First Concert & Album

Time & Tide from Split Endz when I was 6-7. Got it on vinyl as I won a raffle with my parents when on holiday to QLD. I loved 6 months in a leaky boat.

I saw Motley Crue when 13 for their Dr Feelgood tour in 1990 at the Tennis Centre. Think I got tinnitus from how loud it was.

Funny how I still love Split Endz but you couldn’t pay me to listen to Motley Crue these days

My best mate had an exchange student gf and this was their song. One day he’d spent 8hrs in the car taking her to the airport to go back to Finland. What track did we have blasting for him as soon as he walked in at the end of the day? Yep, this. And we woke him with it everyday for the next week. Man mates can be ■■■■■■■■.

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It was the right (and only…) thing to do… :wink:

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AC/DC in a small Sacred Heart hall in Oakleigh … I was all of 14. We (6 of us, 3 couples) dodged the skins and sharps somehow with the help of the Nuns. Fights all about. It was lively and insane … Angus I swear was going to fall off those speakers but he didn’t.

They were absolutely great.

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I recall going to “dances” around 1968-69 as they were called at Coburg Town Hall called Swinger, another at Broadie Town Hall and one in Heidelberg. There was a line on the dance floor ; sharpies one side and Skinheads on the other, or something like that. If you crossed to the wrong side, even the Bouncers could not save you, especially in Broadie.

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I’d love to go see Icehouse now. Hard to stomach their 170 ticket though.(part of a festival again)

Saw em a while back at one of the last homebakes.

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We were at the shrine once and I could hear a band doing sound check nearby. Sounded really amazing. Quick google and realised it was Icehouse. Never seen them live but have wanted to since then.

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Slade - Festival Hall early '70’s (it was loud)
Lied to the parents about going to tea at my best mates house, he did vice versa
First single (couldn’t afford albums)
Good Vibrations - Beach Boys

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We used to have a kid at our High School who shoplifted at albums to order Brashs in Glenroy , so they could be afforded.

Are you out there Paul ???

They are great. Highly recommend.

Every now and again they do smaller shows on their own.

But recently it’s been these festival tours that cost a bomb.

Lucky enough to see Icehouse at their late 80’s peak at the Venue in St Kilda, (upstairs in the ballroom). I concur with Handypoint- phenomenal live band

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I reckon I went to that same show. 1987/1988-ish. On the cusp of Man of Colours (it was either just about to come out, or had just come out). If I recall correctly the support acts were The Pony and (pre-making it big) Black Sorrows.

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First gig was Status Quo at Festival Hall in Melbourne in 1977. First pub gig was Australian Crawl at the Pier Hotel in Frankston. Probably 1979.

First album was The Sweet Singles album bought at Target in Clayton for Christmas 1975.

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A scroll through this thread makes me feel like one of the young-uns on Blitz. Keep up the good work :+1:

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First concert 1972 Joe Cocker Mad dogs and Englishman tour at Festival Hall. He was hounded out of the country for drug use. First album was either John Mayall’s Looking Back a classic British blues album or Melanie Safka’s Candels in the rain, a folksy hippie singer.
First Australian act Blackfeather at Melbourne Town Hall.

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Yep, I thought we were dragging the ave age up, but we’re good !

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Everytime I think I’ve got @BAAKKEERRRR’s age worked out, he says something that makes him older.

His musical ‘heyday’ spans like 40 years.

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He’s caught all the best trends in sax over that time.

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So humour me… what’s your best guess?
This thread should narrow it down…

C’mon Bakes, you know a gentleman never answers that question.

So, with that in mind, I dunno, 55?

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