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What was your first concert?

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Re: What was your first concert?

Post Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:39 pm

Led Zeppelin. Nineteen hundred and seventy-four. From literally the last row back in the old Garden (Boston). It was loud and kind of scary and Robert Plant wasn't wearing any shoes--utterly shoeless.
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Re: What was your first concert?

Post Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:14 pm

I've never been to a real concert before, well, I've been to a couple of gigs before, but nothing as big as the one I'm going to in August: I am seeing the Pogues! :D So, the first (I guess you could call "real") concert I'm going to will be the Pogues, and I couldn't be happier. Not only are they coming to Norway, but my first real concert experience will be of my favourite band!
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Post Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:25 pm

Oh, Frith...this question. Well, time to swallow my pride and answer.

1. Barry Manilow - 1980 or 1981, I think. With me mum.
2. Kansas - 1982 or 1983ish
3. James Brown - probably 1984 or so.

I guess the third time was the charm.
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Re: What was your first concert?

Post Thu Jul 01, 2010 4:24 pm

1977-ish Trooper with openers Zon at Kentville Arena in Kentville, Nova Scotia

Kim was the only one with a license (and a car), so we all piled in to her Galaxie 500 and rawked!

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Re: What was your first concert?

Post Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:35 pm

cagliostro wrote:Oh, Frith...this question. Well, time to swallow my pride and answer.

1. Barry Manilow - 1980 or 1981, I think. With me mum.


In 1981 this may have been totally terrible, but today it gives you ironic hipster points, so don't worry.
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Post Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:50 pm

Oh, good. I do so love being an ironic hipster.
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Post Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:09 pm

Barry Manilow as Bette Midler's accompanist in the gay bathouses of Manhattan. Now that's what I call an ironic hip.
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Post Tue Jul 27, 2010 4:45 pm

philipchevron wrote:Barry Manilow as Bette Midler's accompanist in the gay bathouses of Manhattan. Now that's what I call an ironic hip.

Tragically hip. Simpler times...
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Post Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:40 pm

1984 and Swedish metal band Europe. I was only listening to metal as a young teenager. The Pogues played in my hometown the year after but I had never heard about them at the time.
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Post Sun Aug 01, 2010 3:27 pm

My 'first' concert will be The Pogues, august 27th, at Union Scene in Drammen! :)
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Post Mon Aug 30, 2010 4:03 pm

1997 Cheap Trick in Kalamazoo, MI. Went with my brother and girlfriend(now my wife). Had a blast, still remember it like yesterday.
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Post Sun Jun 16, 2013 11:18 pm

John Denver gave a free concert in the gym at St. Mary's Univ.
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Post Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:58 am

My first real, paid concert was the 1996 Sex Pistols reunion at the Roseland Ballroom in NYC. I saw the reunited Pogues there about a decade later.
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