Yo, it's Waters From The Waters Wake Up call, and I had a blast on Friday morning for First Time Friday, and we were all talking about our first time concerts.
July 30th, 1978, Eagles, Linda Ronsted and Dan Fogelberg, Arrowhead Stadium.
Oh, I hate you.
Yeah,
it was
a great concert.
Oh, bet.
Very first one.
So is that Hotel California tour for the Eagles.
That was your very first concert.
Very first.
I was 18.
What was the best moment of the show?
I can't remember what the song was, but when everybody
That is
an awesome site and it's too bad kids won't know that site anymore.
It's just the cell phones.
It's not the same.
I think they should hand out lighters and take everybody's cell phones away and then just enjoy the concert and put the lighters
up.
Yay!
Who's this?
My
name is
Kara.
What was your first concert, Kara?
Aerosmith with opening band to Guns N' Roses.
I remember when that tour happened, and when it came to our area, I wasn't able to go.
How was
it?
Oh my god, it was fantastic.
Yeah.
But the crazy thing is, is I didn't even know who Guns N' Roses was.
Well, I know the album came out in like 87, and it took a while for it to get going.
Yeah, because I saw them in the summer of 88, because that's the year I graduate from high school.
Well, I just can't even imagine how cool that show would have been.
It was a great concert.
It was great.
So was there one moment?
that you remember from the show that really stands out.
Seeing Joe Perry wailing on his guitar, I can't even tell you how many amps high and how many amps fly.
Both those bands, it's just good rock and roll bands.
Yes.
Very cool Kara.
I think your show.
It was great in the morning and I listen to it every day when I go to work.
Good
morning, Water.
Good morning and happy first time Friday.
What was your first concert?
CheapTrick opened up for Rat.
It was December, I think, 87.
Yeah.
It was in Cedar Rapids.
Okay.
I'll never forget.
There was a bomb threat.
There was a bomb threat at your first concert.
CheapTrick and Rat?
Yes.
We had to stand outside.
We did not get in in time to listen to CheapTrick because they had to individually scan each one.
one of us before going
in.
So what was the result?
Did they find a bomb?
No, it was
just all in, scared.
It was a cheap trick, probably done by some rat.
Exactly,
exactly.
That really blows me up, lady, really blows me up.
Love listening to you in the morning waters.
My very first concert at the Freshman and High School,
and
it was air supply.
Was it the tour for their very first album, that Lost in Love album?
Yes, it was.
I had to sneak out of the house because my parents wouldn't
Let me go
they wouldn't let you go see air supply.
I wonder if you wanted to go see like Motley crew or something like that
Was
he just kind of a bad dude as far as your parents obey you married him didn't you you're now married to him
Yes, I am.
Are
you really?
Yes, I am.
Did they ever warm up to your guy?
Yeah, they
finally did.
I'm sure they had no choice.
Well, yeah, pretty
much.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, mom and dad.
I'm lost in love.
There's no way I can not see this guy
anymore.
Joseph, my sister, because she's like eight.
Yeah.
Is she eight now?
No, no.
She's like 53
or
something.
Yeah.
It's
pretty amazing what he did after that accident.
He still plays very
well.
Yeah,
so if you had had a choice, which would you have gone to see as your first concert, Sean Anna or Def Leppard?
I
think Def Leppard.
Yeah.
But I like Bowser and all that.
1975, I was 14.
Freaky Valley in the fourth season of the Unidom.
It would have been great to see them back when they were a little younger.
It was.
So where did you see them?
You see them in Waterloo?
In Cedar Falls.
OK, Cedar Falls.
Because when they played Cedar Rapids, they'd have to call themselves the Five Seasons.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Well, a small town farm girl, you know, and we had a class of 42, and we went on our first class trip, and we raised money to go to St.
Louis, and we got to see BTO, and it was wonderful.
But I remember the smoke, all of us being farm kids, and we were like, oh my gosh.
Yeah, who killed the nice smelling skunk?
You're very, very right.
BTO, do you remember what year that was?
Yes, I graduated in 1978, and I graduated at 17 years old then.
You're one of them smart people.
Well, I don't know, so thank you very much for your show, and I really like you guys.
Hey
everybody,
Mr.
Waters, how are you today?
Hey, I'm doing pretty good there, Hawaiian.
How are you?
I am doing well.
Woohoo!
That's
it.
I'll bet you've been to a couple of concerts in your time,
huh?
Well, I think I know what your dad went through.
