Currently archiving some "grey area live recordings" and realized how many are from 1975.

The following favorites ALL toured the U.S. that year!:

Led Zeppelin
Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd
The Who
Black Sabbath
Yes
Genesis
Jethro Tull
Queen

I was way too young to go to concerts in '75, so I missed seeing most of my favorite groups in their prime. Throughout the 70s I used to go through the newspapers and cut out the ticket announcements - I still have them somewhere. Great bands were rolling into town EVERY week then!

A great year for Patti Smith and Television

I was too young as well.

My first concert was 1975 - Chicago and the Beach Boys together, and Elton John showed up as a surprise guest for a few songs! I was 13 & forever hooked on concerts thereafter.

In 1975 I was 15 so not attending concerts (shocking I know) but I was enjoying the music as I really began my record collection.

That's insane.

The Zappa/Beefheart tour was amazing too.

Geez you make me feel old - I was 22!

I turned 2 that summer.

I was 15. Eric Carmen and Dr. Feelgood were big for me ... Face The Music and Venus And Mars got played a lot ... Schoolboys In Disgrace ... those are the first things that come to mind.

In 1975 I was living in New York, and Manhattan clubs were already full of bands who would define the future, but I was barely aware of them yet. Jimbo was probably going to those gigs.

I turned 16 on December 16, 1975. I found out Kiss was going to be playing at the Ft Wayne War Memorial Coliseum on the day after Christmas. Since I had to wait a month and a day to get my driver's license I talked my neighbor who was a year older in to going and driving the hour north to the coliseum. We were going to our first rock concert!

I bought his ticket...total cost $9.50. A snow storm blew in on Christmas night and we weren't sure we would get to go. We talked our parents into letting us go and headed out. It took us 2 1/2 hours to go 60 miles. Once we got there, we found our seats. The place looked and smelled unbelievable! After waiting what seemed like forever for the show to start, a man came out to center stage and announced that Kiss was stranded in Detroit on their way to Ft Wayne and wouldn't be making the show. They offered to refund our money if we wanted to leave or we could stay and the other two acts were ready to put on a show. We decided to stay.

I was introduced first to Mott the Hoople and loved every minute of it. Then a crazy man in a loin cloth came out and blew the roof off the place playing the 1st Ted Nugent album and songs from the Amboy Dukes. Still some of my favorite songs. Thus began my love affair with live music. What a time to be a teenager!

1975 was a good year indeed - Jr in college - going with the gal I thought I'd spend the rest of my life with.
Worked full time at Caldors while bring a full time student.
Made close to $ 8,000 a year - enough to keep gas in my Saab, pay the insurance and take my gal out.

That year I saw Zappa twice once in New Haven with Beefheart - once in Waterbury with the Bozzio/Lewis/Estrada band.
I think that was the Kinks Schoolboy in Disgrace tour also.

I also saw Fleetwood Mac open up for Jefferson Starship.


Loads of great movies - Monty Python & the Holy Grail, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Man Who Would Be King, Return of the Pink Panther, Jaws, Love & Death, Nashville,

Music - One Size Fits All, Bongo Fury, Blood on the Tracks, Unrequited, Tomorrow Belongs To Me, Tonites the Night,, Fleetwood Mac, Fandango, School Boys, Minstrel In the Gallery, Lennon's Rock N Roll, Extra Texture, Venus..., , the Last Record Album, Midnight on the Water,, Soap Opera , EC Was Here, Red Octopus, Beware of the Dog,

Pretty good year.

I was just 11 in the summer of '75, so concerts weren't on my radar screen yet. But I have older friends who talk about seeing Led Zeppelin back in the day for $3 and before that the Doors and The Who. I can imagine how cool it was to be in a place like NY and be able to choose among several great bands every weekend.

I was just starting to make decent (for a 12-year old) money, and a lot of nice comics were coming out.

As I remember there was no real World Series that year....

Ha!

I graduated from high school in June '75, and started college in September. A memorable year, indeed. After cleaning up for my high school yearbook photo, I didn't get a haircut again until May '76. I spent the summer installing underground sprinkler systems, to earn spending money for college.

The first new album I bought as a college student was Wish You Were Here, even though my cheap-o music system didn't include a turntable! (A situation fixed by the second semester.) I would buy the latest issue of Creem magazine every month at the campus bookstore, reading with increasing interest reports of a movement called punk rock, in NY and London. And I soon learned to pass by the fountain in front of the campus center every day, because there'd frequently be somebody out there selling albums pruned from his/her collection.

I was 9-10. It would be a little while (High School) before I saw Neil Young at MSG with my brother for our first concert.

Like Smiff, I was 11 that summer, and not nearly as cool. I think I was getting into more "adult" music - Elton John being one of the biggies. As opposed to things like the Partridge Family.

16 & was into a number of things (mostly older then '75): LA Singer Songwriters, early 70's glam & 60's & early 70's classic & prog rock. While there is great music from every year, I think I perceived the scene as going downhill since about 1974.

I'm realizing reading this thread that I may be the youngest people on this forum.

I was 5 and 2 years away from my first concert. I saw KISS in 1977.

I was twelve in 1975, but even then I had a great record collection. I had my dad's original 1950s Blue Note, Columbia, Atlantic and Verve jazz records, plus my own bought with paper route money. My first concert was Buddy Rich in 1973, and first rock concert was UK in 1978 at Penn's Landing in Philly. Then a lot of rock show's at the Philly Spectrum, Tower Theater, Mann Music Center, JFK Stadium, Irvine Auditorium and others.

Cool history! My dad had a lot of Ellington, which I liked as a little boy; but didn't get into him & classic jazz as an adult until the mid 90's.