Electric Koolaid Acid Test definitely affected my musical tastes. Mainstream 60’s pretty much sucked but there were incredible one and two album wonders. Sorry but those 80’s bands were all a replay. We must be a decade or so apart in age.
80’s LSD. WhimpyQueen, David Bowie, Ozzy, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Def Leopard. I even had a British Flag sleeve less shirt. Never did grow my hair like many 'Posers' .
I lived in San Francisco in my late teens and got to see plenty live concerts at Cow Palace, Oakland Coluseum , and Concord Pavillion.
Bay Area has some great local bands too. Mettalica and Night Ranger, I got to see them live in an amphitheater in Downtown SF near Japan Town.
I tried LSD for the first time at a Sammy Haggar concert, I remember girls were throwing their red panties on stage even my GF. Which gave me a bad tripbut got over it.
Just reminiscent of the 80s you all.
Me too. As a kid in NY I would play to WABC which was AM and had a wide variety of unsegmented top 40. As a teen in LA I played to FM hard rock and with friends. My dad would have these huge swinger hookup parties and our bands would play in the back yard. My friends would trip out at those parties because all the men were over 6'4" and the ladies over 5'10". It was a tall club. We mostly did punk. In the Bay Area it was KMEL. There were a bunch of Bay Area bands.
Purple microdot was 250 microgram LSD.
I swear.
You're an evil evil man.
This post got me thinking, I've only seen the Doobie Bros at the Hollywood Bowl in around 1974 or so, and the Marshall Tucker Band around the same time, again somewhere in LA, and my absolute favorite live venue was Jimmy Buffet in about 1978 in Santa Barbara. That's it, for a paying fan, but I used to work for a security company years ago that provided security for events, such as concerts. So I've been at a lot of shows around SoCal but most were head banging nonsense. Thank goodness for earplugs. I did see Ricky Nelson not long before he died (rip) at the Palomino Club in North Hollywood, Ca., a very small venue and it was a free event. That was great too. Ricky looked and sounded just like he always did. Another good time. Maybe around 1980, but I'm not sure exactly. Sad when he passed so young.I've seen Priest many a time... the first being a warm up for KISS
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Judas Priest bassist Ian Hill recalled in an interview with Rock Cellar Magazine when Judas Priest had the opportunity to be the opening act for Kiss in the United States back in 1979. The musician said that it was a great opportunity and that the group learned a lot during those shows with the...rockandrollgarage.com
A tight band with always a good show and the Screaming for Vengeance tour being the pinnacle for me.
Their first 3 albums and Point of Entry are always on my playlist.
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You're gonna go there, gotta add some Captain Beefheart. Funniest description I ever heard:
'60's psychedelic and experimental was the bomb. Though I still remember laughing my tuchas off when Zappa showed up in "Head" alongside the Monkeys.
