Posted on 06/28/2005 3:16:46 PM PDT by 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)
I can handle that...
I can remember more concerts, thank the Lord. It's what I did yesterday that I can't remember!
1970s Moody Blues - Auburn, ALabama - they got pis*ed with each other and starting cussing each other on the stage!
1970s Nitty Gritty Dirt Band -Southeast Music Hall. Sat at the same dinner table with them in a family style restaurant in the North Carolina mountains.
1970s Neil Diamond - 3rd row, Auburn University - got great photographs!
2000 The Lilith Fair - Sarah McLaughlin - absolutely beautiful, crystal clear voice in an open air ampitheatre
1972 Harry Chapin - the Great Southeast Music Hall, Atlanta, GA - just because he was Harry Chapin, such a romantic, and the Great Southeast Music Hall was a wonderful venue
Out with the old, in with the new.
We need some younger, more energetic talent around here anyway. ;-)
I saw the Moody Blues after they re-united in the early 1980s. Good show, but their music mostly bores me now.
Kick me on the way out the door, why don't ya! LOL
Me, these days, if I can't see a band up close, forget it! It's either front row seats or the couch in front of the TV. which is why I haven't been to a concert recently.
I'd love to see Bonnie Rait up close, but lately have cooled on her because of her politics.
I saw Bonnie Raitt in 1989. Good show, but I won't contribute another penny to her success!
Welcome.
I've seen Bonnie Rait several times but never up close.
here's one: 1978? Natalie Cole - smoky lounge in Phenix City, Alabama (Sin City, USA, home of the Dixie Mafia). Natalie Cole had a safety pin holding her dress together.
That's astute pissant.....Pig Pen did that precisely.
I think I sort of lost interest after Mars Hotel and Blues For Allah.....but it's still one of my premier road music loads.
Well, heck. You want your harem to move on, don't you? You certainly wouldn't want us sitting around pining for you. ;-)
That's cause you didn't have the right chemicals in you!
Probably the best single concert I ever went to was Pink Floyd in Raleigh back in 87 (when the sent the giant inflated animals out into the crowd it was incredible).
Don't care for Natalie. But I loved her dad! ;o)
The pertinant word there is EX. ;-)
I liked Terrapin Station and a few tunes form the In the Dark CD as well!
Like THAT will happen! ROFL!
Animals is my fave Floyd CD, BTW.
The band is defunct. Tough being a dead head these days! ;o)
yep....there are a fair number here.
if you ever do a thread to see how many ...ping me.
Edgar and Johnny Winter in 72 at University of Mississippi.
an historical nite (for me) tween me and a certain older woman I might add
Canned Heat at a small crowd Park in 71
The Allman Bros at a bar on Anna Maria Island off Bradenton Florida in 77 playing to a crowd of maybe 100 or so friends of Dickey. Gregg got arrested for slugging a cop....naturally. We all sat in the sand. It was an unannounced gig and I just happened to be there working for my dad.
Oh well....(that reminds me of early Fleetwood Mac at the Armory before they got polished by Buckingham)
Holy cow, man. You are wise beyond your years. I had no idear you were that much younger than me. You prolly oughta start calling me ma'am from now on. ; )
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