[Heeplist] My 1st Concert!

[Igor Shveitser]

 Many thanks for sharing that, Rick, you've truly witnessed some of the heavy rock's finest moments. 
Cheers, Igor


Воскресенье,  1 декабря 2013, 3:03 +08:00 от Rick Wilson <futureprimitive1 at gmail.com>:
>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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Igor Shveytser