CONFESS!!!!! First Rock Concert you ever saw!!!

[LynneSin]

Mine: Shaun Cassidy. I went with my mother and one of her Card Club friends took her daughter (who I was not necessarily friends with myself).

I made up for it - second concert was Yes and the third one was David Bowie!!!

[commander bunnypants]

1. ZZ Top and Grand Funk Railroad

Grand Funk blew the other band away


DDQM

[KensPen]

6. whew

Shaun Cassidy and Grand funk make me suddenly feel better about Peter Frampton.

[madddog]

119. no one...

should EVER feel good about Peter Frampton :D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. I think my first was Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden's solo tour

how lame is that!

[Faygo Kid]

3. Bob Seger - University of Detroit

On their football field (they played football then). And yes, it was the '60s, and Bob was just a local guy.

[bushisanidiot]

4. The Osmonds

Around 1975. heh..

[dolo amber]

Me too

Osmonds, then the next year my dad took me to see Boston and ELO. I think we saw all those godawful late 70s bands...Kansas, Foreigner, etc. :scared:

Things didn't turn around until I went back to San Diego to visit family a couple years later and saw Black Flag. :D

[GemMom]

102. I sang on a show with them

.... well the Osmond Boys - the sons of Alan Osmond were on the same billing as my a cappella group.

[GOPisEvil]

5. Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band.

Second was AC/DC. Third was Judas Priest. :evilgrin:

[Lizz612]

7. Bob Dylan

In Duluth a few years ago. My parents took me and my sister and our neighbor Pam came with her two kids. Lots of fun! Couldn't see anything, but lots of fun.

[mac56]

8. The Cowsills in 1968.

They sucked at the time, but now they're actually quite good.

[Faygo Kid]

22. And I knew (I knew I knew I knew I knew) it would make me Happy!

Flowers in her hair; flowers everywhere! Thanks for the memories.

[mac56]

27. When you're beside me - we can fly!

;-)

[flamingyouth]

70. I love the Cowsills

Total guilty pleasure for me. Did you know that John Cowsill is engaged to Vicki Peterson of the Bangles. Just a little trivia for ya, there!

[mac56]

125. Not only that, but Susan Cowsill -

is married to Peter Holsapple of the dBs, who was also the unofficial "fifth member" of R.E.M. Susan and Peter play together in the Continental Drifters, and Susan and Vicki Peterson in the Psycho Sisters.

[Cheswick2.0]

9. hmmmmm I think it was CSN+Y

or perhaps the Beach Boys. To tell the truth the most fun I ever had was at the Beach Boys concert in the mid 70s.

17. that was my second

Jesse Colin Young, the Beach Boys and Crosby Stills Nash and Young---July 1974

[Cheswick2.0]

28. you didn't see them at SPAC by any chance?

That is where I saw almost every "rock" concert I ever attended. To tell the truth I was more likely to go see a play or musical in the theater.

43. Royals Stadium, Kansas City

or it might have been at Arrowhead, the football stadium there.

[ornotna]

169. I could just cry

Just about every concert I went to in high school was at SPAC. Great memories--- Santana, Clapton, Pink Floyd, CSN&Y, BOC. So what the heck, I go check out the web site and what do I find

Life sucks.

[Oreegone]

10. Went with my friends

Saw The Fifth Dimension and The Association...I'll never forget how awed I was to hear music in person I had already heard on the radio ~ Cherish, Up Up and Away and Georgy Girl.....I still love going to concerts..

[flamingyouth]

11. Go-Gos & the Fleshtones

At the old Eagles Auditorium in Seattle. Great show!! I was 12.

[Demobrat]

12. Herman's Hermits.

A friend and I took the El from the north side of Chicago to the south to see our idol. We even snuck backstage afterwards to catch a close-up glimpse, and got caught up in a near riot. Big stuff when you're 12.

[TrogL]

13. A Pink Floyd wannabe

1973 University of Western Ontario Alumni Hall

It sucked.

[CPschem]

61. Mine was The Machine

a Floyd cover band that doesn't suck. In fact they're damn good.

14. Earl Scruggs, family and friends

a precursor to Rolling Thunder

Family and friends were--

David Bromberg
Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth
Doc & Merle Watson
Ramblin' Jack Elliot
the Byrds (when Clarence White was still alive)
Joan Baez
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Earl Scruggs Band


on edit, I just realized the first rock Band I saw was Country Joe and the Fish on a flat bed truck in Golden Gate park outside of Kesar stadium just before going inside and seeing them play. It was May 1, 1967, on the occasion of a anti-Vietnam rally that was held in San Francisco and New York City simultaneously. Coretta Scott King spoke also.

