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CONCERTS- your First, your Worst, your Greatest & your Latest.

posted 9 years ago by TheReturnofCountSuckula
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First Ray Charles & the Raylettes in central park, NYC. with special guest Billy Preston. It was part of the great Schaefer beer "Summer in the Park" series in Central park, NYC. It was great b/c you bring your blanket, your pic-a-nic basket, your bottle of whatever, and pay your 2 BUCKS and enjoy the show under the stars.

I was 14 years old. I fell in love with the smokin' hot Raylettes. And I was instantly a live music fan forever.

p.s. Billy Preston had THE biggest afro in the history of afros, lol! I swear it had to be at least 4 feet in diameter.

Worst - Bad Company/ Jacksonville, Florida 1976 .
Th e band was good, but drunken, underage, teenage, redneck, idiots kept fighting, throwing empty beer bottles, and shooting off fireworks until the band had had enough and cut the show short.

Latest Bob Dylan/ at Univ of Alabama homecoming.

Greatest Led Zep at the historic Madison Square Garden concert the night their concert receipts were ripped off.

Your turn...

"Stick with me, baby, and you'll be fartin' thru silk."

[–] drsuess88x 9 years ago

First: Sonny and Cher
Worst: Herman's Hermits
Greatest: Sha Na Na / The Beach Boys / Billy Preston (Tied)
Latest: The Temptations

[–] TheReturnofCountSuckula 9 years ago

*bump*

"Stick with me, baby, and you'll be fartin' thru silk."

[–] BaseBallZombies 9 years ago

First: Operation Rock and Roll in 1991 with Judas Priest, Alice Cooper and Motorhead...Triple bill with those three for my first concert was amazing!

Worst: Ted Nugent 1999...Normally I don't mind a loud show but this was overbearing and just plain bad...

Latest: Black Sabbath at the United Center in January...Very impressed with this show and they played Hand of Doom for the first time since the early '70s...

Greatest: Fare Thee Well at Soldier Field last July 3rd, 4th and 5th...Went to all three shows and it was the greatest three days of my life...The Grateful Dead is my all time favorite band and to see them 20 years after I went to the last Dead show with Jerry Garcia was beyond amazing...

You idiots! These are not them. You've captured their stunt doubles!

[–] St-Mihiel 9 years ago

First - 1975 RUSH, Angel & Max Webster...$5.50 on ticket stub I still have
Worst - The Grateful Dead at Carrier Dome Syracuse, c '83...they were FINE, I was given a free ticket, in the absolute farthest rear seat of huge venue (band was smaller than ants & sound was mud back there), I was alone, stone sober, and not a big fan anyway.
Latest - NIN & Soundgarden 2014 (not counting club shows) The opening act Death Grips broke up (temporarily as it seems) right before that tour...what numbskulls
Greatest - Radio Birdman reunion tour, Irving Plaza NYC - Never thought I'd see these 1970s Australian legends...dream come true!

[–] TheReturnofCountSuckula 9 years ago

"Bump it on down the road."

"Stick with me, baby, and you'll be fartin' thru silk."

[–] highschoolkiller 9 years ago

first: whitney houston
worst: the spice girls
Latest: Korn
Greatest: any SlipKnot concert, Slayer, Korn

I hated Jaws, it had too much shark, and dont get me started about King Kong, waaay too much gorilla

[–] jeaton-01751 9 years ago

First- Kinks 1977
Worst- John Couger Mellencamp MSG Speaeker system wasn't working and he stopped the show 35 minutes into it
Greatest- New York Dolls, The Clash & The Who at Shea Stadium 1983
Springsteen at Barclay center 2016.

[–] Kompressor_Fan 9 years ago

First: KISS 1976

Worst: Heart - Bebe le Strange Tour.....lead singer was so drunk she even fell down on stage

Greatest: Stevie Nicks 1983 - Wild Heart Solo Tour - A magical night

Latest: I have no idea.

[–] MtxMind 9 years ago

Worst: Heart - Bebe le Strange Tour.....lead singer was so drunk she even fell down on stage

Saw them as headliners at a Day on the Green that tour.Left about 3/4ths of the way thru.Ann was singing out of key the whole time & was obviously F.U.B.A.R.Nancy seemed to be just "phoning" it in.I think they were both going thru break-ups with their boyfriends/band members at the time.

