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.
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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.
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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!
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Vanilla Fudge in I think 1967. I was in middle school. They were/are fantastic!
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March 28, 1986. Rush Power Windows Tour, Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. Marillion was the opening act. It was a fantastic show!
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Cream Chastain Park ATL 10/27/68. I was 16 and it was life changing. Been playing guitar ever since.
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Right after I returned stateside from Vietnam, August 1971, Alexandria, LA, Rare Earth.
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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!
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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.
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Grand Funk Railroad, early 70's, when American Band was on the charts.
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Jimmy Hendrix in San Diego in 1968 I think (It was just after being introduced to smoking marijuana- before going to the concert). Of course, it was amazing!
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Besides John Denver and Paul Winter when I was really young with my mom at St John the Divine in NYC, the first real show I was at was, Believe it or not, New kids on the block in 1989 when I took my high school girlfriend as a birthday present. I hung out in the back of the venue, Syracuse I think, and smoked and trash talked the band even as we hummed along with the melodies we all knew by heart.
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1974 Blue Oyster Cult Memorial Hall Kansas City, KS
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1979 ZZ Top on the Deguello tour at Cincinnati Gardens. I was in eighth grade and Joe Perry Project opened the show.
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The Who, Shea Stadium, NY, 1982
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What a great question…Rare Earth, 1972, I was in the 8th grade. My mom dropped me and my best friend Jeff Stapleton off at ASU’s The Varsity Gym, Boone, NC! RIP Jeff….
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Echo and the Bunnymen / New Order in LA back in the 80s.
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THE GUESS WHO
Summer of 1979
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Hall & Oates w/ Marshall Crenshaw opening, Concord Pavilion, 1983
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1973 (junior year H. S.)
Grateful Dead at the San Diego Sports Arena.
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Kansas at the Amphitheater in Chicago either 83 or 84. Back up band was John Cougar and the Zones playing I Need a Lover that Won’t Drive me Crazy.
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The Yardbirds and Jimi Hendrix 1968 in St. Louis
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Milli Vanilli 1989
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Kingston Trio in their heyday.
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Brownsville Station, 1972, Falls Church Community Center (a hotbed!)
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Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
Yale Bowl, New Haven, CT July 1974
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moby grape bb king filmore east 1971
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Saint Matthias, third grade, 1962. A 25 piece Classical ensemble performed. Made a lasting impression.
First Rock music was a free Jefferson Airplane concert (old bandshell, South end of Grant Park, Chicago). Must have been 1967.
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Black Sabbath, the original lineup, December 1, 1976 at the Providence Civic Center. Montrose opened. The Technical Ecstasy Tour. Now they’re done. Farewell.
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First major concert U2 Unforgettable Fire tour 84/85. First actual concert Resurrection Band in a church (duh!) Still the loudest concert I've ever attended. And I've been to many hardcore shows.
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Van Morrison at the San Bernadino Orange Show Event Center sometime in '72 when I was 16. Since I had my drivers license I was the driver in a '56 VW bug. Still running 6-volt, so the headlights were about half as bright as a Bic Lighter.
Thanks for the memories! -John
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The Beatles. Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston TX, 8-19-65
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Bo Diddley, 1959, Municipal Coliseum, Lubbock, TX
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@shtinkydog
Budgie hadn't yet joined the Banshees at that time. As for the Slits, I think it was still Palmolive on the drums but I'm not 100% on that one
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Rod Stewart in St. Louis 1970.
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Hey @sns my concert going was similar to yours in Detroit! My first also was Alice Cooper with Steppenwolf, only few years earlier than you at the Olympia Stadium, where the Wings used to play. Tho did see numerous performances at Cobo, Masonic, and later years Pine Knob.
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Turtles. New Years Eve 1967/68 at the Ice Palace in Las Vegas.
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@pape1961 so you saw Budgie both with the Banshees and the Slits?
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Boston at the Oakland Coliseum in 1978
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Cat Stevens, 1973 in Landover MD.
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Rush Hemispheres, April 6, 1979, at the glorious Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. It was a birthday present from my cousin, I was 11. Been hooked on Rush ever since.
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Apart from a couple of local bands nobody had ever heard of, the first "real" concert I went to was Siouxie and the Banshees at the Town Hall in Middlesbrough UK on 29 Oct 1978, I was 17
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Sept 8, 1989. The Pixies, Love and Rockets opened up for The Cure, Dodger Stadium. I was 16.
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Mountain 1971 at the Colosseum in Jackson, MS…I was 11 and my friend was 12 and our parents said no problem…those were the days! Or were they clueless parents… Great show the house came down when the cowbell came out for Mississippi Queen.
https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/mountain--8094521
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Jan and Dean 1964, Chicago, I was 12.
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Frank Zappa at Beloit College Fall 1970. Took my older sister who had just returned home after a year away in Boston.
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Mothers of Invention/Country Joe and the Fish/Ten Years After/Buddy Miles Express at Baltimore Civic Center on Apr 27, 1969.....
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RUSH in Toronto around 1983, Great show.
BTW - for you folks that mentioned Led Zeppelin, check out the BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN on Netflix. Zep is my fav band but after seeing that documentary they moved up to another level.
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Led Zeppelin, MC5 and Johnny Winter 69 or 70 Boston Garden
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Led Zeppelin launching second album at Montreux casino spring 1970.
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