Keep the music playing... What/Who Was Your First Concert ?

[JckDanls 07]

As the title is asking... Who/Where/Year was your first live concert...
With/Without Parents ??


My first was
REO Speedwagon and Rainbow
Rochester War Memorial
1977 or 78
No Parents ...


I found This and started searcing through the archives... WOW.. Some of the concerts back then...

 

[MJB05615]

First Concert at age 10, my older Brother took me to see Sha Na Na in Central Park NY.
Some stranger next to me tried to pass me a joint, lol.

 

[pc farmer]

What's a concert?

 

[Colin1230]

First Concert at age 10, my older Brother took me to see Sha Na Na in Central Park NY.
Some stranger next to me tried to pass me a joint, lol.

That stranger was me.

 

[Colin1230]

Head East, Dodge City, KS 1976.

 

[Dave in AZ]

Huey Lewis and the News, opened by The Outfield, 1982 I think.
There was a Jefferson Starship one somewhere in there...

 

[Gonna Smoke]

Manfred Mann's Earth Band, KISS, and Hydra. May 1974 at the Memorial Coliseum at Georgia Tech...

 

[Coreymacc]

First was Men at Work in 1985, 15 yrs old, opening band was the best. Guy came out in a stetson hat with feathers/tasles hanging, guitar in hand, they put a blue light on his face, and he played like that for 1 hr straight. Blew my mind, found out a little later it was Stevie Ray Vaughn. Changed my musical tastes in 1 hr for the rest of my life.

Corey

 

[JC in GB]

Kiss - Brown County Arena circa 1984

 

[casmurf]

Mine was KIss 1977 Phoenix Ariz.

 

[sawhorseray]

Hendrix at the Fillmore West in 1968 with Albert King and John Mayall.

 

[negolien]

Joe Satriani and the Steve Miller Band lol.

 

[SmokinVOLfan]

Dave Matthews Band Knoxville, TN 2001

 

[SmokinVOLfan]

Hendrix at the Fillmore West in 1968 with Albert King and John Mayall.

Ray, you sure you didn't mean "Prince" in San Francisco?

 

[ddow229]

in 78 my sister, who was 16, wanted to go see The Grateful Dead with her boyfriend and my parents made her take me. We got into the show and she told me to get lost because she wanted nothign to do with me. Not really my style but it was the time I got drunk. I was 12. One of the local radio station DJs had spiked watermelon and gave me a butt load.
First show I saw on my own accord was Aerosmith.

 

[mneeley490]

Elton John in Seattle, 1980.
Kinda funny story to go with that. I went with my best friend, and he was a bit of a poser in those days. We were 19, but he had been drinking Seagram's 7 & diet 7-up beforehand (I abstained), then started smoking a Swisher-Sweet. (You could still smoke in auditoriums back then.)
About halfway thru the concert he starts to turn green, and unfortunately for the huge guy sitting in front of us who was wearing a hoodie, he proceeded to fill the hoodie with, well, you know. The guy screams and jumps up, spinning around with his fists clenched, which flung some of the ejecta onto his girlfriend. She screams, and when the boyfriend turned back to his girl, I grabbed my buddy by the shirt collar and beat feet out of there, so we only saw half of the concert. He still claims I saved his life that night. I dunno, maybe. But I still feel bad for that guy and his girlfriend.

 

[wimpy69]

'74, Spray Beach LBI NJ, Le Garage Discotheque Au Go-Go. Bruce Springsteen. Snuck in with a bunch of older surfer buddies. Will never forget it.

 

[cutplug]

Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Boulder Co. 1976.

Hard to believe you can find this stuff on the net after all these years.
Saw Bob Marley in 1978 and the whole show is available on video. Trip!

 

[GaryHibbert]

Tammy Wynette in about 1976. It was a dinner show at the Ranchman's Bar in Calgary, Alberta. I had just moved to Calgary from Sask. The show cost a whopping $20 and I thought long and hard about it before I bought a ticket. $20 was a LOT of money to a Stubble Jumper like me back then.
Worth every penny.

Gary

 

[sawhorseray]

Ray, you sure you didn't mean "Prince" in San Francisco?

That's where it all started John. We used to see the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver, and Steve Miller bands for free concerts in Golden Gate Park, and then all the guys from Tennessee drove up and moved into the Castro District. RAY