First Ever Concert & Festival You Went To.

FrankieG

First concert: Brooks and Dunn in 2000? when I was 9? or 10? :oops: :fp:

First Festival: Some Bluegrass festival near Albany NY in 2002 when I was 11. :fp:

skeetopunk01

First Concert:

Foo Fighters, Ween, Jawbreaker (San Francisco, 1996)

First Festival:

Lollapalooza 1996 (San Jose, CA)
Metallica, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, Devo, Rancid, The Ramones, The Melvins, Sponge, and more.

red mos

1rst concert- Beach Boys
1rst Festival- Buzzfest 1998 featuring, Foo fighters, Our lady Peace, Creed, Black Lab, Big wreck, space hog, and a few more on a side stage.

withflyingcolors

1st concert- 311 with No Doubt and Shootyz Groove 1996 Providence, the Strand. Was a huge deal to my 16 yr old self to go to Providence w/friends. )

No festivals yet sadly.

No Coder

First concert was Jimmy Barnes ( Australian rock legend),1988 - Barnestorming Tour, which I was taken to by a family member.

First concert by myself was Poison, 1989 - Open up and say Aah tour. Can't stand them now- but in 89 they were a hot ticket.

JK_Livin

Concert, Duran Duran with my older sister

Festival, Live Aid in Philly. Does that count as a festival?

thebrig

First concert I ever attended WAS a festival:
107.7 The End's Endfest 1997
Lineup -
Main Stage: The Offspring, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Candlebox, Super Deluxe, Brad, Matchbox 20, Voodoo Glow Skulls.
Second Stage: Folk Implosion, The Dandy Warhols, Buck-O-Nine, The Cunninghams, Me First and the Gimmee Gimmees.
Electronic Stage: Sky Cries Mary, GusGus, Lamb, Cirrus, The Crystal Method, Lion Rock, BT.

It's amazing to see the collection of artists that played that day for a RADIO STATION festival. Granted, at that time, The End was one of the premier alt stations in the nation. Still it's a crazy lineup.

Interesting note about this show - Radiohead played a 4 song set and swore off performing at ANY radio station festivals afterwards due to the delays caused from the set changes of the bands preceding them.

red mos

thebrig said:

First concert I ever attended WAS a festival:
107.7 The End's Endfest 1997
Lineup -
Main Stage: The Offspring, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Candlebox, Super Deluxe, Brad, Matchbox 20, Voodoo Glow Skulls.
Second Stage: Folk Implosion, The Dandy Warhols, Buck-O-Nine, The Cunninghams, Me First and the Gimmee Gimmees.
Electronic Stage: Sky Cries Mary, GusGus, Lamb, Cirrus, The Crystal Method, Lion Rock, BT.

It's amazing to see the collection of artists that played that day for a RADIO STATION festival. Granted, at that time, The End was one of the premier alt stations in the nation. Still it's a crazy lineup.

Interesting note about this show - Radiohead played a 4 song set and swore off performing at ANY radio station festivals afterwards due to the delays caused from the set changes of the bands preceding them.

that's a pretty cool line up for a festival back then.

PJ_Soul

First Concert: Pink Floyd (Division Bell tour. It was awesome)

First festival: Another Roadside Attraction 1995 (Tragically Hip headlined of course, also featured Ziggy Marley, Spirit of the West, Blues Traveller, Rheostatics, Matthew Sweet, I think some others. It wasn't a stellar line up to say the least, aside from the Trag...and it's hard to remember it all, as it was also the first time I ever did shrooms. I ended up freaking out and hiding in a fucking porta-potty for at least one full set. )

DewieCox

Page & Plant 98

Only thing resembling a festival I've been to is Farmaid in 2001.

Natashapearljamfan

First concert: Warrant...do you remember Cherry Pie? in 1991.

First Festival: Big Day Out Sydney 1997- Sound Garden, Powderfinger, You am I, The Offspring, Spiderbait, Rage Against the Machine, Prodigy, Porno for Pyros.

jervin007

First concert: H.O.R.D.E tour 1995 (Ziggy Marley, Blues Traveler, Black Crowes)
First Festival: H.O.R.D.E was multiple bands, so festival esque. Also hit up Lollapalooza in 2003 (Janes, Audioslave, Incubus, QOTSA, Jurassic 5). However, if we are talking about a major multiple day event it was Bonnaroo 2006.

Treyert14

facepollution said:

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

Good Lord.... =P~

Treyert14

First concert was a Disciple concert in Chi Alpha in Louisiana, Lafayette.

First festival was Voodoo festival last year

63schoefflin

First concert was Incubus with Hoobastank opening at The Spectrum in '02 during their Morning View tour right before I graduated 8th grade. Awesome show and I have seen incubus a few times since... Great live band.

First festival was the Virgin Music Fest at Pimlico In Baltimore in '07. Crazy good lineup with an unknown Matisyahu who blew everyone away early in the day, Modest Mouse, Incubus, 311, Ben Harper, The Fratellis, LCD Soundsystem, TV on the Radio, Spoon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, Velvet Revolver and Wu Tang who all set up for the two nights of headliners. Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, and the mother effing Police.

