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Jody

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posted February 06, 2004 07:35

So, I have to say that being pregnant and not being able to go to the bar or see any bands play for the last 8 months (and realizing that those days are probably pretty much over for me) has made me really nostalgic for the days of my youth. I heard Social Distortion on the college radio station yesterday and I was reminded that that was the first "punk" show I ever went to back in like 1991 at 1st Avenue night club in Mpls. My best friend actually made out with Mike Ness after a show in Chicago a few years later. Anyway, I remember seeing Green Day and Jawbreaker in crowded, nasty basements and giving Aaron Cometbus a ride to a show and my car started on fire in the middle of the street. Ah, those were good times. What are your first show memories?

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PunkMunkey

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posted February 06, 2004 08:48

My First Punk Rock Show
by RJ Munkey

It was a dark and stormy night...not really...but anyway...I think that the first punk show I went to was probably Agent Orange an OLD-school skate-punk band from the mid-eighties...I think it was in '85 or '86 and I was about 14 or 15...the show was either in Santa Cruz or San Jose...I barely remember anything about it at all...I do remember I was with my cousin who kind of introduced me to the whole skating/punk scene he was 18 and into all the "cool stuff"...I had been skating for about a year and a half or so but had never been exposed to it's seedier underbelly...I never thanked him for that though...for the few years between '85 and '90 I focused more on skating than music though so attending shows was less of a concern, I got my fix through bootleg casettes and discovered bands through word of mouth...which was OK since my financial status and my board buying habits didn't really facilitate going to many shows even if they did only cost a couple of bucks ...

In any case, one of the most memorable shows (memorable now at least...at the time the show didn't seem as profoundly momentous) I went to was Green Day/Rancid in '91 or '92 at 924 Gilman...or was it Berkely Square?...I think it was Gilman...a friend of mine that was attending the same junior college that I was had heard of Green Day...when they played I was totally hooked...little did I know I was witnessing the beginning of something huge that night...

The End.

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Mike

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posted February 06, 2004 09:18

jody you can still go to shows! bring the kid

i've seen people with younguns at shows before.

my first show was supposed to be the annual fork in hand records halloween show, but we couldn't get it so the next week we (me and 2 friends) went to a church to see big d and the kid's table. i think this was 4 years ago. it was pretty cool, the show started at 1 and ended at like 8, with probably 8 bands playing. after big d's set we hung out with the band a little and marc let me try his horn. i think my first show in an actual venue was the fork in hand halloween show the next year.

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Ken

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posted February 06, 2004 10:09

I didn't really get into "punk" music untill I was 19. I'd been to a few stadium rock concerts before, but my first punk show was The Ataris/Catch 22/Ten Foot Pole in the basement of club DV8 in Salt Lake City in 1999. The whole venue probably only holds a few hundred, and all the bands were awesome. The Ataris were the first to go on, and now they are big rock stars. Catch 22 still had their original line up. Ten Foot Pole was great, this tour was to support Insider.

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***norm

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posted February 06, 2004 10:21

My first punk show...

Well, it was around 85 or 86, because in 84 I saw my first concert ever. That fateful day, I saw Eddie (Take Me Home Tonight, Shakin, Think I'm In Love, old 70's coke head) Money with my cousin Jay and his Mom. It sold me on live music. Hearing stuff on the radio was one thing, but seeing and hearing it performed right in my fucking face was more than I could take. Sure it wasn't the music I was into, but come on, was I really going to get tickets to Huey Lewis or Nightranger show?

Anyway, around that time, a kid down the street from me had an older brother who loved Devo. I always thought that was stupid, but he also liked the Talking Heads and a couple of bands out of Minneapolis MN. Most notably the Replacements and Husker Du. I was hooked by both. Husker Du had energy, angst and passion. The Replacements had a drunk brilliance, songs that were so catchy and raw that they deserved, (And still do) toi be heard byu everyone. Anyway, one night, my buddy and his brother were going to see a show. it was Husker DU at a club in Detroit. (I think it was called Trax, I don't really remember) My mom said I could go, and I saw Husker Du.

