What's the first concert you ever attended?

[Shajen]

Whitesnake, 1984 Sam Houston Coliseum.

I was 9. Don't remember much of the show, except it was really loud. And Cool. Well, to a 9 year old anyway.
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You? What was the first one you saw?

[jakethebake]

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Whitesnake, 1984 Sam Houston Coliseum.

I was 9. Don't remember much of the show, except it was really loud. And Cool. Well, to a 9 year old anyway.
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You? What was the first one you saw?

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Cheap Trick at Astroworld. I think it was like 1981 or 1982.

[tek]

Beach Boys 1976 /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[IndieMatty]

I will win for coolest first concert... Tool/Failure at Roseland 1994.


Ok, it really was my second, Billy Joel - River of Dreams tour in 92 at Madison Square Garden...that was hella cool too.

[Shajen]

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Beach Boys 1976 /images/graemlins/cool.gif

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You win.

[wacki]

First concert ever? Milli Vanilli - my sister took me. It was gay as hell, they came out on wires suspended in air and were play fighting with Katana's in Ninja suits. I remember sitting there thinking to myself "How gay is this?".

My next concert? Not sure, I think it was either Ozzy or Bruce Springteen.

[elwoodblues]

I don't remember if it was my first concert, but I saw Spinal Tap in Chicago when they had their "Break Like the Wind" tour. It was fantastic.

[Overdrive]

Kiss, 1979. I remember I was really suprised when Ace Frehley sat behind the drums and played drums for a while, I still remember that all these years later.

[JeffO]

I was maybe 14 years old or so, 1976ish. Soldier field in Chicago. They were calling it the superbowl of rock. REO Speedwagon, Journey, Ted Nugent and Lynard Skynard.

[namknils]

It was either 96 or 97, Smashing Pumpkins at the Rosemont Horizon. It was pretty cool.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

The Who

Boston - Commonwealth Armory

October 1969

[tek]

I also saw Karen and Richard Carpenter in 1978 at the Stardust in 'Vegas Baby, Vegas' /images/graemlins/smile.gif

She died pretty soon after. They were great to see live and to listen to when chilling out. When I hear Goodbye to Love, I get sad because she had so much talent.

[jasonHoldEm]

The first "name" band that I saw was Type O Negative at a bar in State College, PA, although I'd gone to a few shows my friends put on prior to that.

[jakethebake]

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The Who

Boston - Commonwealth Armory

October 1969

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I saw three different "final tours" for The Who. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[jakethebake]

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The first "name" band that I saw was Type O Negative at a bar in State College, PA, although I'd gone to a few shows my friends put on prior to that.

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They're a "name" band?

[ClassicBob]

My first roommate in college loved these guys. Some of their stuff is pretty good. The song I remember the most was called "I know you're [censored] someone else", or something to that effect.

[Rushmore]

1980 or 81. Bad Brains, Gang of Four, and The Bush Tetras. Roseland. Can't remember if Bad Brains or Gang of Four headlined, but they were both great.

As you might imagine, this being my first show had two effects:

1.) Motivated me to go to more shows, because, obviously, this is the greatest thing the world has ever seen.

2.) Disappointed me for years to come.

P.S. Schizoid-lunatic H.R. did a BACKFLIP off the balcony.

[bwana devil]

Metallica "...and justice for all" in 1988

[wacki]

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They're a "name" band?

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They used to be played on MTV quite regularly, so I would say yes.

[IndieMatty]

Ok, you win.

[jasonHoldEm]

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They're a "name" band?

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To some people at least. They're a goth metal band that was semi-popular in the 90's (Bloody Kisses and October Rust being their two big albums), most people who listen to metal have probably heard of them. I've mellowed a bit since my younger days, but that was a really fun show.

J

[Paluka]

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Metallica "...and justice for all" in 1988

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same answer for me.

[Paluka]

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1980 or 81. Bad Brains, Gang of Four, and The Bush Tetras. Roseland.

