Good Sunday Morning

[T Pat]

Mornin All
Spooky is making me feel old, the first concert I went to was Big Brother And The Holding Company at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The lead singer was a hippy chick named Janis Joplin.
Coffee's On

[Motorhead]

Originally Posted by T Pat

Mornin All
Spooky is making me feel old, the first concert I went to was Big Brother And The Holding Company at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The lead singer was a hippy chick named Janis Joplin.
Coffee's On

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.