[kmla]

15. The Go-Gos. Warm-up band was A Flock of Seagulls.

AFOS had just done their 'hair thang', like they had in the video. (MTV was just in it's infancy, and we were into the "new wave style').

Good show. 6th row center.

Had a huge crush on Jane Wiedlin.:loveya:

[trotsky]

16. Depeche Mode

But here's the kicker: it was in 2001! Yes, my very first rock concert when I was the ripe old age of 30.

[LisaM]

18. My friend's parents took us to see Three Dog Night....

but the first one I went to on my own was The Guess Who. It was during Burton Cumming's skinny years! Randy Bachman was not with the band then. I did see them again a couple of years ago. Randy Bachman was back, and Burton Cummings (who is a real cornball) was still making the exact same jokes. I remember my mother made me wear a dress the first time (a sailor suit dress!) so I was SURE to wear jeans when I went the second time!

[Maine-i-acs]

19. Styx - Paradise threater!

They rocked. Second concert I went to was Journey (ach).

[arwalden]

20. The Osmonds...

... in exchange I had to go with my parents to see "Up With People".

-- Allen

[Emboldened Chimp]

21. KISS (ugh!)

and without makeup, too. I can't believe I was actually into these guys. At least I have an excuse: I was 12.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

101. Me too, but WITH makeup (Rio, 1983) (nt)

[soupkitchen]

23. Big Brother and the Holding Company

As I remember they could barely play their instruments but they had this pretty good chick singer.

[PDittie]

24. Black Oak Arkansas, Foghat, and Head East

1974, in the old Sam Houston Coliseum.

[flamingyouth]

67. With Jim Dandy!

I just saw a BOA video on VH1 Classics the other night - he looked like he had a chinchilla stuffed down his pants!

[meegbear]

25. Alice Cooper

Joan Jett was the opening act - about 6 months before "I Love Rock 'N Roll" became a hit. She was booed off, but I think she'd be booed off even after that.

[moz4prez]

26. The Promise Ring

remember them????

i was 12. they really weren't all that bad. shame about that benign brain tumor, though.

[wysimdnwyg]

29. Chicago

OK, it's not THAT bad. It was during their "17" tour, and they actually had a hit song.

My review (some 20 years later)? Eh. Not too bad.

[Nlighten1]

30. KISS

[Rainbowreflect]

47. Kiss here as well.

I was 13 & the tickets cost $5.75.

[ithacan]

128. Kiss / AC-DC

I didn't know any better at the time...

And I was deaf for a week afterwards. My ears still ring a bit and i blame that concert from thirty years ago.

[DemVet]

31. Van Halen with......

David Lee Roth. Sammy Hagar ruined that band. :-(

[truthseeker1]

153. I agree - I had awesome seats in 1985 (circa thereabouts)

7th row center floor - but unfortantely it was sammy and not david lee roth :(

[donotpassgo]

32. MC Hammer...

Hey I was a kid, whaddya want from me. I missed out on The Stones' Steel Wheels Tour because I was sick.

[RedEarth]

33. Dave Clark Five

Then about month later, The Animals.

[Sagan]

34. Supertramp, baby!

Famous Last Words tour. In Austin, TX.

[DoYouEverWonder]

35. The Beatles at Shea Stadium

The last time they played there. My mom bought me tickets for my 12th birthday.

[johnnie]

36. Jan 1978..

Kiss and the Rockets. Couldn't believe mom let me go with my buddies neighbors (they were older teens I was 12)

[keopeli]

37. Rush - Signals!

And the warm up band was Golden Earing (with their one hit: The Twilight Zone).

[AWD]

38. Kiss, 1977

I was 8 years old.

[hlthe2b]

39. The Police

was a good concert, as I recall.

[MojoKrunch]

40. You wanted the best and you *got* the best! KISS!

Ok, I was 13, a huge fan, and for some bizarre reason my mom thought it was ok for my 11 year old brother to tag along as well.
This was 1977ish in Baton Rouge at the Centroplex.
Every river rat and red-neck biker for 100 miles around was there.
Novice dumbass that I was, I wanted to get close to the stage on the floor.
Made it to within a dozen or so yards when the crowd decided to play "push and shove".
Everyone pushed from side to side about 10 or 15 feet... people were getting trampled... my little brother went down but I managed to get him up ok... we headed for the cheap seats.
On the way off of the floor some 25 year old "biker-neck" decides he wants a piece of me... Riiight.. beating on the goofy, chubby blonde kid with glasses is gonna make you feel like a *MAN*.

