First Live Concert?

[LewPort71]

Dave Clark 5 at Kleinhans in Buffalo.  Dec 1964.

Shirley Ellis "The Name Game"  was the warmup performer.

 

 

 

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

Bob Seger with The Cars opening in Sept, 1978.   
 

Great time—-beers in a parking lot under an overpass near the Aud.  Great show, great energy.   Alto Reed (sax player for The Silver Bullet Band) is suddenly up in the crowd walking along a balcony playing.  Oh, and when I say up in the crowd,  we were looking down from the Oranges.  

[muppy]

1 hour ago, Bills4everNY said:

Me and my friend felt like we were VIPs wearing those tuxedos at the show. I wore it later that year on Halloween. Some day I might look though all the boxes of stuff I have in my garage and see if it's in there. If I find it I'll post a picture of it.

that would be amazing and if you found it make me cry in a totally good way...my buddy was taken way too early ***** CANCER

[muppy]

20 hours ago, Rico said:

I was there, just moved to Syracuse for my 1st professional job with Carrier. Got a ticket the day of the show & went by myself. Tommy Shaw was the opener & after the 1st song, I decided I did not want to see Tommy Shaw, so I walked out looking for a bar. Saw the Continental & thought of the same-named great punk club in Buffalo where I saw bands like Lords of the New Church & Generation X, so I went inside & sat at the bar. After a minute, I realized that there were no women inside and guys were eyeballing me, WTF!?!, so I ran out & went back to the concert. Kinks were good, but after the Continental, I was not in a good mood. 

Guilty. They played the Aud earlier that year, then later added Rich Stadium to close the tour on the East Coast. Both shows were great.

senor Rico I did not want to allow pass unnoticed your mention of the iconic Continental club in BFLO city. My bestie has shared of that place bar none I never experienced it Boooooooooooo...lol..it was Legendary Indeed back in the day.

 

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[RaoulDuke79]

Ozzy/Black Sabbath Reunion tour with Korn opening Hershey PA 1996.

[muppy]

13 hours ago, Bills4everNY said:

I've seen the Stones 10 times over the decades and the 78 show was my favorite. I liked them better when it was just the 5 Stones with the Ian Mclagan and Ian Stewart. The 81 tour was great too. Later tours they had backup singers and Mick did choreographed dance moves. I liked it better when Mick would just run all over the stage and jump around like crazy. 

I posted a story in the share music thread about an iconic show I witnessed back in Phoenix Sun devil stadium..I'll post the link because it itself is special ..they taped it for a special video.....this chorus line went on seemingly forever. They hired every model and hit up costume stores all over the state of AZ  LOL

 

Edited November 19, 2021 by Muppy

[Augie]

24 minutes ago, Muppy said:

I posted a story in the share music thread about an iconic show I witnessed back in Phoenix Sun devil stadium..I'll post the link because it itself is special ..they taped it for a special video...without further adou...this chorus line went on seemingly forever. hey hired every model and hit up costume stores all over the state of AZ  LOL

 

 

Which one were you?   

[Rico]

2 hours ago, Bills4everNY said:

I've seen the Stones 10 times over the decades and the 78 show was my favorite. I liked them better when it was just the 5 Stones with the Ian Mclagan and Ian Stewart. The 81 tour was great too. Later tours they had backup singers and Mick did choreographed dance moves. I liked it better when Mick would just run all over the stage and jump around like crazy. 

Agreed, 81-82 was the last great tour. Vegas Stones since 1989, nothing but a watered-down revue. Inevitable that they couldn’t keep it going with age, but they still had at least 10 more years of hard-rocking in them. Still a good time though.

[muppy]

16 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

Which one were you?   

