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Has anyone ever heard of a band called ANGEL?  I seen them at a theatre in Hammond Indiana back in 1975 or 76.  They were so awesome. There was alot of magic in their show.

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I loved Angel...I have a couple of their albums. My fave song was "Don't Leave Me Lonely"...Gregg Guiffria on keyboards....the best logo in rock n roll..it still said Angel if you turned it upside down.....very cool. They were featured in the movie "Foxes" with Jodie Foster and Cherie Currie, the original lead singer for The Runaways...

My fave shows I've been to? Bon Jovi at Giants Stadium, July 2001......amazing......

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First concert was Doobie Brothers at Seattles Key (then Seattle Center) Arena.  It was 1978.  Good show.
Damndest thing I saw a few years ago was visiting a friend in Ellensburg WA home of Central WA U. and playing at some old hotel venue was Blue Oyster Cult!  Desperate I guess and kind of sad that a headlining arena band was playing some cheesey hotel in cow-town.
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my very first concert(well festival) was in 1978 i was 14 yrs.old went with my brother and a bunch of friends to
"california jam 2" at the ontario motor speedway in ontario california, aftenoon headliner was "ted nugent" evening headliner was "aerosmith",also there was "heart","santana","foreigner","mahogany rush","bob welch?(had a song ebony eyes/,was in fleetwood mac) don't really remember to much about his set exceptthat stevie nicks came and joined him up on stage as a surprise guest.
"dave mason","rubicon".that was a gr-8 concert cause it was my first,300,000 people almost as much as woodstock.
i even have the album that they put out.
i've since seen "alot" of other concerts,seen motley crue when they first started out at a little theatre in L.A.,saw ratt
at a small venue when they first started, seen aerosmith 5 times since that first historic concert and they are really good.
seen warrant at the country club in reseeda ca.
seen van halen at the L.A.forum,and so many more it would take forever to name them all lets just say back in the 80's if there was a rock concert to go to i was probably there in calif.

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I had that album as well (Cal. Jam II) I bet it was awsome being there. I've seen Aerosmith 5 or 6 times too. They kicked @ss every time except for once in Roanoke, Va. It was during the "toxic twins" days (or should I say DAZE). Steven Tyler was pissd at the stage sound (and really at life in general, I guess). He ended up throwing a monitor out into the crowd and stomping off stage after  25 minutes into the show. They made up for it (and then some) the last couple of times I saw them though.

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I was too young in the 70's sadly so the nearest  I got was seeing Dana and Freddie Garretty of Freddie And the Dreamers in Cinderella the panto!!!

On growing up I have seen Bowie both alone and with Tin Machine,The Spiders From Mars  
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Bob Dylan-1989 (in Greece) I wasn't impressed
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I'm not a Dylan fan, but this is the third time recently that I've heard something negative about his live performances. Two people I know saw Dylan in the last year, and said that didn't even address the audience during his show.

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Meatloaf-1993-GREAT!!!! EXCELLENT!!!! (need I say more?)

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I wholeheartedly agree.
Spring of 1989 at a little club called Network (since razed to make room for a drugstore.. "paved pasadise and put up a parking lot..." but I digress) in Pasadena MD. My brother an I went to see Meatloaf. The roadies were putting terrycloth bath towels at various places onstage. He didn't understand and I explained that Meatloaf sweats profusely during the show. I can still remember my brother bitching, "11 bucks for a concert at Network, that fat f**ker better sweat his ass off". We weren't disappointed. The show was excellent. We were ten feet from the front, the sound was crystal clear and the music was awesome. I was stone cold sober and the rush from the music felt like a powerful high.

Some other great shows:
David Bowie and Jethro Tull - I've seen each six to eight times from the 70's to the 90's, always a great show musically and theatrically.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon tour 6-10-75 Capital Centre (recently razed, paved paradise, etc) Largo MD. They showed a rear-projection film synchronized with Breathe and Time that changed my preconceived ideas about the tunes.

Led Zeppelin 5-28-77 Largo MD. A friend camped out and scored five front-row seats. The show was great. Laser lightshows were pretty much unrestricted back then. I remember Jimmy Page playing Dazed & Confused within a pyramid of green laser with CO2 smoke hitting it, looking like food coloring drops in water from the Brownian effect. It was so cool.    

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I'm not a Dylan fan, but this is the third time recently that I've heard something negative about his live performances. Two people I know saw Dylan in the last year, and said that didn't even address the audience during his show.
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This is my first time on this site, so I hope I'm doing this right. It's so cool to hear of someone else being at Cal Jam 2. In 1978 I was a Jr. in high school. I went to Cal Jam with a carload of girls. We left to go to the concert in the wee hours of the morning, when it was still dark outside. I remembered that Ted Nugent was there-from where we were he was just a small figure in white pants and lots of hair! And also Dave Mason. I remember he was there because one of my friends and I braved our way to as close to the front of the stage as we could get. We thought Ted Nugent was coming on next, alas it was Dave Mason. BIG dissapointment. thanks for jogging my memory as far as who else was there, and where it was. There were also a couple of other concerts featuring lots of different acts in the mid to late seventies. One was at Angel Stadium, I believe. Anyone remember anything about that?
BTW, my first concert was Black Oak Arkansas, at the Swing Auditorium, which has since burned down I'm told.



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I definitely know where Norco is. I used to live in Fontana, but grew up in Rowland Heights. I don't remember where the Swing Auditorium was either. It was somewhere in the area of Riverside I believe, or in that part of California anyways.

When I was in high school we used to go to Gazarris all the time. They never carded you! It's not Gazarris anymore, but some other club is in it's spot. We used to go to all those clubs in Hollywood too and see up and comers like Van Halen and Motley Crue. We used to see Motley Crue walking around in the clubs with their hair in those big roosters, anyone remember that hairdo? And they'd have these coats called dusters on.
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