The show rocked and by the time the lights went up the other side of the arena was obscured by the pot cloud.
lol

The *best* arena show I've been to had to be a ZZ Top show in Lake Charles.
The best show period was standing 5 feet from Stevie Ray Vaughn in a little bar in Lafayette, La. and just about peeing myself watching his guitar work.

Oh, and accidently catching Mojo Nixon and Skid Ropper at The Grotto in New Haven back in '86.

Sweet.

Mojo

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

74. SAW KISS in New Orleans

Yeah Yoo Rite!!
It was either the same year or it was the year before the show you saw.The Municiple Auditorium. GREAT SHOW.
Saw Stevie Ray Vaughn too in Baton Rouge--
at the Hog's Breath Saloon.

[Bertha Venation]

41. Amy Grant with Michael W. Smith

It was the hot ticket among us young fundies back in the day (early '80s). MWS was great. Amy was great. I was saved and I knew it and clapped my hands.

And now: Jesus saves. God spends like there's no tomorrow.

[RandomKoolzip]

42. My father's band.

My dad as a bass player in a local group, The Shags, and when I was three, I rmember sitting in front of the stage, watching him play. That kind of early stimulus made me want to be a musician myself.

The first "big" concert I went to was The Monkees reunion tour in 1986. I was 10.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

172. that's the minutemen

in your pic --right?
D Boone?

[On the Road]

44. Johnny Winter in 1970

I was 16, and he was a rock-and-roll god to me. He played at the Ludlow Garage in Cincinnati. I borrowed the family station wagon and had to promise to be home by 11PM. But he had two warm-up bands and didn't even come out until almost 10:30. I phoned home and asked my father for an extension, but my father wouldn't give it to me and I went home, leaving my friend to get back by himself. I found a prescription drug container full of pot but I gave to my friend because I didn't want to carry it around.

My ex-wife claimed that I should have defied my father and stayed til the end of the concert. And that that incident had negatively affected our relationship ever since. Who knows?

[AndyTiedye]

50. Grateful Dead, Dillon Stadium, Hartford Ct, 7/16/72

and the Allman Brothers showed up as unannounced special guests.

[DODI]

165. Just went by Dillon yesterday!

How long was that show? Do you remember?

[peacefreak]

188. That was a great show!

It started around noon & went until 7 or 8. There were some psychedelics involved so I still flash on Bobby singing Black Throated Wind as the sky got really ominous. Grace Slick also showed up & I remember her flashing her boobs. Did you go to any of the shows at the Palace Theater, Waterbury?

[mikehiggins]

45. Blood, Sweat and Tears in Central Park

Back in 1967 I think. I took my kid sister and saw Melanie for the first time. Remember thinking Beautiful People was a fantastic song.

[sweetheart]

46. chuck mangione?... i think

I can't remember his name.. but i think that's it.. he played sorta jazzy pop in late 70's.

If he don't count as rock then eric clapton.

If he don't count either, then Tbone burnett and the clash opening for the who in LA collusieum in 82? Funny how the concerts were out of my linear memory.

The best live performance: Talking heads at the US concert.

Second best: Tangerine Dream in Albuquerque 1986

[Bridget Burke]

48. The Beach Boys at the Houston Music Hall

Glen Campbell subbed for Brian Wilson, who was beginning that weird stage he went through.

Supporting acts included Chad & Jeremy (my sister's faves) & Buffalo Springfield (mine!)

[quispquake]

49. Nazareth & Horslips...Portland, ME 1979 (8?)

'twas a long time ago...fun first show thought...Horslips were really good, and I dug Nazareth at the time...

[arcane1]

51. lol! Same here, Shaun Cassidy! Long long ago!

:toast:

KISS was my 2nd

[prolesunited]

116. Shaun Cassidy!!!

What were you thinking?!?! Certainly glad you atoned for it in your later years. ;-)

Me, Blue Oyster Cult :-)

[grannylib]

52. Queen and Kansas, 1974, LaCrosse Wisconsin. $5 tickets.

[vi5]

53. Rush....Brendan Byrne Arena in NJ September 1982...

I think it was the Signals tour if I'm not mistaken.

[HuckleB]

54. Rolling Stones --1981

Went to plenty of country shows with my folks before that, though: Waylon, Willie, The Gatlin Brothers, The Statler Brothers, The Oak Ridge Boys, Merle, Marty, Emmylou, Mac Davis, Jerry Reed, Chet Atkins, Roy Clark, Mel Tillis, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride, George Jones, Freddy Fender, Don Williams. If they hit town, we was there. The whole family.

