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Subject: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: vinyl lover on 11/11/05 at 11:36 pm
lets hear all the first time concert stories even though it might be a little embarrassing..i went to earth, wind, and fire...i dont remember how i got there cuz i was only 15 but i was there...
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tam on 11/11/05 at 11:44 pm
My first concert was Platinum Blonde at the Kingston Memorial Centre.
The Spoons opened for them! :o
Canadians ROCK!!!
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: whistledog on 11/11/05 at 11:45 pm
My first concert was Platinum Blonde at the Kingston Memorial Centre.
The Spoons opened for them! :o
Canadians ROCK!!!
Platinum Blonde actually played here? Was it a packed stadium arena?
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tia on 11/11/05 at 11:47 pm
that would have been "beatlemania," a beatles lookalike show way back when i was in my single digits. i saw it with my parents, and it was actually really great!
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: ktelqueen on 11/11/05 at 11:49 pm
mine was Billy Idol..and Platinum Blonde opened for him Tam :D ;D
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: gord on 11/11/05 at 11:52 pm
I guess my first real concert was Triumph, not sure of the yr but it would have been very late 70s, or early 80s :)
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: whistledog on 11/11/05 at 11:54 pm
My first concert wasn't really a concert, but more of an outdoor show.  In 2001, I went to the Belleville Waterfront Festival and saw Canadian rap artist "Snow"  ;D
The crowd sure went wild when he sang his hit "The Plumb Song"  ;D
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 11/11/05 at 11:55 pm
I think that my first concert that I really remember was Barry Manilow.
Erin :)
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tia on 11/11/05 at 11:56 pm
I guess my first real concert was Triumph, not sure of the yr but it would have been very late 70s, or early 80s :)
oo! i liked triumph!
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: gord on 11/11/05 at 11:57 pm
that would have been "beatlemania," a beatles lookalike show way back when i was in my single digits. i saw it with my parents, and it was actually really great!
this could have been the first one too, a buddy and I let ourselves in one of the back exits of our hockey arena ;D
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tam on 11/11/05 at 11:58 pm
Platinum Blonde actually played here? Was it a packed stadium arena?
Hardly even close!
They almost didnt come because they had only sold like 200 tickets but in the end there was close to 700 sold so it was ok.
I also saw Helix, Haywire, Honeymoon Suite, Zappa Costa, Spandau Ballet and The Tragically Hip all at the memorial centre.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: AmericanGirl on 11/12/05 at 10:05 am
That would've been the Jackson Five, in 1974 ::)
Not the best seats, but I really loved being there. Many thanks to my (recently) late great Aunt Thelma :\'( for getting us those tix...
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: gord on 11/12/05 at 10:21 am
My first concert wasn't really a concert, but more of an outdoor show.  In 2001, I went to the Belleville Waterfront Festival
I've heard of that festival , not a bad time ;)
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: pretendingtoswim on 11/12/05 at 10:28 am
Aside from a couple of concerts my parents took me to when I was practically a baby (Tijuana Brass at the Hollywood Bowl when I was about 4 or 5 is the only one I remember) ~ the first one I went to on my own was Elton John at Dodger Stadium in 1976. I was 12 and I went with a girlfriend of mine who was also 12! I'll never forget it.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/12/05 at 12:24 pm
Mine was the Cowsills at a local amusement park. I must have been about 8 or 9. My next one was when I was 13 or 14, I went to see B.J. Thomas and Debbie Boone ( ::) ) with a friend of mine. I only went because she wanted to go and didn't want to go alone. Since I didn't have anything better to do, I said, "What the hell."
Cat
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: whistledog on 11/12/05 at 2:14 pm
Hardly even close!
They almost didnt come because they had only sold like 200 tickets but in the end there was close to 700 sold so it was ok.
