My first concert was April 30th, Correction.. July 27th 1988 Monsters of Rock tour at the Kingdome.
Van Halen, AC/DC, Metallica, Scorpions, Dokken and Kingdom Come.
I was hooked on metal for years.
edit: Now it's on the classic rock station...
Van Halen, AC/DC, Metallica, Scorpions, Dokken and Kingdom Come.
I was hooked on metal for years.
edit: Now it's on the classic rock station...
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CarolKing
Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
I remember watching this on TV with my mom. I was thinking about this and couldn't believe it was 50 years ago. I almost hit it on the dot. Good thing it was ABC that this was on I remember we didn't get very good reception on CBS back then with the Antenna on the roof and our old black and white TV.
Fifty years ago, the Beatles changed the way America witnessed live music by performing the first stadium show of its size and scope. On Aug. 15, 1965, the boys from Liverpool played a record-shattering concert at New York’s Shea Stadium, which would be televised on BBC and ABC, immortalized in a documentary, and further the massive reach of Beatlemania in the ’60s. Legendary radio personality Cousin Brucie served as the announcer, and now, 50 years later, he says it still stands as the tipping point for turning concerts into must-see live spectacles.
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I enjoyed the weekly Monkees show too. Davey Jones was also someone I had a crush on when I was 10. As a preteen I would buy the Teenbeat magazine. Sometimes they would have posters of the Monkees or remember Paul Revere and The Raiders.
Fifty years ago, the Beatles changed the way America witnessed live music by performing the first stadium show of its size and scope. On Aug. 15, 1965, the boys from Liverpool played a record-shattering concert at New York’s Shea Stadium, which would be televised on BBC and ABC, immortalized in a documentary, and further the massive reach of Beatlemania in the ’60s. Legendary radio personality Cousin Brucie served as the announcer, and now, 50 years later, he says it still stands as the tipping point for turning concerts into must-see live spectacles.
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I enjoyed the weekly Monkees show too. Davey Jones was also someone I had a crush on when I was 10. As a preteen I would buy the Teenbeat magazine. Sometimes they would have posters of the Monkees or remember Paul Revere and The Raiders.
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GetLeft
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My first concert was the brady (bunch) kids at magic mountain in the mid '70s.
I know, pretty effin' sad!
Boston for me. Would have gone to see the Beach Boys who were in my area earlier, just cause I wanted to get that first concert under my belt. But no one would go with me to see the Beach Boys.
FLelder ent
Well-Known Member
My first concert was The Byrds @ Hofstra University, Long Island
Enchantre
Oil Painter
OMG! I went to Magic Mountain! Um... 1972? I got a "Bloop" & "Bleep" shirt.My first concert was the brady (bunch) kids at magic mountain in the mid '70s.
I know, pretty effin' sad
I can't find an image. both characters were on it. Labelled. Strategically placed.
Nesta
Well-Known Member
When I was about 18, I took this advertisement off the wall in a subway platform in Boston. I guess that was about 1979 / 1980.
For years, the poster-sized advertisement was kept rolled up in a cardboard tube. Then about 25 years ago, I decided to have it professionally framed and it's been hanging somewhere in my house ever since.
Similarly, I peeled this off the side of a bus - circa 1966-67. It's an ad for WOR-fm, NYC's first 'underground' FM radio station. I found out recently that it's one of (artist's) Milton Glaser's first works. I still have it, tho it's a bit musty & not framed.
re: deposit bottles - when I was 10 years old & needed a little change, I'd go behind the local grocery store- where they stored the empty bottles, pick up a few, bring them around to the front & 'return' them for 2 cents each. Enough for some baseball cards or some snacks.
re: The Beatles @ Shea Stadium: When I was 13 I went to their 1966 Shea show. The sound was terrible but it didn't matter- it was mind-blowing.
Hey isn't it the anniversary of Woodstock? Aug 13, 14 & 15, 1969?
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Shit Snacks
Milaana. Lana. LANA. LANAAAA! (TM2/TP80/BAK/FW9)
Oh man I only just caught this thread on the banner, then proceeded to read through the entire thread straight...
Love it, even though its totally exacerbating my condition of severe chronic nostalgia
Love it, even though its totally exacerbating my condition of severe chronic nostalgia
peterpiper
(peter-ex-piper)
Animal kwackers early seventies,odeon,Canterbury
British banana splits (loved them to)
British banana splits (loved them to)
Havelock Vetenari
Patrician
I had trouble deciding to post this in the favourite quote thread or here, here seemed better.
Anybody remember the Trotters?
They had me in stitches quite often, classic bit :
Anybody remember the Trotters?
They had me in stitches quite often, classic bit :
lwien
Well-Known Member
...you ain't nothing but a hound dog, lwien!
Yup. He sang that song to that RCA dog that sat on the stage for the whole concert.
flotntoke
thoroughly vaped
Very cool first concert, and can't believe you still have the ticket! That is yours, right?
RCA dog on stage the whole time? That is funny as shit!
My first concert was Ted Nugent in '79 with AC/DC and The Scorpions opening. Nugent came out on a tarzan rope wearing a loincloth. Crazy metal show perfect for a 14 year old newly commissioned pothead. Enjoyed it very much at the time, but was my last truly metal show, too. Many, many, many shows after - but much preferred the hippie-er scene with the Dead or old fart rockers like Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan.
Silver420Surfer
Downward spiral
flotntoke
thoroughly vaped
Andy Gibb.
Don't judge me fuckers, I grew up with all girl cousins.
Girls can be dicks too
@Joel W. -- Saw that one too, Three Rivers Stadium, although not my first. If I remember correctly, wasn't G n' R supposed to play, but cancelled right before the tour?
Still... Andy Gibb? Think I may have kept that to myself!
But, since you're sharing..... The summer he was the shit ('78?) I learned I could sound exactly like him if I stretched my singing voice a bit. Lead to more than a few hot & heavy make out sessions with the local teen girls!
Silver420Surfer
Downward spiral
@flotntoke - Yeah but I was only 6 or 7, not like I new any better lol
I don't remember GnR being in the lineup but it was a while ago.. I was just there to see Metallica, Ac/Dc, Van Halen and the Scorpions personally. Saddly, some ass hat threw a camera and hit Klaus Meine in the throat and they pulled out early 1/2 way through their set.
I would have loved to have seen GnR live though. I think I burned through 3 Appetite for Destruction records, Still have one here somewhere.
The best time of my life in high school was having season's passes to a music festival my buddy put on called "Rock Heaven" on the olympic peninsula in the late 80's and early 90's. 20 local bands in a weekend with 2 outdoor stages. Just awesome fun!
I would have loved to have seen GnR live though. I think I burned through 3 Appetite for Destruction records, Still have one here somewhere.
The best time of my life in high school was having season's passes to a music festival my buddy put on called "Rock Heaven" on the olympic peninsula in the late 80's and early 90's. 20 local bands in a weekend with 2 outdoor stages. Just awesome fun!
flotntoke
thoroughly vaped
OK.... Guess I'll have to let you slide them. I would have been thrilled for any concert at 6 - 7 years old! Hell, I would have even enjoyed an Abba or Air Supply show!