What was the first band you saw live! - Page 2

Vesper Martini · 17-07-2018, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tommie

Iron Maiden, AIS stadium Canberra, 1981. Bands used to come here then....

Iron Maiden toured here a couple of years ago..

They had thier own Jumbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQjLqq1HwT0

snap0964 · 17-07-2018, 01:05 PM

Kamakazi Kats and Mental as Anything - Shellharbour Workers Club 1983.

CoupeKing · 17-07-2018, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bevsta007

Iron Maiden toured here a couple of years ago..

They had thier own Jumbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQjLqq1HwT0

And the lead singer is the pilot.

First live band for me was Carcass 93/94

tranquilized · 17-07-2018, 01:36 PM

Pantera, Festival Hall, 93 (or 94?)

RIP Vinnie Paul

Tommie · 17-07-2018, 01:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ford71V8

This must be the tour after the 81 tour.
Iron Maiden didn't tour here til late 82, and by that time Bruce had replaced Dianno.

yes, you are right. It was 82.!

**solarite_guy** · 17-07-2018, 02:24 PM

Allman Brothers Band

Capitol Center, sometime in the mid 70s.

Work Horse · 17-07-2018, 02:54 PM

Wow there are some Old Coots in this thread!

Rory Gallagher, Palais Theater Melbourne, Circa 1980......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PQZCntvqU

LG17 · 17-07-2018, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Work Horse

Wow there are some Old Coots in this thread!

Rory Gallagher, Palais Theater Melbourne, Circa 1980......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PQZCntvqU

And what's wrong with being an 'old coot?'

We have lived through the best music generations ever!

Tassie f100 · 17-07-2018, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Work Horse

Wow there are some Old Coots in this thread!

Rory Gallagher, Palais Theater Melbourne, Circa 1980......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PQZCntvqU

Well I must be a very old coot!I,ve been going to live performances since the late sixties

flightstrike · 17-07-2018, 09:37 PM

Linken Park, Adelaide 2010. My ears are still ringing.....

slowsnake · 17-07-2018, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by XByoot

Saw the Oils in the Domain last November, still great! A real mixed crowd too which was good to see.

For all you Adelaide boys, have you ever been to Billy Bobs open mike nite at the Grace Emily? Man that’s a good nite out, they had some top talent on as the nite progressed, or maybe it was beer induced hahah.I think it was every Tuesday nite, been a long time, but a real fun pub.

Hello,
I spent 6 months in Adelaide in probably 1970, I had to have a year off for breaking my indenture,so off to Adelaide, stayed at Blair Athol,I remember every Sunday driving out to Granny Smiths at Gawler, too cool,during the week the Edinburgh Hotel.

Drove an FC holden down from Sydney,picked it up for 50 bucks,had no front passenger floor at all,just put some plywood over it,it blew up outside police headquarters in the city within 10 minutes of arriving,about 2am,to their credit the cops come out and pushed us off the road,got a crew to clean up the oil, then beat us up!..lol..true story, the biggest copper who was a detective just said, " we don't like long haired poofters in our town "..fair dinkum, my mate said what a nice welcome home, we just grabbed our bags and big block of hash and walked off,.hahaha..

Cheers Billy.

slowsnake · 17-07-2018, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Electrolyte Burns

Not counting the loads of "pub" bands, the first main stream band was "Queen" @ Lancaster Uni.

Hello,
Tell us about the first pub band?..

Cheers Billy.

slowsnake · 17-07-2018, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by solarite_guy

Allman Brothers Band

Capitol Center, sometime in the mid 70s.

Hello,
Had one album of theirs but lent not returned,think it was called " Dollar,gas,Dollar oil and check the Water", maybe that,I just owned it 1 day and never saw it again,but good band all the same!

Cheers Billy

slowsnake · 17-07-2018, 09:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Work Horse

Wow there are some Old Coots in this thread!