I would have shook my tail feathers but I never got the memo.....DANG lol :-))))))))

[Bills4everNY]

5 hours ago, Muppy said:

I posted a story in the share music thread about an iconic show I witnessed back in Phoenix Sun devil stadium..I'll post the link because it itself is special ..they taped it for a special video...without further adou...this chorus line went on seemingly forever. hey hired every model and hit up costume stores all over the state of AZ  LOL

 

That video was great. I can tell that was the 1981 tour by what Mick was wearing. The girls on stage were gorgeous.  No facial piercing, tattoos or purple hair.

Edited November 19, 2021 by Bills4everNY

[Nextmanup]

On 11/17/2021 at 1:47 PM, WhoTom said:

Foreigner, The Aud, 1979.

 

My musical taste has improved greatly since then.

 

 

My first concert was also Foreigner at the Aud, but I believe it was 1981.

 

Billy Squier opened for them.

 

I was 10 years old and my mom took me, my older sister, and her best friend at the time.

 

The lights came on at intermission and the entire top section of the Aud was FILLED with a dense cloud layer of smoke from mostly pot, but also some cigarettes.

 

The world was a different place as recently as then!   

 

 

14 hours ago, The Jokeman said:

Simon and Garfunkel with my dad. I can't remember the date but it was in Buffalo, NY in the hockey arena. 

You mean Buffalo Memorial Auditorium.  "The Aud" to WNYers.

 

God I miss that building!
 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

I recall a coworker who was taking his daughter and friends to a 'NKOTB' concert in Toronto grabbing a handful of disposable earplugs from the dispenser at work.  He maintained that he would be looked upon as a hero to all the other parents roped into taxi and chaperone service.

[The Poojer]

That's a really good Dad!

 

 

54 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

I recall a coworker who was taking his daughter and friends to a 'NKOTB' concert in Toronto grabbing a handful of disposable earplugs from the dispenser at work.  He maintained that he would be looked upon as a hero to all the other parents roped into taxi and chaperone service.

[The Jokeman]

13 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

Bob Seger with The Cars opening in Sept, 1978.   
 

Great time—-beers in a parking lot under an overpass near the Aud.  Great show, great energy.   Alto Reed (sax player for The Silver Bullet Band) is suddenly up in the crowd walking along a balcony playing.  Oh, and when I say up in the crowd,  we were looking down from the Oranges.  

I just saw Seger in his farewell tour precovid. Great energy for a guy his age. 

Edited November 19, 2021 by The Jokeman

[Gugny]

1 hour ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

I recall a coworker who was taking his daughter and friends to a 'NKOTB' concert in Toronto grabbing a handful of disposable earplugs from the dispenser at work.  He maintained that he would be looked upon as a hero to all the other parents roped into taxi and chaperone service.

 

My son's first concert was Nickelback.  Truth be told, they put on a hell of a show, but still ... Nickelback.

 

To make it up to him, I've since brought him to multiple metal shows (the stuff he likes:  White Chapel, Slipknot, Slayer and many others), as well as Paul McCartney and Rush (on their R:40 Tour).

 

I will never stop feeling bad for him.  In 20 years, when someone asks him what his first concert was, he will still get his balls busted.  The only saving grace was that Bush opened up for them, but still .... Nickelback.  Poor bastard.

[LeviF]

16 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

My son's first concert was Nickelback.  Truth be told, they put on a hell of a show, but still ... Nickelback.

 

To make it up to him, I've since brought him to multiple metal shows (the stuff he likes:  White Chapel, Slipknot, Slayer and many others), as well as Paul McCartney and Rush (on their R:40 Tour).

 

I will never stop feeling bad for him.  In 20 years, when someone asks him what his first concert was, he will still get his balls busted.  The only saving grace was that Bush opened up for them, but still .... Nickelback.  Poor bastard.

 

I have a buddy from a previous job who is a couple years older than his sister.  He turned 16 in early 2003, lived in southern tier NY growing up. He got his license and was saving up cash and trying to finagle a way for his parents to let him drive himself and some friends to some concert, I think it was Coldplay, at Madison Square Garden. It would be his first concert ever.

