A first

[ericcoleman]

Sunday night I am taking nainian to his first concert. I am afraid that this may scar him for life. It's this guy

Am I a bad dad ???

Comments

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Gnuuuur. Ifg.

[controuble.livejournal.com]

First concert? What a place to start!!!

[ericcoleman]

hmmm ... how many of my icons have you pilfered now ??

[controuble.livejournal.com]

Just this one - I had the other one before I looked through yours.

[shadowcat48li.livejournal.com]

nah... start him with something really good, then again my first concert was an indoor Grateful Dead show, I worked the hot dog stand right next to the stage.... we sold out before intermission for some strange reason, I think I was 13

Al is amazing :)

[noise626.livejournal.com]

I saw him a few years ago at the City Aud herre in the Springs. One heck of a good show, and one hell of a tight band!

It's funny; the bassist looks alot like neil Young so me and my girlfriend at teh time kept yelling for him to do Cinnamon Girl :)

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that is a good place to start. It should be a very entertaining show.

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

My son sings both Sudden Death's "Give It To Everybody" and my own "Less Than Three." So no, I think you're fine. :) We contemplated taking Steve to see Al, actually, since he absolutely loves his music. But we figured getting him to sit through a 2.5-hour performance would be difficult.

I believe my first concert was the Beach Boys. My parents also took me to see Bill Cosby, the Everly Brothers, and the Kingston Trio (with one original member, I think) around the same time. First concert I went to without my parents was Iron Maiden with Anthrax - just a few years before both bands changed singers. :)

-=ShoEboX=-

[hardly-angelic.livejournal.com]

My son and daughter were 9 and 7 respectively when I took them to their first WAY concert, and my daughter is just a few months older than your boy.

You're fine.

[ericcoleman]

WAY ???

Silly rabbit.

[hardly-angelic.livejournal.com]

WAY = Weird Al Yankovic - the WAY in WAY-MOBY.

Re: Silly rabbit.

[ericcoleman]

Knowing you I figgered it was an acronym for some bad hair metal band (redundant?) from the 80s.

I'm better now, thanks for asking.

[hardly-angelic.livejournal.com]

Hey, I haven't bought a BC Rich guitar in well over a year now, have seriously cut down on my hair spray habit, and the only hair-metal show I've attended all year was Vince Neil/Quiet Riot/Slaughter.

Re: I'm better now, thanks for asking.

[ericcoleman]

But ... how many BC Rich's do you still OWN ???

I just bought my second Tele ... it's got a humbucker up front ... sounds sweet in the middle position

And has for that being the only hair-metal show you have attended all year, how many others have there been ???

Re: I'm better now, thanks for asking.

[hardly-angelic.livejournal.com]

Hair metal shows? Not that many over the years, since I was raising the kidlets and doing the domestic thing during the heyday of the genre.

Other shows this year? Probably thirty - ranging from Clay Aiken to Bob Dylan to Three Days Grace to Ian Hunter to Staind and Nickelback. Goo Goo Dolls and Lifehouse are Sunday (Fluff needs a break after the floods this week, so she's coming up from Findlay tonight and wants to see the GGD - it's the least I can do). Velvet Revolver with Alice in Chains next week, and Donny Osmond and Frankie Valli in the first couple of weeks of September. It's been a pretty well-rounded year for me on the concert circuit.

I think I still have five BCRs, but I rarely play them anymore - 95% of the time, I'm using either my Strat (the Showmaster one, not the HM model) or my PRS. I bought a horrible Tele copy and I'm seriously considering making an exemption to my vow to never smash a guitar, because the garbage is the only thing it's fit for.

I have a serious case of lust going for an Alvarez twelve-string, but the budget just isn't allowing it. *sigh*

Re: I'm better now, thanks for asking.

[ericcoleman]

I meant hair metal shows this year ... it could be that you hit 100% of them ...

My arsenal has gotten kinda silly.

Acoustics
The stage instruments
Tak dreadnought
Seagull Parlor
Fender 12

The stay at home/studio instruments
Martin DM (currently retired while it gets some problems solved)
Quatro 10 string
Pink Flying V Uke
A cheapo mando
An ancient Harmony archtop that is currently unplayable

Electrics
Two Squier Teles, one with two single coils and one with a humbucker in the front and a single coil in the back
Squier P-Bass custom
A Rick 12 on loan which I have to give back dammit

Re: I'm better now, thanks for asking.

[hardly-angelic.livejournal.com]

Nah, this is Detroit. There will always be an audience for hair metal here.

I feel your pain on the Rick 12. I borrowed one back in the very early Eighties, and it had an unbelievable neck on it. I've yet to play another one like it, and like you, I hated having to return it to its owner.

I swore that I wouldn't buy any more guitars this year, and so far, I've kept that vow - but I did pick up a Roland GR-33 guitar synth. I'm currently using a GK3 pickup on the PRS to control it, but I'm saving up for a Brian Moore with a MIDI interface built in. Pi has a Godin with pretty much the same MIDI arrangement, but I didn't like the neck much.