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Topic: What concerts have you seen with your parents?
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BlackCloud
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posted December 21, 2003 02:57
    
Btw...thanks to Paul and Charon for the idea of this topic...Mine, as stated previously on Paul's MM thread... Cheap Trick- '82 with Saxon opening The Police- The Sychronicity tour '83 with the Thompson Twins opening. Joan Jett- '83 still supporting "I Love Rock-N-Roll" And the most recent: "The Pretenders", with "Gay Dad" opening...back in '00 -------------------- http://www.reverbnation.com/paulenglish
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Tangento
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Member # 117
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posted December 21, 2003 20:43
HA! Funny you ask. My dad was always fairly 'hip' to music in general, though he was more into Opera and Classical. One time he saw one of my Oingo Boingo albums and told me about the time he saw them back in their 'theatrical performance' days. That still blows my mind, because they were a pretty wild & raunchy bunch back then. Anyway - one time right around '82 or so he got some tickets from a client of his to see the Kinks at the Universal Amphitheater in Hollywood, and he & I went to the show. They were third row seats, and the concert was fucking excellent. They rocked way harder than I expected, my old man got me pretty hammered, and I remember Ray Davies shook up a bottle of bubbly & sprayed it all over the first few rows. It was one of the best times I ever had at a show. -------------------- "You have the option to drill additional holes in the label,
causing the record to rotate off the side of the turntable" -Tom Ellard - Severed Heads
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hypergrrl
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posted December 22, 2003 10:36
Geez, way too many to count and hypermom still goes to shows with us (well with luna and slugbutt anyway, since I don't live in my hometown anymore).Mom took us to our first concert in '79, it was KISS (although I think slugbutt may have been to a concert in the womb!!). After that, it was every show that came to town. We always knew what we were getting for our birthday's and Xmas - concert tickets!! Van Halen, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, AC/DC, The Cars, Black Sabbath, BOC, ZZ Top, Deep Purple, The Scorpions, Ozzy, Yes, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Rush, Voivod. She drove us 8 hours to Denver to see the Monsters of Rock show, shit what year was that? I think Metallica headlined that one at Bronco Stadium. She also took us to Denver to see Soundgarden in '90......come on.....help me out here siblings. She really just went along cause she liked all the music too. Thanks Mom 
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schroeder
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posted December 22, 2003 15:13
hypergrrl: a family that head bangs together stays together!!! very cool.Unfortunately I've never been to any shows with the folks, although my Dad & Stepmom came real close to seeing Porcupine Tree / Opeth with me this year. The rest of that part of the family went with me to the Philly show (step brother & 1/2 sister with her boyfriend) and enjoyed the gig a lot. They all enjoyed PT and I think my Dad gave out more PT sampler cds than I did and helped make more fans for the band!!! -------------------- yawn
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ShredTilDead
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posted December 22, 2003 20:23
My parents never went to a concert with me - they couldn't even stand to be in the same room as me when I was playing something from my record collection. (For those too young to remember, "records" are what we had before CDs. Don't worry if you've never owned any records or the device to play them on - I think it was called a "turntable" - you didn't miss much.)Anyway, back to my parents: They were into country music (ugh) when I was a teenager, so let's just say there was a culture clash in my house. They went to see Waylon Jennings one night, and asked me if I wanted to go. I didn't. They got all dressed up nicely, as if they're going out for a night at the opera or something. This was going to be their first concert. I had been to many concerts by then, my most recent being Yes, where the air was, uh, "fragrant", and the longer you stoned the more stayed you got. 'Nuff said...those of you who've seen Yes in the old days know what I'm talking about. I told my parents that they shouldn't dress up like that, because everyone except them would be consuming certain substances that would permeate one's apparel. (e.g., they'd stink like Cheech & Chong) They didn't listen, of course (just like parents - "It's country music, not rock - nothing to worry about"), and went out. They came back late that night. "How was it?", I inquired. "My God, they were smoking MARIJUANA there! That's ILLEGAL!!!" "Uh-huh...how did it smell, Dad?" "Really weird, we can't explain it." "Did you have a hit?" "Are you INSANE?!?!?!" "Next time you'll listen to me before you go to a concert again, right?" "Right! The smoke simply RUINED my turtleneck, and Mom's dress! Phew!" I still chuckle about that night, even now, many years later. -------------------- My head explodes, my ears ring, I can't remember just where I've been.
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posted December 22, 2003 11:19
The last show we all went to was Voivod/Sepultura in April! We have the best mom! 