Rory Gallagher, Palais Theater Melbourne, Circa 1980......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PQZCntvqU

Hello,
One dude I never got to see,and my favourite guitarist/singer,was listening to him a few weeks ago, Bullfrog Blues, too cool, what a blast you must of had,hope you were off your face, ****ed and stoned!..lol..

Cheers Billy.

slowsnake · 17-07-2018, 10:20 PM

Hello,
When I started this thread I had an expectation of certain "Aussie pub bands" being spattered throughout this thread, I will mention them below, ok...

Spectrum
Axiom
Ariel
Company Caine
Madder lake
The Dingoes...especially with Broderick Smith on harp!
Kahvas Jute
Black feather
Sid Rumpo
Buster Brown..with Angry Anderson!
Carson...with Broderick Smith again on harp!
Chain...Matt Taylor and Phil Manning!
The Phil Manning Band
Dutch Tilders
The Foreday Riders
Lobby Lloyd and the Coloured Balls..top skinhead band!
The Ferrets
Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band
Buffalo
Max Merritt and the Meteors
Doug Parkinson In Focus
Mackenzie Theory

And of course my Aussie favourite Richard Clapton, got on the **** with him one night with another mate George "Groover" Wayne from JJ, I spent the night at the ABC studio with George chuffing on,Richard walked in and George put about 3 hours of music on and we went over to the Elephant and Castle to start, then the whole Kings Cross routine, good old days.
But I was really hoping we would get someone who had "broke their cherry" on one of the above bands!..lol..

Regards Billy

PS..keep em comin its good clean fun!

slowsnake · 17-07-2018, 10:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slowsnake

Hello,
Had one album of theirs but lent not returned,think it was called " Dollar,gas,Dollar oil and check the Water", maybe that,I just owned it 1 day and never saw it again,but good band all the same!

Cheers Billy

Hello,might of been "Check the Oil,Check the Water,Dollar Gas"

Billy.

**GO FURTHER** · 17-07-2018, 10:51 PM

I think it was this one...

Ben · 18-07-2018, 01:36 AM

Linkin Park , Sunk Loto, 1200 Techniques

Brisbane Festival Hall 2001

Bushbasher · 18-07-2018, 10:18 AM

AC/DC and Little River Band on the same bill in 1974 at the Whyalla town cinema. It was a school outing and I was 10.

Trevor 57 · 18-07-2018, 10:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slowsnake

Hello,
When I started this thread I had an expectation of certain "Aussie pub bands" being spattered throughout this thread, I will mention them below, ok...

Spectrum
Axiom
Ariel
Company Caine
Madder lake
The Dingoes...especially with Broderick Smith on harp!
Kahvas Jute
Black feather
Sid Rumpo
Buster Brown..with Angry Anderson!
Carson...with Broderick Smith again on harp!
Chain...Matt Taylor and Phil Manning!
The Phil Manning Band
Dutch Tilders
The Foreday Riders
Lobby Lloyd and the Coloured Balls..top skinhead band!
The Ferrets
Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band
Buffalo
Max Merritt and the Meteors
Doug Parkinson In Focus
Mackenzie Theory

And of course my Aussie favourite Richard Clapton, got on the **** with him one night with another mate George "Groover" Wayne from JJ, I spent the night at the ABC studio with George chuffing on,Richard walked in and George put about 3 hours of music on and we went over to the Elephant and Castle to start, then the whole Kings Cross routine, good old days.
But I was really hoping we would get someone who had "broke their cherry" on one of the above bands!..lol..

Regards Billy

PS..keep em comin its good clean fun!

I saw Lobby Lloyd a few times in inner Melbourne pubs back in the day, Skyhooks had a big Sharpie following as well

Trevor 57 · 18-07-2018, 10:50 AM

I love this song by Doug Parkinson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdwV...=RDBdwV1GgDL0M

slowsnake · 18-07-2018, 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Trev

I saw Lobby Lloyd a few times in inner Melbourne pubs back in the day, Skyhooks had a big Sharpie following as well

Hello,
I'm jealous!..lol..no I'm not just kidding, only seen him on video and he did a nice interview, seemed like a pretty cool, laid back dude.
Cool.....

