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WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST SHOW?
I'm pretty sure my first was to get outta san lorenzo and see NO ALTERTNATIVE play at barrington with casey, the only other punk from my school (arroyo high). that musta been around '80 or '81.
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST SHOW?
I'm pretty sure my first was to get outta san lorenzo and see NO ALTERTNATIVE play at barrington with casey, the only other punk from my school (arroyo high). that musta been around '80 or '81.
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Re: Your first show?
Mon, November 1, 2004 - 2:14 AMi stood outside some great shows...
i spent some more in the bathroom...
i don't really remember actually being "at" any shows...
always outside, or in the bathroom.
i used to love the avengers, the dils (kinda), i super loved No alternative, The sleepers, The Buzzcocks/Gang of Four show was amazing (gang of four blew 'em away!) way, way back, i even liked the Mutants, the Noise, and the Lewd.
shit that was a long time ago.
My mother used to drive me to the show, and pick me up at midnight, "no later" or she would take my guitar away for a week.
hard to be a punk when you mom's outside in the volvo.
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Mon, November 1, 2004 - 11:23 AM1982 - Black Flag and the Fuck Ups at the Victoria Theater... Aaron Osier produced the show... my step father's band - THE NAKED LADY WRESTLERS were one of the opening bands. The bands played facing the backstage and the dressing rooms were where everyone was hanging out.
My step father's ex-wife, Linda (who used to book the Berkeley Square) and I went throught the whole club to see if I was the one with the longest hair in the venue. I was.
I wore a black satin jacket that looked like a motorcycle jacket and my best friend and I had written in gold pen on the back "David Bowie/Adam Ant the Ants/The Exploited/Charged GBH/Dead Kennedy's/etc...."
I remember one hardcore girl coming up and saying "Adam and The Ants shouldn't even be near the Exploited!"
What did I know?
The funnies part of the show was that we brought my aunt who was visiting from Ohio who sang in a country western band. -
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Mon, November 1, 2004 - 11:41 AMThe Clash w/ Malcolm McClaren and Los Lobos in SF in 1984 was my first. -
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Mon, November 1, 2004 - 9:18 PMLet's see, that was sooo many doses ago... ;)
The Circle Jerks, ("L.A.'s) Wasted Youth, The Lewd, Revenge and maybe someone else at Bleaks Hall (Underneath the Culinary Academy).
We then wandered over to Target and saw someone else (that I have no recollection of at all).
I believe this was sometime in 1980.
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Tue, November 2, 2004 - 1:34 AMBoy that hardcore girl had no sense of humor...
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Wed, November 3, 2004 - 3:03 AMi was at that show...
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Wed, November 3, 2004 - 4:18 PMWhat the hell happened to Aaron Osier? He worked at the Ren Faire for years - I saw him there every year - he was another hardcore punk who was consistently cool to me despite my having long brown hair. -
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Thu, November 4, 2004 - 3:45 AMDo you mean Aaron Orser?
blonde, calm, super cool. had a buzz cut, and for one summer a double mohawk, but mostly it was stubble head? -
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Sun, November 7, 2004 - 3:55 AMI have his phone number if you want to call and catch up...
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Tue, November 16, 2004 - 9:39 AMAaron really inspired me to be more "punk"!
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Sat, November 6, 2004 - 8:40 PMI was in the fucking Navy most likely in the Brig.... -
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Sun, November 7, 2004 - 8:33 AMwhoops 82 I may have been there....I was already kicked out a the Navy the year before....or I was in Santa Cruz....
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Mon, November 1, 2004 - 9:37 PMYa know I can't remember....no really.....
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Thu, November 11, 2004 - 9:19 AMDoes Collage, the new wave cover band from Modesto count? I used to go to their shows and raise hell. One night a follower of the local metal cover band, Lights, had me against a wall threatening me and telling me to leave town. Those were the days... -
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Thu, November 11, 2004 - 9:38 AMHey why not? My first show was Deranged Diction in Missoula. so why not?
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Wed, November 17, 2004 - 1:35 PMI think my first true show was the Mutants at the Stone. Next was the Nuns at the Mab. Then maybe X at the California Hall. Then everything becomes a blur...