From then on, I would go to about 3-4 big shows a year . (Broken only in the last two years by my big-time life change) Some memorable moments...
(NOTE: I don't count local shows in the mix. Just tours)

Getting mistaken for Layne Staley at the state theater in Detroit and being escorted back stage and into the band dressing room. (Only to be kicked out when the real layne asked me who the fuck I was)

Buying Maynard from Tool a beer at a Jesus Lizard show 25 minutes after watching Tool play a completely different venue.

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NSA

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posted February 06, 2004 18:16

My first 'punk' show was sadly, the Ataris.. at some tiny pizza joint in Santa Barbara. They were OPENING for some other crappy SB band.. it was okay I guess. I had just moved in with Chris Knapp (Kid) and didnt know anything about the Ataris.

Best part was we got free Beer (i was 18!) and free Pizza all night. Rock on

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kismet

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posted February 08, 2004 02:07

uh, my first concert ever, I was like 12 or something, and I won tickets on the radio. it was a benefit show, and had both TLC *and* Wilson Phillips. What a combination.

The next show I saw was Weezer with That Dog and Teenage Fan Club, when I was 14. I know that's not punk, but enough punk kids seem to think Weezer is cool or something. I actually branched off into "punk" after seeing a lot of ska shows, and I can't remember what show was the first of the genre at all.

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murkybubble

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posted February 08, 2004 12:00

i haven't been to many shows at all.

the first time i saw anything sorta like a show was when i saw barenaked ladies play 8 songs in a tent.

my first official show was kara's flowers, rooney, fairview, and phantom planet at the el rey.

then there was rooney, square, fairview, and cio cio san at the glasshouse...

weezer, ozma, and the get up kids at the paladium...

the hives, rival schools (bleh), and the international noise conspiracy at the roxy...

weezer, jimmy eat world, and tenacious d at the long beach arena...

radiohead and supergrass at the hollywood bowl...

and i'm going to see a perfect circle and the mars volta at the long beach arena in april...

i might have forgotten a couple shows, but if i did, it was only one or two.

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Matthew

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posted February 08, 2004 13:09

first show i ever went to was the Smashing Pumpkins on their Mellon Collie tour. I was in 10th grade and my dad drove me.

then in 11th grade, i moved to florida and promptly saw my first punk show. it was good too. changed my whole world

Lagwagon, No Use, Limp, and Shyster

very radical

now, i've been to WAY too many shows. need a long break

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Ken

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posted February 08, 2004 21:51

quote:
Originally posted by Matthew:
first show i ever went to was the Smashing Pumpkins on their Mellon Collie tour. I was in 10th grade and my dad drove me.

That was my first show as well, at the Palace of Auburn Hills near Detroit, a few days before the keyboardist died.

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Christy K.

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posted February 09, 2004 11:27

My first 'punk' show was the Ataris. I forget where and when. But the first show I ever wanted to go to was Smashing Pumpkins on the Adore tour. I think it was summer after freshman year of high school. But I think in 8th grade my parents dragged me to Vegas to see this giant Chinese singers concert called Jackie Chan All Stars, and yes, Jackie Chan did come out to sing... at least all of the proceeds went to charity.

--Christy

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Foo

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posted February 09, 2004 14:59

my first concert was green day when i was in grade 4. i remember it was the first time i ever saw anyone smoke weed

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melissa

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posted February 09, 2004 15:58

Jackie Chan sings, too?!?! That is so totally kickass.

i guess my first punk show was seeing bad religion, blink 182, and fenix tx when i was 14. it was a stadium show. my parents wouldn't let me & my friend tasha go in by ourselves unless we had a 3rd person w/ us, and she bailed. so my dad had to come in. poor man. it's kind of a funny story now, i guess...

i haven't been to all that much since then, mainly just local stuff.

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Matthew

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posted February 09, 2004 20:01

[q]That was my first show as well, at the Palace of Auburn Hills near Detroit, a few days before the keyboardist died.
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the show i had tickets to was cancelled because the keyboard player died that morning. it was rescheduled for months later and Jimmy Chamberlin wasn't the drummer anymore. i needed glasses and saw a blurry band play rad songs

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