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IMMusicRulz
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Steven Tyler and Britney Spears performing at the Super Bowl in 2001
Small-ish club in London that I used to go to a lot. This was before my time (1968 - I was a wee Thud), but as a teen I'd check in my favourite music rags to see who was playing.
Chances were someone fun. Entry fee was minimal, and all the 'up and coming' bands played there:
And yes, I did attend one of those Hanoi Rocks gigs...
Those early ones are hilarious; it was so early on that Led Zep was still billed as of the Yardbirds, and The Who was still able to play there. "Steve Miller and Delivery" would not be the Space Cowboy, but a different(British) guitarist who went on to prog band Hatfield and the North. I wonder who 'Dream Police' were.
Small-ish club in London that I used to go to a lot. This was before my time (1968 - I was a wee Thud), but as a teen I'd check in my favourite music rags to see who was playing.
Chances were someone fun. Entry fee was minimal, and all the 'up and coming' bands played there:
And yes, I did attend one of those Hanoi Rocks gigs...
Hatfield and the North were great. Steve Miller was in Caravan too. The Canterbury scene created some fun music.
Dream Police were a Scottish band that featured Hamish Stuart, who went on to The Average White Band.
Some of the early handbills were hilarious too. They'd have bands like "The Cream" "The Pink Floyd" "The Taste."
It wasn't unheard of to see bands like Pink Floyd, and The Herd as support bands.
Everyone wanted to play there. I saw some great bands there, and I saw some not so great bands there.
devnulljp
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...and it was 3 quid to get in, none of this $200+ a ticket.
I saw lots of bands as a teen, but my kid recently expressed an interest in going to see one of those rappers with a face like a desk in detention and cheapest ticket was $250.
I think the first concert ticket I ever bought back in the mid/late 70s (Black Sabbath with Van Halen supporting, at Hammersmith Odeon) was £2.00.
Of course, kids in America(whoa oh)learned about the Marquee from The Who, and the poster that came with Live At Leeds…
I prefer that earlier era of the band, and subsequently became a big fan of The Jam.
Kids in London learned about it by walking down a narrow hallway until the carpet became a bit sticky. That was the cue to turn left for the bar...
I saw a film clip the other day where Ginger Baker was talking about how John Bonham and Keith Moon weren't nearly the drummer that he is.
Even if it was true, saying so sounded pretty dumb and arrogant.
Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Arrogant? Why yes, that was his stock in trade. But not a dumb statement necessarily, in terms of how he appraised things…Ginger considered himself first and foremost a jazz drummer, that was his criteria in terms of technique. I'm sorry, but while either of those two might have been great rock drummers, and Bonham had a certain swing to his style, neither of them were going to approach Elvin Jones.
