What Was The First, Last, Best, Worst, Loudest Concert You Attended?

#76
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Tin Man said:
First Concert: Ike & Tina Turner Review / Sly & The Family Stone 1968. I was with friends at a nearby lake-front park. We didn't have tickets, but stood at an advantageous section of the fence (outdoor concert). The sound was good, and we could see the stage from a distance. Sly did not appear. Rumors were that he was too effed up, or he was upset about something. The Family Stone did a spirited jam before Ike & Tina took the stage. We did not stick around for their entire set. The first concert for which I actually bought a ticket was Donovan 1969. I sat next to Cathy Corbett, who was a year older than me. She let me fondle her breast in the dark.
Latest Concert: A funky dance/party band performing at the BRAG Spring Ride. They had horns. :cool:
Best Concert: 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival. That was a life experience.
Worst Concert: Ted Nugent 1974
Loudest Concert: Ted Nugent 1974. Much too loud for the venue. Anyone staying for the entire show had life-long damaged hearing. I walked out and listened for a few minutes from the corridors outside the hall.
Seen the Most: The Rolling Stones
Most Surprising: Joan Armatrading 1983. The lights came up on her playing her first song. The audience was enrapt. When the song finished, the audience erupted with enormous energy. Joan was visibly taken aback, but the vibe was so positive and loving that she put on an inspired show. Everyone there knew that they'd been part of something special - Joan, the band, the staff, the audience, security...
Next Concert: I do not know...
Wish I Could Have Seen: John Coltrane
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Great list, had forgot about Joan and remembered this tune.
 
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Tin Man said:
First Concert: Ike & Tina Turner Review / Sly & The Family Stone 1968. I was with friends at a nearby lake-front park. We didn't have tickets, but stood at an advantageous section of the fence (outdoor concert). The sound was good, and we could see the stage from a distance. Sly did not appear. Rumors were that he was too effed up, or he was upset about something. The Family Stone did a spirited jam before Ike & Tina took the stage. We did not stick around for their entire set. The first concert for which I actually bought a ticket was Donovan 1969. I sat next to Cathy Corbett, who was a year older than me. She let me fondle her breast in the dark.
Latest Concert: A funky dance/party band performing at the BRAG Spring Ride. They had horns. :cool:
Best Concert: 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival. That was a life experience.
Worst Concert: Ted Nugent 1974
Loudest Concert: Ted Nugent 1974. Much too loud for the venue. Anyone staying for the entire show had life-long damaged hearing. I walked out and listened for a few minutes from the corridors outside the hall.
Seen the Most: The Rolling Stones
Most Surprising: Joan Armatrading 1983. The lights came up on her playing her first song. The audience was enrapt. When the song finished, the audience erupted with enormous energy. Joan was visibly taken aback, but the vibe was so positive and loving that she put on an inspired show. Everyone there knew that they'd been part of something special - Joan, the band, the staff, the audience, security...
Next Concert: I do not know...
Wish I Could Have Seen: John Coltrane
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Poor Cathy, social media wasn’t around in 1969 but 54 years later all the world knows. Must have been fabulous for that to still be fresh
 
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First: Black Sabbath (Bob Seger opening)
Last: Jason Isbell
Best: Cheap Trick in local club
Worst: Maybe Aerosmith back in their drinking days - sounded terrible
Loudest: Ted Nugent at KCC - always heard rumors the ceiling got cracked
Seen Most: Smokin Dave and the Premo Dopes
Most Surprising: Ben Harper at Hordefest
Next: Have tickets for Matchbox 20 but don't think I'm going - Willie Nelson next in line.
Wish I'd Seen: Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Kinks
 
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First: Kiss w/ Krokus
Last: JRAD
Best: Every Dead Show!
Worst: Iron Maiden (very surprising)
Loudest: ZZTop
Seen Most: Bob Weir
Most Surprising: Kenny G
Next: Robert Plant & Allison Krause
Wish I'd Seen: Miles Davis (so many…)
 
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First: Sawyer Brown
Last: Eddie Montgomery
Best: Montgomery Gentry
Worst: Motley Crue
Loudest: Posion
Seen Most: Travis Tritt
Most Surprising: Vince Gill
Next: Not sure
Wish I Could See: Miranda Lambert, Luke Combs, Willie Nelson, John Conlee, to many to list
 
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First: Alabama
Last: Toby Mac
Loudest: Bon Jovi
Best: B.B King at BB's club on Beale. He just showed up and we happened to be there. He played maybe a half hour. Unreal.
Worst: .38 Special at wingfest in Knoxville.
Most surprising: Bon Jovi
Most seen: .38 Special and ZZ Top
Wish I'd seen: Ray Charles when he came to Knox
Next: No idea
 
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tbh said:
First Concert: Weird Al Yankovic, back when I was in high school years ago

Last Concert: Can't remember...maybe St. Paul and the Broken Bones? It has been a while.

