What Was Your First Concert?

brianlux

helplessdancer said:

ya'll are young kids...
my first show was in 1979...
where's @brianlux when i need him?

Holy shit dudes, you're makin' me feel old.

My first concert was in 1964, Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California:  Jackie Lee, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and the Beach Boys.  I was a Brian Wilson FANATIC, and when Mike Love stepped up to the mic and greeted the audience with, "We're sorry to say Brian Wilson will not be performing with us tonight but instead we have Bruce Johnston filling in for him" (like we were supposed to think this was an added treat), my heart sank like a stone.  This was one of the earlier shows where Wilson stayed home to write music while the others went out and toured.  It was devastating.  It was a good show but the highlight turned out to be Mitch Ryder and his band.  What a powerful, rocking band!

Actually, I saw live was The New Christie Minstrels in 1959 at an event my Pop took me to for the unveiling this first commercial DC-8 jet airliner, but they were a part of the event we hadn't known about or planned on, so I don't consider it my first regular concert, but Barry McGuire (who later recorded "Eve of Destruction") was awesome .

PJ_Soul

F Me In The Brain said:

Whitesnake and Great White
Made it to the rail and then got smooshed and whisked out.  Was 16, small, it was blistering hot, and I had consumed far too many beers

I took a breather and headed back in.  It was a memorable experience.  

I still love Whitesnake. 

EDIT --- I was 14, it was 1988.  I went with my older brothers and his friends and they fed me beer.  Looked up the date and damn...I was a bad kid!

I saw all of Whitesnake at Granville Island Market one time, probably in the late 90s or early 00s. They were all there with their kids, just strolling around, eating ice cream cones and shit, being tourists (they probably had a show in town, but I wasn't aware of it) ... and what I thought was kind of curious was that they were all in what they pretty much wore on stage, with the spandex pants and everything. It seems that's just how they dress all the time, lol.

Norman

RATT 
Poison (opener)
87?

F Me In The Brain

lolobugg said:

Stone Temple Pilots

Meat Puppets

Jawbox

1994- Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

I was hooked after this. there was even a purple horse wandering around outside the arena.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzFongNGuQM

LukinFan

lolobugg said:

Stone Temple Pilots

Meat Puppets

Jawbox

1994- Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

I was hooked after this. there was even a purple horse wandering around outside the arena.

Holy shit - I was at that show too! Are you from Tallahassee?

lolobugg

LukinFan said:

lolobugg said:

Stone Temple Pilots

Meat Puppets

Jawbox

1994- Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

I was hooked after this. there was even a purple horse wandering around outside the arena.

Holy shit - I was at that show too! Are you from Tallahassee?

From South Alabama.... about an 1 hour from Tallahassee. remember the Cow Haus?  I saw a lot of shows there too over the years. Saw Fugazi at the Moon. we probably were in a lot of the same crowds!!

LukinFan

lolobugg said:

LukinFan said:

lolobugg said:

Stone Temple Pilots

Meat Puppets

Jawbox

1994- Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

I was hooked after this. there was even a purple horse wandering around outside the arena.

Holy shit - I was at that show too! Are you from Tallahassee?

From South Alabama.... about an 1 hour from Tallahassee. remember the Cow Haus?  I saw a lot of shows there too over the years. Saw Fugazi at the Moon. we probably were in a lot of the same crowds!!

Very cool!  Oh yeah, I definitely remember the Cow Haus and the Moon. I saw tons of concerts at both places. I don't think I saw Fugazi though.The Cow Haus actually used to be in a smaller location (about a block or two away from where the building is now) and I saw Jerry Cantrell there. Killer show. I bet we were at some of the same shows.  Crazy.

I moved away from Tallahassee about a year ago but still have friends and family there, so I go back frequently. Whenever there is a good show on the weekend, I try to make it back. Tallahassee doesn't get the quality of shows that it used to though, even though there is now two amphitheaters there.

lolobugg

LukinFan said:

lolobugg said:

LukinFan said:

lolobugg said:

Stone Temple Pilots

Meat Puppets

Jawbox

1994- Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

I was hooked after this. there was even a purple horse wandering around outside the arena.