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Tue, November 16, 2004 - 9:43 AMMy 1st show was at Barrington Hall.
1979? 1980?
The Zeros
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the Dead Kennedys
I saw a guy with glow-in-the-dark tennis shoes and thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen.
I saw the Talking Heads at sproul plaza with my mom in 1979, they didn't play Psycho Killer because of the Dan White riots earlier that week. Does that count? -
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Tue, November 16, 2004 - 3:03 PMOk - if we're counting the Talking Heads, I saw them at the Boarding House on Thanksgiving in 1979. There was a full dinner and then the band came out to play - I was 11. My parents are exceeded their cool quotient a long time ago. -
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Wed, November 17, 2004 - 9:54 AMhmm, first punk show, hard to say but probably '83, Suicidal Tendancies at Ruthies or Circle Jerks at The Fab Mab in SF in '82? Worked at KALX '83-'84 so saw lots then. -
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Tue, December 7, 2004 - 12:34 AMErik Jones took me to see the Toiling Midgets practice somewhere I can't remember in 1982, so I guess that is close...after that I'd say it must have been the same year, The Nuns or Anti-Nowhere League at the On Broadway? Fuck! I'll have to check my diary :)
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Wed, December 8, 2004 - 12:55 PMMy first show was when I was 14 or 15 at 10th Street Hall where I saw The Circle Jerks and I forget who else. I remember thinking "gee, people are so friendly - they pick you up when you get knocked over dancing!" -
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Wed, December 8, 2004 - 1:17 PMpunks were friendly, at least bay area ones. -
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Wed, December 8, 2004 - 1:27 PMMy friend Patrick who first entered the scene in Philly where he is from said the same about the east coast too, LA on the other hand.... -
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Wed, December 8, 2004 - 1:32 PMyeah, LA was rough with tough gangs like ppm. -
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Wed, December 15, 2004 - 10:13 PMI was in 7th grade and running around the streets at that age, I was with my cousin who was just getting into highschool and running around with the "tough" crowd. My parents and his had some function to go to, so that left us bored. His friends came by and they wanted to hangout outside this concert venue in the Fillmore dist. - of course I tagged along. It was Winterland and the band was the SEX PISTOLS.
Technically, we were only at the front door, but the crowd and the vibe struck a cord in me ever since. So my first "real" punk show was the DKs a few years later at my Uncle Ness' place the Mabuhay Gardens. (and yes, seriously, he was an 'uncle' -not by blood, but back then, all Filipinos that my parents knew, we called them aunts and uncles).
sorry for the "winded" post, but man are the memories coming back.
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Fri, February 18, 2005 - 8:30 PMIt has to be Flipper and Social Unrest in Sacramento or X and the Contractions at the On Broadway. no, probably the Contractions at the Berkeley Square. Gang of Four and Wall of Voodoo at the Kabuki, Black Flag at the On Broadway, the Mau Maus at the Fab Mab, etc. It must have been 1981/1982. When I moved to berkeley in 1983, we would see shows every weekend. I have photos of Stevo in the Vandals and Kid Congo Powers in Gun Club, but no scanner. 1983/4 Barrington Hall, Berkeley had quite the sub culture going. malcolm
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Sun, February 26, 2006 - 9:39 PMOk, I'm new here and just found the archive posts. So I'm bumping this up.
I'm a "2nd generation punk," because my first show wasn't until May of 1980. I wasn't skilled yet at taking the bus to the city yet. Yeah, bridge & tunnel crosser... figured out quickly though.
My first show was PIL, Flipper, and the Toiling Midgets at the ___ Cultural Center. Forget what it was called, but it's near the Galleria. I had been hanging out with some skater kids (Kathy & Kevin O'Connor, John Marsh, John, Joey) and at least THEY knew how to get to and around the city. What I loved about that first show was how friendly people were to me. I felt like a geek, since that's how I always felt, but everyone was so welcoming. I was really surprised by that. I remember that I was standing in line with Denz and he introduced me to people. It was great being 15 and exploring...everything was new. It was the first time that I fit in anywhere, or I rather I should say that fitting in didn't matter. We were all geeks and the rules were different. -
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 9:42 AMRamones '78..
free show at the Ciivic Park ..
