What Age Were You At Your First Live Gig?

Doh! Warrant, Firehouse and Trixter.

 

No wonder you wanted to flee the venue! I get the heebie-jeebies just thinking of that concert!

 

14 - I saw Naked Raygun

 

12 or 13 -- Gordon Lightfoot at my older sister's university.

 

I suppose that Peter Tosh (8 days before I was born) and Steve Hackett (4 days before I was born) don't count?

 

Queen - Winter Gardens, Blackpool, UK. 1974. 13 years old. Ears rang for 2 days!

 

The Sweet aged 12. Won the tickets, so doesn't really count.

First gig I paid for was the Bay City Rollers a year later. Screamed myself hoarse!

 

10 years of age...Kiss & Judas Priest September 1979...mind blown.

 

I guess they didn’t love you.

 

Not counting shows my parents took me to...(people they wanted to see)

I was 14 when I saw the Rolling Stones in 1966.

It never really dawned on me to go to concerts before that.

 

Frank Zappa/Mothers at the OKC Civic in 1971. I was 14. A friends dad drove us to the show.

 

13 or 14 at a Carl Perkins show to promote "Blue Suede Shoes." He appeared by himself and lip-synced to the record - IIRC he did both sides of the 45 and did "Blue Suede Shoes" twice. That was at White City Amusement Park in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

 

Oh .. this is sad. I was about 16 i think I went to see Cliff Richard with my best friend and his mother. She had free tickets.

 

15. Bowie in 83. Serious Moonlight

 

If you were looking through a Belly Button Window, then yes, it counts.

 

People like you make me sick!

Only because I wasn't born until 1980 and I missed out on things like this!

 

Eleven when I saw Dave Clark Five supported by The Kinks at Scarborough Spa.

 

Unofficially, 9 (Santana), officially with a ticket, 12 (The Persuasions, Three Man Army, ShaNaNa).

 

Aged 14, 1975 Wings at Edinburgh Usher Hall

 

1972 I was 16, Focus and Return to Forever. Orpheum theater Minneapolis

 

My first concert was at age 16, Prince Parade tour.

Before that I had seen a couple of concerts, but mainly in a festival kind of way and not the type of concerts I think you are refering to.

 

My first “real” concert: 15. (Not with parents; favorite band)

Pink Floyd “In the Flesh (The Animals Tour)”

June 19, 1977, Soldier Field, Chicago.

 

John Denver in '79 or '80 at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati when I was 5 or 6 with the fam. The first concert I wanted to see and had my Dad take me to was Jethro Tull at Riverbend in Cincy, 1988 on the 20 years of JT tour. Off topic, but it was so much easier to see a bunch of concerts when the tickets hovered around $20. I remember almost not going to Pink Floyd at Ohio Stadium in 1994 because the tickets were, gasp, $45!! Oh the humanity'!!

 

Deep Purple Perfect Strangers tour 1985. 14 years old and my ears are still ringing lol...

 

Cool, Ringo in '89 was my first concert as well, I was thirteen. Ol' Ritchie had a helluva band with him for that tour, even if at that time I didn't know who half those guys were!