08-20-2024, 01:01 PM
First concert: Garden State Folk Festival circa '70 or '71. We did the pilgrimage back east with my baby sister, so my dying grandmother could meet her. They lived fairly close to Asbury Park and we went because my grandmother wanted to go. I think Richie Havens and The Byrds headlined. The only act I knew at all was Oscar Brand because we played one of his albums a lot.
First concert of free-will: The Association at Tomorrowland Pavilion in Disneyland. Would have been '81. I chose to sit there and listen rather than wait in the Space Mountain line with my friends to burn another E-ticket.
Best Concert: Allman Brothers at The (Fabulous) Fox Theatre in ATL. Great set, great venue, great date. My third month in the South, done right. So many great shows over the years within easy walking distance of our house.
Best Venue: Red Rocks. We used to hijack vests, hats, and theodolites and hang around just beyond the backstage "surveying" until dark when security wouldn't notice us. We'd hit two or three shows that way both summers I worked in Denver. I was working in Yellowstone NP for that U2 concert in the rain and missed it, but remember Stevie Ray Vaughn as an absolute standout. The acoustics while hiding backstage are not what they are out in the bowl, but still. A lot of firsts happened at Red Rocks and anyone who grew up in the Denver area knows what I'm talking about.
Concert I wish I had attended: Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads. It's cool on vinyl and my iphone and all, but I'd like to have been in LA rather than taking fall finals, which is I'm sure what I was doing at the time.
Worst Concert: tie between Jefferson Space/Starship and Mother's Finest early '80s in ATL. Also saw Sly and he was really Stoned or worse in NOLA, but that might be a club more than a concert.
Band I've seen the most: Probably San Francisco Symphony Orchestra or Elvin Bishop.
Last Concert: who knows? Probably mean most recent concert. Again, who knows? Pre-COVID and nothing definitively comes to mind. Maybe someone at the Mountain Winery. Band of Horses?
First concert of free-will: The Association at Tomorrowland Pavilion in Disneyland. Would have been '81. I chose to sit there and listen rather than wait in the Space Mountain line with my friends to burn another E-ticket.
Best Concert: Allman Brothers at The (Fabulous) Fox Theatre in ATL. Great set, great venue, great date. My third month in the South, done right. So many great shows over the years within easy walking distance of our house.
Best Venue: Red Rocks. We used to hijack vests, hats, and theodolites and hang around just beyond the backstage "surveying" until dark when security wouldn't notice us. We'd hit two or three shows that way both summers I worked in Denver. I was working in Yellowstone NP for that U2 concert in the rain and missed it, but remember Stevie Ray Vaughn as an absolute standout. The acoustics while hiding backstage are not what they are out in the bowl, but still. A lot of firsts happened at Red Rocks and anyone who grew up in the Denver area knows what I'm talking about.
Concert I wish I had attended: Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads. It's cool on vinyl and my iphone and all, but I'd like to have been in LA rather than taking fall finals, which is I'm sure what I was doing at the time.
Worst Concert: tie between Jefferson Space/Starship and Mother's Finest early '80s in ATL. Also saw Sly and he was really Stoned or worse in NOLA, but that might be a club more than a concert.
Band I've seen the most: Probably San Francisco Symphony Orchestra or Elvin Bishop.
Last Concert: who knows? Probably mean most recent concert. Again, who knows? Pre-COVID and nothing definitively comes to mind. Maybe someone at the Mountain Winery. Band of Horses?