Who was your first? What was the weirdest? Name the first one you nailed?

[jaxson50]

22 hours ago, mihcmac said:

That was a great time,,,,,,,, I saw some of those bands up close, from stage side.

Remember the old Troubadour and the Palomino,  and the Swing Auditorium,?

[mihcmac]

15 hours ago, jaxson50 said:

Remember the old Troubadour and the Palomino,  and the Swing Auditorium,?

Yep, all well known from the time, actually spent a fair amount of time at the Palomino club as our singer was a bit country. Didn't venture into San Bernardino much, liked to stay closer to the coast like the Rendezvous Ballroom or in Huntington with the Golden Bear or the Salt Cellar and Carnaby Street at the pier. But back on the strip the Hullabaloo with the old rotating stage that constantly shorted out, the Whiskey was kind of rowdy. I liked spending time in an old beatnik place called The Fifth Estate. This whole area had tons of dive bars and lounges that you may never have heard of that paid pretty regularly for entertainment. The mid sixties, the strip was so crowded with people searching for the experience and so was I. Glad to hear you got to enjoy it too.

Edited May 15, 2020 by mihcmac

[Retired]

On 5/13/2020 at 6:45 PM, codename said:

The weirdest experience at a concert for me was 6 years ago at a Cheap Trick show at a local casino . After the show , I was in the washroom washing my hands when I heard someone behind me say " That was a great show tonight " Thinking a member of Cheap Trick was in there . I turned around and saw a guy standing there (not a band member) I looked at the guy at the sink beside me and he looked puzzled also . Then the guy behind me says " You guys sounded really good tonight " .  I looked at him again and asked  "Are you talking to me" ? He says yes and repeats the compliment . I told him I wasn't in the band , and he replies "That wasn't you up on stage" ? I say no and he bolts out . The other guy and me got a chuckle out of it . I meet up with  my wife and she wanted to have a beer before we went home so I tell her what happened and we go into one of the bars in the casino . I sit down at a table and she goes the bar to grab the drinks. Then a young girl comes up to me and says " You're the bass player in Cheap Trick right" ? I said " What is this , some kind of joke"?  She says no and sounded all hurt so I tell her she's the second person that thought I was in the band . I had a hard time convincing her I wasn't but she finally left. My wife comes with the drinks and tells me another girl at the bar (who was sitting at the table beside us) also getting drinks asked her if I was in Cheap Trick . My wife told her " yeah but keep it quiet" . So I'm sitting there and notice the people at the next table kept looking over and smiling and taking pictures of each other, making sure to get me in the background . I wasn't feeling comfortable with this so I told my wife "Lets get out of here".  As we're leaving a guy from that table comes over to me , extends his hand and says " I just want to say you guys put on a good show tonight " . I just said "Thanks man" , shook his hand and we left. 

Thats hilarious. So you must look a lot like the bass player or the lights must have been awful dark on stage where he was playing? Haha. 

 

 

 

[paddybrown]

First gig: Howard Jones, the 80s synth-pop guy. Not much rock and roll cred, but it was good. I still have his first album, and still listen to it from time to time.

 

Weirdest: Nothing particularly weird comes to mind. Nearly every gig I've ever been to there's always someone right behind me who's apparently never been to a gig before and spends the whole support slot complaining loudly that they paid to see the main act, and they've never heard of this lot, and when are they going to stop so the main act can come on?

First song nailed: Really can't remember. In my long years as a cowboy chord acoustic player, my main party piece was Van Morrison's Crazy Love. Including solo, that would probably be Need Your Love So Bad.

['Scales]

First big gig (not local bands) was AC/DC at Brisbane entertainment centre. Note perfect, brilliant performers.

weirdest...probably playing the 'hash bowl' at local hemp festival (Google Nimbin). Carry gear down hill through a boggy mud patch to play in a giant teepee at dusk and then the fog came in and you could barely make out the audience in the mist, quite surreal. Pay was 'take what you want' from a big basket of pre-rolled joints...only thing was on the way into town you saw the police checks so no point unless you were staying, which we weren't. Left my guitar behind but went back and it was still there.

solo nailed...can't say for sure cos I play rhythm and my solos are cr@p, but I got to always play the solo for Dead Flowers which I tried to follow to Mick Taylor original and it seemed to usually be in the ballpark