First concert.

[leftybass]

My first concert was in the mid 70s. The headliner was Moxy, and the opening act(so the first band I actually saw in concert) was AC/DC.

[uwe]

Quo....     I've seen them 3 times. Quo without Lancaster and Coglin is not Quo for me. With that rhythm section they were a bad ass hard drivin' seriously rockin' band. Without them they are just another rocky pop band to my ears.  

Amen!!! I still like Quo and the new guys aren't bad at all, but I miss Lancaster's vocals (he sang all the rockier, bluesier Quo stuff) and the tension of his hard-driving, yet sometimes cutely melodic bass playing so darn much! John "Rhino" Edwards, his successor, once said along the lines of: "I really like Alan's bass playing, but what most people don't realize is that he was always playing all the time to the best and at the limit of his abilities as a bass player. That is not to put him down. It's very hard to replicate." Maybe that is where the tension came from.

Quo (the album) is an icon of bluesy seventies hard rock and my favorite (also the one with the largest Lancaster songwriting input). On the Level and Blue for you follow closely. I was shattered when after the Live album they brought in that flimsy Pip Williams pop production on "Rocking all over the World", but it is what Rossi wanted. He always regarded calling Quo a metal band an insult, but for sheer no-holds-barred energy they actually were, just listen to this (sung and written by Lancaster):



That song is notable for some things not readily identified with Quo: The way the riff changes from D to A, Rossi's adamant major key playing in the solo of a song dominated by a minor key riff (Lancaster once said that Rossi did initially not know how to play minor scales anf that by the time he noticed that there was a difference   major key solos had become a Quo trademark so he stuck with them), the break at 3.01 and the ensuing synchronized riffing in odd meters before - after the pause - that riff returns in its original form like a dinosaur. Sheer bliss.

[kungfusheriff]

You're a brave man, Shawn, a very brave man. Outing yourself like this here.   There is not really that much than can be done about having witnessed a Vanilla Ice concert, the damage to a young boy's psyche is permanent.  Alembics are just a symptom.   But to redeem yourself: Did you at least like MC Hammer better?  

Believe me, I hesitated for quite a while before hitting the Post button. The Los Lobos story is what convinced me to go for it. And yes, I must admit that I enjoyed the MC Hammer portion of the evening most of all. Hindsight is a brutal, brutal thing.

FYI, I am in Alembic rehab -- sold them all -- and my current infatuation is a plywood German upright of indeterminate age. So dort!

[Hornisse]

My first concert was in the mid 70s. The headliner was Moxy, and the opening act(so the first band I actually saw in concert) was AC/DC.

That is cool Ronn.  When I saw Santana the summer of '76 (Amigos tour) in San Antonio the opening band were Moxy.  Their first LP is a classic!

[Basshappi]

First concert I ever attended was Aerosmith, Frank Marino and Mohogany Rush and a new band no one had ever heard of called AC/DC.

We didn't know what to make of AC/DC especially Angus, but we thought they were okay.
Frank Marino fractured his hand the day of the show and couldn't perform.
Aerosmith was terrible. It was a the height (depth) of their herion days and they were so sloppy it was sad.

I had a great time!

I saw Jethro Tull (one of my all time favorite bands) on the Stormwatch tour. John Glascock played bass, he died not long after.

[Freuds_Cat]

I was shattered when after the Live album they brought in that flimsy Pip Williams pop production on "Rocking all over the World",

Indubitably!

My favourite Quo album is Quo Live



In particular Rain and Forty-Five Hundred Times

[the mojo hobo]

Did you actually hear them?

Of course not! Bits here and there, enough to tell what song they were playing, , but mostly screaming girls. We were in row 52 on the ground floor so we didn't see much either.

[the mojo hobo]

I never saw Pink Floyd when they were touring.

Pink Floyd at Soldier Field was a great show. Flying Pig, Greek Columns, overcast with a yellow glow, and surround sound. One of the best.

[Lightyear]

One thing I remember was how thick the air was with smoke - the legal variety before the lights went down and the other variety when they did.  Going to concert today is very different - you can see the stage clearly

[Highlander]

Doesn't do anything for the lighting... 

When I saw Spirit in '78 there was a guy "lighting up" next to me, which kindamellowedmymind, but they (Spirit) were hoping to beat their previous record of seven encores and by the time they came back on for the 3rd someone had put up the house lights, and California announced that they wanted to play more but there "was a curfew" someone in the audience (who, me...?) shouted at the top of their voice, "F*CK THE CURFEW..." They then played Stone Free... when the record came out, there was my voice... oops...

Believe me, I hesitated for quite a while before hitting the Post button.

I publicly outed myself here by admitting to having seen Gregg and Cher from the front row of the Rainbow Theatre back in '77... 

Could anything top (bottom) that...? 

[the mojo hobo]

There was a club in St. Charles, Illinois we used to go to regularly and that one time there was Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart.

[JimB52]

The first concert I saw was Jefferson Airplane in the New Haven Coliseum, 1968. I was taken there by my babysitter.
First show I went to by myself was Grand Funk Railroad at Yale Bowl in 1971. Their opening act was a band from England no one had heard of named Yes. I was 13, hitched home by myself after midnight. Those were different times.
Also the first of many shows where the opening act completely blew away the headliner, but nobody in the audience seemed to notice.

[Big_Stu]

Indubitably!

My favourite Quo album is Quo Live



In particular Rain and Forty-Five Hundred Times

Quo were awesome when they were still the original band, losing Alan Lancaster was the worst thing that ever happened to them. You only have to watch the film of them doing "Caroline" live to see that, the intro could go on for ages while they wandered the stage talking to the crowd before kicking into it.