Conference mr1pst::music

    I know what you mean.  I always felt I was too young to do any of
    the fun stuff like going to see concerts.  That is what happens
    when you are raised in a strict Catholic family.
    
    My wish list:
    
    The Beatles
    The Band (with Robbie Robertson)
    Cream
    BTO
    Led Zepplin
    
    Mo
                                                    

    Mine....
    
    
    Doors
    Jefferson Airplane
    Quicksilver Messenger Service
    Led Zeppelin
    Byrds
    Buffalo Springfield
    Jimi Hendrix Experience
    Big Brother & The Holding Co.
    Pink Floyd
    Beatles '66 tour, sitting in on rooftoop concert January 1969!
    
    that would be something...
    
    and of course
    
    The Grateful Dead
    
    
    
    
    
    sean.
    

    i had the good fortune to catch three of the bands
    that people have listed here at watkins glen in (73?)
    the band, the grateful dead, and the allman brothers.
    i was 2 or 3 years old at the time ;-).
    watkins glen was one of the best concerts
    i have ever seen.  three monster groups!
    and yes, they did jam at the end.  i fell
    asleep to the combined bands doing hank williams'
    "your cheatin' heart"
    
    i saw jimi hendrix in baltimore in my young days.
    of all the people i have seen and would love to see again,
    jimi hendrix is it.  he was unbelievable.
    i saw the byrds when it was mcguinn and clarence white.
    
    willie 'feeling old' ewing
    
    

    Well, there are a few deceased rock stars that would like to have seen,
    but didn't, but it wasn't because I was too young at the time.  I was
    old enough, but still managed to miss them before they departed this
    world.
    
    I would like to have seen:
    
    1) Jimi Hendrix
    2) Janis Joplin
    3) John Lennon solo  (I did see The Beatles in 1966)
    
    The only stars I can think of that was actually too young to see are:
    
    1) Buddy Holly (and friends - Richie Valens, Big Bopper)
    2) Patsy Cline
    3) Glen Miller???  :-)
    
    
    Lorna
    

     You might wanna forget the first Yes tour, John...
    
    A buddy of mine caught them at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, CT as they
    did a 30 minute opener for:
    
    
    Grand Funk Railroad, at the time riding the success of "Closer To Home".

    In no certain order:
    
    -original Velvet Underground with John Cale and Nico
    -Quicksilver Messenger Service with John Cippolina and Gary Duncan
    -Grateful Dead before 1968
    -electric Bob Dylan in 65-66 with the Band
    -Buffalo Springfield with Neil Young
    -Moby Grape before the Columbia Records release party
    -The 66-67 Who tours

    
    -Doors
    -Steppenwolf
    -Cream
    -Beatles
    		
    		fred deady

    
    In addition to the bands for which I was too young, were bands I hadn't 
    really discovered until too late:
    
      o Grand Funk Railroad (was that a slam, .5 :^) ?)
      o Creedence Clearwater Revival
      o original Black Sabbath (although they're still talkin')
      o BTO (popular choice)
      o Guess Who
      
    
    Bands I was putting in that category until (in parens):
    
      o Moody Blues (regrouped for "Ocatave")
      o King Crimson (regrouped for "Discipline"_
      o Steely Dan (last year's Rock'n'Soul Review and THIS FRIDAY at Great
        Woods!!!!!!!!!!!!)
    
    - Sean
    

    > Steppenwolf
    
    Although John Kay is the only remaining original member, the band can
    pretty easily be found today.
    
    Edd

	The Doors
	The Beatles
	Canned Heat
	Janis Joplin
	CCR
	Pink Floyd w/Waters
	The Moody Blues, pre-"Octave"

Bands/artists that I wanted to see, figured I'd never see, but eventually did 
see, post-1989:

	The Rolling Stones
	Jefferson Airplane
	The Who
	Pink Floyd (no Waters :^/ )
	Country Joe McDonald (no Fish)
	The Band (no Robbie R.)
	Joan Baez

    How about bands you saw but they were so awful you couldn't believe it?
    
