Final Winter Off-Topic From Me

I was a huge Jim Croce fan!!!

Hey, don't laugh, it is what it is!

It is true, I've still got this one!

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Thanks for starting this Krak, I just pulled out my old vinyls, throws me back in time. I still have a turntable and am now reliving my past through music.
Good times. Funny how music can just take you back...

Those albums are all bringing back some great memories...except maybe Woody's "The Singing Logger". I can't remember which year that was in the Top Ten!


Krak, since you posted the AC/DC album I thought I'd mention - they are playing in Minneapolis tonight and my son is at the concert right now!

Julie

LUCKY!!!!!!!!

That's one band I always wanted to see back in the day, but never got around to it.

For you Scorpions fans, the original "Lovedrive" cover was pretty wild for an 18-year old, if you'll recall! I won't post it, though.

Umm... I had the "privelige?" of seeing Poison, Jo John SebastianSebastian Bach, and some guy named Docken this past summer with my wife and two teen age kids!

Not my choice, I was hijacked by the female members in the household, wife and daughter, to go see the show at Hershey Pa.

What the heck were they thinking!

I think my hearing should be about normal before the baseball season returns!

The things we do for family!

oops!- I meant Sebastian Bach- john Sebastian with the above would have REALLY been weird!

Iheartbb- saw Jethro Tull in 1970 or so with the opening band THE EAGLES !!!!!!!! They were awesome, it's hard to believe it's been so long and I've gotten so old! The Eagles were new at the time but you could hear they were really talented.

"Umm... I had the "privelige?" of seeing Poison, John Sebastian, and some guy named Docken this past summer with my wife and two teen age kids!"

K-Complex, that is one of the oddest combinations of performers I've ever seen. Was this one concert? Didn't John Sebastian sing "Welcome Back, Kotter"?

Sorry- see above- Sebastian Bach!

I am still delirious!

As a Ranger season ticket holder, as a teen, I got to see Led Zep, The Who, ELP, and others at will whenever the played at the Garden.

We simply kept our exhibition or other unused tickets, went to the concert desired, handed the hockey ticket with a crisp 5 dollar bill to the friendly ushers, and enjoyed the show!!

Listening to Stairway to Heaven live was sure better than a meaningless exhibition game against the California Golden Seals!

My favorite album & cover. The refracting prism. I've owned this album in all formats since a teenager.

There's no equal to The Floyd. My favorite era of the Floyd is from the Atom Heart Mother thru the Animals period. 70-77.

Before my senior year in HS, I took the Eastern Shuttle (my first flight) to NYC after reading that half of the Beatles would be in this concert. I had some money saved up and it delayed my first car purchase a little, but the show was awesome. I found a scalper and paid $40 to see the second performance. I hitch-hiked from LaGuardia and got a ride all the way to the 125th St subway station in Manhattan. Took the train back home the next day. I had a general idea where Madison Square Garden was and had no problems what-so-ever.

Aside from some great choices already posted, a few more fond memories...

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This is NOT my favorite album cover. In fact, I disliked it so much at the time that I never bought it, even though I really wanted to. Great music. The image creeped me out sooooo much. It still does. And I still can't buy it.

In the past seven years, I have gotten to know one of the horn guys from the Ides pretty well and have become almost a "groupie" of the band, going to many of their concerts. They are terrific, by the way, and ALL original band members, 4 of them together since 1964! They are all really very nice--and I cannot understand why they would have chosen this as their first album cover.



I don't know that I have a "favorite" album cover, valued for the album art alone. The "image" of what it represents means more to me....and so I would have to say this one:

This was the first album that I owned. My collection of vinyl albums grew to over 500.

I was a big fan of pre-Bruce Dickinson Maiden (Paul D'Anno is superior IMO), though I did like Run to the Hills, and The Number of the Beast quite a lot.

"Eddie", the perenially-deteriorating mascot for the boys, is one of the most recognizable 'figures' in rock history.

Jerseydad,

We must have been raised in the same era.

Ah, the memories, REO, Rush, Kansas, Boston. I will add one more, Styx. I almost flipped when I heard Rush coming out of the sound system from my senior son's truck. He loves them.

jerseydad,
That Chicago Transit Authority cover brings back memories of those trumpets and the first concert I ever went to back at the old Spectrum. In a couple of months that will be a memory also.

RUSH - my first concert ever, winter 1979, down at Detroit's Cobo Hall. Incredible show. Their first live album is one of my all-time favorites, and "2112" from the same is just an amazing musical event.

