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Username: Maof2
Post Number: 79
Registered: 06-2008
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 8:39 pm: |    |
If you can all remember - Mine was Elton John at Olympia Stadium, 1974. Ugh - I'm getting old! |
Pam
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Username: Pam
Post Number: 4281
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 8:56 pm: | |
This can go on the Non-Detroit side.
Mine was Kiss at Cobo 1976. |
Pgn421
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Post Number: 716
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 9:06 pm: | |
KISS 76 COBO |
Thnk2mch
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Username: Thnk2mch
Post Number: 1325
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 9:12 pm: | |
KISS 1978 |
Maof2
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Username: Maof2
Post Number: 80
Registered: 06-2008
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 9:18 pm: | |
Well, either or, we're "connecting" and most concerts, back in the day, were in Detroit.
Me too, Kiss 1975, Cobo |
Django
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Username: Django
Post Number: 1395
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 9:32 pm: | |
I believe that 78 Kiss show was on my birthday, I wanted to go SOOOO bad, I still havnt forgiven my Mom for not taking me. I hate you all.
James Taylor Pine knob, about 1979. Drank my first entire beer, Bush. I was about 11.
Good thread Mao |
Ravine
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Post Number: 2468
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 9:49 pm: | |
Probably The Moody Blues at Cobo Hall, and I think 1970, or 1971, should be about right.
Van Morrison performed before they did. I had not yet grown into appreciating Big Van The Man. I enjoyed his performance O.K., though. The thing that stuck with me is that he stood, pretty much still as a statue, at the mic stand throughout the set, and as soon as he had sung the last line of his last song, he turned on his heel and walked off the stage, leaving the band to finish. My best guess is that maybe he wasn't used to singing in such places, in front of such large crowds.
The Moody Blues & Van Morrison is not really a completely off-the-wall combination, but during the next few years following that show, I did, indeed, see some odd pairings. Maybe sometime soon, I will rejoin this thread and share some of them.
I have never seen the Stones. Some folks would say that it's not too late. I would say, uh, yeah, I think it is. |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3419
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 10:04 pm: | |
Sammy Davis, Jr., at Pine Knob, around mid 60s. Years later, caught his show here at Caesars Palace several times. Then when I moved here and was hired as Chief of Security at The Fashion Show Mall, escorted him numerous times to various shops in the mall. Mostly jewelry. Super guy. Loved that smile. Miss him.
I don't do rock. |
Maof2
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Username: Maof2
Post Number: 82
Registered: 06-2008
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 10:08 pm: | |
Hey Ray, Sammy was a little guy eh? Caching! |
Jcole
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Post Number: 2556
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 10:32 pm: | |
Three Dog Night, with Brownsville Station at U of D Callahan Hall in 1972 |
Richard_bak
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Username: Richard_bak
Post Number: 83
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 10:32 pm: | |
The rock n roll revival show at Cobo in '71, the one they did that documentary on (I think). Little Richard, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, some others that I forget. Hard to believe that at the time these guys were 35 or 40 yrs. old and their hits were only 12-15 years old. Whooda thunk some of these acts would still be around nearly 40 years later, playing the same stuff? Not this kid. No way. Oldies OK, moldies not so OK. |
Grumpyoldlady
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Post Number: 174
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 10:37 pm: | |
Beatles at Olympia - I believe it was '64 & 65.
Richard_bak....I was also at a Rock N Roll Revival at Cobo in '71 or '72. Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and I can't remember who else....a girl group, maybe the Shirells. I LOVED IT. Still love the old music. |
Tammypio
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Username: Tammypio
Post Number: 177
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 10:39 pm: | |
First real concert without the rest of my family was Journey at Pine Knob in 1981 and Styx at Joe Louis, same year I believe. I was a senior in high school. Back when concert tickets were about $15 each....those were the days! |
Richard_bak
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Post Number: 84
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 10:45 pm: | |
Grumpy....yes, the Shirelles! Thanks for reminding me. I don't remember Bo Diddley, but it could've been Bo Schembechler playing on stage for all I know because my friends and I were pretty wasted that night. Wasted enough that I was dancing like a fool (is there any other way?) most of the evening. |
Maof2
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Post Number: 85
Registered: 06-2008
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 10:57 pm: | |
Rolling Stones with Billy Preston 1975, Cobo Arena, ticket cost was $9.50. I was a saver of ticket stubs sooo, I can vouch for that. I had older sisters that well, influenced me on the rock n' roll culture and then some! |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3420
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 11:04 pm: | |
Yeah, Sammy Davis was maybe 5-2 at best. But he sure was one of my favorites.