I also saw Helix, Haywire, Honeymoon Suite, Zappa Costa, Spandau Ballet and The Tragically Hip all at the memorial centre.
holy crap Spandau Ballet have been to Kingston? :o
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: whistledog on 11/12/05 at 2:20 pm
I've heard of that festival , not a bad time ;)
It's always a fun festival :) Every year they always have atleast one big name band. One year, they had Honeymoon Suite with Platinum Blonde. The crowds were so thick, I swear.. everyone who lived in Belleville was there at that show. LOL
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Cool Hand Logan on 11/12/05 at 2:26 pm
My first concert was KISS at Madison Square Garden 12/16/77. Crappy seats...couldn't see much but......cool!! 8)
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: gemini on 11/12/05 at 2:44 pm
Here's the ticket stub from my first concert. (yea, I'm weird like that) :D I was 15 and it was wild! 8) It's a little blurry, I took it with my camera phone, but check out the price!
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Cool Hand Logan on 11/12/05 at 2:46 pm
Here's the ticket stub from my first concert. (yea, I'm weird like that) :D I was 15 and it was wild! 8) It's a little blurry, I took it with my camera phone, but check out the price!
Cool....cheaper than my '77 KISS ticket which was $8.50. 8)
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: gemini on 11/12/05 at 2:53 pm
Cool....cheaper than my '77 KISS ticket which was $8.50.  8)
Wow! $8.50? That's highway robbery! ;D
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Cool Hand Logan on 11/12/05 at 2:55 pm
Wow! $8.50? That's highway robbery! ;DÂÂ
Yeah...especially for the view I had! ;D
Gotta find my tickets and take a pic and post it. I have no idea where they are though. :-\\
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tia on 11/12/05 at 3:02 pm
Yeah...especially for the view I had!  ;D
Gotta find my tickets and take a pic and post it. I have no idea where they are though.  :-\\
http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=11312;type=avatar
as an aside, this animated gif is sheer genius. :)
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: gemini on 11/12/05 at 3:05 pm
http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=11312;type=avatar
as an aside, this animated gif is sheer genius. :)
What's it doing?
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Cool Hand Logan on 11/12/05 at 3:05 pm
Gracias!  8)
I took the pic from about 25 blocks south of my home and found a free program on the internet that animates the water.  8)
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Cool Hand Logan on 11/12/05 at 3:06 pm
What's it doing?
Look close! ;D
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: gemini on 11/12/05 at 3:08 pm
Look close!  ;D
Ah ha!! So it does! Ya see, I'm in the early stages of denial of needing glasses. It all fell apart when I hit 40! :D
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Cool Hand Logan on 11/12/05 at 3:10 pm
Ah ha!! So it does! Ya see, I'm in the early stages of denial of needing glasses. It all fell apart when I hit 40! :D
;D Ah...go get'em. I'm 43 and I've been wearing them for 33 years. ;D
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: gemini on 11/12/05 at 3:12 pm
;D Ah...go get'em. I'm 43 and I've been wearing them for 33 years.  ;D
I'm a year older than you, and I've needed them for a few! But, it's in my plans for the next month or so. I have to do something soon. :-[
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Cool Hand Logan on 11/12/05 at 3:13 pm
I'm a year older than you, and I've needed them for a few! But, it's in my plans for the next month or so. I have to do something soon. :-[
At least you held off this long. I couldn't see the blackboard when I was a kid. :-\\
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: gemini on 11/12/05 at 3:16 pm
At least you held off this long. I couldn't see the blackboard when I was a kid.  :-\\
Sorry, I think we've hi-jacked this thread :-[ Sorry, vinyl lover.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: zcrito on 11/12/05 at 4:09 pm
My first concert -- Alice Cooper in the early '70s.
It was an eye opener for me. It was then that I first realized "the real world" was so much different than what I saw on television.
???
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: micah on 11/12/05 at 5:13 pm
I got to see the Rolling Stones for my 12th birthday in Nov. 1964. I remember police were lined across the front of the stage and the screaming was so loud you could barely hear them.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: loki 13 on 11/13/05 at 11:41 am
My first concert was Kiss at the Spectrum in Philadelphia in
early January 1978, i was 15 at the time and I went with my
brother.The tickets cost $8.50 and I sat in the 2nd row,left side.