We brought our daughter, who was 13 at the time, to five seconds of summer, this band.
And I think only 13-year-old girls liked them because when we went in and they came on the stage, it was the loudest, most piercing sound I've ever heard.
Yeah, I know what your dad was going through.
He just stopped our
dad, okay?
I don't get it, but if you like it, okay, that's fine.
That's
it.
So, my very first...
First concert, I got to go to Des Moines and I got to see... Des Moines?
It must have been
a big
deal.
It
was huge because...
Oostah, right?
Oostah.
Exactly.
I got to see Ario Speedwagon and Cheap Trick
opened up for them.
That's a great double bill.
When was that?
What year was that?
I believe it was around 84, 85.
How were they?
Did it really turn you on to go to more live shows?
Oh yeah, it was amazing.
You're talking 84.
Both the...
80s bands still just tour all the time.
Well, and that's something I have noticed about a lot of the 80s bands.
They were so good.
They don't have to put out new albums because the music is so good.
And I was going to say both REO and Cheat Trick are from Illinois, so they're good mid-western bands.
And I think that's part of the reason why they tour all the time.
Everybody says mid-westerners have the best work ethic, and I think we do.
I agree, because you and I both get up to the crack and on.
Oh, yeah.
My
very
first concert was a freshman in high school, and it was Air Supply.
Was it the tour for their very first album, that Lost in Love album?
Yes, it was.
I had to sneak out of the house because my parents wouldn't let me go.
They wouldn't let you go see Air Supply?
I wonder if you wanted to go see, like, Motley Crue or something like that.
Oh, no, they didn't want me to be with the guy I was going
with.
Was he just kind of a bad dude, as far as your parents?
I'll bet you married him, didn't you?
You're now married to him.
Yes, I am.
Are you really?
Yes, I am.
Did they ever warm up to your
guy?
Yeah, they finally
did.
I'm sure they had no choice.
Well, yeah, pretty
much.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, mom and dad.
I'm lost in love.
There's no way I can not see this guy anymore.
I was about 19 years old, and my mom drug my dad and her family to the Freddie Vendor concert in Cedar
Rapids.
Oh, the last-tier drop falling and all that.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Do you
remember it?
remember him on stage you know if I'd seen him I probably would have blocked it
I'm trying but when he said first time concerts it came back like oh
Hey man, did you have to go this way?
I'm truly, truly sorry I brought Freddie Fender back to your memories.
Yeah.
You know, you know, he used to drink a lot.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, he'd go out on these drinking expeditions they called Fenderbenders.
You know, the Freddie Fenderbender, when he'd go out carousing too much back in the day.
Oh my.
You don't believe me at all, do you?
Thank you, I'm not the only one with the diverted mind.
I had a youth mentor through our church.
He took me to the Chicago Amphitheater to see Led Zeppelin.
Oh, what?
Man, you couldn't, you couldn't have picked a band to make me more jealous than that.
Holy cow.
Oh, that kills me.
How, how
were they?
Oh my God, it was amazing.
Once you could cut through the fog that was covering over the audience, you know, it was really rubber plant, full glory, just going nuts.
Wow.
A double guitar.
Yeah.
Oh, it was just, it was amazing.
Oh.
I wish I had seen Led Zeppelin.
Man,
Led
Zeppelin at the time, they say that was the
band to see.
It was amazing.
I mean, electric.
Oh my God.
Funny, though.
Have your church men heard take you to a Led Zeppelin concert?
I think it's pretty damn funny.
Now that
maybe he just knew stairway to heaven and he thought, hey, this should be good.
This should be a good church thing to bring a kid to.
But then they go into dazed and confused and he's going, whoops.
I guess that's what happened.
been there and you took full advantage of it.
Oh, you bet.
This is Dan from Dubuque on the road again.
On the road again?
Was your first concert really Nelson?
No, my first concert in Dubuque and back in 1979.
So I got there with my friend and we got there really early.
The open doors, we went running in and I was right up front of the stage.
Yeah.
I was so hot and everybody around me was crowded in.
By the time Van Halen came on, I was dressed
And the next thing I knew, my friends were throwing cold water on me in the ladies' room.
They said that they didn't even realize that I had passed out
because everybody
was so crowded.
So
we went back to where my friends' sisters were standing, still awake, I think.
And we
went back and enjoyed the rest of the concert so close that I could pretty much touch David Lee Roth's bell bottoms.
Back when you'd want to touch David Lee Roth's bell bottoms.
Yes, it was awesome.
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