[Scurrilous]

55. Procol Harum/ 10 Years After in '71

Miami Jai Alai Fronton. I was about 14 years old. People kept passing me joints. Those were different times. :smoke:

[HEyHEY]

56. The beach boys

I was seven they were...old I was with my mom and my friend kevin

[SoCalDem]

57. Little Anthony & the Imperials..very early 60's

Special NEW entertainer guest..

Little Stevie Wonder..

[Howardx]

58. blue oyster cult paramount theatre seattle 74

it ruled

[Spirochete]

84. I went to the one in Portland on the same tour.

Between the show in Portland and the show in Seattle, they cut their first live album, didn't they?

[adadem]

59. The Cowsills

[mac56]

62. Welcome, cheryl27!

Check #8 above. You're not alone.

[m-jean03]

65. Ani Difranco, 1994, Bumbershoot Seattle

I was 12 & It was a blast...

[Rowdyboy]

60. Either Black Sabbath or Joe Cocker...

My memory is terrible (saw them both, just don't remember the order)

[Drifter]

63. Cheep Trick ...

I belive a band name Shooting Star opened for them. I was in 10th grade (1980ish)

Cheers
Drifter

[tekriter]

64. Leon Russel at Kiel Opera House in St. Louis

probably 1971.

[Dees]

178. Saw many a concert at Kiel Opera House.....n/t

.

[maxanne]

66. Alvin Lee

and Ten Years After!! Whooohooo!

At the Orpheum Theater in Boston.

[madddog]

124. I shook Alvin Lee's Hand !!

after a show at Ten Years After show at Catholic U. here in DC. Can't remember what year...had to have been '69 or '70.

[bbernardini]

68. Sha Na Na, with Chuck Berry OPENING.

I think I made up for it when I saw B.B. King a few years later.

[bif]

69. The MC5 along with about a dozen other local bands

At the first Detroit Pop Festiival at Cobo Hall around 1967.

[flamingyouth]

71. I have a copy of a poster from that show.

I. Am. So. Jealous.

I would have loved to have seen the 5. I got to interview Wayne Kramer about 8 years ago, and he told some great stories about the Detroit days.

[bif]

89. Is it this one?

There are a whole bunch of posters at this site:
http://makemyday.free.fr/mc5_concert_posters.htm

and here's the main page:
http://makemyday.free.fr/

It was an unbelievable who's who of Detriot music. 10 hours of jams! And I forgot, it was at Olympia.

[salinen]

78. The Who

San Diego Sports Arena, 1970?

[peekaloo]

72. Loggins and Messina

First show in our Cowtown's first O-fish-ul rock venue. Early or mid '70's. Kenny Loggins slapped my hand....too bad I never cared for his solo stuff. }(

[rppper]

73. aerosmith and blackfoot......

1979 at the sam houston colisium...also the first time i got high...steve tyler fell off the stage too....

[last_texas_dem]

83. My first was Aerosmith

1997 at the Summit (now known as the Compaq Center- bleh) in Houston. Awesome show! Aerosmith is the only band I've seen more than once live, and I've only seen ten or so concerts. Opening act was "Marry Me Jane" who weren't particularly great...

[Orrin_73]

193. Aerosmith was mine first rock concert too

I believe it was in 1993 or 1994 during a rock festival here in Nijmegen/Holland

[Kat 333]

75. Guess Who

and Gary Puckett (sp?) & The Union Gap

[SaveElmer]

76. Bachman, Turner Overdrive

First time I smelled pot too !!!

[Spirochete]

77. Creedence Clearwater Revival

Second one was Led Zeppelin, and third was Pink Floyd pre-DSOTM.

[trackfan]

79. Queen

At the Fabulous Forum, December 1978

[ZenLefty]

80. David Bowie at Madison Square Garden - 1974

I think I was about 5 years old at the time. Changed my life, dude. :smoke: :hippie:

[sleipnir]

81. Lollapolloza...1997...I think that may be earliest on the tread

Note, I didn't really get into the live music scene, still really haven't...

[truthspeaker]

113. I went to the 1991 Lollapalooza

no text, just bragging (and showing my age)

[treefrogjohn]

82. Rolling Stones in Detroit. 1965. About 500 people came.

The first of hundreds that I attended over the decades. Some I actually remember. :hippie:

[boneygrey]

85. Styxx

Phoenix 1981

[JackSwift]

86. Boston -- Don't Look Back Tour

I barely remember it now. But I do remember living in San Francisco during the Summer of Love.

