Aerosmith opening up for Black Sabbath ,1975, Madison Square Garden. Other bands opening up for Black Sabbath through the 70's that I saw at MSG: Van Halen, Ted Nugent, Kansas, Motor Head. All were fantastic.
AC/DC - Manchester, 1978 (Free Trade Hall, I think). I was 16, still at school - went with head-banging friends from my class. Not sure of the significance of quarantine in the question, but the experience left me with loudly ringing ears for over a week, and the worry that I'd permanently damaged my hearing.
*Edit: Oh, I see I've been conned into responding to an ancient thread, which I assumed was recently started. Hate it when that happens!
Same thing with the hearing happened to me after experiencing My Bloody Valentine at Slim's in San Francisco, 2 February, 1992. Thought the hearing would never return to normal, but after a week it seemed to. Decided it was worth it, but that was the loudest thing I'd ever experienced.
Me and my pals actually got told off by Peter Tork for smoking pot backstage at the Fillmore . I can’t for the life of me remember who was playing. probably because I was stoned off of my tuffet !
Maybe it was during a time he was trying to clean up? PT had quite the reputation with regards to things like that. Someone once told me a similar story about Arthur Lee. He offered Arthur a puff after a show and got an if-looks-could-kill glare and telling off in response. I guess Arthur resented the temptation or didn't like assumptions.
Oh God, I'm old! Would be Jimi Hendrix opening for the Monkees at the Atlantic City Pop Festival in.... 67, 68 maybe? I was 5 or 6 at the time and wondered what the black guy was doing to the guitar to make it sound that way.
@dadadi do you remember the show? Was it the 1974 show? That was when EJ wore the famous Donald Duck costume? I remember being a little kid looking at pics of that. I liked the glittery baseball costume a bit better, which was he also wore during that show, I believe, didn't he?
That would be the Allman Brothers Band 2-26-72 at the Salem Armory in Salem OR. Duane Allman had already died but Berry Oakley was still alive. I don't know how Dickie Betts covered both guitar parts but I recall it was an excellent concert. Alex Taylor Band opened.
I guess my first show was when I was age two and atop my brother’s girlfriend’s shoulders in Golden Gate Park and it was Moby Grape among several others playing. I remember the ear-splitting loudness, the luxury of being carried around much of the time, the odd effect of the scent of cannabis wafting on and out, all types of incense, the day-glo colours, velvet clothes, some leather jackets, naked people, a sense of danger, soap bubbles ... and I remember how much I loved the name Moby Grape.
'Frampton Comes Alive' is a great album..lots of people slated it. I still have my copy, double gatefold sleeve, twin hot-pink vinyl (I believe it was referred to.)..😎
@Tourist it was the talk box solo that drew me in on Show Me The Way and Do You Feel Like We Do. Didn't find out until this year or maybe last year that it was none other than Pete Drake's Heil Talk Box at George Harrison's All Things Must Pass recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios in 1970 that got Peter Frampton into the talk box. Didn't even know that Frampton and Drake were on that album.
When I was a kiddo, I used to hear Dreamweaver and Billy Thorpe's Children Of The Sun played close to each other on the radio so the one always since then has reminded me of the other. The other one was Steve Miller's Fly Like An Eagle.
I suppose that, strictly speaking, it should be Greenslade, who were the support band, and were on first. But that's OK - they were damn good, and I still play their albums.
For those who don't know, they were a four-piece with backward or forward links to the likes of Colosseum and Curved Air. But their USP was having no guitarist. Just drums, bass, and two on keyboards/vocals. Since my first instrument was the piano, I was into bands with great keyboards players, and I really liked them.
That would be one of the greatest and probably one of the least well known UK hard rock bands of the 1970's, STRIFE...I saw them quite a few times, first time in 1975, at a small club called the Golden Diamond, jam packed, about 20 All-England Hells Angels there, I was 15, no trouble getting a beer, lol...they were amazing musicians, great original songs, psychedelic tendencies and were superb live..and they were LOUD!!...this 3-piece rock outfit were always a 'live band' (their limited studio recordings never did them justice imo) and to this very day, they remain amongst the best live bands I've ever seen.
John Reid: guitar/lead vocals..Gordon Rowley: bass/vocals..Dave Williams: Drums
Here's the only remaining piece of film of Strife, at the 1975 Watchfield Festival, playing a song called 'Rush'..It's a 14 minutes long, quintessential '70s hard rock and shows just how great they were..It has psychedelic meanderings right through, then around the 10:20 mark, shows how hard they cold rock...Sadly poor film footage, but good audio....Give them a go, you know it makes sense.😎
Roy Acuff in the front yard, but they were just family on tour across the US and were staying over for a while. I have told this story before. But advancing a few years to junior high school, it could have been Buffalo Springfield at a converted bowling alley or the Jefferson Airplane in the Spokane Coliseum. I mixed it up with Neil Young. The Airplane had a light show.
Now I am going to listen to Mr. Soul as well as White Rabbit to see which one I would rather be holed up with. I am guessing Neil.
