Very First Concert you attended - best me..

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  • codycatalist
    codycatalist Posts: 2,662
    Garbage, The Distillers and No Doubt was my first. Pretty good show.
    Just a dude doing dude-ly things

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  • maxward
    maxward Posts: 1,581
    @stretchl, I was at the U of I from ‘68 to ‘73. Majored in geology.

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  • miner
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    1974 James Gang at the Mississippi River Festival. Any of you StL area Midwesterners remember that venue?
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    tonyp063 wrote: »
    april 1972
    "Soft White Underbelly" (BOC) & Fleetwood Mac opening for Alice Cooper at the Commack Arena.

    Ah the Commack Arena "lights on , fights on" at the end of every show that I saw there.
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  • michaeljhsda2
    michaeljhsda2 Posts: 2,185
    miner wrote: »
    1974 James Gang at the Mississippi River Festival. Any of you StL area Midwesterners remember that venue?

    I wanted to go, but at age 14, had no way to get there.

    https://www.stltoday.com/news/archives/looking-back-at-the-glory-days-of-the-mississippi-river/collection_8180e33b-cc6c-5224-98f7-f93aa1505595.html#1

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  • Jimbo18
    Jimbo18 Posts: 2,336
    Country Joe and the Fish, free outdoor concert in Monterey Ca. Summer '72
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  • monepolk
    monepolk Posts: 1,143
    miner wrote: »
    1974 James Gang at the Mississippi River Festival. Any of you StL area Midwesterners remember that venue?
    I definitely remember it, went to many concerts there. I think Richard Pryor was the last performance I saw there. My brother and his friends worked at Kiel Auditorium, so I saw quite a few concerts in the early 70's.
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  • Mr_Hz
    Mr_Hz Posts: 176
    '76 I was in 6th grade but went with an older brother and his hoodlum friends. The old 'Seattle Coliseum' aka Key Area (about to be torn down). Double bill - ZZTop & Foghat - can't remember who opened first!
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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    I bet that was a loud concert
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  • reverb
    reverb Posts: 67
    Chicago 1971 at the Greenville Memorial auditorium in SC. My folks bought me tickets for my 9th birthday. Dropped my and a friend from up the street off to see the show. It was awesome.
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  • joecoulson
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    Needless to say, I believe I have been bested many a time here. I will fade into the woods and remain JoeCoulson
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    joecoulson wrote: »
    Needless to say, I believe I have been bested many a time here. I will fade into the woods and remain JoeCoulson

    Who? :smile:
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,015
    Who Live is awesome
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,107
    Glenn Miller in 1938 at some hotel in the Catskills.
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  • joecoulson
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  • WLDock
    WLDock Posts: 3,073
    edited January 2019
    Well in the 70's we had several concerts at my elementary school in Detroit. The highlights were the Grammy Award winning gospel group The Clark Sisters as well as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Also, I'd gone to see Ella Fitzgerald who's piano player at the time the late great Tommy Flanagan (also has played with John Coletrain, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, and everyone else; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flanagan_discography ) is actually my wife's uncle.

    However, the first largest arena concert I attended in '77 was the Parliament Funkadelic at the Olympia Stadium in Detroit (Where the Detroit Red Wings used to play).

    What a spectacle! The mothership landed, the Bop Gun flew over the crowd, the drum solo with fire on his sticks, the smell of cannabis from the beginning to the end, etc, etc. I was only 10-11 years old and what a musical P-Funk wake up that was.

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  • imsjry
    imsjry Posts: 120
    Kiss/Judas Priest 1977, Chicago. I was 8 years old.
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,601
    REO Speedwagon and Head East 1977. Small venue in Davenport Iowa. Puff Puff Pass...

    https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/head-east-reo-speedwagon--2
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  • RobbyKY
    RobbyKY Posts: 117
    REO Speedwagon and Head East 1977. Small venue in Davenport Iowa. Puff Puff Pass...

    Ha! Mine was REO Speedwagon as well just a few years later.

    New Year's Day 1979, Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY along with Molly Hatchet & Ambrosia.

    I was still in high school back then. Went to UK in 1981 and landed a job at the local AOR station, WKQQ. Went to every single concern at Rupp for free ending with Springsteen on my birthday in 1988. Man I miss those days!!!!
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,591
    Pantera opening for the real Black Sabbath (except for the original drummer, RIP) 1999 Key Arena Seattle. Still the loudest I think.
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  • dr1978
    dr1978 Posts: 424
    CH46E wrote: »
    Pantera opening for the real Black Sabbath (except for the original drummer, RIP) 1999 Key Arena Seattle. Still the loudest I think.

    Nice! I was at the first stop of that tour in Phoenix on new years eve. Those two plus slayer, megadeth, and soulfly. Same here, loudest concert I've ever attended. Ears rang for a couple days..
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,556
    CH46E wrote: »
    Pantera opening for the real Black Sabbath (except for the original drummer, RIP) 1999 Key Arena Seattle. Still the loudest I think.

    I'm confused.. who are you referring RIP to? Bill Ward is still alive, so was Vinnie Paul not drummin in 1999's Pantera?
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,591
    Oh wow, when we were at the concert someone mention Ward was dead and that why it was someone else playing drums for that concert. Now I wonder who was playing drums for them that night?
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    CH46E wrote: »
    Pantera opening for the real Black Sabbath (except for the original drummer, RIP) 1999 Key Arena Seattle. Still the loudest I think.

    I'm confused.. who are you referring RIP to? Bill Ward is still alive, so was Vinnie Paul not drummin in 1999's Pantera?

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  • pelhamplace
    pelhamplace Posts: 111
    The Beatles in 1964 at Atlantic City Convention Hall. They sounded great in concert to an 11 year old.
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