This festival turned me onto a ton of different bands and material I otherwise would have never gotten into so that's why I love festivals. Good crowd, good weather, and killer performances.

drlovemonkey

Concert - Aerosmith/Ted Nugent 1986
Festival - Radio 104.1 Summer Show (Candlebox, Cake, Stabbing Westward, Local H)

23scidoo

Concert - The Godfathers 1993
Festival - Jammin festival Venice 2010 (P.J.,Ben Harper,Skunk Anansie,Gossip)

bluegrace

First concert was a local band in 1983.

First festival was Milton Keynes Bowl in 1985. U2 and Billy Bragg played. I was at a language course trip with my friends in London and we read about the festival and went there. I thought it was huge, being 15, but we had fun.

EarlWelsh

First concert: Spin Doctors, Gin Blossoms, Cracker

First Festival: Warped Tour '95 (first year)....Sick of it All, CIV, L7, Sublime (booed offstage with fistfuls of mud), Wizo, Seaweed

TA243471

The 1st concert I tell people about was Ozzy at the Seattle Coliseum, soon after Randy Rhoads was killed. My 1st real concert was The Bee Gees, doing all their Saturday Night Fever stuff.

1st Festival type show was Monsters of Rock, in the Kingdome. I missed Metallica because I was still at work. Never had the chance to see them since.

brianlux

My first concert technically was seeing the New Christy Minstrels at the unveiling of United Airlines firs DC-8 in, I believe it was, 1035 BC. I didn't know much about music (I think I was 8 or 9 at the time) but they were excellent. A few years later Barry McGuire left the band and put out that great song, "Eve of Destruction".

The first concert I purposely went to was on Wednesday 29 December 1965, Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, CA: The Beach Boys, Jackie Lee and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. I was a huge Beach Boys fan and very excited about my first concert which turned out very differently from my expectations. The show opened with soul singer Jackie Lee and that was interesting because the audience was made up of more black folks than I'd ever seen in one place. Here we are, my brother and sister and I- three suburban white kids- surrounded by a black audience going wild over a singer we had never heard of. That was kind of cool but a little unnerving at the same time. No surprise that after Jackie Lee left the stage the place cleared out a bit. Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels were a revelation. I'd come to see surf music and here was this gritty band from the Midwest and man, they tore the place up. This really helped get my ears reading for bigger things in my listening future. The Beach Boys performance left a lot to be desired. First of all, this was one of the earlier shows where Brian Wilson was a no show and Bruce Johnston sat in for him. I mean, come on, The Beach Boys without Brian Wilson? I was devastated. My sister kind of saved the evening by showing a lot of enthusiasm and having a more philosophical take- "Well, look, the other four Beach Boys are here at least".

I think the next show after that was either The Who with Blue Cheer opening for them- a bit of a leap from The Beach Boys. ;-)

alf7624

First Concert-

Aerosmith 1993 - Jones Beach, NY. Think in was 9/23/93. 4 Non Blondes were the opener.

First Festival-

Woodstock 94 - Great experience. At the time seeing NIN, Metallica, & Aerosmith play back to back to back was amazing to me. Aerosmith ending the night at 3:30am was a great. But after walking back to my tent in knee high mud, I left the next morning as got to much to handle. It was mayhem for sure. Missed out on the Sunday bands. But got to see all the Friday & Saturday bands

RS151862

First concert - Rusted Root 12/31/94.. 16 years old, New years eve show,.. jesus that was fun

First festival - HORDE 1995 Black Crowes, Ziggy Marley, Blues Traveler

Karojo820673

Iron maiden seventh son. Don't remember what the was called.

myoung321

1st Festival was my first concert officially California Jam 1978 II - March 18, 1978

Lineup:Aerosmith
Foreigner,Heart, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, Dave Mason,Ted Nugent - last concert with original line up of Rob Grange, Derek St. Holmes and Cliff Davies,Rubicon,Santana
Bob Welch, with special guests Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood.

I lived 5 miles from the venue Ontario Motor Speedway. I was forbidden to go by my father, whom I'd just met... haha..anyways, a friend and I walked the 5 miles, snuck in during Frank Marino, stayed for Dave Mason & Ted Nugent..then left and went "home" to get grounded or worse. Now I think..TED NUGENT...argg... haha


1st real Concert - with ticket -- Bad Company - I was 14
Venue- Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Desolation Angels Tour - May 1, 1979

My uncle who was 13 years older than me took me. Bad Co is alright, just never really became a big fan, but you always remember your first

cydonia

First concert - fairport convention octagon theatre, Yeovil UK - 1986/7, not sure.
First festival - cropedy festival- 1985, with my mum and dad. A folk festival headlined by fairport.

wall232

I guess my first concert was also a festival. Monsters of Rock 1988 at Giants stadium; still can't believe that Dokken and the Scorpions came on after Metallica.

Van Halen
Scorpions
Dokken
Metallica
Kingdom Come

63schoefflin

EarlWelsh said:

First concert: Spin Doctors, Gin Blossoms, Cracker

First Festival: Warped Tour '95 (first year)....Sick of it All, CIV, L7, Sublime (booed offstage with fistfuls of mud), Wizo, Seaweed

Dude.... What an awesome first concert!

63schoefflin

First concert was Hoobastank opening for Incubus at the Spectrum in '02.
First festival was Virgin Music Fest in '07 with Black Keys early on, Incubus, Matisyahu right as he started, 311, Wilco, Beasties, and the goddamn Police! Alone with others like Modest Mouse and too many others to remember.