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 11:46 AMMmm, my first show was the Jackson 5 at the Circle Star Theater, and I was 5 :) -
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 12:24 PMWell if you mean first, first show...
It was the Bee Gees at the Cow Palace.
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 12:53 PMwow the beegees & micheal jackson huh???
ok then i guess i have to admit to my REAL fisrt show, was a Day on The Green...'76 with The Eagles, Steve Miller Band & Heart.... I saw the Frampton comes alive tour the same summer.... My oldest brother put his foot down after that and brought me to Tom Petty '77 and the Stones '78 -
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 1:01 PMomg dude I was so there.. I think I did all the day on the greens that year but the first one had to be maybe kiss and cheap trick at the cow palace... first punk show was at the international cafe in berkeley although I had been to some parties before that.. anybody remember 330 grove or the A hole? -
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 1:05 PMNO WAIT it was bowie ... young americans.. uhhh
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Wed, April 19, 2006 - 3:55 PMI saw Cheap Trick open for Kiss at the Cow Palace in about '75-'76, same show? As far as punk shows it'd have to be Black Flag at the On Broadway, Twist and Scream opened for them...
Grim Jim
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Tue, December 30, 2008 - 10:32 PMa-hole?...afterhours place on 3rd@bryant?
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 1:21 PMHaha! I saw Frampton on that tour at Oakland Auditorium Arena (later the Henry J. Kaiser Center?), but my first ever concert was George Harrison and Ravi Shankar at the Cow Palace in (I think) 1974. I was a 9 year-old Beatlemaniac and made my mommy take me. -
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 2:11 PMBowie was your first EVER!!
you are WAY TOO cool!!
the Frampton concert was the first time I smoked marijuana....(dammit where is my bong?)
BUTT I don't think you can count Beatle Mania as a FREAKIN concert!!!
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 2:37 PMI never saw Beatlemania, I saw George Harrison. I am pretty sure that counts, if anyone's counting. -
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 3:11 PMthey better not be....(counting)
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 3:21 PMI saw Beatlemania in new york city with my mother when i was 11...
I didn't have beatlemania, and I still don't. So it wasn't realyl something I completely understood.
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 3:43 PMhahahahahhahahhahahahahahahhahhahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaahaha
The Igg is more of a religous following..
ok my fucking roof is leaking... gotta bail
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 6:23 PMLOL...My mom wanted to go see Beatlemania and wanted me go with her. I'm not a Beatles fan by any stretch. Anyway, I remember my mom being kinda surprised by the all nudie scene at the end. She didn't know she was taking me to a full-frontal musical! -
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 8:16 PMMy first show was either Beach boys, Boxtops and the Barracuda'sall together at the Bangor Auditorium or that band that did Inagoddadavida? What were they called? My big brother loved taking his two little sisters with him to shows. It really made a dent on me. -
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Tue, February 28, 2006 - 4:20 PMIron Butterfly? duuuuude! yeah! -
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Tue, February 28, 2006 - 4:31 PMI knew... but i wasn't gonna say...
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Tue, February 28, 2006 - 5:05 PMI started early...it's a swindle!
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 9:33 AMI grew up living on 11th ave. next door to the flamin groovies--so i saw them a few times in the 60's ( i turned 5 in 1970) I remember the fillmore and a light show and getting locked in a room upstairs witht he guitar players daughter(LYNCH)--I am told I was at the winterland show when the CREAM live recording was made but I dont remember that -saw benny goodman at the circle star a few times(autographs and all tht) went to one day on the green (aerosmith,nuget,acdc?)--but those were CONCERTS.... the first show I went to was X at the russian center..I think it was about a week before the show at BLEAKS that aleph mentions,I went to that one as well--lewd wasted youth were the bands I rememberd from that show and also at that show was the first appearence of the NAZI PUNK FUCK OFF armbands..ahh I feel so old...and forgotton so old like johnnyroton, my hairs too long and sos my set..(name that tune!!!) -
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 10:08 AMSure wrote: "...but those were CONCERTS.... the first show I went to was X at the russian center."
