Reading the Beatles book, page 500. A multi band event in Liverpool:
I'm half done, got to Operation Big Beat, 3000 people in New Brighton. Teenage entertainment arrived, in 1961!
What was your first memorable rock concert?
I'd been to a festival that was pretty good, Argent and Family and Jo Ann Kelly the brits. Colosseum I missed.
But my first indoor concert was as freshman in college. I was 17, had to wait a half year to go drinking with the big boys from the dorm. But a small group of the nerdier boys went to see Jethro Tull in a basket ball arena. I don't even remember the opening song, just prior to Thick as a Brick year. But it was a show! Small enough a venue that you did not miss a moment of the SHOW! Ian made numerous jokes, poking fun at the college audience.
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Huh. I can't remember if I saw Kiss or the Charlie Daniels band first. 
It was either 
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With Kiss, was there an opening act?
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Adam and the Ants. Glasgow Barrowlands.
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Good question. I haven't thought about that in years. I don't think there was.Tero wrote:With Kiss, was there an opening act?
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It almost counts. We'll let you in the club. What was your second band?Audley Strange wrote:Adam and the Ants. Glasgow Barrowlands.
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My uncle took me to my first concert, the US Festival in 1983. The lineup:
Not to mention hot as hell out in the desert.
It was, erm, a bit crowded...Saturday, May 28 (New Wave Day)
Divinyls
INXS
Wall of Voodoo - Stan Ridgway's last appearance with Wall of Voodoo
Oingo Boingo
The English Beat
A Flock of Seagulls
Stray Cats
Men at Work
The Clash - Mick Jones' last appearance with The Clash.
Not to mention hot as hell out in the desert.
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My first was an Anarcho-Hippy/Punk Improv Jam-Band called Here & Now (supported by Alternative TV and The Horrible Nerds) at Nottingham University. Weird mix of punters: hippies sitting on the floor burning jos-sticks and punks standing up at the back (presumably sniffing glue.) Twas fun.
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Double bill - the Kinks and Manfred Mann together in Hong Kong in (I think) 1965. Who would have thought that I would see Ray Davies again just last year at Gateshead. I'm sure even he would have found that improbable.
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Holding up is he, Ray? I heard rumors of poor health.
Good list, Bella. I had Wall of Voodoo and Sugar Cubes about a month apart in Ohio. My whole new wave list is bigger, mostly in 78-84. We had The Police when they only had 10 songs. They played them twice.
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Actually when I come to think it was about three years since that concert. He was well then and his voice strong. I've seen him on TV more recently and he does seem to have aged rather suddenly. A great song writing talent.Tero wrote:Holding up is he, Ray? I heard rumors of poor health.
Good list, Bella. I had Wall of Voodoo and Sugar Cubes about a month apart in Ohio. My whole new wave list is bigger, mostly in 78-84. We had The Police when they only had 10 songs. They played them twice.
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I saw the Kinks in about 1986 or 7... 5th row at the Greek Theatre in LA. 
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Bella Fortuna wrote:My uncle took me to my first concert, the US Festival in 1983. The lineup:
Saturday, May 28 (New Wave Day)
Wall of Voodoo - Stan Ridgway's last appearance with Wall of Voodoo
The Clash - Mick Jones' last appearance with The Clash.
Sounds like it may have been a stressful experience for all involved.
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I'll defend Kings of the Wild Frontier as a new wave classic derided because of its popularity amongst the yoof rather than critics. It still stands up. Can't say that about most of their contemporaries.Tero wrote:It almost counts. We'll let you in the club. What was your second band?Audley Strange wrote:Adam and the Ants. Glasgow Barrowlands.
I was really lucky that I had friends who got free tickets for concerts, many of which were by bands I would never go to see normally plus during the late 80's early nineties there were bands on every night somewhere in Glasgow or Edinburgh. I've been to a couple of thousand gigs, so I don't completely recall, but I think it was either The Smiths at a local college or Iron Maiden's Powerslave tour.
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Never been one for these large concerts, much prefer some quiet jazz in a warm comfy smokey dim lit room.
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