    Alice Cooper (Billion $ Babies tour)
    Steve Miller Band
    Yes (after Soporific Oceans)
    Dream Syndicate (after Karl Precoda traded his Harmony in for a Les Paul)
    Del Fuegos (before they learned to play guitars)
    Del Fuegos (after they learned to play guitars) 
    Fabulous Thunderbirds (after they went top 40)
    Liz Story (I actually fell asleep in the middle of her set)
    
    One I'm sorry I missed:
    
    Lowell George in Hartford CT, I passed on going, he died two days later
    
    							Brian

    >>  How about bands you saw but they were so awful you couldn't 
    >>  believe it?
    
    Mountain.  I guess they were OK until Leslie West decided to do a one
    hour feedback solo.
    

Led Zeppelin - 1973 or earlier
Yes 	     - On the Yessongs Tour
Grand Funk   - Yeah .5 was that a slam?
Blue Cheer   - why not?
Chicago      - Before Chicago IV

    Re: .5, Grand Funk
    
    Well, partly a slam  8^)
    
    The idea was that the first Yes tour had them doing short opening sets
    on mismatched bills so missing it was probably not much of a loss...
    
    As far as GFR, well, if someone gives you something, brother, don't
    take it!  
    
    Actually, the post-Terry Knight outfit wasn't too bad a band at all.
    Then, of course, there was the "Flint" album....
    
    							Brian

    
    Under 'bands that you saw that were so bad, etc.:'
    
    	-Sir Lord Baltimore
    	-Hampton Grease Band
    	-Steppenwolf (they weren't that bad, but Brian Auger/Julie Driscoll
    		     and Trinity opened for them, and I guess they were just 
    		     demoralized--that and most folks began leaving)
    	-The Collectors
    	-Black Sabbath (first tour, and only time I saw them. Ew.)
    	-Hawkwind
    	-Free
    	-Jerry Hahn Brotherhood
    	-Teagarden and VanWinkle
    	
    Performers I was too young to see, but wish I could have:
    
    	-Ventures (at the time they released 'Pedal Pusher'-about 1965)
    	-Beatles
    	-The Big Bopper
    	-The Shadows
    	-Music Machine

    Bands I'm glad I saw:
    	Jefferson Airplane ('Pillow tour !)
    	The Who (~'68 Magic Bus & twice since including first Tommy in USA !!!)
    	Cream (They were incredible !)
    	Velvet Underground (I didn't think Nico ever appeared live with
    		them. Maureen "Start me up" Tucker was there though.)
    	The Pretenders (not "Honeyman", but they sounded soooooooooo good)
    	Pat Benatar (first album !)
    	Foghat 
    	Devo (Just to be able to say I did.)
    	Van Halen (Just to be able to say I did.)
    	Face To Face
    	Horslips (practically a private showing, but they were good !)
    	The Rings
    	Al Stewart (Great sound at the Paradise)
    
    Biggest disappointments:
    	Frank Zappa (He recorded a "live" instrumental album.....yawn.)
    	New Order
    
    "Close ones" I missed:
    	The Beatles '64 (cost $4, I only had $3 !)
    	The Amboy Dukes (I got to see Ted Nugent's sound check, but
    couldn't stay in town for the show.)
    	"Jimmy Page's Nwe Band" (Led Zep) at the T-Party (I got invited,
    just said, "naaah, they're probably just another Brittish blues band
    with the ex-bass player from the Yardbirds.)
    	The Yardbirds (w/Page, Clapton & Beck. having missed this one, how
    could I get excited about "Jimmy Page's Nwe Band" ?)
    
    Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh !
     I can't do this anymore !!!!!!!!!!
    
    Paul	

    Bands I wish I'd seen:
    
    
    The Mothers of Invention ('64-69)
    Jimi Hendrix
    Doors
    Beatles
    The Kinks ('64-'75)
    Stackridge
    The Move
    Bonzo Dog Band
    Cream
    Gentle Giant...
    
    (I'm sure there's plenty more...)
    
    
    H

    Bands I missed - 
    
    	Doors,
    	Sex Pistols
    	Bob Marley
    	Pink Floyd  - (any hope yet)
    	Byrds 
    	Jimi Hendrix
    	The Who
    	Black Uhuru (original)
    	Damned  (early)
    	Killing Joke
    	Spear Of Destiny
    	
    
    
    					Stuart

    My freshman year of college there was some band playing in the gym one
    Saturday night, but I never heard of them so I didn't go.  They were
    Blood, Sweat and Tears.
    
