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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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As a music lover, I used to take my teenage daughter to all the concerts I could... music was my life. My most memorable concert was Uriah Heep, Pittsburgh Civic Area. The dome on that arena was retractable. When the band led into Wonderworld, the dome opened to reveal a gorgeous starry night. It was awesome..... that is, what you could see of it through the cloud of smoke that blew out of the arena, lol. I will never forget it. Thank you for this OP... it has brought a flood of beautiful memories, what a trip thru the past.