Sly and the Family Stone at madison Square Garden,He got married at that concert and it was a great show...I was only 14 years old at the time... |
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I was 13 and went with my cute neighbor who just got her driver's license. Brooker T and the MGs opened. |
Canned Heat in '71 or '72 ??? I think breathing the smoke at those early '70's concerts did something to my brain's memory receptors. |
Creedence Clearwater 1970, Los Angeles Forum. I was 13 and went with my cute neighbor who just got her driver's license. Brooker T and the MGs opened. |
The Band. 1969 (high school senior). Harpur College. Binghamton, NY. Fantastic show. |
The Clash! What a great show! A little known band at the time Los Lobos opened for them and was pretty much booed off the stage. The next night I saw KISS and I couldn't hear for a week! I think it was back in 83, not a bad weekend for a kid in the 7th grade. |
Janis at the Chicago Auditorium around 1970.
My sister was a huge fan (and had pipes freakishly similar to Ms. Joplin).
She and my Mother presented me with a spankin' new Cabretta leather coat (quite the Greaser in those days) so I'd be presentable.
Moms was dolled up like a hippie but had her fingers in her ears the entire show (how embarassing)!
J.J. was in good form (artistically) but sounded depressed and kind of whacked out when she spoke to the audience. |
Pink Floyd at Iverwin Stadium ,Hamilton Ontario , soon after release of Dark Side of the Moon . Date ?.... somewhere between an hour after I was at cruising at altitude and three days before I (crashed) landed . |
The California Jam 1974. Deep purple, Black Sabbath, the Eagles, Black Oak Arkansas, ELP and a few others. |
Doors-1967-68?-Chicago, $5.00 |
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1971, Led Zeppelin, Yale Bowl. The opened with the Immigrant Song, and you could hear Plant over the top of the PA. |
Foreigner in 1977, I think it was a band called Charlie that opened for them. |
Steppenwolf, 1969, cost an astronomical $5 - to me a fortune in 7th grade!
I was horrified at rampid pot smoking - ha! |
I believe it was Cheap Trick opening for Kiss in 1975 at the Montreal Forum. Seats were in row 7 or so and in front of the speakers - the ringing lasted for a couple of days... |
Traffic on the Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory Tour with John Martyn and Free as opening acts. Probably 1972 or 3. |
Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson |
Led Zeppelin, 1968, Evansville IN
Everything after that was never quite the same |
I believe it was Ted Nugent, Sammy Hagar and Point Blank in 1975 at the Capitol Center in Largo, MD....The Cap. Center is now a shopping mall.... Definitely lost both brain cells and hearing at that show!!!! |
Double Concert: Creedence Clearwater and The Doors: Seattle Center Area in 1969 or so. |
It was either Joe Rex/Percy Sledge or Paul Revere and the Raiders/Tommy Roe both around '67 or '68. First "NAME" Rock show was Iron Butterfly '69 or '70. |
Van Halen ont he 1984 tour when DLR was still in the band at Madison Square Garden. We scored 11th row center on the floor. I think I was fifteen at the time and it still ranks as the most fun I ever had at a concert. |
Dizzy Gillespie, Philadelphia, 1978. |
Grateful Dead, April 1972, Alfred University - Alfred, NY |
I saw my first Dead show in 72. Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City NJ |
I saw Steppenwolf at The Grande Ballroom in 1968 and the drummer was so high he fell backwards off his stool. As he fell he was still swinging his sticks.
Saw Hendrix in '68 at, I'm pretty sure, Detroit's Masonic Auditorium. His amps kept picking up a talk show from a local AM station, WJR. I thought it was part of the show. |
'America' at the Mississippi River Festival in Edwardsville, IL in 1973 |
I will never forget my first concert. It was in 1983, it was Black Sabbath at the forum in Los Angeles. What made it even more memorable was that the great southern rock band the "Outlaws" opened for them. |
WOW! There are some awesome bands listed! Unfortunate that many were before my time. Not sure how representative this thread is but it definitely implies that audiophiles on this site are from a generation before mine. This is not meant as an insult. I find it sad that there are not more younger audiophiles but I guess in this fast paced age of ipods, napster, digital music, etc its hard to see the value of spending good money on a big, immobile system that you have to sit down and listen to. Too bad. |
And the winner is....Blind Faith in Goleta CA Wbs
There's a lot of great shows here, a hell of a lot, but seeing Blind Faith, let alone as your very first concert, well that's hard to beat. |
Tears> I was 14 so my sister had to take me. Carter Baron in DC. After watching RTF who I went to see and were great, BS&T was anticlimactic to say the least. We left after they played a tune or two. I was a music snob at 14? I guess.......
