[John_W]

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[MickeyStevens]

Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus

Amazing how many music fans here are from Massachusetts. I’m from the north shore (noth shewah).

WMEX and WBCN taught us well!

I came from 45 miles south in Rhode Island love 'BCN and 'MEX.

[LiverpoolWalrus]

Originally Posted by John_W

We've all been mentioned mostly arena shows, I did mentioned a 1969 Allman Bros club show as one of my earliest. Since I really didn't know who they were at the time, or what to expect, I was somewhat off-guard about how great the performance was going to be.

For my best club, small venue show, I've got to submit Three Dog Night. I was big fan ever since '69 when I heard "One" on the juke box that summer.

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.

[John_W]

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.

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.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus

Some of us are lucky that music touches us so passionately like this.

I still can't sing Southern Cross without choking up when I get to "she is all that I have left and Music is her name" and I've been singing it since it came out in late 1982.

Being hearing impaired means I don't always know the words to the songs (or what anyone is saying when they talk to me). But my impairment is such that I can isolate every instrument from a performance and hone in on just that one instrument. With CSN(and Y), I don't try. It's the harmony that is the instrument. It takes me to another place.

Yes does the same thing to me as well but in a totally different way. Cover your ears with a headset, give the bass just a TINY bump in volume and crisp up the midrange, and then jack the volume of that combo up a few notches. Then listen to Rick Wakeman's intro to Parallels and the fade-in of Steve Howe, Alan White, and Chris Squire on the Going for the One album. You might get a sense of how I "feel" when I listen to them. It just shoots a love-bullet right through my heart.

[unialimon]

Tom Waits Park Motor Inn 10-31-1977. With Debbie from the Dangle.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

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.

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).

[LiverpoolWalrus]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

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).

Hey OBB, did you go to the Spit on Landsdowne St? What a fun place that was!

Ya, I was right between the hippie and punk eras too so I also lived both... even though the punks hated the the hippies. So I felt a little schizo at the time. But we now know that contempt was all an act...that and the anarchy thing.

Xray Spex (one of my faves from the time) hit the nail on the head in 1978 with Artificial: X-Ray Spex - Art-I-Ficial - YouTube

[Funkman]

Had a buddy who bartended at Spit, saw the Stray Cats there. Also spent a lot of time around the corner at the Rat (saw the Cars which was probably in the top 3 of the worst shows I ever saw)

[Michread]

First

Eagles, 1976 with Boz Gaggs- Jersey City. I was 13 yo


Best

George Benson ~ 1984 - Boston Public Garden

[LiverpoolWalrus]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

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).

OK, so now you AND John both mentioned Laurie Anderson. I liked that flash in the pan too and saw her at Constitution Hall in DC around 1982. Surprising that you both dropped a relatively obscure name.

"Oh Superman, let x=x ... it's a sky blue sky, the satellites are out tonight. Thanks for showing me your Swiss army knife, I feel like I'm in a burning building."

Next you'll both be mentioning Lene Lovich!

Funkman, I never liked the Cars either. What an overrated band (imo). But then again I was/am a snob and don't like anything played on mainstream radio since the '60s (At least I admit it.)

[John_W]

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[bandsdavis]

So the first time I saw a concert by a group with an actual record was the Swingin' Medallions (Double Shot of My Baby's Love) in 1966 at my High School in Keene NH. I'm sure they were on a promotional tour and fit us into an empty date. The I saw Simon and Garfunkel in early 1968 at UNH. By far the best concert was a 2000 concert by Paul McCartney in Boston. I never saw The Beatles live, but I remember distinclty thinking to myself in 2000, "Oh my God, that's really Paul McCartney!"

[bandsdavis]

I should also add the the first "Big Date" that my wife Sue and I went on was to see Peter Paul and Mary at Symphony Hall in Boston in the Fall of 1969. What an incredible concert! Second only to McCartney.

[John_W]

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