Post a picture of the first person/band you ever saw in concert

[LynneSin]

I evolved upward from there

[MissMillie]

1. Let's see if anyone recognizes them

no cheating!

[LynneSin]

3. Sweetie I know who they are btw, I'm jealous too

I want to see them in concert so bady and if I married the lead singer I would be Lynne Lynne.

I won't post the name though!

[MissMillie]

6. you are correct!

that was my very first concert... 1978 I think. The year they toured w/ the space ship.

[grace0418]

19. I would love to see them!

I totally know who that is (who can mistake the hair?) but won't say either.

[gbate]

32. I know and I am also jealous. How was it?

[MissMillie]

55. awesome

definitely a treat for the eyes as well as ears. I love the guys who played the "unusual" (in the rock sense) instruments.

[Jimbo S]

81. I saw them a couple of years back as ELO II

But no Jeff Lynde, though. :(

That is one band I wished I could have seen in their prime.

[taterguy]

2. I was a slack motherfucker, I didn't start going to concerts until 1989

[aquaman]

26. Ahhh Superchunk

Saw them several times myself back in the day. :hi:

[mitchum]

82. That means you saw a lot of jumping up and down at your first concert

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. The Roots.

[QMPMom]

5. Bobby Sherman

Bobby Sherman The Summer of 1969. He had a song called "Julie Do You Love Me?" Of course, I loved that song since Julie is my name!

[ronnykmarshall]

72. Julie, Julie, Juile Do You Love Me???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnEAnvwrrk0

Hell even I had a crush on him when I was a little boy.

[QMPMom]

85. Of course!

:hug: :hi:

[jayfish]

7. Here Ya Go.

Jay

[CrownPrinceBandar]

92. I'm going to hold this one against you.....

:evilgrin: S'up?

[Phillycat]

8. The Boss.

Then:


RHCP

Then:


Minor Threat

and


Black Flag

[LynneSin]

12. Here's my #2-#4

#2


#3


#4


Robert Plant probably was around 8-9 position; however, he is the one person I've seen the most time in concert with Steve Miller Band #2 and David Bowie #3

[dolo amber]

16. Rock and roll band, everybody's waitin'...

This was my second...I was 11, my dad wanted to go and figured he'd make it a bonding experience. Someone offered me coke.

[dolo amber]

9. Egad...

It's true!! :cry:

[QMPMom]

10. Donny! This past Wednesday I found the pics I took

at an Osmonds concert in 1973. I was so in love with Donny Osmond. But not as much as I was in love with David Cassidy!

[ronnykmarshall]

73. Ahhhhhh!

I can just see you SCREAMING your head off! DOOOOOONNNNNYYYYY!!!

[borlis]

114. Me too!

I think I was 8 years old. It was at Arlington Park Rack Track and I had a broken arm so I couldn't stand on my seat like everyone else was. :cry: My parents took us. My sister, DU's No Surrender was also a huge fan of the Osmond Bros.

Don't be ashamed. Donny was hot then and still is. I saw him as Joseph and it was amazing.




I saw him interviewed recently and I can't believe he is a Grandpa! :wow:

[BuelahWitch]

116. Oh what a cute picture!

I was an Osmond fan for a very long time. I still like to listen to their old songs and I'm not ashamed of going to 5 of their concerts (3 in the '70s, 2 in the '80s).

[meegbear]

11. Here's mine

This was the tour I saw with him too. Wore that concert shirt 'til it literally fell off me.

[BuelahWitch]

13. These guys

And Marie DID NOT perform with them when I saw them in 1973, even though she brags that she's been performing since she was five.

Never liked Marie much...

[Drum]

14. here ya go:

[Zuiderelle]

15. I was going to say "don't laugh", but then I opened the thread and saw the pic.

:rofl:

Ok, so, don't laugh:

[blockhead]

17. Black Oak Arkansas and Savoy Brown

[Arkansas Granny]

34. Go, Jim Dandy, go, Jim Dandy!

[Hugin]

18. Juice Newton...

Yep.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. These guys, this concert tour:

Though I'd been to a bunch of country western shows at county fairs for many years preceding that.

