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  • Brain Of EBrain Of E Posts: 499
    bean8969 wrote:
    My first show was The Who with Jethro Tull and John Cougar at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado. October 17, 1982. Tickets were 16 bucks. Also my first view of live boobies. I was offered heroin and cocaine in the bathroom. A random girl spilled beer on me as I was walking around the stadium and another random girl wanted to kick her ass for it. John Couger was booed. I was 13.

    awesome, you had a better time at your first show than i did. they should make a movie based on these events.
    Down in the hole, Jesus tries to crack a smile beneath another shovel load.
  • pearljammer20pearljammer20 Posts: 116
    Stone Temple Pilots when I was 15 I think, My uncle took me for my birthday.
    08/29 & 8/30 2000-Mansfield
    7/2 & 7/11 2003-Mansfield
    9/28 & 9/29 2004-Boston
    5/24 & 5/25 2006-Boston-11th & 10th row
    6/27 2008-Hartford -Front Row Center!
    6/28 & 6/30 2008-Mansfield

    08/01 (2nd row) & 08/02/2008 (Eddie Vedder) Boston


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  • metal edmetal ed Posts: 13
    My first gig was a band called 'Dan Reed Network' at the Birmingham Hummingbird in August of 1990, I'd just turned 15 two weeks before.

    First Pearl Jam gig was at Wembley in October of 1996. I'm after a ticket stub if anyone has a spare or can obtain one. I would be so grateful.
    Wembley Arena, London, UK - 28th October 1996
    Wembley Arena, London, UK  - 29th May 2000
    Manchester Evening News Arena, Manchester, UK - 4th of June 2000
    Reading Festival, Reading, UK - 27th August 2006
    Bridge School Benefit, Mountain View, CA - 21st October 2006
    Bridge School Benefit, Mountain View, CA - 22nd October 2006
    Wembley Arena, London, UK - 18th June 2007
    Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK - 11th August 2009
    O2 Arena, London, UK - 18th August 2009
    Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA - 28th October 2009
    BBK Festival, Bilbao, Spain - 9th July 2010 
    Bridge School Benefit, Mountain View, CA - 23rd October 2010
    Bridge School Benefit, Mountain View, CA - 24th October 2010
    Bridge School Benefit, Mountain View, CA - 22nd October 2011 (Eddie Vedder - Solo)
    Bridge School Benefit, Mountain View, CA - 23rd October 2011 (Eddie Vedder - Solo)  
    Isle Of Wight Festival, UK - 23rd June 2012
    Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK - 30th July 2012 (Eddie Vedder - Solo) 
    Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK - 31st July 2012 (Eddie Vedder - Solo) 
    Milton Keynes Bowl, Milton Keynes, UK - 11th July 2014 
    Bridge School Benefit, Mountain View, CA - 25th October 2014
    Bridge School Benefit, Mountain View, CA - 26th October 2014
    Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK - 6th June 2017 (Eddie Vedder - Solo) 
  • mdigenakismdigenakis Posts: 1,337
    who else? Read the sig; the first PJ was also the first American artist i ever saw in concert.
    "Don't let the darkness eat you up..."

    -Greg Dulli

  • gordon189gordon189 Posts: 60
    Wow, lots of interesting entries here!!!

    My first: KISS; Nov 10, 1979, Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
  • Hunger StrikeHunger Strike Posts: 229
    Mine was "Yes in the Round at MSG", It must have been 1978. My parents drove us in and dropped us off in front of the Garden, we had a wine sack filled with some kind of liquor stolen from my parents liquor cabi. We were in the nose bleeds, people were smokin dope all around us, it was crazy, especially for a 13 year old! Times were different then!
  • fall by the waysidefall by the wayside Posts: 757
    BetterThanYou wrote:
    don't forget wu-tang and the shao-lin monks.

