{"id":6,"date":"2010-06-22T00:26:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T00:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/popcultureroadtrip\/2010\/06\/it-was-35-years-ago-today-the-rolling-stones.html"},"modified":"2010-06-22T00:26:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T00:26:24","slug":"it-was-35-years-ago-today-the-rolling-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/popcultureroadtrip\/2010\/06\/it-was-35-years-ago-today-the-rolling-stones.html","title":{"rendered":"It was 35 years ago today &#8211; The Rolling Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was your first concert? Do you remember? Did it change your life?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mine was the Rolling Stones. I do remember. And it did change my life. Big time.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>June 22, 1975, at New York City&#8217;s Madison Square Garden. At 13 years old I was already a devout Stones fan and my dad, rest his soul, pulled strings to get great seats for the whole family. Closer to show date, my folks decided to let a pair of 30-ish cousins take us (me, my twin sister, my younger sister and a friend of mine)&nbsp;which worked out great.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Seeing the Rolling Stones in person was a surreal experience. I couldn&#8217;t believe it was *them* in the flesh. Rather, it felt like we were watching an animatronic Disneyland show; a simulation of the &#8220;greatest rock and roll band in the world.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So much bigger than life did they seem to me in that primordial mist of time before MTV.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But it *was* them, on a giant, star-shaped stage lit by intense neon colors; magenta, purple, blue and blood-red crimson. The roar of all my favorite songs washed over me; waves of sweet sonic thunder led by a prancing dervish in pink-patterned Egyptian pajamas: Mick Jagger.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That first concert cemented a lifelong love affair with the band I&#8217;m listening to as I type this.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the next few years after this I&#8217;d see Led Zeppelin, YES, Neil Young, Kiss, Aerosmith&#8211;virtually every major act of the era. And I&#8217;d always leave thinking the same thing: It was good. Maybe great.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But it was not the Rolling Stones.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ve since seen them many times. I&#8217;ve taken my son to see them (he saw them at about the same age I did for the first time). My wife and I have seen them. And while it&#8217;s always been memorable, there&#8217;s never been anything to challenge that first night, 35 years ago to this date.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had intended to write an entirely different piece today.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Until I looked at the calendar.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And remembered.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Do you remember your first show? Or at least, the concert that made the biggest impact on you when you were young?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Post it in the comments section.&nbsp;At the end of the week I&#8217;ll randomly pull one and the winner will receive a signed, first edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hello-Its-Me-Dispatches-Culture\/dp\/1595800530\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1274849200&amp;sr=8-1\">my new book<\/a>, &#8220;Hello It&#8217;s Me &#8212; Dispatches from a Pop Culture Junkie,&#8221; which comes out July 1st.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I heard a lyric in an old Tommy Bolin song today that really nails these nostalgic pangs I sometimes get:&nbsp;&#8220;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">I&#8217;m just a fool for yesterdays,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">I&#8217;ve seen too many things in so many ways.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span>And on that note, good luck in the contest, and thanks for taking this little trip with me. I&#8217;ll post the winner end of day this Friday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>PS&#8211;at that first Stones show, this photo appeared on the cover of the NY Post newspaper. That&#8217;s me in the circle, joined forever, at least visually, with Mick Jagger on that monumental night.<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/popcultureroadtrip\/Picture%202.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jagger\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/110\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/Picture 2-thumb-485x409-15454.png\" width=\"485\" height=\"409\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was your first concert? Do you remember? Did it change your life? Mine was the Rolling Stones. I do remember. And it did change my life. Big time. 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