[BigBigBigBear]

87. Mahavishnu Orchestra

April 1975.

McLaughlin's second band, with Narada Michael Waldon and Stu Goldberg. 900 seater at my high school.

It was utterly amazing and stupendously loud.

I think Yes at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City was number 2 - later that summer.

93. saw that

In Chicago, same tour, except the show I saw was with Mahavishnu opening for Jeff Beck (the Blow by Blow band) I went to see Mclaughlin and then Beck completely blew me away. It was like the two poles of guitar playing. McLaughlin blazing fast and Beck stretching single notes out for an eternity.

[madddog]

126. wow...

I saw Narada's band...they opened for the CBS Jazz Allstars. Narada is(was)a kick ass drummer, with a whole lot more finesse than Cobham could ever hope for.

Only bummer was that Ray Gomez' heroin problem had knocked him out the band...I *think* the guitar player was Hiram Bullock, but I can't remember for sure. I was looking forward to Ray Gomez at the time.

[chaska]

134. Oh man, what a show that would have been.

Walden and Gomez - it boggles the mind. Two of the all time greats.

Hiram Bullock, oh how I hate his playing.

[pdx_prog]

198. I saw that show

in Memphis. I also seen John in Memphis a few years back with the Steve Morse band also. John had Trilok Gurtru with him. The Indian guy that plays a little modified trap set sitting down. He has the little bucket of water that he gets some most interesting sounds from with a couple of little cymbals and gongs.

[madrchsod]

88. rolling stones

first tour -chicago.opening acts were "little" stevie wonder and martha and the vandellas, and they were alot better than the stones....

[THUNDER HANDS]

90. Fleetwood Mac

Their reunion tour a few years ago.

I don't go to many concerts. I think I've been to 3 alltogether. And I almost killed a guy at a Bob Dylan concert, so I've been hesitent to go back to them.

[Meshuga]

91. Kiss 1981 - Cratures of the night tour (with the masks)

In Rio de Janeiro with Eric Carr on drums and Vinnie Vincent on guitar. I was only nine!

[truthspeaker]

92. Judas Priest, 1985

I was 15. It was a great show.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

94. The Beatles...Shea Stadium 1964

with my family. I still have the program.

[ProfessorGAC]

95. How Cool For You!

I am green with envy.

Although, i've heard that things didn't sound very good (60's PA equipment lacked quite a bit) and the screaming and all.

But, to have been there must have been most excellent.
The Professor

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

103. It was.

I have some great memories of being on my sister's boyfriend's shoulders. I was 6 at the time. It was tough but you could hear. The recordings of the concerts make it seem as tough you couldn't because of crappy recording techniques for live shows back then.

(on a sadder note, my sis's boyfriend enlisted in order to not be drafted, made it home from being a demolition expert in Viet Nam and was killed in a motorcycle accident two weeks after returning...the creepy thing was that we stopped to watch an accident by the roadside while the medics attended to it and in the morning found out it was his accident we had watched)

[ProfessorGAC]

105. Oooh! Top of the World to Major Bummer

That's a sad note, indeed.
The Professor

[WillyT]

96. Black Sabbath, Sweathog, And Blue Mountain Eagle !!!

And boy, do I feel old. Black Sabbath's second albumn had just come out.

"I..am..Ironman.."

:smoke::hippie::smoke:

[Bossy Monkey]

97. Badfinger or Guess Who, early 70s n/t

[dwckabal]

98. If you don't count John Denver

and BTO when I was about 10 years old, my first concert was Black Sabbath (with Ronnie James Dio, not Ozzy). My second was the Rolling Stones on the Tattoo You tour (won those tickets off the radio!)

[Emboldened Chimp]

108. Sorry, you must count John Denver

[Barad Simith]

175. LOL!!!

[pdx_prog]

197. John Denver's

Wife said of him at his funeral, "He was the most famous man nobody knew". His music was from the heart. Give a listen to "It's About Time"......he was a great humanitarian to boot.

[shanti]

99. elton john

september 1973 at the hollywood bowl.

[proud patriot]

100. Billy Squirer and Saga

:hi: hey I was 13

[ProfessorGAC]

104. Grand Funk Railroad - 1970

International Amphitheatre in Chicago. I think (but not sure) Bloodrock was the opening act.
The Professor

[MaineDem]

106. Freddie and the Dreamers

And we actually went to their hotel room for autographs! I was in high school and so naive that I never gave it a thought that we were in their room. Honestly, they signed our program and we left!

