OK, Rock - Metal - Country - dont matter,

just say how old you were and what Band it was and...
any special memories (PG rated)

OTay, I start:

A song came on the radio today (I always place myself where I first heard it)

I remembered it was my FIRST Concert Ever!

LOL Im so dating myself but I was only like 13yrs old.

anyone remember WET WILLIE ?? yup saw him/them at a State Fair GiG oooh so long ago.

memory .. I was standing on the auditorium seat sorta dancing - though no one else was - and some chicks behind me got real pissy! *shrug*

cant win em all

also learned that day how to use a cored out apple as a pipe

Probably Rolling Stones, 1972.

lol ,, nothing you can say beyond that cuz its all R - X rated eh?

Electric Light Orchestra. Can't remember the year. Too long ago to remember.

Probably Grateful Dead, in college. Can't remember for sure. Gee, that's a surprise. LOL.

I always wanted to see the Rolling Stones, but never got the chance.

David Bowie when he was Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars-->1973 (It freaked me out at the time.)

Alice Cooper 1971. Along with Bob Seger who opened. Loved it!!

The Allman Brothers Band. I was 14 so 1972 or 1973 in Tampa. My sister, my BFF and I were dropped off by BFF's cousin. I was the oldest of the trio too! Fun and great but my one "memory" was getting hit in the head by someone's tennis shoe that was thrown by some crazy fan!

Ac/Dc in 1981, for those about to rock tour
I think some band called midnight flyer opened for them.

Allman brothers in 1973 in long island at Nassua coliseum. i remember it took us forever to get back to Nyc. last time i went to concert out there, after that it was Madison square garden or the Palladium down on 14th street and 3rd ave,

Barry White in Nassau Coliseum, and yep, Nope, 'it was my first, my last' but not my everything driving from Brooklyn in sheets of rain and having to put up with his Ladies in Red, or whatever they were called.

I do miss the bugger though. He probably had one of the sexiest voices back then. Of course, it felt like someone kicked me in the stomach when I got to the Coliseum and actually saw him for the first time. It just opened my eyes, that's all.

terrific memory - squarepants!

thanks all, this is fun!

I don't remember much its been a while, i do remember a few things about the concert tho. The first band was pretty good but everyone sat down after maybe the 3rd song, maybe a few random girls dancing or whatever. When their set was over in about 45mins they had like 10 mins intermission and BAM curtain went up and angus young was hitting the big bell with a sledge hammer for Hells Bells and the place erupted hah

or maybe it was brian hitting the bell, its been so long heh
oh i was 14 and in junior high. i believe

I went and saw Tower of Power, and Cold Blood Featuring Lydia Pence, at the Filmore in San Francisco back in 1974

And speaking of memories. . . Saw Bob Seger with Patti Smith opening show (I was 19) and witnessed her horrible backwards fall off the stage head first (Tampa). Then saw Lynard Skynard (Lakeland, Fla) just few months before their horrible plane crash and sad loss of many talented members (I think I was 18 then). And Eric Clapton (was 21)when Yvonne Elliman was with the band. And Bonnie Raitt (when I was 21)in St. Petersburg, Fla. Ahhh. Good ol' days!

Tower of Power and Cold Blood , Motown bands If I remember.

Oh the Filmore!! , always wished I could have been there in thous days. Santana before Abraxas and the Allman Bothers band When Duane was still alive.

Always wanted to go to Haight Ashbury back in the day!!
C

I seen Bob Seger , when he was still a bar band in Flint Mi. He was just a kid!!
C

cool chuckee!
I was a little too young to make a concert that year but was definately into Alice.
ONe of many obscure first almbums was 'Billion dollar Babies'

Lived outside Flint a year or so and saw Quiet Riot at some Bar/Nightclub in the early 90s -Bay City maybe.

i was young, but it was the first time the monkeys toured since like 20 years. this was back in the 90's in st. louis. i went with my parents.
i remember a band called the turtles opened up for them and they said "if you remember the 60's then you didn't live the 60's"

Wow, haven't thought about them in FOREVER! I remember watching their tv show when I was young. I think I had a crush on Davey the little one. He was my height but I was 9 or so. LOL.

