Music Thread - CBDless Edition (3/9/24)

Good evening Music Lovers and CBD Groupies. Charles took the evening off and I am very happy to be here this evening filling in.

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Music is a very big part of my life. Although I failed at a couple of brass instruments as well as piano playing I still love it. Perhaps it is my Lutheran background or the exposure to Jello Salads.

Growing up in NE Wisconsin I had to listen to WHBY AM. But at night with my transistor radio tucked in the bed with a single ear phone I dialed in WLS AM.

Yes little youngsters, there really wasn't much of a FM presence growing up. (Get off my lawn!)

The WLS listening led me to purchase 45RPM records. Eventually with allowance and mowing yards I moved up to LP purchases. Tonight's opening photo is the first LP I ever purchased.

I remember my Father yelling, "Turn that shit down!"

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Who influenced you in your musical tastes?

Somewhere about this time I acquired a new friend who loved music as much as I did. And my oh my a whole new world of music opened up.

My younger brother obtained a part-time job at a music store. And since I had a driver's license it was my ~~chore~~ responsibility to pick him up. I would go early and talk music with one of the sales reps who was about 5 years older than me and the instrument repair wizard.

Between my friend and my brother's place of employment I really developed the taste for music I have today.

Not too long ago I was on the Cut Jib Newsletter Podcast with the affable CBD. He isn't as gruff as he sounds. (Don't believe me, check out his Spotify playlist. Barry Manilow, Abba & Michael Martin Murphy to name but a few are not rough and gruff.)

But I digress. CBD asked me what was my first concert:

Star Castle opened for Robin Trower at the Brown County Arena in Green Bay, WI.

Not quite the band that I would have booked for Trower's opening act. But hey. It was a good show.

I went to the concert to see this guy......

So Horde, if you are a concert goer, what was your first concert?

And who was an influence on your musical likes and dislikes?

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I have always loved going to concerts. I guess my love for these grew from helping my brother's band and some other bands along the way.

I'm much too mature to go to festival seating shows these days. The Fabulous Mrs. Mis. Hum. and I prefer smaller clubs with reserved seating. How about you? Do you still attend concerts? And if you are a concert attendee what are you looking for?

One of the problems is that people who we really enjoy have either passed on or retiring. Although some people are still going strong in their 80s.

Judy Collins at age 84 will be performing in April in Minneapolis.

In 2019 The Fabulous and I were fortunate to see Mott The Hoople's 45th Anniversary tour once again Minneapolis. Front man Ian Hunter is still going strong in his 80s.

And how can a discussion of older stars be complete without discussing our biggest rock star? Yes, Mr. Bob Dylan.

You're probably wondering, "Mis. Hum. any concerts this year for you and The Fabulous planned?"

Well only one so far, Alejandro Escovedo.

There are a great number of bands and individual artists touring in 2024.

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So go ahead and discuss music, musicians, concerts, blue smoke in the venue. Just don't be talking about politics or current events. Unless you want to see how affable your substitute host is.

Charles should be back next week, rested, tanned and full of Sous Vide French Toast. Rumor has it he has purchased Maple Syrup futures.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 06:28 PM

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 07:31 PM (fwDg9)

2 So Horde, if you are a concert goer, what was your first concert?

Hamilton Joe Frank and Dennison

Reynolds had quit

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2024 07:31 PM (ENQN6)

3 2 So Horde, if you are a concert goer, what was your first concert?

Hamilton Joe Frank and Dennison

Reynolds had quit
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2024 07:31 PM (ENQN6)

Not quite the same ring.

I remember buying a couple of their 45s. With Reynolds.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 07:32 PM (QXQ4l)

4 I was fifteen
Natchitoches La
December 1975

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2024 07:32 PM (ENQN6)

5 How about Hail The Victors!

Posted by: Jamaica at March 09, 2024 07:34 PM (IG7T0)

6 Baby, baby, fallin' in love
I'm fallin' in love again
Baby, baby, fallin' in love
I'm fallin' in love again

It seems like yesterday
You and I first loved this way
But now, I know how love can grow
With each and every day

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2024 07:34 PM (ENQN6)

7 My big sister was the influence, mostly. WDVE in Pittsburgh would have been the other.

RUSH IS THE GREATEST BAND EVER!!!!

A good friend in HS got me into RUSH. My sister never liked them much. She did love David Bowie though.

First concert - Rick Springfield. Why? Sister paid for it. We were visiting her in Omaha (she was stationed at Offutt). It was a good concert.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 07:35 PM (rii+a)

8 Had a recording of Iron Butterfly but never a actual album

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 07:35 PM (fwDg9)

9 "Music Thread - CBDless Edition"

I read that as
Music Thread - CorDless Edition

LOL

Posted by: Ciampino - wire is always better at March 09, 2024 07:36 PM (qfLjt)

10 I95 WRKI Brookfield ,Ct . The NYC stations were iffy in Putnam and northern Fairfield counties

Posted by: Jamaica at March 09, 2024 07:36 PM (IG7T0)

11 James Brown and The Famous Flames, Augusta Georgia.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 07:36 PM (NxC5+)

12 Love the occasional music thread. Thanks for filling in, MisHum. Now, on to the content.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 09, 2024 07:37 PM (V8he0)

13 I do think Knebworth 79 was first real concert of a band, or a half dozen at least half well known as a Adult

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 07:37 PM (fwDg9)

14 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 09, 2024 07:39 PM (T4tVD)

15 1953, WBAY. Crystal radio worked great but with WBAY, being local, you could put a earphone plug against a fence wire and receive it. With transistor radios coming out we then got WLS. Rock and Roll will never die!

Posted by: Kafiroon at March 09, 2024 07:40 PM (luubP)

16 Nights, WLS out of Chicago, or KAAY out of Little Rock. The stations would fade in and out. The local station played polkas.

Posted by: davidt at March 09, 2024 07:40 PM (SYTee)

17 Thanks for the Music Thread, Mis Hum!

I happen to have that album featured at the top. It's a good one.

My first concert was to see The Association playing at a high school theater. I won the tickets in a contest on the local "rock" AM station. I was still in junior high and to this day cannot believe my folks let me go by myself! I thought it was a great concert.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 09, 2024 07:41 PM (KglbO)

18 Hey MisHum! I could pick up WLS on my transistor radio under my pillow at night in North Carolina when I was a kid! I also listened to WOWO from Fort Wayne Indiana. I loved at Christmas time when they would do the HO-HO WOWO weather!

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 09, 2024 07:41 PM (rbKZ6)

19 I have a couple Robin Trower albums

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 07:41 PM (fwDg9)

20 My older brother took me to see KISS at the Charlotte Colosseum (now called the Bojangles Arena) in 1974. Two acts opened for then, Styx, who were little known at the time but on their way up, and Mott (without the Hoople) who were on the backside of their popularity.

KISS was loud and theatric, shooting rockets out of their guitars and Gene Simmons spitting out blood and sticking his tongue out like a more talented Mylie Cyrus.

Posted by: Knights who say at March 09, 2024 07:42 PM (LaNzR)

21 That top picture? I have that LP.
In 1975 I'd only heard the shorter radio version and then I met my future wife (now dearly missed) and she showed me and played the long version. Wow. We joked during our 45 years together that I married her for her records. I still have all those records. Carpenters, Santana, Well-Tempered Synthesizer (Bach stuff), Renaissance, Doors, to name a few. I need to pull them out and catalog them. 45 and EPs as well but those were mine.

Posted by: Ciampino - Music is a balm for a troubled soul at March 09, 2024 07:42 PM (qfLjt)

22 Only out of state radio we would try to get was baseball games, Philadelphia had plenty of music stations

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 07:43 PM (fwDg9)

23 Sometime in the 80s, WSRD in Youngstown got gobbled up by the local top 40 station. It was a hell of a Rock station while on the air. WDVE would fade in and out, where I lived so WSRD was a nice option. Eventually WSRD was gone and WDVE improved transmissions so you could listen to them 50+ miles north, where I lived.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 07:43 PM (rii+a)

24 Deep Purple 1967. If it’s too loud you’re too old.

Posted by: JackWayne at March 09, 2024 07:43 PM (QrC69)

25 Probably the Beach Boys. I think it was the tour where Brian Wilson was out. Saw Marty Robbins at the Fair. I'm glad I got to go to so many concerts when I was young.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 07:44 PM (yeEu9)

26 Bridge of Sighs was the first Trower album I bought. I probably heard him on the radio. Radio was so much more interesting back then. Then college radio in the 80s. It all sucks now. At least around here.

Radio in the 70s was a big influence. Once I latched on to something I liked, I go buy an album, more if I still liked it. Dad liked elevator music, Mancini and Girl from Ipanema like stuff, Mom, Elvis and 50s music. Grandpa for the Big Band stuff and Ray Stevens, MamaB for country, bluegrass, and finding out I didn't like Lawrence Welk.

Friends and friend's older brothers too. Like Charles the grinning boy.

Radios appear.

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 07:45 PM (vFG9F)

27 My aunt took me to a Johnny Mathis concert. I must have been maybe 10 years old.
The first time I smoked pot and got high I listened to Inna Gada Davida lying on the floor in an apartment soewhere in Central MA.
Last best concert I went to was Zach Brown at Fenway Park. Saw him again in DC which was the last live cncert I've gone to but Fenway was incredible.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 09, 2024 07:45 PM (t/2Uw)

28 We used to listen to a Top 40/rock and roll station out of Oklahoma City. It was an AM station that we could only pick up after dark, and we thought it was great.

I think the last concert I attended was ZZ Top in San Antonio, Texas. Had to be late 80s or early 90s.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 09, 2024 07:46 PM (KglbO)

29 First concert: Harry Chapin at SPAC (Saratoga Performing Arts, in upstate NY)

But I started with piano at age 7, progressed to French Horn in middle school, and performed in high school with Doc Severinson, Louie Belson and others (high school had a fabulous music department). I always loved all kinds of music and still do.

Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 07:47 PM (IQ6Gq)

30 I've always thought Inna Gada Davida was self indulgent cacophony.

I hate jams where the player may be enjoying themselves but the music is just jammed in the listeners ears.

Posted by: Minuteman at March 09, 2024 07:47 PM (LaNzR)

31 My mother always listened to Big Band music

Mostly heard country and pop on radio

Oldest sister introduced me to prog via the Tarkus album while I was visiting her after nuke prototype
I really enjoy the crazy variety of that genre

Lately I’ve been listening to a variety of 60’s, 70’s groups that aren’t very well known, but have some great sounds. All started by looking up Atomic Rooster on Spotify

Blodwyn Pig
Wishbone Ash
Baker Gurvitz Army
UFO
UK
Fuzzy Duck (1 album group)

Posted by: PMRich at March 09, 2024 07:48 PM (eh5ud)

32 24 Deep Purple 1967. If it’s too loud you’re too old.
Posted by: JackWayne at March 09, 2024 07:43 PM (QrC69)

Every once in awhile while learning to drive in a 63 Buick LeSabre Deep Purple would be played. Excellent concert that must have been. Thanks JackWayne.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 07:48 PM (QXQ4l)

33 Don't remember who my first concert was, probably someone I wouldn't bother listening to now if they came and performed in my living room.

Live shows have never been that important to me, mostly because I didn't like popular acts.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 07:49 PM (07joY)

34 I am still unsure when I was very young, my parents took to to a fairgrounds and either Hank Williams or Jr was there.I don't think I was over 7yo

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 07:49 PM (fwDg9)

35 29 First concert: Harry Chapin at SPAC (Saratoga Performing Arts, in upstate NY)

But I started with piano at age 7, progressed to French Horn in middle school, and performed in high school with Doc Severinson, Louie Belson and others (high school had a fabulous music department). I always loved all kinds of music and still do.
Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 07:47 PM (IQ6Gq)

That is awesome, do you still tickle the ivory keys?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 07:50 PM (QXQ4l)

36 My first concert might have been at college. Something the school paid for. Or it might have been The Beach Boys my first summer back.

I didn’t buy a lot of music until college because there wasn’t anywhere to buy it from. Not until I joined the Columbia Record and Tape Club. That’s where I discovered Robin Trower (In City Dreams) and Boz Scaggs (Down Two Then Left) among the most memorable. Everything else I bought was stuff I’d heard on the radio.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 09, 2024 07:50 PM (EXyHK)

37 WLS here too, with one of those Flintstones-era radios with one earphone and a clip that you had to fasten to a radiator or curtain rod or the finger-stop of your on-the-wall dial telephone. Also sometimes late evenings WVON for more of the Motown stuff. Art Roberts on WLS, and Music-from-the-Den-of-Daniels (Yvonne Daniels) on WVON. Good times.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 09, 2024 07:50 PM (q3u5l)

38 Boy Trower really takes me back to HS days. He was on the must-have playlist for smokin' doobs and chugin' beers. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 09, 2024 07:50 PM (V8he0)

39 "I think the last concert I attended was ZZ Top in San Antonio, Texas. Had to be late 80s or early 90s.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient"

I saw them in Savannah around that time. They started the show being lowered from the ceiling while playing their fuzzy guitars.

But guess what! I'm going to see them again next month when they come to town here. #2 son bought tickets.

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 07:51 PM (vFG9F)

40 I have never been to a concert but got to see Tina Turner live at a club in San Francisco. R&B is for me.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2024 07:51 PM (z+2up)

41 First rock concert was The Grateful Dead at Nassau Coliseum in 73. Remember Bill Graham introducing the act and cussing out the Nassau County Police for busting people in the parking lot. He was really pissed. Had a harrowing cab ride from a Haitian cab driver stuffing like 8 hippies in his cab from the LIRR station to the Coliseum. It was a good show, though only saw the Dead 3 more times. Became a NRPS fan and saw them maybe 8 times, once with Jerry Garcia playing steel guitar. Lived in NYC area and got in on the birth of FM radio and WNEW-FM and WPLJ. The music scene was amazing in NY 68-75.

Posted by: Musik For the (M)asses at March 09, 2024 07:52 PM (V5BDR)

42 My folks went to see Marty Robbins and took my brothers and me to see along. My big brother was 7, I was 4 and my little brother was a baby. I remember it, but my brothers don't. Marty Robbins was possibly the best singer I have ever heard.

