RocKwiz Introductions page 1

MSG

14th January 2012, 02:23 AM

1. What's the first concert you ever went to?

and

2. What's the first album you ever purchased with your own money?


People in Oz will be familiar with this program, and familiar with the questions that get asked of all the contestants, who include both random audience members and professional musos: http://www.sbs.com.au/rockwiz/.

Mine:

1. I thought for a long time it was Cold Chisel's final Melbourne concert in the Last Stand tour (1983), but then I remembered seeing Men At Work at a club in Albury a year earlier.

2. Take it Greasy - Ol' 55 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol'_55) :blush:

nostrum

14th January 2012, 03:06 AM

1. Noiseworks :blush:

2. 1983 The Hot Ones (compilation album)

Mr. Mellow

14th January 2012, 04:01 AM

Chicago Transit Authority (1969) - the first-album tour, and the last time they ever referred to themselves as anything but Chicago. Aside from some decent jazz-rock-classical fusion stuff on their second album, they sucked mightily for the next 500 albums.

I think I shoplifted my first album, which would be either Csosby, Stills & Nash, or the Doobie Brother's first album. My first purchase was Billy Joel's Piano Man.

MSG

14th January 2012, 04:08 AM

which Doobie Brother was it?

oblivion

14th January 2012, 04:20 AM

I can't remember if my first concert was mahavishnu orchestra or devo. It was in 1979.

the first album I bought with my own money was Don McLean's American Pie.

MSG

14th January 2012, 04:25 AM

I can't remember if my first concert was mahavishnu orchestra or devo. It was in 1979.

the first album I bought with my own money was Don McLean's American Pie.

talk about the sublime to the ridiculous :p

oblivion

14th January 2012, 04:29 AM

eclectic thankyouverymuch

MSG

14th January 2012, 04:34 AM

:hehe: it does seem to encompass a very broad range

Mr. Mellow

14th January 2012, 05:24 AM

which Doobie Brother was it?

The Captain and Me, the first album of the pre-Michael McDonald Doobies. A very tight and clear-sounding album.

... the first album I bought with my own money was Don McLean's American Pie.

I never had that album, and although I got sick of the title track for a long time, I like it again. The song I've never tired of is Vincent. It's in my top 25, easily.

MSG

14th January 2012, 05:42 AM

which Doobie Brother was it?

The Captain and Me, the first album of the pre-Michael McDonald Doobies. A very tight and clear-sounding album...

Actually I was having a dig at your apostrophe catastrophe: "the Doobie Brother's first album", instead of the "the Doobie Brothers' first album"... :p

Mr. Mellow

14th January 2012, 07:58 PM

:whyyou: :hehe:

Me stoopid.

gib

14th January 2012, 08:08 PM

Men At Work

was the first album i bought!

first gig was a local reggae band called Invasion where i scored my first pot, man how i've evolved since then :unsure:

ConvolutedLogic

15th January 2012, 03:04 AM

First date with life partner- Don Mclean concert!

OmicronPersei8

8th December 2016, 11:20 AM

Don't let this awesome msg thread die guys.

Prince Humperdinck

8th December 2016, 03:39 PM

First Concert: Iron Maiden with Yngwie Malmsteen opening ('87 Somewhere On Tour - The recently released album was Somewhere In Time)

First Album: Andy Gibb Shadow Dancing

spruce

8th December 2016, 04:25 PM

Mom and day were not concert goers, so it was likely a church cantata. Although, I grew up in band and the Atlanta Boy's Choir so apart from church it would have been there. Then there's tons of Christian Rock concerts, if those count. The first secular rock concert was likely the Doobie Brothers.

First album is tricky. There's the Batman Theme 45. But the first popular album was likely The Sound of Music, Simon and Garfunkel, The Monkees, or Snoopy and The Royal Guardsmen.

borealis

8th December 2016, 06:04 PM

First album bought with my own money: Gerry and the Pacemakers, Ferry Cross the Mersey. First concert was either Steppenwolf or April Wine, can't remember which came first.

rachmarie

8th December 2016, 06:31 PM

Op8 you necro'd a thread 4 years old :staregonk:

rachmarie

8th December 2016, 06:43 PM

First concert would have been some kind of Christian rock thingy while in high school don't even remember the name of the band, just that it was at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Modesto, CA. I did not have much money to spend on concerts either in high school or college, and by the time I was no longer in my Christian phase, I was a single mom and no time for funsies. Most concerts after that were at the after parties for GOTV events, and Ben was with me. There was a band at our senior party, I do remember them playing Cocaine and a bunch of drunken 17 and 18 year olds singing that line of course. (It was the 80s after all).

I also listened to a number of small bands and DJs and the like at varying festivals and the Rodeos every year. Plus of course many times in the Concerts in the Park with Modesto Band of Stanislaus County who did 6 concerts for free every year in the summer at Graceda Park. My mom, Ben, and I bought their tshirts every year to help support them and their goal of building a rehearsal hall for their band.

As for album with my own money, that would have been Billy Joel 42nd Street. Though when I was 11, Donald bought me a Captain and Tennille Best Hits cassette. My mom teased me about that because she kind of knew I had a crush on him, but I kept telling her he was just a friend. I knew he did not have a crush on me, but my mom refused to believe me. We were only in 5th grade after all.