[Strawman]

21. Billy Idol

[susanna]

105. Great Pic!

Steve Stevens is a guitar god.

I saw Billy in '84 I think, at Pine Knob in Michigan. Later that evening I was singing "Rebel Yell" on top of a picnic table in a nearby campground. I always was a great mimic. ;-)

[grace0418]

22. When I was 13, I loved the album Freeze Frame...

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. On the lickin' stick, Mr. Magic Dick

And at bottom left in your Dee-troit Demolition pyramid.

Best harp player I ever heard. :thumbsup:

[Beer Snob-50]

23. you wanted the best and you got the best..

[seemunkee]

24. This guy

The opening act was

[Arkansas Granny]

25. It's been some time, but here they are.

And a great concert it was, too.

[Whoa_Nelly]

27. The Beach Boys--1969 Norman, OK (At OU)

and then first ROCK concert--1970 Phoenix, AZ


Leon Russell was the opening act





With Jethro Tull as the main

[BarenakedLady]

28. ok

[Hugin]

30. Here I was worried it would be...

K.C. and the Sunshine Band. :rofl:

[BarenakedLady]

39. Hey now!

They were rockin!

Actually I only went because my older cousin was going.

[Hugin]

41. No better reason!

:thumbsup:

[Poiuyt]

29. The Byrds - This review is hilarious!

[gbate]

31. I have one for you.

LOL, 1977. I was 12.

[youthere]

33. Bay City Rollers:

[Connonym]

48. ^5!

Me too. I was in loooooove with Woody (I was 9). Where in Iowa are you? I'm from Cedar Rapids originally.

[youthere]

58. West of Cedar Rapids.

Between CR and Clinton.

[liberal renegade]

120. Quad Cities?

[ronnykmarshall]

74. Is that Princess Anne?

[ikojo]

110. OH aI LOVED the BCRs!!!

One of my friends somehow conned someone to drive her down to Six Flags in St Louis to see them. I was SO jealous!!! I love plaid to this day!

s-a-t-u-r-d-a-y NIGHT!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4_ozlOQ5Cw

[Momgonepostal]

35. Simple Minds

[KitchenWitch]

36. Here is mine!

[gbate]

40. Aw, I love them!

[malta blue]

37. My first concert....

[Maine-ah]

38. I can't show ya, no pics

I didn't go to my first concert until I was 20. Lollapalooza 1994 Miami

[VenusRising]

51. I went to Lollapalooza in 94 in Dallas.

It was my first concert that I went to alone with friends. It was awesome.

:hi:

[Maine-ah]

60. it was awsome!

except for Smashing Pumpkins, they suck live (they suck anyway, but even worse live):hi:

[VenusRising]

62. I totally agree!!

:pals:

There was a horrible thunderstorm in Dallas during the concert. After being there all day and being soaking wet Smashing Pumpkins wasn't enough to keep us there. We went to Subway around Deep Ellum and then drove home. I would have stayed for Nirvana, though.

Best part: After the Beastie Boys played they went up to the top of the lawn seating on a great big hill. Everyone had been using it as a mudslide because of the rain and while we were climbing to the top someone yells out, "There goes Mike D!!!" right past us down the hill. It was pretty cool.

[MonkeyFunk]

42. Mine

[gbate]

65. Who is that?

[BuelahWitch]

71. Looks like a young Janis Ian

[Crabby Appleton]

83. it is.

[u4ic]

43. About 25 years ago...

[liberal renegade]

121. tote&grain

[Connonym]

45. I was 9

Oh how I loved Woody

[Oeditpus Rex]

46. Yeah, I'm old

[hellbound-liberal]

95. Rare Earth! Excellent! They are one of the first bands I remember from Jr. High school

though I never saw them in concert.

[ProfessorGAC]

47. Grand Funk Railroad

A guy on the track team kind of took some frosh under his wing. (He was a junior) That summer he, another junior and three frosh went to the Aragon Ballroom to see Grand Funk.

