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spinal tap tour Seeing that concert last night made me start to think about other concerts that I've seen over the years and how my attitude towards them has changed. The very first concert that I ever saw was Deep Purple with Bad Company as the opening act. As to why my friends wanted to see either group is beyond me. Both groups were well past their prime when we saw them and to this day I still find their music to be a cliche. Now having said that I don't think that I could have asked for a stranger introduction to the world of concert going. Of course this was years before the Lollapalooza concept was introduced so our options were limited. What I remember most is the haze of marijuana smoke lingering over the crowd of leather jackets and long hair. For the most part the audience was male and angry about something. Then there were the banners with members of Deep Purple carved into stone in a Mount Rushmore style formation. To this day I have no idea why people had them or what it meant. Maybe it was tribute to an album of theirs that I didn't know about then and still don't know about now. The next concert that I remember seeing was on the other end of the musical spectrum. INXS during the kick era was our collective choice and the biggest difference besides the music was the audience itself. There were women there, attractive women and they were dancing. That was not what I saw at the Deep Purple anger display with rocking keyboard and smashed guitar. Over the years I've seen the Violent Femmes, the Steve Miller Band, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Nickel Creek, Glen Phillips, Tori Amos and Dar Williams. Generally speaking I've left behind the album oriented rock of the seventies and gotten more and more into a folk rock genre. What this means to me is that fist pumping and head banging has given way to being able to sit and listen to a musician do what they do best. |