Thank you for making that distinction between shows and concerts. If I had to name one thing (just one) that made punk rock REVOLUTIONARY it's that the lines between performer and audience were blurred, if not erased. You did not need to be musically skilled to be in a band, you just needed to have the desire and willingness to act, usually prompted by having something to SAY (or not, as the case may be.) So yeah, it was shows not concerts.
I was as the X show at the Russian Center. One of the things I remember was that there were "new romantics" there en masse. Being the scrappy SF punks that we were, it was a bit head-turning. They were beautiful in their ruffles and bows (the men and the women.) But I remember thinking, "where did they all come from?" I was struck by their visual appearance. Then again, I also remember distinctly hearing Exene sing backwards when the pink gel finally kicked in. What a night. -
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 10:33 AMthe first time I saw The Cramps was at the Russian Center....
talk about the beginning of an era for me!!!
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Fri, March 10, 2006 - 10:52 AMHey Guys - I remember that X show at the Russian Center. That nite my friends and I were introduced to the Pink Gel acid that sent us all to the loony bin. I remember walking thru the streets tripping like crazy and standing in a doorway for a shop called "echo" and we all stood and chanted "echo echo echo" like a bunch of whack jobs. Then we were walking on some more and a cop pulled up and asked if we were okay and we were all so high we could not respond. Somehow we did not end up in jail because that would have been a bad trip indeed. The other thing I remember about that night was that someone threw thier shirt up in the air during the show and it turned into a bird and flew away. I swear to god. Little g. -
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Fri, March 10, 2006 - 11:56 AMHey Jody, do you remember when we were hanging on the street with that young black kid who thought we were so entertaining? I remember him saying to Frank, "Yo hair be going POOF!" And we were so high and laughing that he just joined in with our merriment. -
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Fri, March 10, 2006 - 1:23 PMyes, and he had his friend wind him up and he did the perfect robot dance for us. do you remember the next day when we were coming down we took the bus into Mill Valley and we were w/Frank and Peter and Jonathan and we were trying to walk up to Bill Graham's house to crash a party he was supposed to be having? also, peter was still really high and he peed in front of the der'weinershnitzel (sp?)???? this shit cracks me up! -
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Fri, March 10, 2006 - 3:10 PMThe Emperor is a distant relative... -
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Fri, March 10, 2006 - 3:20 PMNO WAY!!!!!!!!
I am big into the history of SF....
for those unaware Emperor Norton was one of the oringinal "characters" of the water front in SF in the 1800s
he proclaimed himself as Emperor Of San Francisco and had his own money printed..
you are one hella cool dude Mr Cheez!!
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Tue, December 30, 2008 - 10:38 PMhahaha,i remember that ....he said..(verbatim) "everyone elses hair look all wilted an'shit an yours be all poof" ...it really cracked us up as we were coming on to the notriuos "pink gel"acid....oh and excuse me folks for posting on such an old thread,i'm just really fucking bored
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Fri, March 10, 2006 - 12:55 PMJody, do you remember going to Barrington Hall with me and Juneko? You had been to many shows, but wasn't that your first punk show with us?
memories...god, I love you so much! You'll always be my soul sistah!
xxxooo -
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Fri, March 10, 2006 - 1:19 PMYes, I do remember that - I think we saw Flipper that nite and I don't remember who else... the beginning, how young and corrupt we were!
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Sun, April 30, 2006 - 4:03 PMYeah--cops were following us because we were standing huddled close in a circle looking down at the ground. There was a rotten piece of food that was swarming with bugs. I always hallucinated crawling bugs and the rest of us were so high we couldn't figure out whether they were real or not. When we saw the cops, we started walking real fast trying to act 'non-chalant.' They yelled at us to stop & come over there. When we all started walking towards the cop car, one of them yelled "Halt! ONE of you come here now." So the guy we were with--Eric from LA--went over and somehow managed to convince the cop that we were just lost. They went on their way.
I remember the kid doing the robot ('wind me up') really freaked Frank out. Funny.
