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Some of the biggest rock bands ever started their ascent to fame with a really bumpy, sometimes disastrous, first show...Motley Crue did their first gig in a club in Hollywood, and during the first song, a guy in the audience blew a loogie onto Vince Neil's white leather pants, and Neil dove off the stage, put the guy in a headlock, and started pummeling him, while Nikki Sixx was hitting another guy in the shoulder with his bass....Kiss played for a total of 50 bucks to 10 people in Queens, New York....Def Leppard's first show was in their hometown of Sheffield, England, and when guitarist Steve Clark did a windmill wind up (Pete Townshend-like) to hit his first chord on the guitar, and nothing came out--he'd forgotten to take his amp off "standby," and the audience laughed at him...more about those rocker debuts, plus stories of bad starts to other bands like, the Doors, Guns n Roses, Metallica, AC/DC, and more, here: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/bad-first-concerts/