My first rock & roll concert was Jethro Tull and Rory Gallagher, festival seating at Balboa stadium in San Diego, 1976.
fbaezer wrote: The first concert I paid my ticket for was with Thelonius Monk.
Fantastic way to start your "live music education," Boss . . .
Quote: "I Love my Shirt".
Always a big favorite of mine, especially when i was tri . . . er, high, you know . . .
The Tull concert was for the Aqua Lung and my shirt, well it said: TO YOUNG TO DIE - TO OLD TO ROCK & ROLL. The contact high was high.
"Back in those days", I worked and toured with several bands, both known and unknown, as "light and sound crew". I got to see many, many of the groups of the day, in venues ranging from smoky little clubs to grass-covered meadows. Perhaps the greatest benefit of being a "Roadie" in those days was that just about any "Perk" that got to The Band was filtered to them through the roadies ... among our duties was the responsibility to be certain the performers got "Only the Best". It was tough work, but ...
timber
Those were the days weren't they. It all sort of ended in the late 70s when prices went sky high and body searchs to enter. I actually slept through a Genesis concert.
My mother took me to see Sha Na Na
Did it impact me, I dont think so really....it was great fun and we all dressed up and had a marvelous time so, that was good, musically though Im diverse and have been to many different concerts...although mostly rock n roll.
I think it was '79 - Blue Oyster Cult at the Boston Garden.
My first real grown-up date was to a Supertramp concert in 1976, Chris de Burgh opened. It was at a small hockey arena - did they know about acoustics?
Jackie Wilson at the Regal Theatre in Chicago. Mid 1960's. Too young to appreciate his performance but got a kick out of seeing the women in the audience fight for the items he threw out. His shirt, tie, cufflinks. I think he ended his show in just his t-shirt and trousers.
I went to a concert by country-music-legend Hank Williams (Sr.) when I was about five years old. It was an electrifying performance that I shall never forget.
I am not, nor have I ever been, a country music fan. But I make an exception for the work of the late Hank Williams.
1st rock concert was the Stones, thier 1st tour at Manning Bowl in Lynn Mass, I must've been 12 or 13. My buddys dad was a dj, front row seats on a high school football field. All downhill from there...
BSO at Symphony Hall when I was younger.
williamhenry3, I can't stand Commercial Country Pop. I can't stand any commercial pop genre, for that matter. But 'Roots" Country, Bluegrass, Jazz, Rock, and Soul are pretty typically "Good Music" performed by "Good Musicians". The Music Industry today moans about sliding profits and declining sales. It seems not to have occurred to them that might just be because fewer folks are buying their formulaic, pre-packaged, glitter-wrapped crap.
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