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Before They Were Famous

What artists did you see on the way up, before superstardom?
Anyone lucky enough to see the Beatles in Germany? If so, the thread should stop there. Until then, I have two. Aerosmith played at my high school Junior Prom, Stepinac High School in White Plains, N.Y., and I was lucky enough to see John Belushi do Joe Cocker in "Lemmings" at the Village Gate in N.Y.C. around 1970, just before SNL.
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angela100
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oh yeah, I saw Jimi Hendrix open for The Monkeys in Charlotte NC. He threw down his guitar, said "f*%# you, Charlotte" and walked off the stage.
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albertporter
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Angela100, don't blame Hendrix for this behavior, he had a monkey on his back.
angela100
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Albertporter, Oh no I don't. I cheered him! I was there to see him! My best friend cousin was older and a hippie and turned us to on to music that was ahead of our age (I was 11).
jsbail
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I also saw Aerosmith on the highschool circuit, at Phillips Exeter in 1973.
slawney
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Saw Kurt Cobain buy an NME, a Village Voice, and a porn magazine at a news shop in Alphabet City, NYC (Avenue A, between 8th and 9th, to be exact) in 1989. Exchanged words about the Nirvana gig the night before, and agreed to meet at a New Music Seminar event the next evening. He never showed up. Didnn't stop me from writing an (as yet unpublished) biography of Cobain (entitled "Grunge Pedal") from 1996 to 1998 while I was largely unemployed and very creative, fresh out of graduate school (Comparative Lit PhD.) and newly moved to Leipzig, Germany with beautiful new German wife. Does anyone know a publisher?
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