Grateful Dead

No regrets Bra, it was all good. First show was Kiss and the Rockets. Laughable now, but learned a lot about going to shows, especially general admission shows.....It’s all R&R, and like you said, compared to much today, even that cheesy shit kicked comparative ass as far as the R&R factor, so member on my friend! FYI, just got turned on to a great new band: Nate Rateliff and the Night Sweats Look on YouTube for their vid of S.O.B./Shape I’m in from 2013..... Have checked out 3 or 4 of their songs so far, all great, no one hit wonder here..... Someone described them as if The Band and Sam and Dave had a love child, and that is and apt description......

B.O.C., KISS, terrible ted, purple, yee gads I think Jim needs to fire up that way back machine, we can mow some member berries, put on our leather pants and try to worm Tacks chicks down by that old Franki Avalon house........Careful though, between that lumbo, the schnappster, and hangin with China Kantner, next thing you know your seeing that eyeball right when Don’t Fear peaks........whhhhoooooaaaaa

Loved the original Deep Purple, Richie was a monster with his instrument. I first saw them back in 1973, they headlined a great show with ZZ top as the openers, right before tres hombres was released, they played so hard and it was so hot Dusty passed out. Then Blue Oyster Cult, all decked out in leather, rode a harley on stage and played Born to Be Wild as their encore. Then Savoy Brown Kim Simmons is another underrated player, they tore the roof off the place, Hellbound Train was a monster, they thru out copies of the Jack the Toad lp to the crowd. Then Deep Purple hit the stage, their instruments had been stolen the night before and had to borrow Savoy Brown's. Richie could not make that les paul sound like he wanted it to, so he tore it to pieces and threw it out into the crowd, the entire time it was still plugged in. I will Never for get that.

Parched land,No desert sand, Sun was just a dot. And a little bit of water goes a long way, 'cause it's hot...

https://youtu.be/qr082tYOwho...and why not?

First stadium show for me, at age15 was the Orlando Tangerine Bowl 1981. Cheap Trick, Blue Oyster Cult, and Heart. A little earlier I had seen VanHalen/Kiss and ACDC/Nugent. Of course I am embarrassed now that I saw Kiss and Nugent, but how about those two opening acts?! Heck, Eddie VanHalen and Bon Scott in their prime really made an impression. For many years I've been embarrassed by my early concerts, but compared to much music nowadays, I don't feel so bad. Really, lots of that music has held up pretty decent (except Kiss & Nugent). I know I will be dismissed as a typical reminiscing geezer. But really, so much new music seems awful now. I was at the New Orleans Jazz Fest last week and saw some real crap (IMO). I used to think I could enjoy almost any live music. Nope! The Congo stage was full of Hip-hop and Rap that I found repellant. I made a special point of seeing "Old Crow Medicine Show" and "Jason Isbell" but walked out on each after only a few songs. I just found them both unlistenable. Still, lots of great music at Jazz fest. I was always happy in the Jazz and Blues tents. Saw some great veterans: Lyle Lovett, Walter Trout, and Aaron Neville. There WERE some super young bands: Darcy Malone, Gal Holiday and Tank and the Bangas. All great stuff! :)

Doooode, like, that’d be excellent

....what was wrong with 12.9.81 again? I recall Dolby C. Brrrr.... Fleetwood Mac is coming here in November. I'm still stunned that, these days, tix for shows go on sale 6+ months prior to the event. BTW. They announced that Bill & Ted are returning. I've had my Wyld Stallyns backstage passes in a safe deposit box since 1991. Talk about a pre-sale....

Thanks Led, very informative....reminds me, I never seem to get all my Rolling Stones these days......NEWMAN!! And speaking of late 70s, the Mac Peter Green etc, one of my first concerts, first stadium show. Rich Stadium; Bob Welch, Pablo Cruise, Foreigner, and the mighty Mac! I think I was 14 or 15? Well, being the closed minded (Led Zep, Hendrix etc) little punk I was, I wasn’t that into any of em, and I’m sure I didn’t know all the connections yet. I would go to anything in those days, well anything my folks would allow, or I could get away with lol. So man did I get my head blown clean off! Long day, long story but I was eventually way down on the floor. Now the stages in those days were often like six stories high in front, but I somehow lucked upon a some sandbags holding the tarps down (more old school production), so I was like ten rows out, my head like 2 feet above the rest, right in front of Stevie, man......I clearly remeber them doing Go Your Own Way, and even to this day it was some of 5he most intense, emotional, rock & roll I have ever seen. I mean at this point they ment it, phew, amazing. That’s why we need to get out the door and have a look all around!

Stevie doesn't drag my heart around any more, but I still respect the lady. She and Mike wrote this, you know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UD0c58nNCQ Yes Neil Finn of Crowded House and Mike Campbell have taken over Lindsey's seat in Fleetwood Mac. I love Lindsey Buckingham. He never gets his due as a kick-ass lead player, The Chain, Gold Dust Woman, etc. Haunting and mysterious. And he was an early champion of those amazing Rick Turner instruments. Like an American Jimmy Page through all the coke and the smoke. Anyway, yes Mike Campbell will be up there playing this next to Stevie this tour. I guess Neil Finn will sing Tom's part? Irreplaceable, but we all said that about Jerry. You do the best you can with what you got to work with and it ain't like this is gonna suck. Music isn't athletics. Well, for drummers it is... I give Lars Ulrich ten years to go the way of Neil Peart. We'll see. But you know, Buddy Guy is still blowing the doors off at 80, and like most every other poster here I still feel half my age. I'm 49. Cheers!