First Ever Concert & Festival You Went To.

First concert: Warrant...do you remember Cherry Pie? in 1991.

First Festival: Big Day Out Sydney 1997- Sound Garden, Powderfinger, You am I, The Offspring, Spiderbait, Rage Against the Machine, Prodigy, Porno for Pyros.

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First concert was Blur at the Mile End Stadium in '95, first festival was Reading the same year, this was the lineup:

Good Lord.... =P~

First concert was Incubus with Hoobastank opening at The Spectrum in '02 during their Morning View tour right before I graduated 8th grade. Awesome show and I have seen incubus a few times since... Great live band.

First festival was the Virgin Music Fest at Pimlico In Baltimore in '07. Crazy good lineup with an unknown Matisyahu who blew everyone away early in the day, Modest Mouse, Incubus, 311, Ben Harper, The Fratellis, LCD Soundsystem, TV on the Radio, Spoon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, Velvet Revolver and Wu Tang who all set up for the two nights of headliners. Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, and the mother effing Police.

This festival turned me onto a ton of different bands and material I otherwise would have never gotten into so that's why I love festivals. Good crowd, good weather, and killer performances.

Concert - The Godfathers 1993
Festival - Jammin festival Venice 2010 (P.J.,Ben Harper,Skunk Anansie,Gossip)

First concert: Spin Doctors, Gin Blossoms, Cracker

First Festival: Warped Tour '95 (first year)....Sick of it All, CIV, L7, Sublime (booed offstage with fistfuls of mud), Wizo, Seaweed

My first concert technically was seeing the New Christy Minstrels at the unveiling of United Airlines firs DC-8 in, I believe it was, 1035 BC. I didn't know much about music (I think I was 8 or 9 at the time) but they were excellent. A few years later Barry McGuire left the band and put out that great song, "Eve of Destruction".

The first concert I purposely went to was on Wednesday 29 December 1965, Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, CA: The Beach Boys, Jackie Lee and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. I was a huge Beach Boys fan and very excited about my first concert which turned out very differently from my expectations. The show opened with soul singer Jackie Lee and that was interesting because the audience was made up of more black folks than I'd ever seen in one place. Here we are, my brother and sister and I- three suburban white kids- surrounded by a black audience going wild over a singer we had never heard of. That was kind of cool but a little unnerving at the same time. No surprise that after Jackie Lee left the stage the place cleared out a bit. Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels were a revelation. I'd come to see surf music and here was this gritty band from the Midwest and man, they tore the place up. This really helped get my ears reading for bigger things in my listening future. The Beach Boys performance left a lot to be desired. First of all, this was one of the earlier shows where Brian Wilson was a no show and Bruce Johnston sat in for him. I mean, come on, The Beach Boys without Brian Wilson? I was devastated. My sister kind of saved the evening by showing a lot of enthusiasm and having a more philosophical take- "Well, look, the other four Beach Boys are here at least".

I think the next show after that was either The Who with Blue Cheer opening for them- a bit of a leap from The Beach Boys. ;-)

First concert - Rusted Root 12/31/94.. 16 years old, New years eve show,.. jesus that was fun

First festival - HORDE 1995 Black Crowes, Ziggy Marley, Blues Traveler

1st Festival was my first concert officially California Jam 1978 II - March 18, 1978

Lineup:Aerosmith
Foreigner,Heart, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, Dave Mason,Ted Nugent - last concert with original line up of Rob Grange, Derek St. Holmes and Cliff Davies,Rubicon,Santana
Bob Welch, with special guests Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood.

I lived 5 miles from the venue Ontario Motor Speedway. I was forbidden to go by my father, whom I'd just met... haha..anyways, a friend and I walked the 5 miles, snuck in during Frank Marino, stayed for Dave Mason & Ted Nugent..then left and went "home" to get grounded or worse. Now I think..TED NUGENT...argg... haha


1st real Concert - with ticket -- Bad Company - I was 14
Venue- Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Desolation Angels Tour - May 1, 1979

My uncle who was 13 years older than me took me. Bad Co is alright, just never really became a big fan, but you always remember your first

I guess my first concert was also a festival. Monsters of Rock 1988 at Giants stadium; still can't believe that Dokken and the Scorpions came on after Metallica.

Van Halen
Scorpions
Dokken
Metallica
Kingdom Come

First concert was Hoobastank opening for Incubus at the Spectrum in '02.
First festival was Virgin Music Fest in '07 with Black Keys early on, Incubus, Matisyahu right as he started, 311, Wilco, Beasties, and the goddamn Police! Alone with others like Modest Mouse and too many others to remember.