Holy shit - I was at that show too! Are you from Tallahassee?

From South Alabama.... about an 1 hour from Tallahassee. remember the Cow Haus?  I saw a lot of shows there too over the years. Saw Fugazi at the Moon. we probably were in a lot of the same crowds!!

Very cool!  Oh yeah, I definitely remember the Cow Haus and the Moon. I saw tons of concerts at both places. I don't think I saw Fugazi though.The Cow Haus actually used to be in a smaller location (about a block or two away from where the building is now) and I saw Jerry Cantrell there. Killer show. I bet we were at some of the same shows.  Crazy.

I moved away from Tallahassee about a year ago but still have friends and family there, so I go back frequently. Whenever there is a good show on the weekend, I try to make it back. Tallahassee doesn't get the quality of shows that it used to though, even though there is now two amphitheaters there.

wow. 2 amphitheaters? that's insane. The Cow Haus  I used to go to looked liked an old black Haunted House.  My friends in Verbena used to play there. Saw Pavement, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Queens of the Stone Age and Neutral Milk Hotel there back in the late 90s/early 00s.  My friend went to FSU. I didn't even know it still existed. I moved to NC back in 2001.  

EDIT: I used to go shopping at Vinyl Fever too. they had a great selection for about $12 for a new record.

my, my how times have changed.

Eraserhead

Bon Jovi, 1996 in Manchester.

RS151862

brianlux said:

helplessdancer said:

ya'll are young kids...
my first show was in 1979...
where's @brianlux when i need him?

Holy shit dudes, you're makin' me feel old.

My first concert was in 1964, Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California:  Jackie Lee, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and the Beach Boys.  I was a Brian Wilson FANATIC, and when Mike Love stepped up to the mic and greeted the audience with, "We're sorry to say Brian Wilson will not be performing with us tonight but instead we have Bruce Johnston filling in for him" (like we were supposed to think this was an added treat), my heart sank like a stone.  This was one of the earlier shows where Wilson stayed home to write music while the others went out and toured.  It was devastating.  It was a good show but the highlight turned out to be Mitch Ryder and his band.  What a powerful, rocking band!

Actually, I saw live was The New Christie Minstrels in 1959 at an event my Pop took me to for the unveiling this first commercial DC-8 jet airliner, but they were a part of the event we hadn't known about or planned on, so I don't consider it my first regular concert, but Barry McGuire (who later recorded "Eve of Destruction") was awesome .

Was that in black & white or technicolor?

LukinFan

lolobugg said:

LukinFan said:

lolobugg said:

LukinFan said:

lolobugg said:

Stone Temple Pilots

Meat Puppets

Jawbox

1994- Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

I was hooked after this. there was even a purple horse wandering around outside the arena.

Holy shit - I was at that show too! Are you from Tallahassee?

From South Alabama.... about an 1 hour from Tallahassee. remember the Cow Haus?  I saw a lot of shows there too over the years. Saw Fugazi at the Moon. we probably were in a lot of the same crowds!!

Very cool!  Oh yeah, I definitely remember the Cow Haus and the Moon. I saw tons of concerts at both places. I don't think I saw Fugazi though.The Cow Haus actually used to be in a smaller location (about a block or two away from where the building is now) and I saw Jerry Cantrell there. Killer show. I bet we were at some of the same shows.  Crazy.

I moved away from Tallahassee about a year ago but still have friends and family there, so I go back frequently. Whenever there is a good show on the weekend, I try to make it back. Tallahassee doesn't get the quality of shows that it used to though, even though there is now two amphitheaters there.

wow. 2 amphitheaters? that's insane. The Cow Haus  I used to go to looked liked an old black Haunted House.  My friends in Verbena used to play there. Saw Pavement, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Queens of the Stone Age and Neutral Milk Hotel there back in the late 90s/early 00s.  My friend went to FSU. I didn't even know it still existed. I moved to NC back in 2001.  