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Mon, February 27, 2006 - 11:35 PMThe Osmonds & KC & the Sunshine Band at the Angels Stadium in Anaheim, CA.
Second one was Alice Cooper. (I think it was the Million Dollar Babies Tour).
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Tue, February 28, 2006 - 3:07 PMElvis Costello at Buffalo State College probably in 1977. I had no idea who we was but my friend's older brother said he was cool so that was good enough for me. He rocked by the way and walked on the tabletops right by us. Then I started seeing stadium shows (allman bros, blue oyster cult) and it was only years later that i started going to punk shows. -
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Wed, May 3, 2006 - 9:21 PMi must apologize to ross, the best guy i know, he is sweet, generous, and my best friend
and he doesnt sleep with men
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Wed, May 3, 2006 - 9:27 PMWhat ARE you muttering on over there about, Glenn? ;)
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Fri, March 3, 2006 - 12:11 PMFirst Stadium show: Day on the Green '76 in Oaktown. It was Sammy Hagar, Randy Hansen, REO speedwagon, and Blue Oyster Cult. :-p July 4th, ppl were throwin M-80s into the big concrete alcoves and the noise was gnarl.
First punk show? The Sleepers at the Savoy Tivoli in North Beach, and with J'ellin we went to Siouxsie, Black Flag. and DOA at the California Hall -
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Fri, March 3, 2006 - 12:18 PMI almost remember that show???
I think that was the first time I did speed....
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Sun, March 5, 2006 - 3:02 AMNice! Doing speed at day on the green.
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Sun, March 5, 2006 - 10:17 AMDo Day On The Green show really count? I saw Peter Friggin Frampton at one. However, at 45, I have to say that bands I would never admit liking I now respect for their musicianship. Oh yeh, we took in a cat living near Jennifers work, so I guess we we have the two kids required to be upstanding and respectable citizens. Oh joy! Did I mention we drive to Costco in our Subaru Station Wagon. Go figure (yet I wouldn't trade my life now for any moment of glory from the past. Dinner soon Rob? Hey does anyone elso out there do animation in Maya or XSI? Computer animation is a passion of mine. I AM SUCH AND NERD AND SO VERY NERD PROUD
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Mon, March 6, 2006 - 2:14 PMsorry to have miss led you Rob...
I meant that the first time i did speed was at Siouxie & The Banchees...
the first time I smoked pot was at that Peter Frampton show.. (not so surprising)
BUT WAIT!
I did do cross tops at some rock festival in LA(78).... my cousin down there had me hide all the drugs in my bra (14 at the time) ... sooo technically...I guess that WAS the first time I really did speed..
ofcourse those that know me.... know I could fit about a 1/4 Lb. in there without anyone noticing...
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Mon, March 6, 2006 - 2:26 PMJoEllen,
thank you for clearing this up. i feel so much better now.
you really are a treasure!
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Mon, March 6, 2006 - 4:43 PMyes a treasure chest.....
some might say....
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Mon, March 6, 2006 - 9:55 PMIt's really kinda comforting to talk about cross tops, and bong hits at 'day on the green' in a weird way...
these days that conversation is more about how the oxyconton didn't have enough of an effect at 'shred-fest 06' because your doctor upped the dosage of wellbutrin a few months back.
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Tue, March 7, 2006 - 5:31 AMFor me, first concert, Todd Rundgren (Todd is God) and Utopia at the Greek in L.A. My dad called and said it was his daughter's first concert and somehow got me and my friend David 8th row seats (in the SEVENTIES, mind you, at the GREEK!)
He flipped out a guitar pick, and, I swear to God this is true, it bounced off my heart... I patted around the ground desperately to find it for a minute and then decided even being touched by something that had touched Todd was enough.
The best was I came home and found the guitar pick in my purse. That thought took me through some dark days. :) -
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Tue, March 7, 2006 - 5:17 PMi thought Iggy was god......
at least he is in my little world.....
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Tue, March 7, 2006 - 6:57 PMIggy was not known to me at the time. But I came around.... -
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Wed, March 8, 2006 - 9:11 AMThe first time I saw Mr. Pop I swear the earth shifted on it's axis. I think that was on Geary street, Temple Beautiful or Fillmore? Anyone remember that show? Yes, the Fillmore!
