Pylon was one of my wife's favorites! I'll never forget seeing them at the I&I Club in Athens on Halloween night 1982!

I'm on a roll so here are some more bands; Phil & The Blanks, The Little Tigers, Oh Okay, Rum Jungle, The Michael Guthrie Band, Normal Town Flyers . . . More great bands (along with many you listed) that played the Athens Clubs like The 40 Watt, Tyrones and the I&I |thumb

Here's A Classic

I used to love 688, great place, one of my favorite shows was a New York Punk band named DNA (not to be confused with a crappy band by the same name)

Simon, did you go to the Ultravox concert at the agora ballroom (early eighties?) if you did and remember the fight on the main floor that was me beating the crap out of some jock who threw a drink on my then gf :P instead of stopping the fight, the stage crew just pointed a big spotlight on us.

good times

Concert nostalgia! You know you are old when you can remember your first concert in 1959, seeing Chuck Berry and then later seeing the Ventures. That same year I saw my first fight live, when Gene Fullmer knocked out Carmen Basilio. I saw the Rolling Stones when they made their first tour to the US. The place for concerts was always the Whisky-A-Go-Go in Los Angeles. Saw the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Doors when they first started there, Jimi Hendrix, who showed at a Sam and Dave gig. Led Zeppelin was awesome there. I was always sneaking in the club with friends through the wave of cops that were always hassling everybody near the club. Ditched a large number of junior high and senior high classes to make the trip to Los Angeles from San Diego.
The most violent and the most intense concerts in L.A. were in the punk era. Suicidal Tendencies, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys and Fear were bands that always attracted the most violent crowds but also were the most exciting and intense bands to watch and listen to. I can still see, in my mind, Lee Ving of Fear fighting, spitting and still singing great without missing a beat. That band was insane.
The loudest band I ever heard and my ears are still suffering from that concert was Blue Cheer. My God, they had mountains of Marshall amps piled on top of each other and cranking the sound up to levels louder then a jet smashing "Summertime Blues" through your brain.

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Back then no one was sure whether it was a fight or just some punks moshing, slamming and thrash dancing. My friends Jumpin Jack, The Weave, and Rex Havoc were infamous for starting fights with each other that then turned into a big dance circle. Though that was more often at 688, we often started trouble at the Agora too. Consensual of course, the management thought we were the kind of nuts they wanted there.

I forget if it was the Agora, 688 or somewhere else that I watched Iggy Pop cover himself in peanut butter, dive through a sheet of glass, roll around in the shards and then stage dive into the crowd. Good times. :D

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Just for grins, to see who remembers these guys (or Spencer the video producer)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-R0bXSobec

I think that was iggy at 688. so strange that we were prolly at a lot of the same concerts (strange since a lot of the concerts only had 200-300 people)

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Jim always told me that you're not gay if you don't push back. He told me this while breathing heavy on my neck |crazy|

BTW - nostalgia enthusiasts should check out http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/ |thumb

Thanks Greenie. I did not know about this site. Great site!! The posters bring back a lot of memories.