    Dave

    
    Blood, Sweat and Tears: Very first band I ever saw live. Well, sorta.
    My brother told me that I slept in the middle of the first song until
    they woke me up when it was time to go home. I was 11 and I had
    travelled all night the previous night to come to Syracuse NY all the
    way from Turkey.
    
    Years later, when I got to know their music a little, I felt terrible
    having slept throughout their concert.
    
    I am Kate Thompson and I was there.
    

    Don't feel bad, Lale; I was born in Syracuse and slept through my
    entire childhood.  %^)
    
    Dave

    Wish I had made it to Woodstock. sigh. Growing up in California,
    I didn't even know about the great concert in the mud until it
    was a movie.  
    
    I made up for it though three years ago by renting the movie and
    having a 20th anniversary Woodstock party complete with posters,
    clothes and talk of the 60s. The fondue was great. 
    
    Jodi- 

    Woodstock probably would have been fun. I do remember reading
    about it in the paper and thinking that sliding around in the
    mud sounded like a good idea. This event happended on my 11th
    birthday, Aug. 16th. Now however unless I had a room in a nice
    Bed and Breakfast forget it. I've lost my call of the wild.
    
    I did go to a 10th anniversary concert in Clairmont N.H. A few
    decent bands were there, Country Joe and the Fish, Richie Havens,
    etc... The best part was the electric koolaid and the fact that
    the weather was beautiful. 
    
    Hendrix is #1 whom I'd like to have seen
    
    The Doors
    
    Cream
    
    Janis Joplin
    
    Many other 60's bands which have been mentioned or are otherwise
    pretty obscure.
    
    I would've also liked to have attended a Ken Kesey Trip festival or
    one of his parties in Big Sur.
    
    Jim C.
    

	Re: .1
	>>That is what happens
	>>when you are raised in a strict Catholic family.

	You said it.  I'm with ya.  8^)


	Allman Brothers
	Cream
	Janis Joplin




	

    re .6, I did see Bob Dylan in 1965.  He could actually sing back then!! 
    
    
    The Rolling Stones were my first concert, ever, in 1965.  They were
    great.
    
    I wish I had gone to Woodstock.  I was old enough, but too out of it at
    the time, I guess.
    
    Lorna
    

    i went to woodstock.
    we decided at the last minute to blow off work and go.
    terry guerrette and i jumped in his triumph and took off.
    i had planned to meet my college roommate there.  he said,
    we have a tent with a big orange omega sign.  you can't
    miss us :-).
    well we got within ten miles and abandoned the car.
    needless to say we never found college roommate.
    we heard (too far away to see) arlo guthrie and joan baez,
    as i recall.
    it was raining and we were soaked and not prepared.  
    we said, f*ck this and went back to the car, which we
    got to at 6 the next morning.
    
    if i had known it was the defining moment of an entire generation,
    i would have stuck it out ;-)
    
    

    I went and saw the entire Saturday performers from about 100 feet
    from the stage. There were many great sets but one that stood out
    as the pinnacle:




                        SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE


    YYYEEEEEOWWWWWWWW!

    They tore that place up, down and sideways, at 3:00 AM sunday morning
    no less. Nobody turned the crowd on like Sly did that day(night). That
    set could not be topped. The place was jumpin' and that band was
    pumpin out "I Want To Take You Higher"! They actually made the place
    shake.

    They were followed by The Who (doing Tommy as the sun rose behind the
    stage) and the Jefferson Airplane, the last Saturday performance (which
    commenced 7:00 AM Sunday).


