Famous bands you saw before they were famous (singer, country, Pearl Jam)

[KittenSparkles]

Originally Posted by chiroptera

I saw the Sex Pistols when they were still playing dive bars in the UK. (Hey, it was the 70s, I'm lucky I remember this much, let alone dates and years LOL.)

I forgot to ask about this- did you ever see the movie Sid and Nancy? If so, were the dive bar scenes accurate in your opinion? (I think it was an awesome movie, BTW).

[buddy5]

Originally Posted by buddy5

I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd back in the late 60s, at the St Matthews Fall festival.
It was when they were still 'The One Percent'.

Sorry, Jacksonville, Florida.

[DOUBLE H]

Led Zeppelin-Winter of 1968, opening act of a concert with the group Spirit, then the Vanilla Fudge. Their first U.S.A. concert IIRC.

Zephyr- Saw them in January of 1970 in a Denver 3.2. club. Tommy Bolin was with them at the time, he left the band before the 1972 lp Sunset Ride was released.

Sugarloaf- saw them at the same 3.2. bar in February 1970. a couple months later "Green Eyed lady" hit the charts.

Michael Stanley- Saw him at the Oxford Hotel in Denver in January of 1973, his first release just hit the stores.

Renaiisance- saw them at a small nightclub in Denver in early 1973.

Steeleye Span- warmup act to Jethro Tull, first and only Denver appearance in July 1973.

Oops, forgot the big one----Hendrix--at Regis College Fieldhouse--February of 1968. "Are You Experienced" lp had hit the stores a couple months ago.

[chiroptera]

Originally Posted by KittenSparkles

Those are pretty cool! And you made out with Stuart Copeland. Interesting!
Did he look like this:

Yes he did. And just as tall.

I saw the Sid and Nancy movie but don't even recall the dive bar scenes....it was a very real and depressing movie, though.

[High_Plains_Retired]

I never met his band but I was introduced to J. Frank Wilson by my supervisor at the Panther Drive-In Theater at Lufkin, Texas in the summer of 1964. This was the same summer Wilson and his band the Cavaliers released Last Kiss, a song originally written by Wayne Cochran. The song reached the number 10 spot in October of that year and was eventually awarded a gold record.

Apparently Wilson had at one time worked at the Drive-In which is where I was soda-jerking that evening. My supervisor, who was also the theater manager, remembered Wilson and just wanted me to meet him. Her name was Mrs. (or Miss?) Clark and she reigned over that drive-in property with a BIG flashlight. I was 15 years old.

J. Frank Wilson was a one-song wonder although the song Last Kiss has been recorded by several artists since including Taylor Swift and Pearl Jam.

[Charles]

Wall of Voodoo and Psychedelic Furs sometime in the early 1980s at the Whiskey.

[High_Plains_Retired]

Originally Posted by High_Plains_Retired

J. Frank Wilson was a one-song wonder although the song Last Kiss has been recorded by several artists since including Taylor Swift and Pearl Jam.

Correction: Taylor Swift's Last Kiss was a totally different song.

[KittenSparkles]

Originally Posted by Charles

Wall of Voodoo and Psychedelic Furs sometime in the early 1980s at the Whiskey.

That would have been a cool show!

[John13]

U2 twice, once at the Ontario Theater in DC and in a small gymnasium just off the campus of the University Of Maryland.

REM on my 27th birthday in a tiny club in Washington, DC - the old 9:30 Club

Modern English way before "Melt With You" came out at that same club.

Duran Duran in a small club in DC for $3.00.

New Order, The Cure, Joe Jackson (separate shows) at The Ontario Theatre.

The Police in a small venue in Owings Mills, MD that did not sell out.

Sarah McLachlan, opening act of 3 bands right after her first LP came out. She took the show.

[hilgi]

A few more who had hits, not sure how famous.

Lit
Sugar Ray
Incubus

All before they were signed when I lived in OC, CA.

Social Distortion a ton in 82-84.