    Shaolin Monks were waay cool. No Wu-Tang though. There was no mystery band at the show I attended.
    9/13/98, 10/4/00, 4/29/03, 6/29/03, 7/2/03, 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 9/15/05, 9/16/05, 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 10/30/09, 10/31/09, 5/15/10, 9/11/11, 9/12/11, 10/19/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 10/25/13, 10/27/13, 9/26/15, 4/28/16, 4/29/16, 8/5/16, 8/7/16, 8/13/18, 9/2/18, 9/4/18, 9/26/21, 9/1/22, 9/2/22, 9/14/22, 9/18/23, 9/19/23, 9/7/24, 9/9/24, 9/12/24, 9/15/24, 9/17/24
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,180
    Canned Heat.

    I just wiki'd them - I absolutely cannot believe they are still around but, apparently, they are. :D

    Rory Gallagher and Jethro Tull, shortly thereafter.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • jammerfalljammerfall Posts: 908
    Alice Cooper in '75 during his "Welcome To My Nightmare" tour. I guess I was around 12 at the time. Good way to start a life time of concert going.
    "Hello Oregonians. Hello Washingtonians. Hello Portland..where the fuck are we? We're in Ridgefield!"
  • Who PrincessWho Princess Posts: 7,305
    imalive wrote:
    Canned Heat.

    I just wiki'd them - I absolutely cannot believe they are still around but, apparently, they are. :D

    Rory Gallagher and Jethro Tull, shortly thereafter.
    Cool! My husband and I are big Rory fans. We're thinking maybe someday we'll make it to the Rory fest they have in Cork every summer.
    We saw Tull a couple of times too.

    I am really enjoying this thread, both vicariously and reliving a lot of memories. :)
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    At the Capital Center in Largo, Maryland....I think it was November 1974
    The Doobie Brothers. Tix were $5 (huge venue, hockey arena)
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    it wasn't my first, but I was pretty young....fleetwood mac twice in one week around 1977...
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • Veryundude77Veryundude77 Posts: 36
    Friday, November 25th 1994

    Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, and the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow
    Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA

    I graduated high school in the same venue the following year, and all I could think of walking across the stage was "Don't fall" and "Dude... Trent Reznor was on this stage"
    "I would love to see a forklift life a crate of forks. It would be so damn literal." - Mitch Hedberg

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  • heartdesireheartdesire Posts: 430
    Genesis, April 1976, I was 14. This was the the first tour without Peter Gabriel : < ... almost saw um' with him, but was grounded! ... shortly after Jethro Tull, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd ...
    "i'm a dedicated insomniac" ~ ev nyc beacon 6/22
  • illegal pantsillegal pants Posts: 13,471
    BinFrog wrote:
    Olivia Newton John circa 1980.

    Yup, you heard me.

    that is all kinds of awesome



    15 yo... matchbox twenty
    wah
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    jammerfall wrote:
    Alice Cooper in '75 during his "Welcome To My Nightmare" tour. I guess I was around 12 at the time. Good way to start a life time of concert going.

    okay, I am officially jealous :o
    I've seen Alice 5 or 6 times, he's always good value....but that tour! Man, that was history in the making, I would've loved to see it.....but I was only 5, so I guess my parents wouldn't have been keen :D
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • jammerfalljammerfall Posts: 908
    I'm actually going to catch an Alice "Psycho Drama Tour" show in Vancouver B.C. while on vacation in September. First AC concert since '79.
    "Hello Oregonians. Hello Washingtonians. Hello Portland..where the fuck are we? We're in Ridgefield!"
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    jammerfall wrote:
    I'm actually going to catch an Alice "Psycho Drama Tour" show in Vancouver B.C. while on vacation in September. First AC concert since '79.

    should be good. I saw him last November, here in Wales. He always fills the show with oldies, he knows what people want, yet he's very fond of this new 'Spider' album, so I hear. So you may get a good chunk of that.
    I first saw him on the Trash tour, 1988 I seem to recall.
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,180
    whoprincess wrote:
    Cool! My husband and I are big Rory fans. We're thinking maybe someday we'll make it to the Rory fest they have in Cork every summer.