EDIT: I used to go shopping at Vinyl Fever too. they had a great selection for about $12 for a new record.

my, my how times have changed.

Yeah,, I think you used to go to the original Cow Haus. They moved a couple of blocks over to a bigger unit, but it didn't have the same feel to it. It changed ownership and switched names a few of times. I think it's a restaurant or something like that now.

Vinyl Fever - how do I miss that place.

mookieblalock

REO Speedwagon and Survivor. Glens Falls Civic Center, 1985. I hadn’t turned 8 years old yet.

tempo_n_groove

pledgeagrievance said:

Butthole Surfers
Stone Temple Pilots
Flaming Lips

yes Butthole Surfers was the headliner.

Roseland Ballroom, NYC 91-92

iwasatpj20 said:

Toadies 1994, Peoria.  One of the openers was CIV, 14 years old at the time

lolobugg said:

Stone Temple Pilots

Meat Puppets

Jawbox

1994- Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

I was hooked after this. there was even a purple horse wandering around outside the arena.

wall232 said:

Iron Maiden - Somewhere On Tour 1987 MSG.

I was 12 years old and went with my best friend and his older sister and her friends. Great night!

I am envious of all these first time shows!!!

iwasatpj20

tempo_n_groove said:

pledgeagrievance said:

Butthole Surfers
Stone Temple Pilots
Flaming Lips

yes Butthole Surfers was the headliner.

Roseland Ballroom, NYC 91-92

iwasatpj20 said:

Toadies 1994, Peoria.  One of the openers was CIV, 14 years old at the time

lolobugg said:

Stone Temple Pilots

Meat Puppets

Jawbox

1994- Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

I was hooked after this. there was even a purple horse wandering around outside the arena.

wall232 said:

Iron Maiden - Somewhere On Tour 1987 MSG.

I was 12 years old and went with my best friend and his older sister and her friends. Great night!

I am envious of all these first time shows!!!

All of us had to start somewhere

dankind

Tiny Tim

tempo_n_groove

First show was AC/DC on their Razors Edge tour with LA Guns opening.

This was my first concert experience so waiting in the lobby of MSG for them to open I got to see the crazy AC/DC fans.  One person in particular was waltzing around with a freshly buzzed AC/DC in his hair just like the album cover.  I thought that was a little extreme but committed none the less.  That very same person would later on start a chant of ANGUS with the crowd preceding YOUNG!!!

My first show with a crazy fan base...

Great show.  Still the loudest show I've been to between the damn bell and the cannon and not to mention I couldn't comprehend the opener, Thunderstruck, because it was so damn loud...

HesCalledDyer

PJ_Soul said:

Pink Floyd, 1994, for the Division Bell tour.
I was old for my first concert - I was in grade 12.

I got ya beat. I (technically) didn’t see my first show until the summer between my sophomore & junior years of college. It was Rush at Starlake Amphitheatre just outside of Pittsburgh in 1997.

I say “technically” because I did see Ricky Skaggs with my parents when I was about 4 years old. And I do remember begging them to take me but I have no recollection of the show at all so I don’t really count it as “my first show.”

I was also conceived after a Paul McCartney & Wings concert. Kinda funny that live music is what brought me into this world, lol.

Poncier

The Cars, 1980 at the old Boston Garden.

deadendp

My aunt took me to see Richard Marx at the old Richfield Coliseum in January 1990.

My husband saw Slayer at the Cleveland Agora in June 1988 for his first show.  Still has the shirt. Still fits. 

My daughter's first show was Chris Cornell at the Murat Theater in Indianapolis July 2016. 

eeriepadave

The Cranberries- '94 (Gettysburg College)

brianlux

RS151862 said:

brianlux said:

helplessdancer said:

ya'll are young kids...
my first show was in 1979...
where's @brianlux when i need him?

Holy shit dudes, you're makin' me feel old.

My first concert was in 1964, Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California:  Jackie Lee, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and the Beach Boys.  I was a Brian Wilson FANATIC, and when Mike Love stepped up to the mic and greeted the audience with, "We're sorry to say Brian Wilson will not be performing with us tonight but instead we have Bruce Johnston filling in for him" (like we were supposed to think this was an added treat), my heart sank like a stone.  This was one of the earlier shows where Wilson stayed home to write music while the others went out and toured.  It was devastating.  It was a good show but the highlight turned out to be Mitch Ryder and his band.  What a powerful, rocking band!

Actually, I saw live was The New Christie Minstrels in 1959 at an event my Pop took me to for the unveiling this first commercial DC-8 jet airliner, but they were a part of the event we hadn't known about or planned on, so I don't consider it my first regular concert, but Barry McGuire (who later recorded "Eve of Destruction") was awesome .

Was that in black & white or technicolor?

Black and white.  The human eye had not yet evolved to see colors. 

PJ_Soul

brianlux said:

RS151862 said:

brianlux said:

helplessdancer said:

ya'll are young kids...
my first show was in 1979...
where's @brianlux when i need him?

Holy shit dudes, you're makin' me feel old.

My first concert was in 1964, Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California:  Jackie Lee, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and the Beach Boys.  I was a Brian Wilson FANATIC, and when Mike Love stepped up to the mic and greeted the audience with, "We're sorry to say Brian Wilson will not be performing with us tonight but instead we have Bruce Johnston filling in for him" (like we were supposed to think this was an added treat), my heart sank like a stone.  This was one of the earlier shows where Wilson stayed home to write music while the others went out and toured.  It was devastating.  It was a good show but the highlight turned out to be Mitch Ryder and his band.  What a powerful, rocking band!

Actually, I saw live was The New Christie Minstrels in 1959 at an event my Pop took me to for the unveiling this first commercial DC-8 jet airliner, but they were a part of the event we hadn't known about or planned on, so I don't consider it my first regular concert, but Barry McGuire (who later recorded "Eve of Destruction") was awesome .

Was that in black & white or technicolor?

Black and white.  The human eye had not yet evolved to see colors. 

Oh, interesting. I thought that the universe had not expanded enough by then to contain colour.

Malroth

Malroth said:

Amy Lee Grant

Do I win for worst first concert?

deadendp

Malroth said:

Malroth said:

Amy Lee Grant

Do I win for worst first concert?

Nope.  Mine isn't all that great either.

PJ_Soul

Malroth said:

Malroth said:

Amy Lee Grant

Do I win for worst first concert?

I don't even know who it is, lol.

brianlux

Malroth said:

Malroth said:

Amy Lee Grant

Do I win for worst first concert?

You win the booby prize for worst first concert:

brianlux

Malroth said:

Malroth said:

Amy Lee Grant

Do I win for worst first concert?

You win the booby prize for worst first concert:

hauntingfamiliar

brianlux said:

Malroth said:

Malroth said:

Amy Lee Grant

Do I win for worst first concert?

You win the booby prize for worst first concert:

I'm pretty sure I do. It was supposed to have been Hall & Oats but the baby sitter cancelled at the last second and my parents made me (the 8 year old) babysit my younger sister. I would have loved that claim to fame!

My first, however, was a few years later when I was 12. 

Milli Vanilli and I loved every second of that show!! It was my first... how was I supposed to know they were lip synching?

dankind

hauntingfamiliar said:

brianlux said:

Malroth said:

Malroth said:

Amy Lee Grant

Do I win for worst first concert?

You win the booby prize for worst first concert:

I'm pretty sure I do. It was supposed to have been Hall & Oats but the baby sitter cancelled at the last second and my parents made me (the 8 year old) babysit my younger sister. I would have loved that claim to fame!

My first, however, was a few years later when I was 12. 

Milli Vanilli and I loved every second of that show!! It was my first... how was I supposed to know they were lip synching?

They were lip syncing to lip syncing. How very Derrida. 

KC138045

The Cranberries - 1996

Should of been Live the year before but my mom wouldn't let me go.  She thought 15 was too young to go to a concert.  Yes, I still hold a grudge lol