First Show!

[lester]

For me it's the Beach Boys, on my birthday I think it was '77. One of the great things, the very few...very few great things that my sister did for me.

Olympia stadium, Detroit, it's like a hockey rink type deal converted for shows.
and guess who was there...Brian fucking Wilson. Complete with his blue kimono and sitting behind the piano when he wasn't wandering around that is. Just noodling, not singing at all, which is a damn shame because that's what made the Beach Boys, his songs of course, but it's that voice that fucking voice.

Anyhows, the lights dim and the fucking sweet sounds of California Girld start to come on and the first thing that hits you is Dennis Wilson's bass and snare drum, right in the fucking chest - buh pow!
I was absolutely fucking hooked, music was my thing man after that.

Detroit is renowned for having the greatest audiences in the world always has been, that's the reputation, they don't call it Detroit fucking Rock City for nothing.

I've never seen or heard or experienced so much audience participation with the clapping and the singing and the good vibes than with the Beach Boys. You know, people were on their feet the whole show clapping and singing these songs. It wasn't my ears that hurt after that show was my hands. Ha.
It was fucking beautiful!

 

[japetus]

That's awesome. "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" on Pet Soundsis my favorite song of all time.

 

[Music&Chaos]

For me it's the Beach Boys, on my birthday I think it was '77. One of the great things, the very few...very few great things that my sister did for me.

Olympia stadium, Detroit, it's like a hockey rink type deal converted for shows.
and guess who was there...Brian fucking Wilson. Complete with his blue kimono and sitting behind the piano when he wasn't wandering around that is. Just noodling, not singing at all, which is a damn shame because that's what made the Beach Boys, his songs of course, but it's that voice that fucking voice.

Anyhows, the lights dim and the fucking sweet sounds of California Girld start to come on and the first thing that hits you is Dennis Wilson's bass and snare drum, right in the fucking chest - buh pow!
I was absolutely fucking hooked, music was my thing man after that.

Detroit is renowned for having the greatest audiences in the world always has been, that's the reputation, they don't call it Detroit fucking Rock City for nothing.

I've never seen or heard or experienced so much audience participation with the clapping and the singing and the good vibes than with the Beach Boys. You know, people were on their feet the whole show clapping and singing these songs. It wasn't my ears that hurt after that show was my hands. Ha.
It was fucking beautiful!

An old friend of mine who recently passed away was raised in Detroit and was a musician. He saw all sorts of awesome bands he would tell me about and that he opened for or played with. Thanks for sharing.

 

[lester]

That's awesome. "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" on Smile is my favorite song of all time.

I don't think I've heard that I'm going to have to check that out Thanks!

 

[japetus]

I don't think I've heard that I'm going to have to check that out Thanks!

It's on Pet Sounds not Smile, I am a dummy

 

[Techdeth]

Beach Boys were my first too . Riverfront Stadium . I was 5 .
My dad took me to Aerosmith /collective soul
But my first concert with out parents was
Pantera , Type O negative

 

[lester]

Beach Boys were my first too . Riverfront Stadium . I was 5 .
My dad took me to Aerosmith /collective soul
But my first concert with out parents was
Pantera , Type O negative

Wow, cool!

 

[lester]

Beach Boys were my first too . Riverfront Stadium . I was 5 .
My dad took me to Aerosmith /collective soul
But my first concert with out parents was
Pantera , Type O negative

My second show was Kiss, I believe it was Cobo it was their Love Gun tour so it was full blown pinnacle Kiss show everything, I was right in front of Gene Simmons like five rows away my sister bought this for me again, these are the two things. I said few cuz that was it. Well in her defense she was my half I say was I don't know I think of her that way I guess she is my half sister and she always hated me and resented me because I think I had a dad and I had a mom whereas her dad took off I guess we're not he found out when she came out that she had blonde hair and blue eyes and he has brown hair and brown eyes and so does my mom so...it could be trouble (in my best Jerry Seinfeld voice, that's where that reference comes from)
Any house in her mind she had a reason to torment me torture me fuck with me just basically trying to make me miserable and all kinds of different ways but those two times those are pretty good times even though, and this is strange she went to both of those fucking shows with me and there's no way on Earth that she ever went to better shows before or after and she never wants mentioned it afterwards. Can you fucking believe that shit?... Well Paul was in a particularly great mood that night in the band absolutely killed and I got a chance to see this guy is legend this guy that I had pictures all over my walls cut out for magazine taped up all over my walls like I was in love with this fucker, which I was, Ace frehley. Well I guess happens to be Paul Stanley's birthday too January 15th this one I think was 1978. You know I'm thinking about it now and I think that was Olympia stadium too so is even more intimate the fact that kind of show into that size facility. I mean my sisters fucking sit there I'm on a chair you know cuz you had to stand up on the chair to see even though you were so close with everybody standing up and whatever they don't know where to see stuff you had to stand on the chair too so not only if I stay another chair there's a lot of times I stood on the back of the chair and put my hands on her back supposed to see I felt bad for people behind me but fuck you know what the fuck you know it's Kiss.
And I was in jeans world being right in front of them there I'm looking at the candelabras I'm looking at the demon boots I'm looking at all that shit man it's fucking great I'm looking at him spitting blood you know 15 ft in front of me I level I'm looking at fucking fire balls like you can't even believe. This guy spit up so much fucking blood from those capsules I don't know how many put in his mouth he probably put like 300 of them in there.

 

[griff10672]

AC/DC circa 1986 ..... Who Made Who Tour ..... to this day have not seen a louder Band

Loudness opened ..... Providence Civic Center

 

[griff10672]

That's awesome. "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" on Pet Soundsis my favorite song of all time.

I thought we talked about you not letting on to the forumites how cultured you are ?