What was your first concert??

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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited February 2012
    The Sheaffer Beer Music Festival in Central Park had no serious competitors nationwide. You got to hear the artist and then participate in the riot after the show. Big park.
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  • PreCd
    PreCd Posts: 786
    edited February 2012
    My 1st was The Scorpions, Def Leppard, and Ted Nugent at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville in 1980. My older brother took me and I will never forget it. Legends of rock were unveiled that night as I believe it was the 1st tour for The Scorpions and Def Leppard.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,223
    edited February 2012
    rromeo923 wrote: »
    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.


    I have tried to listen to The Grateful Dead many of times and I just can't swallow them.. For me "thank god" for Heavy Metal...

    It's kinda of weird because I am very open minded with music and out of the classics I just didn't like them, give me the Stones, Zappa, Neil Young, Zeppelin, ect.. Maybe if I would have seen them live my views would be different but then again I probably would have done more drugs (maybe better ones at that.) LOL!!
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited February 2012
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
    I have tried to listen to The Grateful Dead many of times and I just can't swallow them.. For me "thank god" for Heavy Metal...

    It's kinda of weird because I am very open minded with music and out of the classics I just didn't like them, give me the Stones, Zappa, Neil Young, Zeppelin, ect.. Maybe if I would have seen them live my views would be different but then again I probably would have done more drugs (maybe better ones at that.) LOL!!

    I couldn't agree more about the dead.I have several deadhead friends and i have seen them twice live but i just never got it.I listen to all types of music as well but there is just something about the grateful dead that makes me go huh?
    You either get it or you don't.Like Zappa,or Springsteen (old springsteen,not the new crap).Ya either love it or hate it.
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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    edited February 2012
    My dad took me to see Harry Chapin when I was 14. Small venue and I was blown away. He died that year. I had a "30,000 lbs of Bananas" T-Shirt that he signed. Like an idiot, I wore it all the time and it eventually went away. I should have put it under glass and it would be hanging proudly in my living room right now. Oh well.
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  • PrazVT
    PrazVT Posts: 1,606
    edited February 2012
    My first concert would be 311 / Shootyz Groove in Virginia back in 1995 when I was 16. I went w/ a couple of friends and it was awesome. I've been trying to see 311 again for the last 17 years ..but I never have the time!
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited February 2012
    You guys are old...

    Me; The Presidents of the United States of America, Mercer Arena, Bumbershoot, Seattle, 1995?
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited February 2012
    brgman wrote: »
    I couldn't agree more about the dead.I have several deadhead friends and i have seen them twice live but i just never got it.I listen to all types of music as well but there is just something about the grateful dead that makes me go huh?
    You either get it or you don't.Like Zappa,or Springsteen (old springsteen,not the new crap).Ya either love it or hate it.

    I saw The Grateful Dead over 100 times. For me it was about being young and experiencing freedom. You could pretty much do as you liked at a Grateful Dead show. Half of the fun was the travel and hanging out in the lot with friends and making new friends. You could see five shows in a row and not have any repeats. When they were at their best they put on one of the best concert experiences you could ask for. So much fun.
    I have seen many other bands in concert and a lot have been amazing but very few if any could do what The Grateful Dead could.

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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited February 2012
    George Grand wrote: »
    Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin in NYC. Before they both died.

    well..if you saw em' after they died,,I sure would like some of what you were taking,,my first real concert stateside after returning from across the pond was Rod Stewart and Small Faces,,,,otherwise,,,I'd have to say,,BG and the Clusters,,, A Phillipino Group that entertained us,,the dancers came complete with white go-go boots,,,,lemme hear some Sam and Dave ya'll.
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  • del44
    del44 Posts: 686
    edited February 2012
    Pink Floyd, Animals tour at Anahiem Stadium 1977 i think. Wow
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  • BottomFeeder
    BottomFeeder Posts: 1,684
    edited February 2012
    Geeze. Parents - yes, parents! - took me to a Baja Marimba band concert when I was just a kid. They were competition for the Tijuana Brass. Oh yeah, & Pat Boone was on the same bill. Oi!

    Next "real" concert was Black Sabbath in '72. Hated it. Just never connected with them - too heavy.

    Next & one of my all time favorite concerts was The Who & an unknown to me band called Lynryrd Skynyrd opened for them. This was at the Forum in LA. & Skynyrd blew us away. After that tour, they became headliners. The whole concert was fantastic.
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  • DRAGOMCS
    DRAGOMCS Posts: 25
    edited February 2012
    Journey, in '83 on the 'Frontiers' tour.
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited February 2012
    The Stampeders (Sweet City Woman) with my sister in '74.
    Bachman Turner Overdrive with Heart as opening act in '75 on my own. Heart made BTO sond like a crappy garage band.
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  • read-alot
    read-alot Posts: 812
    edited February 2012
    Marshall Tucker Band in the Woodland Heights Elementary School lunch room Spartanburg, South Carolina ~ 1969.
    At the time they called themselves The Toy Factory.
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  • sandworms
    sandworms Posts: 1,043
    edited February 2012
    first big concert was Heart, 1981
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,716
    edited February 2012
    First concert: BLACK SABBATH , 1972 at the San Diego Convention Center (Coliseum ?); whatever venue was within walking distance of the San Diego Naval Training Center.
    My memory says that ELO opened, but a Polkie Emailed me a while back with the bands scheduled to play that date, and it was supposedly .... hmm.... "New Caledonia Express". Still say it was ELO, though; not a lot of bands had cellos, violins, etc on stage. And ELO didn't suck, but NCE did. Saw them about a year later at Fillmore West/Winterland; they opened for Van Morrison. Concert started a little late, supposedly because somebody in the opening band had gotten sick, and NCE was subbed in. IMO, it started late because NCE had to stop at the Suck Warehouse in their Suckmobile to pick up extra barrels of Suck before they opened. IMO.
    BottomFeeder wrote: »
    Next "real" concert was Black Sabbath in '72. Hated it. Just never connected with them - too heavy
    And that's cool. When it comes to Sabbath, there's really no middle of the road opinions: "Sabbath Rules !" or "Sabbath Sux !". :biggrin:
    BTW they did kind of did suck at California Jam :eek:
    gudnoyez wrote: »
    He still does seen him a couple of years ago, and he did Travelin Shoes my favorite Elvin Bishop song, great show
    Great tune; saw him in about 73 at Fillmore West/Winterland and he killed on the tune, "Too Hot to Handle".
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  • smglbrth
    smglbrth Posts: 1,468
    edited February 2012
    Mid 80's sometime. Krokus on "The Blitz" tour, Dokken opened up for them (Tooth and Nail was their new album then), in Burlington, Iowa. I can still remember the "haze" in the air...
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  • cwsmith68
    cwsmith68 Posts: 434
    edited February 2012
    The Police! Mar 17 1982. Mid-South Coliseum Memphis, TN
    I had turned 14 five days prior
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