All i remember is that i didn't recognize most of the songs, even those i knew, until half way through them, because the sound was a just a loud blur.
The Professor

[Parche]

49. PHIL COLLINS

He was fantastic!!!!!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

50. Before I clicked on this thread I thought "I will have to apologize first."

After seeing what's in here, not so much.

[ceile]

52. The Church

http://www.thechurchband.com/mediagallery/pastdetail.phtml?id=9&page=7

[Maddy McCall]

53. I was seven when I saw...

My kid's first concert was in NOLA a month before Katrina:

[Bunny]

54. ...

[China_cat]

56. Because my grandmother liked him and dragged me along

[Redneck Socialist]

103. Your grandmother's got some great taste in music

Doc rocks!

[kwassa]

57. Cheap Thrills

Janis Joplin, and Big Brother and the Holding Company



opening act was Blood, Sweat, and Tears.

[Catchawave]

59. Fun memory !

:loveya:

[Cadfael]

61. 1972

[KamaAina]

63. New Haven Coliseum, early '80s

Tull barely even gets airplay on classic rock these days -- and the Coliseum has been torn down! Man, am I getting up there...

[opiate69]

100. What!!? The Coliseum is gone?

Dammit! I used to go there all the time to watch the Nighthawks when I lived in West Haven..

[Ava]

64. don't laugh.. i evolved upward too

It was my ninth birthday and i was in love



:rofl:

[mentalsolstice]

66. Shaun's big bro

I worried for a week about what I was going to wear, because I wanted to make sure he would like it. As if he was going to see me in seat ZZ138! I was 10 or 11.

[QMPMom]

88. My entire family had a hand in the outfit that I was going to

wear to my first David cassidy Concert. My Aunt designed it, my Parents paid for the fabric and my Grandma made it. It got cancelled a week before the concert date. I cried for a week.

I did get to see him the next summer. Security nearly threw me out for getting too close to the stage. They just didn't understand that I was in love with him and was certain that I was to be his future wife....

Lord, the naivete of a 14 year old!

[Initech]

67. That would be none other than Weird Al Yankovic:

First saw him in concert at the Orange County Fair in 1997.

[toadzilla]

68. winger

i believe they opened for great white. how sad to die at a great white concert, of all the ways to go.

[Burma Jones]

69. I was 6, my Dad took me, it's when I knew I wanted to play trumpet

I still play, 40 years later........






First Time without Parental Supervision:



I was 11, my best friend's big sister wrote concert reviews for the New Orleans Times Picyune....she dragged us along......

[ronnykmarshall]

70. The Supremes!

[bertha katzenengel]

112. Well. That explains a lot.

:evilgrin:

:hug:

[ronnykmarshall]

117. See The Supremes - Turn Gay!

:silly:

[querelle]

75. The Police

A very long time ago..........

Q

[jus_the_facts]

76. "So don't play 'Your Cheatin' Heart'...it'll tear me all apart...

....I'll get whiskey bent and hell bound." :nopity:


...with my parents. :yoiks:

[CottonBear]

77. Mid 1970s: Don McClean outdoors in Miller Park in Chattanooga:

I sat right in front of the stage and even got to meet him and get his autograph after the show.
I was an awkward junior high school kid. I had a great time. My parents dropped off my friends and me downtown which was cool.

[bikebloke]

78. Kraftwerk

[Rambis]

79. Here and now and the reality sandwhich

Thank god bobby didnt name the band-

[ikojo]

125. Sweet!!! You were either already a teenager or

had really cool parents. I didn't see my first Dead show until 1989, but I more than made up for lost time!

[Jimbo S]

80. Glen Campbell

What can I say? I was eight and spending the week with my grandparents.

