As a kid my parents took me to see the Starland Vocal Band open for John Denver at the Cow Palace. That was my first show. Not the first one I chose, but my first concert.
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The James Gang w/Joe Walsh. I must have been about 10, and it was out on the Mall in Wash DC and some big event. My dad said, "smell that smell that's like dirty feet? That's marijuana".
The next concert was The Who on the Quadrophenia tour when I was 13, Allman Bros opened.
EDIT: Wow, that's wrong! Lynyrd Skynyrd opened for The Who at that show. Did see the Allmans at that same venue not long after. Sorry, I'm a geezer and the 70's took it's toll I guess
The next concert was The Who on the Quadrophenia tour when I was 13, Allman Bros opened.
EDIT: Wow, that's wrong! Lynyrd Skynyrd opened for The Who at that show. Did see the Allmans at that same venue not long after. Sorry, I'm a geezer and the 70's took it's toll I guess
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At Baltimore Civic Center 1966:
The Swingin' Medallions (Double Shot of My Baby's Love)
Then, Mitch Ryder & Detroit Wheels (w/Jim McCarty)
Closing that night - Dave Clark Five !
$4 ticket
My second show a few weeks after that: The Turtles openning for The Lovin' Spoonful in a high school gym. I think, $3 ticket.
The Swingin' Medallions (Double Shot of My Baby's Love)
Then, Mitch Ryder & Detroit Wheels (w/Jim McCarty)
Closing that night - Dave Clark Five !
$4 ticket
My second show a few weeks after that: The Turtles openning for The Lovin' Spoonful in a high school gym. I think, $3 ticket.
1970 ? Saw Ten Years After, Climax Blues Band, and a third band, Quicksilver Messenger Service maybe.
After Climax opened and after that i no longer cared about the other two bands.
After Climax opened and after that i no longer cared about the other two bands.
My first live show was in '65, and it was a Motown review show. I saw The Temptations, Little Stevie Wonder, The Elgins, and Marvin Gaye. But, more importantly, James Jamerson on bass, playing through a Kustom Tuck n Roll bass rig. A few months later, I saw James Brown in concert. Needless to say, after those two shows, my musical journey on bass was set in stone.
Saw many a show at the Baltimore Civic Center in the 70's. Humble Pie, Yes (Tales and Relayer tours), Edgar Winter, Genesis, Montrose, Robin Trower, and so many others--I can't even remember them all. That venue and Capital Centre in MD were my youth....
Because I'm a Nowhere Man.
Or am I just nowhere, man? 
Of course if you remember it, you weren't really there at all.
Other notables that I do remember...
Black Oak Arkansas in the late 60's.
Frank Zappa in the Early 70's.
BJ Thomas, 1969 Southeastern LA University. Here's a pic of the actual concert I was at. I don't recall if it was a rainy day, but most of us had umbrellas, and when he sang "Raindrops Keep Falling...", we all opened our umbrellas:
Bad Company in the Lloyd Noble Center (OU basketball arena), Norman, OK. Funny thing is it poured that night and one of the main streets to the venue is Flood Street. The street was aptly named that night because we went through water at least two feet deep getting there. Wouldn’t do that today but we were young and stupid.
I love all the Kustom amps and P.A. Imagine, that Kustom P.A. for a big show. WOW!
I'm pretty sure they must have rented the Kustom gear from the local music store. It was such a mis-matched hodgepodge of gear, especially the "PA" (note the white 2x10 combo next to the column - huh?). It was a small music store that usually had a stock of Kustom gear, and they probably just walked in and said "we'll take all of those - how much?"
The band played without BJ at first, they called themselves "The Arrangement". I recall they did a bunch of covers, including The Beatles' "Hello Goodbye". I actually enjoyed their songs better than BJ, with "Raindrops" being the only song of his I was familiar with.
The band played without BJ at first, they called themselves "The Arrangement". I recall they did a bunch of covers, including The Beatles' "Hello Goodbye". I actually enjoyed their songs better than BJ, with "Raindrops" being the only song of his I was familiar with.
I had a chance to do the Dec 16th BDB show in 1973...the Holiday Tour w/ Z.Z. Top.
I blew it. I still regret it!
Did see Alice the solo act in Welcome To My Nightmare; flipping through an old magazine, I stumbled across the ticket stub. $5.50
Suzi Quatro opened up.
First-ever Concert was The Edgar Winter Group w/ Rick Derringer. They Only Come At At Night was the album.
The James Gang opened. Roy Kenner & Tommy Bolin were in the band...Bang! was the album.
"Ride The Wind" was the opening tune. Some blonde hottie in a long white dress hopped on stage & lip-locked with Kenner for the entire tune.
Wow! I'm so jealous. I mean, I'm more than happy with Cheap Trick being my first show. But I never got to see Joe and the boys live.
I'm out here, too! The problem was, I grew up in South Florida. Most punk bands simply didn't do that well in the South, so they didn't bother coming south of Atlanta, if they even went that far. God bless those road warriors the Ramones, though, I got to see them often (and Devo once--so good!).HA! We're out there! My next show was 999/Dickies at the Showbox 3/80 then Ramones, Devo,....and the die was cast.