 

His friend's dad managed to get four tickets for them and they were psyched. But there was still the issue of getting his parents to give the OK.  Well, his sister's 14th birthday came around and his parents made him a deal: take your sister to a concert for which she will be gifted three tickets on her birthday and you can drive yourself and your buddies to Coldplay.

 

What was the concert, you ask? It was the Cher Farewell Tour. When was it? Well, it was the day before the Coldplay concert.

 

A male, born in 1987, and his first concert ever was Cher.

 

So tell lil' Gug it could be worse.

Edited November 19, 2021 by LeviF

[Gugny]

4 minutes ago, LeviF said:

 

I have a buddy from a previous job who is a couple years older than his sister.  He turned 16 in early 2003, lived in southern tier NY growing up. He got his license and was saving up cash and trying to finagle a way for his parents to let him drive himself and some friends to some concert, I think it was Coldplay, at Madison Square Garden. It would be his first concert ever.

 

His friend's dad managed to get four tickets for them and they were psyched. But there was still the issue of getting his parents to give the OK.  Well, his sister's 14th birthday came around and his parents made him a deal: take your sister to a concert for which she will be gifted three tickets on her birthday and you can drive yourself and your buddies to Coldplay.

 

What was the concert, you ask? It was the Cher Farewell Tour. When was it? Well, it was the day before the Coldplay concert.

 

A male, born in 1987, and his first concert ever was Cher.

 

So tell lil' Gug it could be worse.

 

This reminded me of a childhood friend whose mother brought him to see Air Supply at SPAC.  I just googled it and it looks like it was in 1982, which would have made him 11.  Not sure if it was his first concert, but I'd guess yes.  OUCH!

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

37 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

I just saw Seger in his farewell tour precovid. Great energy for a guy his age. 

Those are the memories that make you a wealthy soul…

[The Poojer]

I never got the hate for Nickleback, sure i joined the herd and played along just so i wasn't considered a mouthbreather....not sure where it all began with the abject hatred.

 

55 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

My son's first concert was Nickelback.  Truth be told, they put on a hell of a show, but still ... Nickelback.

 

To make it up to him, I've since brought him to multiple metal shows (the stuff he likes:  White Chapel, Slipknot, Slayer and many others), as well as Paul McCartney and Rush (on their R:40 Tour).

 

I will never stop feeling bad for him.  In 20 years, when someone asks him what his first concert was, he will still get his balls busted.  The only saving grace was that Bush opened up for them, but still .... Nickelback.  Poor bastard.

[Gugny]

9 minutes ago, The Poojer said:

I never got the hate for Nickleback, sure i joined the herd and played along just so i wasn't considered a mouthbreather....not sure where it all began with the abject hatred.

 

 

I agree.  Like I said, great show.  They are not devoid of talent, either.  I'd see them again.

 

Creed (I've not seen them) is another.  I liked a lot of their tunes, but it was deemed, "uncool," to like them when they were popular.

[LeviF]

4 minutes ago, The Poojer said:

I never got the hate for Nickleback, sure i joined the herd and played along just so i wasn't considered a mouthbreather....not sure where it all began with the abject hatred.

 

 

A lot of it has to do with timing and goals.

 

2001: "How You Remind Me" is released to incredible success. Mainstream Rock and Hot 100 hit. Over the next year or so it's impossible to listen to modern rock or pop radio for half an hour without hearing Nickelback.  All this on the heels of the explosion of nu-metal and the death of grunge and 90s alt.  So you already have the hipsters' and alt kids' ire due to their popularity. "How You Remind Me" is incredibly formulaic and, by his own admission, Kroeger wrote it for the express purpose of being a pop radio hit.  Money talks, and he repeats this formula again and again: catchy chord progressions on the hooks, lyrical content with universal appeal (romance, getting drunk, nostalgia), etc. On top of this, by taking roads paved by nu-metal and pop hits, it's seen as derivative in its composition and structure. Critical suicide, especially if you do it more than once.