That might have been the most intense show (or is it concert?) I have ever been at. Of course he walked on my shoulders. And I knew there was nothing else in the world that this man can do except for what he was doing at that moment.
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Wed, March 8, 2006 - 3:42 PMI've sadly _never_ seen Mr. Pop but about six weeks after I left my employ at Rasputins and moved to L.A. one of my wonderful (and gorgeous) customers wrote me a very livid letter about how he just discovered Fun House for the first time and HOW IS IT THAT I NEVER TURNED HIM ON TO THIS STUFF!????
I played it in the store, I swear I did, in fact it was one of my desert island record picks at the time. You can never do enough for some people ;)
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Wed, March 8, 2006 - 4:02 PMMake your amends though us, by sharing:
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Wed, March 8, 2006 - 7:03 PMI could either have a nervous breakdown thinking about that or throw out the first three that came to mind,
DESERT ISLAND PICS March 8, 2006:
The first remains what it was then: Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks.
Then Funkadelic "One Nation Under a Groove"
then Buena Vista Social Club (same title, I believe).
Todd, alas, is no longer my God. But I still love him anyway.
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Wed, March 8, 2006 - 8:55 PMShoot. I should have chosen something by Leonard Cohen. See where this kind of thing will lead me into an emotional hell forever? -
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Wed, March 8, 2006 - 10:48 PMCd's being so small, and mp3 players holding a minimum of 1,000 songs these days, the desert island list could have 1,000 titles on it.
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Wed, March 8, 2006 - 10:54 PMI limit myself to three in my last holdout of masochism, okay? :) -
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Thu, March 9, 2006 - 1:51 AMOk, Ok...
* backs up slowly, smmiling, trying to be nice *
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Fri, March 10, 2006 - 11:19 AMcheezy you DO ROCK!!!!
I don't think I know you but..... I could...
anyone that has pics of Emperor Norton....
fucking ROCKSSSSSSS
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Thu, March 9, 2006 - 5:40 PMthe first time I saw The Ig was at The Old Waldorf '81... Its on video (so is my wrist band)
he played the next night at the On Broadway...
oh... and he sang to me BOTH NIGHTS!!!
last time i saw him was at the Warfield... 10 or so years ago...
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Mon, March 20, 2006 - 12:16 AMlol me too, you provided it, it was also the LAST time I did it knowingly, thank god! -
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Mon, March 20, 2006 - 10:11 AMHEY Adventure!!!
do I have a new memorie of you being in the girls bathroom in Calif Hall doing speed with me & Lee Ann?????
I was always always turning my freinds onto "all the fun stuff" somebody else was turning me onto..
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Re: Your first show?
Sat, March 4, 2006 - 8:10 AMGeez Rip,
I don't even remember playing there. Of course most of the 1980's are a blur. A tribute to better living through organic chemistry. My first show was the Hoi Paloi (misspelled). I was stunned that you could make noise and music at the same time. Their singer was so pale and skinny. Great role model.
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Tue, March 14, 2006 - 4:04 PMThe Ramones and The Red Rockers at the Warfield around 1980ish. Had to be right after End Of The Century was released so '80 would be correct. Great show and I got one of Johnny's picks that he flipped into the crowd. -
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Fri, March 17, 2006 - 8:59 PMI want to add a nice in the now moment to my first concert being Todd Rundgren.
I was in the supermarket today and they played his "I saw the light in your eyes" and at first I was smiling and then I was crying.
So... there you go and Happy St. Patty's.
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Wed, March 22, 2006 - 4:07 PMThe Nuns, Widowmaker and Dictators. late 76 or early 77 The Nuns blew both bands away first punk rock band I heard and it changed my taste in music. The Ramones may have played that show but I do not remember.
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Wed, April 26, 2006 - 11:58 AMIf anyone can remember that...they weren't drunk enough!! -
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Sun, April 30, 2006 - 4:16 PMOh yeah, I was pretty drunk AND I remember. I'm not sure if that's a blessing or a curse.