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I don't even know who the second 2 bands are, but anyone who saw Bad Brains as their first show is my hero.

[jakethebake]

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They're a "name" band?

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They used to be played on MTV quite regularly, so I would say yes.

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That explains it. They're a "name" band if you're 12.

[Zeno]

It was either Hoyt Axton or Jackson Browne in about 1974 or so. I can't remember which was first. I never really liked concerts very much - Too many people, with the majority acting incredibly stupid and juvenile. Being a solid Christian by Nature, I do not approve of such behavior.

-Zeno

[cjromero]

I have a good one. How about Hall & Oates circa 1978 with my parents and a friend. I was 9. We didn't even have real tickets, as we sat one of the skyboxes at the Compaq Center in Houston (then called the Summit).

[IndieMatty]

This was when MTV actually played music and when there was a heavy music trend in America...(94-00) Type O is a name if you know pop-metal.

[WC64]

I am 23 and just attended my first concert this past summer. It was the Dave Matthews band. I just have never been much into going to concerts.

[Shajen]

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I am 23 and just attended my first concert this past summer. It was the Dave Matthews band. I just have never been much into going to concerts.

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I've seen DMB twice. Once at the old Coke Amphitheatre, and this last time a couple years back at Turner Field.

The Coke show was awesome, the Turner Field show sucked badly.

[holeplug]

Ozzfest at the Tweeter Center in Philly in 2000ish (don't remeber the exact year)

[mmbt0ne]

99x Big Day Out 1997, back when they had it in the International Horse Park

According to the back of my t-shirt, the following bands played:

Offspring
Foo Fighters
Might Mighty BossToneS
Local H
Cowboy Mouth
Memory Dean
Ziggy Marley
Goldfinger
Me First & the Gimme Gimmies
and a bunch of local bands

[RayGarlington]

Jethro Tull
Red Rocks, Colorado
world war 3

http://www.tullpress.com/lafree18jun71.htm

[Shajen]

woah dude.

I stand corrected. YOU WIN

[maryfield48]

Third World - 'Explanitations' concert, Kingston, Jamaica, c. 1979

'96 degrees, in the shade'

[SossMan]

Santana 1997 w/ my parents. mucho pot smoke.

[beerbandit]

garth brooks -- he puts on a good concert

dont i was 15/16 (mid 90s)i think, went with parents ---

thats weird this thread was here, i was thinking of starting one about the next concert soemone would like to see -

cheers

[wayabvpar]

Beastie Boys and RunDMC Seattle Paramount 1986 or 1987. AWESOME show. MCA was so hammered that Mike D had to do most of his lines...it was cracking me up.

[OrangeHeat]

Garth Brooks 95-96ish Buffalo, NY

Orange

[Rushmore]

The scary thing is that at that point, I knew a LOT more about Gang of Four than about the Bad Brains. The only thing that possessed me to see them was a friend had acquired a tape which contained Pay To Cum. This was before the Let Them Eat Jellybeans compilation came out and made everyone take notice of them. I would have gone anyway, because I loved Gang of Four's retarded politics at the time (I was, after all, SIXTEEN). Still like the songs a whole lot.

Now, don't get me wrong--Gang of Four was a great band, certainly before, and probably including, Songs Of The Free.

It's just, I mean, what can you do? It's the f*cking Bad Brains.

Bush Tetras were just a momentary darling of the NY scene--certainly not worth noting, IMO.

[jakethebake]

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1980 or 81. Bad Brains, Gang of Four, and The Bush Tetras. Roseland.

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I don't even know who the second 2 bands are, but anyone who saw Bad Brains as their first show is my hero.

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I dunno who ANY of them are.

[Rushmore]

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Ok, you win.

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I know.

Just kidding. I just happened to be extremely lucky.

My friend Max saw the Pistols with The Clash and Siouxsie and the Banshees at the 100 Club in London. I think it was '76 or '77. His roommate was Youth, who later became the bass player for Killing Joke.