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Kiss, Mountain, and Mott The Hoople..Chicago, round 1974 or so, minds not what it used to be ;-) |
The Turtles, June 1969, at the Surf, Nantasket Beach [Mass]. Unfortunately, they would shortly break up [screwed by their record company and managers].
Later Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan [Flo & Eddie] played with the late & great Frank Zappa & the Mothers.
I also saw them again as Flo & Eddie, the opening act for Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Baby Tour" at Pirate's World in Miami, in April 1973. What great performers, impressionists, and satirists...they had the crowd in laughing hysterically with their ad-lib in "Nikki Hoy"
Both venues are long since gone! |
Fleetwood Mac opening for the Eagles, 1976. I was 14. I may never have loved anyone so desperately as I loved Stevie Nicks in those days. Sigh.... And what was that funny smell that wafted up in little mushroom clouds all around the coliseum when the lights went down?
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First concert for me was The Young Rascals at Fairleigh Dickinson in NJ, 1966. Second concert was at the Fillmore East with The Kinks, Spirit and the Bonzo Dog Band.
Flo and Eddie! Great fun! Wish I could have caught their act.
The Animals in '66?. I'm green. |
Rush, 1982 Signals Tour at the Long Beach Areana. I was in 7th grade and my Dad took me and my best friend. Will slways be my favorite concert. |
For rock, it was Genesis' "shapes" album tour in 1983. For orchestral it was Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite (at the Lincoln Center I think). |
Those "large, immobile systems" are what allows us to hear actual music as opposed to mobile MP3s and earbuds creating constant meaningless white noise.
And by the way, concerts from Mozart's time (and long before) and through today are large, immobile systems for listening to music. I think I can say with confidence that 40 years from now no one will be releasing Maroon 5, 50 Cent, or Fiest compilations, let along ones that hit the top ten list. |
It must have been too much blotter acid? Woodstock, (NOT Iron Butterfly), was my very first concert. I was 16, but I had to run away from home to go. My mother was worried about "those hippie people." Pretty good concert....lol... :) |
Dave Mason at the Aquarius Theatre (later the Orpheum) in the Fall of 1971 in Boston. That was shortly followed by Tull at the Garden and Ten Years After at the Music Hall.
What a long, strange trip it has been since then. |
Who, Quadrophenia, 1973, LA Forum. Loud and sloppy. |
Led Zeppelin, 1971, at the Hampton Roads Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia. |
>>Led Zeppelin, 1971, at the Hampton Roads Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia<<
February 9, 1971 to be exact and boy did they rock the house that night. |
I am proud to state that it was The Carpenters in the spring of 1971. My brother and his girlfriend (now wife) drove my best friend and I to the concert in Fort Worth, Texas. It was amazing...and so was Karen. I will never forget nor will I ever apologize for my first concert experience. |
Robin Trower, 1976, Long Beach Arena. Steve Marriott's All Stars opened. After playing a couple of tunes, I remember Steve asking the crowd, "Do you wanna hear some Humble Pie shit?". We responded enthusiastically (of course). Enjoyed seeing both bands. |
Mcrheist, you certainly have no reason what so ever to apologize, in fact I too would be proud to list that as my first concert. You got to see the first celebrity to starve herself to death. Same goes for you guys who saw the Mamas and the Poppa's. Cass Elliot ate herself to death. Now that's history man. |
Foghat opening for REO Speedwagon, Summer of 1975 |
I just realized that I lied with my post. Years before I saw Blue Oyster Cult, Black Oak Arkansas and Wet Willie, a friend of my parents took my brothers and me to see B J Thomas... forgot all about that, but confession is good for the soul!
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