The next year we saw Herman's Hermits. No hotels; we were older and wiser. :evilgrin:

[GemMom]

107. First *rock* concert

I attended was Earth Wind and Fire while in college. Way cool!
I started attending other concerts (mostly classical and jazz) when I was really little, because that's what my dad wanted to hear. :D

[henslee]

109. Monkeees, w/ Hendrix warming up.... Forest Hills. Late 60's

After Hendrix's warm up, me and my brothers asked our Mom what Mike of the monkees was going to play now that that mean black man smashed the guitar.
Little did we know.

[ProfessorGAC]

121. My Guitar Player Saw That Show In Chicago

He remembers it vividly.
The Professor

[henslee]

168. alright!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[frylock]

110. KISS with cheap trick opening..

summer of '77. It was the summer between 6th grade and Junior High for me. I had to beg like a dog before my folks begrudgingly let me go.. providing my uncle take us. I never have cared for Cheap Trick, but I guess it was kinda cool seeing them before they became famous.

[ThomWV]

111. Hendrix, Baltimore - '68 I think it was.

Long time ago ....

[madddog]

127. I was there...

Civic Center, right? I saw at least 2 Hendrix shows there...once with the Experience, and once with Buddy Miles, but before Band of Gypsies.

I saw Cream there as well...November 3, 1968. It was their second to last show ever...they kicked ass. Their last gig was Providence, RI either the next night, or 2 nights later. I ended up meeting a guy in college who was at the Providence show...he said they only played about 3 songs, then spent the rest of the time throwing pies at each other.

[Semi_subversive]

159. Jimi Hendrix

April 26, 1970 at Cal Expo in Sacramento

[DancingBear]

112. Rolling Stones - 1965

A "Dick Clark Cavalcade Of Stars" show- for all the old geezers in here.

The Rolling Stones, Gene Pitney, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas and either Marianne Faithful or Cilla Black (I can' t remember).

I was 12, and I went with my 17 year old cousin, who neglected to tell his date that she would be in the company of not only my cousin but me! Needless to say, there was no second date....

[phillybri]

114. Van Halen-1995

Great show @ the Philadelphia Spectrum. Collective Soul opened up for them...

[noonwitch]

115. The Cars in 1980

My mom took me, my brother and my sister, and we each brought a friend. My mom sat with her hands over her ears for most of the show and just about had a cow when she realized there were people all around her smoking pot. The show was at Pine Knob, so we had a bit of a drive from GR for it, but it was fun.

[49jim]

117. Jefferson Airplane

at SUNY Stony Brook....1968...I was a college sophomore at a nearby community college

[DancingBear]

120. Hi 49jim

welcome to DU! :hi: :hi:

I saw them in '68 as well (New Haven, CT) - opening act was Chuck Berry!

[Kat45]

118. The Kingsmen

at a teen fair that I went to with my mother, and my cousin and her mother. I was around 10 or so. The first "real" concert I went to was the Allman Brothers, with the Eagles as the opening act.

[madddog]

122. mine...

was none other than Jimi Hendrix...London, '67. I haven't been right since lol.

You can't imagine what a monster that guy was way back then. We moved back to the States later that year...I saw him 4 more times before he died. The most memorable was an outdoor show in an unbelievable thunderstorm...don't know how no one was killed from the lightning. Truly an unwordly experience, pardon the play on words.

[DemExpat]

123. The Who.....in Houston.....1970 or so...

:bounce:

DemEx

[Ramsey]

129. OMG!!

My first concert was also Shaun Cassidy!!! Although I wasn't going to count that one because I was about 11 years old and my cousin took me to it and I didn't really know who the guy was, and he wasn't really a rock artist anyway.

So, the first rock concert I went to of my own desire and volition would be Earth Wind and Fire!

[LynneSin]

136. That's way too tripping!!!!

Believe me, after I saw Shaun Cassidy in concert I kinda realized that I was not destined to be a teeny popper watching crap bubblegum singers. I turned to Led Zeppelin!

[kayleybeth]

130. The Osmond Brothers

The "Crazy Horses" tour, LOL! I was six years old.

[Red State Rebel]

131. Jethro Tull - 1973

[Nikia]

132. Rob Zombie

We were going to go to Creed, but Rob Zombie announced that he would be playing in our area that weekend a couple weeks before the show. I had never been to a rock concert in high school. In addition to being poor, my parents were convinced that if I went to a rock concert that I'd get involved with drugs. It was a small indoor venue. My friend who had been to one of his bigger concerts said that it was really toned down. I liked it though.

