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  • stargirl69
    stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    Iron Maiden,Edinburgh Playhouse ... 1984's Powerslave Tour ... drank to much home made wine before gig,I was hanging from the balcony lighting rig ... fantastic night was had ... paraded my new first gig t-shirt at school the next day :D
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  • Gibson
    Gibson Chicago Posts: 2,671
    Jagged Little Pill Tour: Alanis Morrisette in '96. Our Lady Peace Supported.
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  • titchinello
    titchinello Posts: 3,139
    Mine was
    Bryan Adams with T'PAU supporting.
    glasgow secc 1987. Into the fire tour.

    Forget what mr Adams has turned into these days... He used to be really rockin' once. I think his biggest hit, everything i do, sealed his fate. don't get me wrong good song. and i still like him, just that he's changed for the worse in my opinion.
    Glasgow cathouse-1992-2-23, San diego sports arena-1995-11-06 & 07, Glasgow secc-2000-06-03, Tampa st petes times forum-2003-04-13, London O2 arena-2009-08-18, Belfast odyssey arena-2010-06-23.Leeds 2014 - 07-08
  • youngster wrote:
    youngster wrote:
    2001, saw Lynyrd Skynyrd in Jacksonville when I lived down there. Great show.
    youngster, ever come back to visit?

    Yeah, last time I was there was 2006. I love Jacksonville with a passion. I lived down there for 4 years from 2000-2004 and had a hard time leaving.
    born and raised down here. give me a shout next time you come down
    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • JL19851 wrote:
    Kind of surprised I am the first to post this band as my first show:

    PEARL JAM/Ben Harper/The Fastbacks - Randall's Island, NY 9/28/96
    my first show was about a month later...same show in ft. lauderdale.
    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • titchinello
    titchinello Posts: 3,139
    stargirl69 wrote:
    Iron Maiden,Edinburgh Playhouse ... 1984's Powerslave Tour ... drank to much home made wine before gig,I was hanging from the balcony lighting rig ... fantastic night was had ... paraded my new first gig t-shirt at school the next day :D

    would have loved to have seen maiden back then. my first maiden experience was also at the playhouse on the seventh son tour, 1998, about 3-4 rows from the front. amazing experience.
    Glasgow cathouse-1992-2-23, San diego sports arena-1995-11-06 & 07, Glasgow secc-2000-06-03, Tampa st petes times forum-2003-04-13, London O2 arena-2009-08-18, Belfast odyssey arena-2010-06-23.Leeds 2014 - 07-08
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    Mine was
    Bryan Adams with T'PAU supporting.
    glasgow secc 1987. Into the fire tour.

    Forget what mr Adams has turned into these days... He used to be really rockin' once. I think his biggest hit, everything i do, sealed his fate. don't get me wrong good song. and i still like him, just that he's changed for the worse in my opinion.

    My first gig was also SECC.

    Think my 2nd was at Edinburgh Playhouse
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • jamminpearls
    jamminpearls Posts: 7,078
    Steve Miller Band in Camden im thinking 1997.
    Go Birds!!!!
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,802
    Neil Young with Booker T & The MGs at Finsbury Park in 1993

    The support band was a bunch of noisy upstarts from Seattle that used to be named after a basketball player...
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

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    (Tim Rogers)
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    It would have been Sly and the Family Stones/James Brown but a riot cancelled the show. :cry: Then in 1978 I did see my first concert The Isley Brothers with Teddy Pendergrass great great show. Two weeks later I saw Kiss and I have NOT been able to hear well ever since.

    Odd thing a year earlier at the same Capital Centre, MD I had a choice of seeing a concert there or see the opening of Star Wars I choose Star Wars. Oh the band that same Friday night....Led Zeppelin! 8-) I wish I could have that choice back.

    Peace
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  • swany24
    swany24 Posts: 52
    Whitesnake with Great White opening.
    November 14, 1987
    Dane County Coliseum
    Madison, WI

    My parents rule was that I could not go to a concert until I was 16. This show was exactly one week before my 16th birthday and I begged them to let me go and they caved. I was a big metal head at the time and thought it was a great show.
  • myra
    myra Posts: 1,257
    goldrush wrote:
    Neil Young with Booker T & The MGs at Finsbury Park in 1993

    The support band was a bunch of noisy upstarts from Seattle that used to be named after a basketball player...

    Awesome !!!
    Now I wish THAT would be my first concert too ! :)
  • StevieG
    StevieG Ontario Posts: 850
    My first big name show was David Bowie with Nine Inch Nails opening in September of 95. By the way Bowie came on as NIN was finishing their set and they did a few songs together. Scary Monsters sounded incredible!!!
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  • gearboy
    gearboy Posts: 349
    the doobie brothers 1990
    went with my best friend and his mom
    IT'S NO CRIME TO ESCAPE!!!!!!!!!
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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    goldrush wrote:
    Neil Young with Booker T & The MGs at Finsbury Park in 1993

    The support band was a bunch of noisy upstarts from Seattle that used to be named after a basketball player...


    :mrgreen:
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  • Jerome230
    Jerome230 Posts: 903
    Nirvana, May of 1990, Boise. Chad Channing's final show...

    I was TWELVE. :o
    Ed...buddy...pal...stay true to your word and play Boise again.

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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    TrAvELAr wrote:
    Van Hagar. 1990/91ish during the FUCK tour.
    I saw them on that tour as well. Totally forgot that I did.
    NERDS!
  • MaxGoldenrod
    MaxGoldenrod Posts: 1,341
    here's one to be ashamed of...but i'm not -

    boyz II men w/ montell jordan allentown fair 1995. got dragged there with my sister who was a huge boyz II men fan at the time. i actually enjoyed myself, although the music was kind of lame.

    first actual rock concert was todd rundgren in 1996 i think. don't even remember where it was, i saw two of his shows on that tour.

    Could've been worse...it could have been New Kids on the Block! :shock:
    "Then the Spirit of God hovered over the water, and God said, Let there be music, and there was Pearl Jam."

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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    Jackson 5 Victory Tour. Dodger stadium, 1984
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • RYEzupSF
    RYEzupSF Posts: 6,003
    Diana Ross- 1983 Concert in Central Park (one of my first memories) :lol:
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