Your First Concert was.....

Beach Boys mid sixties in Cleveland- Glen Campbell was touring with them and sang the high parts. The Lovin' Spoonful was the warm up band. The Beatles in 1966 may have been the same year or a year later. The best early concert, however, was Genesis Selling England by the Pound concert at an old, beautiful movie theater downtown Cleveland, tenth row center-probably not more than 500-1000 people there. They were using SAE amps! Killer concert-early 70's.

An event sponsered by WFIL AM radio in Philadelphia, in the early 70's. I was the lucky caller who won tickets. I must have been in 7th or 8th grade. I remember Jim Croce, Jose Feliciano, the O'Jays, and I think, the Raspberries, playing there. The most memorable things that I took away from that concert were the image of Jim Croce so joyously playing, not long before his untimely death, and the crowd snaking around the floor of the Civic Center in a massive "Love Train" as the O'Jays sang that hit. Philly was about to become a fantastic place to hear live music in the 70's, during the heyday of the Electric Factory music promotion group. I went to many concerts, mostly at the concrete echo chamber known as the Spectrum. J. Geils, Steely Dan, Loggins and Messina, Zeppelin, Foghat, Roy Buchannon, among so many others. Ruined my hearing, but what fun it was.

Boston.....Heart and Black Sabbath the fall of '76. Superb bands and shows. It was Boston and Heart's first US tour. Still kicking myself for not buying at least one t-shirt from that great concert! ;-)

Elton John, bicentennial tour '76. Tenth row center; didn't appreciate the great seats. I was only 12, what did I know!

Black Sabbath & Blue Oyster Colt in 1980 or so, I was so wasted, I still don't remeber much of it, LOL, Did bring home a drum stick though, still got it somewhere.