it's late... time for bed...

[asimplechord]

I went to my very first concert twenty years ago.

To preface: we had no extra money for niceties like concerts when I was growing up. I listened to music on the radio mostly, except for the handful of cassette tapes and records we had in the house. We ended up going to this particular concert because it was a birthday gift for a friend: her parents offered to take her and three friends to the concert of her choice.

She consulted her three closest friends (me and J and another friend) and chose George Michael's Faith tour.

Her parents thought the title meant he was a gospel or Christian singer.

They got tickets for themselves as well.

If you could have seen their faces when the lights went down in the Capital Centre (because that's what it was called in those days, before corporate sponsorship dictated its current name) and Michael's amplified voice groaned out the lyrics to I Want Your Sex....

The memory makes me laugh, even today.

Anyway. That first experience was enough to convince me that tickets for live shows were a priority.

Why the stroll down memory lane? Because George Michael announced tour dates for this summer. I am so there. Good times, fun memories, and G totally wants to see this one with me, even if it's at the Toyota Center. :)

I'm guessing that the crowd will have a slightly different demographic than most of the shows I've been to lately. :P

Comments

[timestep.livejournal.com]

Capital Centre? Like in Largo, MD?

Hey, my first concert was Shawn Cassidy at that same venue!! (only a bit more than 20 years ago).

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Yep. I saw Aerosmith there, Def Leppard, Metallica, Bryan Adams, all kinds of shows at the Cap Centre. Man, fun times, road trips. :)

(I grew up in Cecil County, about half-way between Baltimore and Philadelphia, up I-95, and I went to Salisbury University.)

[why-me-why-not.livejournal.com]

You're older than me? wth?

yeah, that was my first reaction to reading this. *g*

Live shows are a priority!

My first concert... um. Hmm. Diamond Rio at Festival in the Park in... 95? I think? Maybe 94. Definitely after Harley was born b/c she and I were sharing a room at the time.

And yeah, I'd say George Michael may be a different crowd than the scene kids you've been seeing. lol.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I am so old, I remember life before MTV and cable TV and the internet. My DOB's on my userinfo. I thought you knew I was older than you. :)

Definitely an older crowd. Less goth-black, less scene hair, less ink on the skin. I'm guessing.

[why-me-why-not.livejournal.com]

I really for some reason thought you were younger than me. idk.

I remember my life before all those things. but that's b/c we were poor and didn't really have those things til I was a teenager and almost out of the house.

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! That is the best story. Actually, it sounds like something that could have come from my childhood, only didn't.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Their horror, oh god. I wish I had photographic evidence of it. It was great and terrible and I am laughing again, just thinking about it. :)