Posted by: huerfano at March 09, 2024 07:52 PM (AT/9h)

43 LegallySufficient, I envy the bleep out of you. The Association is to this day my favorite, but never saw them in concert.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 09, 2024 07:52 PM (q3u5l)

44 23 WDVE would fade in and out, where I lived so WSRD was a nice option. Eventually WSRD was gone and WDVE improved transmissions so you could listen to them 50+ miles north, where I lived.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 07:43 PM
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"Jimmy and Steve in the morning. Sometimes they're funny. Sometimes they're boring. WDVE!"

"Drop your socks and grab your jocks. It's time for Spit, Choke and Puke's Big World of Sports!" "That's it! Rub dirt in it and take a lap!"

Posted by: TRex at March 09, 2024 07:52 PM (IQ6Gq)

45 Alejandro Escovedo...if memory serves, he was the guitarist for the Nuns. Jennifer Miro was pretty hot.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 09, 2024 07:53 PM (CHHv1)

46 I was listening to The Dave Brubeck Quartet on my way into work tonight.

I can't remember the last concert I went to. Steely Dan/Doobie Brothers, I think. Early 2000's. My hearing is bad enough now, I just stay away from loud anything. I may purchase one of those headsets you wear at racetracks so I can catch a few races this year. I have seen a few concerts at the Kennedy Center. Classical music I can handle, hearing wise.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 07:53 PM (rii+a)

47 My big influence?
Chicago.
But not just for the music. I was in high school and had the same transistor radio. But was visiting a friend and they had a really cool stereo. Chicago was playing and I put on these really fancy headphones that they had.
Holy Lord!!!
It was fantastic!!! It was like the music was fluid flowing over me.
Changed my perception of music forever.
And yes, I still listen to Chicago with that same awe.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 07:54 PM (W/lyH)

48 Since I'm a young 29...
First album ever purchased: Def Leppard's Pyromania. First CD: David Lee Roth's Skyscraper. Can't remember what the first cassette was. First concert: Bon Jovi with Skid Row opening. (Still like Skid Row, can't stand Bonehead Bongiovi).

Major influences were my dad, who raised me on ELP, CSN, Allman Brothers, etc., and a neighbor kid in my teens who exposed me to Leppard, AC/DC, Billy Squire, Judas Priest, and more.

Favorite concerts attended were Rush (opened by Primus), Queensryche on their Building Empires tour (but they opened with Operation Mindcrime in it's entirety), Tool, Dream Theater (at the Paramount in Seattle) w/Queensryche (post DeGarmo era). These days, I listen most to Riverside and Lunatic Soul. Also really love Porcupine Tree.

Posted by: Shepherd Lover at March 09, 2024 07:54 PM (SDyvx)

49 grew up in Chicago, so WLS and WCFL also WGN , WMAQ ...

first concert? some local band at the Electric Theater on Clark St.

Grateful Dead at Northwestern University was the first nationally known band in concert, a few years later.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 09, 2024 07:54 PM (PFYt9)

50 "Goofy" is not a word that often describes KPOP.
But this song is goofy.

https://youtu.be/baaNwRAhHBo?si=NncyxzEQF46ZsiYJ

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 09, 2024 07:55 PM (2dwZ7)

51 Engelbert Humperdinck, "Hansel and Gretel," 1960.
Maybe that counts as first opera.

Victor Borge, 1964; Ramsey Lewis ("and his Gentlemen of Jazz"), early 1965. It was hard to get a ride across town to where concerts were likely to happen, though I did know one wild man who'd ride a stingray bike 20 miles to the other end of the county where they had folk-rock-surf every week.

A "Hullabaloo Scene" teen club was far walking distance, but had famously famous acts and the churches were way down on it. Five years later when I was producing local concerts, we called up the owner of a big skating rink and were disheartened at how opposed he was to renting the place to us. Things had been so well hushed up, we didn't find out until years later that the Mothers Club censors had shut down his rock bands when we-all were still strumming in the wind.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 09, 2024 07:55 PM (zdLoL)

52 First ‘real’ concert was Styx in Orlando in ‘83. It was the Kilroy album tour. More like a musical play set to tell the Kilroy story,
they did a great job weaving in older songs into the story theme to fill the entire concert out

Posted by: PMRich at March 09, 2024 07:55 PM (eh5ud)

53 45 Alejandro Escovedo...if memory serves, he was the guitarist for the Nuns. Jennifer Miro was pretty hot.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 09, 2024 07:53 PM (CHHv1)

You are correct Becko

He then played with The True Believers and Buck McCaine before going off on his own.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 07:56 PM (QXQ4l)

54 I don't which concert was my first. It might have been BOC.

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 07:56 PM (vFG9F)

55 Last thing I went to was David Bromberg. Husband was a fan and it was a good show.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 07:56 PM (yeEu9)

56 Growing up in Africa I never went to any concert. I did see The Shadows play on stage in Nairobi, which was cool as I was a big fan particularly of Hank Marvin. I don't know if that counts as a concert. I guess I lived a sheltered life!

Posted by: Ciampino - Music is the balm for a troubled soul at March 09, 2024 07:56 PM (qfLjt)

57 As for early influences, I remember Elvis Costello being persona non-grata in St. Louis, because the big rock radio station was KSHE. At some point fairly early in his career, Costello played a show in St. Louis, and the story goes, he got up on stage and thanked KSHE for not promoting his music and his show enough.

And from that day forth, they never played another song of his since.

Being a non-conformist myself, I loved the story, got into his music, and got away from the standard "real rock radio" format. All the big acts of my youth, I hated.

Now I can't stand Costello, because he's such an insufferable prick. Aimee Mann has a song "It Takes All Kinds," the lyrics sound way too bitter and pointed, they've got to be about someone she knows.

I've always imagined it was Costello:

Wasn't that just our dear friend Ron?
Throwing your weight around the sun
Happier now that you've become
What you hated

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 07:56 PM (bNJTc)

58 and Boz Scaggs (Down Two Then Left) among the most memorable. Everything else I bought was stuff I’d heard on the radio.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

A long ago girlfriend, gave me a copy of Down Two Then Left. Loved it! I found out later it belonged to her husband. I had never heard of Scaggs (or her husband for that matter) before that.

Ah, the stupidity of yute.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 07:57 PM (H/XYA)

59 44: TRex

I did an internet search for Jack Maloy one night. He died a few years ago. I used to listen to 'For Headphones Only' occasionally.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 07:58 PM (rii+a)

60 47 My big influence?
Chicago.
But not just for the music. I was in high school and had the same transistor radio. But was visiting a friend and they had a really cool stereo. Chicago was playing and I put on these really fancy headphones that they had.
Holy Lord!!!
It was fantastic!!! It was like the music was fluid flowing over me.
Changed my perception of music forever.
And yes, I still listen to Chicago with that same awe.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 07:54 PM (W/lyH)

The first time I got to use headphones was with the friend mentioned above. It was Abraxas Santana's 2nd LP. Holy Moly did that open up a new world. I believe I got Koss headphones that year for Xmas.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 07:59 PM (QXQ4l)

61 49 grew up in Chicago, so WLS and WCFL also WGN , WMAQ ...

first concert? some local band at the Electric Theater on Clark St.

Grateful Dead at Northwestern University was the first nationally known band in concert, a few years later.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 09, 2024 07:54 PM

WCFL was another one I could get on my radio at night.

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 09, 2024 07:59 PM (rbKZ6)

62 WNEW and WXRK bashing each other over who played the better rock music.

Posted by: Jamaica at March 09, 2024 07:59 PM (IG7T0)

63 I'm partial to bands with more depth than three chords, two guitars, a bass and drums. I crave complexity in chords, orchestration, rhythm and lyricism. Of these I find bands with horns almost always deliver: Tower of Power, Average White Band, Chicago, Blood Sweat & Tears, Steely Dan.

The Police and Rush are a standouts from this with the amazing musicianship they bring from each of the three members of their respective groups.

Posted by: Minuteman at March 09, 2024 07:59 PM (LaNzR)

64 That Armed Forces tour had one of the best light shows I've seen. Most of those musicians were arrogant a**holes.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 08:00 PM (yeEu9)

65 The Glenn Miller Orchestra is one concert I would go to.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2024 08:00 PM (z+2up)

66 My first concert?

Ozzy's first concert apprearance in San Antonio (1 October 1992) in a DECADE OF AGGRESSION.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:00 PM (8sMut)

67 Starcastle. Thats a name I haven't heard in a while. They were pretty good.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2024 08:01 PM (VwHCD)

68 "the Mothers Club censors had shut down his rock bands when we-all were still strumming in the wind.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver "

These kids today with their Devil's music. How many times have we heard that down thru the years?

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 08:01 PM (vFG9F)

69 NYC rock died when Dave Herman got busted for soliciting pedo hook up.

Posted by: Jamaica at March 09, 2024 08:01 PM (IG7T0)

70
Judy Collins at age 84 will be performing in April in Minneapolis.
-------

I'm torn between two lyrics, in the context of popular culture:

But now it's just another show
You leave 'em laughin' when you go
And if you care don't let them know
Don't give yourself away

And:

And where are the clowns
Send in the clowns
Don't bother, they're here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 08:01 PM (XeU6L)

71 Gacharic Spin named their new EP after the HQ: "Ace."

I think they did a good job of capturing the chaos of the comment section as music.

https://youtu.be/bzR_BursAVo
https://youtu.be/J9Sgq3ZDRhc

Yes, I made that up. Except for it being called "Ace."

Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 08:02 PM (DgGvY)

72 We used to listen to a Top 40/rock and roll station out of Oklahoma City. It was an AM station that we could only pick up after dark, and we thought it was great.

Had to be KOMA! It could be heard in the evening/night all the way into Canada. I lived in OK and that station routinely advertised dances and concerts in Montana, NDak, etc.

We also had WKY with Danny Williams in the morning.

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 08:02 PM (TSQkU)

73 First concert was Commander Cody and His Lost Planer Airmen but it was by accident. Scored some free tickets to the Washougal River Rock Festival.and Lighter Than Air Fair. (1970) They just happened to be playing when we walked through. It was filthy, raining and cold. We didnt stay.
First real concert was Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids my freshman year at college. They were awesome!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 08:02 PM (W/lyH)

74 That Armed Forces tour had one of the best light shows I've seen. Most of those musicians were arrogant a**holes.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 08:00 PM (yeEu9)

I'd just rather not know then, I guess.

He's made it impossible not to know, so F him.

Best Elvis Costello story though, is how he managed to piss off Bonnie Raitt at some point, so she cold cocked and decked him.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 08:03 PM (bNJTc)

75 I saw Average White Band and Tower of Power. Really love Tower of Power. We worked an archeological dig and a bunch of us went to see BB King. We had the while row.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 08:03 PM (yeEu9)

76 48 Queensryche on their Building Empires tour (but they opened with Operation Mindcrime in it's entirety)

Posted by: Shepherd Lover at March 09, 2024 07:54 PM
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Remains one of history's most underrated but well known bands. Too bad they had so much drama. They had drama I didn't even know about until looking them up briefly.

Fates Warning was another of the era. A little too high concept in places, but Anarchy Divine is a good example of the time and ProgRock genre if you're into that sort of thing.

Posted by: TRex at March 09, 2024 08:04 PM (IQ6Gq)

77 I have several Iron Butterfly albums, including Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida. In fact I played it in the car the other day. My entire collection is on a 256G thumb drive, backed up in multiple locations. Great way to do death cleaning in my old age.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at March 09, 2024 08:04 PM (kvDvI)

78 Biggest musical influences?

My older sisters, my mother (who were obsessed with music; my obsession with 1980s music owes directly to them). As the 1980s continued my sisters got into the hair metal bands and the glam bands. This is where I took my turn to the dark side and got into metal and got into more extreme things where neither they or angels dare tread. From there, a lot of fellow headbangers get me pointers on where to turn next.

My father knew nothing about music so he was a nonentity as far as musical influences go.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:04 PM (8sMut)

79 Chicago when Terry Kath was still alive.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 08:05 PM (NxC5+)

80 My wife and I stopped going to concerts years ago because they got too expensive and the experience just doesn’t appeal to me like it did when I was a younger man. But we were moved to go to our first concert in 7 or 8 years just this last February when Kenny Wayne Shepherd came to Dallas. Samantha Fish opened for him. I can’t say no to guitar based blues/rock. And those are two of my favorite blues rock guitar players. The sound system did Samantha Fish no favors, but they both played their hearts out and we enjoyed the show.

Posted by: Clay at March 09, 2024 08:05 PM (2wXRN)

81 Thanks for the memories! As a Wisconsin kid I would pull in WLS and listen to John Records Landecker. Boogie Check! Boogie Check! Ooh, Ah!

Posted by: Jalan at March 09, 2024 08:05 PM (uqfb2)

82 Portland was a great place for concerts and they were pretty cheap. Saw the Ramones and Midnight Oil at a local club.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 08:05 PM (yeEu9)

83 Fates Warning was another of the era. A little too high concept in places, but Anarchy Divine is a good example of the time and ProgRock genre if you're into that sort of thing.
Posted by: TRex at March 09, 2024 08:04 PM (IQ6Gq)

I love Fates. Saw them opening up for Dream Theater on their WAKING UP THE WORLD TOUR in San Antonio on 14 November 1994 at Majestic Theater.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:05 PM (8sMut)

84 Have that Iron Butterfly album -- actually, I have them all. Loved their (slightly inane) music in my salad days.

Anyone remember the Simpsons episode where Bart substitutes In-a-Gad-Da-Vida sheet music for the church organist's sheets? Funny.

Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts at March 09, 2024 08:06 PM (JCiCd)

85 35 That is awesome, do you still tickle the ivory keys?
***********
It's been awhile, I must admit. But when we move to TN is a couple of years, I have incorporated a music room into the blueprints. And I'd love to get my hands on a French Horn again.

Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 08:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

86 After reading about anti Israel protestors canceling him in Chicago, I discovered Matisyahu. Listened to a live recording of his song One Day recorded in Brooklyn. I was shocked. I've alway loved Reggae and especially Bob Marley's music. Matisyahu looks like an aged hippie but definitely white and yet he has a true carribean sounding voice. When I looked further, he has been around for a very long time.
https://tinyurl.com/42uy9vj4

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 09, 2024 08:07 PM (t/2Uw)

87 Judy Collins at age 84 will be performing in April in Minneapolis.

That's why I couldn't be a performer. (not like I have any talent) but how do you keep going? How do you keep it fresh? How does it stay fun and when does it become work?

Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 08:08 PM (W/lyH)

88 I lived in the Twin Cities in the 70s. Late at night with my tiny transistor radio I was often able to pick up 50,000 watt WABC 770, which faded in and out competing with KOB 770 in Albuquerque, NM. It was intresting because New York and Albuquerque were about equidistant from my Minnesota perch,

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at March 09, 2024 08:08 PM (kvDvI)

89 My first concert was the opening show of the Police's Synchronicity tour. Also on the card was Ministry, The Fixx, A Flock of Seagulls, Simple Minds and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. It was the most 80's event I ever attended, (and I was at Live Aid.)

Posted by: tankdemon at March 09, 2024 08:08 PM (zpw81)

90 52 First ‘real’ concert was Styx in Orlando in ‘83. It was the Kilroy album tour. More like a musical play set to tell the Kilroy story, they did a great job weaving in older songs into the story theme to fill the entire concert out

Posted by: PMRich at March 09, 2024 07:55 PM
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Domo arigato Mr. Roboto. Bought the album but can't remember why. Don't think I fully understood the full story. Dennis DeYoung can't resist a rock opera. I never really took to Styx after that.

Posted by: TRex at March 09, 2024 08:08 PM (IQ6Gq)

91 A good friend in HS got me into RUSH. My sister never liked them much. She did love David Bowie though.

First concert - Rick Springfield. Why? Sister paid for it. We were visiting her in Omaha (she was stationed at Offutt). It was a good concert.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 07:35 PM (rii+a)

No surprise your sister wasn't into Rush. That band is extra-strength female-repellent.

Your sister sounds cool though.

Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts at March 09, 2024 08:08 PM (JCiCd)

92 First 'rock' concert, Cream, Butler Univ., '68?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 08:08 PM (XeU6L)

93 The one thing Mott the Hoople had going for it was the name Mott the Hoople.

That, and a vague sometime association with Bowie.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2024 08:09 PM (bo7UB)

94 58 and Boz Scaggs (Down Two Then Left) among the most memorable
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Ah TonyPete, I simply adored Boz Scaggs....still do.

Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 08:09 PM (IQ6Gq)

95 My first concert was Triumph at the Los Angeles Sports Arena in 1985. Keel was the opener. I saw my first Rush concert in 1986 and then saw them at least once on every tour up to the end. I was at their final concert 8/1/15 at the Los Angeles Forum.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 09, 2024 08:09 PM (xPl2J)

96 I can't remember what my first concert was - there were too many in too short a time, with bands that didn't stand the test of time - an acquaintance that went to a neighboring high school took an interest in drums while at the city's police drum and bugle corps and all of a sudden was deep into the local music scene. He was pretty good and started dragging a loose group around to gigs in Kent, Akron and Cleveland.

Life choices took that us individually into widely divergent locales and we all lost touch with each other. It turns out the boy done good - he's made a career of it and now plays percussion for Elton John. He's been with him since 1996 or so. John Mahon - hell of a guy, hell of drummer.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 08:10 PM (H/XYA)

97 I guess my first concert was at the Atlanta Pop Festival in 1969 or 70 (the first one). They had bands and more bands. And lots of people with no place to pee! I cannot remember who we heard; it was several. All outdoors, of course and about 75 miles south of Atlanta.

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 08:10 PM (TSQkU)

98 59 I did an internet search for Jack Maloy one night. He died a few years ago. I used to listen to 'For Headphones Only' occasionally.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 07:58 PM
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Great reference. Haven't heard his name or the show name is many years.

Posted by: TRex at March 09, 2024 08:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

99 keep going? How do you keep it fresh? How does it stay fun and when does it become work?
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 08:08 PM (W/lyH)

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Say, would you like to hear me play Piano Man?

Posted by: Billy Joel at March 09, 2024 08:10 PM (bo7UB)

100 Danny Williams was 3D Danny on the kids' show, right?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 08:10 PM (yeEu9)

101 In mid ‘80’s WNOR in Norfolk used to do an Electric Lunch every Friday IIRC where they would play ad-free for an hour

DJ wanted to play long version of Inna Gada da vida, managers said “no too long”
After 2 days the DJs asked everybody to stop calling and requesting the long version, then announced which Friday it was to be played

Posted by: PMRich at March 09, 2024 08:10 PM (eh5ud)

102 As far as influence to my musical taste, it would have to be my two elder brothers.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 09, 2024 08:11 PM (zpw81)

103 Around the headbangers at the school I went to, you had BETTER know not just the bands, but the albums, the deep cuts, and you damn well better know lineups. You had better be able to hold forth discussions on what drummers you like, guitarists, vocalists and so on. I actually read the liner notes of my albums so this bothered me none. In classes and elsewhere we'd pass between us guitar and metal mags so we all knew what was up. Headbanger's Ball was must-see TV. Eventually through all this and running into guys who knew what they were doing with instruments I began turning more and more, through hindsight, appreciative of more technical approaches. Enter my heading home from work one Saturday when I heard a song (guess which one) by a new band called Dream Theater on the radio...

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:11 PM (8sMut)

104 That's why I couldn't be a performer. (not like I have any talent) but how do you keep going? How do you keep it fresh? How does it stay fun and when does it become work?
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 08:08 PM (W/lyH)

Back when I had hair, I saw Jethro Tull 4 times. Of course, they played Aqualung each time. Each was different though -- it seemed like the band loathed the song, but were happy to explore "variations on a theme".

Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts at March 09, 2024 08:11 PM (JCiCd)

105 Diogenes @ 73-
Mrs. E went to high school in Colorado Springs in the early 70s and Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids was a favorite, then she started to attend the TxMoMe!

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 08:12 PM (NxC5+)

106 "I guess my first concert was at the Atlanta Pop Festival in 1969 or 70 (the first one). They had bands and more bands. And lots of people with no place to pee! I cannot remember who we heard; it was several. All outdoors, of course and about 75 miles south of Atlanta.
Posted by: LRob"

Holy Shirt Rob! That's about 10 miles from here. I know the spot well. Did you swim nekkid in Echeconnee creek?

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 08:12 PM (vFG9F)

107 87 Judy Collins at age 84 will be performing in April in Minneapolis.

That's why I couldn't be a performer. (not like I have any talent) but how do you keep going? How do you keep it fresh? How does it stay fun and when does it become work?
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 08:08 PM (W/lyH)

Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.

They have egos, they love what they do. Besides if you retire, you have to retire to something besides not doing anything.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 08:12 PM (QXQ4l)

108 He was pretty good and started dragging a loose group around to gigs in Kent, Akron and Cleveland.

I would imagine that I've probably seen him around in that AO.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 09, 2024 08:12 PM (V8he0)

109 Ozzy's first concert apprearance in San Antonio (1 October 1992

Was that when he got arrested for pissing on the Alamo?

Posted by: Oddbob at March 09, 2024 08:12 PM (sNc8Y)

110 I would say a friend of mine in high school had a lot of influence on my musical tastes.

He loaned me a number of cassette tapes (remember those?) and I liked most of them....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 09, 2024 08:13 PM (BpYfr)

111 Danny Williams was 3D Danny on the kids' show, right?

On the dot. He also had another TV show where he was some kind of cowboy. He must have made a lot of money.

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 08:13 PM (TSQkU)

112 109 Ozzy's first concert apprearance in San Antonio (1 October 1992

Was that when he got arrested for pissing on the Alamo?
Posted by: Oddbob at March 09, 2024 08:12 PM (sNc8Y)

Nope, he was arrested for noise pollution and impersonating a singer.

Dio posted his bail.

Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts at March 09, 2024 08:14 PM (JCiCd)

113 I wasn't at the Atlanta "Pop" (around here they called it the "Pot" Festival) Festival, but I understand Hendrix was there.

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 08:14 PM (vFG9F)

114 Your sister sounds cool though.
Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts

She still is. Strange though. Our birthdays are the same week (this one) and were 5 years apart in age, yet still 29. That space/time continuum is unpredictable.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 08:14 PM (rii+a)

115 92 First 'rock' concert, Cream, Butler Univ., '68?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 08:08 PM (XeU6L)

You dawg. Now that was a group.
Too bad smack, booze and egos got in the way.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 08:15 PM (QXQ4l)

116 99 keep going? How do you keep it fresh? How does it stay fun and when does it become work?
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 08:08 PM (W/lyH)

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Say, would you like to hear me play Piano Man?
Posted by: Billy Joel at March 09, 2024 08:10 PM (bo7UB)

LOL. Nice.

Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts at March 09, 2024 08:15 PM (JCiCd)

117 Holy Shirt Rob! That's about 10 miles from here. I know the spot well. Did you swim nekkid in Echeconnee creek?

No, however I observed several folks doing so. The promoters had cans of Coke, lots and lots, stacked inside barbed wire areas.

In my case, there MAY have been alcohol involved!

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 08:15 PM (TSQkU)

118 I wish I'd been around for that Washougal festival. We lived up there in 74 or 75.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 08:15 PM (yeEu9)

119 It's raining pretty good and we lose a hour so better turn this off
Have a great evening everyone

And rock on

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 08:16 PM (fwDg9)

120 My mom took me to see the Carpenters for my 16th birthday. Karen Carpenter was maybe the second best singer I've heard.

Posted by: huerfano at March 09, 2024 08:16 PM (AT/9h)

121 Portland was a great place for concerts and they were pretty cheap. Saw the Ramones and Midnight Oil at a local club.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 08:05 PM (yeEu9)

Wow, talk about insufferable, Midnight Oil:

The time has come to say fair's fair
To pay the rent, to pay our share
The time has come, a fact's a fact
It belongs to them, let's give it back

You first, chuckleheads, you first.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 08:16 PM (n65KU)

122 Procol Harum. Paramount theater Portland Oregon. Amazing venue

Posted by: Muchamused at March 09, 2024 08:16 PM (j2Xd4)

123 There are two kinds of Rush fans: The fans that understand Rush and the fans who think they understand Rush.

Posted by: Minuteman at March 09, 2024 08:17 PM (LaNzR)

124 And the headbangers at school were far, far from hostile from prog bands. One band practically all the headbangers held high in respect and appreciation was this little band from Canada called Rush. Disrespect to Rush was not tolerated. So eventually I got into them beyond the songs I heard on the radio. And yes, Floyd, Pink was beloved.

(In one English class I had sophomore year some shit kicker [country aficionado] stood up in class and said "Pink Floyd is satanic". EVERY headbanger in class started laughing at him, from guys like me who were stealth headbangers dressed in a polo shirt and decent jeans to the guys with the denim jackets with the massive Iron Maiden patch on the back.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:18 PM (8sMut)

125 I know, but I didn't go for their politics. It was a good show. The lead singer is huge, like 6'6" or so.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 08:18 PM (yeEu9)

126 "In my case, there MAY have been alcohol involved!
Posted by: LRob in OK"

A friend of mine had a book about the Pop Festival. It was before my time, but I've heard many stories, and I've raced at that track.

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 08:18 PM (vFG9F)

127 Great reference. Haven't heard his name or the show name is many years.
Posted by: TRex

'For Headphones Only' was on Wednesday nights, pretty late. If I was listening to it, it meant the next day was a holiday, it was summer, or a snow day. It was where I first heard Mannheim Steamroller's version of Silent Night. It's still my favorite. Maloy had eclectic tastes and was on overnight so got away with playing it on a Rock station. I kind of miss him. He was interesting.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 08:20 PM (rii+a)

128 The lead singer is huge, like 6'6" or so.

That’s called ‘average’ in my family

Posted by: PMRich at March 09, 2024 08:20 PM (eh5ud)

129 My Dad was a big influence. He was self taught on piano and guitar.

My lifelong friend J was a bigger influence. He introduced me to bands like Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. He was a helluva talented guitarist as well,until he could no longer play due to nerve damage in his left hand.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at March 09, 2024 08:20 PM (MvA9C)

130 Black Sabbath saved me from the shit my parents listened to. Started playing guitar when I was 7, but was bored to death with the stuff that was around me. My father was playing in bands in the 50's, and I didn't want to hear that shit. Hated the wastoid crap from the 60's. Then I heard sabbath. That guitar sound....man I was hooked, I was reborn, I was cleansed. Been an asshole metalhead ever since and never looked back.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2024 08:20 PM (VwHCD)

131 That's why I couldn't be a performer. (not like I have any talent) but how do you keep going? How do you keep it fresh? How does it stay fun and when does it become work?
Posted by: Diogenes
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FWIW, Bob Seger, one of my favorite road tunes, 'On the Road Again':
https://tinyurl.com/d7j5w4as

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 08:21 PM (XeU6L)

132 Most influential radio - KOMA out of Oklahoma, and XEROK out of Juarez.

First concert - 1972 (73?), Three Dog Night in Albuquerque, at The Pit. I was a senior in HS, and I organized a road trip, two-car caravan, 200 miles, each way.

Posted by: goatexchange at March 09, 2024 08:21 PM (S1owN)

133 117 Holy Shirt Rob! That's about 10 miles from here. I know the spot well. Did you swim nekkid in Echeconnee creek?

No, however I observed several folks doing so. The promoters had cans of Coke, lots and lots, stacked inside barbed wire areas.

In my case, there MAY have been alcohol involved!
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 08:15 PM (TSQkU)

NO! Couldn't be!!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 08:22 PM (QXQ4l)

134 Yes! WLS in Chicago. I lived in SE Wisconsin, close enough to get WLS on the radio at will.

They were the gateway for me unto that "new" music, (not my Dad's Eddy Arnold, etc...).

I never did go to any concerts, (big name, that is), until I went to Communist John Cougar Mellencamp with my now, wife. Man, the things we do for women...

It wasn't bad, and was at the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago, where I was living (near).

Good times.

Posted by: Bones at March 09, 2024 08:22 PM (9+oE2)

135 Wow, talk about insufferable, Midnight Oil:

The time has come to say fair's fair
To pay the rent, to pay our share
The time has come, a fact's a fact
It belongs to them, let's give it back

You first, chuckleheads, you first.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 08:16 PM (n65KU)

Peter Garrett was a politician, in the Australian Senate at one point. ALL their songs are political.

You give me "Beds Are Burning" and I raise you "The Dead Heart" and "Blue Sky Mine".

(Funny thing about "Beds": the line "steaming 45 degrees". I thought they were talking latitude until I figured that would be too far south so it made no sense, until I figured out that 45 degrees Celsius was 113 Fahrenheit.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:22 PM (8sMut)

136 130 Black Sabbath saved me from the shit my parents listened to. That guitar sound....man I was hooked, I was reborn,
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2024 08:20 PM (VwHCD)

Guess you could say you were "Born Again", huh?
(Says apparently the only living fan of that album.)

Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts at March 09, 2024 08:22 PM (JCiCd)

137 NO! Couldn't be!!

And the idiots running the show let me ride around on my Yamaha dirt bike. Hippies wanted rides; guys = no, chicks = why, certainly!

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 08:23 PM (TSQkU)

138 125 I know, but I didn't go for their politics. It was a good show. The lead singer is huge, like 6'6" or so.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 08:18 PM (yeEu9)

Midget.

Posted by: Jens Kidman at March 09, 2024 08:23 PM (8sMut)

139 Thanks for the Trower, MH.

Discovering Black Sabbath as a kid was like an epiphany.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 09, 2024 08:23 PM (R4t5M)

140 124 ...guys like me who were stealth headbangers dressed in a polo shirt and decent jeans to the guys with the denim jackets with the massive Iron Maiden patch on the back.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:18 PM
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We should talk.

Posted by: TRex at March 09, 2024 08:23 PM (IQ6Gq)

141 saw iron butterfly opening for sir douglas with steve winwood in 69-first live then janis joplin dec 69 at mpls armory. my favorites are gillian welch 3 concerts and boz scaggs two. another unforgettable was virgil fox at northrup.

Posted by: gary holmgren at March 09, 2024 08:23 PM (t91vE)

142 I worked with this young girl that was into metal. Had a baby and a husband. Thry'd dress the baby in metal garb. I found it funny. How does a kid like that rebel against his parents when he's a teen?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 08:24 PM (yeEu9)

143 114 Your sister sounds cool though.
Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts

She still is. Strange though. Our birthdays are the same week (this one) and were 5 years apart in age, yet still 29. That space/time continuum is unpredictable.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 08:14 PM (rii+a)

That's nothin. I am now much younger than my sister, even though she was born 2 years after me.

Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts at March 09, 2024 08:24 PM (JCiCd)

144 there was only one radio station in my area - WMMS, Home of the Buzzard. I think Kid Leo holds the record for the number of cease and desist ordered issued by the FTC.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 08:24 PM (H/XYA)

145 I guess my first musical influences came from AM radio in dad's car- pop music like Neil Diamond and Dusty Springfield, Dionne Warwick, Tom Jones, Petula Clark, Motown

really liked 'golden age' Motown

TV shows like American Bandstand
Casey Kasem's Top 40 every Saturday morning
My first LP was CCR's "Bayou Country"
first concert Grand Funk

Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 08:24 PM (oCjPU)

146 Yep, Sabbath was just awesome and opened up a whole new world. Not like Zappa though. That changed everything.

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 08:25 PM (vFG9F)

147 KISS-FM in San Antonio. For a very brief period there was a war between them and 96.1 back when they were a rock format. But never forget the importance of MTV's Headbanger's Ball. I was PISSED when it was canceled in 1995.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:26 PM (8sMut)

148 123 There are two kinds of Rush fans: The fans that understand Rush and the fans who think they understand Rush.
Posted by: Minuteman at March 09, 2024 08:17 PM (LaNzR)

You can list me in the first group. (Which means you'll probably list me in the second group.)

Posted by: tankdemon at March 09, 2024 08:26 PM (zpw81)

149 132 Most influential radio - KOMA out of Oklahoma, and XEROK out of Juarez.

First concert - 1972 (73?), Three Dog Night in Albuquerque, at The Pit. I was a senior in HS, and I organized a road trip, two-car caravan, 200 miles, each way.

Posted by: goatexchange at March 09, 2024 08:21 PM (S1owN)

+1 for KOMA.

Tuning in to KOMA a while after the sun went down at my grandparents house in the middle of nowhere, South Dakota, got me through the summer of '73.

Posted by: Gref at March 09, 2024 08:26 PM (5fDan)

150 but were happy to explore "variations on a theme".
Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts

I like rock bands that do that. Mostly the ones that have enough classical or jazz skills in their backgrounds to really pull it off.

But I never got into the Dead or other "jam bands" that did that all the time.

Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 08:26 PM (DgGvY)

151 How does a kid like that rebel against his parents when he's a teen?
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Wears a suit ala Alex Keaton?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 08:26 PM (H/XYA)

152 This "Rush" you're chatting about - he had a big talk radio gig later, right?

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 08:27 PM (TSQkU)

153 142 I worked with this young girl that was into metal. Had a baby and a husband. Thry'd dress the baby in metal garb. I found it funny. How does a kid like that rebel against his parents when he's a teen?
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 08:24 PM (yeEu9)

He identifies as Debbie Boone

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 08:27 PM (QXQ4l)

154 My music taste is pretty eclectic, from classic to modern minus rap--this IS about music, right? Not stuck on any one genre, I like bits and pieces of all.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 09, 2024 08:27 PM (KATBx)

155 As to who influenced my musical tastes: Pink Floyd's "Hey You" f*cked up my sh*t. I was into classical and jazz (my father's music) until I heard (and taped) that song. Still listen to classical and jazz, but The Wall's still on 24/7 when I work in my garage.

Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts at March 09, 2024 08:28 PM (JCiCd)

156 FWIW, Bob Seger, one of my favorite road tunes,

Here's mine: https://tinyurl.com/ymdhdekb

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 09, 2024 08:28 PM (V8he0)

157 We should talk.

Posted by: TRex at March 09, 2024 08:23 PM (IQ6Gq)

By senior year it was common to see me on campus wearing the Megadeth "Vic Goes To Hell" t-shirt. (I wanted the General Vic Rattlehead t-shirt where he is about to "push the button". But I took what I could get.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:28 PM (8sMut)

158 There are two kinds of Rush fans: The fans that understand Rush and the fans who think they understand Rush.
Posted by: Minuteman at March 09, 2024 08:17 PM (LaNzR)

You can list me in the first group. (Which means you'll probably list me in the second group.)
Posted by: tankdemon

Everyone goes in the group they don't think they belong in. Dunning-Kruger applied to music.

Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 08:28 PM (DgGvY)

159 Did anyone read any of the rock journalism stuff? (no, not Tiger Beat). I used to get the British equivalent of Rolling Stone at a local bookstore. First heard about Joe Cocker there. And Creem. Loved what they wrote but didn't care that much for the bands they liked.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 08:28 PM (yeEu9)

160 Rush - I could never understand why Nile Peart said that 2112 was influenced by Ayn Rand’s book Fountainhead

It’s practically a musical version of her book Anthem

Posted by: PMRich at March 09, 2024 08:29 PM (eh5ud)

161 Did anyone read any of the rock journalism stuff?

Circus, from time to time.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 09, 2024 08:29 PM (R4t5M)

162 159 Did anyone read any of the rock journalism stuff? (no, not Tiger Beat). I used to get the British equivalent of Rolling Stone at a local bookstore. First heard about Joe Cocker there. And Creem. Loved what they wrote but didn't care that much for the bands they liked.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 08:28 PM (yeEu9)

Yup subscribed to Creem for a number of years.
Also some cut out LP newspaper format publication, don't recall the name.

I always bought stuff far away from pop music for the most part. Picked up an LP once upon a time from there by Rick Grech.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 08:30 PM (QXQ4l)

163 And the headbangers at school were far, far from hostile from prog bands. One band practically all the headbangers held high in respect and appreciation was this little band from Canada called Rush. Disrespect to Rush was not tolerated. So eventually I got into them beyond the songs I heard on the radio. And yes, Floyd, Pink was beloved.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:18 PM (8sMut)

Been a metal guitar player my entire life, but I absolutely loved getting a new rush album and learning the whole damn thing. I did that up to moving pictures. Lifeson was a huge influence in how I looked at guitar. I always said metal bands taught me the true horsepower of guitar, but Lifeson taught me the beauty.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2024 08:30 PM (VwHCD)

164 So Horde, if you are a concert goer, what was your first concert?

Chuck Berry, and I forget what warm-up acts, Six Flags Over Texas, July 4th, 1976. Bicentennial!

Posted by: Gref at March 09, 2024 08:31 PM (5fDan)

165 FWIW, Bob Seger, one of my favorite road tunes, 'On the Road Again':
https://tinyurl.com/d7j5w4as
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 08:21 PM (XeU6L)

One of mine too.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 08:31 PM (W/lyH)

166 Very first concert was the Mantovani Orchestra, when I was 7.

First rock concert was Jethro Tull, 1973, in the Chattanooga Memorial Auditorium. Ian Anderson was at the top of his game.

Posted by: Beverly at March 09, 2024 08:31 PM (Epeb0)

167 VH 5150.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 09, 2024 08:32 PM (R4t5M)

168 Bob Seger covers CCR "Fortunate Son"

https://youtu.be/mog7Kts3kVQ?si=cMEHxjSb-F_HUsJj

Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 08:32 PM (oCjPU)

169 112 109 Ozzy's first concert apprearance in San Antonio (1 October 1992

Was that when he got arrested for pissing on the Alamo?
Posted by: Oddbob at March 09, 2024 08:12 PM (sNc8Y)

Nope, he was arrested for noise pollution and impersonating a singer.

Dio posted his bail.
Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts at March 09, 2024 08:14 PM (JCiCd)

Thanls for the POV of a Bexar County judge...

Anyways, the concert for which Ozzy was banned from San Antonio was 19 February 1982. As a kid, I remember hearing his name tossed about a lot on local San Antonio media. So I think that was my first memory of hearing of him.

When I was hearing his music on Headbanger's Ball five years later, I was ready.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:32 PM (8sMut)

170 First 'rock' concert, Cream, Butler Univ., '68?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 08:08 PM (XeU6L)

You dawg. Now that was a group.
Too bad smack, booze and egos got in the way.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
-------

Heh. Heres a link to their concert/tour history. Scroll/page down to '67 through '68. The wonder is that they lived through it.
https://tinyurl.com/y69ttszr

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 08:32 PM (XeU6L)

171 You dawg. Now that was a group.
Too bad smack, booze and egos got in the way.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Ginger Baker was a lunatic.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 09, 2024 08:33 PM (R4t5M)

172 First concert was Iron Maiden in Phoenix in 1987.

Last one was Death Angel in Denver a decade or so ago.

I am far too 29 to go to concerts anymore.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at March 09, 2024 08:34 PM (MvA9C)

173 Yep! I had that album in the first photo. I think every house hold with a teenager had one, at least in my neighborhood. Listened to it on the family Zenith Hi Fi record player.

Posted by: JTB at March 09, 2024 08:34 PM (zudum)

174 First rock concert was Jethro Tull, 1973, in the Chattanooga Memorial Auditorium. Ian Anderson was at the top of his game.
Posted by: Beverly at March 09, 2024 08:31 PM (Epeb0)

So they played "Aqualung" 15 times?

It is a known fact that the most violent pits take place at Jethro Tull concerts when Ian Anderson starts playing the flute...

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:34 PM (8sMut)

175 Gref, it's true - KOMA was FM and only broke through the after hours. XEROK, Mexico, had no power restrictions, and blasted its way all over the southwest US, 24/7.

XEROK gave us MOTOWN, while KOMA gave us Doobies, Guess Who, and the British second invasion. What a great mix and balance. I grew up appreciating all kinds. What a great time for tunes.

Posted by: goatexchange at March 09, 2024 08:35 PM (S1owN)

176 Always thought Alex Lifeson was overlooked. Probably because of the other two guys in the band were the best in the business at their craft.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 08:35 PM (rii+a)

177 First concert was Iron Maiden in Phoenix in 1987.

Last one was Death Angel in Denver a decade or so ago.

I am far too 29 to go to concerts anymore.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at March 09, 2024 08:34 PM (MvA9C)

I saw death angel a few years ago. They still frigging tear it up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2024 08:35 PM (VwHCD)

178 My big sister, born 1951, has great taste in music: everything from soul music and Motown to Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix.

So many fantastic bands, too many to list.

Posted by: Beverly at March 09, 2024 08:35 PM (Epeb0)

179 So many great bands/solo artists mentioned above.

Worst concert was Rod Stewart in 77. We walked out.
Favorite concert Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, also in 77. They were brilliant in a small concert venue.
All time favorite voice, solo Burton Cummings.

Posted by: old chick at March 09, 2024 08:37 PM (sOete)

180 176 Always thought Alex Lifeson was overlooked.

Absolutely awesome, but you’re right, easy to be overlooked when you’re playing with two legends

Posted by: PMRich at March 09, 2024 08:38 PM (eh5ud)

181 My first LP alums were Kiss Alive and Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell. Not sure how I sneaked those past my Dad.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at March 09, 2024 08:38 PM (MvA9C)

182 Many good things about childhood in Germany: hearing AFN, AND hearing German radio and hearing what the Germans were into. My middle sister from time to time would want to go downtown but was stuck with me while our parents were gone. So she took me with her on her visits to the German record stores.

Her first concert was Scorpions, at Saarbrücken.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:39 PM (8sMut)

183 Always thought Alex Lifeson was overlooked. Probably because of the other two guys in the band were the best in the business at their craft.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 08:35 PM (rii+a)

Lifeson was no slouch. That dude could paint scenery on that fret board.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2024 08:39 PM (VwHCD)

184 First rock concert was Joe Walsh at the Palace in Columbus, Ohio. 1980 or 81, not exactly sure of that.

Prior to that, I saw Maynard Ferguson with some other bandies.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 08:39 PM (OX9vb)

185 Worst concert - Tesla, singer was too drunk/stoned to standup. Guys running the mixer boards didn’t have a clue and everything was all garbled

Walked out

Posted by: PMRich at March 09, 2024 08:40 PM (eh5ud)

186 🎹 🎶 amateur hour again

Perfect
What does perfection mean to mortals?

Link in nic. Should play from 5:35 to 8:39 in the vid.
A cut from Mindful Webworkshop #7, Sep 2016.

I think I'd just made up the score for the lyrics. Sounds kind-of derivative to me now, but of what I'm not sure.
___

Matthew 5:48 - Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
💙

Posted by: mindful webworker - relatively at March 09, 2024 08:42 PM (fIaE2)

187 Ginger Baker was a lunatic.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Yes, he had a bit of a temper. The other drummer Clapton worked with a lot was Jim Gordon. He was a certified nut. Died in jail after murdering his mother. Think he was schizoid and tried self-medicating with cocaine and alcohol.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 08:42 PM (rii+a)

188 I saw death angel a few years ago. They still frigging tear it up.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2024 08:35 PM (VwHCD

I have some of their more recent stuff and they only got better. Flotsam and Jetsam as well. Saw them live in Denver some years ago.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at March 09, 2024 08:42 PM (MvA9C)

189 My first LP alums were Kiss Alive and Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell. Not sure how I sneaked those past my Dad.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at March 09, 2024 08:38 PM (MvA9C)

My mother got me the AC/DC back in black album when it came out. I'll never forget it. She says wtf songs are these, shoot this, and hell that, and drink this...lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2024 08:43 PM (VwHCD)

190 Women's History Month music thread post!

So what do you do when you form your all-girl metal band, and just when you're ready to go on tour, Covid happens and locks everything down?