[Crabby Appleton]

84. Lionel Hampton

[mitchum]

86. Gram Parsons (in her first band at a car show when I was 5)

okay, seeing Gram Parsons perform is one thing I got to do before Keith Richards did

[seaglass]

87. OK - This is obscure...can you guess?

[Crabby Appleton]

89. 10 yrs after

[seaglass]

90. Not as obscure as I thought. :-)

[GenDem]

91. I am totally ashamed

My friends and I brought in Peppermint Schnapps is zip lock bags and got totally shit faced -- I ended up very sick and thankfully did not hear much of Mr Cat Scratch Fever.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

93. I got lucky...

Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, PA. Dec 1986.

[Bzzzz]

94. BJ Thomas...

1970 @ Ball State University

[Kerrytravelers]

96. I was young. This really can't be held against me.

New Kids on the Block, aka NKOTB.







Ok, my favorite New Kid was Jon.

[smtpgirl]

97. Sad to say the Osmond Brothers and

Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods in 1972 at the Baltimore Civic Center.

About 2 years later I saw Aerosmith, REO Speedwagon (blech) & Slade at the Capital Centre in Landover, MD.

[opiate69]

98. My sister made me go to this concert...

With special guests:

[gbate]

108. I loved Billy Squier!

[MassLiberal]

99. The Carpenters

I was 13.

[pokerfan]

101. Well, it was a triple header in 1975

followed by



followed by




I couldn't hear for a freakin month.

[Redneck Socialist]

102. Her, and them and them...

and



and



all in the same day.

And if fucking RRRWWWAAAKKKEDDDD! :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

[susanna]

104. OMG! I had that poster on my bedroom wall.

He was hot, I don't care what anyone says.

I don't have a picture, but my first concert was Duran Duran, Cobo Arena, Detroit - 1983 I think.

on edit: emphasis change

[GalleryGod]

106. A Nice Little Combo.

[ariesgem]

107. My 1st concert was the 1978 Funk Festival

[ikojo]

109. This guy and some of his brothers...

I think I was 10 or 11 and he was at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield IL...a performer knows the career is on the skids when a show is in Springfield IL at the State Fair...yee haw!

[bertha katzenengel]

111. There's a grape grape joy in Jesus

at the table of the Lord

I'm not shitting you. Some lyrics from a song on Amy Grant's first album, which she recorded when she was young - under 18.

This isn't the album with "Grape Grape Joy" - but it's representative of the ones I listened to when she was the biggest name in Christian music and I was a loyal (rabid) fan.

Saw her in concert five times. She was great in concert.

[crispini]

113. I was a parrot-head at 10

My mom took me. My musical taste has evolved a lot since then but I still have a soft spot in my heart for ol' Jimmy.

[RetroLounge]

115. June 19th, 1977

Soldier Field, Chicago...



RL

[marzipanni]

118. In Boston

When I was almost 15 my boyfriend was going to a small private school in the town where we lived, and they arranged to have a school bus take kids into town for the Dylan concert. When we got there, there was a problem- not enough seats, so folding chairs for our group were set up on the stage behind the band.

It was one of the first times Dylan played electric guitar in a concert, and his folk music fans booed.

[DainBramaged]

119. Jethro Tull, Dec. 8 1972 Madison Square Garden, Aqualung Tour

And the opening act was Roxy Music! Bryan Ferry came out in a full black evening gown for Virginia Plain.

[Maestro]

122. Here is the concert ticket.

Damn good show too! I was with 8 girls and the only guy. :woohoo:

[w8liftinglady]

123. ok-please don't hold it against me...Ted Nugent--1977

http://re3.mm-a1.yimg.com/image/1936943389

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

124. i think i can remember..

it was either screaming trees


or soul asylum


it was the height of grunge, so it was probably screaming trees

[Spirochete]

126. These guys

They were a three-man band at the time, though. Tom Fogerty had left the band.

[Evoman]

127. Here he is...

It was a great show. I also got autograph signed to me personally...the man loves his fans.

[Tikki]

128. The Sonics....

I was pretty young...I guess it was a show, not a concert. I thought it was amazing.



Tikki

[Scooter24]

129. Oh God... This is so embarrasing...

:P

My favorite so far has been this woman: