Early Quote by Lee Ranaldo

The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take…

— Andy Partridge

We had a band with our parents called Rockenhaim and we only played covers and our first gig was at a deli called Canter's,…

— Alana Haim

From meeting Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, teaming up, rehearsing, playing selected gigs outside of Britain, coming back into Olympic Studios…

— Jimmy Page

My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it…

— Steve Jones

I was in the Rockin' Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain. A lot of photos were taken…

— Lemmy

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot…

— Gary Wright

We had this thing that hometown gigs were the best and the worst because there was this unbearable pressure.

— Jim Kerr

It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our…

— Greg Ginn

We did all those memorable iconic gigs at The Barrowlands and Ibrox and I remember Tiffany's because it was the first time my dad…

— Jim Kerr

Looking back fondly, I think the first gig we did with the electronic stuff was really exciting because it was in this tiny club,…

— Grace Chatto

We were a very popular live band in London, packing in 6,000 people a night, and the record companies that came after us wanted…

— Dave Clark

I came out with my five-piece group and opened at Billy Burke's Swing Oar. This was when Hollywood was really jumpin'. This was when…

— Scatman Crothers