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[–] Kompressor_Fan 9 years ago

I was sitting in the side seating....so I could see the stage, and the area just immediately backstage. Ann was going back there and chugging from what was obviously a liquor bottle between songs. By the end, she was just blotto. She tripped and fell on the guitarist in mid-song, which sent them both to the floor, then gets up and screams at him on stage, as if this was somehow his fault.

I left feeling like I had been completely ripped off. Worst concert ever! Such disrespect for the fans and the time/money we laid out to see her perform.

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[–] MtxMind 9 years ago

Best Joe Jackson recording Big World 1986 Roundabout Theater

Awesome! Would've loved to be there."Big World" was one of his best albums w/o his original band.

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[–] saturnchick 9 years ago

First: New Kids on the Block, Madison Square Garden, November 1990

Worst: Green Day, Madison Square Garden, circa 2009 and Aerosmith, Jones Beach Amphitheater, circa 2004

Latest: Paul McCartney, Met Life Stadium, August 2016

Greatest: No Doubt, Hammerstein Ballroom, February 2003 and Paul McCartney, Yankee Stadium, July 2011

Screws fall out all of the time. The world's an imperfect place.

[–] asc85 9 years ago

Absolutely love the idea of this thread, and enjoyed reading what others had to say.

Most have limited their selections to one, which is difficult to do, but I will do so:

FIRST: Emerson Lake and Palmer - December, 1977 Nassau Coliseum on the Works Volume II tour. They were my favorite band growing up, so as you can imagine, it was a super thrill, and a great show.

WORST: Blondie - Summer, 1979 in Asbury Park, NJ - Right before "Eat to the Beat" was released. They absolutely couldn't have cared less, and were just going through the motions. The first and only time I ever saw people walking out of a show. If I've seen other bands going through the motions, then at least they hid it well from me.

LATEST: I wasn't even going to bother, as it was in 1999, but since others listed "last" shows earlier than that, then OK. I think it was The Moody Blues in Atlantic City.

GREATEST: Heart - Winter, 1979 - Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ - Opening night of the second leg of their "Dog and Butterfly" tour. I read an article once in Rolling Stone that said any group can be the world's greatest rock'n roll band for one night. That night, I believe I saw that in Heart. I was a so-so fan of theirs until this show, when I became a big fan. It was a small venue (around 3,000), and because it was opening night of the second leg of their tour, they were pumped up. Added Bonus #1 - I think that was the first time they ever performed Zeppelin's "Rock'n Roll", which they did as an encore, and just about brought the house down. Added Bonus #2 - Coming out for the Encore, Ann Wilson gets attacked by an overzealous fan climbing onto the stage, and was subsequently pulled off by roadies, who did God-knows-what to him backstage.

[–] exaybachay84 9 years ago

First: I was 11 when I saw a local bluegrass/country outfit. They had banjos, a steel guitar and all that stuff. Other than that, I'd say Depeche Mode in 2001. It was a great concert during which I felt the rush of being a part of such a big gig for the first time.

Worst: Battles, 2008. The guitarist was so strung out on heaven's high he could barely play at all. At one point he even put away his instrument, lit a cigarette and began wandering across the stage, visibly disoriented. It was like showing a big F to the audience.

Greatest: There were many great gigs I'd attended: Autechre (three times), Aphex Twin & Krzysztof Penderecki, Amon Tobin, The Cure, Bauhaus, DJ Shadow, TV On The Radio, Massive Attack, but the greatest was David Bowie in 2002. That was in Berlin and the man performed two of his albums in their entirety: "Low" (1977) and "Heathen" (his then latest). Plus a handful of hits and some obscure songs that resulted in a 3 hour show. Mind you, he was 55 at that time. I saw Bowie a year later and it was an equally marvellous experience.

Latest: Richard Devine, 2016. An electronic music producer, a master of synthesis and a modular synthesizers virtuoso. To make matters sweeter, the concert took place in a modern Philharmonic Hall.

I'd love to see Radiohead, Boards of Canada and Timber Timbre live. And Coil but that won't happen for obvious reasons.

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