What Was Your First Concert?

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  • LukinFan
    LukinFan Florida Posts: 29,119
    lolobugg said:
    LukinFan said:
    lolobugg said:
    LukinFan said:
    lolobugg said:

    Stone Temple Pilots

    Meat Puppets

    Jawbox

    1994- Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

    I was hooked after this. there was even a purple horse wandering around outside the arena.

    Holy shit - I was at that show too! Are you from Tallahassee?

    From South Alabama.... about an 1 hour from Tallahassee. remember the Cow Haus?  I saw a lot of shows there too over the years. Saw Fugazi at the Moon. we probably were in a lot of the same crowds!!
    Very cool!  Oh yeah, I definitely remember the Cow Haus and the Moon. I saw tons of concerts at both places. I don't think I saw Fugazi though.The Cow Haus actually used to be in a smaller location (about a block or two away from where the building is now) and I saw Jerry Cantrell there. Killer show. I bet we were at some of the same shows.  Crazy.

    I moved away from Tallahassee about a year ago but still have friends and family there, so I go back frequently. Whenever there is a good show on the weekend, I try to make it back. Tallahassee doesn't get the quality of shows that it used to though, even though there is now two amphitheaters there.


    wow. 2 amphitheaters? that's insane. The Cow Haus  I used to go to looked liked an old black Haunted House.  My friends in Verbena used to play there. Saw Pavement, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Queens of the Stone Age and Neutral Milk Hotel there back in the late 90s/early 00s.  My friend went to FSU. I didn't even know it still existed. I moved to NC back in 2001.  


    EDIT: I used to go shopping at Vinyl Fever too. they had a great selection for about $12 for a new record.

    my, my how times have changed.

    Yeah,, I think you used to go to the original Cow Haus. They moved a couple of blocks over to a bigger unit, but it didn't have the same feel to it. It changed ownership and switched names a few of times. I think it's a restaurant or something like that now.

    Vinyl Fever - how do I miss that place.
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  • mookieblalock
    mookieblalock Posts: 3,571
    REO Speedwagon and Survivor. Glens Falls Civic Center, 1985. I hadn’t turned 8 years old yet.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,378
    pledgeagrievance said:
    Butthole Surfers
    Stone Temple Pilots
    Flaming Lips

    yes Butthole Surfers was the headliner.

    Roseland Ballroom, NYC 91-92
    iwasatpj20 said:
    Toadies 1994, Peoria.  One of the openers was CIV, 14 years old at the time
    lolobugg said:

    Stone Temple Pilots

    Meat Puppets

    Jawbox

    1994- Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

    I was hooked after this. there was even a purple horse wandering around outside the arena.

    wall232 said:
    Iron Maiden - Somewhere On Tour 1987 MSG.

    I was 12 years old and went with my best friend and his older sister and her friends. Great night!

    I am envious of all these first time shows!!!
  • iwasatpj20
    iwasatpj20 Rockford, IL Posts: 3,470
    tempo_n_groove said:
    pledgeagrievance said:
    Butthole Surfers
    Stone Temple Pilots
    Flaming Lips

    yes Butthole Surfers was the headliner.

    Roseland Ballroom, NYC 91-92
    iwasatpj20 said:
    Toadies 1994, Peoria.  One of the openers was CIV, 14 years old at the time
    lolobugg said:

    Stone Temple Pilots

    Meat Puppets

    Jawbox

    1994- Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

    I was hooked after this. there was even a purple horse wandering around outside the arena.

    wall232 said:
    Iron Maiden - Somewhere On Tour 1987 MSG.

    I was 12 years old and went with my best friend and his older sister and her friends. Great night!

    I am envious of all these first time shows!!!
    All of us had to start somewhere
    2000 - Chicago, IL
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    2007 - Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Tiny Tim
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,378
    First show was AC/DC on their Razors Edge tour with LA Guns opening.

    This was my first concert experience so waiting in the lobby of MSG for them to open I got to see the crazy AC/DC fans.  One person in particular was waltzing around with a freshly buzzed AC/DC in his hair just like the album cover.  I thought that was a little extreme but committed none the less.  That very same person would later on start a chant of ANGUS with the crowd preceding YOUNG!!!

    My first show with a crazy fan base...

    Great show.  Still the loudest show I've been to between the damn bell and the cannon and not to mention I couldn't comprehend the opener, Thunderstruck, because it was so damn loud...
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    PJ_Soul said:
    Pink Floyd, 1994, for the Division Bell tour.
    I was old for my first concert - I was in grade 12.
    I got ya beat. I (technically) didn’t see my first show until the summer between my sophomore & junior years of college. It was Rush at Starlake Amphitheatre just outside of Pittsburgh in 1997.

    I say “technically” because I did see Ricky Skaggs with my parents when I was about 4 years old. And I do remember begging them to take me but I have no recollection of the show at all so I don’t really count it as “my first show.”

    I was also conceived after a Paul McCartney & Wings concert. Kinda funny that live music is what brought me into this world, lol.
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,889
    The Cars, 1980 at the old Boston Garden.
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    My aunt took me to see Richard Marx at the old Richfield Coliseum in January 1990.

