What was your first concert??

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  • wattmeworry
    wattmeworry Posts: 224
    edited February 2012
    1975 Robin Trower and Peter Frampton Day on the Green in Oakland
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  • Tankman
    Tankman Posts: 419
    edited February 2012
    1975 Lake Charles Centroplex.CanHeat,FogHat,Styx.
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  • codyc1ark
    codyc1ark Posts: 2,532
    edited February 2012
    brgman wrote: »
    Iowa City and no Slipknot?

    Ha! Not at that show, a little before they hit. I was never a huge Slipknot fan, however I have seen them live a handfull of times. I remember spotting a racing seat behind the drumset with a harness, and wondering what that was for. Very cool drum performance. I'd find a link if I wasn't on the work computer.
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited February 2012
    Simon and Garfunkel was mine at the old Comiskey Park in Chicago.
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited February 2012
    codyc1ark wrote: »
    Ha! Not at that show, a little before they hit. I was never a huge Slipknot fan, however I have seen them live a handfull of times. I remember spotting a racing seat behind the drumset with a harness, and wondering what that was for. Very cool drum performance. I'd find a link if I wasn't on the work computer.

    Not a big fan either but now and again it is entertaining to watch a few songs.Interesting bunch there.
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited February 2012
    Steppenwolf, with Savoy Brown and Argent in 1976.
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  • Mike Reeter
    Mike Reeter Posts: 4,315
    edited February 2012
    Late 60's, Headliner was the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band playing at a small venue called The Frog Hop in St. Joseph,Mo.

    Opening act was a guy that came out on stage carrying a folding chair and banjo, he wore a hat with an arrow protruding through each side of it. aka Steve Martin.

    It was a great concert.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited February 2012
    Ozzy Osbourne, Barton Coliseum Little Rock, Ar. 1983 I was 17
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,114
    edited February 2012
    I got to go see deep Purple in 76 but had to go with my uncle it was in long beach Ca, Nazereth was opening act was mach 4 version of purple, he also took me to see Steppenwolf not long after that. My first offical show that me and my friends were allowed to attend was at the San Diego Sports Arena June 19th 1977. It was Led Zeppelin touring of of Presence My Mom was a manager at the Black Angus across the way and she got tickets to that show, good times my friend wore his Army Jacket with Led Zepplin written on it everyone was giving him **** as he spelled Zeppelin with only 1 P, after the show we had to report back to the Black Angus so mom could drive us home I was 15
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited February 2012
    Rare Earth opened for Ike & Tina Turner at the Bell Auditorium in Augusta, GA. 1971. Boom-Shaka-Lacka-Lacka. Those legs are still tatooed on my brain.
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  • Oldfatdogs
    Oldfatdogs Posts: 1,874
    edited February 2012
    Elvin Bishop,around76-77 He used to put on a good show.
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,114
    edited February 2012
    Oldfatdogs wrote: »
    Elvin Bishop,around76-77 He used to put on a good show.

    He still does seen him a couple of years ago, and he did Travelin Shoes my favorite Elvin Bishop song, great show
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  • pietro944
    pietro944 Posts: 720
    edited February 2012
    pietro944 wrote: »
    Cream......at the Sunshine Supermarket??? in Boston......1968???...I think....gettin' old(lol)

    Forgot this one......Barry and The Remains at a CYO dance(leave room for the Holy Ghost!)....in Hyde Park,Massachusetts (1964).......what do I win????(l0l).
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  • Waynesize
    Waynesize Posts: 62
    edited February 2012
    Moody Blues, November 28, 1981, Roanoke VA. It was the Long Distance Voyager tour. I was 16 years old. A really cool show.
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  • scottyboy76
    scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
    edited February 2012
    Bachman turner overdrive, 74-75?.

    Bob Seger opened.

    OR

    Same time frame, brownsville station, cant remember who opened.

    Both of these were when it was still okay for fans to rush to the front of the stage at beginning of show, and stay there for show.
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited February 2012
    George Grand wrote: »
    Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin in NYC. Before they both died.