I think I'd have to say Max wins.

[Rick Diesel]

Eminem, Limp Bizkit, and Papa Roach.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

I saw one of those in Foxboro in '88 or '89

[CMP]

General Public, McGaw Hall (now Welsh-Ryan Arena), Evanston, IL 1986.

They were the other half of the English Beat (along with Fine Young Cannibals).

Hit song: "Tenderness"

CMP

[Asufiji2004]

Staind, Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit..i believe in 1999. Mesa Ampitheatre. Kid Rock...Good..the rest...sucked. But a good concert if you enjoy gettin the crap kicked out of you for 4 hrs. My second concert was way better. A girlfriend of mine scored N'sync tickets on the radio. She knew I was the only person that would go with her. Nothin beats an entire arena full of sub-18 year old hot chicks with no clothes on.

[Bob Moss]

Aerosmith, New Year's Eve... don't remember the year exactly. It was in Boston. And it was awesome.

Bob

[Rob Blackburn]

1992..Fugazi, Slant6 and Shudder to Think for $5 @ Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, NC

[plaster8]

Van Halen, Thanksgiving 1988, Portland Coliseum.

(My first show SHOULD have been the VH 1984 tour, but I was only 12 and my mom wouldn't let me go -- I've never forgiven her for making me miss their last tour with David Lee Roth.)

But the Hagar show was good, anyway.

My friend had just gotten his driver's license, so we were just happy we didn't have to have one of our moms take us to the concert.

[Paluka]

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The scary thing is that at that point, I knew a LOT more about Gang of Four than about the Bad Brains. The only thing that possessed me to see them was a friend had acquired a tape which contained Pay To Cum. This was before the Let Them Eat Jellybeans compilation came out and made everyone take notice of them.

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The Youth Are Getting Restless is probably the greatest live album I've ever heard, that is the only Bad Brains I listen to now.

[Paluka]

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1992..Fugazi, Slant6 and Shudder to Think for $5 @ Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, NC

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Very nice.

[offTopic]

Def Leppard and Uriah Heep - Oakland Arena 1984.

Uriah Heep... /images/graemlins/blush.gif

[Redmen62]

Smashing Pumpkins in '96 when they came through Canada. I still remember the opening of "Where boys fear to tread", played a million times faster than the album version, with huge banks of searchlights playing over the crowd.

My father casually mentioned once that he saw Led Zeppelin live in the late 70's- we've pressed him for details, but I'm pretty sure he was too high to remember much.

[Benal]

Dire Straits - Mid/late 80s

Money for nothin', and the chicks for free...

[bholdr]

April 23 1994 tacaoma dome: Led Zepplin (sans bonham)
April 24 1994 memorial stadium seattle: The Grateful Dead
a pretty good two days.

i'd seen lots of smaller shows in teen centers, etc, that imo, don't really count. though i did see Nirvana at the velvet elvis in '91

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

G n' Fn' R

[FeliciaLee]

I think she died in '83. One of my favorite vocalists /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Paluka]

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April 23 1994 tacaoma dome: Led Zepplin (sans bonham)
April 24 1994 memorial stadium seattle: The Grateful Dead
a pretty good two days.

i'd seen lots of smaller shows in teen centers, etc, that imo, don't really count. though i did see Nirvana at the velvet elvis in '91

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Hold on a second here. You are trying to claim that a Bonham-less Zeppelin in 1994 was your first concert but you saw a small Nirvana show in 1991? Is the Nirvana show infinitely cooler?

[FeliciaLee]

Besides all of the "free" concerts my parents took me to in the '70's at Six Flags...

I think Billy Idol in '83?
He mooned the audience and everyone thought it was soooo cool, lol.

I saw Sammy Hagar before he joined Van Halen. I think that was '85.

The free concerts weren't so bad though, besides country performers, which I won't name since I don't even like country, I got to see Joan Jett, Night Ranger, Huey Lewis, Hall & Oates, Billy Squier, and so many others I can't even remember.