I had forgotten a Battle of the Bands in the Spokane Armory that fall that had the Wailers, Kingsmen and the Sonics. My older brother hated taking me, but bought the Sonics Here Are The Sonics (and later Boom) album(s). We had been staying in the Seattle Metro area with an auntie over the summer. Radio Station KJR used to put out albums of the groups they used to play. I think that they may have even sponsored the tour across the PNW. Anyway it was killer for a junior high school kid. We latter got the Sonics to play an ice cream social (keggar) at the University of Washington. I think I sang every song (as that is what drunk college kids do). A great day to be alive.
I have joked that the band was so good, that we named our NBA basketball team after them. Now I am going to have to listen to The Witch just to remind myself of the power of a great song.
Aerosmith opening up for Black Sabbath ,1975, Madison Square Garden. Other bands opening up for Black Sabbath through the 70's that I saw at MSG: Van Halen, Ted Nugent, Kansas, Motor Head. All were fantastic.
Gary Numan Glasgow Apollo 1980 = amazing!
i don’t see artist..
Pat Travers at the Penthouse nightclub in Scarborough North Yorkshire 1975 ❤
John Denver - 1974 (Look, I was just a kid...)
AC/DC - Manchester, 1978 (Free Trade Hall, I think). I was 16, still at school - went with head-banging friends from my class. Not sure of the significance of quarantine in the question, but the experience left me with loudly ringing ears for over a week, and the worry that I'd permanently damaged my hearing.
*Edit: Oh, I see I've been conned into responding to an ancient thread, which I assumed was recently started. Hate it when that happens!
Me and my pals actually got told off by Peter Tork for smoking pot backstage at the Fillmore . I can’t for the life of me remember who was playing. probably because I was stoned off of my tuffet !
Oh God, I'm old! Would be Jimi Hendrix opening for the Monkees at the Atlantic City Pop Festival in.... 67, 68 maybe? I was 5 or 6 at the time and wondered what the black guy was doing to the guitar to make it sound that way.
Gary Numan with Tubeway Army! Glasgow Apollo 1979. Brilliant then, and still is = wow!
Elton John at Dodger Stadium.
That would be the Allman Brothers Band 2-26-72 at the Salem Armory in Salem OR. Duane Allman had already died but Berry Oakley was still alive. I don't know how Dickie Betts covered both guitar parts but I recall it was an excellent concert. Alex Taylor Band opened.
I guess my first show was when I was age two and atop my brother’s girlfriend’s shoulders in Golden Gate Park and it was Moby Grape among several others playing. I remember the ear-splitting loudness, the luxury of being carried around much of the time, the odd effect of the scent of cannabis wafting on and out, all types of incense, the day-glo colours, velvet clothes, some leather jackets, naked people, a sense of danger, soap bubbles ... and I remember how much I loved the name Moby Grape.
mmm..on reflection, technically it's Cilla Black, who I saw with my mum and dad whilst on holiday in Blackpool, around 1971.
Jefferson Airplane - even police dogs outside after the concert! What a Wyld Thyme it is!
Gary Wright / Peter Frampton / Yes at Hawthorne Park racetrack, Summer 1975
"Frampton Comes Alive" was a hit album, Yes had Relayer out with Patrick Moraz on keyboards, Gary Wright had "Dream Weaver" from his 2nd album.
The Peddlers at Peckham Community Centre in the late 60s with my parents.
Rush 1978, Glasgow Apollo.
Oh YESSSSS!!! Rory Gallagher!!!! March 1973.
I suppose that, strictly speaking, it should be Greenslade, who were the support band, and were on first. But that's OK - they were damn good, and I still play their albums.
For those who don't know, they were a four-piece with backward or forward links to the likes of Colosseum and Curved Air. But their USP was having no guitarist. Just drums, bass, and two on keyboards/vocals. Since my first instrument was the piano, I was into bands with great keyboards players, and I really liked them.
That would be Blood, Sweat and Tears.
That would be one of the greatest and probably one of the least well known UK hard rock bands of the 1970's, STRIFE...I saw them quite a few times, first time in 1975, at a small club called the Golden Diamond, jam packed, about 20 All-England Hells Angels there, I was 15, no trouble getting a beer, lol...they were amazing musicians, great original songs, psychedelic tendencies and were superb live..and they were LOUD!!...this 3-piece rock outfit were always a 'live band' (their limited studio recordings never did them justice imo) and to this very day, they remain amongst the best live bands I've ever seen.
John Reid: guitar/lead vocals..Gordon Rowley: bass/vocals..Dave Williams: Drums
Here's the only remaining piece of film of Strife, at the 1975 Watchfield Festival, playing a song called 'Rush'..It's a 14 minutes long, quintessential '70s hard rock and shows just how great they were..It has psychedelic meanderings right through, then around the 10:20 mark, shows how hard they cold rock...Sadly poor film footage, but good audio....Give them a go, you know it makes sense.😎
Roxy Music on the Siren tour at the Glasgow Apollo - 1974/1975?. Nagged my older brother to death until he agreed to take me.
Roy Acuff in the front yard, but they were just family on tour across the US and were staying over for a while. I have told this story before. But advancing a few years to junior high school, it could have been Buffalo Springfield at a converted bowling alley or the Jefferson Airplane in the Spokane Coliseum. I mixed it up with Neil Young. The Airplane had a light show.
Now I am going to listen to Mr. Soul as well as White Rabbit to see which one I would rather be holed up with. I am guessing Neil.
😳😳😳 Gary Glitter in Roundhead Park Leeds, must have been about 1980.
Gary Numan