Your Very First Concert

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  • iluvcats
    iluvcats 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
  • iluvcats
    iluvcats 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
  • Veryundude77
    Veryundude77 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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  • heartdesire
    heartdesire 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 pants
    illegal 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 uk
    jamie 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.....
  • jammerfall
    jammerfall 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 uk
    jamie 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.....
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,404
    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...

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  • momofglynn
    momofglynn 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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  • MagnusonPark82
    MagnusonPark82 Posts: 180
    Kiss 1978 Seattle Center Coliseum (now known as Keyarena).
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  • jonbond1779
    jonbond1779 London, UK Posts: 1,642
    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.
  • geishagrrl
    geishagrrl 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.
  • Gillycw
    Gillycw Sydney 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?
  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    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
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    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
  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle 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_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,772
    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
  • llessuR
    llessuR 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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  • llessuR
    llessuR 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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    -Key Arena 1 & 2 2009
    -Spokane 2013

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