Mine for yours: 25 rock shows I saw when I was younger that make me a lucky stiff

Jimi Hendrix Experience four times: 1.) on the Are You Experienced? tour with Blue Cheer, Soft Machine, Eric Burdon and the Animals at the Anaheim Convention Center, LA, 2.) on the same tour with Miles Davis, Nina Simone, The Last Poets at the Shrine Auditorium, LA, both 1967, 3.) on the Axis : Bold As Love tour at the Forum, LA, 1968, 4.) on the Electric Ladyland tour at Devonshire Downs, LA, 1968.

Black Sabbath on the Black Sabbath tour at the Whisky A Go Go in LA, 1970.

Roxy Music w/ Eno in the band on their first American tour at the Whisky A Go Go in LA, 1972.

The New York Dolls four times: at the Whisky A Go Go, the Roxy, Santa Monica Civic, and the Palladium, all in LA, early 70s.

Sun Ra Arkestra, Parliament Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone, Cecil Taylor at a rock/jazz festival whose name escapes me in New York, 1978.



Iggy and the Stooges four times during the Raw Power era at the Whisky A Go Go, LA, 1974.

The Doors before their first album was released at Cal State LA, 1967.

David Bowie eight times, most notably : 1) on the Ziggy Stardust tour at the Santa Monica Civic, LA, 2.) on the Aladdin Sane tour at the Long Beach Arena, LA, 3.) on the Diamond Dogs tour at the Universal Amphitheater, LA, 4.) on the Low tour at the Forum, LA.

Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Television, Blondie, Talking Heads, The Heartbreakers on the same bill at some forgotten venue in NYC, 1977.

Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Tim Hardin at an anti-war rally/concert at the Cheetah Club, NYC, 1968.



Led Zeppelin on their first American tour with the Jeff Beck Band, Deep Purple, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac at a free concert in Pasadena, 1969

T. Rex two times: on the T. Rex tour at the Whisky a Go Go, LA, 1970, and on the Electric Warrior tour at the Santa Monica Civic LA, 1971.

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band in the Trout Mask Replica era with The Mothers of Invention, Alice Cooper, Ornette Coleman, the GTOs at the Shrine Exposition Hall, LA, 1969.

Lou Reed backed up by his 13 - 15 year old boy band The Tots on the Tranformer tour at a forgotten venue in New York City, 1972.

The Rolling Stones in the Beggars Banqet era with Cream, The Kinks, The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page at a free concert somewhere in Canada, 1968.



Leonard Cohen on the Songs of Love and Hate tour at the Troubadour, LA, 1971.

Tim Buckley on the Starsailor tour at the Troubadour, LA, 1970.

PiL on the Metal Box tour at the Olympic Auditorium, LA, 1979.

The Ramones at the Roundhouse, London with The Stranglers, Flaming Groovies, 1976. (Many pundits/historians claim this show, at which members of many of the most important future English punk bands were supposedly in attendance, triggered and hugely influenced the subsequent punk rock explosion in England.)

Patti Smith at the Whisky A Go Go in LA a year before Horses was released, 1974.



Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Grateful Dead w/ Pigpen at a free concert in San Francisco, late 60s.

Throbbing Gristle on their only American tour at some forgotten venue in West Los Angeles, early 80s.

Prince on the Dirty Mind tour at a roller skating rink in West Hollywood, 1980.

John Cage at Carnegie Hall, early 80s

Flying Burrito Brothers in the Burrito Deluxe era in a free concert at my high school during lunch hour, 1971.
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