I wasn't a big Kiss fan but the concert was surprisingly good.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tia on 11/13/05 at 12:11 pm
My first concert was Kiss at the Spectrum in Philadelphia in
early January 1978, i was 15 at the time and I went with my
brother.The tickets cost $8.50 and I sat in the 2nd row,left side.
I wasn't a big Kiss fan but the concert was surprisingly good.
man i bet that was a GAS. i'm sick with envy!
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: loki 13 on 11/13/05 at 12:47 pm
man i bet that was a GAS. i'm sick with envy!
It was and now that I was thinking about it I remember
Judas Priest opened for Kiss. It was a helluva show.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Cool Hand Logan on 11/13/05 at 12:49 pm
It was and now that I was thinking about it I remember
Judas Priest opened for Kiss. It was a helluva show.
You got to see Priest? I saw them in December '77 and Billy Squier's band Piper opened.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: loki 13 on 11/13/05 at 12:57 pm
You got to see Priest? I saw them in December '77 and Billy Squier's band Piper opened.
Yes,and Judas Priest was quite impressive,except when
the microphone came unplugged during "Diamonds and Rust"
Rob Halford kept singing and the roadies were trying to plug
the microphone back in but Halford kept moving.It was hilarious
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Cool Hand Logan on 11/13/05 at 1:01 pm
Yes,and Judas Priest was quite impressive,except when
the microphone came unplugged during "Diamonds and Rust"
Rob Halford kept singing and the roadies were trying to plug
the microphone back in but Halford kept moving.It was hilarious
Must've been. 8)
Let me clarify...I saw KISS in December not Priest. :o :) http://xs54.xs.to/pics/05450/gene.gif
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Mr Tumnus on 11/13/05 at 2:35 pm
Average White Band
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: ramonjet on 11/13/05 at 9:27 pm
George Harrison in L.A. 1974. Billy Preston was there too
It was at the FORUM, sure was alot of sweet smelling smoke in the air that night!!
wonder what that was??
:)
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/14/05 at 11:58 am
Here's the ticket stub from my first concert. (yea, I'm weird like that) :D I was 15 and it was wild! 8) It's a little blurry, I took it with my camera phone, but check out the price!
I still have my ticket stub from when I went to see Loverboy.
Cat
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: gemini on 11/14/05 at 8:28 pm
I still have my ticket stub from when I went to see Loverboy.
Cat
I've saved most of my ticket stubs for some reason or another. It's cool to look back on them once in awhile and reminisce :)
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: RDee on 11/14/05 at 11:56 pm
I threw all my ticket stubs out when I moved years ago - what a mistake!
Anyway, I was about 13 years old when my older brother's friends dragged me to see Head East. Here's what I remember - thousands of people...dope smoking...colored lights...people standing on top of the restrooms/concession stands/light towers/each other. Needless to say I was hooked. Bought my very own KISS tickets weeks later and was never the same!
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: ultraviolet52 on 11/15/05 at 1:17 am
I saw Hanson in 1998. That was my first stadium concert at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View, California.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/15/05 at 12:27 pm
I've saved most of my ticket stubs for some reason or another. It's cool to look back on them once in awhile and reminisce :)
Yeah, me too. I rarely throw anything away. I keep all the programs from different plays and such I have seen over the years. I even got programs from jr. high preformances that I was in. I am such a packrat.
Cat
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Davester on 11/15/05 at 2:21 pm
Have an extremely vague recollection of being with my parents at what I'm assuming was a Pablo Cruise gig sometime in the mid-70's, somewhere in the bay area. I can only remember Love Will Find A Way and sitting on the grass...
