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Re: What was your first gig ?

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June of 1973 My aunt was staying with us my mother and father were in Reno that week and her boy friend came over to spend the night and the next day my younger brother and myself ended up at Kezar Stadium In San Fransisco to see Led Zeppelin I remember her saying we are going to a football game and then saying don't tell you mom or dad once we got there  and when she asked me I f I knew who Led Zeppelin was and I responded  yeah good times bad times and all that she was Impressed that a 12 year old would know who they were my younger brother told on her some weeks later really sux my folks would not let her around us after that for sometime she was soo cool Love you auntie Pony;)(RIP)

They never played Good Times Bad Times that day but It did not matter

Play list for 1973 at Kezar was something like this

   1. "Rock and Roll"
   2. "Celebration Day"
   3. "Black Dog"
   4. "Over the Hills and Far Away"
   5. "Misty Mountain Hop"
   6. "Since I've Been Loving You"
   7. "No Quarter"
   8. "The Song Remains the Same"
   9. "The Rain Song"
  10. "Dazed and Confused"
  11. "Stairway to Heaven"
  12. "Moby Dick"
  13. "Heartbreaker"
  14. "Whole Lotta Love"

Encores

    * "The Ocean"
    * "Communication Breakdown"
    * "Thank You"


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D-man, was that the SNACK benefit that the Tubes also played at? If so I didn't make that one, but heard the Zep fans tried to boo the Tubes off the stage as well as throwing anything they could at them as well. The Tubes were about 10 years ahead of their time.

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Re: What was your first gig ?

The Beach Boys on Steel Pier in Atlantic City (late 60's) -I have no idea who I went with, but I was up front and right, smashed against the stage, right underneath Mike Love, who I remember as being very entertaining jumping around...I could have touched his foot I was that close!

Next was either Edgar Winter & White Trash while visiting relatives in Florida or The Three Dog Night when One hit the charts. big_smile

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Led Zepelin August 20th 1970 Oklahoma City, Fairgrounds Arena. The main reason when Joe went to Les Pauls
I never yearned for the Strat days again.

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Led Zepellin, April 1970 in Macon, Georgia.  Three hour concert that changed my view of music forever...

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Re: What was your first gig ?

1971 or 1972 - Procol Harum opened for Ten Years After. I guess I could have done worse than seeing Robin Trower and Alvin Lee! smile

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Ok, my turn to chime in........1967, the summer of love in golden gate park (S.F.).....but i had no idea what it all meant or that was where we were going to on that july day....so, the very first one was a planned birthday wish....James Brown at the Oakland Coliseum 1970...we were a few of the "gringos" in the audience

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Re: What was your first gig ?

ohiodawg13 wrote:
Bluezman wrote:

June of 1973 My aunt was staying with us my mother and father were in Reno that week and her boy friend came over to spend the night and the next day my younger brother and myself ended up at Kezar Stadium In San Fransisco to see Led Zeppelin I remember her saying we are going to a football game and then saying don't tell you mom or dad once we got there  and when she asked me I f I knew who Led Zeppelin was and I responded  yeah good times bad times and all that she was Impressed that a 12 year old would know who they were my younger brother told on her some weeks later really sux my folks would not let her around us after that for sometime she was soo cool Love you auntie Pony;)(RIP)

They never played Good Times Bad Times that day but It did not matter

Play list for 1973 at Kezar was something like this

   1. "Rock and Roll"
   2. "Celebration Day"
   3. "Black Dog"
   4. "Over the Hills and Far Away"
   5. "Misty Mountain Hop"
   6. "Since I've Been Loving You"
   7. "No Quarter"
   8. "The Song Remains the Same"
   9. "The Rain Song"
  10. "Dazed and Confused"
  11. "Stairway to Heaven"
  12. "Moby Dick"
  13. "Heartbreaker"
  14. "Whole Lotta Love"

Encores

    * "The Ocean"
    * "Communication Breakdown"
    * "Thank You"


Peace
Bluezman

D-man, was that the SNACK benefit that the Tubes also played at? If so I didn't make that one, but heard the Zep fans tried to boo the Tubes off the stage as well as throwing anything they could at them as well. The Tubes were about 10 years ahead of their time.

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Re: What was your first gig ?

Late 60s (before Woodstock) Edgar Winter and Johnny Winter separately and together...opened up by a gang of kids that split up & went on later to make up Blackfoot and The Outlaws if memory serves... 

it was way too hot and i was already drinking way too much

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...April 1986 Market Square Arena Indianapolis, IN...OZZY on the "Ultimate Sin" tour...and YES!!!...with METALLICA opening, yes opening on the "Master of Puppets" tour and YES!!! once more Cliff Burton was there...damn I started out right...a day I will never forget!...ah memories...

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Bad Company (1978 I think) Burning Sky Tour
Paul Rodgers came out on a Grand Piano
I crawled out on the Catwalk during Shooting Star
on the ceiling of The Summit in Houston Texas
Dave Edmunds Rock Pile opened

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Re: What was your first gig ?

3 June 1973 - David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust tour - Coventry Theatre - UK - 3rd row!

I was 15.... good Lord that was 35 years ago.... I'm OLD! sad

As an initiation to live music it was pretty fantastic! But until 5 years ago I'd been to very few gigs. My wonderful man, John, has changed all that! I've been to more gigs in the past 5 years than in the whole of the preceeding 45! smile

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Re: What was your first gig ?

I won't count any Youth Club dances, despite the fact that they were pretty good and Graham Parker fronted a band at one of them.

Ok, proper gig - 1967 at The Ritz or Cave Bar Bournemouth U.K. aged 12yrs - Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green , Jeremy Spencer,John McVie, Mick Fleetwood. no album out,but playing pretty well everything on their first album, probably cost about 30p to get in, say 40 cents.

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Re: What was your first gig ?

I saw The Shadows in stockholm...but i can't remember the date..must have been the spring-summer of 2004-2005...

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Early sixties, the classical guitarist Andres Segovia. Even although it's a completeley different musical genre, I guess he played no small part in developing the popularity of the guitar.

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Re: What was your first gig ?

not quite sure of the date.....'68 / '69 maybe
i saw my 1st  3 concerts within a month or so

1st - Emerson, Lake & Palmer  wsg  Yes  (Eastowne Theater, Detroit)
2nd - Joe Cocker, Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour (Eastowne Theater, Detroit)
3rd - MC5 & The Stooges plus a ton of others whom i cant remember (Grande Ballroom, Detroit)

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