Here’s the second concert I’ve been to, and it’s just getting better and better. They were rockin’ hard at the Baltimore Civic Center, and that was yet another concert that it was, like, Okay, this is what I want to do! I know what I want to do now. They were all young and had a lot of energy. To see them play live at that point in time, they were really rockin’ hard. That f irst record was incredible and then Paranoid.
I loved Black Sabbath, they were one of my favorite bands. Is it better to be a guy to be up onstage? Is it going to be a deficit being a woman getting up onstage? It’s weird, those things entered the picture many years later, but nonetheless that was a big part of what was happening during the ‘70s and ‘80s That really, I think, was a big changing point in my life where I really decided - although I don’t know how much you can decide at the age of 11 - but I really did decide that’s what I wanted to be. With the grass seats, maybe it’s 12 or something. It’s like six or seven thousand, I believe.
I had their records, and as a kid to see that. Even at 11, I mean, I loved Led Zeppelin, I loved the Who. I remember just my mouth was hanging open the whole time. That was Zeppelin’s first journey to the States, opening for the Who. That really did blow my mind, seeing that. Of course, I was only like 11 or 12 or something like that. How lucky was I? I didn’t even realize it at the time. As a drummer, you must feel so fortunate that you were able to see both John Bonham and Keith Moon. Your first concert is Led Zeppelin opening for the Who at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in 1969.
Schock shares some of her best concert tales with UCR, along with memories she accumulated as she was attending shows and meeting some of her favorite artists. The ticket stubs pile high from that point. The spunky Baltimore native was there to see the Who and Led Zeppelin at her first concert, followed by Black Sabbath as her next one. From her earliest days as a young music obsessive, she was attending concerts by almost anyone you can name from the golden era of classic rock. Drummer Gina Schock has a new book, Made in Hollywood: All Access With the Go-Go’s , which takes stock of the group's history from a fan's perspective.
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