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Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus
Guess how I got turned on to Uriah Heep? They opened for Three Dog Night when I saw them at the Boston Garden in 1970 or 1971. Even then I thought it was a strange pairing. Turned out I liked Uriah Heep more than the headliner!
My favorite club show right off the bat without giving it a lot of thought would probably be Echo and the Bunnymen when they were still mysterious, semi-psychedelic and definitely post-punk. Way before they went commercial. That was at the Channel in NYC in 1981. Or the Clash at the Aragon in Chicago in 1979 with Bo Diddley opening.
We haven't talked about punk/post-punk/alternative yet, but as time goes on and more people whose decade was the '80s move into the Villages, I bet we will. For those people who say there was no good music in the '80s, they just weren't listening. Or they were listening to mainstream radio.
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Early Uriah Heep with Three Dog Night at their peak, that is weird. I've only experienced that twice. In '87 the Fixx opened for the Moody Blues in Savannah. The audience was almost all locals, CAT ball caps, beards, not too many new wavers. Most of them said, who is the Fix. I enjoyed both, the Moody's Blues had all their equipment on stage already and the Fixx seemed to only have about 10' to move about. They sounded good, but they seemed like they wanted to get off stage even more than the audience wanted them off the stage.
The other was about '82 Savannah it was Billy Squier with Saga opening. Billy was a big hit on the radio and videos and Saga had released Worlds Apart and I only heard that one radio song 'On the Loose', so I didn't know what to expect. They were excellent, three keyboards, powerful drums and a really good singer. On the Loose and Wind Him Up were the highlights. By the end of the night, I bought their album the next day and Billy I don't think I ever played again.
Everyone knows Billy Squier brought it on himself wearing pink tank tops and prancing around in his videos. He basically wasn't that far from doing in concert. He seems to bounce around and I think he wore a pink tank top again. I believe he a really good guy after seeing videos of him in modern times, and he just got bad advice from managers or the label.
Echo & the Bunnymen I've got four recent live videos of theirs on my youtube new wave folder, they're good and helped make Donnie Darko a better movie. The lead singer still smokes on stage, I guess he hasn't learned.