    That must have been Grand, George. I'm sure they put on much better shows before they died rather than after.:wink::lol:

    Oh, and mine was David Lee Roth at the Oakland Coluseum in 1988. I was 16 and my best friend Seth and I looked forward to seeing Steve Vai play Eruption in double time. It was a good show. Unfortunately, Poison was the opening band. That could have been better.:sad:

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  • Mike Kozak
    Mike Kozak Posts: 931
    edited February 2012
    I think it was the kingbees, Pine Knob, Michigan....circa 1979???
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  • skipf
    skipf Posts: 694
    edited February 2012
    Dave Brubeck 1960.
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,754
    edited February 2012
    skipf wrote: »
    Dave Brubeck 1960.

    Damn, thought I was old...I was born in '60:cheesygrin:
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  • chumlie
    chumlie Posts: 8,658
    edited February 2012
    Lou Reed in 73 or74 doing Transformer
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  • indyhawg
    indyhawg Posts: 1,642
    edited February 2012
    Black Sabbath, Mob Rules Tour, December 1982 at Barton Coliseum in Little Rock, Alvin Lee opened. RIP Ronnie James Dio.
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  • dragon1952
    dragon1952 Posts: 4,899
    edited February 2012
    November 1968 - Fillmore West
    It's a Beautiful Day
    Deep Purple
    Cold Blood

    the following week at the same venue
    Jeff Beck Group
    Spirit
    Sweet Linda Devine
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  • fossy
    fossy Posts: 1,378
    edited February 2012
    Kiss
    76
    aarrgggg .... but they were big time back then ,,, I swear
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  • Upstatemax
    Upstatemax Posts: 2,664
    edited February 2012
    Allman brothers was the very first.

    First with the wife, B.B. King.
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  • drumminman
    drumminman Posts: 3,396
    edited February 2012
    dragon1952 wrote: »
    November 1968 - Fillmore West
    It's a Beautiful Day
    Deep Purple
    Cold Blood

    the following week at the same venue
    Jeff Beck Group
    Spirit
    Sweet Linda Devine

    Whoa! good bands. That must have been the original JBG line up with Rod Stewart, Ron Wood on bass and the late, great Micky Waller on drums. "Truth" is still one of my favorite albums.

    My first was Blood Sweat and Tears, The Chambers Brothers, + a couple of bands I can't think of right now. UNC-CH used to have a spring festival called Jubilee at which they would have 3-5 famous bands every year. In 1971 I saw the Allman Brothers Band (original line up with Duane and Berry), the J Geils Band when they still did quality blues, + a couple of others I can't think of right now.
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  • steveducie
    steveducie Posts: 192
    edited February 2012
    KISS Nassau Coliseum in 1977 i was 8 yrs old
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited February 2012
    rromeo923 wrote: »
    My first concert was KISS in November 1977 at Capital Centre in Landover Maryland. My father took me and my brother. I was 14 yrs old. Opening band was AC/DC!

    I have been to so many concerts since but will always remember my first one:smile:
    Saw many a concert at the old Cap Center!! Have you ever seen Heavy Metal Parking Lot? Brace yourself! :redface: (cringes...)

    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?114983-Heavy-Metal-Parking-Lot
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited February 2012
    FTR, first concert was "The Ozzy Osbourne Band" and UFO at the Baltimore Civic Center. My stub says April 20, 1982, but that doesn't seem to match up with some of the tour date lists online. That was only weeks after Rhoads' death, and I can't remember if it might have been rescheduled to another date. I'm positive that Brad Gillis had joined Ozzy by then. A great time!

    My mom and dad dropped a friend and me off before the show, and when he picked us up, I remember him saying, "You guys smell like weed!" We hadn't smoked any, but I guess the air was permeated. I never did ask him how he know knew what it smelled like, since I'd never imagined that he'd been around it...
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited February 2012
    mdaudioguy wrote: »
    Saw many a concert at the old Cap Center!! Have you ever seen Heavy Metal Parking Lot? Brace yourself! :redface: (cringes...)

    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?114983-Heavy-Metal-Parking-Lot

    Thank god I started seeing Grateful Dead Shows in 1981 and was saved from the hair band daze of the Eighties. I can't believe I didnt see someone I knew in that video.
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited February 2012
    Cap Centre is just an iconic venue.Along with the Spectrum,Richfield Coliseum etc.
    Sad to see them go when they did.
    I remember doing campouts for tickets many times in the parking lot back when you could still do that stuff.Those were epic parties.
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