Dead Kennedys after hour show at the Hell Hole...the night of the infamous raid. Cheryl and I told our moms we were spending the night at each other's houses. We hung out at the Mab (that was the first time I saw the guy who stole my heart for a year Egan, from Half Moon Bay) then walked to the Hell Hole. All our friends were arrested that night. I remember seeing Jolie (JoEllen being led off in handcuffs). The rest of the night after that was spent in that lovely central bus terminal with some asshole talking nonstop while Cheryl and I were trying to fucking sleep on a bench.
Second show--Rat's Palace on Natoma, Halloween 1980. Black Flag, Impatient Youth, No Alternative, The Woundz, The Nubs ("Hey Folks, I just took a piss, I slit my wrists, I feel like a fish..."). It was my 14th birthday and it was where I first met Ken and Lafron Ifrom the East Bay, I think--what ever happened to them?), Lee Ann and Ethan. I distinctly remember lying on the hood of Lee Ann's little Fiat or what ever the hell it was.
Maud, damn girl, it's good to hear from you! -
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Sun, April 30, 2006 - 6:12 PMoh my god...
someone that calls me Jolie......
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Re: Your first show?
Tue, May 9, 2006 - 5:42 PMMy first show was X, Translator and the Uptones at the Kabuki in SF...I think it late 83 or early 84. My 2nd was the Clash, Los Lobos gig that was mentioned by someone earlier. -
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Re: Your first show?
Wed, May 10, 2006 - 3:31 AMI remember that show! I hated the Kabuki(Bill Graham Productions) because of their two drink minimum policy... The Old Waldorf did that too... As a revovering alcoholic, it's kind of ironic that I was underage until '83 and they were pushin' the shit on you... Not that it mattered really, I was destined to do it anyway, along with all the other drugs... I'm lucky to be alive, like most of us on this tribe... -
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Wed, May 10, 2006 - 7:03 AMI remember those two drink minimums as well, and I was underage forever because I left home at 17... so I was ordering above high retail grapefruit juice for many years.
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Wed, May 10, 2006 - 2:15 PMI used to be queen of sneaking stuff in (although cause of my deep voice & big jugs I mostly talked my way into being over 21).... at The Old Waldorf I could always sneak 1/2 pint in.. so our two drinks would be sodas that we would spike... -
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Wed, May 10, 2006 - 4:07 PMIt's funny how your perception of yourself changes. I was so humiliated by being carded once that for me it was just easier to wait it out... and then on my birthday this year my sister gave me some $$$ to buy myself a bottle of champagne when I dropped her off at the airport. Went to Trader Joes and was semi CARDED (the manager came up to scold the very young man ringing me up for not asking for my ID.) I said, "I'm 43 YEARS OLD TODAY!"
The manager looked at me and said, "You do NOT look 43. Happy birthday to YOU!"
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Thu, May 11, 2006 - 8:09 AMLast time I got carded was at the Zeitgeist where the bouncer informed me that he was doing me a "fucking favor" after looking at my birthdate. You gotta love the place, the warmth of it all...
OK so long as we're talkin' concerts in addition to shows, technically my first "concert" was in Disneyland with my family seeing Elvin Bishop (Fooled around and fell in love...). That was either '75 or '76. First REAL rock concert was Queen, Oakland Arena, 1977 with older sis. I was 10 years old. Tickets were $6 and we had great seats. My friends at the time, were all Queen fans and they were so jealous--refused to talk to me about it. The problem was that they were all the eldest siblings in the family, so they didn't get to go to concerts until they were much older.
Thank god for older siblings (mine were 8 & 10 years older than me) who lead us down the path of rock n roll temptation.
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Re: Your first show?
Thu, May 25, 2006 - 10:33 PMi tried to get into the talent show in 5th grade playing "strutter" by kiss.
denied!
at 10 i saw a not-yet-known band called van halen open for black sabbath at the cow palace.
at 13 i saw DOA open for stiff little fingers at the old waldorf.
my first punk gig.
by 14 i played my first show at the mab.
talk about DIY.
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Thu, May 25, 2006 - 10:35 PMwont anybody cop to having seen the plasmatics? -
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Re: Your first show?
