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December 1st, 2010, 10:24 PM
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Blue Oyster Cult, Angel, and Be Bop Deluxe. 1976???
Be Bop Deluxe was SO good; made everyone else look ridiculous.
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December 1st, 2010, 11:12 PM
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December 1st, 2010, 11:27 PM
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I grew up in Nashville, so it probably wasn't my first concert. But it was my first rock show, and the first show I went to without my parents. Blue Öyster Cult, 1983 (The Revölution By Night tour, I had to look it up). I don't even remember who opened.
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December 1st, 2010, 11:27 PM
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The first concert I ever attended (in a rock concert at a big arena context) was the Beach Boys. The first concert I ever attended without my parents was Cheap Trick on the Dream Police tour. For the latter show, the opening act was this band I had never heard of called The Romantics. They came out onstage decked out in red leather and playing Rickenbacker guitars. They were fantastic.
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December 2nd, 2010, 01:40 AM
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First show was a doozy: Scorpions (Lovedrive tour), Blackfoot (Strikes tour) and Terrible Ted the Motor City Madman! 8.18. 1979, I was 12. Me and my 13 year old buddy were dropped off by my parents in the parking lot at Capital Centre in Largo, MD for this general admission(!) show. Whew..for a little suburban wannabe gitar player and beginning burnout, this was an adult dose, ya'll!
A couple of months later, the same buddy's cool-ass Mom took us up to Towson State College, above Baltimore to see Pat Travers Band (Go For What You Know Tour, feat. the killer Pat Thrall) and AC/DC on the Highway to Hell Tour! 
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December 2nd, 2010, 06:59 AM
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It was either..........................
The Shadows at Northampton Derngate theatre or Elton John & Eric Clapton (support was Bonnie Raitt) at the old Wembley Stadium. Either way it was probably in 1991/2 at a guess? |
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December 2nd, 2010, 08:04 AM
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'66, Paul Revere & The Raiders. Keith Allison opened. He played the guitar behind his head, between his legs and with his teeth, all this was before Hendrix. Mark Lindsay had a ponytail, 1st guy I'd ever seen with a ponytail. All that aside, they were excellent, great players and great showmen and the girls went insane. This is when I got serious about learning to play guitar.
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December 2nd, 2010, 08:10 AM
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First 'serious' concert I went to must have been either Joe Jackson or Suzanne Vega, with Michael Hedges as her support act.
That would have been around '86 I think. Joe Jackson was good as ever. Suzanne vega sounded like on her records, pretty boring performance, but Michael Hedges opening for her totally blew me away! Real shame he passed away to soon  He's still a huge inspiration for me on the flattop! |
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December 2nd, 2010, 08:30 AM
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My first show was Rush "Farewell to Kings Tour" '78-'79 ticket cost was $8.00 and special guest was April Wine ... wow, what a show.
Just a short story to go along with it: When we left the show it was 30 minutes back to our home town my buddy I went to the show with had a '72 Cuda 318 (which was a sweet ride) it was fast as hell and we wanted to get to McDonalds before it closed @11:00 (in our hometown) ... we had a 1/2 hour. So were flyin' down this 2 lane highway @ around a 120MPH and come up on this car in front of us and my buddy starts to go around and it's the State Patrol! We were going so fast that we were overrunning the headlights and didn't see the lights in top of the cruiser. In essence he had to pay some crazy fine and got his a$$ beat by his father when he got home. Later, that summer when drag racing some other dude he totaled the car ... loved those 70's! BTW~ we never made it to McDonalds
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December 2nd, 2010, 11:21 AM
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April 26, 1965, Treasure Island Gardens, London Ontario Canada, Rolling Stones, short show, the police pulled the power in fear of a riot, which they got. Mick promised a make-up show that never happened.
My late friend Rick Wadds (you may know him as "Rick Alexander") opened with his band the Fortune Tellers.
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December 2nd, 2010, 11:38 AM
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The WHO at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, either 78 or 79....a little foggy
 The first tour without Moony unfortunately....wish I coulda seen that lad behind the skins. The opening act was Blackfoot. To this day it has to be the loudest show I've ever seen....
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December 2nd, 2010, 11:50 AM
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Saw Bruce Springsteen at the Spectrum in Philadelphia on December 8, 1980. Great concert--about 4 hours of raucous joyful noise--followed by dead silence in the car on the ride home with Beatles songs playing in the background on the radio.
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December 2nd, 2010, 01:49 PM
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December 2nd, 2010, 02:50 PM
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 sorry-off topic-what is wrong with me?
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