What was your first ever Live Concert?

Kansas, St John Arena, Columbus Ohio 11/11/77

Nazareth opened.

 

Poison. Look What the Cat Dragged In Tour.

And I'm proud of it.

 

Skinny Puppy, 1988.

 

Tool, Undertow tour, Varsity Arena, Toronto; April 1994.

 

This was my first live concert, too. My cousin and I were 14, from a small town in Grays Harbor County, WA. Our parents surprised us with the tickets. They drove us to Seattle, dropped us off at the Colisieum and waited outside until it was over.

I think we were at the evening show on August 25, 1966, because in my foggy memory I remember Paul or John telling the crowd not to throw stuff, or they would walk off, because Ringo had been hit in the head by a tube of lipstick in the earlier show. We were in heaven. Didn't matter if we couldn't hear them very well. We were in the middle of Beatlemania.

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Headliner: David Cassidy
Opener: Tony Orlando and Dawn
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Date: March 1972

If a six-year-old had to witness thousands of teen and pre-teen girls crying their eyes out en masse, at least it was a "happy" event.

 

T. Rex, 1971.

Uriah Heep & Jackie Lomax opened.

 

Rush/Max Webster 1980 Permanent Waves Tour. Mid-Hudson Civic Center Puffkeepsie, NY. Rippinnnn' !!!

 

Queen- Wembley Stadium 11th July 1986 with Status Quo, The Alarm and pre fame INXS as support

 

George Harrison MSG December 1974. I was just a wee youngster...

 

ELO at Wembley Arena on the Time Tour.
It was OK. I've seen a lot better since but at the time though, it was mind-blowing!
Still love ELO though and hope I get to see Jeff live at least once more.

 

Ten Years After, Procol Harum, Michel Pagliaro at the Montreal Forum (1970 ?)

 

The 4 Seasons at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City.I believe it was 1965 and i went with my older brothers. I was not quite 10.

 

Ted Nugent 1981 Halifax ,Nova Scotia.

 

The Bee Gees - August 23, 1974 St. John, N.B.

 

The Yardbirds, Clarkson College, Potsdam, NY April 1968. Sat right in front of Jimmy Page.

 

I got my best friend to give me his ticket so that I could ask a girl I really fancied to a Rory Gallagher Concert, that was 1972. It was a good move I'm still with her! YYEESS!

JG

 

CCR and Lee Michaels Denver Colosium 1968 ish

 

20 minutes? Wow...was that good or bad ?!? lol.

 

Eric Clapton and His Band. Summer 2007, Blossom Music Center.
Opening Act: Robert Randolph.

 

The Moody Blues - Felt Forum NYC Sept 23, 1970. Childrens Children Tour

 

4/79 Cheap Trick, Kingston, PA "Dream Police" tour. I was 9. I asked my parents if I could go.

It's ALL Cheap Trick's fault.

 

Joe Perry-less Aerosmith with an opener called Rose Tattoo, at CCCC, Portland, ME. on my 13th birthday. I seem to remember that Tyler had fallen off the stage in Worcester right before this. They were a mess.
I smoked some hash. No idea what it was... Little did I know my Dad knew a security guard who let him in during "Dream On" encore. He found us not all together coherent.
I got better at selecting music to see live and hiding my substance choices from Dad in the (very near) future.

 

Roy Orbison, Fargo, ND 1978

 

The Thompson Twins with Berlin as the opening act - Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls (Cleveland) OH, summer 1984.