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: 80s gail on 11/16/05 at 1:34 pm
My first concert was in 1981 went to see bucks fizz at the local theatre, they are quite naff actually but were very popular that year. saw them again at an 80s christmas concert last year, they were really good, and because i don't now care who is naff and who is not, as i am at the age for being past caring about naffness, if i accidentally see them again(it would have to be by accident)i wouldn't complain!
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tia on 11/16/05 at 5:47 pm
oo! i forgot my second concert, which could be considered my first concert if you consider beatlemania more of a simulated concert, which i could understand....
it was "the kinks" at constitution hall. i kept trying to dance but the dude i went with kept telling me to stop. um, i was like dag, can you spell buzzkiller?
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tia on 11/16/05 at 5:48 pm
and they didn't do destroyer! my favorite song!
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Banks on 11/16/05 at 8:13 pm
My Dad took me to see ACDC at Newcastle's Civic Theater. Im not sure what year it was, but I know I was at least five, and that was in 1977. I remember seeing Bon Scott and hearing him sing. Angus jumped from the balcony overlooking the stage (a massive drop) and landed in the crowd.
I remember when Dirty Deeds came on I stood up and yelled so loud my voice hurt. I also remember being about the only kid my age there among a sea of black T-shirts and long hair. It was awsome.
Ive seen ACDC since Bon Scott's death, but they just arent the same.
AN
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tia on 11/16/05 at 8:31 pm
My Dad took me to see ACDC at Newcastle's Civic Theater. Im not sure what year it was, but I know I was at least five, and that was in 1977. I remember seeing Bon Scott and hearing him sing. Angus jumped from the balcony overlooking the stage (a massive drop) and landed in the crowd.
I remember when Dirty Deeds came on I stood up and yelled so loud my voice hurt. I also remember being about the only kid my age there among a sea of black T-shirts and long hair. It was awsome.
Ive seen ACDC since Bon Scott's death, but they just arent the same.
AN
man that's awesome. i'm even more jealous than i am of the guy who went to the KISS show. damn! to see bon scott in the flesh. did angus wear the schoolboy getup?
sure, brian johnson's no bon scott. but you gotta admit, back in black is a helluvan album.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Banks on 11/16/05 at 9:02 pm
man that's awesome. i'm even more jealous than i am of the guy who went to the KISS show. damn! to see bon scott in the flesh. did angus wear the schoolboy getup?
sure, brian johnson's no bon scott. but you gotta admit, back in black is a helluvan album.
Yeah, Angus did wear the school boy outfit. I also remember Bon dressing up in drag while singing Can I Sit Next To You Girl.
Dont get me wrong, I do like Brian Johnson in ACDC, but Im not sure if it was simply the feel or the time, but the concerts of ACDC back then just seemed to have a whole different feel to them.
Oh, and by the way...I also saw KISS in concert in the 1970's as well as once in the 1980's and twice in the 90's.
AN
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: GREEN67 on 11/16/05 at 10:09 pm
8) ZZ Top in 79....I lied to my parents about where I was going....I was already 5"8..so I looked ALOT older with makeup...It was sovery cool...Will never forget it...
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: vinyl lover on 11/24/05 at 10:33 pm
my second concert was "prince" at the fabulous forum..i remember he was humping the bed when he sang---international lover..i was wondering is that allowed also what is he doing//???
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: lvsweetbread on 11/27/05 at 9:42 am
MY First concert was in 1984, I saw Hewy Lewis and The News in Texas. It was sad because at that time I was 11 and I needed glasses and I was siting way in the back and He was very fuzzy! :o
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Perryfan on 11/27/05 at 7:36 pm
I cannot believe I will admit this.
Leif Garrett at Six Flags over Georgia.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/28/05 at 12:11 pm
I cannot believe I will admit this.
Leif Garrett at Six Flags over Georgia.
Is that any worse than me admiting to seeing Debbie Boone?
