Your Best Memories of a Rock Concert (vanity)

Few Remaining Brain Cells | 6/28/05 | Pissant

[pissant]

Many Freepers grew up in what they considered to be the golden age of Rock concerts. Of course, it may have had more to do with the fact that we were young and fanatical about the music in our youth. These days, ‘ol Pissant prefers the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Military Band music and Jazz, but I have some very fond memories of the craziness of my Rock concert yesteryears. I’m quite sure many of you have some concert stories that rival and surpass mine. So this thread is the place to share!

Following are 2 concert experiences that left a permanent scar on me! ;o)

[Bulldogger]

Were you at the Rush show at the Ford Amphitheatre July 2004? Great setlist. Every time I thought they'd played their last song, they'd play another one. I got MORE than my money's worth!

[AnOldCowhand]

Thanks for the ping, but I've lived such a sheltered life, out here in the sticks, that I have never been to a rock concert. The closest I've been was Trick Pony on a "free stage" at the Midsate Fair.
Kinda pitiful, huh?

[wardaddy]

I'm a dead fan....ol time. and I'm really too conservative for here and really oughta be at the banned sites...lol

I'm recording Winterland 1970 live from that huge Berkeley archives as we speak....3 hours...on Cable

The Dead died with PigPen in my view though I continued on thru the 70s.

I saw Skynyrd 3 weeks ago and loved that as much as in 73.

Jethro Tull 72, Aqualung was great.

Led Zepplin, House of the Holy era tour another top notch.

Hendrix opening for Monkees in 67...I kid thee naught.

Sedalia Music Festival 1974....wow....Bonaroo is kindergarten

I could go on and on.

Last Dead for me was Baton Rouge 77....last time me and ol Sidney commiserated as well...lol

Here's a link to the site if yer interested:

http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Grateful%20Dead

[kb2614]

Right. But in your original post you said the tour you saw Xanadu on was in 96...you got it right in the 2nd post to me :)

Oh, ok. I'm lazy and didn't feel like looking it up. I was going by my dubious memory. ;-)

[Mr. Mojo]

Hendrix opening for the Monkees? lol.....amazing show.

I saw the Dead a bunch of times in the late 70s / early 80s. .....a couple shows in San Diego's Golden Hall, one at Pauley Pavillion (UCLA), and a few times at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. The UCLA show was the hardest rocking Dead show of all. ....Jerry was playing some mean blues.

As far as classic shows of other bands/musicians.....

...that would take me at least a couple hours to chronicle.

[dfwgator]

Other notable concerts are Pere Ubu, The Feelies, The Jam, The Police, XTC, Beta Band.

Wow, you actually got to see XTC live before Andy wigged out. Did you know the only live appearance Andy Partridge has done since 1982, was getting up and performing the Dukes of Stratosphear song "Collideascope" with Aimee Mann in NYC back in 1993. She was dating former XTC guitarist Dave Gregory at the time, and Andy was sitting in the audience, probably with a belly full of beer in him so he could muster up the courage to come on stage.

[marmar]

Thank You and I will pass the word.........keep posting you are one unique individual.....

[tet68]

Whoa bro, thanks for the link. Awesome.

[Revelation 911]

John Denver (at his peak '74)
Hank Williams Jr (several times)
Waylon Jennings (ok show)
Willie Nelson (good show)
Tina Turner (dont care for her music, but it was her peak)
Jackson Browne (at his peak "Lawyers in Love tour")
George Thorogood (at his peak)
Bo Diddley (small bar mid 80's)
Chuck Berry (small bar mid 80's)
John Lee Hooker (small bar mid 80's)
Green Day (Best show ever - got within 3' and scored drumsticks)
Alkaline Trio - my kids like em
Huey Lewis (a their peak)
Stray Cats ('82 at their peak - great show)

[MikefromOhio]

I turn 25 in August....

[MikefromOhio]

ummmmm....

well....ummmmm....


sorry :)

[pissant]

Seems there are several ex dead heads around here!

[peacebaby]

1971 John McLaughlin and the Maharajah Orchestra, FSU: Dropped orange sunshine first time...big trip...everyone was "blind" except a little black boy who did the softshoe, just for me.

1972 Led Zeppelin, Atlanta: rushed the stage with the crowd, saw Jimmy Page up close, got lost from friends, had to walk part way home in scariest section of Atlanta

1973 Jethro Tull, Atlanta: Passion Play...on crutches due to knee injury while picking psychedelic mushrooms..in nosebleed section Atlanta stadium.

1992 Jimmy Buffet, Georgia Tech Bobby Dodd Stadium; Margaretta ville across expressway. Watched friend's husband swap shirts with girl sans bra and beautiful breasts in the middle of a crowd of onlookers
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1999 James Taylor, Chastain Park, Atlanta: Just damn good.
1990 Paul McCarthy, Atlanta: Ninth row back, awesome show

[pissant]

You Stud! I imagine a RN concert would be a good place to find lotsa available gals! ;o)

[pissant]

A good Dead show was hard to match, fer sure! I got to the point though that I didn't care for the mid-concert psychadelic "space". But their music is simple americana that somehow gets so damn powerful live!

But I would have to list seeing Bob Dylan and Van Morrison together at an outdoor ampitheatre as my all time favorite show!!

[pissant]

That's a quarter century, old timer! ;o)

[pissant]

Lotsa older gals could use you! ;o)

[girlscout]

I can't remember the really good ones.... ;-)

LOL! It's like they say about Woodstock ... if you remember Woodstock, then you weren't there!

[pissant]

That is one very impressive list! I finally saw Tull in the early 1990s and was blown away!!

[pissant]

You, me, vision, wagglebee and several others! Woohoo!