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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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Heh - 80's music? When I wasn't acting like a hippie in Harvard Square, I was listening to and dancing to Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Gary Numan, Laurie Anderson (avant-garde electro-weirdness) The Police, Talking Heads, Blotto, the B-52s, the Clash, the Del Fuegos, and others. Most of these bands formed in the mid-late 1970's (1978 was a REALLY popular year for new-wave/punk/garage startups).