R U a Rocker companion piece

[frankypettolina]

Bill, i had a 5 year or so period that I did not go. What started me up again was going to see ICP every time they toured. and I owe that to Robby Paquette agreeing to go with me (there were others, but when Robby said he was in, I was way up for it).

Funny thing happened on the way into the second ICP show I ever went to (I guess actually did not go to). All of a sudden found myself in the back of a Paddy Wagon on my way to being a guest of the city of Philadelphia. Don't recall what precinct. I did pee through the bars of my cell and finally go to sleep (pass out). When they let me out, they made me mop the floor, and not just my pee, the whole hallway. I did not have a cell phone, and I could not get my calling card to work, so I hitched a ride home with a guy, who turned out to be a crack head!! When he started smoking crack in the car I had him drop me off several blocks away from my mom's house... didn't want him to know where I lived.

Anyhow, glad that I started going to shows again. Never too old to Rock and Roll... no matter what that Jethro Tull song says.

[WAHOONBOX]

I HAVE DONE SOME DUMB THINGS IN MY TIME...AND I CAN PROBABLY ADD THIS ONE TO MY LIST .


I AM THINKING SERIOUSLY OF OBTAINING AN ELECTRIC GUITAR...AMP ...ETC...JUST FOR FUN AND GIGGLES......AND CRANK IT UP WHEN DA BOSS IS GONE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS...............I THINK I HAVE THE TOWNSEND MOVE DOWN PAT.....AND I CAN FLICK A PICK TO THE CROWD OKAY........AND AS LONG AS I DON'T HAVE TO VAN HALEN IT AND JUMP I.........

[Gringo]

This is really gonna make me feel old. I was in high school in the 60's, and then went to UT in Austin end of the 60's, beginning of the 70's. We would drive to concerts in Houston, Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio. Crazy times and my friends were a mix of hippie, redneck, and surfer. So we crossed some musical lines in what we listened to.
Many of these I saw at the old Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston and the Cullen Auditorium, and three places we loved to hang out back in the day, the Catacombs Club, Love Street Light Circus, and the Living Eye in Houston.

Some of the C&W at Gilley's in Pasadena and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo , but a lot in Dallas, SA and Austin (Vulcan Gas Company, Armadillo World Headquarters, Threadgill's) , too. Saw Aerosmith, Jimmy Buffett, J. Geils and Lyle Lovett in Massachusetts. Met Steven Tyler and Joe Perry at the M&M Sporting Goods store in Plymouth, Mass, while we were all christmas shopping....Tyler was cool. Perry was a jerk.

Here are some of the concerts and live performers I remember seeing,

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Jimmy Reed
Lightning Hopkins
J.J. Cale
Donovan Leitch
Stevie Winwood and Traffic
Mountain
ZZ Top many times ( from when Billy Gibbons was playing in Spring Branch as The Moving Sidewalk)
Grand Funk Railroad
Willie Nelson
Waylon Jennings
Tompall Glaser
Johnny Cash
The Who
Jimi Hendrix
Buddy Miles
The Beach Boys
Gladys Knight and the Pips
Peter Tosh
Jethro Tull
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Desmond Decker and the Aces
Janis Joplin
Cream
Aerosmith
Jimmy Buffet
George Thorogood
The Supremes
Allman Brothers
Fleetwood Mac
Moody Blues
Jefferson Airplane
The Doors
Queen
Grateful Dead
Ten Years After
Procol Harum
Santana
Thin Lizzie
Alice Cooper
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Eric Burdon and the Animals
Lynard Skynard
The Kinks
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Young Rascals
Poco
Black Sabbath
Marshall Tucker Band
Sir Douglass Quintet
Jerry Jeff Walker
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Johnny Winter
Buffalo Springfield
Canned Heat
J. Geils Band
King Crimson
Mickey Gilley
George Jones
Lyle Lovett
13th Floor Elevators
Linda Rondstadt and Stone Pony
The McCoys
Country Joe and the Fish
B.B. King
The Shadows of Knight ( GLORIA!)
Spirit
James Cotton Blues Band
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
Sam the Sham and the Pharohs
Archie Bell and the Drells
Tommy Roe and the Shondells
Muddy Waters
Moby Grape
Steve Miller Band
Freddy King
Freddy Fender
Big Joe Williams
John Lee Hooker
Big Mama Thornton
Steppenwolf
Question Mark and the Mysterions (96 Tears)
Chuck Berry
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bo Diddley
Gram Parsons
The Ramones
Bruce Springsteen
Ray Charles
Taj Mahal
Leon Redbone

I am gonna stop there. It's making me sad, cause music today just aint the same.
I know there were more, but I would have to dig into my memory for them. And I am sure I won't remember all of them.

