Very First Concert you attended - best me..

joecoulson
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No lying, very first concert attended.
For first concerts, I think mine will take the cake...
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,789
    edited August 2018
    KISS....1977. Old Greensboro Colosseum
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,556
    Rush Signals tour....
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,900
    Joe Cocker, a very long time ago.
    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    It is imperative that we recognize that an opinion is not a fact.
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  • tratliff
    tratliff Posts: 1,702
    ELO - Out of the Blue
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  • mark090852
    mark090852 Posts: 996
    Grand Funk Railroad at Cincinnati Gardens some time back in the 60s.
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,773
    The Crazy World of Arthur Brown at Eel Pie Island, Twickenham sometime in nineteen hundred and frozen to death.
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  • stretchl
    stretchl Posts: 1,334
    Doobie Brothers. 1979. Asheville (nc) Civic Center.
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  • stretchl
    stretchl Posts: 1,334
    lightman1 wrote: »
    KISS....1977. Old Greensboro Colosseum

    That must’ve been intense for a first go. How old were you?
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
    - Isaac Asimov
    Hi-Fi
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  • DaveHo
    DaveHo Posts: 3,534
    The Hooters, sometime in the early 80's at my high school's gym. Back when they were nobodys (maybe they still are?)
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,107
    The Ramones. 1980 or 1981.
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,015
    First “real” concert was Johnny Cash in the Houston Astrodome I think 1972. Snuck up to an area right in the front and nobody made us move. I remember how impressed I was with his charisma. He was a tall fella and exuded charisma!
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,772
    Bad Company 1976, Kansas opened....
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  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,117
    edited August 2018
    Eric Clapton, Knoxville-TN

    BTW, Muddy Waters opened for him.
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  • Derf
    Derf Posts: 229
    Ted Nugent, 1980, old Charlotte Colosseum.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,300
    2nd concert Ozzie with Randy Rhodes Diary of a Madman

    San Antonio
    The year Ozzie took a whiz on the Alamo and landed in jail
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    My first concert Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Spectrum in Philadelphia PA 04/16/76. I also saw their last concert in Greenville SC 10/19/77. Still have the ticket stub :'(
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,895
    The Who, Capital Centre (Largo, MD) 1976 (I think it was 1976).
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  • maxward
    maxward Posts: 1,581
    Rolling Stones, November 15, 1969, in Champaign, Illinois. Tickets were $4.00 IIRC.
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    2nd concert Ozzie with Randy Rhodes Diary of a Madman

    San Antonio
    The year Ozzie took a whiz on the Alamo and landed in jail

    You didn't want to tell us that your FIRST concert was Donnie and Marie?
    My New Year's resolution is 3840 × 2160

    Family Room| Marantz AV7704| Usher Dancer Mini - 2 DMD Mains |Usher Dancer Mini-x DMD's Surrounds | Usher BE-616 DMD Center | SVS Ultra Rear Surrounds | Parasound Halo A21 | Parsound Halo A52+ | MIT Shotgun S3's | Dual SVS SB 4000 Ultras | Oppo UDP 203 | Directv Genie HD DVR | Samsung 75" Q8 QLED | PSAudio Stellar GCD | Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ | Lumin U1 Mini | HP Elite Slice PC | ROON'd for life |

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    Patio | Polk Atrium 8's | Yamaha R-N303BL |

    Office BlueSound Node| KEF LS50 | Peactree Nova 125SE |

    Bedroom | Focal 905's | Chromecast Audio |

    Garage | Polk Monitor 5B's

    Closet Yamaha M80 | 2 Polk MP3K subs| Yaqin MC100B with Shuguang Treasures KT 88's & CV181Z's | Tesla E83CC's | Marantz 2252B | Marantz 2385 |Polk SDA SRS 2.3 | LSiM 705's |
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    Stevie Nicks, "Rock a Little" tour May 7, 1986 at the Baltimore Civic Center. Peter Frampton was the opener on that tour.
    No excuses!
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,300
    Mikey081057 wrote: »
    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    2nd concert Ozzie with Randy Rhodes Diary of a Madman

    San Antonio
    The year Ozzie took a whiz on the Alamo and landed in jail

    You didn't want to tell us that your FIRST concert was Donnie and Marie?

    It was Deep Purple and Def Leppard, but watching Randy from the 4th row was most memorable.

    We lost Randy a month later....yeah I do remember this one more :'(
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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    edited August 2018
    Wow. Pretty darn good. Same as maxward mine was Rolling Stones - but the Steel wheels tour.
    Pretty sure RS and Kiss take the cake.
    Johnny Cash a close 2nd.
    But that’s just my Op
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    Chicago Summer Jam at Comiskey Park, 1979.

    Journey headlined the show as part of their Evolution tour. The opening acts were also incredible:

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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,773
    maxward wrote: »
    Rolling Stones, November 15, 1969, in Champaign, Illinois. Tickets were $4.00 IIRC.

    Thank you, I was feeling like the most senior citizen until I read this. I saw the Stones at the Hyde Park London concert in 1969. Please don't tell me you were 5 at the time. :)
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    The Who, Capital Centre (Largo, MD) 1976 (I think it was 1976).

    My first concert was also at the Cap Centre, may it rest in peace. A double bill with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble and Jeff Beck (replete with Terry Bozio on drums). It was a couple years later, however...
    Wristwatch--->Crisco
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    Strong Bad wrote: »
    Stevie Nicks, "Rock a Little" tour May 7, 1986 at the Baltimore Civic Center. Peter Frampton was the opener on that tour.

    Second show I went to was at the Civic Center, the Clash of the Titans tour. Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, and Alice in Chains. What an experience.
    Wristwatch--->Crisco
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  • maxward
    maxward Posts: 1,581
    @OleBoot, I was in fact 18, a student at the University of Illinois. Time flies!
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  • dr1978
    dr1978 Posts: 424
    Eric Clapton, Cleveland, 1995 (I think)
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  • dr1978
    dr1978 Posts: 424
    edited August 2018
    Since the site double posted me, but I'm still within the edit window, I'll mention my second; Wu-Tang Clan opening up for Rage Against the Machine at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

    Tried sneaking on the floor with my buddy inbetween sets, but we got busted. Security started walking us out of the arena until we talked them into letting us go back to our seats.

    As soon as Rage went on, a group of 20 of us bum rushed the floor. I thought it would be a good idea to leap head first over the rails...somehow I didn't end up with a cracked skull after that, or my time in the pit. Definitely seems like a different lifetime at this point.
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  • Dr_Wu
    Dr_Wu Posts: 338
    Emerson Lake and Palmer, April 9, 1972, Wooster College.
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