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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:55 am
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when was your first stage show?
mine first was on a national music competition few years ago
still could not write own songs at that time
i played a rendition of purple haze as a soloist
did a few mistakes due to lack of experience
but i still regret i did not bring my own marshall vs30r
but trusted the hotel's marshall mg100 instead
(due to the marshall name & it's power rating & size)
if i were to bring my own amplifier
plus my own pearl drumset
(i will not play a drum unless it is pearl)
i could have won the competition


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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:40 am
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Mine was in the middle of the morning in the hall at high school, late 79 or 80, not sure. We did covers of The Police, The Jam and The Stray Cats. What? We were mixed up kids and we were awful! It hurts just to think about it! :oops:


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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:47 am
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Ceri wrote:
Mine was in the middle of the morning in the hall at high school, late 79 or 80, not sure. We did covers of The Police, The Jam and The Stray Cats. What? We were mixed up kids and we were awful! It hurts just to think about it! :oops:

the winter of 1978 moorestown high school
in my home state of new jersey


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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:20 am
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mine was in some bar in pawtucket RI 3rd base which is no longer there i asked this blues band if i could sit in

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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:27 am
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1969 summer on the beach by the Balaton lake in HUNGARY- UNFORGATTABLE (we played Hendrix,Led Zeppelin,Johnny Winter,Cream,Mountain,GrandFunk etc):wink:


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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:19 pm
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I played a school dance in Middle School for about fifty kids (give or take a few, people always leave when the bands start to play at the dances). Let's just say that my second performance there wasn't so great (but then again, the first wasn't really good, either). :?

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It was back in 1968 and I was 12 years old. My first band, a trio, played on stage in the auditorium for the entire student body, all the teachers and some parents at my grammar school (about 425 people all together). The school was Academy of St. Dorothy, Staten Island, NY. Yep, we did the school uniform thing LONG before Angus!

Before that curtain opened, if you even whispered, "boo" to me, I think I would have passed out.

The "gig", so to speak, came off pretty well because the other two guys in the band and myself had been taking formal lessons for at least two years each. Our teachers essentially put together our repertoire for us with emphasis on simple stuff that we could pull off with no problems, easy tunes that were currently on the charts. The show went great and after that we played monthly there, at private parties and even got our first paying gig that year: The Mothers' Club Christmas Party. We made $10 each for about an hour's worth of work. So, I guess that's when I turned "pro".

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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:14 am
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2003, Kiel Week, MAX Stage at Rock & Pop School-Fest.

I have needed ours for comming down after that.

cheers :D


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High School Battle of the Bands for our school district. I was still just a vocalist then. I was so stage shy that I left my glasses backstage so I couldn't see any faces clearly. I was 16... I think. It must have been 1994.

Some grown man in the crowd started heckling us when the set was nearly over. When we were done, I gave a quick thank you, then went backstage and started beating on the fold up chairs in frustration. Then we found out someone had taken the guy out of the crowd and beaten the snot out of him.


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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:34 pm
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Man I remember it well.

A buddy of mine was dating a girl who's brother was having a college graduation party, sometime around 1982 or 83 ???

we played to about 60 or so people and I stold a guys girlfriend and ended up dating her for a few years.

Glory Days !!!!!!

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Post subject: Re: your first stage show
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:15 pm
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[quote="eddytanhh"]when was your first stage show?

With the guitar.....had to have been some 50 years back in my kid sister's JHS gym, for a Friday afternoon, after-school dance. However, I was doing more conventional stuff at the piano which predates that.

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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:17 am
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mine was in a graduation day of my elementary school. I covered EVH live solo of DVD Live: Right here Right now (I was 12 so many parts I didn't play)


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