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Your First Concert was.....
And because I've been pm'd about the above, and just to carify ... that skinny, long-haired teenage kid in Child/Steel Mill was the yet to be recorded Mr. Springsteen. Real nice guy. 
Your First Concert was.....
First show was Jimi Hendrix Experience, August 1968, at the Richmond Mosque. Second show was Led Zeppelin (Christmas Day?) 1968, Denver auditorium. Also around this time I started paying attention to this group Child, later name changed to Steel M... 
Album of the year
David Bowie ... The Next Day ... Hands down the best Rock album this year ... And I'm not a Bowie fanboy and listening mostly to classical and jazz the best recordings for me fall easily ito the classical realm. But this record is something else; ... 
R.I.P. Lou Reed
Very nice way to remember him ... Lou and Renee Fleming:http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2013/11/renee-fleming-posts-stunning-tribute-to-her-friend-lou-reed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artsjournal... 
Alt Country/Folk, American roots
Boy, I just can't say this enough ... Did you hear Anais Mitchell's brilliant HadesTown? Brilliant! I'm surprised that more people don't know this recording.  Best of the current bunch, IMO, and that's a very good bunch indeed. And did you hear Ot...