What was the first concert that you attended ?

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  • conman
    conman Posts: 7,493
    conman wrote:
    3 dog night in 1996, my parents took me.. i was 10 years old
    i just found a video

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr27Jj5bpBs


    the crowd sucked :lol:



    my first real concert was Bruce and the E Street band at MSG.. my parents took me to that one too

    first one on my own was 311 at Jones Beach
  • capthowdy1027
    capthowdy1027 Posts: 3,270
    Metallica with Corossion of Comfority opening in April of 1997, I went 2 nights in a row. I was 16.

    My first concert was supposed to be Butthole Surfers, Toadies, Supersuckers and Rev Horton Heat in the summer of 1996 but it got cancelled. That would have been such a damn awesome show.
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  • curlygirly9
    curlygirly9 Vancouver, WA Posts: 1,872
    kelly311 wrote:
    merkinball wrote:
    Jackson 5 Victory Tour at Dodger Stadium. 1984


    I'm jealous! My first show was Janet Jackson in 1989. I was 8 :)

    Cool, was it Rhythm Nation? Saw her last August, it was awesome.
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  • hensod
    hensod Posts: 192
    My first was Guns N' Roses in the Stocholm Olympic Staduim (Still wounder why PJ not does their show an that stadium in summer..) it was june 12 1992, I was 12 and its still my best concert memory ever, to bad I will not get a cahnce to se them again.

    Wery jellous about that Doors concert!!!
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  • ArmchairJammer
    ArmchairJammer Posts: 294
    The Black Crowes at Brixton Academy 8-)
    2009 - Shephards Bush, Manchester, London
    2010 - Belfast, London, Berlin, Arras, Werchter
    2012 - Manchester 1+2, Berlin 1+2, Stockholm, Oslo
    2014 - Berlin, Leeds, Milton Keynes
  • cowboypjfan
    cowboypjfan Posts: 2,453
    I saw Pearl Jam at Randall's Island (9-29-96) for my first PJ show but didn't really get into them full-time until 97.

    However, the first concert I saw that was non-PJ was KISS at the Corestates Spectrum in Philly on Oct. 9, 1996. I was a big KISS fan at the time and this show rocked!

    Here's the setlist:

    1. Deuce
    2. King Of The Night Time World
    3. Do You Love Me
    4. Calling Dr. Love
    5. Cold Gin
    6. Watchin' You
    7. Firehouse
    8. I Stole Your Love
    9. Shock Me
    10. Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll
    11. Shout It Out Loud
    12. Strutter
    13. God of Thunder
    14. New York Groove (Hello cover)
    15. Love Gun
    16. 100,000 Years
    17. Black Diamond

    Encore:

    18. Detroit Rock City
    19. Beth
    20. Rock And Roll All Nite
  • Tremor Chris
    Tremor Chris Posts: 231
    1991 I believe was the year. I was 15 years old at the time.
    Screaming Tress and the opening bands were Small and King Crab at the fair grounds in Kennewick Washington.
  • green mountain man
    green mountain man Posts: 735
    I asked my older sister the same question.
    She saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium and Boston Garden. There was a pic in the Record American of her and her friends sifting through a hotel dumpster in search of Beatle trash :shock:
    She went to the Isle of Wight fest in 1970 and saw Hendrix, The Who, and the Doors among others. :D
    Tiny Tim was also on the bill :oops:
    She became a Moody Blues groupie and saw a bunch of their shows in the US. She was invited backstage and hung out with them and took many photos. SLUT !!!! :roll:
  • Of The Aggie
    Of The Aggie The ATX Posts: 1,553
    I think it was 1989 or 1990 I went with a church youth group to a Christian band, Petra's, concert but my first "real" rock concert was R.E.M. in 1995 in Austin. PJ played the venue, Southpark Meadows, the night before but I didn't get tickets and I regret that so much!
  • green mountain man
    green mountain man Posts: 735
    Of The Aggie wrote:
    I think it was 1989 or 1990 I went with a church youth group to a Christian band, Petra's, concert but my first "real" rock concert was R.E.M. in 1995 in Austin. PJ played the venue, Southpark Meadows, the night before but I didn't get tickets and I regret that so much!
    I saw REM from the front row in 1981. I never heard of them before. They opened for the Police.
  • jamburger
    jamburger Posts: 1,775
    quimby20 wrote:
    jamburger wrote:
    Pink Floyd, June 3, 1988, Giants Stadium.
    I ""think"" I was there, didn't it rain like hell,,,,

    I don't think it did that night, but it was a two night stand maybe the next show.


