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Gigs You've Taken Your Kid(s) To

HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Posts: 36,954
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Now that many/most of us are at this age, we've started showing our kids our passions. Even though this is in Other Music, feel free to post about taking them to PJ. My list with my youngest:

Weezer
The Watchmen x 2
Arctic Monkeys
The Beaches

Coming up:
Cage The Elephant
Headstones/I Mother Earth/Sloan
new album "Cigarettes" out Spring 2025!

www.headstonesband.com




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  • dogmattdogmatt Posts: 114
    I took my 15yo daughter with me to a PJ show in 2022.  She loved it.  We were a couple people back from the rail on Mike's side and got a few picks.

    I've also gone with her to a Coldplay show and a Taylor Swift show.  Those are more her jams. 
  • GlowGirlGlowGirl Posts: 10,904
    I don’t have kids but I am taking my 14 year old nephew to see Green Day in August. He really likes them. It will be his first real rock concert. I am excited to share that with him. 
  • Muffin The MuleMuffin The Mule Posts: 496
    I took my daughter to see PJ at Hyde Park when she was 12 and then to Arras when she was 14.

    I took my son to the O2 to see PJ when he was 10 but his first gig was The Killers at Wembley Arena when he was 7. We had GA and security asked me to sit down but he refused so I had to hold him all night!
    Brixton Academy 14/7/93, Wembley Arena 29/5/00, Wembley Arena 18/6/07, London O2 18/8/09, Hyde Park 25/6/10, Manchester 20/6/12, Arras 30/6/12, Werchter 5/7/14, Leeds 8/7/14, Milton Keynes 11/7/14, Mexico City 28/11/15, Toronto 10/5/16, Toronto 12/5/16,  Amsterdam 12/6/18, Amsterdam 13/6/18, London O2 18/6/18, Werchter 7/7/18, London O2 17/7/18, Werchter 30/6/22, Hyde Park 8/7/22, Hyde Park 9/7/22, Budapest 12/7/22, Prague 22/7/22, Amsterdam 24/7/22, Amsterdam 25/7/22, Dublin 22/6/24, Manchester 25/6/24, London 29/6/2024, Berlin 2/7/24, Berlin 3/7/24 
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,501
    Took my then 14 years old son to PJ in 08 MSG, went with my daughter to a Dead show a couple of years ago and she’s my ticket buddy for PJ at MSG Sept show…
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • JeBurkhardtJeBurkhardt Posts: 4,853
    We took our 2 daughters to the Fare Thee Well Grateful Dead 50th anniversary show at Soldier Field in 2015. One of them was still in high school and the other one had just graduated.   
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,350
    Can I rent one of your kids for the rail at a PJ show so I can get a tambo?
  • EL91640EL91640 Posts: 124
    Haven't taken my kids to any just yet but taking my son to Black Keys this September. 
    "For when the music hits, I feel no pain at all"
  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,512
    Took my niece/nephews to the Wiggles many years ago!
  • EL91640EL91640 Posts: 124
    JOEJOEJOE said:
    Took my niece/nephews to the Wiggles many years ago!
    Ha ha, now that you mention it, I guess I have been to a show with my kids - Yo Gabba Gabba Live!
    "For when the music hits, I feel no pain at all"
  • Kearn5yKearn5y Posts: 2,874
    Will be taking my eldest girl at 14 years to pearl jam, arcade fire and AcDc in Dublin.
    Kearnsy
  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,909
    Took my son to his first show at age 11...Van Halen
    Followed that up with Guns N Roses when he was 12.
    Have since taken him to:
    Green Day
    U2 (twice, JT30 tour and E/I tour)
    Rob Zombie/Marilyn Manson
    Smashing Pumpkins
    B52s
    Alice Cooper
    Deep Purple
    Mammoth WVH
    Inhaler (twice)
    +Live+ 

    He's in college now.
    Would like to take him to see the Stones at end of this month, but tickets too damn expensive, there's a whole bunch of side stage seats in Foxborough at $450 that I'm hoping maybe get cut in price (like in half would be nice) as they aren't selling, will wait and see.
    He'll be back in school when PJ hits Fenway in September, so he won't go to either of those shows with me.