Cat
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: bookmistress4ever on 11/28/05 at 8:16 pm
My first concert that I went with my parents to was Sha-Na-Na (with Bowzer), and Dr. Hook opened for them. I was young, probably around 8 or 10. I remember we had seats on the side of the arena, so that you could kinda see some of what ws going on behind stage. I remember the dressing room door opening, and seeing Bowzer standing there smoking a cigarette. Wow did I think that was bad! ;D I was so naive.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 11/28/05 at 8:20 pm
My first concert that I went with my parents to was Sha-Na-Na (with Bowzer), and Dr. Hook opened for them.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: whistledog on 11/28/05 at 9:18 pm
My first concert that I went with my parents to was Sha-Na-Na (with Bowzer), and Dr. Hook opened for them.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: zotsfreak on 11/30/05 at 7:30 am
1975 as a 14 year old Kiss freak. Niagara Falls Convention Center- Kiss with Blue Oyster Cult as warm up. After that, again N.F.C.C. (a little more talent, too!) ZZ Top with Blue OysterCult warming up again, and a third act: Starz .My third show was a little more talented yet: At what was then Rich Stadium, home of the Buffalo Bills. Donavan, j. Geils Band, Bob Seger, and headlining, Yes. These were some good days with good music.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 11/30/05 at 8:51 pm
Linda Ronstadt,in 1976, at the Garden State Arts Center(now PNC Performing Arts Center, I think)..she opened the concert with "Someone To Lay Down Beside Me"..
But the BIGGEST concert I've ever been to is when the BEACH BOYS did a FREE CONCERT in Atlantic City,on the beach next to the now-defunct Ocean One Mall,it was 1983 I think, Ceasars Atlantic City got the Beach Boys to come here after James Watt(then Secretary of the Interior) denied them the traditional July 4th concert on the Washington, DC Mall..
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tia on 12/01/05 at 10:16 am
they played george bush sr.'s inauguration in, i guess it would been 1989, when i went to that.
(yup, me, would-be nader voter, went to bush sr.'s inauguration. i figured what the heck, it was right down the road.)
the beach boys, i mean.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Badfinger-fan on 12/04/05 at 2:59 am
1973 or 74 I saw Journey, Kansas, and the Kinks at the stockton civic auditorium. I must have rolled up 40 joints that night. Almost all of the concerts I saw were in Stockton back in the 70's. I was only 13 in 1969, but I would have loved to been at woodstock. I saw Marshall Tucker band, Charlie Daniels, Fleetwood Mac, Elvin Bishop, War, Tower of Power thruout the 70's and some still in the 80's & 90's. Looking at ticketmaster to get Aerosmith tix because they just went on sale 1 hour ago.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 12/04/05 at 8:39 pm
I wished I could have seen Alice Cooper during his heyday,but my frigging OVERPROTECTIVE foster parents said no...I wonder if it was because of my disability or because I was thirteen and a ward of the State..? I would have been going with someone older than me, an older gal, who was very responsible!
I plan to see P.O.D. someday but I'm gonna wait until they come to Philly, they are coming to Borgata in Atlantic City but they are not headlining.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: hot_wax on 12/07/05 at 2:24 am
This is the first time I'm replying to a "1970's" decade post. My first 70's concert was a benefit concert for people in Bangla Desh held at Madison Square Garden, New York City on August 1, 1971 called "George Harrison and Friends Concert". George Harrison and Ravi Shankar organized it within a few weeks. It was the first concert that a "Beatle" did after their break-up that drew "Stars" like Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Leon Russell and Ringo Starr but only as a drummer in the band. Bad Finger, Billy Preston and about twenty or more popular singers and band members of that time. The rumer going around before the concert was that all the Beatles were getting back together for this one time only concert for George's benefit...but Paul and John weren't talking to each other then and blew it off...2 out of 4 of them was cool!
They gave two shows in that one day, I went to the second show, this is the show that they recorded most of the Bangla Desh album from, and I'm on that album cheering....yeah! along with the other twenty thousand fans. All those Stars and the tickets were only $12.50, today they would be a few hundred dollars. It would have been worth it, it was a terrific terrific one time only show of it's kind and I still have fond memories of it.
