Worst live gig you ever saw, and where was it?

I still have the 45

Someone mentioned James Brown playing at their highschool (wow!)

At #2? That was me, and that was not high school but Princeton--a university which, as much as us non-elitist Princetonians (and that's the majority) try to gloss over this fact, has a lot of money to throw around.

The vocabulary of US university education resembles how high school is described elsewhere, so I understand the confusion.

--M.

Oops, sorry Mr Penney - I hadn't had my morning coffee when I responded, so the misunderstanding was completely my fault. D'oh.
And Hatsephsut, you're so lucky! Does this mean you were around in the day? Did you ever see ? and his band in action?

I was around, but not old enough to be going to shows - still, I had two older sisters - I used to tag along to the record store and we'd buy 45s with our allowance once a week when the new Top 40 Chart was released - they had copies of the charts in the stores, it was a big deal back then - this is after we were over going to the Ben Franklin and loading up on penny candy with our allowance - we came across some of the old charts a few years ago, I think my sisters have them

we started going to shows around 11 or 12 but I never did see them live - I took my kids to their first shows when they were around that age - don't remember my son's but my Daughter's was an all ages Rancid show at the Riv when she was 12

That's pretty cool - I bet she boasts about that to her friends. My first concert was (cough) Spandau Ballet. Not something I'm very proud of. Oh, to have had groovy parents! :-)

well, yes and no - someone moshed into her pretty badly when I purposely went to the 2nd level away from the mosh so we'd be out of it - I wasn't happy about it and took them to task, I had the bruises for weeks - my son on the other hand gave me the thumbs up and still likes to tease me about it - but that, my darlings, is why we wear our leather and boots to a Rancid show - a lesson learned they never forgot

my first show was Mason Proffit and the backup band was a then as yet unknown REO Speedwagon - my parents dropped us off and picked us up - I wore a marvy red paisley overall style bell bottom pants thingy

I'm not sure I was groovy so much as I was protective - I figured they'd be going at some point anyway and I was more comfortable with the idea of me showing them the ropes myself before letting them out of the cage

I have a hazy recollection of being in a shopping center parking lot in Arlington Virginia when I was 10 and a loud band was playing. Whoever it was, that was my first live gig.

You're a cool mom, Hats.

My first gig (if you could even call it that) was New Kids On The Block. I was about 8. I made up for it somewhat by seeing Michael Jackson a few years later (though it was at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the sound was shite).

one of my worst gigs for reasons having nothing to do with the actual gig was Blue Oyster Cult and Rush at the Aragon Ballroom back in some part of the 70s - the guys I went with had discovered Blackberry Brandy, that's all I heard about on the way there - the ride home was a nightmare, it had to have taken 4 hours for a 40 minute drive - I doubt they ever drank Blackberry Brandy again - I can't complain too much though, I got years of enjoyment out of mentioning Blackberry Brandy at every embarassing opportunity

one of the more impressive gigs I've been to was Three Days Grace - when we got there they had like 12 or 16 guitars on stage, I thought "this is going to be bad" - but man, they had it down to a science - never skipped a beat or farted around during a changeup - there was a technical difficulty at one point NOT having to do with a guitar changeup and the bass player did a thing playing with a power tool and kept the show going - the music was tight, there was no BS and gabbing between songs, the guys just slammed it - I like their music too - dark and some downer lyrics but somehow very uplifting at the same time