My first live concert experience
posted April 19, 2007, 7:02 am | Log In To Post Comments | 
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Tags: Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, Stray Cats, AC/DC
Apparently I have several answers. Having four parents from divorced childhood, the answer to my own query is quite complicated. Though I'll go with the first concert I was ever psyched, and enjoyed consciously as a musically warped adolescence.
AC/DC Jones Beach....A little bit after their Thunderstruck tour, my Aunt took me to this concert when I was 13. Don't know if anyone has ever had the pleasure of going to the Jones Beach venue in Wantaugh, NY (Long Island), but its tentatively a terrific spot for a concert, should the weather hold up. An ampitheater just off a bay, the acoustic are odd. On this night, Angus stepped down off the stage and straddled the shoulders of the largest bodyguard I've ever seen (seemed like 7'0 350 llbs at the time), and proceeded through the crowd to the media deck where he did his signature solo rolling around on the ground.
Honorable mentions include, The Stray Cats, who my Dad, and Step Mom took me to see when I was about 9 or 10 at the Main St. Arts Festival in Fort Worth. The reason this isnt my first cause this had no build up, I was too young to realize what I was in for. By the time the night was over, my mind was molded about passion for performance. Those cats (all pun intended) with glimmering and glamouring with poise and energy. Though My Dad and Step Mom, still swear to this day I saw Eric Clapton at the Houston centennial celebration in 87, I sincerely do not remember this. Its up to you whether I should even count that.
The one that got away; I couldnt have been more than 11 years old, and it was the first concert I ever dreamed of. My Stepfather came home with news of Pink Floyd at the Meadowlands (NJ) tickets, which to me had a hell of alot more value than a meet and greet with any of the cheesey glam metal bands I listened to at the time. I wound up being teased, and told I couldnt go. In retrospective though it made sense for them NOT to take an 11 year old boy into one of the most ghettorific venues on earth, but further into retrospective, it was shortly after that Floyd REALLY cut up their touring schedule, and havent played live at that pace since.
Since these days I've seen over 250 other shows live, which probably includes somewhere over 1,000 bands with at least another 500 indies (good and terrible). Now you have it, the ones who molded my standard for the concert experience.
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*Unsolved Mysteries music playing* Update...I've been informed, It wasnt Eric Clapton that evening on the bayou grass at the Houston Centennial, it was in fact America, and my mom would like me to point it wasn't her there with my Pops and I, lol!
Also The Stray Cats were at the Sundance music festival, not the Main St. Arts festival....My bad ppl! Thanks for checking my blog Mom!
posted on June 23, 2007, 10:00 pm
Brian has opened this up on the Forums as well:
http://www.musicemissions.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1818
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posted on April 19, 2007, 2:16 pm
