "Donald and Daisy" and "Daddy goes to Disneyland"... They had a great lead guitarist despite their 'not so dead serious' stage act.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOuv-YaXthw - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOuv-YaXthw ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 22:28
Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, Novmember 2006, when the tour hit Australia. Very loud, many deafening Marshall Plexi Stacks, and of course very quintessentially Malmsteen
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 22:54
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My first concert...RAFFI!!!! He played the local riverfest when I was one or two years old. Considering when I was that old I listed to him and The Beach Boys, that's pretty sweet. -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Purplefloyd
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 23:28
| For me my first prog gig was actually Dream Theater, at Radio City Music Hall in 2006 when they were filming for Score. Amazing concert, even though I was all the way in the back. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 06:47
That sounds like my first experience of Hawkwind at about the same time. I wondered what that strange smell was that night..
Mind you, the paper wraps, and the odd needle on the toilet cubicle floor needed little explanation.. 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 07:59
Oh dear OK OK I admit it... I was there on the 'Hail To England' tour too, at St Albans City Hall; I've never (before or since) seen such a monstrous sized PA system or backline for a band at that venue...
...mind you, I've rarely (before or since) seen such a ridiculous stage presence; entertaining, undoubtedly, but absolutely pants otherwise. 
I was 19 for God's sake! -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 08:25
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^^ I was 15, and my mother had absolutely NO idea what she'd agreed to let me go and see.... ------------- 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 |
Posted By: MonkeyphoneAlex
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 08:35
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Ween, The Sonic Youth and The Flaming Lips at The Allentown Fairgrounds in the summer of '06 ------------- "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST." -FZ |
Posted By: the_id
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 21:27
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Tangerine Dream at the Glasgow Appollo in 1980...absolutely brilliant in the best ever concert hall in the world. ------------- Why apologize? There is no great shame in thinking you are right. |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 21:31
That was my first prog concert too. And I have never been the same since ------------- <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Quantum Tuba
Date Posted: January 05 2008 at 20:26
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My first show was Umphrey's Mcgee at the Orpheum in Madison in 2006! Great progressive rock! The improvisational interplay is phenomenal, and the compositions are superb. I can't wait for their multi night stand at First Avenue this year.
------------- What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? -- George Orwell |