Your first concert was to see who and when?

Sacramento 1972 the Mahler Symphony #2. Years later I went to a live performance of the Mahler 8th, which often takes more than 1000 musicians to perform it. This should be on everyone's bucket list, along with witnessing a total solar eclipse.  

Funkadelic in a cow barn in MS around ‘70 was an early and memorable one.

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, in the spring of 1967. Loud music in a small room.

That spring I also saw Buddy Guy, Big Mama Thornton, and the Lovin' Spoonful with Judy Collins opening.

Lynyrd Skynyrd / J. Giles Band 1976 Buffalo Auditorium. I thought all concerts had to be halted for rowdy behavior. And so it began...

@rockadanny @sns I too was in Detroit in the late 60s and saw all the locals. We had an impressive scene! An early fave of mine was The Frost. The Grande hosted a lot of local bands in its first year or two: the Psychedelic Stooges, the 5, the Frut, Jagged Edge, Up, etc. My first non-local band concert was either Tim Buckley or the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Grande, sometime in ‘67, maybe ‘68. I don’t rightly remember anymore. Time blurs and the belly sags!