[JMiner]

I may have an advanage having spent 15 years in the music business but here are a few.


Stevie Winwood
ZZ Top
Willie Nelson 10X
The Who 20X
The Beach Boys 10X
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention 10X
Bruce Springsteen 40X
Billy Joel 300X
U2 40X
John Melencamp 80X
YES 40X
Aerosmith 10X
Jimmy Buffet8X
George Thorogood 20X
Allman Brothers
Fleetwood Mac
Moody Blues
Queen
Grateful Dead 30X
Santana
Rick Springfield 60X
Lynard Skynard
The Kinks
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Black Sabbath
Marshall Tucker Band
Bad Company
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Tubes Love the 80's
Flock of Seagulls
J. Geils Band
Joan Jett
Mickey Gilley
George Jones
Lyle Lovett
B.B. King
Bob Seager 20X
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
Tommy Roe and the Shondells
Muddy Waters
Steve Miller Band
Steppenwolf
Chuck Berry
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bo Diddley
The Ramones
Ray Charles 20X
Laurie Anderson 30X
Foriegner 30X
Eric Clapton20X
Led Zepplin
Eagles (henley) 20X
Van Morrison
Sex Pistols
Elton John 20X
Blues Brothers

God I feel old and I know I missed at least 10 or 20, but God isn't music great each one has a great memory.

[Squidnation]

I may have an advanage having spent 15 years in the music business but here are a few.


Stevie Winwood
ZZ Top
Willie Nelson 10X
The Who 20X
The Beach Boys 10X
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention 10X
Bruce Springsteen 40X
Billy Joel 300X
U2 40X
John Melencamp 80X
YES 40X
Aerosmith 10X
Jimmy Buffet8X
George Thorogood 20X
Allman Brothers
Fleetwood Mac
Moody Blues
Queen
Grateful Dead 30X
Santana
Rick Springfield 60X
Lynard Skynard
The Kinks
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Black Sabbath
Marshall Tucker Band
Bad Company
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Tubes Love the 80's
Flock of Seagulls
J. Geils Band
Joan Jett
Mickey Gilley
George Jones
Lyle Lovett
B.B. King
Bob Seager 20X
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
Tommy Roe and the Shondells
Muddy Waters
Steve Miller Band
Steppenwolf
Chuck Berry
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bo Diddley
The Ramones
Ray Charles 20X
Laurie Anderson 30X
Foriegner 30X
Eric Clapton20X
Led Zepplin
Eagles (henley) 20X
Van Morrison
Sex Pistols
Elton John 20X
Blues Brothers

God I feel old and I know I missed at least 10 or 20, but God isn't music great each one has a great memory.

What did you do in the music business? I would venture to guess you are one the few to have seen Rick Springfield 60 times. You must have been on his christmas card list

[Robja]

Beach boys with the Eagles and prelude
Eagles and fleetwood mack
Fleetwood mack
Earth Wind and Fire

numerous others but the brain cells have long since been burned out

[JMiner]

What did you do in the music business? I would venture to guess you are one the few to have seen Rick Springfield 60 times. You must have been on his christmas card list

I was a tour manager, I have to say Rick Springfield was one of the best tours to do we only worked 4 days a week while he was on the soap and imagine what all the soccer moms do while their daughters were at the show. Its a family site so I will leave it at that.

[Gringo]

God I feel old and I know I missed at least 10 or 20, but God isn't music great each one has a great memory.

Yeah they do. I keep thinking of more, too. Warren Zevon, Tom Petty, Bob Seager, Pete Seegar...Arlo Guthrie, Clapton in three different bands...Delany and Bonnie, Leon Russell, Maria Muldaur, Carly Simon, Carole King......James Taylor, Livingston Taylor, Kenny Rodgers and First Edition, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Jr., ....

I am having a hard time naming anyone newer than twenty years ago, though...
Kenny Wayne Shepard? I think he might have been the last live performer I went to see on Cape Cod.

There are a lot of bands come through here, last month my son was here and he went to a birthday party to hear Marka Diamond and OneRepublic but I don't recognize them. My son does, and he thinks I am so out of it musically...

I left out Charlie Daniels..Doug Kershaw...