The Spectrum - the first show ever

-Buru-

BoltOfLightenin wrote:

My mom's first concert was the Doors at the Spectrum in 1970...she still has the ticket stub! My first event there was likely a Flyers game, but my husband and I attended our first concert together there in 1988 - David Lee Roth. My first concert ever was also in '88 - Pink Floyd at JFK Stadium, and I attended the last concert there (tho I hear there was another event after it) - The Grateful Dead in 1989.

Congrats to your mom for keeping that ticket stub.
I keep mine also, but I am much too disorganized, so I have them in different boxes, and drawers and nooks, so that I don't even know what I have, and what I have lost... :roll:

Would have loved to see Pink Floyd.

Blind3

My first Spectrum show was the 11/25/69 Stones show. I still have the ticket stub, lost as a book mark somewhere, but i believe my ticket cost a whopping , to a 10 year old with a small allowance it was anyway, $5.50 . I inadvertently told a friend it was a Who show. I did see The Who, Pink Floyd , and The Troggs , but that was 07/24/68 at JFK Stadium. I did see The Who in 70, 71, 73, and 75 at The Spectrum. Sad that , of all three stadiums I grew up with , all will be gone once The Spectrum comes down. I guess that is progress ?

spearhead

My friend's husband went to what he says was the first ever rock concert at the Spectrum ... Janis Joplin and Vanilla Fudge were the two groups he mentioned that played that night!

There was a guy who posted here earlier that said he went to one of the Philly shows with his mom who had seen Elvis perform there.

wall05

Here is a list of (almost) every concert ever at the Spectrum.

http://www.rememberthespectrum.com/300/Concerts.asp


That is one hell of a list!!!!

HollisBrown

My first show at the Spectrum was Bob Dylan and The Band, 1974.

jester59388

Looks like they need to update the Pearl Jam entry on that Spectrum list!

-Buru-

HollisBrown wrote:

My first show at the Spectrum was Bob Dylan and The Band, 1974.

Very cool.

lukinforredmosquitos

I'm pretty sure that my 1st concert @ the spectrum was family values tour in 1998. My 1st event was flyers vs st louis blue's. I was so young i don;t know what year it was

eeriepadave

My first time at the Spectrum I'm pretty sure was a WWF (WWE) event in '86 seeing Hulk Hogan against Paul Orndorff in a steel cage Next one was Hogan vs Kamaal and I remember Kamala's entrance music being real loud.

First sporting event was a Sixers game against Indiana. One thing I definately rememebr from that was seeing a rat on the stairs by our seats.

First concert there I think was Korn or STP in the late 90's

-Buru-

eeriepadave wrote:

My first time at the Spectrum I'm pretty sure was a WWF (WWE) event in '86 seeing Hulk Hogan against Paul Orndorff in a steel cage Next one was Hogan vs Kamaal and I remember Kamala's entrance music being real loud.

First sporting event was a Sixers game against Indiana. One thing I definately rememebr from that was seeing a rat on the stairs by our seats.

First concert there I think was Korn or STP in the late 90's

Seriously, the WWF? For some reason this is hilarious to me

Don't hate them rats. They don't compare... :P

hinx

My first ever Spectrum experience was New Kids on the Block in 1990. I have a hilarious picture of my cousin and I in cheesy New Kids t-shirts with those huge pins climbing on the Rocky statue that used to be outside the building.

I was a nine year old girl...don't mock me too hard :oops:

-Buru-

hinx wrote:

My first ever Spectrum experience was New Kids on the Block in 1990. I have a hilarious picture of my cousin and I in cheesy New Kids t-shirts with those huge pins climbing on the Rocky statue that used to be outside the building.

I was a nine year old girl...don't mock me too hard :oops:

That's OK, my first concert experience was also to a crappy band...
And I was 14.