Can You Remember Your First Concert?
Posted by: George J on 24 August 2014
I remember mine, and thought it was forty years ago. It was almost 41 years ago, when I was only eleven!
Here is a scan of the flier. Note the prices. How times have changed. At those prices an LP cost more than going to a concert. A Cd today is a fraction of the cost of a concert ticket!
I am delighted that I have been to a concert with the great Marisa Robles!
ATB from George
I was watching an old 70s Old Grey Whistle Test the other night and I was surprised that playing from TV via an optical cable to my UnitiLite sounded so good. The audio was really good.
When watching Lindisfarne I was amazed at how long the Bass players (Tod Clement's?) fingers were, have never seen such long skinny fingers. Also didn't the guy on mandolin look weird!
There was also a good Roxy track and they gave out Brian Eno's full name, now get ready for this it was:
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno
Now I knew it was Brian Eno but with a name so long and up there for a short time I could not see the 'Brian' or the 'Eno', so thought I had done another BigBill gaff. So I looked it up in Wiki and there it was - what a handful.
Cracking Bowie track with the late great Mick Ronson too.
What great bassists have I missed guys?
Great list so far..... I'd also include:
Pino Palladino (my avatar is the bridge from his Fender Custom Shop Signature Precision), great fretless work ('79 Musicman Stingray) with Paul Young, Garry Numan, Pete Townsend, Don Henley etc in the 80s and recently with Nine Inch Nails; brilliant fretted ('61 Precision) work with The John Mayer Trio, D'Angelo and the Who.
Flea - RHCP / Atoms for Peace; Musicman Stingray until Californication then varied
The late Jaco Pastorious - Solo, Weather Report, Joni Mitchell; Defretted '62 Jazz (the Bass of Doom)
The late Mick Karn - Japan, Rain Tree Crow, Dalis Car; Mainly Fretless Wal
Percy Jones - Brand X, Tunnels - Fretless Wal
James Jamerson, who played the basslines on most of the Motown hits of the '60s and early '70s; Precisions
Honourable mentions: Geddy Lee (Rush), JPJ (Lep), Geezer Bultler (Sabbath), Chris Squire (Yes), John Myung (Dream Theatre), Les Claypool (Primus), Macca, Victor Wooten (Bela Fleck), Duck Dunn, Tony Levin, Guy Pratt, Tal Wilkenfeld
Uprights... Willie Dixon, Ron Carter, Charlie Mingus, Danny Thompson, Herbie Flowers, Lee Rocker (Stray Cats), John Thorne (Lamb), Al Gare (Imelda May).
What great bassists have I missed guys?
Great list so far..... I'd also include:
Pino Palladino (my avatar is the bridge from his Fender Custom Shop Signature Precision), great fretless work ('79 Musicman Stingray) with Paul Young, Garry Numan, Pete Townsend, Don Henley etc in the 80s and recently with Nine Inch Nails; brilliant fretted ('61 Precision) work with The John Mayer Trio, D'Angelo and the Who.
Flea - RHCP / Atoms for Peace; Musicman Stingray until Californication then varied
The late Jaco Pastorious - Solo, Weather Report, Joni Mitchell; Defretted '62 Jazz (the Bass of Doom)
The late Mick Karn - Japan, Rain Tree Crow, Dalis Car; Mainly Fretless Wal
Percy Jones - Brand X, Tunnels - Fretless Wal
James Jamerson, who played the basslines on most of the Motown hits of the '60s and early '70s; Precisions
Honourable mentions: Geddy Lee (Rush), JPJ (Lep), Geezer Bultler (Sabbath), Chris Squire (Yes), John Myung (Dream Theatre), Les Claypool (Primus), Macca, Victor Wooten (Bela Fleck), Duck Dunn, Tony Levin, Guy Pratt, Tal Wilkenfeld
Uprights... Willie Dixon, Ron Carter, Charlie Mingus, Danny Thompson, Herbie Flowers, Lee Rocker (Stray Cats), John Thorne (Lamb), Al Gare (Imelda May).
+1 Geddy Lee, awesome bassist, keyboard player and singer
Yes - November 1974 @ Madison Square Garden NYC. Amazingly about 40 years to the day.More so that I just received the Steven Wilson remix of Relayer yesterday and have spent some time listening today. Still love it.
I was 15 and went with a friend and one of my older brother's friends. Being suburban NJ kids, there was no way my mother was letting us go into the city on our own at that age. Hah.
A quick mention for Burke Shelley of Budgie a much underrated band.
Back to the original question, I reckon my first concert was at the Liverpool Stadium (an old wrestling venue) back in 1972 when I saw the Groundhogs supported by Stray and Gentle Giant.
How could I miss Jaco Pastorious (I love Weather Report) or Geezer Butler (Go Sabs) or Big Willie (a legend who made great music and didn't 'arf write a lot of songs) or Mingus (Come on BigBill shape up) or Herbie Flowers?????
Sorry!