Beach Boys, Chicago, and Elton John, 1975 at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins, CO
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KISS and John Cougar Mellencamp. I think Fastway also played. Probably 1978 to 1979. In Omaha.
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Kiss and Cheap Trick 14yo Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. August 11, 1977. First time ever seeing people smoking weed.
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The Beatles @ Dodger Stadium 8,28.66...
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Fleetwood Mac at 1969 the Gardens Auditorium in Vancouver, BC.
The original band with Fleetwood, McVie, Danny Kirwan, Jeremy Spencer and Peter Green.
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Slade live in Cardiff 1973, 9 years old probably still the best concert I've ever seen.
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Zombies, 'She's not There', 1966, Burlington, VT
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Deep Purple , Fletwood Mac, Rory Gallagher at Selland Arena April , 4 1973.
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I saw local bands like MC5, Iguanas (Iggy Pop's first band, my sister dating bass player), Sunday Funnies, Mitch Ryder, others I'm forgetting. This Ann Arbor, junior, high school days, lots of free concerts in the area. First paid big venue concert was Alice Cooper at Cobo Arena, Detroit, friend's mother transported us and attended concert.
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Led Zeppelin launching second album at Montreux casino spring 1970.
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Led Zeppelin, MC5 and Johnny Winter 69 or 70 Boston Garden
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RUSH in Toronto around 1983, Great show.
BTW - for you folks that mentioned Led Zeppelin, check out the BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN on Netflix. Zep is my fav band but after seeing that documentary they moved up to another level.
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Mothers of Invention/Country Joe and the Fish/Ten Years After/Buddy Miles Express at Baltimore Civic Center on Apr 27, 1969.....
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Frank Zappa at Beloit College Fall 1970. Took my older sister who had just returned home after a year away in Boston.
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Jan and Dean 1964, Chicago, I was 12.
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Mountain 1971 at the Colosseum in Jackson, MS…I was 11 and my friend was 12 and our parents said no problem…those were the days! Or were they clueless parents… Great show the house came down when the cowbell came out for Mississippi Queen.
https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/mountain--8094521
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Sept 8, 1989. The Pixies, Love and Rockets opened up for The Cure, Dodger Stadium. I was 16.
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Apart from a couple of local bands nobody had ever heard of, the first "real" concert I went to was Siouxie and the Banshees at the Town Hall in Middlesbrough UK on 29 Oct 1978, I was 17
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Rush Hemispheres, April 6, 1979, at the glorious Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. It was a birthday present from my cousin, I was 11. Been hooked on Rush ever since.
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Cat Stevens, 1973 in Landover MD.
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Boston at the Oakland Coliseum in 1978
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@pape1961 so you saw Budgie both with the Banshees and the Slits?
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Turtles. New Years Eve 1967/68 at the Ice Palace in Las Vegas.
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Hey @sns my concert going was similar to yours in Detroit! My first also was Alice Cooper with Steppenwolf, only few years earlier than you at the Olympia Stadium, where the Wings used to play. Tho did see numerous performances at Cobo, Masonic, and later years Pine Knob.
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Rod Stewart in St. Louis 1970.
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@shtinkydog
Budgie hadn't yet joined the Banshees at that time. As for the Slits, I think it was still Palmolive on the drums but I'm not 100% on that one
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Bo Diddley, 1959, Municipal Coliseum, Lubbock, TX
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The Beatles. Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston TX, 8-19-65
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Van Morrison at the San Bernadino Orange Show Event Center sometime in '72 when I was 16. Since I had my drivers license I was the driver in a '56 VW bug. Still running 6-volt, so the headlights were about half as bright as a Bic Lighter.
Thanks for the memories! -John
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First major concert U2 Unforgettable Fire tour 84/85. First actual concert Resurrection Band in a church (duh!) Still the loudest concert I've ever attended. And I've been to many hardcore shows.
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Black Sabbath, the original lineup, December 1, 1976 at the Providence Civic Center. Montrose opened. The Technical Ecstasy Tour. Now they’re done. Farewell.
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Saint Matthias, third grade, 1962. A 25 piece Classical ensemble performed. Made a lasting impression.
First Rock music was a free Jefferson Airplane concert (old bandshell, South end of Grant Park, Chicago). Must have been 1967.
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moby grape bb king filmore east 1971
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Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
Yale Bowl, New Haven, CT July 1974
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Brownsville Station, 1972, Falls Church Community Center (a hotbed!)
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Kingston Trio in their heyday.
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Milli Vanilli 1989
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The Yardbirds and Jimi Hendrix 1968 in St. Louis
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Kansas at the Amphitheater in Chicago either 83 or 84. Back up band was John Cougar and the Zones playing I Need a Lover that Won’t Drive me Crazy.
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1973 (junior year H. S.)
Grateful Dead at the San Diego Sports Arena.
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Hall & Oates w/ Marshall Crenshaw opening, Concord Pavilion, 1983
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THE GUESS WHO
Summer of 1979
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Echo and the Bunnymen / New Order in LA back in the 80s.
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What a great question…Rare Earth, 1972, I was in the 8th grade. My mom dropped me and my best friend Jeff Stapleton off at ASU’s The Varsity Gym, Boone, NC! RIP Jeff….
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The Who, Shea Stadium, NY, 1982
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1979 ZZ Top on the Deguello tour at Cincinnati Gardens. I was in eighth grade and Joe Perry Project opened the show.
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1974 Blue Oyster Cult Memorial Hall Kansas City, KS
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Besides John Denver and Paul Winter when I was really young with my mom at St John the Divine in NYC, the first real show I was at was, Believe it or not, New kids on the block in 1989 when I took my high school girlfriend as a birthday present. I hung out in the back of the venue, Syracuse I think, and smoked and trash talked the band even as we hummed along with the melodies we all knew by heart.
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Jimmy Hendrix in San Diego in 1968 I think (It was just after being introduced to smoking marijuana- before going to the concert). Of course, it was amazing!
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Grand Funk Railroad, early 70's, when American Band was on the charts.
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