When I was 14 I went Jack Wagner! I was in love with that man. Anyone remember him?

Chuckee - Tower of Power and Cold Blood were considered soul funk bands with big horn sections.

Trivia: Lenny Picket, the current lead Sax player for the SNL band, was formally the lead Sax Player for Tower of Power back in the 70's

Totally! (Trying to sound like a teenager. LOL) He was the actor from General Hospital.

This was my 1st concert as well and I was 14 at the time too. I could have sworn it was more like 82-83 though and I was a freshman in high school. I graduated in 87. I have no idea who opened for them but I do remember Angus and the bell at the begining while they started playing Hells Bells. I also remember Angus mooning us a couple of times. I have to say though the music of my high school years was not my favorite. I did like ACDC but was not crazy abour hair bands, I kind of listened to retro music and was big time into Zepplin, The Doors, Hendrix and the Stones. I totally was into the Grunge thing in college and early 20's though and also liked going to Dead Shows.

My parents took me to see The Commodores when I was 11. But the first concert I went to on my own was Rick Springfield! Back in his GH days!

Frank Zappa in the 70's. He was great. I did not want to go,but my boyfriend talked me into it. It is still to this day,the best concert I have ver been to.

Hot Tuna & Jimi Hendrix back in the early 70's...Can't remember which was first It was in an Indoor Theatre and all you could hear all night was the sound of Whip-its bouncing on the floor

Hi steve.. It had to be 1970 , because I think It was the year that Jimi died. Both Janis and Jimi. Sad!! the music they could have made!
C

Lou Christie in 1965 but the first big concert was Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young the winter of '69 right after Woodstock.

Van Morrison at a county fair when I was about 11 or 12.

Grand Funk Railroad, 1973 in Lexington, KY. They had a huge movie screen with a train on it and started out with American Woman.
Khilee

It could have been 1969

I was class of 85, yeah was dec 81 i cant remember the exact day tho. Was gonna see Genesis a few weeks later but couldnt make the concert for some reason.
Wish i would have, heard it was great
err i mean few weeks before the acdc concert, ug im not awake yet heh
it was at the spectrum in philadelphia

where did u see them?

Khilee . I did not consider it a real concert. I seen Grand funk railroad , flint mi. In 1970 they had just stared out. They were a local band form flint.

They played at a park down town flint. I meet them before they were big. There manger Terry Knight was all so from flint. He was a real as* hole. He took them for all most every dime , when they fired him.

He even took the bands guitars and drums , said that they were his . He claimed that there contract with him , gave him every thing. Dam

Mark Farner the lead singer and lead guitar , was just here in town , last month with his new band.
C

lolo my oldest sister saw the monkies in concert when she was about 16. yup, monkies were on prime time TV and she cried and cried watching it cuz she was in love with Davie

There first album was "Love It to Death". I would see them play every Sunday. They lived on a farm in Pontiac mi. They would practice the songs on there love it to death album. The tickets were $2.50 Thous were the days.

The first one I went to was when I was 16 yrs old. I went to Brian Adams and Journey. Love it! I went with my best friend and a couple of guy friends.

I think it was Quicksilver Messenger Service in 1972. It was at the oriental theater in Milwaukee. We were sitting up front on the side steps. man o man

mine was Cool and the Gang sometime in the early eighties....ooofffhhh!

LOL....You will never believe it....I did see Genesis after ACDC and it was a great concert. Boy nothing like chatting with someone from my era, lol...So who else did you see? Lets see, I saw Iron Maiden, OZZY, Rainbow, Quiet Riot(lol). Jeez, I sound like a total metal head but really I'm not. Like I said I was not the hugest fan of my high school years music. I did not like hair bands, especially Bon Jovi, lol...I was not crazy about Motley Crue either.I loved the late 70's and early 80's though, especially when MTV first started. I turned that station on and never turned it off again for like 4 years, lol... I loved David Bowie during that time and bands like the Cars. Then when the grunge movement hit in the early 90's, I was all over that, and I also loved going to Dead Shows too, especially at Soldier Field in Chicago!!! Anyway it's ben great reminicing(SP) with you!!!

