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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 20, 2007 - 01:16am PT
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New Year's Eve 1974 -- Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Coliseum-- Bob Seeger and Ted Nugent in a Battle of the Guitars. Seegar won. Couldn't hear for three days after.
Priceless!
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Dec 20, 2007 - 01:38am PT
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Me Dancing, playing-either the Dead or Los Lobos..Somewhere,I have a bunch of old tickets stubs.
Ok, not all Rock n'roll...
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Dec 20, 2007 - 01:42am PT
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Fugazi--1992, $6.00, the Anaconda in Isla Vista, CA.
Man, I love the true punk mentality.
Cheap, never-ending mosh-pit, YOWZA.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 20, 2007 - 02:24am PT
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Amazing stuff, too much to even comment on... Scuff, where you AT that 1/68 show? Jimi, Janis, Albert, nobody can ask that much of life, espescially for under n,$!
I was at the 'Who's Dead' Concert, (Grateful Dead, and the Who [obscure brit band with wind mill armswinging lead guitarist]) Oaktown Colonsee'um oct 9(?)1976. Pretty sure we got two tickets and a T-shirt for under $20.
btw, I'n eye be downloading all those dead links in the by 'n' by. Gathering what wasn't even spilled.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 20, 2007 - 02:33am PT
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Moj, I saw X, with, the world's grestest Kissers, (what ever happened to them?)in Reno circa, '95. Drank maybe 10 G & Ts. ran the Mammoth marathon two days later. Felt every Gin and Tonic, as I crossed that finish line...
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 20, 2007 - 02:48am PT
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Dylan - Hard Rain @ Fort Collins, May 23, 1976 - $16;
Climbing at Horsetooth before the show - $0;
Being fifty feet from Scarlet Rivera while tripping - priceless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rssxrTmpm48
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Dec 20, 2007 - 03:10am PT
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Jaybro, I've seen X about three times, last time..late 90's at- The Crest Theater in Sacto before they renovated. These days it's probably easier to catch the Knitters..I've seen them for free -several times lately. Band is usually- John Doe,Exene, Bonebrake and Dave Alvin...no Billy Zoom... They are Great Fun!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PPuQPJLxW8o&feature=related
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Dec 20, 2007 - 07:22am PT
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Backstage in Philadelphia for The Who......like we had seats behind the stage...lol.Saw them from the front once too.
Genesis,Jackson Browne,Orleans(Great),Blondie,and god knows who all at those monster concerts they used to have at the Spectrum
I too saw ST favorite Eddie Money on tour #1 and it was great.
7th row sit down for Beck at Spectrum on Blow by Blow tour and that was unbelieveable.Beck was like 2 guitarists.
Date stood me up so did not see Skynyrd,right before the crash,woe is me....
Frampton.We used to go to this little theatre in Cementon Pa. that got big acts sometimes.Saw him there and a big venue later.
Several Cheap tricks.Couldn't hear after them....
J.Geils once on a whim,was outstanding.
And Springsteen all around Jersey.
Both Winter brothers,Edgar and Johnny.
Oh Yeah !! Joe Walsh was the first concert.Eagles too.
Thin Lizzy.
Tim Mcgraw in Vegas was pretty great too.Tradchick and I saw Roger Waters last year and it was like going back in time...
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Dec 20, 2007 - 01:09pm PT
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World Music, not Rock, but Womad Seattle was a great deal when it was running in the late 90'-2002. $65 for the whole weekend with 6 or 7 stages. A few people I saw there: Youssou N'Dour, Peter Gabriel, Afro Celt Soundsystem, Ali Farka Toure, Bonnie Raite, Thomas Mapfumo, Joan Baez.
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Dec 20, 2007 - 02:46pm PT
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Yeah, Jaybro, I was at those shows and lots more. Just gave two
examples of the 3-band 3-buck ballroom scene.
Seeing Cream at the Fillmore, the crowd was sparse enough that I
could walk up to the stage and watch Clapton from 3 feet away.
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the Fet
Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
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Dec 20, 2007 - 07:16pm PT
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Cool thread, I was just thinking about scanning all my old tix.
Things were reasonable until the late 90s. 80s was still under $15. 90s got up to $25 to $35.
Then the greedy ass Rolling "lame" Stones jumped to $55 in about 1995. I almost canceled my purchase while on the phone to ticketmaster but went anyway. They performed well, but not worth it. Prices kept going up since then, and I've seen far less concerts.
VH is in Oakland Saturday. $60+ for cheap seats, $175 for floor and lower level, you kidding me??? I'm going to go to the parking lot and score some tickets for under face, since there's lot's of tickets floating around that people need to get rid of.
Funny that Hannah Montana is the hot, sold old concert this year, but VH still has tix available.
