Your First Concert was.....

The Animals
1966

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.