sitboaf Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 March, 1985.Deep Purple with Girlschool opening.L O U DAnd you name it, it got smoked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue J Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Grand Funk Railroad, June 21, 1974 in Spokane, WA at the Coliseum I looked it up online :-)I knew who I saw and was pretty sure it was summer of '74 but now I know for sure. Did they do "Closer to My Home"? That song is actually called "I'm Your Captain". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Feel my pain... HIM at Brixton Academy sometime in 2007. Ville Valo and his boys were these irritating gothic flavoured boy band rockers who plastered annoying, cliched "poetic" and "deep" metaphorical lyrics on the hearts and minds of susceptible and gullible young people. Some of them grew up and realised their dreadful pop flavoured blend of Black Sabbath and Duran Duran was anything but "deep" and the "poetic" nature of their lyrics were no more artful than the likes of Hanson or Wheatus. Of all the bands I could have seen first, it had to be that one. What is worse, they were really boring! The crowd often had to shout to stop Ville Valo from talking rubbish and start singing! Nope. My best friend loved it though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue J Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Huey Lewis and the News- Sports tour, summer of 1984- Timberwolf Amphitheater at Kings Island. I was eleven. I remember that my mother was upset because everybody was standing up, and I couldn't see anything (I was a little squirt back then). My step-dad tried to put me up on his shoulders, but it didn't work out too well. That was the only time I saw that band, too. Fleeting interests, you know... I had been listening to Rush for a few years at that point, but my first Rush show wasn't until March of 1990, right before my 17th birthday. I went alone to that one, and had a blast. Other bands I saw in that mid to late '80s period (before I started going to LOTS of shows in the '90s): Tesla and David Lee Roth, Neville Brothers, Moody Blues, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Beck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBob Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Great topic, now I know the answer to all yinz security questions :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enemy Within 77 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Scorpions- Savage Amusement Tour 1988...great first concert other than the fact that Kingdom Come opened! Remember that shitty Zeppelin wannabe band? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 ^^^ :hi: Kingdom Clone, how can one forget. Biggest joke of the 80s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enemy Within 77 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 (edited) :hi:Haha, yea they were the bottom of the barrel for sure! :boo hiss: Edited January 29, 2014 by Enemy Within 77 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x1yyz Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 My first concert was Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick (my favourite band at the time), and Pat Travers in 1979. And that was where I got my first kiss as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfmoran13 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 KISSMadison Square Garden, NYCDecember 16, 1985opener - Black and Blue Setlist:Detroit Rock CityFits Like a GloveCold GinPaul Stanley guitar soloUh! All NightEric Carr drum soloWar MachineI Still Love YouUnder the GunBruce Kulick guitar soloTears Are FallingGene Simmons bass soloI Love It LoudLove GunRock and Roll All Nite Encore:Heaven's on FireWon't Get Fooled Again (The Who)Lick It Up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 KISS November 4, 1979. That was the Dynasty tour, full make up, original members, etc. I was 12 <!--emo& :D--><img src='http://www.therushfo...ons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> What an eye opening experience <!--emo& :o--><img src='http://www.therushfo...ticons/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo& :P--><img src='http://www.therushfo...cons/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> That was the tour I begged and pleaded like f**k to go but I was deemed way too young. They meant the world to me back then. All I kept listening to was a dubbed cassette of Dynasty from a much older friend and the Paul Stanley solo vinyl. Too young to even have pocket money, no computer of course way back then, never played on the radio...it was sheer magic I tell ya! :codger: :hail: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I begged to see KISS when I was 8 but tickets were 85 dollars. can't say I care too much anymore that I didn't get to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I think it was Van Morrisson in Cork, sometime in the mid 80's.Heavy anaesthetic shit right there. Bloody awful. It's a miracle I became the gigwhore I am today after that load of old man's dribble. I can't stand him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Ozzy Ozbourne 1982 Wow, wonder if Goobs got to see him with RR? Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I think it was Van Morrisson in Cork, sometime in the mid 80's.Heavy anaesthetic shit right there. Bloody awful. It's a miracle I became the gigwhore I am today after that load of old man's dribble. I can't stand him. he's got 2 great albums, the rest of his works I care nothing about. by the mid 80s I'd imagine he probably sounded like total shit. the time to see van morrison was like, 1970 or something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Ozzy Ozbourne 1982 Wow, wonder if Goobs got to see him with RR? Nice. I remember a thread from a while back with rick n backer, metaldad and a few of the other dudes here around that same age, talking about seeing ozzy on that tour and how they all missed seein em with randy, and then goob came up and he was the only one in the group who had seen ozzy with randy. everyone got jealous 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Ozzy Ozbourne 1982 Wow, wonder if Goobs got to see him with RR? Nice. I remember a thread from a while back with rick n backer, metaldad and a few of the other dudes here around that same age, talking about seeing ozzy on that tour and how they all missed seein em with randy, and then goob came up and he was the only one in the group who had seen ozzy with randy. everyone got jealous Thanks dude, my memory is obviously fading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I think it was Van Morrisson in Cork, sometime in the mid 80's.Heavy anaesthetic shit right there. Bloody awful. It's a miracle I became the gigwhore I am today after that load of old man's dribble. I can't stand him. he's got 2 great albums, the rest of his works I care nothing about. by the mid 80s I'd imagine he probably sounded like total shit. the time to see van morrison was like, 1970 or something. Even his classic shit I have trouble with. Dunno, just one of those voices I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 yeah I get that, I'm more surprised that I like it than that most other folks don't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertus3 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Believe it or not ............ Rush, 1981 Rotterdam Ahoy The Netherlands. I was 16 years old. Hooked on Rush forever. Still remember the concert, the atmosphere, my utter joy seeing them live / alive. I've got a bootleg from this concert and listen to it at least one time a year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX-1Bk2 Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Buddy Rich and Louie Bellson at the University of Redlands in 1978. Amazing. Got Bob "Col. Hogan" Crane's autograph on the program. He was a drummer too and he died shortly afterward. First rock show was KISS at the Cow Palace November 25, 1979. Last tour of the original lineup. The Rockets opened and haven't been heard from since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbirdsong Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 The Police August 17, 1982, Nashville, Tn I was 16 and had no idea what was going on. Girls were going crazy and I was sure Sting and Stewart Copeland were going to get into a fist fight at any moment. I was hooked on live shows for life after that. Within a few months of that concert I saw Rush for the first time as well as Genesis, Yes and a few other bands. Times were good. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaminbenb Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 The Carpenters 4/19/75 at the old Hershey Arena! My first "rock" concert was Foghat and Sweet at the same place in May of 1978! Great show! (and this gives me an idea for another thread....stay tuned) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 The Who. Cincinnati Ohio. Riverfront Coliseum, December 8th, 1975 I went with several girlfriends of mine and our mothers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost In Xanadu Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 1991 I think.... Bad Company and Damn Yankees. Sorry, but I just won. </thread> 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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