Cool! I never saw it live, but I saw a broadcast of it. I loved it.
I saw Brenda Gail Webb and her sister Peggy Sue Wright at a casino outside of Phoenix.
I saw Rod Stewart in 1979 at Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena. Great show. The crazy part was the opening act; a band nobody ever heard of called Air Supply.
We weren’t there to hear Air Supply. People talked and goofed around through their first song, began screaming then chanting, ROD during their second song, then actively booed the band.
Sounds like they were all out of love.
Heh, that song began getting radio play after the concert. I kept telling people about booing the band.
I was at an Oingo Boingo show where the audience mercilessly heckled the opening act, The Waitresses, who ended their set pretty quickly. Admittedly a weird opening choice, but undeserved.
I guess that’s two more bands, anyone else see them?
Better known as Crystal Gayle and her sister Peggy Sue Wright.
We had the opposite experience when we went to a Trombone Shorty concert in Portland. The opening act was Robert Randolph and The Family Band, who we’d never heard of, and we were prepared to be bored. Quite the opposite. He tore the house down playing Hendrix on his steel guitar in the most energetic set I’ve ever seen. Shorty was good, but Randolph stole the show.
In the category of concerts I wish I had never seen, I saw Iron Butterfly in Central Park. Of “In a Gadda Da Vita” fame (spelling probably wrong.) Totally forgettable.
I’m certainly not the only person, but possibly the only one on this here message board who saw:
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The Beatles in San Diego, August 8 1965. I could hear them quite well.
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The Doors, Ingelwood Forum (L.A.) 12-14-68, in which they had strings, horns, and bass player onstage with them for four songs from the as yet unreleased Soft Parade album. To the best of my knowledge they did this only one other time, on the East Coast.
I never seem to have the time to reply to posts here before they’re long overtaken by more recent posts…
Ayway, a few random responses!
When I saw Supertramp the support was the then unknown Chris DeBurgh. Way before he got a record contract and long before ‘Lady in Red’ but most of his set turned up on his Spanish Train lp. He was really good, and I remember more of his act than Supertramp’s!
Also saw Manu Dibango as a birthday treat a couple of years before he died - great gig! Also Femi Kuti about 5 years ago.
I’ve not seen any reaggae mentioned - how about Third World, Inner Circle, Culture, Sly & Robbie (the were playing rhythm for Grace Jones but gor their own spot before she came on; great stuff and a cut above the rest of the evening.)
When I saw Captain Beefheart the support band was Henry’ Cow, which was a very strange combination - whimsical English experimental prog/jazz followed by the Captain doing his thing… decades later I also saw Gary Lucas (ex-Magic Band) with Peter Hammill (they did an album together).
The John Doe gig I mentioned earlier wasn’t technically a solo show, he was one of three guitarists taking turns as lead to do their own songs, with the other two backing. (they were Peter Case & Michael Weston King, neither of whom I had heard of but I liked them both and picked up music by them both eventually) Also managed a brief chat with John Doe at the end.
I’ve seen Faust several times, including when they provided a live soundtrack to a screening of Nosferatu, the 1922 b&w vampire classic!. And another gig where my partner joined them onstage and sat and knitted a hat for one of them as part of the performance!
Also saw Lambchop doing the same for Sunrise: A Song for Two Humans.
I see other people have seen earlier gigs but my first King Crimson concert was Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, 3rd July 2000.
I’m sure that’s enough for now!
I saw a lot of reggae back in the 80s including a Sly & Robbie show where they were the headliners themselves, with lots of special guests like Yellowman IIRC
also Peter Tosh, where I helped my buddy sneak in his taping gear and (still have the cassette somewhere - and my buddy went on to be come the sound man for the Dead), Black Uhuru (same bill as King Sunny Ade), Jimmy Cliff, Steel Pulse (double bill at UVM), and Ziggy Marley.
Never saw Bob, but did go to the bio movie on April 20, 4:20 show, tix were $4.20. I couldn’t resist
The Grace Jones gig I saw in 2003 with Sly & Robbie in her band also had a support set with Michael Rosen of Black Uhuru (and maybe others from the band) along with S&R (who had also been in Black Uhuru as well). I think it was billed as Michael Rosen though, not Black Uhuru.
Also saw S&R on one of the Taxi label tours, which I think had Toots as the main headliner. Sadly, the audience was a bit sparse as it clashed with T in the Park, a big Scottish weekend festival 20 miles away.
I feel as though I may have seen Steel Pulse, but I can’t remember…
And Dennis Brown, anybody!?
I’ve seen Rik Emmett play do his accoustic show with Dave Dunlop three times. Did the meet and greet once. Fantastic shows. Unfortunately he has since retired. He may do one off appearances in Canada but he’s not going to tour.
Though I’ve never seen them live, Oingo Boingo concerts are all over YTube & seems Danny Elfman and the rest of the band put on a hella tight show; I’d have loved to see it live. The Waitresses I’d have loved to see if for only one reason - that killer song “I Know What Boys Like”, 'specially Patti Donahue’s wicked sing-song delivery of some way clever lyrics. (<=YTube that one, kids, trust me you’ll dig it )
“Suckers!” >girlish chuckle<
Anyone here spend Sunday in Slickville, Pennsylvania other than me?
Y’all missed a great show; Speal’s 15th annual Guitarbecue. My buddy, Dan Speal, owns a bar where you can go to hear a band occasionally. Every summer he rents a pavilion and a huge field for an all you can eat, all the beer you can drink, day of bands. Each band gets one hour, not a minute more. Ten minutes are allocated for stage changes.
Dan barbecues beef, pork, and chicken, and serves dozens of sides. Bud Light and Coors Light, are on tap.
The line-up:
Sadie Freund
Woodland Twang
Crawdad Joe
Near the Edge
Miss Freddye
Sky Pilot
Felix and the Hurricanes
The Shiners
These guys played in a nightclub I used to work. Were there for about 3 nights, then that song hit MTV and I never saw them again.
I had a beer with Willie Nelson in the same place.
RE: Rush, in concert. I got tickets for a show in the Forum in LA. Crappy seats for the show, but they were in the “Super Exclusive Basketball” section (season ticket holders, I imagine). I got a free program, drink service (couldn’t afford to take advantage of that) and generally treated like Royalty. It was truly a bizarre experience. It was the Power Windows tour. Still got the program. Drove to San Diego the next night for another show. No such good luck with the seating. But both shows were excellent. Totally different sets.
Oh, I got to see Niahm Parsons in someone’s living room. Shared my homebrew with her husband/boyfriend/manager/whoever he was. Nice folks. That was a “wife trip”. I never heard of her. But she was lovely.
Leslie West’s Wild West Show, with The James Gang, at Suffolk Downs, MA, on 7/18/1973.
Watched a girl who was sitting on her BF’s shoulders get knocked in the head by a half-empty beer can tossed from at least 30’ away. It was an impressive example of marksmanship. (She had plenty of warning from the crowd behind her.)
Oh. Another one…
Saw The Unforgiven open Mountain Aire at about 7 in the morning or something equally as horrible. 4 guitars, bass and a guy with a snare, bass drum and two cymbals, standing up. The 10 or so people who where there that early didn’t get no more sleep, I’ll tell you what!
This band came to my college campus later that year and put on a free show in the open area. I remembered them and I think it was the first and only time I skipped a class to go watch them.
A couple of the members have some degree of fame, but that band didn’t really ever take off. I got the only record they put out, and think its great.