Where’s the gentleman here?
Pretty close. Pretty damn close. You’ve given a couple of years’ GST there, but a very decent stab.
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I have a CD of the Pony, or at least l used to.
The only song of theirs I can recall is I Lied which was (and is) a great track.
The singer (Pierre Baroni) - who died recently - went on to be a sought after photographer. Just about every album cover on Mushroom in the 90’s-00’s for a while there had one of his photos used somewhere on it.
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I can see me paying the money now. (To see em this year) They won’t be around forever.
When your a band that worked/toured with Brian Eno and David Bowie in the 80s….well you know you made a splash.
I love poppin em on.
I like the black sorrows too. Bit jelly of that gig, sounds great!
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Saw Icehouse (nee Flowers)
First Melb. concert?? @ Bombay Rock
Downstairs starting after midnight
Only about six of us there, had to go upstairs to get a beer
One of the best gigs ever
Always knew they would be a great band
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If I can reminisce…
Saw The Cult (again at the Venue ballroom) late 80s.
After the release of Electric, ( maybe even Sonic Temple).
Rock solid live band. Great even.
Until Ian Astbury tried to ingratiate himself with the crowd between songs.
He kept prattling on and on and on- until someone in the crowd shouted out " just shut the fck up and play Ian, you wanker".
Got the message pretty quick and resumed what they were good at. And it was still a great gig.
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I was at that gig too. 
All these years later that remains probably the loudest concert I’ve been to (it was either that or Cheap Trick at The Palace in 1988). The bass made your rib-cage shake.
Many years ago l went to an early H & C gig at the Union Hall, Melbourne Uni. This was in the days when they were still an experimental 10 - 12 piece band, counting the horn section, just after the reease of their debut, double album. They weren’t particularly loud, but what l clearly remember was standing somewhere near the middle of the hall, and having the music vibrate my sternum. If l moved 1/2 a mt in any direction there was no such effect. Weird acoustics, but the experience itself was something magical.
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HA, BAAAKEEERRRR. We must have met in a past life.
I was also at Cheap Trick at the Palace in 88.
Funny story
I went to the first show at the start of the tour. Asked a bunch of mates to come, and they were all “Cheap Trick!!! They’re has-beens”, and passed. Went with a classic rock aficionado friend in the end.
So I went with my mate, and we were amongst the youngest in the crowd., ( early 20’s) Great gig. Robin Zander is in my top 3 live vocalists EVER. Tight as all fck they were.
So later that month, “The Flame” goes to #`1, (or close to it) in OZ, and they suddenly get really huge again. So they put extra shows on, and end up at the Palace again about 4 weeks later. My mates are all “Cheap Trick are playing the Palace, we’ve always been HUGE fans- do you want to come, we have a spare ticket” So I went. Laughing at my fake -■■■ wanna be muso mates. And I was almost the oldest in the crowd. What a difference a hit makes.
Oh, and they played pretty much the same set. And they were still awesome.
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Ha - we surely must have!
I was only a passing CT fan at that point. They really hadn’t troubled the charts for years, and I didn’t much like The Flame (or much of its parent album). I did however remember songs like Dream Police, I Want You To Want Me, If You Want My Love and Surrender which I liked when I was kid. So, me and a couple of mates took a chance and went along to the show, paid our 10 bucks just hoping to hear those older songs.
It was an absolute belter of a show. They rocked HARD, they were incredibly LOUD! I recall they opened with Just Got Back, played mostly older songs (all we ones we were there to see) with only a bare handful from their then latest album, and played an epic and truly monster version of Gonna Raise Hell.
My ears rang for 3 days afterwards, but I was a convert. I raced down to Dixons the next day and bought as much of their back catalogue as I could find, and continued over the next while until I had them all (even their poxy 80’s albums). I’ll still religiously buy one of their albums as they come out - since the 1997 self-titled album they’ve had a pretty good late career renaissance. Nothing will ever compare to those first four albums of course, but they’ve atoned for those terrible 80’s efforts.
I’ve seen them pretty much every time they’ve come to town since. They’re a great live act and, as you say, Robin Zander is one of the great singers - truly a man of a thousand voices.
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Careful Captain Jack, that may be the infamous ‘brown note’ or ‘brown noise’ that south park did an episode on. Basically if you hit the right frequency, you lose control of your bowels. Myth busters even had a go at it too I believe.
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Not the first concert but I’ll always hold Pearl Jam at Myer music bowl in 95 in pretty high regard. Back fence got flattened by a few 1000 jamettes who didn’t get tix.
Lot of other firsts that night…
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It had nothing to do with my bowels, South Park or no.
First album: 5150, Van Halen.
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Was also at the Cheap Trick gig at the Palace!!! One of my favourite bands, especially their early stuff. Saw them half a lifetime later opening for Def Leppard in Perth. I was there for CT and they crapped on DL. A shame they got rid of Bun E who was a GREAT drummer.
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