Best Concert: Zappa Plays Zappa, at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, during the first tour. Not only was the band and music on point, I got to enjoy it with my father (who attended many a Frank Zappa show in his heyday, and introduced me to that and many other great bands)

Worst Concert: N/A, although Steve Earle was disappointing (not for the music, which was solid, but for the political rants peppered between songs and sets)

Loudest Concert: Shovels and Rope (acoustics were less than ideal)

Seen the Most: Tie between Yonder Mountain String Band and Dweezil Zappa

Most Surprising: Railroad Earth - saw them as a beachfront festival, had no clue who they were, and they ended up being the best act of the day

Next Concert: No idea...

Wish I Could Have Seen: Jethro Tull, and preferably one of the "Thick as a Brick" shows in particular
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cant imagine shovels and rope the loudest
fortunate to see Tull ine arly years of Von Braun Civic Center
 
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TN Dog said:
First: Kiss w/ Krokus
Last: JRAD
Best: Every Dead Show!
Worst: Iron Maiden (very surprising)
Loudest: ZZTop
Seen Most: Bob Weir
Most Surprising: Kenny G
Next: Robert Plant & Allison Krause
Wish I'd Seen: Miles Davis (so many…)
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nice list
 
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volinbham said:
First: Black Sabbath (Bob Seger opening)
Last: Jason Isbell
Best: Cheap Trick in local club
Worst: Maybe Aerosmith back in their drinking days - sounded terrible
Loudest: Ted Nugent at KCC - always heard rumors the ceiling got cracked
Seen Most: Smokin Dave and the Premo Dopes
Most Surprising: Ben Harper at Hordefest
Next: Have tickets for Matchbox 20 but don't think I'm going - Willie Nelson next in line.
Wish I'd Seen: Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Kinks
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Wait....Bob Seger opened for Black Sabbath? That is an interesting combination.
 
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ArdentVol said:
cant imagine shovels and rope the loudest
fortunate to see Tull ine arly years of Von Braun Civic Center
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Honestly, I was surprised too. I think the sound setup was just handled really poorly at the small venue...the volume wasn't a sustained level through the whole show, but whoever was working the mixing was having a rough night.
 
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volinbham said:
First: Black Sabbath (Bob Seger opening)
Last: Jason Isbell
Best: Cheap Trick in local club
Worst: Maybe Aerosmith back in their drinking days - sounded terrible
Loudest: Ted Nugent at KCC - always heard rumors the ceiling got cracked
Seen Most: Smokin Dave and the Premo Dopes
Most Surprising: Ben Harper at Hordefest
Next: Have tickets for Matchbox 20 but don't think I'm going - Willie Nelson next in line.
Wish I'd Seen: Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Kinks
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caught jason isbell 3 times in bham all before pandammit

kinks are huge miss for me
 
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My mom and dad drug me to Brenda Lee when I was like five or six years old. That was the first and worst. They should have been jailed for child abuse. INXS (really good), Night Ranger/The Outfield (loudest), Corey Hart, Janet Jackson because of a girl, Collective Soul, The Eagles twice (best and also last), U2 (also best), Drivin' and Cryin', Norah Jones, Chris Stapleton (also best), Jimmy Buffett (really fun). Was hanging out in Nashville at Tootsies one night and John Michael Montgomery showed up, knew all these guys playing on stage, jumped up there with them and they just started jamming out some tunes they all knew. Really cool, impromptu set. Went to CMA fest at Nissan stadium early on. That ranks pretty high because we saw a lot of big country music stars play some nice sets and also because that place was loaded with eye candy.
 
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First Concert: Boston 1978 with Sammy Hagar
Last Concert: Dream Theater at Radio City Music Hall
Best Concert: Marshall Tucker, Runnin Like the Wind tour, not too long after Tommy Caldwell was killed. Four encores.
Worst Concert: Niece wanted me to take her to see Taylor Swift. Hung out in the lobby for her entire set.
Loudest Concert: KISS in Knoxville The KCC's acoustics are horrible.
Seen the Most: 38 Special and Molly Hatchet
Most Surprising: Big Bad VooDoo Daddy
Next Concert: None planned. But will jump at the chance to see Epica, Within Temptation or Nightwish.
Wish I Could Have Seen: Several, but The Who stands out right now.
Most Dangerous Concert Experience: 1978. Opening with Golden Earring, Aerosmith "Toys in the Attic" Festival seating at KCC.
Just before Aerosmith took stage, there was a rush to the floor. I was caught between two people 2 inches off the floor between my thorasic spine and my sternum for about three minutes. Ended up pressed against the fence right in front of Joe Perry. But the most traumatic part was
when they came on stage? Aerosmith is even uglier in person.
And in other news, Larry Nassar has been stabbed in prison. I have never felt less outraged.
 
