[Heeplist] My 1st Concert!

[Shawn Mctopy]

Rick,


Here's a bit of *'Live'* *URIAH HEEP* for ya'.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfX66T0Jupw


Take Care!


On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Rick Wilson <futureprimitive1 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, Shawn, Todd, Igor, et all!
>
> My first concert should have been Alice Cooper in 1972, but my parents
> decided that I should not be permitted because my brother claimed that
> there would be too much violence, booze and marijuana; he was right, of
> course.  I seen a local band called, "Legend" play in my grade school
> around 1975, if that counts.  lol  My parents denied me again on "Grand
> Funk Railroad" shinin' on in 1974, as well as many others including The
> Sabs a few times, sadly.  "No satanic music!", they claimed.  In 1978, "Van
> Halen" were even opening for them.  Jiminy Cricket!  I almost got to see
> "UFO" with Tonka on guitar in 1980, but my chaperone declined at the last
> minute.  I seen a local Country-Rock band named, "Bramble" open for Tom T.
> Hall in a free concert put on by the city of Dayton, Ohio circa 1978, if
> that counts.  lol  And, I don't even like beer.  Finally, while visiting my
> relatives in Freeport, Texas, south of Houston, I got to see terrible Ted
> Nugent headlining over The Scorps and the amazing, young upstarts "Def
> Leppard" in June, 1980; I was 16 years old.  Just a month later, back in
> Dayton, I saw the same two opening bands set the stage for "Judas Priest",
> my favourite band at the time.  My first concert as a soldier stationed in
> Germany was Ozzy opening for "Whitesnake" on November 26, 1982.  My first
> Monsters of Rock was in 1983 in Nuernberg with "Twisted Sister" opening for
> "Saxon", "Motorhead", "Thin Lizzy" (Their last concert ever!), Meat Loaf,
> "Blue Oyster Cult" (w/ their Godzookie behind the drumkit), and again
> "Whitesnake".  I was very lucky to see all of the Monsters of Rock that
> were held in Germany while I was stationed and living there.  My first
> "Uriah Heep" gig was in 1983 in Ulm, Germany with Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
> supporting.  That was also the first gig that I saw together with my
> wife-to-be.  My first concert as a singer with a band was in 1988 with my
> Jugendband as ze Germans call it, "Scarlet Vision".  It wasn't until
> September 10, 2001 that I sang my first paying gig with "Future
> Primitive"... which nearly no-one remembers now, I wonder why.  My first
> concert as a Radio D.J. for Radio Canale Grande in Neu-Ulm, Germany, which
> means that I got in free and did interviews, was in October, 1994 with Paul
> Dianno's "Killers" opening for "Vicious Rumours" and "Metal Church", hence
> I called my Rock Radio Show, "Vicious Metal Killers".  lol  By the way, I
> saw the same line-up a week later in Tuebingen with the additional band,
> Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction sans Davey Rimmer.  My first concert as
> a professor in China was Jay Chou, the Taiwanese star, who was Kato in "The
> Green Hornet" film with Seth Rogen.  Lastly, my first concert in Hong Kong
> was "The Pretenders", and a still hot to the eyes Chrissie Hynde.  By the
> way, I took my son all the way to Berlin when he was 9 to see Alice Cooper
> for his first gig, and it was brutally great, of course!  This is lengthy,
> but I hope that YOU do not mind me sharing a bit.  Keep on Rockin'!
>
> Rick
> [?]
>
>
>
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