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Me: The Beatles
LakeArenal
(28,896 posts)Ptah
(33,057 posts)Rhiannon12866
(207,016 posts)Saratoga Performing Arts Center when I was 14, my camp friends and I had lawn tickets and I remember it was so crowded that it was hard to find a place to sit...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,031 posts)Better music from the orchestra but better drugs from the Stones.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)I would love it.
happybird
(4,671 posts)That would be an experience, lol!
I gotta say, hanging out with Paul and Ringo would be amazing! A dream come true.
niyad
(114,007 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)tblue37
(65,556 posts)handmade34
(22,759 posts)Dave Clark Five
dweller
(23,712 posts)and Carol King
i could handle that again ...
✌🏼
TexasTowelie
(112,755 posts)At the Frank Erwin Center in Austin in fall of 1983. Unfortunately, Ray Thomas got sick during the performance and had to be hospitalized.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,515 posts)But I dont want to be in quarantine with them. Although there might be some interesting fights.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Cheap Trick were the opening act!!!
That Counts!!!
Love Gun Tour, 1977 ... Cow Palace, SF. I was 11.
Mersky
(4,986 posts)🎶Shake your love...just cant shake your love🎶 at Astroworld.
It. Was. Awesome.
ret5hd
(20,573 posts)I'm sorry. I was young. I would do things differently now, I promise.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)That is STILL a great song.
ret5hd
(20,573 posts)I certainly thought it was cool then.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)"School's out for.... ever!"
Ferrets are Cool
(21,122 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,368 posts)Brought my younger sister to a concert for her birthday. Her first concert and my first concert. She brought 3 friend and my mother would only let the 4 of them go if I brought them.
bottomofthehill
(8,368 posts)Is the concert was at the Masonic Temple in Cambridge Ma
dawg day
(7,947 posts)mine not so much: Blood Sweat and Tears.
Actually, as I recall, there were 10 members on the stage, so that takes us over the limit allowed for gatherings in my state.
Can I trade with you? I'd rather have the Beatles!
woodsprite
(11,947 posts)I'd prefer being quarantined with the last act I saw: Home Free. (It's all about the bass! He has a range from A0 to A5!)
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)1970
stjohndoe
(45 posts)nm
Ahpook
(2,751 posts)I did meet a few people that did sound for them in the Gazzari's Club days.
The stories they have are super fun to hear
RGinNJ
(1,021 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,501 posts)lapfog_1
(29,244 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)At the Fillmore East, May 1969
Of course I had seen other musical ensembles, but I think this was my first real rock concert
NRaleighLiberal
(60,041 posts)Lochloosa
(16,086 posts)Lochloosa
(16,086 posts)So my answer would be The Grateful Dead.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)RockRaven
(15,105 posts)I was a freshman in high school, and it was some sort of school/class thing.
That's a lot of people to be quarantined with...
Mopar151
(10,014 posts)UNH, 1975
AJT
(5,240 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Sometime in the 1970s (as near as I can remember, what little I remember of those days...) in Oakland, CA
On edit: My folks took me to see the L.A. Symphony Orch. some time in the 50s, but I really don't remember that myself.
On additional edit: Or maybe Earth Wind & Fire was my first. I just can't sure after 50 years.
Ferryboat
(928 posts)Paramount theater. I had no idea. Buddy gave a ticket if I drove.
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)It was originally supposed to be Suicidal Tendencies, Candlebox, Alice in Chains, and Metallica. I bought the ticket just for Alice in Chains. Unfortunately, Layne Staley had another issue with heroin, so they dropped out. They were replaced with Rob Halford's (of Judas Priest fame) new band, Fight. I would hate to be quarantined with any of these bands. Well, if I had to pick one, I guess I'd choose Suicidal Tendencies.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)I had a mad crush on Joey Robb! Met him after a concert and he was so sweet, plus he had a baby face and Im a sucker for a baby face!
safeinOhio
(32,763 posts)my first one was in 1961 and it was Ricky Nelson. I was 12.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)I would probably die laughing.