    My husband saw Slayer at the Cleveland Agora in June 1988 for his first show.  Still has the shirt. Still fits. 

    My daughter's first show was Chris Cornell at the Murat Theater in Indianapolis July 2016. 
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,195
    The Cranberries- '94 (Gettysburg College)
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
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    9/9/24- Philly, PA
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    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    RS151862 said:
    brianlux said:
    helplessdancer said:
    ya'll are young kids...
    my first show was in 1979...
    where's @brianlux when i need him?
    Holy shit dudes, you're makin' me feel old. :lol:

    My first concert was in 1964, Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California:  Jackie Lee, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and the Beach Boys.  I was a Brian Wilson FANATIC, and when Mike Love stepped up to the mic and greeted the audience with, "We're sorry to say Brian Wilson will not be performing with us tonight but instead we have Bruce Johnston filling in for him" (like we were supposed to think this was an added treat), my heart sank like a stone.  This was one of the earlier shows where Wilson stayed home to write music while the others went out and toured.  It was devastating.  It was a good show but the highlight turned out to be Mitch Ryder and his band.  What a powerful, rocking band!

    Actually, I saw live was The New Christie Minstrels in 1959 at an event my Pop took me to for the unveiling this first commercial DC-8 jet airliner, but they were a part of the event we hadn't known about or planned on, so I don't consider it my first regular concert, but Barry McGuire (who later recorded "Eve of Destruction") was awesome .

    Was that in black & white or technicolor?
    :lol:

    Black and white.  The human eye had not yet evolved to see colors. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,668
    edited June 2018
    brianlux said:
    RS151862 said:
    brianlux said:
    helplessdancer said:
    ya'll are young kids...
    my first show was in 1979...
    where's @brianlux when i need him?
    Holy shit dudes, you're makin' me feel old. :lol:

    My first concert was in 1964, Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California:  Jackie Lee, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and the Beach Boys.  I was a Brian Wilson FANATIC, and when Mike Love stepped up to the mic and greeted the audience with, "We're sorry to say Brian Wilson will not be performing with us tonight but instead we have Bruce Johnston filling in for him" (like we were supposed to think this was an added treat), my heart sank like a stone.  This was one of the earlier shows where Wilson stayed home to write music while the others went out and toured.  It was devastating.  It was a good show but the highlight turned out to be Mitch Ryder and his band.  What a powerful, rocking band!

    Actually, I saw live was The New Christie Minstrels in 1959 at an event my Pop took me to for the unveiling this first commercial DC-8 jet airliner, but they were a part of the event we hadn't known about or planned on, so I don't consider it my first regular concert, but Barry McGuire (who later recorded "Eve of Destruction") was awesome .

    Was that in black & white or technicolor?
    :lol:

    Black and white.  The human eye had not yet evolved to see colors. 
    Oh, interesting. I thought that the universe had not expanded enough by then to contain colour.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • Malroth
    Malroth broken down chevrolet Posts: 2,556
    Malroth said:
    Amy Lee Grant
    Do I win for worst first concert?
    The worst of times..they don't phase me,
    even if I look and act really crazy.
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Malroth said:
    Malroth said:
    Amy Lee Grant
    Do I win for worst first concert?
    Nope.  Mine isn't all that great either.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,668
    Malroth said:
    Malroth said:
    Amy Lee Grant
    Do I win for worst first concert?
    I don't even know who it is, lol.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Malroth said:
    Malroth said:
    Amy Lee Grant
    Do I win for worst first concert?
    You win the booby prize for worst first concert:

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Malroth said:
    Malroth said:
    Amy Lee Grant
    Do I win for worst first concert?
    You win the booby prize for worst first concert:

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hauntingfamiliar
    hauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,360
    brianlux said:
    Malroth said:
    Malroth said:
    Amy Lee Grant
    Do I win for worst first concert?
    You win the booby prize for worst first concert:

    I'm pretty sure I do. It was supposed to have been Hall & Oats but the baby sitter cancelled at the last second and my parents made me (the 8 year old) babysit my younger sister. I would have loved that claim to fame!

    My first, however, was a few years later when I was 12. 

    Milli Vanilli and I loved every second of that show!! It was my first... how was I supposed to know they were lip synching?
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    hauntingfamiliar said:
    brianlux said:
    Malroth said:
    Malroth said:
    Amy Lee Grant
    Do I win for worst first concert?
    You win the booby prize for worst first concert:

    I'm pretty sure I do. It was supposed to have been Hall & Oats but the baby sitter cancelled at the last second and my parents made me (the 8 year old) babysit my younger sister. I would have loved that claim to fame!

    My first, however, was a few years later when I was 12. 

    Milli Vanilli and I loved every second of that show!! It was my first... how was I supposed to know they were lip synching?
    They were lip syncing to lip syncing. How very Derrida. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • KC138045
    KC138045 Columbus, OH Posts: 2,716
    The Cranberries - 1996

    Should of been Live the year before but my mom wouldn't let me go.  She thought 15 was too young to go to a concert.  Yes, I still hold a grudge lol :rofl:
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