what was your first concert?

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  • RB90590
    RB90590 Posts: 227
    83ish Beach Boys with parents at Puyalup Fair. (1st grade, only remember the UW cheerleaders on stage during one song)

    March 1991 Iron Maiden and Anthrax at Mercer Arena in Seattle. Went for Anthrax with one of my best friends, fell in love with Maiden that night.

    First PJ was Drop in the Park (could have seen earlier, but never had a ride from the east side.


    Great thread!
  • Ty
    Ty Posts: 1,007
    The Cranberries in Newcastle (Australia) sometime in March of 1995, I believe. Pollyanna was the opening band.

    First time I saw PJ was in Sydney, March 1998 with Shudder To Think opening. First time they played "Dead Man", and Jeff's birthday. A good show! I was 16 at the time and my Dad took me.
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  • Policeman
    Policeman Posts: 61
    Slaughter, Jackal and Damn Yankees! I was 15 My brother took me we were the first in line to the GA show. First time I drank Jack Daniels! Slaughter sucked but Jackal and Ted knew how to put on a show!
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  • kdizzle.delio
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    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    Aerosmith Jones Beach 1999. I was 13. My Dad koves them.

    yeah i was about 12-13 when i saw them as my first concert too
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  • dhpjammer
    dhpjammer Posts: 19
    Peter Frampton @ the Miami Baseball Stadium.
  • morgie2
    morgie2 Posts: 1,065
    NWOntario wrote:
    ...and man, are there ever some incredible answers to this question.

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  • BK223722
    BK223722 Posts: 94
    Pearl Jam- Sydney Entertainment Centre 10th March 1995
  • va-jamhead
    va-jamhead Posts: 30
    crosby, stills and nash 1977
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    SK359828 wrote:
    First show was Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Trax in Charlottesville, 1998 I think.

    First big concert: PJ Va Beach, 2000. Good times.
    What happened to Jimmies Chicken Shack ?High was such a great jam, then nothing.
  • Micheyb21
    Micheyb21 UK Posts: 346
    First pop concert when i was 9 was Jason Donovan - an aussie soap turned popstar lol.

    First proper concerts were in 1996 at 16 when i saw (separately) blur, jamiroquai and the fugees (jay z supported this - random!)

    First rock concert was in 1999 which would have been pitchshifter i think :D

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  • rr165892
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    mookieblalock wrote:
    My first concert was SUPPOSED to be Ozzy Osbourne, but he bit that darn bat the night before.... so my first concert was REO Speedwagon and Survivor in 1984. I was 7 years old.
    I had Ozzy tix to see him in Miami at the Orange Bowl ,Randy Rhodes was killed the night before in that freak plane /trailor accident..Feel your pain
  • AllNiteThing
    AllNiteThing Posts: 1,115
    Billy Joel in Albany, NY in 1990. Also saw The Kinks around that time, but I think it was a few months later.
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  • jimbojones1138
    jimbojones1138 Posts: 3,640
    Poison back in either 1990 or 1991. Warrant opened up for them, and I was in the 5th grade

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  • incidental immortality
    incidental immortality CT Posts: 444
    Billy Joel at the Centrum in Worcester back in 94. I've seen a lot of good shows there but I'm really looking forward to the PJ shows in October.
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  • RedMosquito02
    RedMosquito02 Posts: 2,560
    The Samples, 1994

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  • TA243471
    TA243471 The Great Northwest Posts: 1,253
    My real 1st concert was the Bee Gee's at the Seattle Center Coliseum for my 13th birthday, in 1979. The 1st concert I bought my own tix to was Ozzy on the Diary of a Madman tour also at the Coliseum in 1982...no Randy.
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  • ryanjp2323
    ryanjp2323 Posts: 562
    1983 the Beach Boys at BC place stadium. With my parents and brother (i was 8)... some neighbour families too if i remember. Show was after a soccer game at the then new stadium.

    First PJ was GM Place in 2003. :fp:

    Saw a ton of great festivals and shows in Vancouver in the 90's but never really picked up the full fledged PJ addiction until Eddie did IN TO THE WILD and saw his show at the Center in 2008.
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  • ekwipt
    ekwipt Vancouver Posts: 1,084
    :lol: Sir Mix A Lot in '89-90(pre Baby Got Back). I remember the 2 big songs at the show were Posse on Broadway, and Beepers
  • reedj66
    reedj66 Posts: 29
    June 4, 1981
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  • Candilea
    Candilea Posts: 43
    shetellsherself wrote:
    Pearl Jam at the Ranch Bowl, Omaha, Nebraska. May 1992.

    I was at that show! :D

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