Delarage
(2,186 posts)at the University of Delaware
enough
(13,273 posts)eShirl
(18,511 posts)kicked you around some
csziggy
(34,141 posts)Yes, that was the first musical act I saw in concert, several times a year for four years. Given, it was a very good band, won all kinds of awards and the marching band won a bunch, too. In fact, it was so good my sister was in the All American Marching Band (now, I think McDonald's supports it and tacks their name on it). She got to march and play in Toronto and in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with them.
After she left for college, I never wanted to hear another high school band. Partly I was burned out and partly every other high school band I have ever heard was terrible compared to the one that Mr. Fuchs trained back in Bartow in the 1960s.
Now, if you mean a real commercial, paid musical act, it would be Herman's Hermits.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)haele
(12,704 posts)My parents loved be-bop, classical music and PDQ.
Beethovan's 5th sportscasting...even at 6 years old, I understood it.
Haele
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I think I could live with quarantine, thank you...
hunter
(38,354 posts)That's not counting the really weird naked people stuff my artist parents took me to when I was a kid... a vagina art show at UCLA.
My parents took me to some normal concerts as well. My mom knew people. My parents were working in Hollywood when they met.
My mom's dad was a friend or familiar of Sally Rand and my mom as a kid used to hang out with all sorts of fancy ladies, some of them her baby sitters, especially in the Second World War. Her parents were busy as welders, building and repairing Liberty and Victory ships.
When I was seventeen I ran some cables for some local production of Jesus Christ Superstar. I mostly watched that and when the work was done I retreated to the underbrush with a young women named Linda and we drank some cheap beer.
Kali
(55,032 posts)I was supposed to see Deep Purple at Big Sruf, maaannn, but I got in trouble for something or other and got grounded.
I honestly can't remember what my first concert was. mid 70s for sure.
The Figment
(494 posts)At the State Theater in Kalamazoo Mi. 1971
Ahpook
(2,751 posts)I'd have to ask the folks, but either Cat Stevens or James Taylor. I have VERY vague memories of those shows at Wolf Trap, I think. It was an amphitheater for sure. Could have been Merriweather Post Pavilion.
LOVE that venue
On edit: I actually do remember Cat Stevens coming on stage. His aura and music still sticks with me.
SKKY
(11,840 posts)1978. Blonds Have More Fun Tour. I was 8 years old. On a side note, it was also my first contact hight.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)Oh, I'd gladly enjoy extended quarantine in lots of fun with that!
Thunderbeast
(3,432 posts)Berkeley Auditorium
5th row.
Permanent hearing loss..no doubt🤠
Glorfindel
(9,750 posts)Canned Heat, and Ray Stevens. I don't remember which act was up first. It was 1969, so it's a miracle I remember it at all.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)Straight out of total hick nowhere interior Alaska to college freshman, seeing James Brown about eighth row, in the fall of 1965, New Haven. That was Some kinda jolt!
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)It was Golden Earring opening for Jethro Tull, so I guess it would be Golden Earring. 1975. Olympiastadion, Munich.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)It was about this time of year, Memphis, and so hot!
Coventina
(27,227 posts)My 15 year old self is super jazzed about that!!!!
Wolf Frankula
(3,605 posts)Can I have my first girlfriend with me? Don't tell my wife.
Wolf
subterranean
(3,427 posts)They played at a small venue at my college. I was pretty close to the stage, and my ears were ringing for days afterwards.
Tikki
(14,565 posts)Probably 1963..
I grew up in E. Washington State. Paul Revere and the Raiders played all over that region.
One of the band members drove a Valiant.
I remember that car.
Tikki
LuckyCharms
(17,479 posts)JustGene
(421 posts)MFM008
(19,839 posts)Saw them twice.
Then the Stones...
