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

mookeywrench

Rock

HughFreakingDillon said:

Aerosmith/Skid Row March 1990. Pump tour. I was 16. 

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/aerosmith/1990/winnipeg-arena-winnipeg-mb-canada-6bd70266.html

Heart's Done Time

Same Old Song and Dance

F.I.N.E.

Monkey on My Back

Don't Get Mad, Get Even

What It Takes

Permanent Vacation

Janie's Got a Gun

Angel

Hangman Jury

Voodoo Medicine Man

Red House(The Jimi Hendrix Experience cover)

Rag Doll

Draw the Line

Jailhouse Rock(Elvis Presley cover)

Dream On

Love in an Elevator

Dude (Looks Like a Lady)

Sweet Emotion

Encore:

The Train Kept A-Rollin'

(Tiny Bradshaw cover)

Walk This Way

Skid Row's set:

https://youtu.be/6XgJ2aPmtQA?si=1j7cpPbnuDBo7Nsr

HughFreakingDillon

Rock

mookeywrench said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Aerosmith/Skid Row March 1990. Pump tour. I was 16. 

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/aerosmith/1990/winnipeg-arena-winnipeg-mb-canada-6bd70266.html

Heart's Done Time

Same Old Song and Dance

F.I.N.E.

Monkey on My Back

Don't Get Mad, Get Even

What It Takes

Permanent Vacation

Janie's Got a Gun

Angel

Hangman Jury

Voodoo Medicine Man

Red House(The Jimi Hendrix Experience cover)

Rag Doll

Draw the Line

Jailhouse Rock(Elvis Presley cover)

Dream On

Love in an Elevator

Dude (Looks Like a Lady)

Sweet Emotion

Encore:

The Train Kept A-Rollin'

(Tiny Bradshaw cover)

Walk This Way

Skid Row's set:

https://youtu.be/6XgJ2aPmtQA?si=1j7cpPbnuDBo7Nsr

HOLY CRAP THANKYOU

Pap

Metal

brianlux said: Sounds like a great show, and very cool that you were able to chase down the set list though setlist.fm.  Great site!

+1

Pap

Metal

Anyone else?

Loujoe

Metal

1985 AC/DC fly on the wall your. Brother took me with his friends. I loved it and banged my head like Angus all night.
Yngwee Mallumstein (sp) opened. Great memory to have.

mfc2006

Other

It was Lollapalooza 1992 - so a lot of genres were represented

rw160510

Other

Got taken to a couple of MOR radio friendly Wet Wet Wet gigs by a friends parents when I was maybe 13 or 14. First show I went to myself was Soundgarden 17 Sep 96

Pap

Metal

rw160510 said: First show I went to myself was Soundgarden 17 Sep 96

Cool

GlowGirl

Rock

Loujoe said:

1985 AC/DC fly on the wall your. Brother took me with his friends. I loved it and banged my head like Angus all night.
Yngwee Mallumstein (sp) opened. Great memory to have.

I went to that tour. The whole venue was GA. Mad crush to get in. Luckily no one died. But it got scary for a moment. 

rw160510

Other

Pap said:

rw160510 said: First show I went to myself was Soundgarden 17 Sep 96

Cool

I’m ashamed to say I was wrong, not my first solo gig😵‍💫 My memory clearly is not what it used to be. Actual first gig that I wasn’t dragged too was Oasis 26 Nov 95. I so wish it was the Soundgarden one tho 😂

Loujoe

Metal

GlowGirl said:

Loujoe said:

1985 AC/DC fly on the wall your. Brother took me with his friends. I loved it and banged my head like Angus all night.
Yngwee Mallumstein (sp) opened. Great memory to have.

I went to that tour. The whole venue was GA. Mad crush to get in. Luckily no one died. But it got scary for a moment. 

Ok. I was in nj and seats up top. Don't remember if there was GA. Do recall going to shows and you didn't want to be on the floor. Some were throwing fireworks from above. Might have been a random time, but stuck with me. 

josevolution

Other

Loujoe said:

GlowGirl said:

Loujoe said:

1985 AC/DC fly on the wall your. Brother took me with his friends. I loved it and banged my head like Angus all night.
Yngwee Mallumstein (sp) opened. Great memory to have.

I went to that tour. The whole venue was GA. Mad crush to get in. Luckily no one died. But it got scary for a moment. 

Ok. I was in nj and seats up top. Don't remember if there was GA. Do recall going to shows and you didn't want to be on the floor. Some were throwing fireworks from above. Might have been a random time, but stuck with me. 

Yeah in the late 70’s idiots actually would set off fireworks inside arena shows whisky & fireworks and rock! 75 I was top row for Led Zeppelin and soon as the band came on stage someone next to us light a Roman candle I didn’t know what was going on I thought it was part of the show! And then in 77 MSG Page threatened to leave stage if people didn’t stop blowing off M80’s, people would actually light them and throw them down to the stage or have them blow off close above the stage! Crazy drunken fools 

BR2428

Metal

Motley Crue - 1984

We skipped school the day that tickets went on sale and went to the mall to the Ticketmaster outlet located in one of the department stores. When the roll gate to the store started opening a throng of waiting metalheads dropped to the floor, rolled under the opening gate and tore through the store to get to the ticket window. The show sold out, but luckily we were able to score tickets at the very back of the house. Not great seats, but it was still an incredible show. Shout At The Devil!

Loujoe

Metal

josevolution said:

Loujoe said:

GlowGirl said:

Loujoe said:

1985 AC/DC fly on the wall your. Brother took me with his friends. I loved it and banged my head like Angus all night.
Yngwee Mallumstein (sp) opened. Great memory to have.

I went to that tour. The whole venue was GA. Mad crush to get in. Luckily no one died. But it got scary for a moment. 

Ok. I was in nj and seats up top. Don't remember if there was GA. Do recall going to shows and you didn't want to be on the floor. Some were throwing fireworks from above. Might have been a random time, but stuck with me. 

Yeah in the late 70’s idiots actually would set off fireworks inside arena shows whisky & fireworks and rock! 75 I was top row for Led Zeppelin and soon as the band came on stage someone next to us light a Roman candle I didn’t know what was going on I thought it was part of the show! And then in 77 MSG Page threatened to leave stage if people didn’t stop blowing off M80’s, people would actually light them and throw them down to the stage or have them blow off close above the stage! Crazy drunken fools 

Ahh. I wasn't dreaming that up

mickeyrat

GlowGirl said:

My first concert was Rush. 

fuck yeah

mickeyrat

Cheap Trick, Krokus, Saxon. was 13? about to turn 14....

https://youtu.be/pgTkByFOyFA?si=9C-iBYJyEhfSQeDk

Loujoe

Metal

GlowGirl said:

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

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. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U-lTgLIu_48

pledgeagrievance

Rock

Flaming Lips/Stone Temple Pilots/Butthole Surfers Roseland Ballroom NYC 1992

hrd2imgn

Metal

Guns and Roses n Skid Row 91 Alpine

pearldavidson

Rock

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.  Not only my first gig, but also my second ever gig.