    Sheets Of Clay wrote:
    R.E.M. with Radiohead as the opener
    Nashville, TN 9-11-95

    THAT is an awesome first outing!
  • Edrock78
    Edrock78 Posts: 167
    Pearl Jam Fairfax,VA 4/8/94. Still the best concert I have ever been to.
  • green mountain man
    green mountain man Posts: 735
    curlygirly9 wrote:
    kelly311 wrote:
    merkinball wrote:
    Jackson 5 Victory Tour at Dodger Stadium. 1984


    I'm jealous! My first show was Janet Jackson in 1989. I was 8 :)

    Cool, was it Rhythm Nation? Saw her last August, it was awesome.
    Personally, I can not get into concerts that have lip synching. Janet Jackson is another one.
    Anytime an artist does highly athletic dance moves , it comes at the expense of live singing.
    The Partridge Family were th pioneers of lip synching and air guitar with tapes. :lol:
  • kelly311
    kelly311 Posts: 67
    curlygirly9 wrote:
    kelly311 wrote:
    merkinball wrote:
    Jackson 5 Victory Tour at Dodger Stadium. 1984


    I'm jealous! My first show was Janet Jackson in 1989. I was 8 :)

    Cool, was it Rhythm Nation? Saw her last August, it was awesome.


    Yeah it was! I would like to see her again, but I can never get anyone to go with me! :)
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    edited February 2012
    I was taken to a lot of classical recitals when I was a kid. The first important one I remember was Vladimir Horowitz.

    As far as rock concerts go, I vaguely remember being taken to something in GoldenGate park (in SF) when I was not even in school yet...some kind of Love-in thing...someone gave me a big paper daisy and painted my face! The funniest thing about that concert was that one of the older kids that lived near us said "Some one is smoking pan over there!" :lol::lol:

    Pots, pans, to a little kid they're the same!!!

    :mrgreen:
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  • curlygirly9
    curlygirly9 Vancouver, WA Posts: 1,872
    "Yeah it was! I would like to see her again, but I can never get anyone to go with me! :)"

    Understood. JJ's always been extremely underrated I think. She has just as many great songs as MJ, and puts on a great show. I saw her for the up close and personal Number Ones tour, so there wasn't any costume changes or anything, and it was great to just listen to the songs, but I would love to see her again too, and see the big show!
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  • Cassandra-Geminni
    Cassandra-Geminni Posts: 119
    November 1999, I was 18. Primus with buckethead and Incubus opening. Walked in and Buckethead was on stage, had never heard of him, not at all what I could have expected seeing walking into a venue. Had never heard of incubus at the time either, so great to have got to see them when they were still small, they turned me into a fan that night.
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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    edited February 2012
    thefixer9 wrote:
    My dad took me to my first concert, December 9, 2008. It was The End's Deck the Hall Ball festival which had the bands;

    Aqueduct
    Shiny Toy Guns
    Cold War Kids
    Death Cab for Cutie
    The Killers

    At the time The Killers were my favorite band and they are actually my second favorite band today. It was a great first concert, Cold War Kids were amazing and The Killers well killed it (Sorry for the pun) DCFC were disappointing however.

    My cousin went to high school with the lead singer of Aqueduct. His name is Dave Terry. He was in a local Tulsa band called Epperley. I loved Epperley. I met Dave Terry at the Vans Warped tour in 1998 in Tulsa. First time seeing Rev Horton Heat at this festival- that band blew me away. wow :mrgreen:
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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    can't remember if I posted in here already, but Mine was Beach Boys in 1989. I was in Kindergarten. They played at six flags Astroworld as part of the summer concert series.
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  • CAVSTARR313
    CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    Pink Floyd 1993 at the Pontiac Silverdome.. They played Dark Side in it's entirety for the first time in 17 years, and it later was recorded in London for the "Pulse" album.. great time, I was 14.. and stoned.. It was like going on the biggest ride at the amusement park first
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