I almost forgot to answer you question...I saw ACDC in Peoria Illinois at the Civic Center. Did Farm Aid come to your area? That was another awesome concert event I went to.

Duran Duran at Blossom Music Center 1984-5?

Don't judge me!

I was like 9 years old and wore a lot of fluorescent-colored things. I was a victim of 80's zeitgeist. Then I discovered Led Zeppelin when I was 10.

Oh...the opening band was Erasure...if anybody cares.

Why don't we move on to BEST concerts? I saw Zeppelin several times, but my best concert is a tie: The Ramones @ The Whiskey in 1977, and Elvis Costello at Hollywood High School '77 or '78.

YES

Alice Cooper was my first too. I don't remember if Bob Seger opened, but I know the year was '70 or '71.

I've seen plenty of local band shows, but I'd say my first big concert thats worth mentioning was Marilyn Manson, on the "guns, god, government" world tour. probably in the year 2000. but I had been to plenty of local band shows in VFW halls, or bars before that, but I'm not counting that.

You don't have to say . But may I ask were you seen him ( them ).
C

look at my location. btw, I don't live in St. Louis. I don't even live in the same state, but I do live pretty close to it, in the neighboring state. but I seen them at Fox theatre. I cannot think of what year it was, but it was in St. Louis on, I think October 30th. which was awesome that I was seeing him on Devils Day.

Most people travel to see concerts. I don't think it was a bad question at all.

Steppenwolf, Summer of '69.

They were still big then because of Easy Rider.
Only went because a girl wanted to go.
Come to think of it, I did everything because of "a girl" at that age ?
Concert was in War Memorial Coliseum in the city.
Seating, about 8,000. Big names seldom came here.
Doesn't matter which city, cause they're all the same, right ?
Just another small southern town.

Now, here is the funny part. The concert almost didn't happen because the City Fathers found out there were "dirty words" in some of their songs.

Kay agreed not to sing the "dirty words", so the show went on.
Guess he was pretty smart and knew what would happen ?

When the band played "The Pusher", 8,000 kids screamed "God D*#M the Pusher Man."

The City Fathers flipped and banned the band from returning.
Didn't really matter, as the big bands began using a larger arena in a nearby town.

Incredible to see how times have changed in my lifetime.
Swearing is now common at town council meetings as they try to balance the budget, what with all our industry gone and even our bank became a house of ill repute.

Whoops, off topic there.

Steppenwolf didn't sound as good live as on their records.
Could have been the acoustics of the old coliseum ?

Wish I had seen Skynyrd before the crash and heard Duane Allman before his crash.

Good Topic !
Thanks Everyone.

I didn't mean it in a smart-alec (I know thats a word, but I'm not sure how to spell it, spell check isn't helping, haha) way. please don't take offense to it. but I seen them in St. Louis Fox Theatre, don't remember the year, but it was October 30th. for the Guns, God, Government tour. I went with two really, REALLY hot girls, I think I was 15 at the time of seeing them. which would've made it year 2000, as I'm 24 years old now.

LOLOLOL

because I get to know more about you personally by asking about the 1st.

but,... go for it!

Most Excellent my Friend!

knew you would have a great memory to go with it!

(my first cassette was "Tobacco Road")

I saw Manson open up for Nine Inch Nails in, i think, 1994? This was around the time "Portrait of an American Family" came out.

I had never heard of the band, but Manson came on stage and started the show by reciting an excerpt from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and stripped down almost completely naked except for a big black stovepipe hat, a black cane and a large black....ummm how shall we say...wearable phallus. And they rocked! And I thought Black Sabbath had the scariest music I ever heard!