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First Concert: Charlie Daniels Band with Conway Twitty
Last Concert: Taylor Swift Eras Tour
Best Concert: Taylor Swift
Worst Concert: Miranda Lambert
Loudest Concert: Ted Nugent
Seen the Most: Dustin Lynch has opened a few times
Most Surprising: Heart
Next Concert: to be determined
Wish I Could Have Seen: Metallica, Guns N Roses, Poison, Motley Crue, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi all back in the late eighties early nineties
 
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Well the majority of the concerts that I attended were mostly in the mid to late 70's and the first would have been.....first
Elton John and Kiki Dee in Hawaii...74
Aerosmith in Hawaii 74
Billy Preston Hawaii 74
The J Giles Band Hawaii Crater festival 74
Cecilio & Kapona, local Hawiian Band, Great by the way 74
Ace Knoxville 75
All so far we're Great
Lynyrd Skynyrd Knoxville 77
Wet Willie Knoxville 77
Jackson Brown Knoxville 77
Ted Nugent Knoxville.....Absolutely horrible 76
And last but not least and very good were
The Doobie Brothers Knoxville 1980
John Cougar Mellencamp 1987
 
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First Concert: UB40
Last Concert: Smokey Robinson
Best Concert: Smokey Robinson
Worst Concert: UB40
Loudest Concert: Poison
Seen the Most: Never saw anyone more than once
Most Surprising: Steve Windwood
Next Concert: Nothing planned
Wish I Could Have Seen: Human League
 
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Vjcvette said:
Well the majority of the concerts that I attended were mostly in the mid to late 70's and the first would have been.....first
Elton John and Kiki Dee in Hawaii...74
Aerosmith in Hawaii 74
Billy Preston Hawaii 74
The J Giles Band Hawaii Crater festival 74
Cecilio & Kapona, local Hawiian Band, Great by the way 74
Ace Knoxville 75
All so far we're Great
Lynyrd Skynyrd Knoxville 77
Wet Willie Knoxville 77
Jackson Brown Knoxville 77
Ted Nugent Knoxville.....Absolutely horrible 76
And last but not least and very good were
The Doobie Brothers Knoxville 1980
John Cougar Mellencamp 1987
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Jackson Browne Knoxville 1977, the Running on Empty tour. That was a terrific concert!
 
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Vjcvette said:
Well the majority of the concerts that I attended were mostly in the mid to late 70's and the first would have been.....first
Elton John and Kiki Dee in Hawaii...74
Aerosmith in Hawaii 74
Billy Preston Hawaii 74
The J Giles Band Hawaii Crater festival 74
Cecilio & Kapona, local Hawiian Band, Great by the way 74
Ace Knoxville 75
All so far we're Great
Lynyrd Skynyrd Knoxville 77
Wet Willie Knoxville 77
Jackson Brown Knoxville 77
Ted Nugent Knoxville.....Absolutely horrible 76
And last but not least and very good were
The Doobie Brothers Knoxville 1980
John Cougar Mellencamp 1987
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Elton John in Knoxville 1974 was a hell of a show!
 
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Vjcvette said:
Well the majority of the concerts that I attended were mostly in the mid to late 70's and the first would have been.....first
Elton John and Kiki Dee in Hawaii...74
Aerosmith in Hawaii 74
Billy Preston Hawaii 74
The J Giles Band Hawaii Crater festival 74
Cecilio & Kapona, local Hawiian Band, Great by the way 74
Ace Knoxville 75
All so far we're Great
Lynyrd Skynyrd Knoxville 77
Wet Willie Knoxville 77
Jackson Brown Knoxville 77
Ted Nugent Knoxville.....Absolutely horrible 76
And last but not least and very good were
The Doobie Brothers Knoxville 1980
John Cougar Mellencamp 1987
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Great list.
Did the Doobie Brothers singer say 'hey Nashville!'? Otherwise a good show.
 
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1st - Carl Perkins....1975
Last - Motley Crue/Def Lepard
Best - Besides all 10 Kiss shows.........Division Bell-Pink Floyd
Worst - Whitney Houston......only because g/f made me.
Loudest - Jackyl - Button South in Fort Lauderdale
 
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