Your Very First Concert

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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    '84....Big Bam Boom concert tour for Hall and Oates at the legendary Joe Louis Arena.

    Divine.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • WWS
    WWS Ontario Posts: 460
    Gowan in 1985....ouch
    '93 Toronto, '98 Barrie, '00 Toronto, '03 Buffalo, '05 Hamilton, '06 Toronto 1&2 '09 Toronto, '09 Philly #4, '11 Hamilton, '13 London, '13 Wrigley,    '13 Buffalo, '14 Detroit Rock City,'16 Ottawa, '16 Toronto 1&2, '16 Fenway '18 Wrigley 1&2, '20 Baltimore. '22 Hamilton, '24 Wrigley 1&2
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    i think i win hands down for the worst 1st concert
    ok ready for this?.... in '06 i was dragged tosee mariah carey, mohegan sun arena in CT. the acoustics were awful, & so was the whole concert
    ...had to put on a big smile, cause my mom bought the tix for me, her, & my sis thinking we'd enjoy it

    beat that!

    since then, ive only seen 1 other concert, maroon 5 & counting crows, which was great! i'd like to see so many more live shows, but being a 16 year old who cant drive & is almost completely broke makes this awfully difficult. i CANT WAIT for college in 2 years where i can finally go to more concerts! nothing beats a live show!
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    samjam wrote:
    in '06 mariah carey

    Did she play Shake It Off? If so, you're ok in my book.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • Brain Of E
    Brain Of E Posts: 499
    my first concert was the Mexican rock band Maná back in 1998.
    Down in the hole, Jesus tries to crack a smile beneath another shovel load.
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    Did she play Shake It Off? If so, you're ok in my book.

    PBM

    ...i dont remember... i was too busy covering my ears!
    but i actually think she did

    glad to know im still worthy of an ounce of respect:]
  • ZjorZ
    ZjorZ Posts: 15
    Red Hot Chili Peppers in Nijmegen (Netherlands), June 2007. Well, actually the first concert was a rapper, who was opening for them. He got boo-ed of the stage, everyone was throwing stuff at him. It really was a short first concert, but I found it really amusing at that time :P. The crowd gave me a bad example how to behave at a concert :D. (but okay, maybe it wasnt really smart to take a rapper as opener, when people are coming for a rockconcert)
  • bean8969
    bean8969 Posts: 99
    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.
  • Jerome Turner
    Jerome Turner Posts: 123
    Page and Plant- Mar 27, 1995 @ Skydome Toronto.

    I was 14. All I can remember are solo's and a stench that I wasn't familiar with at the time but I've grown very familiar with now.

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  • LineOneMightyFine
    LineOneMightyFine Posts: 347
    first chaparoned concert: SHA NA NA (I'm not joking here). Sometime in the early 80's with parents in New Haven, CT.

    first unchaparoned concert: Poison/David Lee Roth - the Skyscraper tour; New Haven, CT. DLR even rode a surfboard suspended from the rafters right over my head.

    Good times...
  • Brain Of E
    Brain 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.
  • pearljammer20
    pearljammer20 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 ed
    metal 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) 
  • mdigenakis
    mdigenakis 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

  • gordon189
    gordon189 Houston, TX Posts: 60
    Wow, lots of interesting entries here!!!

    My first: KISS; Nov 10, 1979, Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
  • Hunger Strike
    Hunger Strike Scottsdale, AZ 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 wayside
    fall by the wayside Jericho, VT Posts: 759
    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.
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,404
    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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  • jammerfall
    jammerfall 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.
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields 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. :)
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