Your first concert was to see who and when?

Liberace!  At the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh.  I must have been about 12 years old.  I loved music and I wanted to be in show business.  My mother was...not entirely pleased, but she took me to see him.  I was surely the only young man in an audience full of blue-haired ladies.  I thought his garish outfits were a hoot.

It was 1969, I believe. I was a freshman at Ga.Tech and had a friend going to Mercer in Macon, Ga. Led Zep was playing there (of all places) and I believe the venue was some auditorium on campus but maybe it was somewhere else in Macon. Anyway, I rode my motorcycle up there and stayed with my friend. They were promoting Zeppelin 2, it had just come out. LZ hadn't really "made it" yet and put on a terrific show. Later that year or maybe the next it cost me $1 to see the Allman Bros. and Janis Joplin on the GT campus.

Jefferson Airplane / Hot Tuna / It's a Beautiful Day

Feb. '70 Anaheim convention Center CA

1st Dead Show 12/28/70 El Monte Legion Stadium LA CA

Jimi Hendrix Massachusetts, Boston Gardens 1970.     Jimi died the 18th of Sept 1970..

Hall and Oates at the Wittenberg University Field House in the mid-70's. Followed shortly afterward by AC/DC opening for Foreigner at Hara Arena in Dayton, followed shortly afterward by Kiss, and then Styx/Kansas (or was it the other way around?). So many bands, and a lot of idle time.