Your first concert was to see who and when?


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

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Beach Boys, Chicago, and Elton John, 1975 at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins, CO

KISS and John Cougar Mellencamp.  I think Fastway also played.  Probably 1978 to 1979.  In Omaha. 

Kiss and Cheap Trick 14yo Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. August 11, 1977.  First time ever seeing people smoking weed. 

Fleetwood Mac at 1969 the Gardens Auditorium in Vancouver, BC.

The original band with Fleetwood, McVie, Danny Kirwan, Jeremy Spencer and Peter Green. 

Slade live in Cardiff 1973, 9 years old probably still the best concert I've ever seen.

I saw local bands like MC5, Iguanas (Iggy Pop's first band, my sister dating bass player), Sunday Funnies, Mitch Ryder, others I'm forgetting. This Ann Arbor, junior, high school days, lots of free concerts in the area. First paid big venue concert was Alice Cooper at Cobo Arena, Detroit, friend's mother transported us and attended concert. 

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.

 

Mothers of Invention/Country Joe and the Fish/Ten Years After/Buddy Miles Express at Baltimore Civic Center on Apr 27, 1969..... 

Frank Zappa at Beloit College Fall 1970. Took my older sister who had just returned home after a year away in Boston. 

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.  

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Sept 8, 1989.  The Pixies, Love and Rockets opened up for The Cure, Dodger Stadium. I was 16.

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

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.

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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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

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

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. 

Black Sabbath, the original lineup, December 1, 1976 at the Providence Civic Center.  Montrose opened.  The Technical Ecstasy Tour.  Now they’re done.  Farewell.  

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.

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. 

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….