This was also the infamous show where Courtney Love (post-Kurt-blowing his brains out) was a total train wreck, flashed the audience several times and jumped into the crowd to surf wearing nothing but a miniskirt and no panties.

Appropriately titled, this was the first leg of Nine Inch Nails "Downward Spiral" tour.

Ahhh...memories.

It's hard really to pick the BEST one. I mean... one goes to a G.W.A.R. show with completely different expectations that if one is attending the symphony.

That being said, in terms of quality of musicianship, I'd have to say it's a tie between King Crimson with the California Guitar Trio at Nautica 1993(?) or B.B. King, who I requested to go see for my 16th birthday present (1992).

Robin Trower was pretty awesome too, but some of his material gets kinda boring.

Wow murbella, you really go for the "old school" don't you?

I am one of those old folks who scorn equally old bands touring...for example, The Sex Pistols played San Francisco for their last concert as it turns out; I lived in LA, and couldn't get up there to see them (damn I was pizzed at the time), but I sure wouldn't pay to see them now...in their 50's, and fat old wrecks, nosirree, rock n'roll should be played by the young (I know plenty of people disagree with me.) The Last Concert I went to was Chris Isaak in the mid-90's, and he was great (and, in small world territory, his bassist at that time used to be in a SF Punk Band I used to see in the '70's called The Avengers.)

It doesn't really count and it's embarrassing, but my dad took me to Sha Na Na when I was like 5 or 6 yrs old. Then it was a summer of Depeche Mode, Grateful Dead, Billy Idol, The Cult, and The Cure. I know the Dead doesn't really fit, but I listened to everything and eventually went to 47 Dead concerts while living in Berkeley. Fun times....I miss them.

Although I didn't go to concerts in the 80's (with the exception of a Punk gig), I loved Depeche Mode, The Cult, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen....

btw, I would LOOOOOVE to see GWAR, or maybe the old school Green Jelly (they have a new cd out now, btw, and its terrible. nowhere near as good as Cereal Killer Soundtrack)

I would also have loved to seen manson around the "portrait" time, or even during the Anti-Christ Superstar time.

OH, another good show I went to was El Monstero, which is one of the bigger Pink Floyd tribute bands. gotta love them.

but I'd also LOOVE to see a symphony, or some real gloomy piano music or something.

I cant wait till 2010 when lilith fair starts up again
whoo hoo

we've got a 3 day hippie festival around here.

I've never been, but I'd really like to go. I just don't think I could get around so good at a festival with a cane. plus I'm not big on camping.

ahhhh but is Does count! You have the memory right?

And, thats one of the more unusual ones Listed!

wow deadhead or what haha

Oh yea, it was Count Basie.

Dead shows are fun as he!!....

I only made it to 11 Dead shows. I think the last was Buffaloe NY in 1996. The ride back home was quite the long strange trip . My friend that I went with was trying to talk me into staying overnight with 2 really freaky chicks in a tie-dye tent. They had longer hair under their arms than I did . I stuffed him in the car and drove 6 hours back to my own comfy bed. Ok..OT. Sorry.

I was going to say; just how old & worn are you? BUT,
I had no idea he was active up till then.

Bio: "Basie led the band into the 1970s. Basie made a few more movie appearances,
such as the Jerry Lewis film Cinderfella (1960) and the Mel Brooks movie Blazing Saddles (1974),
playing his arrangement of "April in Paris".

cool!

whooooooah!

sounds like a party to me! haha

I like a little bit of everything.

Mozart to Motorhead.

I've seen GWAR more times than I can count. It's like a ritual in these parts. Expect to leave with bruises and covered in blue-green liquid that won't come out of your clothing.

Green Jelly just played a week or so ago. I couldn't get anybody to go with me!

A friend of mine works for a large outdoor concert venue here, so I got to see the Cleveland Orchestra perform Berlioz and Debussey this summer....for FREE!

Variety is the Spice!