You head to the club anyway, and livestream a concert. That's why they're not looking out at the "audience." There isn't one.

https://youtu.be/HFnEYhbEAqg

(Hey, if I'm 29, then three years ago is "history.")

Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 08:44 PM (DgGvY)

191 48: Porcupine Tree is bloody awesome. Powered my way through grad school.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:46 PM (8sMut)

192 Also - first album was S&G, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, I 'bought' it with credits from selling magazine subscriptions to raise money for band trips, 1972. More recently, son stream/downloaded it, it's one of his favorites, fifty years on.

Posted by: goatexchange at March 09, 2024 08:46 PM (S1owN)

193 Creedence was/is my group. Fogerty doesn't have a lot of range but his IS a "rock and roll voice". Buffalo Springfield, and Marshall Tucker band.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 09, 2024 08:47 PM (KATBx)

194 Worst concert. Scorpions in Billings in 1992. Not entirely their fault. The sound at the venue was shit, and I was deaf for two days.

I still have tinnitus because of that show.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at March 09, 2024 08:47 PM (MvA9C)

195 Back in the 80’s, I got into a lot of Lene Lovich.
Lucky Number, Bird Song, Blue Hotel

Posted by: SMOD at March 09, 2024 08:49 PM (RovqD)

196 All started by looking up Atomic Rooster on Spotify
Posted by: PMRich at March 09, 2024 07:48 PM (eh5ud)

I enjoy the Spotify free association rabbit holes. Found lots of forgotten old stuff and lots of new stuff that way.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 08:49 PM (OX9vb)

197 First Album: a Barry Manilow album
First Rock Album: Destroyer
First Concert: Judas Priest during British Steel. I took a girl with enormous breastesses. I did not get a feel. I did not get a kiss. A couple years later I got to see them when she appeared in Gallery's 'Girl Next Door' feature. It was straight out of 'Centerfold'.

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at March 09, 2024 08:49 PM (15364)

198 190 Women's History Month music thread post!

So what do you do when you form your all-girl metal band, and just when you're ready to go on tour, Covid happens and locks everything down?

You head to the club anyway, and livestream a concert. That's why they're not looking out at the "audience." There isn't one.

https://youtu.be/HFnEYhbEAqg

(Hey, if I'm 29, then three years ago is "history.")
Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 08:44 PM (DgGvY)

They should have been immediately arrested and forced to go into STEM. We need more women in STEM and if we have to force them into STEM at gunpoint, so be it.

Posted by: Weather Girls virtue signaling in purple on March 14 at March 09, 2024 08:50 PM (8sMut)

199 Walked out
Posted by: PMRich

That's why we left the Rod Stewart concert, we sat half scared to death he was going to pitch himself off the stage, horrible performance.

Bob Seger, Boz Scaggs, Brian Ferry, Long John Baldry and oh, Bob Welch's voice sounded so effortless.
lol, I just realized I have a thing for "B" names.

Great thread, MisHum, I've really enjoyed the past hour reading all the memories.

Posted by: old chick at March 09, 2024 08:50 PM (sOete)

200 "Her first concert was Scorpions, at Saarbrücken.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33"

I saw the Scorpions open for I forgot who. The most memorable thing about that concert was the chick in front of us giving head to her companion. Either that or she was barfing in his lap. For quite a while.

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 08:50 PM (vFG9F)

201 I still have tinnitus because of that show.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,

I think I aggravated mine at a Boston concert. It wasn't the guitars or vocals, it was that f'n organ. Who know a pipe organ could be mobile.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 08:50 PM (rii+a)

202 Last concert (for now): Elton John, October 2022, San Antonio.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:51 PM (8sMut)

203 SMOD, I had a Lene Lovitch album. So long ago. I no longer remember which one, but I liked her.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 08:51 PM (OX9vb)

204 I would have loved to seen Uncle Tupelo in concert but by the time I got back from 3 years overseas, they had split up. Damn egos got in the way, I guess. Tweedy and Farrar would form their own bands, but I never got around to seeing them.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 08:53 PM (rii+a)

205 Most fun concert - Huey Lewis and the News, Pocatello ID ‘84

Just a great, energetic show, almost felt like you were in a local rock bar

Posted by: PMRich at March 09, 2024 08:54 PM (eh5ud)

206 My first concert was Elton John at the Spectrum in Philadelphia July 1976.
I had bought extra tickets figuring I might make a few bucks. Finally had to give them away as the show started for a soda.

Posted by: SMOD at March 09, 2024 08:54 PM (RovqD)

207 My first rock concert was the Beatles then the Rolling Stones later that year. 1964? They were still wearing ties and jackets. Could barely hear the music because of all the little screaming teeny boppers. My sister was one of them.

The first ever concerts were the Newport Jazz Festival and Folk Festival, circa late 50s and early 60s. The Jazz Festival set up my enduring love of jazz, especially small combo. That love continues with Diana Kraal these days.

The Folk Festival, along with sea chanties, cemented my enjoyment of traditional, ballad style music and earlier. Probably where I first heard madrigal singing.

Posted by: JTB at March 09, 2024 08:55 PM (zudum)

208 First concert: NGDB at the Agora
Best Concert: Eagles 1976 at the Richfield Coliseum, Jackson Browne 1982 The Aud in Buffalo

Influenced by: Older Brother - Motown, Folk

Radio Influence: AM - CKLW out of Windsor, FM - WMMS Cleveland (of course, home of the Buzzard)

My own predilection: Female vocalists

Posted by: browndog howls at the moon at March 09, 2024 08:56 PM (TTAGa)

209 First concert ... Ray Charles at Municipal Auditorium in N'Awlins - followed later by another Ray Charles concert, which was then followed by a James Brown concert. After each of these, me and my bud Sam went to the fooderie Ray made famous in one of his tunes ... Dookie Chase's. Later in life, Dookie was one of my clients.

Influences ... ? Oh my. Duane Allman. Chet Atkins. Roy Clark. Mac (Dr John) Rebennack. Robin Trower. Howard Roberts. John McLaughlin. Tampa Red. Louisiana Red. Bonnie Raitt. Jimi Hendrix. Frank Zappa. Chuck Berry. Jimmy Reed. Jerry Reed. Shuggie Otis. Baden Powell. Clarence White. SRV. John Mayall. Jeff Beck. Stephen Stills. William Ackermann. Ernie K-doe. Paul Simon. Eric Clapton. Fleetwood Mac. Earl King. James Brown. Randy Newman. ... stop me, or I'll keep going!

Posted by: Dr_No at March 09, 2024 08:56 PM (ayRl+)

210 Malcolm Young.
My all time favorite guitarist.

Posted by: Rasmus at March 09, 2024 08:57 PM (z34ZM)

211 Bands I regret never seeing live:

Pantera, Black Sabbath, ZZ Top, Slipknot, Pink Floyd.

Never saw Metallica but I am okay with that. They suck.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at March 09, 2024 08:57 PM (MvA9C)

212 157 By senior year it was common to see me on campus wearing the Megadeth "Vic Goes To Hell" t-shirt.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 09, 2024 08:28 PM
***
I was much more under the radar than that. But I collected every bootleg cassette of live Metallica that I could find. Lived up to the hype when I finally got to see them in person. Old school Metallica is still my go-to.

Posted by: TRex at March 09, 2024 08:58 PM (IQ6Gq)

213 I did see Pat Benatar during the 7th inning stretch at a Philadelphia Phillies game.

She rolled out to center field in a truck, did 2 songs and rolled off.

Posted by: SMOD at March 09, 2024 08:59 PM (RovqD)

214 Had a kid who was a sergeant with me in Turkey. He used to play for a.warmup.band for REO Speedwagon. He'd come off duty and kick back in the Day Room and play his guitar.
Damn!
He was.good.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 08:59 PM (W/lyH)

215 I did see The Shadows play on stage in Nairobi, which was cool as I was a big fan particularly of Hank Marvin. I don't know if that counts as a concert. I guess I lived a sheltered life!
Posted by: Ciampino - Music is the balm for a troubled soul at March 09, 2024 07:56 PM (qfLjt)

I absolutely love The Shadows. #1 sexy music for me.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 09:00 PM (OX9vb)

216 THC > CBD

Posted by: SFGoth at March 09, 2024 09:00 PM (KAi1n)

217 Could have seen Pink Floyd and The Grateful Dead in the same year (Mid 90s) but got deployed and couldn't go. Not a Dead head but I would have gone out of curiosity. Loved Pink Floyd though. No Roger Waters but he's a douche anyway. I like Gilmore. His solo albums are solid.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 09:00 PM (rii+a)

218 Saw Pat Benatar in concert. She's pixie size. Maybe 5ft tall. Killer voice.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 09:02 PM (rii+a)

219 First concert was, believe it or not, Iron Butterfly opening for Grand Funk Railroad at Loyola Field House in New Orleans. Next concert was James Gang. Joe Walsh sat in a chair, barefoot, and played the entire concert with his eyes closed.

First albums were ELP, Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper/Killer.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 09, 2024 09:02 PM (DsA2n)

220 CCR's Green River was perfect. My mom loved it too. Didn't see them but they were one of those bands that played the Avalon and Fillmore when starting out.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 09:02 PM (yeEu9)

221 Oh, and worst concert:

The Dixie Dregs at the Bottom Line in NYC, 1979

Just not my cup of tea.

A friend took me, as a return "favor" as I'd taken him to see Karla Bonoff at the same venue a month earlier.

He probably felt the same way about Karla as I did about the Dregs.

Posted by: browndog howls at the moon at March 09, 2024 09:03 PM (TTAGa)

222 When I was in high school, some colleges established low power FM stations. Late at night they often played some alternative style music, meaning not top 40. The station out of URI took a quiet, intimate approach which meant it sounded like the DJ, speaking softly, had swallowed the microphone. It was damn effective when the DJ was female. I had to save up to get a transistor radio that received FM. AM only was the norm back then except for fancier and more expensive radios.

Posted by: JTB at March 09, 2024 09:03 PM (zudum)

223 The first band I ever saw live was The Savage Resurrection. They came to a club in Louisville in 1968.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2024 09:03 PM (63Dwl)

224 What happened to Pat Benatar? Her songs hold up pretty well.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 09:03 PM (yeEu9)

225 Favorite concerts attended were Rush (opened by Primus), Queensryche on their Building Empires tour (but they opened with Operation Mindcrime in it's entirety), Tool, Dream Theater (at the Paramount in Seattle) w/Queensryche (post DeGarmo era). These days, I listen most to Riverside and Lunatic Soul. Also really love Porcupine Tree.
Posted by: Shepherd Lover

Trying to land somewhere in the middle of all those bands..... have you listened to Leprous?

Something from their first album:

https://youtu.be/9yYg6o8VA48

And their most-recent one:

https://youtu.be/85drl9-lqRU

Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 09:04 PM (DgGvY)

226 First album I ever bought that wasn't marketed to young tweens was the first Crosby Stills and Nash album. I was 13 and saved my lunch money to buy it at Woolworth's in 1970. I just marveled at this cool stuff actual college people listened to, lol, as compared to the Monkees and the Cowsills (both of whom I still listen to; not knocking them, but it was a marketing thing.) I still think Suite Judy Blue Eyes is a great song. "Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow.." I was enchanted.

Posted by: skywch at March 09, 2024 09:04 PM (uqhmb)

227 Back in 1985, I got to Live Aid at JFK stadium in Philadelphia (one of the last concerts there before they tore it down, Wells Fargo Center there now).
I wait the whole day to see Eric Clapton do “White Room” as the sun went down (also manage to do heat stroke as all they had to drink was Coke, saved by getting drenched by a water battle in the men’s room). Mick Jagger and Tina Turner ended this memorable day.

Posted by: SMOD at March 09, 2024 09:06 PM (RovqD)

228 I envy those who got to see the original classic BOC lineup ('72-'81). I've seen videos but everyone says they were one of the best live acts of the 70's, if not all-time. Some great studio bands can't regularly deliver live.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 09, 2024 09:06 PM (KAi1n)

229 1st concert that I ever attended was Harry Chapin. Loved it. And I listened to WLS, with John Records Linedecker and the others. Loved Animal Stories with Larry Lujak and Tommy Edwards.

Posted by: Crabby Appleton at March 09, 2024 09:06 PM (MdcDq)

230 >What happened to Pat Benatar? Her songs hold up pretty well.

Posted by: Notsothoreau

married, two kids, lives in Malibu

Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 09:07 PM (oCjPU)

231 When I was in high school, some colleges established low power FM stations. Late at night they often played some alternative style music, meaning not top 40. The station out of URI took a quiet, intimate approach which meant it sounded like the DJ, speaking softly, had swallowed the microphone. It was damn effective when the DJ was female.
Posted by: JTB

ASMR two generations before anyone used the term "ASMR."

Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 09:07 PM (DgGvY)

232 I think Pat Benatar still performs occasionally. She's still got her voice.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 09:08 PM (S6gqv)

233 Thry'd dress the baby in metal garb. I found it funny. How does a kid like that rebel against his parents when he's a teen?
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Lawrence Welk, Barry Manilow, Bee Gees....

Posted by: SFGoth at March 09, 2024 09:09 PM (KAi1n)

234 My very first concert was The Who.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 09, 2024 09:09 PM (ER9HB)

235 Fourteen-year old me at a Led Zeppelin show. I felt more than a little out of place.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 09, 2024 09:09 PM (MZ+PY)

236 Newsboys (Christian pop band), Sioux City, 1999. They were on their "Step Up To The Microphone" tour (so named because their original lead singer had left and their drummer became their lead singer). The best part was the dueling spinning drum sets operated by the new and old drummers. It also was when I learned that "petrol" was the non-American slang for "gas" due to a hilarious anecdote they told about stopping for gas in Des Moines.

Posted by: pookysgirl will never forget that birthday at March 09, 2024 09:10 PM (dtlDP)

237 This far into a music thread and no Lynyrd Skynyrd? Know they're not everyone's jam, but thought they'd be in the mix somewhere.

