"The Kingdome"
Boy was that place an acoustic delight. I was more of a seventies concert goer. Don't remember drug guy but I do remember the actual Mariner's "Peanut Man" Rick Kaminski (sp?). That guy could really toss a nut.
1975 - Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd (original members) and Peter Frampton (before he came alive) lol
For the natives of the PNW in the 80's: Do you remember a dealer wandering through the line of people waiting to get in shouting "Cocaine! Qualudes! Acid!" like he was hawking peanuts at a baseball game, or a mentally challenged busker on a trumpet trying to sell his albums to the crowd?
Mine was REO Speedwagon with 707 as the opening act on their "Hi Infidelity" tour back in 1981. 707 sucked. We had no idea who they were, didn't recognize their songs at the time, and couldn't pick them or one of their hits out of a lineup still today.
In the years that followed the opening act was almost invariably Bryan Adams because he was based in Vancouver. Some of my fondest memories of concerts at the Kingdome was his extended version of "Take Me Back" which ended with the whole stadium shouting "FUCK YOU!" to his ex-girlfriend. Good times...
Peter, Paul, and Mary in Ithaca NY while in college
@DB
J Geils blew my 13 year old mind. What was also an eye opener was how bad BTO, my heroes at the time were. I remember half the band chain smoking cigarettes through the show. They really phoned it in.
"Nah. I never bother updating the fucking site every time I have a birthday."
So what, you are 65 or so now :-)
Oct 10, 1982 (had to look up date) the who's first farewell tour.
"So you saw the Police when you were 9 years old?"
Nah. I never bother updating the fucking site every time I have a birthday. REAL websites ask your birthdate and do it for you :)
@DB
Yes. I grew up in South Florida. Lived in Lauderdale and Pompano during this time frame. I forgot the name of the club, but the show was stopped in the middle. IIRC the owner of the club had no idea wtf he booked and wanted some money for some broken equipment. The band offered to pay and the guy turned the PA off. So they played without a microphone but still had their amps. I was upfront and HR freaked the hell out of me. He was known for doing flips while on stage. The stage was about 3 to 4 feet off the ground. So you were right there looking at the crotch/thighs of the band. HR is singing, decides to do a front flip. All I see is a pair of shoes coming towards my face and I lunge backwards as much as I could to not get kicked. Fortunately he missed me!
Black Flag played at Finders in Hallandale. There were a lot of bands that played at the Polish American club in Hollywood.
There also used to be the New Wave club on AIA in Lauderdale that would have some bands play.
Current- my second concert was Van Halen’s Monsters of Rock 1988 at the old JFK in Philly (where the US Live aid was held).
Kingdom Come,, then some upcoming group (rolling eyes) called Metallica , Dokken, Scorpions and Van Halan (Sammy’s first tour) . Metallica was amazing. Everyone booed Hagar for trying to imitate a David Lee. The Scorpions were absolutely killer. Show started around noon and by the time we left, I had a serious sunburn.
Technically, my first concert, when I was between 6-7 years old, was the Supremes and Jack Jones at the Michigan State Fair in the 60's. I couldn't see very well, we were to far back, and I remembered I kept asking my older sister if we could leave and go on some rides. :)
When I got older, I saw Peter Frampton, with Gary Wright at Cobo Hall in Detroit ('76). The show was just days before the release of the Frampton Comes Alive album, so it was pre-hype Frampton.
I think I went to and slept through three or four Grateful Dead New Year's concerts before people took me at my word that the band put me to sleep and stopped nagging me that if I just gave them a chance... (No, I have no idea what sort of epiphany that would have resulted in, but something.)
When I was a kid we used to go to Golden Gate Park on Sunday afternoons to "see the Hippies".
My dad's co-worker lived directly across the street from the infamous Grateful Dead house.
We once stumbled into a Hell's Angels party in the panhandle of the park where the Dead were playing on top a flatbed truck.
I was too young to realize who the band was until a few years later.
I don't remember much about my first concert. Only that I was in elementary school, it was in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, and a bunch of bands played, including Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service. As a child raised on doowop, Ray Charles, and the Ink Spots, it was probably electrifying in some way I didn't have words for. Also, I think the neighborhood teens that took me got into trouble of some kind for doing so. Oh, and I took a nap for part of it.
