First Ever Concert & Festival You Went To.

fruupp

My 1st concert was

YES - Wembley Arena,London,Enland 27,10,77.

Festival.

Genesis - Knebworth ,England 24,6,78.

Tickets were £4.25 & £5.50.

bakervision

Guns n roses/faith no more/Metallica giants stadium maybe 1990/91

Festival was summerfest 7/8/95 Milwaukee also my first pj show

Good thread, nice way to kick off the morning

3manstack

First Concert - Anthrax Wolverhampton Civic Hall - 1993

First Festival - Donnington Monsters Of Rock - 1995 (Metallica Headlining)

Final Bow

First concert - Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub 1988
Youtube Clip is from Roskilde Festival
http://youtu.be/mxQHqzejlOM

First Festival - Rock am Ring 1992 with Pearl Jam
http://youtu.be/GmTJifYc8f0

green mountain man

First concert Emerson, Lake & Palmer New Haven CT 1972
Hundreds of concerts
Zero fests

F Me In The Brain

First Concert -- Whitesnake / Great White, Manchester, NH 7.27.88

First Festival - Lollapalooza #I - Mountain View, CA 7.27.91
Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Living Colour, Ice-T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, Fishbone and probably others I cannot recall

Wow, never realized those would be the same day 3 years apart. LOL.

Spoony C

First concert - The Monkees featuring "Weird Al" Yankovic, 1987, Louisville Gardens--I was eleven, and it was awesome.

First full-blown festival (had been to a few single-stage all-day radio fest concerts prior, but this was the first multi-stage, multi-day show) - Best Buy Riverstages, Nashville, TN Riverfront Park 2002. Friday headliner: Counting Crows. Saturday headliner: No Doubt. (Sunday headliner: Incubus, but we didn't go that day.) Biggest miss of the show--not getting to see B.B. King on the State Capitol stage. Biggest surprise of the show--seeing My Morning Jacket playing to about 15 people on the smallest side stage in the early afternoon.

Johnny Aggro

Should have it been Nirvana 08.04.94. But as Kurt was otherwise engaged that exact day it turned out to be Sunstroke 94 with Soundgarden (of which I have no memory due to alcohol consumption on the day)

SVRDhand13

Concert- Aerosmith Jones Beach 1998
Festival- Dysfunctional Family Picnic 1999

Indifference71

First concert- No Doubt in 1995

First festival- Lollapalooza 2007

foodboy

frank zappa 1973 maple leaf gardens. first large outdoor show crosby stills nash and young, the band , jesse colin young varsity stadium sept 2 1974. first festival police picnic(featuring the police) with the specials(last appearance of the original band with jerry dammers) the go go's , iggy pop , oingo boingo, nash the slash, the payolas, killing joke. was back stage for that one. sat right in front of the barricade in front of 50,000 people. my friend was on stage and came hope wit stewart copelands drum sticks. also lollapoluza 91' janes addiction, nine inch nails , jesus and the mary chain, alice in chains. grandstand c.n.e stadium

EdsonNascimento

First concert - Billy Joel 1986 Nassau Coliseum
First Festival - Saratoga Jazz Fest (I think it was actually called Newport Jazz Fest at the time, but eventually changed to Freihofer's Jazz Fest ) - 1991. Neville Brothers closed Saturday night, Ray Charles closed Sunday night that year. Went like 15 straight years, then off and on since. Awesome experience. Have seen many of the greats here (though missed Miles Davis' and Stevie Ray Vaughn's appearances by a few years). They let you bring coolers in with drinks (no glass!) and food. Totally chill atmosphere. Arturo Sandoval and David Sanborn w/ Bob James Saturday and Buddy Guy Sunday this year, so think it's time for a return trip.

AndySlash

concert: pink floyd, metrodome, minneapolis 1994

festival: edgefest v, somerset, wi 1998

curly

Kiss 2-9-1984
Ozzy w/ Motley Crue opener....3-10-1984

Fest....Probably Lollapalooza 94' I think was the year.... Smashing Pumpkins/ Beastie Boys...

I listed the Ozzy / Crue show as well as it was just a month later and one of my still favs to this day!!!

