First gig you ever went to?
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ElectricSoup said:
Anthrax, Hammersmith Odeon, 1987 (maybe '88?). I was 17/18, I don't think my hearing has been right ever since. Drove there from the sticks in a Mk1 Escort 1100 with 4 passengers. Couldn't hear the engine cranking when I started it up after the gig, my ears were ringing so badly.
was that the among the living tour ?
S7Paul said:
2nd gig - Feb 1975 - Hawkwind (with Lemmy) - seen them 19 times to date, and will be going to the London Palladium gig later this year.
So that trumps my Hawkwind cherry by nearly a decade... but. Saw them on tour last year and they were still awesome. Brock will be 77 by the time you see them next. Seventy bleedin seven! He doesn't look any different 
HOW is this possible!? Must be the lysergics, maaaaan 
Nik da Greek said:
So that trumps my Hawkwind cherry by nearly a decade... but. Saw them on tour last year and they were still awesome. Brock will be 77 by the time you see them next. Seventy bleedin seven! He doesn't look any different HOW is this possible!? Must be the lysergics, maaaaan
Yes, back in 1969 there's no way he would have been thinking that he was embarking on what would turn out to be a job for life, or that the band (in whatever form) would still be going nearly 50 years later. Still going at 80? I wouldn't rule it out! HOW is this possible!? Must be the lysergics, maaaaan 
egor110 said:
ElectricSoup said:
Anthrax, Hammersmith Odeon, 1987 (maybe '88?). I was 17/18, I don't think my hearing has been right ever since. Drove there from the sticks in a Mk1 Escort 1100 with 4 passengers. Couldn't hear the engine cranking when I started it up after the gig, my ears were ringing so badly.
was that the among the living tour ?Don't think my parents took me to any gigs, unless you count seeing Rolf Harris at Bognor Regis Butlins.
The first gig I went to on my own was the 'Taking On The World' tour by Gun at the Leadmill in Sheffield in 1989.
It was bloody awesome and bloody loud. My ears rang for about two days afterwards.
The first gig I went to on my own was the 'Taking On The World' tour by Gun at the Leadmill in Sheffield in 1989.
It was bloody awesome and bloody loud. My ears rang for about two days afterwards.
S7Paul said:
1st gig - Oct 1973 - Wizzard (always been a Roy Wood fan; last saw him Dec 2016)
2nd gig - Feb 1975 - Hawkwind (with Lemmy) - seen them 19 times to date, and will be going to the London Palladium gig later this year.
I saw Hawkwind at Harrow Polytechnic in around 1973 so I guess that would have been with Lemmy! 2nd gig - Feb 1975 - Hawkwind (with Lemmy) - seen them 19 times to date, and will be going to the London Palladium gig later this year.
Adam and the ants 1981 I think it was, Glasgow Apollo. Apart from nearly peeing myself as it was my first gig, I was accompanied by my mother who drove me there, and her friend who was rather disturbingly a clone of a certain little Scottish songstress strumpet who did weird things to me every time I seen her, Sheena Easton.
Adam was absolutely brilliant, just seeing him at the height of his fame, he was far better than I thought he was going to be.
Adam was absolutely brilliant, just seeing him at the height of his fame, he was far better than I thought he was going to be.
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