That was my last cool concert, other concerts later on in the 70's were wifey ones...that's a different story.
Hot Wax
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: TheRemf on 12/07/05 at 11:02 am
My first concert was an Alice Cooper one. It was with the "Killer" tour and I saw it in Wichita. Seeing the gallows and having Alice "hung" at the end of the concert was great! The boa constrictor was cool,too.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: hot_wax on 12/07/05 at 10:05 pm
Is that any worse than me admiting to seeing Debbie Boone?
Yeah, Wayne Newton...twice!
Cat
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: GREEN67 on 12/08/05 at 7:50 pm
8) After ZZ Top I saw KISS>>>Freaky thing is I was standing in the beer line and I ran into my DAD...THEN..I saw him at Eric Clapton...and THEN..Again at ZZ Top again with the Black Crows...YEAH>>>My dad is COOL...LOL...He really is!!
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: ultraviolet52 on 12/09/05 at 7:55 pm
This is the first time I'm replying to a "1970's" decade post. My first 70's concert was a benefit concert for people in Bangla Desh held at Madison Square Garden, New York City on August 1, 1971 called "George Harrison and Friends Concert". George Harrison and Ravi Shankar organized it within a few weeks. It was the first concert that a "Beatle" did after their break-up that drew "Stars" like Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Leon Russell and Ringo Starr but only as a drummer in the band. Bad Finger, Billy Preston and about twenty or more popular singers and band members of that time. The rumer going around before the concert was that all the Beatles were getting back together for this one time only concert for George's benefit...but Paul and John weren't talking to each other then and blew it off...2 out of 4 of them was cool!
They gave two shows in that one day, I went to the second show, this is the show that they recorded most of the Bangla Desh album from, and I'm on that album cheering....yeah! along with the other twenty thousand fans. All those Stars and the tickets were only $12.50, today they would be a few hundred dollars. It would have been worth it, it was a terrific terrific one time only show of it's kind and I still have fond memories of it.
That was my last cool concert, other concerts later on in the 70's were wifey ones...that's a different story.
Hot Wax
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: danootaandme on 12/10/05 at 4:43 pm
My first was Gene Pitney, I guess the majority of you don't know him, but there are a few
out there who do. ;)
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: ultraviolet52 on 12/10/05 at 5:52 pm
My first was Gene Pitney, I guess the majority of you don't know him, but there are a few
out there who do.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Abix on 12/11/05 at 4:57 am
I was 11 yrs old. It was 1978, my cousin took me to see Leif Garrett at the MN State Fair. I didn't even like him . I was into Shaun Cassidy ! He did do a great rendition of "Surfin USA" though.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: hot_wax on 12/11/05 at 9:47 pm
My first was Gene Pitney, I guess the majority of you don't know him, but there are a few
out there who do.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: danootaandme on 12/12/05 at 5:47 am
Hi Danoota, yeah I remember him well, I just resently bought a CD "Gene Pitney Greatest Hits", I had an album of his that's long gone and I wanted to hear his song "I'm Going to be Strong" again and bought the CD for that song alone, but most of his other songs are good also, "Half Heaven, Half Heartache" and "Every Breath I Take" are really great cuts too. He reminds me a lot of Roy Orbison on the "I'm going to be Strong" song.
You did a good thing getting to see him in concert back then, I didn't, and wish now that did. I wonder what he's doing today or if he's even alive? I'll check Google on him.
Hot Wax
From what I understand he spends a lot of time touring in England, but lives in Connecticut, I think that
is where he is from. I have his greatest hits to, and remember when they all came out. "I'm Going to be
Strong" is probably the best, and "It Hurts to be In Love"
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: hot_wax on 12/12/05 at 8:59 pm
From what I understand he spends a lot of time touring in England, but lives in Connecticut, I think that
is where he is from.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: danootaandme on 12/13/05 at 5:49 am
You mean he still does concerts? I have to check him out and see if he'll be in the NYC area, maybe I'll go and see him.
