Do you remember your very first live concert?

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08 May 2007, 11:47 pm

Didn't Stevie Winwood do the vocals for that song? And is it just me or is he a little off-key?

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09 May 2007, 1:03 am

aylissa wrote:

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the machine gun practice we had at high school

Come again? Did I hear you right?

Mandatory military education. Good old Soviet Union. Don't know if that's still going on in Russia, I left years ago, but when I was in high school that's how we got ready to defend against American imperialists. I wonder if MSCC and JROTC here have weapons practice?

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09 May 2007, 11:44 am

aylissa wrote:

Didn't Stevie Winwood do the vocals for that song? And is it just me or is he a little off-key?

Yes, Winwood...

And Hah! Had to look it up... I was 14, clueless... Didn't know at the time I was witnessing greatness. Too busy being distracted by the teenage girls around me.

Actually think it was my second "live" concert. Our school (In Canada at the time, 8th grade) hosted a dance-band, whom I believe were some starting members of the "Poppy Family". Have to go through my old annuals if I can find them............................Nope...

(post edit here: Yes, It was the Poppy Family -- Satwah Singh, Terry Jacks, Craig McCaw, Susan Jacks, Vancouver BC, late 60's.)

RE: your thread-starting comment:

Yes... the loudness of some concerts annoyed me too.

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10 May 2007, 5:45 pm

It was 1976? (my memory's bad for dates) David Bowie, The thin white duke, at the Hammersmith Odeon. He rocked.

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10 May 2007, 7:20 pm

Chicago (the group, not the city, anyone remember them?). 1973. Madison Square Garden.

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10 May 2007, 8:12 pm

Why do people go to concerts when they can buy a cd?

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10 May 2007, 8:16 pm

Rush in 1985 first year in college in the now gone New Haven Colosseum. Almost got kicked out by security for bringing in beer they made us pour out what they saw.

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10 May 2007, 9:59 pm

Santa_Claus wrote:

Why do people go to concerts when they can buy a cd?

It's easier to sneak into concerts than to steal cd's.

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10 May 2007, 10:52 pm

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Why do people go to concerts when they can buy a cd?

Cause they didn't have CDs back then. It was a medium that was very true to the music, called vinyl. Not many concert Long Play Albums, either. Studio cuts just don't have the energy.

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10 May 2007, 11:59 pm

Santa_Claus wrote:

Why do people go to concerts when they can buy a cd?

CDs' or any recorded music is a very poor, second rate copy of the dynamics that happen, when musicians play live.

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11 May 2007, 3:27 am

parts wrote:

Rush in 1985 first year in college in the now gone New Haven Colosseum. Almost got kicked out by security for bringing in beer they made us pour out what they saw.

I went to a Rush concert in the 80's, I wasn't a fan particularly, a friend dragged me a long because she had no-one to go with. Our seats at the front right by the speakers...it was a baptism of fire really, it was so loud I couldn't hear for three days later, but once my ears had stopped bleeding I was OK, lol, I liked them after that.

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11 May 2007, 4:40 am

Diana Ross in the late '70s (yep, the disco days! LOL), mainly because I had friends who were major fans, though I did like what she was doing then. A while back I made a list of the concerts I've been to & there were more than I'd realized. I haven't been able to afford to go to all that many, and have been more inclined to buy the music than to go to a concert.

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11 May 2007, 5:38 am

Mescalero wrote:

Santa_Claus wrote:

Why do people go to concerts when they can buy a cd?

CDs' or any recorded music is a very poor, second rate copy of the dynamics that happen, when musicians play live.

Not with Yes. Damn, John Anderson NEVER could hit the notes live.

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11 May 2007, 9:17 am

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My first was a free KROQ show, Ruth Ruth and Everclear at Santa Monica beach in 1995. It was very loud and my ears had been ringing for a couple days after that.

Funny...my old band Rosebud was an opener on this bill in Houston....for a free radio promo show...small world.....

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11 May 2007, 9:24 pm

The first live concert I was at was the Lilith Fair show. I went with my (future) step-brother. I have only been to one other concert (Fiona Apple).

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11 May 2007, 10:11 pm

Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx
very fitting for a big Styx fan like me :mrgreen:
best night of my life

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