    --Ron

    
    Sly and The Family Stone were an awesome band.  I saw them in 
    Providence in 1968 and they really got the crowd pumped. In fact,
    there was a major riot afterwards.  I managed to boogie out there
    amid the sounds of gunshots and police sirens.  Great band though,
    and their tunes still sound great in retrospect.  I also managed
    to have a front row seat for Jimi Hendrix at Clark University back
    in 1967.  Another unbelievable show !  The sound from just the three
    of them was incredible & full.  The one thing that really impresses 
    me about Jimi is his ability to be singing or talking, and playing 
    these really unique, off-the-wall licks simultaneously with seemingly
    no effort.  Some of the other bands I saw back then were Vanilla Fudge 
    and Big Brother & The Holding Company together on one bill at WPI in 
    Worcester, Ten Years After, The Jefferson Airplane, Mountain, The Paul
    Butterfield Blues Band, John Mayall when they still had Mick Taylor on
    guitar, the Beach Boys, the Yardbirds when they had Jeff Beck, Jimmy
    Page, and Keith Relf on vocals (awesome band),  the Animals, Sam the 
    Sham and the Pharaohs, BB King, Albert King, and Doctor John.  
    
     Janis Joplin & BB Holding company were actually pretty bogus. JJ was 
    fried and put on quite a spectacle bopping around on stage with her 
    bottle of Jack Daniels or whatever it was that she was drinking.  She 
    was basically a minimum of talent, but a lot of raw emotion. 
    
    Lv
     

I always thought the highlight of the Woodstock album was Sly...

You can feel the emotion from that set, even today.  Whoever engineered those
tapes knew his stuff.  I thought it was done by Eddie Cramer, but can't remember
now.

Tim

    One concert I would have like to have been there for.....
    
    
    Monterey Pop Festival 1967 June 16/17/18
    
    now that would have been a Blast!
    
    

    RE: .28 by HIDEOA::VIGNEAULT

    Lv,

    My brother and I were set to go to that Jimi Hendrix at Clark University
    show in 1967. I came down with strepp throat so he took some of my
    friends. I was really bummed out. (Did we have this conversation
    already?)

    I also agree whole heartedly about Janis Joplin. Everybody always
    laments that her death was a waste. As far as I'm concerned, so wasn't
    her life. I saw her with the Full Tilt Boogie Band at Woodstock. All in
    all, it was a fair to middling set but basically because the band was
    pretty good.

    --Ron

    Concerts I'm glad I went to:
    
    Lynyrd Skynrd - just after the release of "Street Survivors" and just
     		    prior to the crash
    
    Little Feat   - front row seats in the Orpheum Theatre on the
    		    "Waiting for Columbus" tour prior to Lowells demise
    
    Concerts I wish I missed:
    
    Bad Company   - circa 1977-78, the original Bad CO. - they S*cked!!!
    
    Ten Years Later - circa 1980 at the Fitchburg theatre (in lovely,
                      scenic Fitchburg, MA...  ;^)... worse than Bad CO
    
    
    /Billy_K
    

    re: .31
    
     Nope, hadn't heard the story, but you missed a great show !. I had 
    tickets for the 8:00 show, there was one at 10:30 as well.  If you
    remember, he was late for the show and the first show didn't actually
    start until 10:00.  By then I was right at the door with my hand on
    the lever waiting for it to open.  Awesome show !  The price if I 
    remember correctly was $6.50 a ticket.  Clark Univ. used to have some
    great concerts, and the hall was small enough that there was a fairly
    intimate atmosphere between audience & performers.  I don't remember 
    ever paying more than $10 bucks to go to a concert then.  Yes, maybe
    I'm being nostalgic, but I absolutely refuse to pay the ridiculous
    prices that they ask for concerts nowadays. 
    
    Lv
     

    
    How about an "I knew them when" list.  You know, bands that you saw in
    concert before anybody really heard of them and then later they became
    supergroups:
    
    I saw HEART just after they came out with their "Dreamboat Annie" LP.
    	I saw them in a small hall, max capacity = 500, and the ticket's
        were $3.00.
    
    I saw BLUE OYSTER CULT when they were one of the opening acts for (I
        think it was) Thin Lizzie.  Also on the bill was the Straubs, if
        anybody remembers them.
    
    I saw KANSAS before they had an LP out.  They opened for Queen.
    
    I went to a "Yes" concert (they were bigtime by then) where the opening
        act was a band called "Elf".  I don't think "Elf" made it all that
        big but they did have a lead singer by the name of RONNIE JAMES DIO
        as in "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow" and "Black Sabbath" and 
        of course....DIO.
    