You know, as I listen to those old hits of his today, many song he sings on that album he sounds like he's mimicking other Artists styles and I'm trying to remember some of the Rock and Roll singers he sounds like, "I"m going to be Strong" he sounds like Roy Orbison singing, Johnny Rivers on "Twenty four Hours from Tulsa", Bobby Goldsboro on "It Hurts to be in Love", and he sounds like Bobby Vinton on a couple of others. Is it me or do you hear what I hear?
Hot Wax
You are right, although I never thought about it before. He does the oldies circuit. I know he has been in the Boston area within the past year or two. I just googled this
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gene+pitney
He plays a lot in the northeast, beware, you see the names of songs and you just have to hear them.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: hot_wax on 12/14/05 at 1:16 am
You are right, although I never thought about it before.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: bruce on 12/15/05 at 9:44 pm
BLACiKFOOT with DEF LEPPARD as their opening act fall 1981 albany palace theater albany ny
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 12/16/05 at 7:57 pm
My first concert was an Alice Cooper one.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: cables on 12/28/05 at 3:15 pm
3rd May 1976 Elton John at the Liverpool Empire (10 miles from my house). Four weeks to the day later I went to my second concert: The Who at Charlton Athletic Football Ground (200 miles from my house). Quite a step up from an indoor concert in a small venue close to home!
Other people mentioned on this thread:
The Kinks - I think I've seen them three times, but I've seen Ray on his own more than that. Most recently two months ago.
The Beatles - I've never seen any of them, but I've seen Ringo's son playing with The Who - a better drummer than his dad.
Gene Pitney - not my sort of thing, but for those who are interested he's playing in Liverpool early 2006 (April I think).
AC/DC - I saw them supporting The Who in 1979 and was so impressed I nearly went to see them a couple of months later. But Christmas was coming, I was going to loads of concerts, and I was short of money. "There'll be another chance" I thought to myself. Then Bon Scott died a couple of months later. Ah well. :\'(
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: KKay on 12/29/05 at 3:01 pm
Mine was Kenny Loggins.
before that we only went to theater.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: de410 on 01/03/06 at 4:44 pm
Actual first concert - Elvis! Went to it with my mom and grandmother.
First concert with friends - Doobie Brothers.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: ultraviolet52 on 01/03/06 at 5:48 pm
My first concert that I went with my parents to was Sha-Na-Na (with Bowzer), and Dr. Hook opened for them. I was young, probably around 8 or 10. I remember we had seats on the side of the arena, so that you could kinda see some of what ws going on behind stage. I remember the dressing room door opening, and seeing Bowzer standing there smoking a cigarette. Wow did I think that was bad! ;D I was so naive.
I just realised a few months ago Sha Na Na were the same people who did a lot of the background singing in "Grease" and that because of "Grease" is how they got their own variety show and stuff..
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/03/06 at 5:52 pm
I just realised a few months ago Sha Na Na were the same people who did a lot of the background singing in "Grease" and that because of "Grease" is how they got their own variety show and stuff..
Actually Sha Na Na was around long before Grease. In fact, they played at Woodstock.
Cat
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: ultraviolet52 on 01/03/06 at 6:32 pm
Actually Sha Na Na was around long before Grease. In fact, they played at Woodstock.
Cat
Yeah, that's true. I think what I meant was that the Grease thing sort of catapulted them to get the variety show. It was sorta what triggered it.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: whistledog on 01/03/06 at 6:40 pm
John 'Bowser' Baumann, one of the members of Sha Na Na hosted Hollywood Squares from 1983-1984 :)
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/03/06 at 6:41 pm
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Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: whistledog on 01/03/06 at 6:44 pm
I remember seeing him on Match Game, too.
Cat
Yep. He was a Match Game panelist from 1983-1984 :)
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: KKay on 01/04/06 at 8:25 am
my first show alone with friends (not mom or my sister) was the ramones..
