First feature artist live event attended
Dec 10, 2006 1:58:01 GMT
Post by rickcr42 on Dec 10, 2006 1:58:01 GMT
Mine was back in the seventies and while i had already seen Rare Earth live it was at a small venue college auditorium setting that to be honest i was sooo ripped at all I remember of the event is screaming "I JUST WANT TO CELEBRAAAAATE" like a damn loonie plus being 15 the 22 year old college "babe" that took me home after so does not count
My first REAL concert,somewhere in the 1972-1975 span and costing less than $8 (!!!!!!!!) was Rod Stewart and Faces,pretty sure the "Gasoline Alley" record tour and they rocked (Ron Wood was lead Guitar for Faces and the CURRENT Stone's "sound" was the old Faces sound.If you don't beleive me listen to any pre "Some girls" Stones,new Stones and compare to rod Stewart and Faces THEN listen to Rons "precurser" to his link up with the Stone's "Songs From The Wood" with a cast of characters in support
anyway the main act was great but it was the opening act that hit me in the guts and the fact that i had never heard of this band before even better because discovering A NEW THING is always a great joy and makes that day a good day and this day was already a "good day" being my very first major concert so the new discovery took it to GREAT !
The band ?
Blue Oyster Cult !
The cult before they got all "Fear the Reaper"/Season of the Witch" commercial on my ass.The cult that sang about S&M before anyone even knew what it meant (Dominance !............submission..........................
Everyone was there for Rod yet no one wanted to let the cult off the stage and i witnessed a thing that at the time did not know it was something special so the signifigance was not added to the emotion of the moment but here was an opening act and they did THREE FKN ENCORES !!!!!!!!
Never since in hundreds of events have i ever seen its like so a special moment even though at the time went right over my head (not surprising actually I WAS pretty sideways on three hits of orange THC,little itty bitty teeny tiny nuclear bombs ;D )
i also clearly remeber a segment where all the stage was totally 100% engulfed in white smoke to the point that the entire band went invisible as a single lone guitar played a refrain that moments later was joined by another playing the same lick but just a tad different (chorus pedal ?) then another and another and another then as the smoke cleared there appeared lined up across the front edge of the stage appearing as if magic out of the fog,looking like one of those old WW I war movies where just after the barrage in the smoke and haze "up and over boys ! Forward !" all six band members were playing a guitar (no drummer,not bass,all LEAD and in sync) and they were wearing fkn gas masks making the effect even more complete and man,I was soaring with the music totally hynotized and swaying with the notes,feeling like any moment I just might start floating upward and then once airborne circle the arena as if a cloud of smoke myself then almost without notice the members one by one drifted back from the edge at which time each picked up their normal musical instrument and played in time with what in the end was a single guitar wailing away,now hitting what seemed the ten minute mark and when everyone was set broke into an entirely new song,one that I can't recall the name of but that i DO recall FLOORED EVERYONE with its power !
Yeah man,went to see Rod and left a fan of the cult who being mostly unknown i had a rough time finding the LPs the next day but I did dammit ! I did !
What brought this trip down memory line on is they are trying to tear down the Coliseum,the scene of sooo many meories (Kinks EVERY Christmas eve for like four years in a row ) and my first exposure to true "spectacle" that it would be like losing an old freind.
savenhc.tripod.com/
We had two venues for major acts-one the Coliseum,the other the Hatford Civic Center but to any music lover we had only one 'cause the acoustics in hartford SUCKED no matter where you sat while the coliseum always sounded "right" and with good seats as good as it got so always the choice for any but the pretenders who never COULD tell the difference and so pretty much kept the Civic Center open for years
Yup.Never forget the first one even though I was in a semi-functional coma state until the music started so anything leading up to that moment is lost in time forever but it set me on a path of being a HUGE fan of the live event and taught me a band is only as good as the crowd so if you want a good show you are part of the show because the band feeds off your enrgy but if the crowd is subdued and apathetic,just sitting there on there hands waiting to be entertained well they will get the "sanitzed" short version straight from the album and the band looking for the door after they fulfill their contractual obligations and that is the pits because all it is ?