OmicronPersei8

8th December 2016, 10:31 PM

Op8 you necro'd a thread 4 years old :staregonk:

:lippy:

Zeluvia

9th December 2016, 12:50 AM

I don't remember which album I bought first. I do remember buying the 45 of Flying Purple People eater with my xmas money when I was young, not sure what age. My mother was a 45 collector, my dad had the albums.

I don't remember what bands were playing at the first music festival/concert I went too. It was at Cocoa Beach, on the beach.

Prince Humperdinck

9th December 2016, 02:14 AM

Wait you lived in Florida back in the day and now you're in Texas? How long have you been following me around the country?

rachmarie

9th December 2016, 02:26 AM

OMOGaugKpzs

rachmarie

9th December 2016, 02:26 AM

LOL sorry could not resist a song :hehe:

Zeluvia

9th December 2016, 02:36 AM

Wait you lived in Florida back in the day and now you're in Texas? How long have you been following me around the country?


I think our ages make YOU the stalker =p

Besides which you are still in a flat swamp. I went hilly desert.

PS you have to throw Detroit and Alabama in there too.

borealis

9th December 2016, 03:09 AM

Um... either of you ever encounter a Schneider family from Fla., siblings iirc susan, cathy, alice, john and Charles? Would all be between 60 and 70. Might boast about their dad working at Cape Canaveral in the fifties.

I know, I know, but the world can be surprisingly connected.

OmicronPersei8

9th December 2016, 03:31 AM

Schneibster family?

borealis

9th December 2016, 03:33 AM

God no.

No telescopes for one thing.

Nice fig tree in the front yard though.

OmicronPersei8

9th December 2016, 03:37 AM

WHY ARE YOU SPYING????

borealis

9th December 2016, 03:42 AM

You have a fig tree?

OmicronPersei8

9th December 2016, 03:43 AM

I do, but it's cursed.

Timewave

9th December 2016, 03:45 AM

Um... either of you ever encounter a Schneider family from Fla., siblings iirc susan, cathy, alice, john and Charles? Would all be between 60 and 70. Might boast about their dad working at Cape Canaveral in the fifties.

I know, I know, but the world can be surprisingly connected.

Are they from Vienna and sing soppy songs about Austrian wildflowers?

borealis

9th December 2016, 03:47 AM

I do, but it's cursed.

Messiah infestation?

borealis

9th December 2016, 03:49 AM

Um... either of you ever encounter a Schneider family from Fla., siblings iirc susan, cathy, alice, john and Charles? Would all be between 60 and 70. Might boast about their dad working at Cape Canaveral in the fifties.

I know, I know, but the world can be surprisingly connected.

Are they from Vienna and sing soppy songs about Austrian wildflowers?

No.

The oldest boy was very good at catching snakes with a forked stick when he was twelvish though. He used to pre-clear the field we played in a lot, so we wouldn't get bit.

Timewave

9th December 2016, 03:51 AM

I don't think fig tree's can be cursed.
The holy, enlightened buddha found enlightenment under a fig tree.

I think you must be meditating for the wrong things.

rachmarie

9th December 2016, 04:08 AM

I actually know of a man in his 70s named John Schneder, he and his long time SO Paulette, live in Ohio, and I have known them for years now from my game KOTW. He was in the navy and not sure about his dad though, or if he ever was living in FL, I know she has family down in NC and SC though.

Prince Humperdinck

9th December 2016, 02:34 PM

PS you have to throw Detroit and Alabama in there too.

I've never done Detroit or Alabama. Chicago-Massachusetts-Seattle-Florida-Arizona-Texas.

Prince Humperdinck

9th December 2016, 02:38 PM

Um... either of you ever encounter a Schneider family from Fla., siblings iirc susan, cathy, alice, john and Charles? Would all be between 60 and 70. Might boast about their dad working at Cape Canaveral in the fifties.

I know, I know, but the world can be surprisingly connected.

Nope. I know a few people at NASA but that name doesn't ring a bell. I was in that part of Florida from '84 - '97, but never worked at the cape. Mom still lives in Satellite Beach.

borealis

9th December 2016, 03:14 PM

It was just a shot in the dark. I lived and went to school in Orlando for a year, 1957-58. We lived on what was then a dirt road on the edge of the city, right where farms, groves and woodland started. That family were lovely neighbours. There was a lot wrong with Florida then, things so wrong my Dad couldn't live with it, which was why we came home, but all of our neighbours were really good people, and the area was beautiful and full of wildlife and amazing plants and trees.

Zeluvia

9th December 2016, 07:08 PM

Well there is even more wrong with Florida now. Your dad was too picky !

rachmarie

9th December 2016, 07:26 PM

My ex roomie/FWB Robert always called it Flori-DUH

He and his mom live in WPB

spruce

9th December 2016, 08:09 PM

My mom was essentially a Tampanesse. :nod:

borealis

9th December 2016, 08:21 PM

Tampa is where my aunt and uncle lived. Greataunt and uncle lived in Orange county, on a lake.

rachmarie

9th December 2016, 08:54 PM

David lived in Tampa for a few months, before he moved to CA to live with me. Of course that is where he met Donna, our umm short term poly relationship before he broke up with me to be with her exclusively for a while (then he ended up dumping her because he realized what a bitch she really was, even if she was skinny). She was also the oldest of the three of us in her 50s, while we were still in our early to mid 30s. But she was a bitch made me feel unwelcome in my own apartment at times :( I finally kicked her and the other chick out once I knew they both had steady income so could rent a place. Tina was not involved with any of us though.