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Groups We Have Seen Live

Godber said:
Of the modest number of bands I’ve seen play live, a couple in particular stand out. I was lucky enough to see Fleetwood Mac play with the Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham line up. I was worried I’d be disappointed as they were all around 70 at the time or close to it, but I was stunned by their performance. Lindsay Buckingham, who had the physique of a welterweight boxer, ran around for almost two hours and only left the stage once when Mick Fleetwood beat the snot out of his kit for an extended drum solo. Incredible. The other performance that stands out was by The Cult at the NEC many years ago. I’ve seen Aerosmith and David Lee Roth live (both excellent) but nothing compared to how loud they were, it was borderline laxative and at one point where blinding white lights were shone from the stage into the crowd it felt like that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Ark of the Covenant is opened and everyone melts.
Being a lot older now it’s rare I go and see a band, and there’s a lot in what she says here that makes me laugh out loud.
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When we lived in NJ our neighbors who moved there from Las Vegas were friends of Fleetwood Mac. We lived on a cul de sac and our properties boarded one another. We did get to meet them briefly at a small cook out bbq sans all the glitter. Did not know what to expect but they were far nicer than we expected. We liked their music but never saw them in concert!
 
I've seen Georgie Fame at one of Eddie Fewtrells clubs . on 10th October 1966 I saw my all time favourite group The Rolling Stones . Then after I got married the wife and I along with her sister and her husband took ourselves off to La Dolce Vita Smallbrook Ringway we saw Marmalade . The one thing that ruined it for me wasthat record they got into the charts Ob La Di never did like that record even by the group that wrote it namely The Beatles ..
 
My first concert; Led Zeppelin, Liverpool Scene & Blodwyn Pig, Birmingham Town Hall, June 1969. The programme survives (just). It's too big to attach here, so I have posted it here:
Lots more concerts followed; John Mayall, Jethro Tull, Groundhogs ... Almost got to see Captain Beefheart; I couldn't take time off work to queue for tickets at the box office (yes, that was how you did it in those days!) so my Mother, God bless her, agreed to wait in line to get me a ticket. She was successful (although she rather pointedly mentioned the funny smelling cigarettes that others in the queue were smoking) but the tour was cancelled :-(
A particular memory of the town hall was an ELO concert. A friend suggested that after the concert we should go around the back of the Town Hall to catch a glimpse of the band. Couldn't really get close because of the roadies packing gear into trucks but we did get to see a Jaguar arrive. Out of the drivers seat of the Jaguar steps Jasper Carrott and puts on a chauffeurs cap. He opens the boot and someone (who I assume was Bev Bevan) walks from the stage door and gets into the boot. Carrott closes the boot, gets back in the car and drives off!
Obviously done to amuse the watching fans but it was priceless.
 
Biscayne said:
My first concert; Led Zeppelin, Liverpool Scene & Blodwyn Pig, Birmingham Town Hall, June 1969. The programme survives (just). It's too big to attach here, so I have posted it here:
Lots more concerts followed; John Mayall, Jethro Tull, Groundhogs ... Almost got to see Captain Beefheart; I couldn't take time off work to queue for tickets at the box office (yes, that was how you did it in those days!) so my Mother, God bless her, agreed to wait in line to get me a ticket. She was successful (although she rather pointedly mentioned the funny smelling cigarettes that others in the queue were smoking) but the tour was cancelled :-(
A particular memory of the town hall was an ELO concert. A friend suggested that after the concert we should go around the back of the Town Hall to catch a glimpse of the band. Couldn't really get close because of the roadies packing gear into trucks but we did get to see a Jaguar arrive. Out of the drivers seat of the Jaguar steps Jasper Carrott and puts on a chauffeurs cap. He opens the boot and someone (who I assume was Bev Bevan) walks from the stage door and gets into the boot. Carrott closes the boot, gets back in the car and drives off!
Obviously done to amuse the watching fans but it was priceless.
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My friend and I also went to that Led Zeppelin concert at the Town Hall in June 1969. We had seen them previously earlier in that year, not very long after they had formed, at Mothers in Erdington.
 
Biscayne said:
My first concert; Led Zeppelin, Liverpool Scene & Blodwyn Pig, Birmingham Town Hall, June 1969. The programme survives (just). It's too big to attach here, so I have posted it here:
Lots more concerts followed; John Mayall, Jethro Tull, Groundhogs ... Almost got to see Captain Beefheart; I couldn't take time off work to queue for tickets at the box office (yes, that was how you did it in those days!) so my Mother, God bless her, agreed to wait in line to get me a ticket. She was successful (although she rather pointedly mentioned the funny smelling cigarettes that others in the queue were smoking) but the tour was cancelled :-(
A particular memory of the town hall was an ELO concert. A friend suggested that after the concert we should go around the back of the Town Hall to catch a glimpse of the band. Couldn't really get close because of the roadies packing gear into trucks but we did get to see a Jaguar arrive. Out of the drivers seat of the Jaguar steps Jasper Carrott and puts on a chauffeurs cap. He opens the boot and someone (who I assume was Bev Bevan) walks from the stage door and gets into the boot. Carrott closes the boot, gets back in the car and drives off!
Obviously done to amuse the watching fans but it was priceless.
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Like you with the booking and queues I used to be in the Stones fan club and I got wind they'd be at the Odeon New Street in the October this particular year we were in March at the time . Off went good old mom to get me two tickets , reaching the booking office she asked for two tickets for the Stones concert in October . The booking clerk apologised but said she had no knowledge of the concert and could not take the booking . Poor old mom although she didn't pass comment I bet she felt a fool, I did get to go to the ball as such , I think the booking office
finally got wind of it all in late August . I'd got the information from The Rolling Stones Fan Club magazine .
 
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