A couple of questions

[ericcoleman]

Since I am in this sort of a mood.

What was the first record you bought?
What was the first concert you went to?

My answers in comments

Comments

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Record: Single - "Light My Fire" by the Doors. LP - "Georgy Girl" by the Seekers.

Concert: Kickapoo Creek Rock Festival, Heyworth, IL, Memorial Day Weekend, 1970. B. B. King, Country Joe & the Fish, Frijid Pink, New Colony Six, Butterfield Blues Band, Fuse (featuring even-then-an-old-fart guitarist named Rick Nielsen), Canned Heat, and some local bar band called REO Speedwagon. Several more acts whose names I don't remember.

[ericcoleman]

Fuse (featuring even-then-an-old-fart guitarist named Rick Nielsen),

AND Tom Petersson, who is just a couple of years younger than Rick (unless I am much mistaken, most of the bios I have read say that Tom was in Fuse as well)

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Yep, Tom was in there too. Delaney & Bonnie & Friends (with Eric Clapton) were scheduled but did not show. There was a band called Smith which had a current hit with a Lennon-McCartney cover called "Baby It's You". Also listed on the poster was a band I do not remember seeing which went by the name of Genesis; I have no idea whether that is the one which later became famous. I do know that Phil Collins was about 16 at the time and was appearing on George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" as an uncredited tambourine player.

[ericcoleman]

Genesis didn't tour the US till around 73.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Mike Bloomfield in the Butterfield Blues Band? Or had he left by that time?

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

He left Butterfield in 1967 to form The Electric Flag.

[ericcoleman]

beat me to it ...