Very First Concert you attended - best me..

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  • tonyp063
    tonyp063 Posts: 1,087
    april 1972
    "Soft White Underbelly" (BOC) & Fleetwood Mac opening for Alice Cooper at the Commack Arena.
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    Yes, August 10th,1977, Springfield Civic Center
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  • JayCee
    JayCee Posts: 1,500
    edited August 2018
    1981, was supposed to be Offenbach, Germany, and Iron Maiden w/the original singer, Paul Di'Anno. He was sick and they cancelled. Ended up seeing Dire Straights, and they debuted Telegraph Road prior to Love Over Gold release, in Wiesbaden. Did see Maiden, Killer tour, at a later date and every tour after that through Power Slave.

    Edit to add...just found a bootleg of the concert...ha, first concert I've heard that I've attended. Early version of Telegraph Road...Way cool!

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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    tonyb wrote: »
    Styx....had front row seats, played my High school before they went big time.

    Nice Tony! Styx early years, before Tommy Shaw, gotta love it!
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,120
    I missed the "best me" part of this poll.
    I'm out.
    I disabled signatures.
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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    I think the Doors and Hendrix win !
    Was sure Rolling Stones would be a best very 1st concert
    Tell them what they win Russ...
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  • Dr_Wu
    Dr_Wu Posts: 338
    I thought for sure there'd be a Monterrey Pop or Woodstock entry. B)
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,773
    edited August 2018
    This thread made me a bit sentimental after my initial my contribution, so I did some Googloogloogling, and found this. Between 1968 and 1970 when it was called Colonel Barefoot's - it burned down in late 1970 in suspicious circumstances. My first visit there was in 1967, when I was 15.

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,895
    I am cautiously optimistic that this audience recognizes the colloquial British term for cigarettes on that poster :|
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,773
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I am cautiously optimistic that this audience recognizes the colloquial British term for cigarettes on that poster :|

    Yes, Doc, very funny, thank you for pointing that out.
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  • Jaybeez
    Jaybeez Posts: 748
    Moody Blues and Shawn Phillips. San Diego Sports Arena. Fall of 1975
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,296
    KISS 77-78 somewhere in there, I was 11-12 yrs old..
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,900
    ^^we have a winner.
    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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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,015
    Yeah, Beatles in concert. That’s something. My cousin saw them in ‘64 but had to lie about where she was going because her father forbid “Beatle music”. He once found a Beatles 45 in her room and took the belt off for it, in my presence no less.
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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    motorhead43026 wrote: »
    ^^we have a winner.
    Agreed!
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  • polrbehr
    polrbehr Posts: 2,834
    Van Halen - Diver Down tour at Nassau Coliseum 1982
    No idea who opened for them, not worth remembering LOL!
    So, are you willing to put forth a little effort or are you happy sitting in your skeptical poo pile?


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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,107
    polrbehr wrote: »
    Van Halen - Diver Down tour at Nassau Coliseum 1982
    No idea who opened for them, not worth remembering LOL!

    The Bandit Band? I think you may be right about that. :p

    http://www.vharchives.com/vhtour19821983
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,107
    edited August 2018
    FTGV wrote: »
    Rush A Farewell to Kings tour early 78. Another Canadian icon Max Webster was the opener.

    Do you remember when all 3 members of Rush recorded the song "Battle Scar" with Max Webster? It totally sounds like a lost Rush song. It wasn't a popular song in America, but CHOM FM in Montreal played it constantly back in 1980-81.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMM6Bhwpy0M
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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    edited August 2018
    Puff Daddy & Family - No way Out 1997. taqbcq1l88l5.jpeg
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited August 2018
    Foreigner, mid 1970's; thanks to my friends Dad who took us. That look on his face when we stepped into the auditorium (heavy reefer in the air) was hilarious. It was a "oh crap I shouldn't have my kid here, but what the hell, we're staying" look. "Nantucket" was the warm up band.
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  • halo
    halo Posts: 5,616
    tonyb wrote: »
    Styx....had front row seats, played my High school before they went big time.

    Did you go to St. Pat’s????
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  • Thorton
    Thorton Posts: 1,324
    Judas Priest. 1986 at Cobo Hall. Great concert.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
    Rush. Signals, I think. Maybe 1983?
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  • skrol
    skrol Posts: 3,387
    Styx "Kilroy Was Here" 1983 at the Capitol Center
    Stan

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  • PSOVLSK
    PSOVLSK Posts: 5,208
    INXS. 1988 Reunion Arena in Dallas. I was 16.
    Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,159

    skrol wrote: »
    Styx "Kilroy Was Here" 1983 at the Capitol Center

    Mr. Roboto... :)
    I used to turn the volume up for that song. I think as soon as I get back to my main CD collection, I'll crank the "The best of Styx" CD on the SRS'2s and Tritons at the same time. Maybe all 4 pr. that are hooked up now will be engaged. B)

    Heck, I have a Styx album or two I can get to now. That will work if it/they are in great condition. B)
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • indyhawg
    indyhawg Posts: 1,642
    Black Sabbath- Mob Rules Tour 1981. Ronnie James Dio killed it on vocals.
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  • Manticore
    Manticore Posts: 408
    I certainly cant beat most of you lucky folks but my first ticketed concert was:
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    from what i remember it was a great show with the revolving stage in the center. I have seen some great free shows at Central Park (NYC) at various years. Simon & Garfunkel was insanely crowded. To name just one.

    Does it count if you didn't make it into the show but, listened from the outside of an open air concert. ELP early 70's Gaelic Park BX NY. They sounded fantastic. I wish i was old enough to get in (or even have money for a ticket) Lol
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