Originally Posted By: BlueAttitude
First was April Wine, Canadian band that had lots of radio play at the time. I was living on the east coast of Canada back then, Saint John, New Brunswick. Too small for the big international bands, but the Canadian bands always dropped by during their cross Canada tours. Also saw Lighthouse, another big Canadian band at the time. And lots of other great local bands that never made it out of the province. This would have been late 60’s early 70’s.

The first major concert I saw was Johnny Winter back when he was a huge star, Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, very big venue. At the time he was my favourite guitarist, I had all his albums. We had nose bleed seats, sound was total crap, but I loved every minute of it! This was 1974.

And many, many more since then.

With all the years I lived near Toronto, I never did go to the Maple Leaf Gardens. I went to the Air Canada Centre/Rogers Centre plenty of times, though! I've seen quite a few concerts there and baseball games as well, so I know how big those larger venues can get ( and how loud they can be when filled to max capacity with screaming fans ).

I'm not as up on Canadian bands as I should be. I should look up a list later of some of the best and greatest and give them a listen through.

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers,
Ember