    I was lucky enough to see this in 2006. Talked to Rory's brother for quite awhile :D.

    http://www.rorygallagher.com/statue2006/
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
  • momofglynnmomofglynn Posts: 849
    1984 Deep Purple-Perfect Strangers tour. Worcester Centrum. I had never seen or smelled mary jane until that night. I did not smoke it but I remember sitting in the back seat of my parents car and see the headlights trails. My parents made my sister take me with her extra ticket. What were they thinking. I was in 8th grade. I was 11 or 12. Really incredible first show. Richie Blackmore was amazing. All the guys were. I remember the laser show and a little Beethvoen guy conducting Richie during his solo. I also remember the 1 foot thick smoke cloud in the ceiling. Girls School opened for them and they were boo'ed.
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  • MagnusonPark82MagnusonPark82 Posts: 180
    Kiss 1978 Seattle Center Coliseum (now known as Keyarena).
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  • jonbond1779jonbond1779 Posts: 1,640
    Metallica - Earls Court, London, UK
    "Bring it back, to the clean form. To the pure form"

    28/09/04 - Boston, 20/04/06 - London [\\mm//Astoria\\mm//] - 18/06/07 - Wembley Arena, 11/08/09 -  London [\\mm//Shepherds Bush Empire\\mm//],18/08/09 - 02 Arena, 25/06/10 - Hyde Park, 26/06/12 - Amsterdam, 27/06/12 - Amsterdam, 08/07/14 - Leeds,11/07/14 - Milton Keynes, 13/06/18 - Amsterdam, 18/06/18 - London 02 Arena, 17/07/18 - London 02 Arena, 08/08/22 - Hyde Park, 9/08/22 - Hyde Park - 25/08/22 - Amsterdam, 29/07/24 - London {*Tottenham Stadium TBC*}
  • geishagrrlgeishagrrl Posts: 130
    My very first concert was actually the Beach Boys in 1987. My mother made the entire family go, so it wasn't by choice on my part. I was 10 but I hated that Kokomo song. It was also at an outdoor venue during the summer of locusts that happens about every 17 years here. They were swarming all over the place. It sucked.

    The first concert I went to that I wanted to go to was Ozzy on the No Rest for the Wicked tour, 1989.
  • GillycwGillycw Posts: 524
    I thought this was a good one to revive.
    My first concert at an arena was David Bowie in 1987 - 4th row and I was 16 and star struck!! Bowie rules ^:)^

    What was yours?
  • ikiTikiT Posts: 11,055
    Mine was the Mighty Van Halen in 1982 touring in support of Diver Down at the Syracuse Carrier Dome.
    Bristow 05132010 to Amsterdam 2 06132018
  • oftenreadingoftenreading Posts: 12,845
    My first real concert was The Police in Vancouver, either late August or early September of 1983, just before I started university. Before that I had seen some minor bands in my hometown, nothing I can remember specifically, and I think I saw Loverboy once (but I think everyone growing up in BC did).
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • jeffbrjeffbr Posts: 7,177
    Aerosmith in 1978 at the Seattle Center Coliseum.
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Posts: 49,959
    Mine was Pink Floyd in 1994.
    To this day it is the most extravagant, visually impressive show I've ever seen. The music wasn't half bad either. ;) It was awesome!
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • llessuRllessuR Posts: 195
    Jimmy Eat World, New Gound Glory, and Blink 182 at the Gorge in 2000. I was 16. My first live boobies, moshpit (100lb Filipino kid, I lost my shoes, hat, sunglasses, t-shirt,) Some drunk guy rammed into my car in the camping area, my bestfriend lost his virginity, and my other best friend got drunk and high for the first time. Insurance covered $1600 for the car but I got it fixed for $1200 and went out and bought a PS2. It was a weekend I'll never forget, my parents thought I wrecked the car myself and just about murdered me.
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  • llessuRllessuR Posts: 195
    PJ_Soul wrote: »
    Mine was Pink Floyd in 1994.
    To this day it is the most extravagant, visually impressive show I've ever seen. The music wasn't half bad either. It was awesome!

    10/10
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