CURRENT
One helluva show!
Bachman Turner Overdrive in Memorial Stadium in Seattle. They made the unfortunate mistake (discernable even to a 13 year old first time concert goer) of following the J. Geils Band. Some long haired dude named Bob Seeger opened the show.
Quite an education into the world of concerts. Especially how lame BTO was in concert even when compared to bands that were unknown to me.
Don't know how old you are Funfor but you must have had some funky fun parents...total opposite of what i had.
Haha , Kiss ……I remember taking our son to a Kiss concert when he was a kid . He was making fun of all the people dressed up . Then he changed , we went to see AC/DC a few weeks later .
"My mom took me to see Elton John at the HIC in Honolulu in the early 70s when my dad was stationed in Hawaii."
We talked about this before. I saw the same tour in San Diego. My mom took me too. It was at Balboa Stadium, which is an open air venue, the the sound wasn't a problem. I was 13 or so.
That was also right before he got really, really big. The first album I bought with my own money was Don't Shoot me I'm Only the Piano Player.
RUSH, was the first
Maroon 5
Guns and Roses
Kiss
Billy idol
My mom took me to see Elton John at the HIC in Honolulu in the early 70s when my dad was stationed in Hawaii. I was about 7-8, and the volume gave me headaches so we had to go outside a couple of times.
First non-parent concert was Journey in '79. The group I was with wanted to see Steve Perry (he was from my hometown), but I was there to see Thin Lizzy open. Turned out to be Gary Moore's second to last show, he had enough of Lynott and Gorham's drug habits.
Rush
So you saw the Police when you were 9 years old?
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You, obviously, must have lived in Southern Florida. I lived in Lakeworth and Boynton Beach from 82-84.
I remember concerts on the beach in Ft Lauderdale during Spring Break. The only two bands I can remember the names of are Average White Band, and Mike Love doing Beach Boys stuff. I know there were others, but they aren't coming to me right now.
I am also curious where you saw Bad Brains in West Palm. I don't remember any venues there, other than the South Florida Fairgrounds.
I saw The Police in Miami at the Gusman Cultural Center on October 26, 1979.
The next year at Gusman I saw Devo on August 1, 1980.
I have seen, probably 100+ shows. Almost all of them, are not the 'popular' musician types.
I have had some seriously memorable shows though :)
Bad Brains in West Palm in 1982.
Duran Duran in 1982. It was a stadium that held about 12k people. There may have been 2k guys, 200 of them straight. The rest, all girls. That concert was a panty dropper for sure with my date :)
I saw Kiss play with the Plasmatics opening for them in Feb 1983. The memorable part was Wendy O Williams standing on some crane/cherry picker device over the crowd. Someone threw a shoe at her, it hit her, she started yelling in her screeching voice and then they just quit.
I saw the Police play again, the next year, this time at Sunrise Musical Theater. It was the night John Lennon was shot. They actually stopped the show and announced it. That was Dec 8 1980.
May 20th, 1982, I was in a band and we opened for Black Flag. It was the first time they had come to Florida.
A year later, the Dead Kennedy's made it to Florida, for the first time. They did not come down to South Florida but played outside Tampa in Ybor City. That was May 29, 1983. I had a backstage pass and it was awesome.
One concert I went to was interesting because the opening act was someone that no one knew much about, and he was better than the main act! It was Oct of 1990 and Basia was playing Sunrise Musical Theater. The opening act was this guy named Ottmar Liebert. What is interesting is that he stayed, worked on and practised the tour where I live NOW, in Santa Barbara. His first time playing a gig was in August of that year. His talent was AMAZING. In a weird twist, I was able to see him again, this time, in Santa Barbara, in the place he started it all, where he did his first practice tour, in a historic building that seats 600.
I have never been to a concert hall larger than the one I saw Duran Duran in. Most of the time, the places held 500 to 5000. To me, that is a better experience. I saw Pink Martini play in a hall that holds 450 people. There are NO bad seats there. It was awesome. I saw Garbage play in a 3500 seat arena. I saw the Red Hot Chilli Peppers play a FRIGGIN Frat party (SAE Univ of Florida) with a couple of hundred people there.
LOL...
You know what I say about that time period...
If you remember it, you weren't there...