Going through the motions in a medium that is all about emotional input-from both sides of the stage or it don't work for either and more waste of time then anything for the memories in later years when that is all you got left
My first REAL concert,somewhere in the 1972-1975 span and costing less than $8 (!!!!!!!!) was Rod Stewart and Faces,pretty sure the "Gasoline Alley" record tour and they rocked (Ron Wood was lead Guitar for Faces and the CURRENT Stone's "sound" was the old Faces sound.If you don't beleive me listen to any pre "Some girls" Stones,new Stones and compare to rod Stewart and Faces THEN listen to Rons "precurser" to his link up with the Stone's "Songs From The Wood" with a cast of characters in support
anyway the main act was great but it was the opening act that hit me in the guts and the fact that i had never heard of this band before even better because discovering A NEW THING is always a great joy and makes that day a good day and this day was already a "good day" being my very first major concert so the new discovery took it to GREAT !
The band ?
Blue Oyster Cult !
The cult before they got all "Fear the Reaper"/Season of the Witch" commercial on my ass.The cult that sang about S&M before anyone even knew what it meant (Dominance !............submission..........................
Everyone was there for Rod yet no one wanted to let the cult off the stage and i witnessed a thing that at the time did not know it was something special so the signifigance was not added to the emotion of the moment but here was an opening act and they did THREE FKN ENCORES !!!!!!!!
Never since in hundreds of events have i ever seen its like so a special moment even though at the time went right over my head (not surprising actually I WAS pretty sideways on three hits of orange THC,little itty bitty teeny tiny nuclear bombs ;D )
i also clearly remeber a segment where all the stage was totally 100% engulfed in white smoke to the point that the entire band went invisible as a single lone guitar played a refrain that moments later was joined by another playing the same lick but just a tad different (chorus pedal ?) then another and another and another then as the smoke cleared there appeared lined up across the front edge of the stage appearing as if magic out of the fog,looking like one of those old WW I war movies where just after the barrage in the smoke and haze "up and over boys ! Forward !" all six band members were playing a guitar (no drummer,not bass,all LEAD and in sync) and they were wearing fkn gas masks making the effect even more complete and man,I was soaring with the music totally hynotized and swaying with the notes,feeling like any moment I just might start floating upward and then once airborne circle the arena as if a cloud of smoke myself then almost without notice the members one by one drifted back from the edge at which time each picked up their normal musical instrument and played in time with what in the end was a single guitar wailing away,now hitting what seemed the ten minute mark and when everyone was set broke into an entirely new song,one that I can't recall the name of but that i DO recall FLOORED EVERYONE with its power !
Yeah man,went to see Rod and left a fan of the cult who being mostly unknown i had a rough time finding the LPs the next day but I did dammit ! I did !
What brought this trip down memory line on is they are trying to tear down the Coliseum,the scene of sooo many meories (Kinks EVERY Christmas eve for like four years in a row ) and my first exposure to true "spectacle" that it would be like losing an old freind.
savenhc.tripod.com/
We had two venues for major acts-one the Coliseum,the other the Hatford Civic Center but to any music lover we had only one 'cause the acoustics in hartford SUCKED no matter where you sat while the coliseum always sounded "right" and with good seats as good as it got so always the choice for any but the pretenders who never COULD tell the difference and so pretty much kept the Civic Center open for years
Yup.Never forget the first one even though I was in a semi-functional coma state until the music started so anything leading up to that moment is lost in time forever but it set me on a path of being a HUGE fan of the live event and taught me a band is only as good as the crowd so if you want a good show you are part of the show because the band feeds off your enrgy but if the crowd is subdued and apathetic,just sitting there on there hands waiting to be entertained well they will get the "sanitzed" short version straight from the album and the band looking for the door after they fulfill their contractual obligations and that is the pits because all it is ?
Going through the motions in a medium that is all about emotional input-from both sides of the stage or it don't work for either and more waste of time then anything for the memories in later years when that is all you got left