Paulgm1 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Gillan - Southampton Gaumont with John McCoy on bass. All I remember is it being bloody loud! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gub Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 First big gig I went to was the style council at the Birmingham Odean , must of been mid eighties I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudpup Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Van Halen at the Finsbury Park Rainbow in 1978 with St Paradise supporting (Ted Nugents rhythm section). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louisthebass Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 First gig I ever went to was "Time UK" at The Marquee in Wardour St in 1985 - only really went as Rick Buckler was the drummer & it was his first band outside of The Jam. Bass player that night was a fella called Nick South - wonder whatever became of him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalMan Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Hawkwind & I believe (but may well be wrong) Lemmy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalMan Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 [quote name='Paulgm1' timestamp='1346360142' post='1788426'] Gillan - Southampton Gaumont with John McCoy on bass. All I remember is it being bloody loud! [/quote]Ditto at the Bognor Regis Centre Legend has it that their soudcheck started & less than a minute later the council switchboard lit up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymondo Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 First gig for me was Family at the de Montefort Hall leicester.....even though I was living in Nottingham....My friends elder sisters' boyfriend took us ...I have no idea why (well maybe it was something to do with us miming to Black Sabbath records every night whilst supposedly playing bass and drums,and perhaps he wanted to broaden our musical horizon)........Linda lewis supported ....I think John wetton was on bass but not sure ....it was 1972/3 ish their farewell tour I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymondo Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Just checked and it was Jim Cregan on the bass! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simes Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 1979-Thin Lizzy at Sheffield City Hall absolutley amazing. Interesting to see Janick Gers and White Spirit referenced earlier, I saw them a few times in the late 70's when they used to play a Working Mens Club in Doncaster called The Yarborough. Another good band called Limelight used to play there as well I thought they might have made it but seemed to disapear. I think they were from Hull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnyboy Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Status Quo 1979-Alan Lancaster- loud , raw, energic. Had to run for last train home& missed end!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-soar Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Peter Gabriel, 1979, Tony Levin on bass. Motorhead, 1980, Lemmy. Rush, 1980, Geddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shizznit Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 (edited) Def Leppard at Shefield 1987. Loved them when I was a kid. But, I lost interest in them shortly after seeing them live. Dunno why. I still think Phil Collen is a stunning guitarist though. Edited August 30, 2012 by shizznit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obbm Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 (edited) 20th October 1962 Adelphi Slough Little Richard Sam Cooke Jet Harris & The Jetblacks The Breakaways Sounds Incorporated Edited August 30, 2012 by obbm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musophilr Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 (edited) [quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1346356910' post='1788363'] None other than Eric Clapton in 1988 as a spotty 13 year old. [/quote] I think Eric would have been a spotty 13 year old in 1950-something. Not sure I can remember my first gig but we saw several bands in the town hall during the early 70s. In particular Camel (original line up on the Snow Goose tour) was most memorable, but also Stackridge. When I was in the 4th year at school some lads in the 6th form organised to get Jonathan Kelly (with Gasworks as support) to play in the main hall at the school. I think that must have been the first time I went to anything that wasn't a classical concert. Edited August 30, 2012 by musophilr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 The Beat, supported by The Alarm and Aztec Camera. Hammersmith Palais, 1983. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 [quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1346356184' post='1788341'] Slade in the summer of '73 at Blackburn King George's [/quote] That's where I saw the 'Crowes. It's a bit of a hole isn't it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low End Bee Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Glen Matlock, Rusty Egan, Steve New and Midge Ure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seashell Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Wishbone Ash, Fairfield Halls Croydon. 1975 or thereabouts. With my schoolmate Barry Butler. His brother picked us up afterwards. Happy days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkpegasus4001 Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 [quote name='seashell' timestamp='1346373594' post='1788587'] Wishbone Ash, Fairfield Halls Croydon. 1975 or thereabouts. With my schoolmate Barry Butler. His brother picked us up afterwards. Happy days. [/quote] I used to play in a Wishbone Ash tribute band! My first gig was Automatic Fine Tuning at the Ritz Cinema Long Eaton, Nottingham late 1976, followed by Rush + Stray, Birmingham Odeon June 1977. AFT still my fave gig! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Lord Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 The Stranglers. It was Glasgow in 1979 and the Great Lord of all things black, without whom we would all be nothing but hollow shells of musicians, banished to poncing about and playing twiddly things on one of those little things with two many strings ....... was on bass - and still is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 The first band I ever saw live was Odyssey in 1983. I was 12 & it was in a nightclub in Stirling. they wouldn't let me in to start with as I was wearing trainers (which cost me £50 back then!), so I ran home, put on an old pair of black shoes that had red & blue paint on them & they let me in! Went backstage after the gig & blethered about music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesparky Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 The first gig I ever went to was Skin, at the Ipswich Corn Exchange in the early 90's. They were pretty good but they were supported by a band called Baby Stafford (or something like that) who were brilliant. I've not really heard of either of them since but my mate did see Skin in KFC afterwards and their guitarist (whatever his name is) told him to check out Paul Gilbert and as a result I discovered Billy Sheehan! Happy days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnyboy Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Thinking about it I think it was Slade! Live at Callendar Park Falkirk . We sneaked through a whole in a wall and watched from the woods - could barely see them but certainly heard them! Early 70's sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnyboy Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Thinking about it I think it was Slade! Live at Callendar Park Falkirk . We sneaked through a whole in a wall and watched from the woods - could barely see them but certainly heard them! Early 70's sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si600 Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 My first proper show was Iron Maiden on the No Prayer on the Road in 1990, at the Oxford Apollo. Supported by Wolfsbane... I did see Thunder, Ugly Kid Joe and Skin at the Roadmender in Northampton around the same sort of time as well so which one was actually the first, I can't say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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