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First Rock & Roll concert you ever saw?
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Oct. 2nd 1974. The New York Dolls and Lynyrd Skynyrd in Springfield, Missouri in what Was a bowling alley but I think it’s a Church now on Glenstone. Not too far from chestnut expressway. They both blew my mind. Opened up possibilities. Last edited by BigRedChief; 07-19-2020 at 03:04 AM.. |
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07-19-2020, 05:31 AM | #2 |
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Ozzy Osbourne, Ultimate Sin Tour, summer 1985 Omaha Civic Auditorium. Blue Oyster Cult opened. I remember when Ozzy appeared onstage. The lights were down and they were playing that song from The Omen (Requium something or other) and then Jake E Lee rips into the opening riff for Bark at the Moon and this cage that was elevated above the stage has like a curtain around it. The curtain drops, and Ozzy is sitting in the cage, hands held out as the cage lowers. When it touches the stage, huge columns of flames shoot up and he jumps up and starts singing...
"Screeeeams break the silence Waking from the dead of night Vengeance is boiling He's returned to kill the light Then when he's found who he's looking for Listen in awe and you'll hear him Bark at the moon" I was blown away. There I was, 14 years old, and I'm seeing live and in the flesh the guy who I've seen on TV and in posters...it was surreal, awesome, and solidified my love of heavy metal. GOD...I miss the 80's...
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07-19-2020, 05:42 AM | #3 |
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Blue Oyster Cult, Joplin Missouri.
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07-19-2020, 08:57 AM | #4 |
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That was mine as well, at Municipal Auditorium in KC. I believe Black Oak Arkansas opened for them.
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07-19-2020, 03:06 PM | #5 |
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I was visiting friends in the bay area out in Cali circa 1986. He got a tip that a band playing at a local bar called "Soft White UnderBelly" was really Blue Oyster Cult. We got tickets. It was them. Sitting in the middle table. They were working on new material but they did all their hits too. Were doing shots with the audience. Eddie Money came up and did a blues song with them. Was a really cool experience.
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Until I paid $20 to see Pink Floyd at the Atlanta Omni in '88, I never paid more than about $8 to see any band. I've seen about 100 shows. I can remember seeing Uriah Heep & Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1975 at the St. Petersburg Bayfront Center for $7.50. I have one exception to that statement. I went to 1986 Amnesty Int' Show at the Atlanta Omni for $36 in 1986. However, I saw U2, the Police, Peter Gabriel, Bryan Adams and Lou Reed, each band performed six songs. I didn't complain about the price for a show that big. Then that Saturday I watched the same show live on MTV from Giants Stadium in NY. |
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Indeed. I saw Zep in 1973? 74? And I still remember the ticket - $5.00. Saw Golden Earring in Germany in '80 - $4 Deutsche Marks (around $2.75 American at the time).
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October 26, 1983 I saw AC/DC in Kemper Arena, wearing my home made concert t-shirt and rocking out in the nosebleed seats with my best friend. I was 13 years old, and my parents trusted my older brother to just drop us off and pick us up when it was over.
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Johnny Dare's Bday Bash at Sandstone in 2000 or 2001, I believe? POD, Nickelback, Mudvayne, Three Doors Down - a strange collection of acts. My parents took me and a friend of mine. We were in 6th grade.
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Just to give you an update since I know you're a Chicagoan now.....98.9 STILL has Candlebox in the daily rotation, haha (and that's why Pandora, SiriusXM and YouTube are so popular anymore).
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FWIW I now have that didn't mean to treat you oh so bad song stuck in my head
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1975- Kiss "Dressed To Kill Tour"
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