I will never forget the Gig on the Green…. going to the gig with school friends…i must admit i was real 90′s hair metal fan, but never forget walking into our 6th yr common room hearing the Roses for the first time, then asking friends who it was..that afernoon i bought the album on cassette and played it about 7 times non stop… i had been resurrected/converted….
So the gig was a pivotal moment,,,we went to the gig early it was not a concert but i recall a happening…it was about the feeling that we were going to be seeing something truly special.. i remember being near the front but the heat was unbearable and i had to move as it was truly claustrophobic… i decided to move to the back…and literally 5 mins later as i go to the back…the roses came on…the place went wild… i can remember being right at the back,,,dancing like some crazy kid…no one cared we were all so over the moon at seeing and hearing our heroes…. the heat rising and water/sweat dripping from the roof unreal… i cant explain it…apart from it was a day that opitimised a very special year for me in my life…it was a dawning for me where i changed my musical tastes.. i was closed metal fan until the music of the roses set me free… i now listen to all types of music…all because of the Roses…. Bring on the ‘Third Coming’ i cant wait……
]]>I got a bootleg of the gig at the barrowlands market, on tape..christ knoww where that ended up.
I was lucky to see my band in my era when it was revelationary to me as a young music fan. Lots of great gigs in the following years suffered unfairly by comparison because the emotional ratchet could not be levered..
Local indie radio dj Bryan Burnett questioned the band’s ability the night before on radio clyde, rumour was it that he left early after getting pelted by plastic bottles…no idea if that is true or not, hope it was.
]]>With my quarter bottle of vodka and can of breaker drank while in the queue I was ready to go. While waiting patiently for the Roses to start I remember 2 guys coming through the crowd with signed t-shirt and was gutted it wasn’t me wearing them. The wait was over and the party started,
From the first bass cords of I wanna be adored to the last strums of I am the resurrection the place was rocking. I had been to only 3 gigs at this time and this blew me away, what a night. I still remember one of the bootleg t-shirts, splash paint picture of the Roses on the front and the lemon on the back with the Spike island & Glasgow green dates on the shoulders. God I loved that t-shirt.
It’s been good to think back to the good old days.
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