[mitchum]

133. T Rex, Black Oak Arkansas, Kool & The Gang and Buddy Miles

on the same bill when I was 13. They had some strange bills back then

[Bluzmann57]

137. Ah BOA...

My first rock show ever too. Unless you count Mason Proffitt, who I saw with my dad in about'72. They were sort of a country rock outfit and they played bluegrass, which is why my dad took me. But BOA was my first on my own, with my girlfriend at the time. A first concert is sorta like the first time a person gets laid... never mind. Maybe I should have said its like a first car.

[mitchum]

161. They were the original fucked up white trash band...

with songs about sex, monsters, and cars. Sorta like Southern Culture On The Skids without the chops or irony.

[chaska]

135. Three dog night. LOL

[Catshrink]

138. Vanilla Fudge -- backup group: Led Zepplin

How's that for old?

[smirkymonkey]

139. Blue Oyster Cult...

I was pretty out of it,though.

[ronnykmarshall]

140. The Supremes!

1974 - Scherrie Payne, Cindy Birdsong and Mary Wilson

[Capn Sunshine]

141. "Little" Stevie Wonder, Dick Dale , and the Surfaris

Hollywood Bowl, 1960 or 61. It was a reward for our Football team winning the City Championship (junior division, 4-5th grades)
Little Stevie Wonder had one hit then "Fingertips" and he was like our age at the time, 11 or 12. Dick Dale did "Miserlou" and the Surfaris did "Wipeout" and there were a zillion other acts on the bill; it was like and Ed Sullivan Show only live.

But the first "teenage" concert I saw was probably the '63 Beatles show at Hollywood Bowl. My ears rang for days and I was really pissed you couldn't hear the music over the screaming.

[truthseeker1]

142. Go-Go's

but I quickly went downhill from there....Loverboy (lol), Van Halen, Motley Crew

[crimson333]

143. .38 special and eddie money

In 1983

[populistmom]

144. Sting

in the late 80's.

[kayell]

145. Sonny and Cher!

Does that ever date me! I was 11.

[Cadfael]

146. George Harrison and Ravi Shankar

I think it was my 14th birthday present, My dad (with his crewcut, bless his soul) stood in line and got tickets for me and 5 of my friends, then dropped us off at the old Chicago Stadium and picked us up after the concert. It was my first contact high too, but that's another story...

[toddzilla]

147. motley crue in 1984.. loudness opened up for them..

i was 14.. baptism by fire baby!

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

162. lucky

That... that is just awesome.

[kwolf68]

148. The Tubes

LOL...Rememeber "She's a Beauty" early 1980s? That was the 1st one...I believe.

[ACK]

149. REM in 1980

At GA Southern. Then it was Eric Clapton.

[otohara]

150. Herman's Hermits

then The Monkey's - then Cream....

[alfredo]

151. Sam Cooke.

He was great.

[45th Med]

152. They Might be Giants!

Giant footprints in your hair. Giant footprints everywhere. We can't be silent cause they might be giants and what'll ya gonna do if they were?

[av8rdave]

154. Chicago...

University of Maryland, Cole Field House, 1975

av8rdave

[youngred]

155. Lilith Fair

Woodstock 99 was the second

[progressiverealist]

156. Rush, circa 1980 (nt)

[Redneck Socialist]

157. Twisted Sister, Ratt, Lita Ford and Cheap Trick!

It was an outdoor show and believe me Lita Ford made quite an impression on my impressionable, hormone drenched, 16 year old mind!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

158. throwing muses

w/ tanya donelly from belly and kristen hersch

that was a small club show

my 1st big arena show was r.e.m. on the monster tour

[Zomby Woof]

160. Molly Hatchet/.38 Special/Nighthawks

March 1981. Hatchet was still big at the time (I still love 'em), and .38 Special was in their prime - they were still 2 years away from horribly selling out. The Nighthawks were a decent DC-area blues band - a great show. I was 13. Still the densest secondhand smoke I have ever experienced, and I have seen them all... :smoke:

[scarlet_owl]

163. Don McLean, back in the 80's.

He was at the VP Fair in St. Louis.

[DODI]

164. Doobie Brother w/ the Dixie Dregs - 1980

[Terwilliger]

166. REO Speedwagon

And I'm gonna keep on lonin' you....
cause it's the only thing I wanna do....

yada and yada

[nini]

167. Chicago / Beach Boys 1975

Anaheim Stadium...

went there instead of the prom.

