Back in the day.....

Don't know but if u want I can take u out to watch a show with me ..the show is called "misconceptions of Muslims"

We can get ice cream after ..it would be ur reward :) LOLOL

The Allman Brothers Band at the Nassau Coliseum, Gordon Lightfoot in Jacksonville FL, Jimmy Buffett in Pittsburgh.

I understand islam very well thank you. Not really a desert guy, althoug I admit that we have an ice cream "stand" around here that we nicknamed ice cream disneyworld, because the lines are similar. Rare stand that makes the ice cream from their own herds and rarer to see a stand with parking for over 400 cars.

I would have loved to see the Allman Brothers. One that I missed.

@skibumb. Seriously, the only concert that i went to as a young person was a Willy Nelson concert that was held at a state fair in a cow pasture. It wasn’t until 15 years ago that I met my current wife (20 years younger than me) that I actually attended a real concert. REO Speedwagon, 311, Sublime, Aerosmith and several punk bands in mosh pits. She was born
3 months after I graduated high school, but knew more about my era than I. I think I may have missed out on some fun when I was younger.

I saw Guns N Roses + Aerosmith when I was 16. In college I got to see Blondie, the Ramones, and PIL. My friend won free tickets to it which made it even better.

ZZ Top and The Eagles, but the top of the list Waylon, Willie and the boys. Lots of Jack in the Black bottles laying around after that one, including quite a few damsels in undress.

I'd take Nicole to a concert

I saw the rat pack in Vegas several times in the 70's.

Rolling Stones,Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Steven Stills, Golden Earing, Yes, Traffic, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath. Billy Joel and Gordon Lightfoot at my college.

These are the ones I remember. I had an older sister that worked for the City Manager. It was fairly easy to get tickets back in the 70's through her.

I read Gordon Lightfoot and reminded me that about a month ago I went and saw Tom Rush.
At the old Boston Gahden, I saw Hendricks bring the house down.

We have some overlap, but not a lot. We have very different musical tastes...

I saw the Grateful Dead play with Santana at the UNLV football stadium. That was a fantastic concert. I saw The Ramones often, because that's closer to my tastes...back in the day.

The Clash, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, The Pogues, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Circle Jerks, Social Distortion, Violent Femmes, Bad Religion (saw them again just a few, years ago, still good for old guys...), Siouxsie and the Banshees, Husker Du, Fear...

There's a lot more. Fun times. It's remarkable that I survived.

I've been attending concerts since the mid- to late 1960s, and over the years I have seen so many bands I wouldn't even know where to start in terms of what I recall. I've been to literally hundreds of concerts.

I guess it's notable that I saw Frank Zappa live more than 15 times, starting in 1967, so I guess that makes me a fan. He was, without a doubt, one of the best guitarists I ever saw. Also high on my list of musical memories was getting to see Jimi Hendrix in concert at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago in early 1968. He was with Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, so it was the original Jimi Hendrix Experience. Their second album had just come out, and they were awesome. We had great seats and the tickets were a fairly-steep-at-the-time price of $6.00 each.

Lol. I use to play blackjack on a table next to Chuck Berry while he played slots. He always had these women come up to him and want to touch his purple jacket and white captains hat. They were 70 to 80 year old women. He turned to me and asked me, “why can’t I can’t I have groupies come around me?” I looked at him and said, “Dude, those ARE YOUR GROUPIES!” He just laughed and went back to pushing the slot machine burtons. True story.

I was seeing this girl and while visiting her family in Seattle we took me a dive bar to see this up and coming band, Pearl something or another.

I also saw No Doubt right before their Tragic Kingdom album exploded onto the mainstream.

I would have loved to see Nirvana, Green Day, NWA, Snoop Dogg, Run DMC, before they made it. And all the 90s house DJs...Danny Tenaglia, Cevin Fisher, Doc Martin, Bad Boy Bill.... etc We got so cheated when it comes to music.

At a local concert bar in Lansing, MI I saw a "very young" Kiss (Gene Simmons was driving the U-haul), Argent, The Stooges, and on campus (Michigan State) some group with a guy from Royal Oak (suburb of Detroit) call The Eagles. I miss the 70s.

Elton John/Dave Mason & John Miles at Schaefer Stadium, Springsteen at the Providence Civic Center, James Taylor (Free) in Central Park, Jimmy Buffet on the Boston Commons, Sea Level at the Paradise Boston.

Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, the Doors.

Hendricks in the Garden must have been amazing Gawker. The Garden was a good venue, except on a hot summer night. Saw Aeroamith 5 times, but nothing would be the first: Wayland High School field house. My wife actually was friends with Joe Perry of Aerosmith as kids and his Mom taught gym at her High School. Also saw Boston, but it was different in that they were rehearsing at the Sheraton Tara hotel in Framingham and when I went to pick up my brother at work we met them and they let us and some of the other kitchen help stay and watch.

