Daminxa
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 21:04
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RESPECT FOR THE HAIR!
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konaman
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 22:00
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October 1970, so age 14, Tyrannosuarus Rex @ Birmingham Town Hall, back of the Upper Circle with John Leeson, in my newly tie-dyed 3-button vest (!)
can remember it vividly, unlike many subsequent gigs @ B T H, although some of my memories are:
Can - awesome
Amon Duul II - forgetting the songs, but signing my album covers
Family / Linda Lewis - Jim Cregan in luurrvve
Free - getting autographs & offers of trouser swaps from Paul Rodgers, poor old Koss totally out of it
reviewing Bad Company
Starry Eyed & Laughing - "God's own lightshow"
naughty rythyms tour - Kokomo rocked
to my shame, the afore-mentioned Uriah Heep
getting ripped off by Robin Trower - not being paid for humping & follow-spot work
I promoted a gig there, too, once, but can't remember what it was, though!!
BTH used to be a good venue.....chip in for the bus fare to Brum for someone to buy the tickets, no ticketb*stard, no booking fees, just a scramble for the last bus home sometimes.....OK, I'll get me (great)coat
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Stevo
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 23:20
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I think it was the mod band Long Tall Shorty with a punk band whose debut single was called Teddy Bear (can't remember actual name).
At the Africa centre off TRafalgar Square in London.
I then started hanging out in the Regal off Carnaby street which had me following The Playn Jayn when I was 15.
Saw a lot of the psychedelic revival bands too.
Oh and had been driven around to see Morris bands in my pre-teens.
Stevo
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Stevo
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 23:47
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Can't remember if that was '80 or '81.
Stevo
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dave clarkson
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 12, 2006, 02:31
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The Undertones with support from TV21 - Liverpool Empire 1980.
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1001realapes
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 12, 2006, 14:59
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You said concert not rock concert,
very likley The Irish Rovers @ Ford Auditorium
in Detroit circa 70 or 71.
My first rock concert was i believe
Led Zeppelin @ Olympia Stadium ,
Detroit January 1975 (CE)
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Kid Calamity
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 12, 2006, 15:05
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konaman wrote: October 1970, so age 14, Tyrannosaurus Rex @ Birmingham Town Hall...
I have a flyer for that gig, framed on the wall right behind where I'm sitting!! An old friend attended that gig and got Bolan to sign it, among other items. Was that the tour where Bowie did a mime show as support?
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Leonard
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Edited Nov 12, 2006, 17:32
Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 12, 2006, 17:23
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I did, 'The Shadows', they also dragged me to way too many 'Corries' gigs. Apparently they also took me to see Pentangle, but annoyingly I was way too young to have any memory of that at all.
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Lupus
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 13, 2006, 09:39
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The Edgar Broughton Band 1970. I was 18.
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Lupus
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 13, 2006, 09:41
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Why, oh why, Delilah?
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