Styx and Stones...
Niagara
(7,778 posts)I was 13 years old. It was a family outing and I didn't have a choice. All 3 performed on the same night what I believe was at the Hillsdale County Fairgrounds in Michigan.
A classmate of mine entered the bench seating area, noticed me and smiled. I tried to smile back but I was actually embarrassed to be seen there. I would have preferred to be at a Def Leppard concert. Country music just wasn't my thing.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Scott McKenzie, John Phillips and Dick Weissman - unbelievable talents
I loved the folk era!
CottonBear
(21,598 posts)He played, solo, if I remember correctly, in Miller Park, which was fairly new at the time, in downtown Chattanooga, TN. This was sometime in the late 1970s, maybe 1976, 1977 or 1978.
My girlfriends and sat right up front. It was in the early evening. We got to meet him and get his autograph after the concert. Our parents dropped us off downtown, because we were too young to drive at the time.
At the time Chattanooga was, at least to us, so boring. Without cars and money, we couldnt get ourselves to any big rock concerts in or near Chattanooga or in Atlanta, Nashville or Birmingham. Our parents were quite conservative, so we were really happy to find out about Don McLeans concert and be able to go! The city must have booked the concert. I think it was free. Ive long since lost his autograph, although I had it for many years.
It was a lovely performance and a beautiful evening. We sang along to American Pie! The friends, who attended the concert with me, are still two of my very best friends all these years later!
After I headed off to college, my first real rock concert was rem opening for the English Beat at UGAs Legion Field in Athens, GA! It was a free outdoor concert and it was awesome!
backtoblue
(11,348 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,545 posts)Dr. Hook and Rare Earth. Good times, good times.
highmindedhavi
(355 posts)L.A. Forum 1986
DFW
(54,527 posts)Better hire a whole hotel.
Bayard
(22,256 posts)At King's Island in Cincy. High school, and they locked us in for the night.
Paladin
(28,290 posts)I enjoyed The Beachboys, but I went for the second-billed Springfield---they were awesome. This was around 1966 or so.
jpak
(41,761 posts)Ugh
Atticus
(15,124 posts)Tikki
(14,565 posts)at the Seattle City Center arena.
And then we saw them again, well Felix and some of the band, with
Tommy James and the Shondells ...like in 1987 or so in Hollywood.
Felix could really rock those Leslie's.
Tikki
nuxvomica
(12,473 posts)He opened for The Vanilla Fudge.
NNadir
(33,594 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(9,582 posts)Iggo
(47,603 posts)That'll work.
('81 or '82, not sure when, but it was before my second concert, which was Black Sabbath Mob Rules Tour at The Forum in Inglewood on April 15th, 1982.)
MrsMatt
(1,660 posts)Saw Russell Hitchcock fall off the stage.
ProfessorGAC
(65,466 posts)Chicago Amphitheater, 1970. My uncle took 3 of us.
First concert I went to when I could drive was Bowie on the Ziggy Tour, October '72 at the Auditorium Theater.
Saw Mott The Hoople there 4 or 5 months later.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,505 posts)Being quarantined with that bunch would be.......entertaining to say the least.
Great show.......
area51
(11,945 posts)Trailrider1951
(3,416 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 20, 2020, 04:39 PM - Edit history (1)
November, 1965. My 14th birthday. Veteran's Memorial Auditorium, Columbus, Ohio. Ticket prices were $2.50, $3.50 and $4.50. I ended up with a $4.50 ticket for $3.50 from a scalper (night of the concert). The first half of the concert was him, his acoustic guitar and harmonica, a stool and a glass of water. He played from most of his prior albums. The second half was him, his electric guitar, and his band at the time, in support of his latest album, "Highway 61 revisited". This got quite a few boos from some of the audience. Mr. Dylan was unfazed, and continued to play and sing his music. Love the man!
Oops! On edit, it was 1965 and I was turning 14. A little hazy after all these years!