 

There's talent in that band, and Silver Side Up was arguably a pretty good album. But by banging the same drum over and over for the sake of cash and being popular with 00's dudebros at parties, Nickelback essentially organized their own hate campaign.

[SinceThe70s]

25 minutes ago, The Poojer said:

I never got the hate for Nickleback, sure i joined the herd and played along just so i wasn't considered a mouthbreather....not sure where it all began with the abject hatred.

 

 

I'm with you on that. I wouldn't call myself a fan but they have two songs that I think are great.

[Philly McButterpants]

Technically, my first concert ever was Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, New Years Eve 1974 (?) at Disney World with my parents and brother.

 

First "real" concert was Kiss + the Rockets - January, 1978 AT THE AUD (remember that?).

[Rico]

Well after thinking about it, technically, my first few concerts would when my grade school took everyone to Kleinhan’s to see the Buffalo Philharmonic on “School Day”. Pretty cool, especially when they did something I knew like William Tell Overture or Sabre Dance.

[muppy]

2 hours ago, Gugny said:

 

My son's first concert was Nickelback.  Truth be told, they put on a hell of a show, but still ... Nickelback.

 

To make it up to him, I've since brought him to multiple metal shows (the stuff he likes:  White Chapel, Slipknot, Slayer and many others), as well as Paul McCartney and Rush (on their R:40 Tour).

 

I will never stop feeling bad for him.  In 20 years, when someone asks him what his first concert was, he will still get his balls busted.  The only saving grace was that Bush opened up for them, but still .... Nickelback.  Poor bastard.

when I took my son to his very first rock show I was excited because I was seeing a band Id always wanted to (GooGoo Dolls) but it ends up the 2 opening acts were much more his musical liking and they were Sugar Ray (Mark McGrath) and Fastball .........8-7-1999. McGrath was acting the punk saying stuff like "so I met your GF she's coming home with me tonight" SMH I wasnt impressed.

 

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

3 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

I recall a coworker who was taking his daughter and friends to a 'NKOTB' concert in Toronto grabbing a handful of disposable earplugs from the dispenser at work.  He maintained that he would be looked upon as a hero to all the other parents roped into taxi and chaperone service.

A decade or so ago, a friend and I took our daughters to see the Jonas Brothers at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in, duh, Saratoga.  We sat on the lawn, the place was packed, and every child in close proximity to the next.  I blacked out as to how long they played, but the ear-splitting, relentless, high-octave scream went on for the duration. 

 

At one point, drummer Jonas was talking about something serious (diabetes, I think), it was very deathly quiet, then he got to this point where he paused and theatrically looked into the camera (and I've come to believe, the heart of every young lady in the joint) and 20,000 or so girls shrieked in unison.  I believe that cataclysmic eruption of noise must have been what it was like when the Jerry's blitzkrieged London during the War to end all wars. 

[Pete]

3 hours ago, Gugny said:

 

My son's first concert was Nickelback.  Truth be told, they put on a hell of a show, but still ... Nickelback.

 

To make it up to him, I've since brought him to multiple metal shows (the stuff he likes:  White Chapel, Slipknot, Slayer and many others), as well as Paul McCartney and Rush (on their R:40 Tour).

 

I will never stop feeling bad for him.  In 20 years, when someone asks him what his first concert was, he will still get his balls busted.  The only saving grace was that Bush opened up for them, but still .... Nickelback.  Poor bastard.

I got to play this line once- grocery clerk said "here is your nickel back" "worst band ever".  They didn't get it but my gf laughed

[LewPort71]

My 8 year old grandson has been to two concerts.

First  was Trans Siberian Orchestra

Second was  Queen  with Adam Lambert.
I wanted to take him to King Crimson but he wudda asked, 

"Pops, where  are all the laser lights and the fire?"

 

[Gugny]

39 minutes ago, Pete said:

I got to play this line once- grocery clerk said "here is your nickel back" "worst band ever".  They didn't get it but my gf laughed

 

Reminds me of this one, that happened recently.  Took my gf out to dinner and the hostess asked, "just the two of you?"  I replied, "we can make it if we try."