REO - also a great first live album - You Get What You Play For. "Golden Country" is an awesome live song (and relevant once again with Obama's inauguration, IMO). One of my favorite guitar solos ever is "Gary's Guitar Solo" from that same album. It has been inexplicably left off of the CD version, and I have never found it anywhere on the web as an mp3. Fortunately I still have the album....just no record player (yet).

This thread does bring back memories. I saw many of the groups listed thus far in concert. Kansas was very good live. My first concert was in 1973 and I was 13 years old. We went with my friend's sister and my parents never questioned it. It was a group we had never heard of before and they had one hit called Rock & Roll All Night and Party Everyday. At the time, it was rather shocking.

Yes had some of the best musicians I have seen. Steve Howe was awesome.

ZZ Top was a disappointment. Three guys in long beards gets old after about 15 minutes. Some of Billy Gibbons guitar riffs were disappointing compared to the album versions and it made me wonder if he was the author of them all.

I had tickets to the 1979 tour of Led Zepplin in Pittsburgh. That day, Robert Plant's son died and the show/tour was cancelled. Led Zepplin never played as the original four memebrs in public again. Their last album was a disappointment and apparently John Paul Jones did most of it in the studio with occasional contributions from Page and Plant.

Bob Seger was decent but I was somewhat surprised by how small of a man he seemed to be on stage.

AC/DC was everything you would expect. They are no-frills hard rockers and you get your money's worth. VH1 has televised several of their concerts and they are basically the same as what I saw live.

Probably the best live guitar performance I have ever seen was by Frank Marino - of Mahogany Rush fame several years ago. He played four hours non-stop. He gave his band a 1/2 hour break during the show and he played the whole time. Unbelievable performance.

You better bring your ear plugs to a Ted Nugent concert.

Too bad about Lynyrd Skynrd (sp) - they were one of the great bands and had great musicians.

I could go on and on... I was going to make my career as a musician. A rock and roll guitar player. My parents bought me a Les Paul for my hs graduation gift. It led me into the field of electronics however and eventually Engineering and for that I am thankful. To tie this back into the hsbbweb, I am a firm believer that when one door closes, another one opens.

I'm very proud of all of you who can remember the concerts you went to.

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Originally posted by ClevelandDad:
You better bring your ear plugs to a Ted Nugent concert.

I went to Ted Nugent concert this summer. It was great fun!


When I was in high school, REO Speedwagon and Styx would play at the "mixers" at the high schools (hey, anyone remember "computer dances"?) and for church "teen clubs"---entry fee for all? Either 25 or 50 cents!

not sure why I am subjecting myself to the snickers that will surely ensue, but--in my almost teen life, this dreamboat was just SO hot!

Biggest names I saw in one single concert:
Chicago, Beach Boys and Elton John: Ft. Collins, Colorado 1976 (or 75)... those were the days.
JerseyDad: I had all of those too!!!

Orlando, that was one of the few albums I had. It had the corners cropped off if I'm not mistaken.
Another great concert.

I'm losing braincells just thinking about those days.

I've got to admit, I'm surprised there are none of the "Kiss Army" folks out there!

While Uriah Heep may not have been the best band of all times, most album covers rated high on creativity.

Almost cliched, due to Stairway to Heaven's" parking lot anthem status, I still support with "Old Man with Sticks":



Note: Much of the greatest classic rock album art, including the afore mentioned Dark Side of the Moon cover, and many, many others others, came from british design group Hypgnosis and its chief designer Storm Thergerson.

Hipgnosis' roster can be viewed here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipgnosis

Man..I was so ready to post a KISS album cover when the last post had to have one!! I owned them all up to unmasked..I foolishly gave them away in college.

First concert I ever went to was the KINKS in 1983 when they had made a comeback. Surprisingly good show for a bunch of old english guys!

Surprised no one has posted this one yet...everyone seemed to own it...

who didn't have this one??

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Who didn't have that one skipper?


Me.

And of coarse, my Dads favorite

Heck Woody you had Buzz Martin... it's really the only album a guy would ever need. If only I'd have known that a chainsaw and axe could make such awesome tunes I would have joined right in.

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Oh that Buzz...it was all in his voice!

He had great T-I-M-M-M---B-R-E!

re: Ides of March.

KILLER LIVE BAND, but it was horns deluxe in a guitar hero age.

I saw them on the runner's track where they shot the Breaking Away bike race.

Man could they swing.

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Originally posted by Danny Boydston:
I've got to admit, I'm surprised there are none of the "Kiss Army" folks out there!

Two guys that went to my high school went to the concert in Detroit where mcuh (or all) of KISS' first live album was recorded. They can both be seen in the foreground of the crowd shot on the back of the album. They were like celebrities for awhile in our school's hallways.