Also only one VH reference (5150). No Sammy solo either?

Posted by: TRex at March 09, 2024 09:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

238
My very first concert was The Who.
Posted by: Muad'dib

Saw The Who in LA on their Quadrophenia tour.
Sone unknown bunch of southern boys opened for them.
Lynyrd Skynyrd

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2024 09:12 PM (63Dwl)

239 I saw Arthur Lee (Love) at the I-Beam (defunct) here in SF in summer '87. Used a fake ID to get in. I was probably the only one under 30 there. Great show. Arthur Lee is my vote for best rock lyricist.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 09, 2024 09:13 PM (KAi1n)

240 Saw Jethro Tull at Musicfest in Bethlehem PA about 10 years ago.
Frankly, I seemed to have missed a bunch of songs on his albums as he seemed to do mostly the ones I never liked much.

Posted by: SMOD at March 09, 2024 09:13 PM (RovqD)

241 First concert was Blue Oyster Cult at Saratoga Performing Arts Center!

Posted by: Unkaren at March 09, 2024 09:14 PM (/hxeS)

242 I got to see Pat Benatar at Ithaca College. I didn’t go there, but this was while I was living in Ithaca when all my loser friends and I were still hanging on in college town. The show was open to the public and it was great.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 09, 2024 09:14 PM (EXyHK)

243 L&T just asked how many of my internet friends still have their record collections and do they ever listen?

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 09, 2024 09:14 PM (BHL6B)

244 >>Thry'd dress the baby in metal garb. I found it funny. How does a kid like that rebel against his parents when he's a teen?
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Banjo player in a traditional bluegrass band wearing a suit and a cowboy hat like Bill Monroe's boys did.

Posted by: huerfano at March 09, 2024 09:15 PM (AT/9h)

245 Saw Floyd at the LA Colisseum in 1988. Wasn't planning to go to the show - just wanted to score some weed. No weed, much acid. Nah. Me and another guy snuck into the show and saw the first half from the lawn seats. Fantastic.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 09, 2024 09:15 PM (KAi1n)

246 OT: Not an MMA fan but it's on TV here at work. I just saw why its popular. This stunning, blonde, blue eyed, beauty just strutted by the camera. She was amazing. One of the ring girls or whatever they call them in the fight game.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 09:15 PM (rii+a)

247 231 ... "ASMR two generations before anyone used the term "ASMR.""

It really was. Good call. (I just recently learned about ASMR. I don't keep up with modern trends.) It's very relaxing.

Saw an ASMR video where someone was recreating the map Tolkien made for LOTR and the only sound was the scratching of the dip pen on paper. It was hypnotic.

Posted by: JTB at March 09, 2024 09:15 PM (zudum)

248 L&T just asked how many of my internet friends still have their record collections and do they ever listen?
Posted by: Pete Bog
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Yes, and no. Need to sell my gear...and for that matter, the albums.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 09:16 PM (XeU6L)

249 236 Newsboys (Christian pop band)

For Christian music, try The Sons of Korah

I believe they are from Australia, perform only Psalms set to modern music

Posted by: PMRich at March 09, 2024 09:16 PM (eh5ud)

250 First concert was Blue Oyster Cult at Saratoga Performing Arts Center!
Posted by: Unkaren

Supposed to be mine too, march 1985 in DC. Snowed out.... So first concert turned out to Oingo Boingo Fall 1985 Del Mar racetrack. Made me a fan. Boingo delivered.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 09, 2024 09:18 PM (KAi1n)

251 First concert - Amy Grant
Favorite concert (so far) - Alison Krauss & Union Station
Other fun shows - Cheap Trick, Three Dog Night/ARS, Chris Stapleton, Chicago, Seven Nations
Next concert (maybe) - Queensryche, playing the EP and The Warning in full on the current tour

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 09, 2024 09:18 PM (1eY81)

252 234 My very first concert was The Who.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 09, 2024 09:09 PM (ER9HB)

Pre or Post Moon?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 09:18 PM (QXQ4l)

253 First LP purchased with my own money was Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 09, 2024 09:20 PM (V8he0)

254 Hopefully The ONT doesn't stomp the Music Thread like a 4/4 beat.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 09:20 PM (QXQ4l)

255 Supposed to be mine too, march 1985 in DC. Snowed out.... So first concert turned out to Oingo Boingo Fall 1985 Del Mar racetrack. Made me a fan. Boingo delivered.
Posted by: SFGoth at March 09, 2024 09:18 PM (KAi1n)

I once saw 38 Special open for the Police...

38 was ROCKIN... jumping off of Amp Towers... very high energy...

Police, sounded perfect, but just stood there and played... we left half way through their set.... bored.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 09, 2024 09:20 PM (xaFKb)

256 I missed a couple shows in the last few years due to COVID that I'm still disappointed about. Zac Brown (due to the venue's vaxx mandate) and Collective Soul (due to someone in the band getting the 'rona)

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 09, 2024 09:20 PM (1eY81)

257 216 THC > CBD
Posted by: SFGoth at March 09, 2024 09:00 PM (KAi1n)

Do you know of a new Cob?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 09:21 PM (QXQ4l)

258 I have most of the featured artists on vinyl in on form or other.

Posted by: White Punk at March 09, 2024 09:21 PM (sybrM)

259 Banjo player in a traditional bluegrass band wearing a suit and a cowboy hat like Bill Monroe's boys did.
Posted by: huerfano
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Right here in Asheville:

"The first time the world heard Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys was February 2, 1939, at 3:30 pm when the group played a fifteen-minute segment on Mountain Music Time. At the time, WWNC was an NBC affiliate, owned by the Asheville Citizen-Times. Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys played the daily 3:30-3:45 Mountain Music spot until April 1, 1939."

Jimmie Rogers also played here, live on WWNC.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 09:21 PM (XeU6L)

260 I have lots of records—some albums are only available on vinyl, some I prefer to have the larger album art, and some I’m too cheap to pay for new versions, so I buy whichever format I see first in used shops.

They’re not my original collection, however; I had a cassette player, so I bought cassettes, and was on the “tape” side of the Columbia Record and Tape Club. So I don’t have my original Boz Scaggs or Robin Trower albums. All of my cassettes degraded too much over time, and so I ended up replacing all the albums I still cared about (Scaggs and Trower, definitely) with vinyl or CD. Bridge of Sighs and In City Dreams I went with vinyl because it’s such great art.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 09, 2024 09:22 PM (EXyHK)

261 L&T just asked how many of my internet friends still have their record collections and do they ever listen?
Posted by: Pete Bog at March 09, 2024 09:14 PM (BHL6B)

I wish. I left all mine with a friend when I moved to another apartment and didn't have a record player. Then she moved and cut herself off from contact (alcoholism is bad).

I really miss that David Thomas & The Pedestrians album. Most of the other stuff can be found in the streams.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 09:23 PM (OX9vb)

262 First concert was Sytx at the Palace theater in Albany NY ~1974.

Posted by: White Punk at March 09, 2024 09:23 PM (sybrM)

263 I got to see AC/DC on the last concert tour before Bon Scott drank himself to death. They had a mostly unknown at the time warm up band called Cheap Trick.
Now that was one kick ass concert.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 09:23 PM (S6gqv)

264 I need to say that Nina Hagen now looks like someone's mum

Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 09:24 PM (D7oie)

265 236 Newsboys (Christian pop band)

For Christian music, try The Sons of Korah
I believe they are from Australia, perform only Psalms set to modern music
Posted by: PMRich

Iona's another good one.

Irish-folk/Pink-Floydian/Christian band. Skip to 2:35 if you don't want the whole Floydian intro bit.

https://youtu.be/VDhDk5a96FE

One of those voices who could sing the Minneapolis phone book, and I'd ask for Saint Paul's next.

Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 09:24 PM (DgGvY)

266 just asked how many of my internet friends still have their record collections and do they ever listen?
Posted by: Pete Bog
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I never had much of a record collection - a few 45s, but cassettes were the thing when I started buying music. And I probably still have many, plus some mix tapes.

We do have my mother's (and her mother's) record collection. Probably some Liberace in there. I've been afraid to look.

I found my 45 of Pac-Man Fever while cleaning out her house.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 09, 2024 09:24 PM (1eY81)

267 I envy those who got to see the original classic BOC lineup ('72-'81). I've seen videos but everyone says they were one of the best live acts of the 70's, if not all-time. Some great studio bands can't regularly deliver live.

Saw them twice. They were indeed very good live.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 09, 2024 09:25 PM (V8he0)

268 I wish I'd seen the Who earlier. Did see them while Moon was still alive and they were amazing shows. But the excesses had taken a toll on him.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 09:25 PM (yeEu9)

269 The top photo, I think it used water in a colored lens that smashed oil around. It was a popular light show at the time. He used a projector.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 09, 2024 09:26 PM (MeG8a)

270 An acquaintance and I were just sitting at bar last night, lamenting the passing of physical media. Can't say that I miss any of the tape formats much, but even CD's have become passe.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 09:26 PM (XeU6L)

271 My first 45 was Herman's Hermits, This Door Swings Both Ways. I was ten. Very philosophical little song.

Posted by: skywch at March 09, 2024 09:26 PM (uqhmb)

272 First concert was Sytx at the Palace theater in Albany NY ~1974.
************
Seriously, the Palace Theater? I know it very well. Did you live in Albany?

Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 09:26 PM (IQ6Gq)

273 Someone who's mostly forgotten now but who gave a great concert was Chuck Mangione. Saw him in a 200 seat small venue, he was fantastic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 09:27 PM (S6gqv)

274 I never had much of a record collection. Had a roommate who did, and left most of it when she moved. Then another friend gave me her ex's collection. That group included most of the Rolling Stone's original albums. Still have all of them.

Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 09:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

275 An acquaintance and I were just sitting at bar last night, lamenting the passing of physical media. Can't say that I miss any of the tape formats much, but even CD's have become passe.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

With ya. Now I hear a "new" band, find out they released a CD 15 months ago..... and it's sold out and out of print.

Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 09:28 PM (DgGvY)

276 Musical influences? Initially mom's stuff. The Sinatra, Andy Williams, Robert Goullet Era. Then big sis got Bobby Vinton's "blue" album.
And then, about 2 months before I turned 9 she's running around the house yelling "The Beatles are gonna be on Ed Sullivan",,, repeatedly.
Me - What's a beetle?
Well, it was all over. Because British Invasion. I was hooked.
Forced to take band in 7th grade because "If you're not playing baseball or fishing you've got that transistor radio glued to your ear."
Me - Fine. I'm gonna play drums.
Ended up spending 15 years total playing clubs, city festivals and the like.
Thanks mom!!
First concert, James Taylor at the Honolulu International Center. Three days after getting to duty station at Schofield.
Last concert was either the Dirt Band 50th anniversary tour at some casino in East central Iowa or Steely Dan at Starlight in KC.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 09, 2024 09:29 PM (o3xwr)

277 Always wished I had tried to get to one of David Bowie’s concerts back in the 80’s.
The music videos sure made them look like fun.

Posted by: SMOD at March 09, 2024 09:29 PM (RovqD)

278 Linda Ronstadt came to Albuquerque in '76 or '77, at some little community playhouse, maybe 500 seats. She could have filled the Arena back then. Andrew Gold opened for her, and it was a quiet little performance. She did a lot of low key Spanish-language songs, as well as her hits. Very intimate, and I loved it.

Posted by: goatexchange at March 09, 2024 09:29 PM (S1owN)

279 273 Chuck Mangione was magic to see and listen to. Wow, it's been quite a while since I thought about him. Thanks for the reminder.

Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 09:29 PM (IQ6Gq)

280 He isn't as gruff as he sounds.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 06:28 PM

F*ck off.

Who invited Wisconsinites?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2024 09:30 PM (gSZYf)

281 Grateful,
Yes, at the time, I lived there. Then I moved away. In VA now.

Posted by: White Punk at March 09, 2024 09:30 PM (sybrM)

282 Ha first 45 I ever listened to - it was my neighbor friends - was Zaggers and Evans "In the year 2525."

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 09:30 PM (S6gqv)

283 Linda Ronstadt came to Albuquerque in '76 or '77,
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Yeah, I saw her in about that time frame. The Fox theater, Atlanta.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 09:31 PM (XeU6L)

284 Servo - I saw Chuck Mangione in Manila, PI, back in '82. He was fantastic, I agree with you.

Posted by: goatexchange at March 09, 2024 09:31 PM (S1owN)

285 281
I too grew up there, and am now in VA!

Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 09:31 PM (IQ6Gq)

286 Linda Ronstadt came to Albuquerque in '76 or '77, at some little community playhouse, maybe 500 seats. She could have filled the Arena back then.

Posted by: goatexchange at March 09, 2024 09:29 PM (S1owN)

Gorgeous...sexy...and with an angel's voice.

What's not to love?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2024 09:32 PM (gSZYf)

287 Who invited Wisconsinites?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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It's the Spring thaw, so they are emerging. Did you miss the Gardening thread?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 09:32 PM (XeU6L)

288 Grateful, I'm near Roanoke. Exit 150 I-81.

Posted by: White Punk at March 09, 2024 09:33 PM (sybrM)

289 Yeah, I saw her in about that time frame. The Fox theater, Atlanta.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 09:31 PM (XeU6L)

I do believe that that concert (or parts of) are posted on You Tube.

Posted by: browndog howls at the moon at March 09, 2024 09:33 PM (TTAGa)

290 First 45 was Telstar, by the Tornados. Yes, I'm well past 29.

https://tinyurl.com/ykaxxkkz

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 09, 2024 09:33 PM (V8he0)

291 What's not to love?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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My thoughts exactly.

Posted by: Lowell George at March 09, 2024 09:34 PM (XeU6L)

292 288 White Punk, currently in NoVA in Falls Church. But we go by your area on the way to our property in TN. Send me an email and we can meet for a drink on a future trip

Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 09:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

293 Steeleye Span 1974ish

Posted by: Thomas at March 09, 2024 09:35 PM (MhC3h)

294 266 I found my 45 of Pac-Man Fever while cleaning out her house.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 09, 2024 09:24 PM
***
Ha! Did it drive you crazy? Are you out of your mind?

Posted by: TRex at March 09, 2024 09:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

295 I do believe that that concert (or parts of) are posted on You Tube.

Posted by: browndog howls at the moon at March 09, 2024 09:33 PM (TTAGa)

Yup. You can see Mike Hammer in the upper left...bogarting that joint.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2024 09:35 PM (gSZYf)

296
I do believe that that concert (or parts of) are posted on You Tube.

Posted by: browndog
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I deny any association with anyone appearing in that video.

