First Concert & Album

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This is a bit hard.

I had a tape player and I remember having the Ghostbusters soundtrack but I didn’t use my own money.

I think the first album (tape) I paid for was Slippery When Wet in 1986/87, I would have been 10yo.

Since I was a die hard Bon Jovi fan my much older brother took me to their New Jersey tour in Sydney in 1989. We were front row and it blew my mind, so good.

As for using my own money, couldn’t say for sure but when I finished year 12 I went to NYC and saw RHCP with special guests silverchair. Then there was big day out with Soundgarden/Offspring/Prodigy and a heap of bands at Newcastle uni like You Am I, Custard, Cake, Regurgitator, TIsM,Powderfinger, Tumbleweed, pretty much week after week.

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Not certain of first album or concert but my first single was Dean Martin’s “Everybody loves somebody sometime”, not the sort of thing you forget.

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Same. It might’ve been my first album but someone gave it to me for my birthday iirc.

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Megadeths RIP anniversary tour was one of the most polished and enjoyable concerts I’ve been too. Loved that show. Great album.

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The Foundations, Newquay, Cornwall 1969. “Build me up Buttercup”.
Fresh Cream 1968
2nd concert . Ten Years After, Grand Funk Rail Road, LA. Forum 1970

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First concert I remember was Skyhooks in Bendigo, about 1975 (after an hour and half bus trip not many options to see live bands in rural Victoria). First album I remember was CCR Cosmos factory.

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I did a 2 month Contiki tour around Europe back in 1983 and we played a song guessing game where someone would name a song and the rest of us had to guess the artist.

Someone put “Build Me Up Buttercup” up…we spent the next 4-5 weeks trying to figure out who sang it.

In the end we had to wait until we were back in London and a group of us headed to The Virgin Store where one of the sales staff told us it was The Foundations…none of us had any idea.

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First gig: Choirboys at The Man in Falls Creek as a 17yo. Closely followed by Roxette at Melbourne Park.

1st compilation: Howling For Hits double casette.

1st Album: Hoodoo Gurus - Kinky

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KISS - VFL Park 1980

INXS - INXS 1980

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You got off to a reasonable start…where did it all go wrong? :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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I got caught up with the wrong crowd.

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That’ll do it every time :rofl:

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First concert was John Farnham, chain reaction.
Album was Thriller

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Not sure if this qualifies as ‘concert’, but I saw ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ with Jon English, Marcia Hines, Trevor White etc in I think 1974 age 11 (or around then).

Actual band ‘concert’ might have been Redgum in some hall in Geelong in about 1978/9.

First album: Goodbye Yellowbrick Road

First single - Essendon club song when first released by the Fable Singers in 1972. B side was ‘the football song’:

“ When the football season comes around again and the crowds are swarming to the grounds again, there’s a kind of fever, keeps them on their toes, hear the fans a- roaring as the whistle blows. Though it’s pouring and your team’s behind, still you’ll never throw in the glove - Cos it’s football season and that’s the reason it’s the time of the year that we love“ - or something like that!

(Throw in the glove? Kind of fever?) sounds like they were anticipating these weird Covid years!

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First concert - Australian Made @ Subiaco Oval 1987.

First indoor concert - Midnight Oil Diesel and Dust tour Perth Entertainment Centre 1987.

First Album - KISS Dynasty on cassette.

First pub gig - Mondo Rock Raffles Hotel in Perth 1989.

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First concert - 1993 GNR at Calder Park.
Support acts Pearl’s and Swine, Rose Tattoo and Skid Row.

First album - Appetite for Destruction

(Taking my 12yo (will be 13 when it’s on) to GNR this year which will be his 1st concert too. Assuming covid doesn’t postpone it again)

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A lot of love for Dynasty.
Does anyone still listen to it?

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First Album- actually a cassette if I remember:
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First “concerts” I went to were at the Essendon Football Club social club in the early/mid 70’s, (although you’d technically call them floorshows)

  • Cloud 9 ,( who became Taste)
  • Johnny Farnham, ( as it was back then. And I even got on stage with the big fella for a “duet” of sorts…)
  • Ugly Dave Gray
  • Max Bygraves
  • The Hawking Brothers
  • Makita Littlewolf
  • Debbie Burne

And for some reason, I keep thinking Air Supply- but that may be a fever dream…

But the first concert I chose to go to, was an under 18’s gig at Festival Hall in 1980.
Mi Sex, Australian Crawl and The Dugites.

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If the “etc” included Reg Livermore it’s worth noting he absolutely stole the show.

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Yes! Although English and Hines were pretty amazing. I was a bit freaked out by the whole thing, was quite a rich brew at that age.

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