Comments on: Masterpiece: Kick

By: Prova

Prova — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:40:12 +0000

Mötley Crüe – Theatre of Pain Tour 1985, Cheap Trick supporting. The one where Tommy Lee’s drumkit rotated upside down. Awesome. [Raises devil horns]

By: OldUnrepentantHippie

OldUnrepentantHippie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:50:41 +0000

The Who
October 12, 1969
Grande Ballroom, Detroit
Brown Mescaline and Blue Cheer LSD

By: batdan

batdan — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:34:19 +0000

INXS on the Kick tour in Sacramento California the same year as dk saw them. I believe that the Soup Dragons opened for them.

By: kdub

kdub — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:28:40 +0000

I find it hard to believe you were 18 the first time you smoked the leafy green. You mean you didn’t fall out of the womb holding a fatty?

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts was my first. Huey Lewis and the News opened. G. Rollie White Coliseum (otherwise known as “Jolly Rollie”) in College Station, TX. I wore that three-quarter-length sleeve concert shirt proudly to my junior high the next day.

By: dkpresents

dkpresents — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:09:00 +0000

I’m insanely jealous of Dick and Aram here. If KISS circa 77/78 was my first show, I would have died and gone to heaven.

Or hell, as the case may be…

By: thep

thep — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:16 +0000

I was hoping dk would hide this post before I had to answer, but he hasn’t.
So, assuming operas and symphonies and Newport Jazz Festivals don’t count, here you have it in chronological order:
* Jethro Tull at Nassau Coliseum. Opening band: Saga. Remember prog rock? I don’t.
* The Who at Shea Stadium, with the Clash and David Johansen opening.
* ZZ Top at Madison Square Garden. Google tells me that Bon Jovi opened this show, but I will deny it to the grave.
* Jerry Garcia + Robert Hunter at Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ. A hint of the future.
* The Dead at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY.
* CSN at Jones Beach Theater, NY.
* Stevie Ray Vaughn, Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, VT
* and about 200 more Dead shows with some jazz mixed in for good measure.

By: JimmyJames Cabral

JimmyJames Cabral — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:50:07 +0000

Blues brothers… 197something. With my Dad. It ruled. Paul Schaefer, Bulushi…wow.

Saw the INXS tour because of Steel Pulse. I went with my brother Jerry on the lawn of the shoreline. Great show all around.

By: hip

hip — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:06:48 +0000

Well here is to the old guys- 1965 Dick Dale and the Del Tones. El Monte Legion Hall their tag line was “Be there. Guys wear ties and girls wear pearls. No levis or capris please”. This was followed up by the Rolling Stones in, I think 1967 or 1968 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium which I think had a capacity of less than 3000 and we were center stage third row. I took my sister.

By: Butthole Foo

Butthole Foo — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:18:43 +0000

I think CindyPinc made up the Hall & Oates reference just to start some trouble!

Mine was Butthole Surfers at the Salem Armory. A band called Stone Temple Pilots opened for them. I shoved my way to the front row and was right in front of Weiland for a good part of the show. Good stuff. Must’ve been ‘92.

By: manrey

manrey — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:38:46 +0000

1975– Mr. Crusing, one of my friend’s dads, drove us to the Chicago Stadium to see Montrose with Sammy Hagar on vocals, and then Ted Nugent in his Cat Scratch Fever glory days.
Mr. Crusing was never to attend another rock and roll concert again.