Fri, May 26, 2006 - 2:05 AMI never saw the plasmatics, never liked them... never thought wendy o'williams was a hottie, or that they were even a punk band. They sounded more like a big-time rock band to me. Only real "rock" band I ever liked was Motorhead.
But I did like how they did the "1-2-3-4" in Japanese. That was cool. -
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Fri, May 26, 2006 - 8:24 AMI will cop to having seen the Plasmatics. At the Keystone Berkeley, probably in 80 or 81. They did the thing during "Butcher Baby" where they brought the TV on stage and she smashed it with a sledgehammer. They were like the Village People of punk; some enterprising manager type saw a movement, assembled a random group of people, got the costumes, and took that show on the road. Not so different from Bow Wow Wow or Adam and the Ants or Sigue Sigue Sputnik, or (heresy!) the Pistols, really (because McLaren really is the master of this particular swindle), but without the sense of humor. And like Rob says, the Plasmatics were a boring band to listen to. -
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Fri, May 26, 2006 - 8:32 AMI was going to say "I LOVE Adam and the Ants", but now I can't think of a single song except his hit (and I don't even want to name that before googling it after thinking recently that The Cars were responsible for "My Sharona"!)
I loved the name of the band Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
And I really didn't care if the Sex Pistols were a swindle. Or punk for that matter. I just liked them for everything, McLaren, fashion and all.
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Fri, May 26, 2006 - 8:57 AMOMG Sigue Sigue Sputnik! I have great pics of them from the Stone.... Shoot it up... Shoot it up...... oh hell no. Elaine you rock my world! Now I can get that damn Bon Jovi song out my head! -
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Fri, May 26, 2006 - 12:04 PMThe first "band" I ever saw was when me and my buddy Timmy cut class to go see Yesterday and Today play at lunch time in the quad of a Hayward high school. I think I was either in 7th or 8th grade.
My first punk show was Social Unrest, Impatient Youth and Antrax at Weeks park rec center in Hayward.
Myself and the people I went with all had to run home because the local gang bangers were cruising around looking for punks to beat up. During the show they got a hold of one guy and worked him over pretty well.
The stuff we had to deal with for being a punk.......
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Fri, May 26, 2006 - 8:30 PMI saw Adam and the Ants open up for Siousxie and the Banshees. To be fair, they were ok. Nothing amazing, kinda singy-songy. The moment was when someone hawked up a nice loogie and spit it on Adam's leather pants. He stopped, and dabbed his pinkie into the spit, tasted it, and then said "Oh honey, that went out years ago..." and then went into the next song.
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Sun, May 28, 2006 - 8:20 PMit was the police, on halloween with frigging iggy pop opening.\
i went with my jr hi friends cybelle c and vicky. if anyone remebers that movie times square, about teenage runaways, we dressed w/garbage bags as our dresses. my my iggy was great, really sexy. -
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Sun, May 28, 2006 - 8:21 PMoh, and i wish to god i had seen the plasmatics, i think i was grounded when they played. -
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Sun, May 28, 2006 - 8:24 PMi just go on and on don't i. the first real punky type show i saw was black flag, no alternative, and i think sick pleasure at barrington hall. -
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Sun, May 28, 2006 - 10:20 PMMutants @ Fab Mab on a Sat. night. Fritz and his planetarium pointer. I was slowly pulled through the crowd song by song until I was pogoing up front, and had to come back the next night.
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Not the Plasmatics?
Fri, May 26, 2006 - 3:08 PMOkay, Andy, I did. I'll cop to it. Longshoreman's Hall. And I LOVED IT!!
Major impression on me. A true role model, something to aspire to. Still trying to as a matter of fact. -
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Re: Not the Plasmatics?
Tue, December 30, 2008 - 10:52 PMmy first punk show was the sex pistols at winterland w/the avengers and the nuns....my first show ever was kiss w/cheap trick at the cow palace....and i hated the plasmatics(if they came out today ...i would be convinced they were formed by hot topic) .. and to add insult to injury,their name replaced "devo" and "faggot" as the word of choice for meatheads to shout out of their cars at me and freinds...for me, their music sucked and i always thought wendy o williams was butt ugly
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