[Dees]

177. I saw these two groups on tour the same year in

St. Louis at the Arena. They blew the top off the place especially
with "Jumpin Jack Flash" at the end.

[greendog]

170. Golden Earring and the J.Geils Band

Halloween Night 1975

[UCLA02]

171. INXS

Arco Arena, Sacto, CA April, 1991.

RIP Hutch.

[VOX]

173. The Bobby Fuller Four at my high school.

Got to hear "I Fought the Law" live! They were tight!

[Piperay]

174. Rolling Stones

sometime in the mid-70's, was a TERRIFIC evening.:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[KayLaw]

176. Dino, Desi,& Billy

Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs and Bobby Hebb were also there.

[Dees]

179. Bob Kuban and the Inmen...Starlight Ballroom

St. Louis..1966...The Cheater

[Dogmudgeon]

181. Bob Kuban

Didn't he disappear, then turn up dead about two years later?

Good pop song, though.

--bkl

[Dees]

182. That was Walter Scott who was the voice of the band.

He was murdered. Bob, who was the music instructor at Bishop Dubourg HS at the time the Cheater became a hit, is still around with a local St. Louis band. Bob is the drummer.

[jukes]

192. "Bob Kuban and the Inmen...Starlight Ballroom"

Hi Dees! :hi:

Damn, I forgot all abowt Bob Kuban! They played @ our high school dance in '63/'64, I think.

[Dogmudgeon]

180. The Police and The Go-Go's

I think it was in 1981.

Well, I lied. The first concert I saw was the Moody Blues about four months before that. But the concert was terrible and the band had a lot of equipment trouble. The warm-up act was boring, but on the other hand, they did a few acoustic numbers with just one of them playing a 12-string.

But the Police/Go-Go's concert was fantastic. The only one I'd ever seen that came close was an INXS/Bangles/Squeeze concert I saw in '83. I also saw Squeeze/INXS with the Hooters at the Greek in Berkeley in 1985. Squeeze WITH Jools Holland was much more entertaining, but without Jools, the music was better. So you got to pick.

Recently? Not in years. I don't miss it, either. But I do miss seeing "live music" at small venues like bars. I just can't take the intensity of the tobacco smoke.

--bkl

[FlashHarry]

183. Kinks/Romantics 1982 N/T

[Raenelle]

184. Beachboys

[ellie]

185. The Who, Eddie Money, and The Clash

fall 1982, Pontiac Silverdome. I skipped school to go. I think I told my mom I was going too. She was pretty laid back.

[jayfish]

186. Adam Ant W/ INXS...

In 1983 at DeVos Hall. I don't remember the exact date.

Jay

[EV1Ltimm]

187. The Toadies

... along with tears for fears, the rentals, the nixons, deep blue something, lisa loeb and del amitri.

they also brought out 2 people of a band that no one had heard of yet called "no doubt". i wonder whatever happend to them :shrug:

[peacefreak]

189. Dick Clark's Calvacade of Stars

with James Brown, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Young Rascals...and Herman's Hermit's.

[jukes]

190. 1st & best

Janis Joplin, SIU edwardsville, 1969



:bounce:

[jukes]

191. 1st & best

Oops, forgot Ike Turner Review (featuring Tina Turner)
London House East, East St. Louis 1966.

:smoke:

[Lost4words]

194. Crow & Melanie , St Louis 1970 n/t

:hippie:

[bmbmd]

195. Am I the only one

that saw Elvis first? Lubbock, Texas about 1962. He also sang at my mother-in-law's senior banquet about 1951.

[Rabrrrrrr]

196. Genesis, ABACAB tour

I went with my sister's boyfriend - we listened to Led Zeppelin's live album, on 8-track, in the car there and back. Tickets were like $8.50. Too bad concerts have gotten out of control, price-wise. They used to be affordable.

That was November, 1982. Dane County Colliseum.

And it was a HELL of a show. My sister's boyfriend had been to many rock concerts before, adn before the show I looking at the stage and said, "Hey - that whole bank of lights moved!" And he said no way, lights don't move.

HA! Proved him wrong - they moved! He was also completely blown away by the light show, and he was a veteran of many shows!

[LynneSin]

199. Geez, I got 200 replies for this silly thread

:shrug:

[keopeli]

202. Well, that should tell you something about music.

It's a Powerful medium. Much more so than talking or even movies. Music communicates when nothing else can.

Loved the thread!

[argyl]

200. Jimi Hendrix.1968.

xx

[T_i_B]

201. Biohazard

supported by Dog Eat Dog. I was 15. :-)