Reo speedwagon backed up by molly hachet Milwaukee fest 77 or 78 around there.

I seen alot of great bands after that. The stones,Zepplin,The Who keith moon on drums. That was a long time ago.

Oh drinking age in wisconsin back then was 18 in Illinois is was 21.

I wanna see the big worm that eats people!

My mom took me to see Elvis when I was 10. My first concert on my own was Rush 2112 I think. I saw them yearly after that till I graduated high school. They were deep.

My favorite concert was Micheal Bolton. I saw him 3 times at the now closed Starwood Amphitheater in Nashville. One time my daughter took me for Mothers Day. It was so dark and we had seats in about the mid section. My seat was the first one at the begining of the row. We didn't realize he was coming down from the top on a very high stool until he was 1/2 way down. Several people were getting up so we did too. We got so close you could touch him. Another time he did one with Wynona Judd. That was a fun one.

I have seen several country music concerts and a few of my favorites were Alan Jackson, Reba, and Tim McGraw.
Khilee

1978 (or maybe '79) - Legend Valley Ohio - Hot freakin' Summer day.

All day outdoor concert. Todd Rundgren and Utopia headlined (Hey, he was BIG in Ohio!)

Cheap Trick (who rocked outright)

The Cars (who sucked outright, their sound system was absolutely awful)

Eddie Money (Suprisingly good)

And the obligatory opening act, "Roadmaster". Like the bicycle from Schwinn.

No wait, first concert was Todd Rundgren and Utopia at the old Agoura Theatre in Y-town, Ohio, 1976. Yes? No? Something / Anything?

rush would've been awesome! especially back in 2112 days.

I'm not a big fan of Rush, but after seeing them perform at the CSU Convocation Center circa 1992(?) I had to give them credit for their excellent musicianship. While they are among the more technically proficient bands I've seen, for some reason their music just doesn't "move" me. I listen to Rush, and I have almost no emotional reaction...maybe a bit of mild irritation at Geddy Lee's vocals...

The show was great, but the crowd scene was really kinda bizarre...Throughout the performance about 10 percent of the audience was engaged in a sort of spastic gesticulating behavior, which I gleaned to be the drummers who had come to the show and decided to play "air drums" along with Neil Pert.

It was interesting to observe.

Anyway, I probably wouldn't have gone, except that my high school sweetheart (who was a drummer) paid for my ticket and Primus was the opening act.

Pink Floyd was a really good chillin' concert! I remember the tix were 45.00 and that was a lot back then. With all the smoke, the lasers throughout the show looked awesome. I'm surprised I still remember any of it though, lol.

I went to a lot of concerts as a kid. My BF had a good job and his mom had speed redial at her work. Pretty snazzy for then. I've seen Heart, Pat Benatar, Ozzy, Ted Nugent, Van Halen, Foghat (sort of - I fell down a flight of stairs while drunker than a skunk), etc... Too many to list.

I started not getting into Rush so much when they changed producers with the Subdivision Album. I still think they are amazing, such sound for 3 people. OH, yeah, Triumph, another 3 person band from Canada, saw them a few times too, prolly with Rush, I don't remember every detail.

i think my first concert was the police, but the one i remember the most was U2 in radio city music hall, this was before they were a HUGE success and it was well...intimate..and they were so good.

Zappa and the Mothers, following week Jeff Beck, Then Santana with Leslie West from Mountain opening. Then the Grateful Dead. Best guitarist ever though was Andres' Segovia. WOW!

I would say their music isn't really an emotional music. so thats not surprising. and I'd say a lot of their fans were most likely Dungeons and Dragons players. (I wasn't around back then, born in '85, but thats just from what I understand)

also, I'd like to point out there is a newer band thats been compared to Rush called Coheed And Cambria. they have songs about similiar things, and the vocals are similiar.

Jeff Beck and Andres Segovia. Two of my favorite guitarists, have seen neither.

James Gang opening act, followed by Mountain. Very, very LOUD!