Never saw Sinatra in Vegas. Tickets were always outta sight, and a freebie never happened. |
Django
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Username: Django
Post Number: 1399
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 11:20 pm: | |
Beatles at Olympia, The Stones at Cobo. OH MAAAAAAN, wish I had those ticket stubs under glass.
Should I start a "favorite concert" thread?
I think I will. |
Oldredfordette
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Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 5060
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 11:41 pm: | |
Very first was Bobby Sherman at Edgewater Amusement Park. The first normal-ish concert The ALSAC Concert at Olympia Stadium, probably 1969 or 1970. ALSAC raised money for the St. Jude Children's Hospital, they sent kids through the neighborhoods raising dollars for Danny Thomas. Our reward was this concert. I saw Bob Seeger, Mitch Ryder, PFunk (first adult in a diaper I ever saw), Andy Kim, R. Dean Taylor, Brooklyn Bridge, and more. The coolest day. The next year it was at Cobo Hall, the first time I ever was in Cobo. Far from the last! |
Wash_man
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Post Number: 824
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 11:58 pm: | |
Styx, 1980, Jenison Field House at MSU. |
Flanders_field
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Username: Flanders_field
Post Number: 728
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 12:25 am: | |
Uriah Heep WSG Earth Wind & Fire, Cobo Hall 1973
I was at the KISS concert with a seat on the main floor at Cobo in 75 when they took the photograph for the back of their Alive! album. I was a little too far back to be seen in the picture though. |
Kathleen
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Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 2941
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 12:54 am: | |
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Cobo Arena - 1974. Bob Seger was the warmup act. |
Dday
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Username: Dday
Post Number: 905
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 1:08 am: | |
The Rockets.....wanna say 1981-82 at Pine Knob. Great show |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 13509
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 1:45 am: | |
I won tickets from WWWW for Boston's second tour at the Silverdome.
I was at that Rockets show at Pine Knob.
That was where we mooned the State Cops on the way out of the parking lot...and beforehand saw a quarter barrel roll down the center hill and PING a huge arc sixty or so feet in the air onto the pavillion.
Wasn't ours, but wasn't surprised that they killed both outside beer AND buckets of chicken in later years! |
Richard_bak
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Post Number: 85
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 8:12 am: | |
My wife mentions she and her sisters saw Paul Revere and the Raiders in the parking lot at Sears, circa 1969. Does that count?They must've been on their way out by then, eh?
Maybe Freddie and the Dreamers opened for them... |
Vic_doucette
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Post Number: 391
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 8:15 am: | |
1972 or 1973 -- Strawbs/King Crimson/Slade at Masonic Temple.
Couldn't understand then or now the logic of Slade even being on that bill, let alone headlining! |
Kimistree
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Username: Kimistree
Post Number: 161
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 9:00 am: | |
The Jackson 5, at the Olympia 1970. It was their first concert tour. The tickets were 5.50, 6.50.
I was 8 years old, and really really wanted to go and so did my cousin, but my Mom and Dad didn't want to take my cousin nor I, so they bought a ticket for one of our teenage neighbors down the street and she took us.
I remember it taking what seemed a long time for the show to start ( of course I had 8 year old kid patience) but when it did I remember sitting so still in my seat and just watching. I was mesmerized. It was a fantastic experience. |
Sarge
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Post Number: 980
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 9:42 am: | |
Ronnie James Dio and Twisted Sister at Pine Knob in the summer of 1984. |
Ragtoplover59
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Post Number: 288
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 10:01 am: | |
Well, someones got to say it. First band I recall seeing, The Blue Pigs ! about 3rd grade 
As for the real deal, I missed most of the best bands, Not that I wasn't there. By the time the opening act was finished, so was I.
I've crashed at some really great shows! |
Craig
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Username: Craig
Post Number: 903
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 10:10 am: | |
Vic - "no" to Slade? No accounting for taste, man... (I'm working with "How Do You Ride" on the headset right now)
Judas Priest at the Joe. Kind of cringing at the thought of what they'll look like at DTE in August. |
Johnlodge
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Post Number: 7676
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 10:18 am: | |
Looks like everyone here is a tad older than me
And yet I share a first concert band with Flanders Field. I saw Blue Oyster Cult/Nazareth/Uriah Heap/Wishbone Ash as my first concert. But this was in the early 90's or late 80's. Mom gave my friends and I free tickets from work, and I liked Godzilla and Don't Fear the Reaper, so why not.
A couple years ago, through a complicated series of events, I ended up scouring the town for guitar strings for Blue Oyster Cult's headless guitar, and brought them down to the riverfront for their show. They're definitely a bunch of nerds, which I loved. The singer plays World of Warcraft. |