It will be interesting to see if Led Zep tours what will happen. I saw them on the Page and Plant tour (1995?) and was suprised that I was able to hit Cal Expo just before the doors opened and still got 2nd row in the pit.
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the Fet
Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
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Dec 20, 2007 - 07:24pm PT
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On another note anyone scored some cool stuff from the musicians?
I've got a few guitar picks, but my best was seeing Blues Traveler at the fillmore. I hadn't heard of them before the show. I was blown away and loved em. This was just before they broke big with runaound.
And the end of the show John Popper's walking off the stage and looks me in the eye (I was 1st row), I gave him a big thumbs up. He stops reaches into his pocket pulls out a harmonica and tosses it right to me. I still play it.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 20, 2007 - 08:27pm PT
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On another note anyone scored some cool stuff from the musicians?
I interviewed Brownsville Station and Ted Nugent for the Evansville North High School North Star.
Those guys from Brownsville Station were out having the time of their lives. They were headlining, just having had their big hit Smoking in the Boy's Room.
My article was a big hit, though it failed to elevate me above dweeb status.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 20, 2007 - 10:56pm PT
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A brilliant clip, Nita. I think it's those tight, minor chord, almost atonal, harmonies(among other things) that made, X and, seemingly, the knitters. Very cool stuff!
Mr Smooth, you continue to amaze me, wonder if Fred caught that one? I will direct him. His kind of story.
One time, when I was underage, my brother (Chasbro, the articulate lawyer) talked the bouncers that be, into letting Michele (Natalie's Mom) and I (we were both younger then than Natalie is now, 17 I believe)into an Elvyn Bishop Show at the Keystone™ in Berkeley. Gideon and Power (anyone remember him? he truly rocked!) was warmup. Halfway through EB's first set a guy stood up from the table next to us and joined the band;
"Here's my buddy, Dickie Betts!"
After a scortching solo, Mr Bishop fanned his hat in front of the betts guitar, to cool it off (fifteen years later I saw him do that for Jerry)
Now that, was part of the days 'those days', are made of. fortunately they still occur now and then!
$2 cover / $3 pitchers
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 21, 2007 - 12:04am PT
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Never had the forethought to save my stubs. Damn.
But some of the best memories are available on disc because I used to regularly go to the Fillmore East where tickets ran $4.50 and, for the better seats, $5.50.
Santana, 4th row center comes to mind.
B. B. King blew the house down.
CSN&Y performed cultural icons.
The New Riders opened for the Dead and Jerry played all night.
Ike and Tina put the show on.
Free's live renditions sounded even better than the studio versions.
Buddy Miles was a great performer.
But absolutely, positively the best regular weekend bill was in April , '71 when Elvin Bishop was followed by Johnny Winter who was followed by,..... (well on the saturday there was a bomb scare that emptied the place before,.....) yeah baby; The Allman Brothers Band.
On the night of the scare Elvin Bishop brought out Dickey Betts and Duane Allman for a jam.
That "night" I got home at 6:30 and got busted by my mom, but it didn't stop me from going back to see the Allman Brothers close the house for all time that June.
Closed to the public on the final night I used my climbing skill to get in, but thats another story,..
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Dec 21, 2007 - 01:10am PT
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Fet, I took my Dick Dale cd to a show of his at Toe's Tavern in Santa Barbara, and not only got a pick, but got my disc-case personalized. He seems like a class-act all the way around.
The pick is like a .90 (or higher) gauge smoothie. Also heard that his high E-string is like .18 or something crazy like that--heavy duty.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 21, 2007 - 01:25am PT
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Chasbro has, framed on his wall, a Newspaper(?) photo of B.B King from a concert he was in attendence to. With the stub, $7.50(?)
play it lucille.
Post it, C-bro!
I recently heard an archival Dick Dale interview on Freshair™ it was amazing when he spoke of the gauge of the 'strings' he uses on his guitars, 747 flap wires, or something
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 21, 2007 - 01:33am PT
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So, anyone here see the Beatles - live? Not me - way before my time. Though I saw them on the Ed Sullivan show when I was teeny.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 21, 2007 - 01:59am PT
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This young lady did, Anders
If my math is right, she, you, and I were all in high school at roughly the same time, They have HS in Canada, right?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 21, 2007 - 02:08am PT
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I remember things called "high" and "school". Sometimes they were held in the same igloo. One day we were shown "Reefer Madness" in "guidance" class - after lunch. Guess what a lot of students did at lunch time? It certainly seem to enhance their appreciation of the movie.
Not me - I was too busy memorizing the latest issue of Mountain magazine, concealed inside some more innocuous book. And playing hooky, hitching to Squamish and going climbing. I missed graduation, and climbed the Grand Wall instead.
ps Ok, I give up. Who's the hottie?
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