Your first concert was to see who and when?


I'll kick off with Pink Floyd at The Bay Hotel, Sunderland in February 1969.

newton_john

I actually lived in Ann Arbor, we used to take the City bus which came right through our neighborhood to UM campus. We were like 12 when we first started this so I was pretty young during 'summer of love'. So many legendary bands based in A2 and the entire SE Mi area during that time, what a time and place to have one's consciousness raised, I'd never trade if for anything!

1969. 
Johnny Winter. 

My high school auditorium. 

Right after the release of his eponymously titled first LP on Columbia. 

I was 15 years old. 

Fifth Dimension (1967 or 68) at age 11. Saw a matinee concert with the family and friends of the family (a fun, wholesome band!)

Later in high school, the first band I bought and paid for was WAR in 1971 or 72. I recall being in nose bleed seats & my ears ringing into the next day!

November of 73, senior year of high school. Focus, riding high on "Hocus Pocus" all over the radio, at the Felt Forum, now called The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Bought tickets very close to date of show, and ended up in the second of two rows of metal folding chairs at the front of the room, apparently hastily added after the regular sears sold out. It was wonderful and VERY LOUD. Next stop, MSG's arena for Yes on the Topographic Oceans tour in February of '74.

August 16th 1974 - Little Feat opened, Souther Hillman and Furay was up next, and Three Dog Night closed. Little Feat blew the place apart, Souther Hillman and Furay were terrific, and Three Dog Night was okay.....I've been a huge Little Feat fan since that night, I was 13