Felicia /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Asufiji2004]

Actually I was wrong, my first concert was in utero. My mom was 3 weeks along (she had no idea)when she went to see Black Sabbath!! The ramones opened, they played 3 chords and got booed off. Haa punk sux!!

[James Boston]

Didn't you say something about Aerosmith in your dorm in an old thread?

[James Boston]

Lolapalooza '96

Rage Against The Machine (who rocked)
Metallica (who I missed because my ride insisted on leaving before it started raining)
Soundgarden (who sucked)
The Ramones (who called it quits shortly there after)

I forget the rest

[DukeSucks]

B-52s
late 80s/early 90s
Carowinds, Charlotte NC

[Duke]

Went to a Rush concert at... I think the Palace of Auburn Hills... but left very early - I forget which year it was.

Why did I go?

Primus opened.

~D

[Rushmore]

Felicia, I cannot understand why you would be reluctant to name "country performers (who very likely suck really bad)," yet are perfectly willing to freely and openly discuss Night Ranger, Huey Lewis, Hall & Oates, Billy Squier.

I mean, the "country performers" were worse than these dozen-or-so people?

[FeliciaLee]

Nooooo, I just don't remember the country performers. Don't really even remember the names, much less the performances. I was really young, like 2-7 years old.

[Rushmore]

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Actually I was wrong, my first concert was in utero. My mom was 3 weeks along (she had no idea)when she went to see Black Sabbath!! The ramones opened, they played 3 chords and got booed off. Haa punk sux!!

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Yeah, those Sabbath fans sure know music!! The funniest thing is that Ozzy LOVED the Ramones. In fact, most legitimate musicians--particularly heavy-rock-types--tend to have a real appreciate for authentic punk.

[jasonHoldEm]

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The ramones opened, they played 3 chords and got booed off.

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I believe 3 chords encompasses their entire repertoire. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[Rob Blackburn]

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The Youth Are Getting Restless is probably the greatest live album I've ever heard

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That is a sick album, the one right before it Quickness is also one of my faves, both have spots locked in the iPod.

[BradleyT]

Kiss with Ted Nugent - 1986.

[dsm]

http://www.rogerdean.com/logos/thumbnails/33-YesClassicBlue_jpg.jpg "In the round," 1979 at The Forum.

[eggzz]

I was around 16 and it was 1986, A buddy and I slept out and partied with a bunch of people outside the mall. Tickets for I think maybe Michael Jackson were on sale. We drank, and hung out with the chicks all night, got our wristbands in the morning, and when they called our number, we were like fourth in line.

When we got up to the window, we ordered our tickets. Four seats to the Lynrd Skynyrd show the following month. It wasn't sold out or anything. People were looking at us like we were crazies. It was hilarious.

Good concert too.

[kyro]

this is going to sound really pathetic.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, last year. Only one I've been too. It was incredible too.

[DPCondit]

Led Zeppelin 1976.
The Fabulous Forum in Los Angeles.

[bholdr]

no nirvana show: two drunken, unintelligable songs as they went from god knows where to who cares what bar (i was 13). the velvet elvis held about 80 people, and nirvana, to be honest, sucked that night. i was thinking 'concert' vs 'show'.
if we must list every little show, how 'bout the Tim Noah show i saw in fourth grade with my little sister? does that count?

[tek]

Well ok then, Up With People in 1968--grade school. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Paluka]

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no nirvana show: two drunken, unintelligable songs as they went from god knows where to who cares what bar (i was 13). the velvet elvis held about 80 people, and nirvana, to be honest, sucked that night. i was thinking 'concert' vs 'show'.
if we must list every little show, how 'bout the Tim Noah show i saw in fourth grade with my little sister? does that count?

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If we are going to make some arbitrary distinction between "concerts" and "shows" then I've hardly been to any concerts at all. Because they suck.