    		Anybody else have any they've seen before they were big?
    
    -=Dave=-
    
    
    

re: .34
    
>    How about an "I knew them when" list.  You know, bands that you saw in
>    concert before anybody really heard of them and then later they became
>    supergroups:
    
I saw Bruce Springsteen as the opening act for Chicago.  Probably was
sometime in the mid-70s.

   Back in '83 - The band that I was in at the time, had backed up a band 
called The Dream. Later they became Ex Dream, or .... Extreme.


cLeM

When I was at Ohio University (68-72), James Taylor used to play solo
at "The Cavern," the coffeehouse in the basement of the student union.
I went so often that I got burned out on his music and didn't listen 
to it for years. 

Now, my wife's a big JT fan and whenever we go to his concerts, I wish 
we could travel back in time.

Barry

    Peter Frampton, as an opening act for Edgar Winter, well before
    Frampton Comes Alive. The Who in a High School show in Southfield,
    Michigan about 1968-69. Rod Stewart promoting his Gasoline Alley
    album.
    
    	fred deady

    As mentioned elsewhere; I saw Cheap Trick's first gig, EVER!
    Followed their career until about sixth album or so....
    
    Bill Message
    

    I saw Aerosmith open for The Kinks in college circa 1973.  They stunk
    but we knew they'd be HUGE one day!
    
    Also saw Humble Pie (w/Peter Frampton) open for Grand Funk Railroad
    circa 1971.
    
    Fredda,

    Back in the 70s a friend of mine had a band called Renegade that
    frequently played colleges. This Aerosmith band played the opening set
    for them one night. (And, ironically, Aerosmith has gone on to be a
    teensy weensy bit more successful than my buddy's band.) Aerosmith held
    an obvious advantage in the "frontman's lips" catagory. I think that's
    whot didit.

    --rjb

    I saw the Dixie Dregs back in 75 before they were even called that,
    and before anyone outside of Florida knew that Steve Morse was the
    one true god of guitar.
    
    They were performing around U. of Miami as the "University of Miami
    Jazz/Rock Ensemble".
    
    The first time I saw them was when I was walking to class past "The
    Patio" (an outdoor area in the student union where LOTS of famous
    acts have played) and I was, obviously, blown away.
    
    Although my recollection was that I had a mid-term that day, my feet
    would not take me to class.  I *had* to stay and hear the band.
    
    I knew then and there that this guitar player was going to be a major
    force in the world of guitar.  OF course, since then he's become only
    the 2nd person to ever win Guitar Player Magazines "Best Overall"
    category 5 times straight!  (Steve Howe is the other player to do
    that).
    
    	db

    I got to see some acts that are of the "popular then and classic now"
    category:
    
    Jimi Hendrix in 1968 (I think) at the Va Beach Dome....GREAT show.
    
    Led Zep at the Hampton Coliseum in 1971....they stunk up the
    place....dissapointing.  But I was the only sober person there...I
    wanted good tone, acoustics, tight arrangments; drug induced slopiness
    was the actual delivery.
    
    Steve (got to see Jimi!)
    

I encountered Steve Morse not too long after db's close encounter - around
'76 or '77, I think.  The Dregs had one or two(?) albums out but real fame 
hadn't quite struck yet.  

I was never a hotshot performer but I used to teach private lessons and I 
got a lot of students who performed small-time and wanted to strengthen their 
technique or learn a little classical stuff.  Steve walked into the nearest 
guitar shop and asked for someone to help him with his classical technique 
and some idiot referred him to me.

I had seen him play in a little bar a few months earlier but didn't recognize
him or the name.  So he sat down in my studio and actually auditioned for me
- on my guitar! (Does that make it a collectable?).  When I regained my 
composure and got over the motion sickness, I asked him what his band was 
called.  

When I realized who he was and told him he was already one of the best players 
I had ever heard, he actually blushed.  

Within a year after that, he was voted "Best Overall" for the first time.

Bob

Oh, by the way, I didn't teach him anything.  :^)   I sent him to a real 
classical teacher who snottily refused to teach him because he kept scragging 
his middle fingernail playing those pick harmonics.  I think he gave up on
classical training, at least for a while(?)  I'm sure db knows.