The Cure, Prayer Tour in support of Disintegration album. Septemer 1989 at the Oakland Coliseum CA. I was 14 and went with some high school friends and a big brother who drove. Best concert ever!!
Well ---- I guess the word "concert" has been appropriated for another use these days. My first concert [in the classic sense] was to see "The First Piano Quartet" at The Philadelphia Academy of Music when I was about 10 years old. I still have the 12" 78RPM records that my Mother bought in the lobby as we departed. It was a life-changing event that directed my life in the direction of becoming a professional musician. Great memory !
First concert (other than local area bands) was Bob Dylan with the Hawks at the Bushnell Theater in Hartford CT on 10/30/65 when I was 16. Saw him again for my second concert on 2/18/66 at the New Haven Arena. Went up to the side of the stage at the end of the first set and shook Bob's hand.
My third was 6/17/66, the Rolling Stones at Dillon Stadium in Hartford.
Not bad for my first three....hundreds more since then.
Ray Charles, September 1976, Bohler Gym, WSU Pullman, WA. I was 13 and went with two girls who were best friends, one white, one black. And did we get a lot of looks. I truly didn't understand why. It was an incredible show. I had never heard or seen anything like that. Made me a fan for life, and aware of how many singers tried desperately to equal Ray Charles on an average night.
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