I saw them 3 times in one weekend in Brooklyn- over two days...we slept in the car.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: alyceclover on 01/09/06 at 7:09 am
Vaguely. Rick Springfield in Philadelphia PA.
My sister & I won't allow our daughters & their friends go to a Concert alone, so we chaperoned....a, drat, what's the PC term, mentally handicapped? young man was trying to pick up us two "old ladies". We were a whole lot more wild then our daughter's & friends. Had a blow-out on what they call the Sckull-KILL expressway because so many people die on it. Scary moment...angel must have been there that I got car safely from the left lane to the shoulder.
It is embarrassing. The first music act I saw was in a High School....Little Anthony & the Imperials! They were great...high energy & splits & things. They had a lot of Motown Revues at the College, but I wasn't allowed to go; 'too young" to my protest "He's a boy" was why my brother got to go.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: jaytee on 01/09/06 at 8:24 am
Slade supported by Australian band "Hush" at Brisbane's Festival Hall. :) I was about 15 and went with my sister and cousin.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Banks on 01/11/06 at 4:38 am
Other concerts I went to in the 1970's and very early 80's:
Fleetwood Mac (I think it was in 1978)
Alice Cooper
Hall and Oats
ABBA
Wings
Little River Band
Cold Chisel
Mi-Sex
The Who
I there were others, but that will do for now.
CGOOTR
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Bingo on 01/11/06 at 8:30 pm
Queen -- The News of the World Tour in LA
The first song of the night was "We will Rock You." & the last song of the night was "We will Rock You." In fact, if I remember right that song was played seven times that night.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Badfinger-fan on 01/12/06 at 3:28 am
Queen -- The News of the World Tour in LA
The first song of the night was "We will Rock You." & the last song of the night was "We will Rock You." In fact, if I remember right that song was played seven times that night.
Lucky
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: imhowold? on 01/20/06 at 12:26 pm
I guess my first concert was with my mom & Grandma, (I think I was about 7 or 8 years old)
We saw Ray Charles & it was incredible.
My first concert without mom & grandma was Donny & Marie Osmond (stop laughing) I was only 10 & went with my "cool, older" cousin.
I also saw Shaun Cassidy that summer (cool older cousin again)
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Banks on 01/22/06 at 6:10 am
Queen -- The News of the World Tour in LA
The first song of the night was "We will Rock You." & the last song of the night was "We will Rock You." In fact, if I remember right that song was played seven times that night.
I remember seeing Queen in Australia in the early to mid 1980's. I remember them playing the 'Flash' dum dum dum dum dum for a good 20 minutes. Couldnt seen anyone on stage though. At first people were all excited and cheering, but after the first 10 minutes people just went about their own thing, until, with a flash of light and the sound of Freddy Mercury's voice, the song started. I think it was to promote the Flash Gordon movie soundtrack.
AN
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: jaytee on 01/22/06 at 7:42 am
Queen -- The News of the World Tour in LA
The first song of the night was "We will Rock You." & the last song of the night was "We will Rock You." In fact, if I remember right that song was played seven times that night.
I saw Queen in Brisbane in about 1977 - Freddy Mercury wore red and white hot pants and was SO good. It was one of those nights I'll never forget.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: Tia on 02/12/06 at 4:34 pm
I guess my first concert was with my mom & Grandma, (I think I was about 7 or 8 years old)
We saw Ray Charles & it was incredible.
My first concert without mom & grandma was Donny & Marie Osmond (stop laughing) I was only 10 & went with my "cool, older" cousin.
I also saw Shaun Cassidy that summer (cool older cousin again)
shaun cassidy! lol. is that shaun cassidy in the hardy boys? i'm watching those right now when i get time.
Subject: Re: do you remember your first concert?
Written By: KKay on 02/12/06 at 4:54 pm
I saw Tony Orlando and Dawn. that was the first one. Not kenny loggins! not Air supply!
(not that they are any cooler)