Perry Como, Andy Williams, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tony Orlando and Dawn

I’ve been to a few concerts over the years, some of my most memorable were Bobby Darin saw him in Vegas the week he collapsed backstage and passed away, Elvis, also in Vegas, and Wayne Newton, The Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden, Simon and Garfunkel in Central Park, athe allman Brothers at the Filmore East, The Doors, at the Fillmore also. Janis Joplin, Smokey Robinson, my all time favorite was Garth Brooks in Central Park he had Gordon Lightfoot come on and do a set with him, and I remember Tony Orlando and Dawn at the Westbury Music fair recently Dion Dimucci, he lives near me, that’s all I can remember right now I’ll post again if others come to mind,

Tony Orlando and Dawn? That’s weird, I always though flagooner was more of a Captain & Tennille fan.

On the other hand, I can totally see flagooner in the audience at a Tom Jones concert screaming and throwing his underwear on stage. I suspect he wears the size XXXXL panties when he goes Tom Jonesing.

In case you are wondering, flagooner in Tom Jones fanboy mode is not a brilliant thing to see. Look away if you are ever dragged to a Tom Jones concert and he is there! ;)

And you had to walk to and from school, uphill both ways, in 4 feet of snow right?

^ don’t forget barefoot to save the only pair of shoes he owned.

Walking to school in 4 feet of snow. You oldsters had it easy.

If you want to talk about a non-brilliant childhood, I had to swim to school. And the lake was liquid nitrogen! Plus, the Captain & Tennille played my senior prom!

^ was the theme Muskrat Love ;)

flagooner was a chaperone at my prom. Seeing him lose it when they played “love will keep us together” scarred me. He rushed the stage! ;)

^ And wore a “muskrat love” t-shirt

Oh, I forgot to mention Tom Jones

Skibum: You provoked another memory or two (almost lost to the other Bud...weiser) frommy distant past. Aerosmith at The Ranch House (Marshfield), Robert Palmer at the Orpheum, Boston at the Rat (BC), and Robin Laine & the Chartbusters and George Thoroughgood & The Destroyers at Westfield State.

Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Ray Charles, The Hollies, The Association, The Turtles, Crosby Stills and Nash, Peter Paul & Mary, Blood Sweat and Tears, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Paul Winter, Dizzy Gillespie, Willie Nelson, Christopherson, Wynton Marsalis, James Taylor, Sly and the Family Stone, Donovan. I am sure there were other big names. Looking back at the list I was lucky to experience some quality groups and artists.,

1969. i saw the byrds in memphis. (free)
1976. fleetwood mac. (free)

There use to be something where I lived as a kid called the Belkin club....tickets at a slight discount available to you before they went on sale to the public. I got to see a lot of great bands that way for what are insanely low cost compared to what people pay today.

And one of the things that I laugh at today are concerts overall. Around here there are so many what I call imposter bands playing the music and trying to look and act like the bands that wrote and originally played the music it's funny. Why would I spend 50 dollars to see the Dubbie Brothers imitate the Doobie Brothers for half that in 1978......and the list of this nonsense is endless.

Now the one small concert venue near me has local musicians playing entire albums from the past and charging 25 dollars to attend......and I have the original album I can play on a decent stereo or in some cases on a Reel to Reel that sounds better than anything that is being offered.

I had planned on seeing the Stones until Jagger took ill.....

About the only person I never have seen that I wanted to is EC. Chances are slim I get the chance now.

I saw the Grateful Dead play at the Oregon Country Fair site back in the 70s. Was about a 100 degrees. Played my lifetime favorite game of frizzby with a couple of long haired topless lasses.

My list is very much like CMI's list. A ton of punk and new wave bands from 1977 -1985. Of all the mosh pits I have ever been in, ironically, the only time I ever really got hurt at a concert was at a Led Zeppelin concert in 1977. They played for all of 10 minutes, there was a brief rain shower, and they were already on the bus. The ensuing riot brought tear gas and billy clubs. I was just trying to get the fuck out of Dodge, someone decided I deserved a wack to the kidney just for being there.

^ Rockie - we saw the ramones at the Rusty Nail in Sunderland and saw BTO in the orpheum on a 97 degree day in Boston. had to be 120 inside. The best freebie concert was the cars in 1976 at the Blue wall on the Umass campus with 45 cent Tuborg drafts and no cover charge lol. Saw the kinks the same year in the fine arts center at Umass which was a 50 yard walk from my frat. State Police, before the concert announced that they were concerned with no burn marks on the new carpet because the BSO was platying the next night and if we agreed to smoke weed in the hallway, they agreed to ignore it. Amazing how life used to function.

76 was the same year I saw the Kinks......Schoolboys in Disgrace tour and they were really on their game that night.

I was lucky and never got hit, stampeded (sp?) or abused in any way at a concert.

My first live concert was Paul Revere and the Raiders outdoors in Utah. One of my last 25 years later was Lyle Lovett outdoors in North Carolina. Perhaps the best was an Elton John Concert where he had no warm up band, started at 8:00 pm and played straight without a break until after midnight or a James Taylor concert in the Marin County Civic Center (a relatively small venue) in the late 1970’s. I have also seen a couple of magical Keith Jarrett concerts — total improv.