Posted by: Lowell George at March 09, 2024 09:36 PM (XeU6L)

297 Time to get off the couch and putter about the evening. Ground lamb w/garlic, mushrooms, olives, broccoli, pesto, mustard, and tatziki sauce followed by guitar practice. Gonna jam out to my own stuff since i can't play anyone else's.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 09, 2024 09:37 PM (KAi1n)

298
Yup. You can see Mike Hammer in the upper left...bogarting that joint.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Lies! They are all lies!
I was wrong, I've never even been in that place!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 09:37 PM (XeU6L)

299 I also caught Olivia Newton-John in Spring 1976, at the Pan-Am Center at NMSU, Las Cruces, NM. She was dazzling in a tight green jumpsuit. I had two tickets, but my date cancelled because her best friend committed suicide that week. The '70s were a strange time.

Posted by: goatexchange at March 09, 2024 09:37 PM (S1owN)

300 Last concert was with Todd Rundgren with Darrell Halls house band in Roanoke. Was a true blast from the past

Posted by: White Punk at March 09, 2024 09:38 PM (sybrM)

301 Essential to this era?

The absolute and wonderful abundance of mid-to-high-end audio EQUIPMENT, especially the true "Silver Face" peak of times in the 1970s

Sansui, Pioneer, Kenwood, JVC, Marantz, Technics, the list can go on.

Some of the best sounding audio hardware, ever. Most of today's "stereos" are CRAP. JUNK. INSULTINGLY BAD SYSTEMS, hobbled by computer chips and cheap electronic "work arounds" to deal with the absence of true, heavy DC amplifiers and actual resistors, capacitors, transistors and diodes.

The 40 Watt RMS amps of those days absolutely CURB STOMP the "200 Watt", 7.1, artificial circuit crap out there, until you get into the VERY high end Pro-Sumer stuff (Pioneer ELITE, Carver, Macintosh) and above.

LOUD was not the "goal", then. PERFECT FIDELITY was the goal, and you heard it in every glorious note.

If you were there, you KNOW.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2024 09:39 PM (e6UQI)

302 301 Essential to this era?
*************
Preach it, Brother Jim!

Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 09:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

303 Ha! Did it drive you crazy? Are you out of your mind?
Posted by: TRex
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LOL

It brought back so many memories of me and my cousin, playing music and choreographing dance routines in my basement. I told her about it next time I saw her - we revert back to about 12 years old whenever we're together.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 09, 2024 09:41 PM (1eY81)

304 Jim - I gather that you dislike Class D audio amps.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 09:41 PM (XeU6L)

305 A concert that pissed me off:

James Taylor at Kleinhans Music Hall 2018ish

Musically going through the motions.

Politically, frothing at the mouth. I almost walked out … but my then bride wouldn’t hear of it.

Posted by: browndog feeling a bit grizzled at March 09, 2024 09:42 PM (TTAGa)

306 Great to be here for music thread. Being a horn player and coming of age in the the early 70's and the beginning of the horn bands and Jazz fusion, I really dig Tower of Power.

Here is a great band from that time, Cold Blood with Lydia Pense.

https://youtu.be/s_S4rDwVBl0

Oh I actually saw Star Castle in Columbus, Back in the Day. Lots of great concerts there over the years.

Posted by: pawn at March 09, 2024 09:44 PM (QB+5g)

307 Yes Jim
Those were the days, my friend
Still have a Pioneer SA9100 w/TX9100 tuner

Posted by: kactus at March 09, 2024 09:45 PM (95Ps/)

308 Oh yeah

saw The Eagles at Invesco Field, fall 2000
endless bitching about George Bush, interrupted occasionally by songs

this is when I came to despise that band

Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 09:45 PM (oCjPU)

309 Hard to recall my first concert. Might have been Billy Joel at the Meadowlands arena. Does opera count? Dad took me to see Aida at Newark Symphony Hall when I was maybe 14, so that could have been my first. Placido Domingo played Radames.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 09, 2024 09:45 PM (szKLp)

310 Posted by: pawn at March 09, 2024 09:44 PM (QB+5g)

I saw ToP in Chicago back in the 80s …

Love love love a hot horn section

Posted by: browndog feeling a bit grizzled at March 09, 2024 09:46 PM (TTAGa)

311 so no ONT I guess

Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 09:47 PM (oCjPU)

312 The absolute and wonderful abundance of mid-to-high-end audio EQUIPMENT, especially the true "Silver Face" peak of times in the 1970s

I loved those ads, and I loved the look of that equipment. I have never had an ear for appreciating that level of quality, but I am sad that it no longer exists. It was nice to know that there was a depth of quality to the production end of music.

And the loss of popularity of high end listening has ended up affecting my experience, too. I first heard about the loss of this when engineers started complaining about the deliberate reduction of dynamic range as portable players and then portable jukebox players became more and more the standard way of listening to music. That I can hear.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 09, 2024 09:47 PM (EXyHK)

313 I have 2 Star Castle records. Still listen to vinyl.

Posted by: White Punk at March 09, 2024 09:47 PM (sybrM)

314 My First concert... Motley Crue

Oldest son's(17) first concert this past week... the Ocean Collective. It's a German Avant Garde Heavy metal band. Even had a mosh pit going.

Posted by: lin-duh at March 09, 2024 09:47 PM (PZo5T)

315 Influence: Big sister who was dating a Jewish boy whose dad had a store in the inner city. So bluesy, soulful and funky music sho nuff turned me on. First record bought with my own $; Shout Shout Knock Yourself Out by Swingin' Ernie Maresca. My ax; the drumset. My sister would say that when she got off the school bus half a block from home she could feel the ground trembling. I took that as a compliment.

Posted by: Detroit Pete at March 09, 2024 09:47 PM (JlX4p)

316 These kids today with their Devil's music. Posted by: fd

Some of us seem to think nobody ever said that. Before us.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 09, 2024 09:48 PM (zdLoL)

317 First concert I saw was Robin Trower, last concert I saw was Tool.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 09, 2024 09:48 PM (XV/Pl)

318 Thanks everyone for the great thread, this was a great jaunt thru memory lane...

Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 09:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

319 Jim, indeed on the sound systems back then. And the stores dedicated to nothing but.
Oft times, when someone wanted to hear "this amp" with "those speakers" the song that got put on,, Angry Eyes.
Guys would hang their turntables from the ceiling so vibrations from people walking in the room wouldn't cause the tone arm to go sliding across the album.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 09, 2024 09:48 PM (o3xwr)

320 always wondered why Marshall equipment had tuck and roll upholstery

Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 09:48 PM (oCjPU)

321 Posted by: lin-duh at March 09, 2024 09:47 PM (PZo5T)

Freak him out...ask him about Arcade Fire.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2024 09:49 PM (gSZYf)

322 Marantz Model 15 amp + 7T preamp.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 09:50 PM (XeU6L)

323 A few weeks back I picked up the second album of Exit Eden. They are a manufactured group: three (originally four) women pulled together to sing cover songs. Their gimmick is that each of the women are Nightwish-style singers, and all their songs are all re-imagined as metal power-ballads.

Thier first album was mostly modern-pop songs reimagined as metal ballads, but their second has a few originals, plus some old tunes that make sense in the new style. Journey's "Separate Way", Alice Cooper's "Poison"....And "Kayleigh" by Marillion. That was an odd one. The original was kinda mellow and hippie, but the new version was shockingly awesome.

Posted by: Castle Guy at March 09, 2024 09:50 PM (Lhaco)

324 Wonder what my 1st concert was. If they played Tulsa 1968 thru summer 1970, my girlfriend (1 or2) & I saw 'em.

Mid-60s, we got Tulsa KAKC was top 40. Also some other station was good. But at night with the transistor radio & earphone we often got the clear channel stations, WLS Chicago & iirc KOMA out of Oklahoma City. Lifelines to us kids in Smallville..

Posted by: mindful webworker - living in Smallville again at March 09, 2024 09:50 PM (0QZAr)

325 James Taylor at Kleinhans Music Hall 2018ish

Musically going through the motions.

Politically, frothing at the mouth. I almost walked out … but my then bride wouldn’t hear of it.
Posted by: browndog
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I saw him a couple times while I was in college - early/mid 90s. I thought they were pretty good shows, and no political BS that I can recall. (I was mostly conservative already, after a brief flirtation with Marxism that died a quick and painless death after about 15 minutes in Soviet history class freshman year)

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 09, 2024 09:51 PM (1eY81)

326 "Wait a minute. This sounds like rock and/or roll."

17 minutes later...

Posted by: Rev Lovejoy at March 09, 2024 09:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

327 aw man
my atomic wall clock has already set itself ahead 1 hour- it goes off UTC
'
that's why I think the ONT is late

Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 09:51 PM (oCjPU)

328 First concert...Beach Boys at Madison Square Garden!

Last concert...Nickelback at Meadowlands Arena (F*CK YOU! I was the escort).

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2024 09:52 PM (gSZYf)

329 So Horde, if you are a concert goer, what was your first concert?

Three Dog Night — 1971.

Gotta also brag to have seen the Stones in 1975 and The Who in 1977 (with Keith Moon still alive!)

Posted by: pikkumatti at March 09, 2024 09:52 PM (LNiNn)

330 I have a Radio Shack amp/tuner that was manufactured slightly after dinosaurs roamed the earth. Believe it or not, it still functions perfectly.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 09, 2024 09:52 PM (V8he0)

331 Pawn, I second that, being a fan of power horns. My wife recorded music with John Toomey last year. He played with Maynard Ferguson, a great horn player, back in the day.

Ya'll are all amazing, taking me back.

Posted by: goatexchange at March 09, 2024 09:52 PM (S1owN)

332 sharon(willow's apprentice), was it you last week with the Reacher books question and did I answer it or help?

Posted by: Ciampino - Music is the balm for a troubled soul right? at March 09, 2024 09:53 PM (qfLjt)

333 Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 09, 2024 09:45 PM (szKLp)

Oh, if we’re including classical music, my first concert of any type was my kindergarten teacher / Music teacher being featured with the Cleveland Orchestra … it’s got to be ‘61/‘62 at Public Hall, and not Severance Hall.

I got to go back stage and bring her flowers

Posted by: browndog feeling a bit grizzled at March 09, 2024 09:53 PM (TTAGa)

334 Cold Blood was one of those band that should have been big. Had to look it up, Mother Earth wirh Tracy Nelson was good too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 09:54 PM (yeEu9)

335 Going by this post, mh was definitely a hippie in the 60s, man.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 09, 2024 09:55 PM (RIvkX)

336 CBD,
It freaked him out finding out his dad liked speed metal...lol!

Posted by: lin-duh at March 09, 2024 09:56 PM (PZo5T)

337 LOUD was not the "goal", then. PERFECT FIDELITY was the goal, and you heard it in every glorious note.
Posted by: Jim

Too bad they were stuck with vinyl as the primary media source, with the 1%+ THD and rolled-off highs and lows and summed-to-mono bass. Nice warm sound with all the built-in distortions, though. Mechanical recording sucks.

Marantz is still around, and making good stuff.

But audio circuitry is a well-solved problem. Or it should be. The "problem" is the people that can do it right are just in it for a buck, and the people who are in it for the sound do engineering the way Democrats do legislation. $6000 speaker wires, and bespoke wooden volume knobs, anyone?

Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 09:56 PM (DgGvY)

338 I remember I had a Sansui 9090 paired with Marantz HD77 speakers and a BIC turntable. Alas, did little for my dating life, but the fellows enjoyed it.

Thanks for the memories, Morons.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 09, 2024 09:56 PM (u/iZz)

339 MH is still a hippy!🤪🤣

Posted by: lin-duh at March 09, 2024 09:56 PM (PZo5T)

340 Sometime in the early 80s Tim Curry had a band. Saw him a JBScotts in Albany. Was quite a show. Remember it like yesterday.

Posted by: White Punk at March 09, 2024 09:57 PM (sybrM)

341 Don't think MH is old enough to have been a 60's hippie.
I'm not e enough old enough and I'm only 4 years younger than Vic.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 09, 2024 09:57 PM (o3xwr)

342 Judy Henske - Madison

Posted by: Kafiroon at March 09, 2024 09:57 PM (luubP)

343 First concert was way too long ago to recall. Did listen to WLS late at night, usually from the back seat of a 53 Pontiac Chieftain.

Posted by: javems at March 09, 2024 09:57 PM (8I4hW)

344 ...im - I gather that you dislike Class D audio amps.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 09:41 PM (XeU6L)

Give me some recommendations on 'em, and I'll go give 'em a listen. I've got a particular CD that'll well and truly wring out an amp and set of speakers.

The CRAP I'm on about there, is such as they sell to unsuspecting buyers, off the "ordinary" shelves at Best Buy or such. Now, certain (not all) Best Buys DO have an Audio Listening Room, with some better equipment. But you still gotta be on your guard, even there.

If you've never learned how to "hear" and recognize when an amp is "clipping" at the top of the oscilloscope trace, then one may well miss the warning signs. 'Cause that results in over driven, over heated finals.

Given the tiny circuit components in most stereos these days, ANY Clipping, Over-Driving of the finals, etc. Those circuits, especially the finals, will soon let the magic smoke out, with all that entails.

Last of the Best? JVC (and others used the design) Super-A amp technology. Efficient and Accurate, without the full time draw of the traditional DC amp.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2024 09:57 PM (e6UQI)

345 Blodwyn Pig
Grand Funk RR
Opening for

Jethro Tull

At Fillmore East

Posted by: epador at March 09, 2024 09:57 PM (TRnzq)

346 On the silver face sound equipment - I was very much into Technics, I had a good setup.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 09:57 PM (S6gqv)

347 Still have my Pioneer system.
The sounds.are awesome!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 09:59 PM (W/lyH)

348 Dash my lace wigs!

OMG! an almost Pere Ubu reference!

What a phenomena. I heard one critic saying that David Byrne ripped off David Thomas style/persona and made it.

Cleveland had some pretty weird music happening BITD.

Posted by: pawn at March 09, 2024 09:59 PM (QB+5g)

349 BTW, MisHum, we used to listen to WLS out in western Minnesota. It came in especially strong on sub-zero winter evenings.

