Your first concert was to see who and when?

My first "concert" I attended was in 7 grade.  Christmas concert. 1968ish. To see my Parents and an Audience.   KIndah had to.  My second year on trumpet.

Heart, Cheap Trick opened. 1978 Green Bay, WI Brown County Arena.

Love the responses being put forth; so much great stuff from back in the day!

Right after I returned stateside from Vietnam, August 1971, Alexandria, LA, Rare Earth. 

Cream Chastain Park ATL 10/27/68.  I was 16 and it was life changing.  Been playing guitar ever since.

March 28, 1986. Rush Power Windows Tour, Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. Marillion was the opening act. It was a fantastic show!

Vanilla Fudge in I think 1967. I was in middle school. They were/are fantastic!

Wow some amazing concerts here!

Mine was during a family visit to Phoenix in 1970.  The headliner was Three Dog Night, but the opener was Blues Image, still one of my favorite bands.

The following year, we visited Phoenix again and were eager to see another concert.  Opened the paper and found the ad, Three Dog Night again!  This time the opening act was little-known band, the Doobie Brothers.

Two great concerts!

The Jackson 5. I think it was around 1971 (plus or minus a year) at the Charlotte Coliseum (Charlotte, NC). It was one of the best concerts that I have ever seen.

My first rock concert was The Doors, Fillmore East, March 22. 1968, 8PM show, as a 14 year old HS freshman with HS buddies.  What an introduction to rock concerts.  

Classical music was well before that, I believe at 10 years old seeing Carmen at the old Metropolitan Opera House.  I also remember seeing Young Peoples Concerts,, New York Philharmonic, Bernstein conducting at Philharmonic Hall at an early age.  My parents got me hooked on classical.  
 

Jazz was before that.  Probably at 8 years old.  I can visualize to this day Guy Lombardo pulling up to the stage at the Jones Beach Theater in his stunning wood power boat and leading his orchestra.  

The Beach Boys in the Summer of 1964 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium, with Brian playing bass and singing falsetto.

The opening act was The Tikis, a Surf band from Santa Cruz. A coupla years later they changed their name to Harpers Bizarre. Future Warner Brothers record producer Ted Templeman was a member.

Led Zeppelin 1975 at the Greensboro Coliseum.  I still have many of my ticket stubs including from this concert.  Just imagine - $7 to see Zeppelin.  Second time I saw them in 1977 the price had gone way up to uh.. $9.

Grand Funk Railroad, American Band tour.

The Kinks in 1979 or 1980 at the Fabulous Forum in Los Angeles (Inglewood, to be exact). 

Iowa State Fair 1975

Santana, Fleetwood Mac, Head East.

Pretty much a day of it, back when bands just played and didn't worry about how long.

Beethoven's 5th, Hartford Symphony, mid sixties.

Judy Collins, 1968

Kinks, 1971

October 1972, 11 years old my sister took me to see Harry Chapin at Aquinas college basketball court. Bob Seager was opening act.

Then March 1973 same sister took me to see Jethro Tull at Jenison field house at MSU east lansing.

I've been hooked on live music ever since

Alice Cooper, fall of 1971. I was 18 and it was Killer!

The Beatles at Shea Stadium 1965.

Black Sabbath’s Heaven and Hell tour (Ronnie James Dio’s first, I believe) at the Jacksonville Coliseum in 1980ish.  I was 15 and somewhat bowled over by the whole thing. 

Wow, these are some amazing time machine fantasies.  I was either not born yet or waaay too young for most of the classic rock ones.

My first was Joan Jett, Ministry, Flock of Seagulls, and The Fixx all opening for The Police, Comisky Park, July 1983.  I remember spending a lot of time trying to avoid pot smoke.  How ironic. 

Rush, Hemispheres, Victoria BC, Nov 2, 1978 (I was 14)

ELO at the Anaheim Convention Center in So.CA.  I believe it was 1976 or maybe early 77.  I was especially blown away when they did Roll Over Beethoven!   Couldn’t believe when the cellist were laying on they’re backs playing using they’re feet to hold the cello up in the air.  Was so good I can still see it.  
I think I saw Dave Mason shortly after that.  Would have been right after the Dave Mason Certified Live album came out.  In his prime then!

Leon Russell at the old Oiler Baseball Park in Tulsa, probably in 1971. A hippie chick stepped in front of my dad’s 1964 Chevy Nova station wagon when he was dropping me off, and she swore at him with the f-word. I thought he was going to launch himself into the stratosphere.

@baylinor  Led Zepplin in Switzerland 1970 ! Wow , you’re my Hero. I only saw them once at Oakland Coliseum Day on the Green, the Saturday show. That was the day Peter Grants crew beat up Bill Grahams security. They played the next day and if I’m not mistaken that was their last concert here. But I could be mistaken as that was many brain cells ago. 😎

Kenny Rogers 50 years ago. Nice but my last Country concert.

Rush, Signals Tour, December 1982 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. I was 17 and bought beer at the concessions. No ID necessary. Remember those days?  Mind blowing show.