Regards Billy.

PS..was going to put "sharpie" too,but stuck with skinhead, a more common name to any non Aussies reading, skinhead is worldwide,but sharps were all Aussie, I knew quite a few from around Cabramatta to Parramatta area!

Fast Eddie · 18-07-2018, 01:39 PM

Dire Straits, Sydney Ent. Centre in the Mid-80's. From memory they had a 8 concert tour at that particular Venue? Correct?

V8 Ghia Mike · 18-07-2018, 02:19 PM

Genesis, Melbourne, circa 1987 was the first stadium show I'd seen. Still, wow!

My first pub rock show was Jimmy Barnes with Johnny Diesel and the Injectors, 1987 I think. Bridge Hotel just out of Mildura. Damn it was good, maybe 1000-1500 capacity crowd and LOUD. Awesome show with Jimmy swigging on the vodka bottle and the roadies running across the stage throwing cold VB cans into the crowd. Hell of a venue back then, all the big acts used to play there. Icehouse, Noiseworks, James Reyne, The Mentals, Jenny Morris, Pseudo Echo, Wa Wa Nee (heh!), Choirboys were some others I saw there. Midnight Oil and INXS were too big back then to play there, but we were pretty spoilt for choice for a regional venue. Great times.

Trevor 57 · 18-07-2018, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slowsnake

PS..was going to put "sharpie" too,but stuck with skinhead, a more common name to any non Aussies reading, skinhead is worldwide,but sharps were all Aussie, I knew quite a few from around Cabramatta to Parramatta area!

I 'may' have been one, all I can say is that I was fairly cheesed off when my wife threw away my Conti cardigans

LG17 · 18-07-2018, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slowsnake

Hello,
When I started this thread I had an expectation of certain "Aussie pub bands" being spattered throughout this thread, I will mention them below, ok...

Spectrum
Axiom
Ariel
Company Caine
Madder lake
The Dingoes...especially with Broderick Smith on harp!
Kahvas Jute
Black feather
Sid Rumpo
Buster Brown..with Angry Anderson!
Carson...with Broderick Smith again on harp!
Chain...Matt Taylor and Phil Manning!
The Phil Manning Band
Dutch Tilders
The Foreday Riders
Lobby Lloyd and the Coloured Balls..top skinhead band!
The Ferrets
Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band
Buffalo
Max Merritt and the Meteors
Doug Parkinson In Focus
Mackenzie Theory

And of course my Aussie favourite Richard Clapton, got on the **** with him one night with another mate George "Groover" Wayne from JJ, I spent the night at the ABC studio with George chuffing on,Richard walked in and George put about 3 hours of music on and we went over to the Elephant and Castle to start, then the whole Kings Cross routine, good old days.
But I was really hoping we would get someone who had "broke their cherry" on one of the above bands!..lol..

Regards Billy

PS..keep em comin its good clean fun!

Mick Hadley and the Coloured Balls were before Lobby!

LG17 · 18-07-2018, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie

Dire Straits, Sydney Ent. Centre in the Mid-80's. From memory they had a 8 concert tour at that particular Venue? Correct?

'85 I think it was.
They were awesome concerts.
They played So Far Away in an Hawaiian Style.

Junkyard-Dog · 18-07-2018, 06:10 PM

Machine Head and Slipknot in 08.

XByoot · 18-07-2018, 06:39 PM

Remember the Kevin Borich Express? Saw him way back when. Didn’t mind Richard Clapton either. Saw the Angels at the Sundowner hotel at Punchbowl in Sydney ..sporting little venue, Bankstown sport club too. Sharon O’Neill ..what a spunk hahaha. Would have loved to see Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs.

ford71V8 · 18-07-2018, 08:58 PM

There's a bit of early Aussie rock talk here so I will mention that Rose Tattoo are touring around again soon - tix are only about $40.