 

It actually went over very well!

[SirAndrew]

3 hours ago, The Poojer said:

I never got the hate for Nickleback, sure i joined the herd and played along just so i wasn't considered a mouthbreather....not sure where it all began with the abject hatred.

 

I’m not into Nickelback, but I agree. Every criticism I’ve seen directed towards them could be applied to hundreds of other 90’s and 00’s modern rock acts. I could argue that Metallica’s late 90’s output isn’t all that different from Nickelback in sound. Many of the people who diss Nickelback were the same guys who thought Metallica’s Load album was great. I understand Nickelback sounds like mass produced paint by numbers rock, but that’s exactly what killed

rock. They aren’t the only culprit. 

[Pete]

29 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

Reminds me of this one, that happened recently.  Took my gf out to dinner and the hostess asked, "just the two of you?"  I replied, "we can make it if we try."

 

It actually went over very well!

another line that 1 out of 100 get- "put it on the Underhills tab"

[Gugny]

11 minutes ago, Pete said:

another line that 1 out of 100 get- "put it on the Underhills tab"

 

SUCH a great flick!!!  Now I wanna watch it again!

[Pete]

2 hours ago, Muppy said:

when I took my son to his very first rock show I was excited because I was seeing a band Id always wanted to (GooGoo Dolls) but it ends up the 2 opening acts were much more his musical liking and they were Sugar Ray (Mark McGrath) and Fastball .........8-7-1999. McGrath was acting the punk saying stuff like "so I met your GF she's coming home with me tonight" SMH I wasnt impressed.

 

1990s music scene came in like a lion(AIC, Soundgarden, Janes,Tool, Rage,Kyuss, Sublime,Melvins, etc), and out like a lamb(Sugar Ray, Smashmouth, Offspring etc)

So I already despised Sugar Ray.  Seriously though 1990-1995 is incredible time for music

[CIrvine]

1982.  AC/DC at the Forum in Inglewood,  CA.

[Success]

Man, some seriously good 1st shows here - Queen, Simon & Garfunkel, Iron Maiden, AC/DC.  I wish I could have seen Queen back then. I still look up clips on youtube - one of the best live bands ever.

 

Mine was kind of meh.  REO Speedwagon, with Rainbow.  At the time,  however, I was blown away.

 

 

[SinceThe70s]

1 minute ago, Success said:

Man, some seriously good 1st shows here - Queen, Simon & Garfunkel, Iron Maiden, AC/DC.  I wish I could have seen Queen back then. I still look up clips on youtube - one of the best live bands ever.

 

Mine was kind of meh.  REO Speedwagon, with Rainbow.  At the time,  however, I was blown away.

 

 

 

Ronnie James Dio, Graham Bonnet or Joe Lynn Turner?

[Pete]

Just now, SinceThe70s said:

 

Ronnie James Dio, Graham Bonnet or Joe Lynn Turner?

I was a big Rainbow fan in HS

[SinceThe70s]

1 minute ago, Pete said:

I was a big Rainbow fan in HS

 

Me too, but they were never the same without Dio.

 

Blackmore lived in my area for awhile and a good friend of mine from HS played a pickup soccer game with/against him.

[Pete]

2 minutes ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

Me too, but they were never the same without Dio.

 

Blackmore lived in my area for awhile and a good friend of mine from HS played a pickup soccer game with/against him.

my buddy has the same story.  My friend is from Old Saybrook CT.  He told me a story that a friends cousin was roadie for Stones, they all hung out with Ritchie and Rainbow, and played a soccer game.  I forget if that was in CT or Long Island

[Success]

10 minutes ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

Ronnie James Dio, Graham Bonnet or Joe Lynn Turner?

 

I just know that Blackmore was playing guitar.  I had no idea who he was at the time, but was certainly impressed by him & their set.  It was '78...Bonnet maybe?