One more lil' addition....Seen Metallica here in Omaha 6-1-86 (before the Midwest new of them,..LOL...)
my ticket was less than $10 bucks and there was bout 300 people there.....And have only seen them one more time since then,...exactly 20 years later in our Sold out Arena w/ 15,000+ people and it was $100 bucks... :fp:

cool thread to start...

rangers72

big country-Glasgow barrowlands

curly

very cool....I was born in 72'

green mountain man wrote:

First concert Emerson, Lake & Palmer New Haven CT 1972
Hundreds of concerts
Zero fests

facepollution

First concert was Blur at the Mile End Stadium in '95, first festival was Reading the same year, this was the lineup:

F Me In The Brain

Holy shit, that sunday lineup would have made my head explode.
Imagine watching Bjork on the main stage Saturday while Foo Fighters destroyed the side stage, lol.
Interesting to see old lineups like this!

facepollution wrote:

First concert was Blur at the Mile End Stadium in '95, first festival was Reading the same year, this was the lineup:

facepollution

F Me In The Brain wrote:

Holy shit, that sunday lineup would have made my head explode.
Imagine watching Bjork on the main stage Saturday while Foo Fighters destroyed the side stage, lol.
Interesting to see old lineups like this!

Yep it was pretty incredible, they don't make lineups like that these days!

mfc2006

Lollapalooza 1992 in Houston, TX. It was also my first PJ show. I was 14.

PennyB

First concert: Queen - September 1984 in Birmingham, UK (The Works Tour)

Never been to a festival. :(

jasonbouchard88

First concert I went to was probably Elton John while I was still living in Montreal. I was too young to remember and I don't think I was actually that interested in music at the time.

First festival I went to was the 2nd night of the Virgin Festival at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto on August 30, 2009. It was supposed to be at a Burl's Creek Park in Orillia, but it got moved to Toronto due to slow ticket sales and complaints from fans. I didn't buy a ticket back then because it was too far but when they moved to Toronto, I was able to go. I only really cared about Nine Inch Nails that day (their last Toronto show until their Tension Tour this Fall), though I did enjoy Our Lady Peace, Pet Shop Boys and N.E.R.D (only band there that I saw once before as they opened for Kanye West in 2008, which I did attend). I did reserved seats as the 100L (GA Floor) was already filled-up. It was actually quite cold that day and I was wearing a hoodie because of it. It was also only the 2nd show I attended at Molson Canadian Amphitheatre where it ended at 11:30 PM. The other one was Kanye West in 2008. There is a 11:00 PM curfew so bands had to finish early as a result. Most recently, this July, Bruno Mars had to finish his 2nd Toronto show after 11:30 PM because he was supposed to take the stage at 9:15 PM, but took the stage over an hour later due to the pit (100L) being flooded. While waiting, Bruno Mars actually apologized on Twitter about this. I wasn't at the show, but I heard about it.

Back to the main topic: the first real open field festival I attended was the Orion Music and More at Belle Isle in Detroit this Summer, where Metallica (creators) and Red Hot Chili Peppers co-headlined the festival.

thefunkygibbon

First concert Marillion - 1982
First festival - Blues/Folk Festival Tel Aviv ( Bob Dylan, Buddy Guy and Nick Cave and the bad Seeds) -- 1993

iammine16

1st Concert: Ozzy Osbourne Vancouver '96

1st Festival: Ozzfest '99 (Black Sabbath, Rob Zombie, Slayer, Deftones, Godsmack, System Of a Down, Fear Factory, Slipknot...) :twisted:

kwdaley

First Concert : David Bowie / Duran Duran / Eight Seconds (Ottawa Lansdowne Park 1987 "Glass Spider Tour")

First Festival : Ottawa's Bluesfest 2010 (Went to see Iron Maiden / Dream Theater)

hinsey21

First Concert (with my parents) Paul McCartney-Skydome 1989
First Concert (without my parents) Oasis-Maple Leaf Gardens 2000
First Festival-Stones/AC/DC/Rush/Guess Who-Sars Benefit Concert Downsview Park 2002

fruupp

thefunkygibbon wrote:

First concert Marillion - 1982
First festival - Blues/Folk Festival Tel Aviv ( Bob Dylan, Buddy Guy and Nick Cave and the bad Seeds) -- 1993

Marillion,nice.

green mountain man

iammine16 wrote:

1st Concert: Ozzy Osbourne Vancouver '96

1st Festival: Ozzfest '99 (Black Sabbath, Rob Zombie, Slayer, Deftones, Godsmack, System Of a Down, Fear Factory, Slipknot...) :twisted:

Great fest

eeriepadave

concert- Cranberries in '94 at my sister's collge (gettysburg)

festival- Ozzfest '98 in Camden, NJ w/Ozzy, Tool, Megadeth, Soulfly, System Of a Down and others

AndySlash

kwdaley wrote:

First Festival : Ottawa's Bluesfest 2010 (Went to see Iron Maiden / Dream Theater)

nothin' says blues like iron maiden and dream theater!

rmartin70

UTFO, The Real Roxanne, Too Short-1985 Henry J.Kaiser Center, Oakland

Fresh Festival- Run DMC, LL Cool J, Whodini, Timex Social Club, and the Beastie Boys - 1986 Oakland Arena