Posted by: pikkumatti at March 09, 2024 10:00 PM (LNiNn)

350 I did see Harry Chapin at Lehigh University.
He was debuting “Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas” and of course did “Taxi”, “W.O.L.D.” and “Cat’s in the Cradle” which haunted me when I became a father.

Posted by: SMOD at March 09, 2024 10:01 PM (RovqD)

351 I have a vintage Technics direct drive turntable. Have JVC Amp and tuner. They crapped out. Have an Onkyo Amp now.

Posted by: White Punk at March 09, 2024 10:01 PM (sybrM)

352 Nina Hagen now looks like someone's mum

Not too surprising. Her daughter is 43.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 09, 2024 10:02 PM (zdLoL)

353 I'm a month younger than Vic. My first husband, before we met, went to thr Fillmore and Avalon almost nightly. It was easy to convince him to go to concerts. I think living in a school bus also qualifys you as a hippie.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 09, 2024 10:02 PM (yeEu9)

354 Pawn, I liked Pere Ubu, butDavid Thomas was so strange and magical and I just loved him. Saw him twice in small clubs in Columbus.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 10:03 PM (OX9vb)

355 ONT is NOOD. Turn this noise down, and head upstairs, you hippies!

Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 10:04 PM (DgGvY)

356 Do you people know shat time it is?

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 10:04 PM (NxC5+)

357 Last of the Best? JVC (and others used the design) Super-A amp technology. Efficient and Accurate, without the full time draw of the traditional DC amp.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2024 09:57 PM (e6UQI)

Vacuum tubes FTW!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 10:05 PM (tkR6S)

358 ...But audio circuitry is a well-solved problem. Or it should be. The "problem" is the people that can do it right are just in it for a buck, and the people who are in it for the sound do engineering the way Democrats do legislation. $6000 speaker wires, and bespoke wooden volume knobs, anyone? Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 09:56 PM (DgGvY)

You're spot on there.

Worse? The "high end" Sales Rep, who hawks those wares like they were Snake Oil from the Holy Sepulcher, itself.

I have no need of a $4,000 Macintosh Mono Block pair.

And ordinary, heavy gauge Monster Cable is all the "exotic" I need, save for gold-plated RCA cable ends. Anti Corrosion is a good thing, there.

But there IS a huge hole in the market, for the "upper mid end" of quality audio, equivalent to the Silver Face era.

There's JUNK, then that huge hole in the mid-tier of the market, and now you're at the Galleria Audio Store, taking out mortgage for your new "listening room".

Besides. The machined, clear-anodized front plates from the Silver Face era, were works of art, in and of themselves. We've not seen their equal, since.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2024 10:06 PM (e6UQI)

359 Beatles, Boston Garden, 1964. Never actually saw more than a glimpse, we used our old hockey way of sneaking in and spend time getting chased around before hiding in the rafters over the attached garage. Could hear them, though, sort of.
Saw the Mother's the following summer, at the Ark, behind fenway. Friend's older brother worked there, let us in. Still wet behind the ears.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 09, 2024 10:06 PM (4780s)

360
Give me some recommendations on 'em, and I'll go give 'em a listen.
-----

See 322, my gear. Most certainly not Class D.

Btw, I once met Sol Marantz.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 10:07 PM (XeU6L)

361 Dash,

That is some pretty eclectic taste you have there my dear.

Who else do you like?

Posted by: pawn at March 09, 2024 10:09 PM (QB+5g)

362 "L&T just asked how many of my internet friends still have their record collections and do they ever listen?"

I have passed mine along to my son, along with the Pioneer turntable and the Advent speakers from 1979. He is big into the vinyl and has expanded my large collection into an even bigger one. He plays some of them when I go to visit.

Posted by: Crabby Appleton at March 09, 2024 10:11 PM (MdcDq)

363 ...Marantz Model 15 amp + 7T preamp.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 09:50 PM (XeU6L)

Un-possible. Those are made out of Unobtanium!

Gotta ask. What speakers are they driving?

Marantz equipment, holds some of the highest values from the era. Even their "mid range" gear, was built to the same QUALITY standard as their best.

Sansui "G-Series" was also some of the best, as well as certain of the Pioneer's more exclusive, expensive receivers.

JVC imported ONLY 300 of their separate 200 WPC amp & pre-amp, hand made monsters. I had a chance to buy a set 'bout 1998. But the $3k price was...daunting.

Now? I've got my eye on a fully reconditioned, Sansui G-5700, from about 1979. It's GORGEOUS. Gonna give it a test drive, tomorrow afternoon, in fact.

See y'all in the ONT!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2024 10:20 PM (e6UQI)

364 Advent speakers from 1979.
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*!*

Still have the original woofer surrounds?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 10:20 PM (XeU6L)

365 Gotta ask. What speakers are they driving?
-----

Full-sized original Advents.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 10:21 PM (XeU6L)

366 Gotta ask. What speakers are they driving?
-----

Also, very carefully aligned Scott 312C tuner.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 10:23 PM (XeU6L)

367 Going nood.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2024 10:24 PM (XeU6L)

368 "Yes" saw them for first time in '71 at Merriwether Post Pavillion in Maryland and was instantly hooked. Saw them every year after that when they came to any location in Maryland until '82. I got to meet them in '74 thanks to my oldest sister's then boyfriend.

Posted by: SteveF at March 09, 2024 10:27 PM (iM6iw)

369 My first concert was The Police at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha in 1982. I think I was influenced by the fact that their drummer was the son of a former CIA agent Miles Copeland who had contributed articles on the Agency to National Review and I was a big fan back then. Of NR, not so much The Police though they were all right.

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at March 09, 2024 10:36 PM (hsWtj)

370 I didn't go to any concerts when I was a youngster. The XO and I thought about going to a Peter, Paul, and Mary one many years back, but we decided it cost too much.

At an Irish fundraiser, we got to hear the Wolfetones. (Lucky us. We were sitting directly behind the amps.) We paid a small fortune to experience The Chieftains in a medium sized auditorium. This was before they started dying off.

I got the LP In a Gada-Da-Vida. For some reason, my father had the same reaction as someone upstairs: "Turn that shit down!" TBH, though, he always yelled that at me the instant I dropped the needle -- well laden with pennies.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at March 09, 2024 10:50 PM (ET1Q8)

371 Pre divorce, mine were Advent Heritage speakers.

Sublime.

Scott was an odd brand, back then. Some of the BEST stuff. And then, some really cheesy crap, combo AM/FM/Tuntable/Tape, sold at the lower end department stores.

At least, Panasonic handled the truly Low End, while Technics went mid to mild Hi End.

Even Radio Shack had it's lower end "Lafayette" series of gear.

I forget now, the name of Pioneer's lower end stuff, but it was out there.

But if you wanted cheesy CHEESY gear, you bought Emerson. Great tabletop radios. LOUSY hi-fi, every time.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2024 10:52 PM (e6UQI)

372 Trying to land somewhere in the middle of all those bands..... have you listened to Leprous?

Something from their first album:

https://youtu.be/9yYg6o8VA48

And their most-recent one:

https://youtu.be/85drl9-lqRU
Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 09:04 PM (DgGvY)

Yep. Have all their albums. Also have Einar Solberg's solo album. Good stuff! I also forgot to mention bands like Kamelot, Clutch and Opeth.

My taste in music is very eclectic. Pretty much covers all genres except for hiphop and (c)rap. Classical to metal, and everything in between.

I have about 12TB worth of music on a home server in my HT rack. Who needs radio?

Posted by: Shepherd Lover at March 09, 2024 11:23 PM (9IkLq)

373 Oh, and just for fun...

Leo Moracchioli's metal covers of popular tunes, classic and modern. His cover of Dire Strait's Sultans of Swing kicks ass!

Posted by: Shepherd Lover at March 09, 2024 11:33 PM (9IkLq)

374 (That one's for MisHum!)

Posted by: Shepherd Lover at March 09, 2024 11:34 PM (9IkLq)

375 My first concert was as a teenager in the 80s when my parents and Aunt and Uncle took me along to see Huey Lewis and the News on their Fore! tour. It would be several years before I went to another (Tesla in the early 90s for Psychotic Supper) which started a binge where I went to probably two dozen concerts in the 90s. Many in that decade were classic rock reunion tours. I have since seen probably a dozen more. Guns N Roses being my latest back in October. Aerosmith is on deck if they ever resume their tour.

My dad was definitely my biggest influence in my taste in music. He was into most of the classic rock bands of the 60s and 70s. He saw the original Wall concert in 1980 in Germany when he was in the Army.

Posted by: Brian at March 09, 2024 11:47 PM (H46jI)

376 White Punk, Grateful,
I also grew up near Albany, now live in Manassas. I saw many concerts at the Palace (Judas Priest, AC/DC, Zappa, Aldo Nova, BOC, others), SPAC (CSN, The Band, Dylan & Petty, Neil Young, the Dead), and Glens Falls(Thorogood, ZZ Top x 2).

Heading to the State Theatre in Falls Church next weekend to see Zoso.

(and I had forgotten about JB Scotts. Holy shit.)

spam (dot) dev (dot) null at hot mail if y'all wanna touch base.

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at March 09, 2024 11:58 PM (JEAhW)

377 That album cover takes me back. First LP I ever bought with my hard-earned grocery sacking cash. Iron Butterfly was also the first concert I ever attended. Fourteen years old, 1969, Parents dropped me off at the curb outside the Sam Houston Coliseum, Had dinner at a restaurant and picked me up on the same curb after the show.

Posted by: Criss at March 10, 2024 12:12 AM (N60N+)

378 I've admired your musical taste for a long, long time. First concert I was 13, opening night of the Wings Over America tour. Second was the Rolling Thunder Review. I've seen Dylan over a dozen times at least, and Alejandro Escovedo is one of my favorites. His Burn Something Beautiful tour with Peter Buck and others was just terrific. He plays here a lot.

Posted by: Happy at March 10, 2024 01:14 AM (Ozc/Y)

379 first concert was fz at brown county arena late 70's

Posted by: peter baier at March 10, 2024 04:45 AM (nOQOk)

380 1964 - first record purchase was a 45 of Last Kiss by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers.
First concerts were in 1969 (I was 15) - Toronto Pop Festival (2 days) and Toronto Rock and Roll Revival. Between the two I saw Al Kooper, The Band, Johnny Winter, Sly and the Family Stone, Procol Harum, Chuck Berry, Dr John, BS&T, Steppenwolf, Bo Diddley, Chicago, Junior Walker and the All Stars, Tony Joe White, Alice Cooper, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, Little Richard, Doug Kershaw, Plastic Ono Band, and The Doors. Tickets were $10 and $6.

Posted by: Ted Bopp at March 10, 2024 05:05 AM (mQnUO)

381 First concert was Kiss in Knoxville, late 70's ... those were the days!

Posted by: paquetman at March 10, 2024 08:44 AM (54BAK)

382 Cream! Paid the exorbitant price of $10 a ticket to sit in the front row about 12 feet away from Eric Clapton!

Posted by: Blue$b0y at March 10, 2024 08:56 AM (+ezMB)

383 Too many bands to count. But I grew up in Washington DC, listening to WHFS, DC101, and WAVA 105 (when it was briefly a Rock station), and going to the Psychedelly, the Bayou, and the 930 club. If I had to credit one person, it would be Cerphe Colwell, legendary DJ in the DC area, who I hear is still at it.

Posted by: Eric at March 10, 2024 10:24 AM (a2F+C)

384 Pittsburgh Civic Arena 11/65: Stones, Byrds, Bo Didley, Vibrations, Paul Revere and the Raiders

Posted by: Drake Crude at March 10, 2024 11:00 AM (l4AOB)

385 1st Concert? Iron Butterfly at the Aragon BRAWLroom in Chicago, General Admission. Not sure on the 2 opening acts, but was about 20 rows from stage in wooden chairs. IB comes on, does 2 songs, a cop runs on stage, talks to guitar player who then says on the mic, "Hey man, there's a bomb under the stage, you gotta evacuate. People starting to freak, see there's about 10, 000 people behind us and no way out. Walked up to front row, put out feet on the stage and waited it out with fantastic seatsl

Posted by: Aortafan at March 10, 2024 11:39 AM (Wsjp/)

386 First Album: King Crimson 'In The Court of the Crimson King'

First Concert: Genesis, touring 'Wind and the Wuthering', '...And Then There Were Three'

Radio in Houston back in the day, was 96.5 FM (forget the call letters) and 101.1 KLOL. Both were AOR formats, and would play the longer tunes.

Jim, I am sure we bumped into each other shopping at Audio Concepts one fine day.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at March 10, 2024 12:48 PM (ytNnw)

387 The first record I ever bought was Black Sabbath, Paranoid. But my mother, when I was much younger, bought a couple of singles for my brother and me: "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and "I Saw Her Standing There," by um . . . by um . . . well, I don't recall exactly, but I think they became pretty popular. First musical influencer was a kid who sat next to me in 8th grade and who would go on about how the Stooges were the greatest band ever. When I finally heard "I Wanna be Your Dog," I thought he might be right.

Posted by: Harry at March 10, 2024 03:20 PM (VlTXJ)

388 There are few things as pathetic as a singer who is long past their "sell-by" date. The fans who support them are a close second.

Posted by: timactual at March 10, 2024 03:46 PM (krsvl)

389 John "Records" Landecker was the man. WLS was our go to station at night if the atmosphere was cooperative down here in Arkansas. Boogie Check was also good.

Posted by: Doc Lee at March 10, 2024 04:39 PM (dSQYb)

390 First concert was Jethro Tull, circa 1972, Thick as a Brick tour. Played the entire album. Captain Beefheart opened. Blacksburg, Va.

Last concert was Friday night, Eugene Oregon. Cody Jinks, Turnpike Troubadours, Trampled by Turtles. It was brilliant. Not one head of green or pink hair in the house except for a few of the workers who were most likely U of Oregon students.

Most influential as to developing my musical tastes was the guy in the dorm room next to me my freshman year at Va. Tech. Have no clue why he became friends with a roomful of nerds but introduced me to Allman Brothers Live at the Filmore East and Humble Pie Rockin the Filmore. I knew nothing about music before then.

Posted by: ZeroGravitas at March 10, 2024 04:53 PM (yr/iO)

391 From Chicago.
Remember Ron Britain's Subterranean Circus.
First album was Temptations Cloud Nine.
Second Rare Earth Get Ready
3rd was InnaGadda David.
First concert Uriah Heep
Last concert last year Buddy Guy at the Rialto in Joliet

Posted by: Lars at March 10, 2024 08:38 PM (kJH1Z)

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