The Ventures,  Boise, Id....1963

@buellrider97 

I was 15 years old. First out of town concert. My dad had to take me. I sat up front on bare floor, no seat, second row center, 5 ft from stage which was only 2 ft high. They were right there! It was in the casino that burned down soon after during a Zappa concert. That's where the Deep Purple song Smoke on the water came from. Very small venue, maybe a thousand people. Page had longer hair than Plant, that's how long ago it was. The Bonham solo was done mostly barehand and he started bleeding and keept going. I took a dozen pictures. To say it was memorable is an understatement. In September of that year, Hendrix was scheduled in the same casino. I had tickets. He died in August. Easily the biggest music disappointment in my life. I cried for a week, no shame in saying that. A long life has so many ups and downs, it's kind of a crazy roller-coaster ride when you look back.

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.

Reading everyone’s first concerts made me think of one thing.  Two amazing concerts I saw were Led Zeppelin’s last tour through the US at the LA Forum with John Bonham and The Who’s last tour through the US with Keith Moon, also at the forum.  Both drummers died soon after those concerts and it just made me think, I must have been the J.D. Vance of drummers!

@sls883  hey I was there too! My mom took me lol. I was 9 or 10. By that time, Kiss had already “jumped the shark”, as the saying goes.  Great memories though. Some guy offered my mom a hit off his joint. I saw a lot of great shows at the Civic Auditorium in the 80s. 

The Beatles with The Righteous Brothers, Seattle Colosseum, August, 1964. 

Yes, April19,1973 in Atlanta.

I was class rep and arranged the group trip as a junior in HS. I got called on the carpet because a joint was passed down our aisle, upsetting someone's parents. Then I got props for not having let anyone take a toke, telling them just to pass it. I even got an apology from the parents, who had to admit that rubbing it out on the floor would have caused potential trouble. As much as we wanted to take a hit, I was relieved that everyone realized it was a school trip and abstained. As a result, we later were able to attend a Flames hockey game and the premiere of the Exorcist at a 2000 seat movie house.

The Blues Magoos (I'm Never Going Back to Georgia) in the Spring of '69 at the Ekman Civic Center in Old Greenwich, CT. I was 17 and a high school junior.

My first was a Battle of the Bands show at the then Charlotte Coloseum with The Grass Roots as main attraction.... don’t remember the others. I went with my ’girlfriend’, shapparoned. 

First real concert was The Doobie Brothers @ Cameron Indoor Stadium on their "Vices" tour.

aside from high school symphonic band concerts I played in [contrabass clarinet], the first "real" concert where I wasn't a player, was back in the summer of '83 at seattle's central tavern where blues harmonica player charlie musselwhite and his band were blowin' the walls down, almost literally. the speakers were refrigerator-sized, and the volume was so loud that my drink sloshed in its glass as I sat right up front and center. my hearing has never been quite the same since. shoulda wore industrial hearing protection. young and sorta dumb about it. 

@jrod68 That's cool!  I was 16 or 17 years old.  We were just old enough to drive.

Around 1983, I saw AC/DC in Omaha.  Their Hells Bells tour.  It was awesome, but really loud.  My ears rang for days..... I've read that it was one of the loudest tours in concert history. 

Lynyrd Skynryrd Capital Theater Passaic NJ 1976. Warm up bands 38 Special and Atlanta Rhythm Section.

I had tickets for Madison Square Garden in 1977 but the plane went down after the 4th show of that tour.

I also grew up in Detroit and attended UM .  Not sure it qualifies but Bob Seger played a short set at a Bar Mitzvah in 1971.  He must have been down on his luck and he subsequently hit it big a few years later.  I had gotten into Classical Music in HS and saw the DDO a bunch of times but my first pop concert was at Meadowbrook with the Temptations, probably 1974, and no doubt not anything close to the original lineup.  The one I remember most was first week of college 1976 and the Eagles at Crisler Arena with Hotel California tour.  The week before Gerald Ford had kicked off his election campaign at Crisler and the UM Marching Band played the Victors (Ford had captained the football team ) and it was a political ruckus that ensued.

Elton John Bicentennial tour MSG. With Kiki Dee. I think he made his entrance rising up as the Statue of Liberty or I'm having a fever dream.

Aerosmith at the old Boston Garden in 1977... was a Junior in HS

Neil Young & The International Harvester’s with Kris Kristofferson as the opening act. Toronto, Ontario Aug. 1985. CNE Grandstand inside Exhibition Stadium. I was 15 1/2 yrs. old. First time I smoked a joint too ! 
 

Great night still burned into my brain.

GRAND FUNK At Public Hall Cleveland 1971 

Iron Butterfly, with my girlfriend, 1968 at SUNY Binghamton (Harper College) I was 16 years old.

Jimi Hendrix and Chicago Transit Authority(Chicago) LA Forum 1969. Age 13. What I remember the most was the whole concrete Forum structure was vibrating during the whole time.

Blood Sweat and Tears summer of '69.