What was the music genre of the first-ever gig you attended?

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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,493
    Rock
    GlowGirl said:
    My first concert was Rush. 
    Same. Mine was a little bit later though - Pittsburgh/Star Lake ‘97.
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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,284
    The Cars
  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,492
    Rock
    Depeche Mode
  • hairgrowth2001
    hairgrowth2001 Posts: 456
    Rock
    Soft Rock, 1985,  5 yo me with my family at six flags over Georgia seeing Air Supply. I remember the lights and being far away sitting on my Dad’s shoulders.
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,912
    Rock
    cutz said:
    The Cars
    Same
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,947
    Metal
    Thrash metal . 


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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    Other
    Pap said:
    brianlux said:
    The first live music I saw was a fairly short performance by a group of folk singers called The New Christie Minstrels, but that was incidental to going to see the christening of the first commercial jet airplane, a DC-8, purchased by United Airlines.  But I marked "other" for the first actual concert I went to which was in 1965, the Beach Boys/ Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels/ Jackie Lee, so pop/rock/surf, pop-rock, and R&B.
    Nice story, Brian! :clap:

    Thanks, Pap.  Lucky to be at the right place, right time.  Great music was everywhere.  Good times!
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    Other
    Kearn5y said:
    Neil Young supported by little band called Pearl Jam 

    What an amazing start to seeing live music!  That's great! 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
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    josevolution said:
    I do consider my 1st real true rock show to be Led Zeppelin 75 Nassau Coliseum 15 years old attended it with 3 friends from my neighborhood I remember getting my dad to drive us to get tickets back then I think we paid $15 for the top row of the arena! 

    Wow!  Sounds like an awesome first show!  Great!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,809
    Rock
    Kearn5y said:
    Neil Young supported by little band called Pearl Jam 
    Same here! Finsbury Park, London, in 1993  B)
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,826
    Metal
    hairgrowth2001 said:
    Soft Rock, 1985,  5 yo me with my family at six flags over Georgia seeing Air Supply. I remember the lights and being far away sitting on my Dad’s shoulders.
    Nice memory
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,284
    Poncier said:
    cutz said:
    The Cars
    Same
    What Decade?
  • TJJLFN2917
    TJJLFN2917 Maine Posts: 11
    Rock
    Not counting my parents taking me to classical music concerts, my first real concert was Van Halen 5150 tour at the Meadowlands in NJ
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,003
    Metal
    josevolution said:
    I do consider my 1st real true rock show to be Led Zeppelin 75 Nassau Coliseum 15 years old attended it with 3 friends from my neighborhood I remember getting my dad to drive us to get tickets back then I think we paid $15 for the top row of the arena! 
    I was exactly the same age as you when I attended my first gig. One of my older brothers had to accompany me and a classmate to the venue. I wanted to be front row, but my brother insisted to stay at the back near the bar. That was definitely the right choice considering all the fighting and moshing that took place right in front of the stage :tongue:
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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,159
    Rock
    Pap said:
    josevolution said:
    I do consider my 1st real true rock show to be Led Zeppelin 75 Nassau Coliseum 15 years old attended it with 3 friends from my neighborhood I remember getting my dad to drive us to get tickets back then I think we paid $15 for the top row of the arena! 
    I was exactly the same age as you when I attended my first gig. One of my older brothers had to accompany me and a classmate to the venue. I wanted to be front row, but my brother insisted to stay at the back near the bar. That was definitely the right choice considering all the fighting and moshing that took place right in front of the stage :tongue:
    I took my younger sister to her first concert when she was 14 - an all ages show for the Circle Jerks at the old 9:30 Club in DC. It didn’t take her long to figure out why I had us standing near the back. 
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,826
    Metal
    ❤️ ^^
  • TJJLFN2917
    TJJLFN2917 Maine Posts: 11
    Rock
    josevolution said:
    I do consider my 1st real true rock show to be Led Zeppelin 75 Nassau Coliseum 15 years old attended it with 3 friends from my neighborhood I remember getting my dad to drive us to get tickets back then I think we paid $15 for the top row of the arena! 
    Wow. Must have been such a great show! My best friend and I paid my brother to drive us to Nassau Coliseum to see Pink Floyd. Must have been around 1987-88.
  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,159
    Rock
    TJJLFN2917 said:
    josevolution said:
    I do consider my 1st real true rock show to be Led Zeppelin 75 Nassau Coliseum 15 years old attended it with 3 friends from my neighborhood I remember getting my dad to drive us to get tickets back then I think we paid $15 for the top row of the arena! 
    Wow. Must have been such a great show! My best friend and I paid my brother to drive us to Nassau Coliseum to see Pink Floyd. Must have been around 1987-88.
    I saw Pink Floyd on that tour. I remember it was on my birthday. Great show. 
  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,080
    edited November 2024
    Rock
    Someone knew YouTube would be a thing in 11 years.

    https://youtu.be/uRnXxc3zUqU?si=pAUNTQFHLA2EY2n4
  • ekwipt
    ekwipt Vancouver Posts: 1,066
    Hip-Hop
    Pap said:
    Can you offer some more info ekwipt? :smile:
    Sir Mix-A-Lot at the PNE amphitheater in Vancouver, BC. Either ‘90 or ‘91. 
    Definitely before the Baby Got Back era. 
    I remember Beepers & Posse On Broadway being the songs we were pumped to hear. 

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