[heavybody]

ZZtop mid 70s

[Mano]

Mine was Kiss in 1976 - Cheap Trick opened for them.

[natedogg]

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Went to a Rush concert at... I think the Palace of Auburn Hills... but left very early - I forget which year it was.

Why did I go?

Primus opened.

~D

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Sweet. One of the best shows I ever saw was Primus, opening for the Pixies, opening for Janes Addiction at the SF Civic Center. This was 92 or 93. It was un-fn-believable how good that show was.

Primus sucks!

natedogg

[bugstud]

technically, saliva at a local fairgrounds. Free with admission, though. First paid concert was Metallica this year.

[Benjamin]

I started out really really bad: Loverboy at the Asheville Civic Center, probably 1983 or so. Ugh. Though I did like em at the time. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Things picked up after that. First one that stands out as excellent was Trouble Funk / Fishbone / REM in 1985 (REM was introducing songs from the upcoming Fables of the Reconstruction and played a ton of stuff from Chronic Town, Murmer, and Reckoning), Living Colour in a 50 person club just after they were signed and well before Vivid came out, Janes Addiction at the Garden in Trenton, NJ just after Nothing's Shocking came out ...

Ahh ... good times. Too bad I'm old as dirt now and rarely go to shows. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

B.

[turnipmonster]

that's crazy man. the first show I ever saw was fugazi/sebadoh (?) at the cat's cradle around 1990 (I was in middle school I think).

--turnipmonster

[coltrane]

Bon Jovi - Giants Stadium, NJ 1989

Skid Row was the opening band

I was in 5th grade, my dad took me, we were in the upper deck obstructed view seats and he sat down with his legs crossed the entire concert while I jumped up and down on my seat....

[Andy B]

I saw Rush in 1994, and Primus opened. I enjoyed both, but Primus was probably a little better. I missed Primus when they toured this year, but caught Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, or whatever in the hell it was called. It was Claypool, Brain, a guy named Buckethead on guitar, and a guy who looked like nothing so much as a street-corner junkie on keyboards. They were great.

[Andy B]

The first concert I attended that I can remember was a performance of the Beethoven Septet and the Schubert Octet in 1980 or so. Since y'all seem to be talking rock concerts, my first was GTR in 1986. That was Steve Howe of Yes and Asia fame and Steve Hackett of Genesis fame with some other guys. It was a good show. Weird hearing someone other than Jon Anderson sing "Roundabout," though.

[TaxGoddess]

REM Green Tour - 1989
Charlotte Coliseum

[KJS]

The Kinks, with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts opening, Blossom Music Center outside Cleveland. Summer 1986.

First one without the parents, I am assuming. I saw cheesey folkies at that spot in my early years.

KJS

[KJS]

That's the coolest first concer I've seen here.

I lost my virginity after a Bad Brains show; while HR and a couple of their entourage partied downstairs.

KJS

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

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I saw Rush in 1994, and Primus opened. I enjoyed both, but Primus was probably a little better.

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a little better? You made me throw up a little in my mouth.

[bholdr]

PRIMUS SUCKS!!

i saw 'em in 95 and 6 les claypool is the most talented bassist in rock, and one of its greatest showmen. awesome shows.

[Dominic]

John Denver. Madison Square Garden. 1976.

And no, I am NOT ashamed to admit it.

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[PhatTBoll]

Pink Floyd at the Hoosier Dome in 1994. I was 14. Life-altering.

[DPCondit]

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The Kinks, with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts opening, Blossom Music Center outside Cleveland. Summer 1986.


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I saw Joan Jett at my high school in the mid-late 70's, she was in a band called the Runaways.

Don

[HDPM]

AC/DC must have been '81. The For Those About To Rock tour. It was loud.

[David Steele]

In the 10th grade I saw Return to Forever with Chick Corea,
Stanley Clark, Al Dimeola and Lenny White.
That group could blow away any rock band.

D.