    This weekend we rock Portland
  • mckaymckay Posts: 162
    QOTSA x 3
    Wu Tang Clan
  • HawkshoreHawkshore Posts: 2,155
    First concert for both our boys 15 & 12 this Monday night to See PJ night two in Vancouver. I will be with the 15 year old on the floor and my wife with our 12 year old in the lower bowl. They are both pretty jacked up about it and we are really looking forward to sharing this experience with them!  
    Van 92.07.21 / Van 98.07.19 / Sea 98.07.22 / Tor 98.08.22 / Sea 00.11.06 / Van 03.05.30/ Van 05.09.02/ Gorge 06.07.22 & 23 / EV Van 08.04.02 / Tor 09.08.21 / Sea 09.09.21 & 22 / Van 09.09.25 / Van 11.09.25 / Van 13.12.04 / Pem 16.07.17 / Sea 18.08.10
  • sdclarkysdclarky Posts: 25
    edited May 2
    Love bringing my kids out to see live music!
    My son is 18 and daughter 15 now. We’ve seen:
    Green Day
    Weezer
    Foo Fighters
    Black Keys
    Smashing Pumpkins
    Stone Temple Pilots
    Jack Johnson
    Ben Harper
    Dead & Company
    Blink 182
    RHCP x 2
    Pearl Jam (second time coming this month!)
    Post edited by sdclarky on
  • dudemandudeman Posts: 3,060
    We took our daughter to see Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova last summer.  She was 8 and she loved it!
    If hope can grow from dirt like me, it can be done. - EV
  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,069
    edited May 2
    I've taken my daughter to Pitchfork fest twice. Will take 2 to it this summer. Too them both with me to see Carly Rae Jepsen and Taylor Swift too. 

    took the whole family to see the National a few summers back. We all saw Isbell years ago when they were smaller too.

  • Fallen AngelFallen Angel Posts: 24
    edited May 2
    Neil Young x 3
    Big Head Todd & The Monsters
    Iron Maiden
    Tom Cochrane
    Chris Stapleton
    Colin James
    Matthew Good
    54-40
    Big Sugar
    Headpins
    Leeroy Stagger
    Adele
    Bryan Adams
    Matt Mays

    Pearl Jam (this Monday)
    Post edited by Fallen Angel on
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    Let's see I've taken my daughter to these bands starting with her first....

    Michael Franti & SPEARHEAD....8xs
    Ziggy  Marley
    Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
    RUSH....Time Machine Tour
    ACDC....Black Ice World Tour
    Pearl Jam....opening dates of the Backspacer Tour
    U2....360 World Tour
    Train, I'm missing a few I'm sure
    ✌️



    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,350
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Can I rent one of your kids for the rail at a PJ show so I can get a tambo?
    Is this a emphatic "no"?!?
  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,440
    edited May 3
    My daughter is now 16.  Over the years:

    Eddie Vedder solo 
    Lisa Loeb
    Taylor Swift - 1989 tour
    Imagine Dragons
    Twenty One Pilots
    Pearl Jam
    Candlebox (she was not a big fan of this show)
    Grandson

    This year:
    Pearl Jam - her 7th & 8th shows
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - 1st time
    Cage the Elephant - 1st time
    Twenty One Pilots - 3rd or 4th time?
    Post edited by cincybearcat on
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  • CarryTheZeroCarryTheZero Posts: 2,892
    Pearl Jam
    Jack White
    The Raconteurs 
    Tool
    Drive By Truckers
    Drivin’ N Cryin’
    Jason Isbell
    Marcus King Band
    Sleater-Kinney
    Em Beihold 
    Explosions in the Sky
    Twenty-One Pilots
    Beck/Cage the Elephant/Spoon

  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 13,840
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Can I rent one of your kids for the rail at a PJ show so I can get a tambo?
    Rosie is ready to collect 
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    astoria 06
    albany 06
    hartford 06
    reading 06
    barcelona 06
    paris 06
    wembley 07
    dusseldorf 07
    nijmegen 07

    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Posts: 36,954
    tempo_n_groove said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Can I rent one of your kids for the rail at a PJ show so I can get a tambo?
    Is this a emphatic "no"?!?
    it's funny, this isn't just a PJ phenomenon. at the Watchmen shows over the past 5 years, people my age bring their kids and the same people every time are trying to get the lead singer's attention. I hang back with my daughter to just enjoy the show. one kid has been on the stage more than once and gotten to meet the band. they claim this 7 year old boy is a "massive fan". sure, dad, sure he is. lol
    new album "Cigarettes" out Spring 2025!

    www.headstonesband.com




  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,350
    lastexitlondon said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Can I rent one of your kids for the rail at a PJ show so I can get a tambo?
    Rosie is ready to collect 
    Awww. My buddy!  Tell her hello for me!
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