What was your first ever Live Concert?

November 1970 at a college near Cleveland, OH. I was so excited to see Jethro Tull...but Ian A. had to cancel their appearance due to a very sore throat. We had a choice of getting our money back or seeing a local band (thoroughly forgettable). I went because I had a date with a special girl and otherwise would have sat home with my folks (I was 16). Finally saw them in Athens, OH in '74, I believe. Thick As A Brick was most of it, but also a few from Aqualung and Stand Up. Good music, somewhat childish antics much of the time. Still a big fan of their early stuff.

 

Hmm. don't know how my reply got removed from the quote, i saw VH and Baby Animals too in Knoxville. Not my first show, but I was there and enjoyed it. Had backstage passes for Baby Animals. I don't think VH did a meet and greet at that show. I was working at WOKI (I-100) in Knoxville at the time and a student at UT. Thoroughly enjoyed the show!

 

My first concert was Page & Plant. I was 4....I fell asleep.

 

Johnny Cash at the then Garden State Art Center, NJ sometime in the summer late 70's

 

Eagles - Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam, July 17 1996

Hell Freezes Over tour. I was 14 years old.

 

Grand Funk Railroad, according to the ticket stub, 11-17-72. I can't remember who opened this particular show, but during the early 70's I saw them three times. It may have been Wet Willie, but I believe that was a later show.

 

Non-Classicalete Seeger at The Academy of Music
Rock:Supremes at The Latin Casino

 

Yes on the 90125 tour - Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA - 13-Sep-1984.

That is, unless you count my mom going to see Sam & Dave in 1969 while she was 8 months pregnant. She said I was kicking away every time the horns blasted ! I think that explains a lot, actually... !

 

QUEEN - Leeds AFC, Elland Road Football Stadium, Leeds, UK. 29th May 1982.

Spectacular gig!

 

It's hard enough for me to remember my high school years so I'll skip whatever I may have seen as a child.

So that leaves, sadly enough, KC and the Sunshine Band at Six Flags over Mid-America. I think is was 1977. No disrespect to KC and the boys. I guess I've just out grown them.

 

My second Queen gig was in that same NEC run (the Saturday night IIRC). Absolutely fantastic!

 

Nice! There's some footage of Radio Ga Ga from that show.......apparently Phil Collins was there and he recalls that half of Queen's lighting rig wasn't working. Don't know if you have the same memory?

 

I was 11, 1972. Black Sabbath at a theatre in New Britain CT

We were sitting in the front row of the balcony. We got offered all sorts of drugs by the older kids. It was insane. Saw a guy in the bathroom shooting up.

One guy jumped off the balcony. I don't think he and the people he landed on were able to stay for the whole show.

I still marvel that our parents let us go. We must have been good BSers

 

Toots and the Maytals at the Barrymore Theater - Madison, WI sometime in the mid-80s. I was, at most, ten years old. I've got cool parents.

 

Eric Clapton!!

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David Bowie - Serious Moonlight Tour, Edinburgh 1983.

 

My mom & granddad took me to see The Singing Nolans at Crookes Workingmen's Club in the mid-60s. (Ten years later they would have a healthy amount of success after they dropped 'The Singing...'). Then there was the annual trips throughout the mid-to-late 60s to the city centre to see the very fabulous Spinners with the family. What I REALLY class as my first concert 'proper' (no parents - unleashed!) was The Strawbs at Sheffield City Hall in '73 on their 'Bursting At The Seams' tour. I was lost to Glam from that moment on. Swiftly following were gigs from The Sweet, Mud, Mott The Hoople, Suzi Quatro, Slade, Wizzard, T.Rex.....a glorious time to be a teenager.

 

The Kinks at New Haven Coliseum on the Come Dancing tour.

Could not imagine a better introduction to rock. Glad that I chose that over Tom Petty or Billy Joel or something like that...

 

Spectacular!!!

 

Ambrosia - Somewhere I Never Travelled Tour - San Jose Civic - 1976

I was too young to know what they were doing, I wish I could go back now and hear that concert again.

Sons of Champlin opened. They were terrible and couldn't get off of the stage fast enough for me.

 

most memorable moment: on sunday, around noon, an hour or more before the Shankar afternoon show, my friend and I happened to be at the entrance at the back gate
of the outdoor arena where the shows took place and we saw a handful of people walk around near the stage. three of them went on stage and set up while the others stood on the ground just in front of the stage, to one one side. and then the trio started to play. It was Hendrix and co. Apparently just off the plane and showing Adler and some of the Mamas/Papas what they did. They'd apparently never heard them. They went through the entire set they would later repeat that night. Only this time it was for
a half dozen people next to the stage and less than a dozen people at the entrance (a quarter mile away) with me. The first live rock I ever heard.

 

The Firm was my first large-scale concert sometime in April 4, 1986 at the Brendan Byrne Arena in New Jersey. Saw two legends that evening, Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers. Rodgers lived up to the bill, Page didn't though I think I was probably too mesmerized by seeing him live to care.

 

First "real" concert? Not counting anti drug bands that came to my junior high and then high school who would sing about the evils of drug use while covering and performing songs from bands like Gun's N Roses and other notoriously famous drug abusing rock and roll bands?

It may sound funny but my first concert was Beck w/ The Flaming Lips in 2002. I think I was 25 years old. I missed out on a lot of bands and tours during my early 20's sadly.

 

The first concert i remember seeing was Tears for Fears on the seeds of love tour. I think I was 9.

 

June 4, 1967 - Found the show info online - this is a quote from the Houston Chronicle blog:

"Time traveling back through Scott Holtzman’s Nowsounds columns in the Houston Post, I discovered that the seven-day period between June 4 and June 10, 1967 — the first week of what was to become the Summer of Love — was a good time to be a rock music fan here.

On June 4, a Sunday, Jefferson Airplane headlined KILT’s Out of School Spectacular at the Sam Houston Coliseum. Also on the bill for the 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. shows were the Pozo Seco Singers from Corpus Christi (which included later-to-be country music star Don Williams), the Five Americans, Neal Ford and the Fanatics and fever tree."