1969, just before I turned 18. Amazing rendition of "Since I've Been Loving You" (from yet unreleased III album) and "Moby Dick" (no drumsticks!) Changed my life.

you win. I has a jealous.

I've seen all the surviving members of LZ, some several times, but never got to see them all as I discovered them about a year after John Bonham died. Which really hurts because they came to Dallas in '77 when I was a freshman in high school so if I had been more aware of secular music (and lived in a normal family instead of weirdo fundamentalist christian cult family) I might have had a shot at going.

Frank Erwin Center in Austin in fall 1983.

Since high school, early 70's

Flint, Michigan. IMA Auditorium.

Grade school music class trip. I loved it. Nothing like live music, no loudspeakers necessary.

1950's.

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Try his great recording of Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 "Organ Symphony" with Marcel Dupré, organ. This is one of the great Mercury recordings made by Paray. Dupré is unbelievacable!

Other wise I would be listening all night !!!!!!

I would love to hear this live..

I was in grade school, and KISS was the hottest band in the land!

Next was Summer, 1978 ... The Beach Boys, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Elvin Bishop at Day On The Green, Oakland Coliseum.

Next was Summer 1980 ... Journey, Black Sabbath, Cheap Trick, Molly Hatchet, same venue ...

Next was Summer 1981 .... REO Speedwagon, Kansas, UFO, .38 Special, Gamma, same venue ...

Then it was The Tubes at Concord Pavilion 1982, Iron Maiden/Saxon at Cow Palace 1983 I think (Piece of Mind tour), Genesis at Oakland Arena 1984 (Mama Tour), Rush at Oakland Arena 1984 (Grace Under Pressure Tour), Dio at the Cow Palace 1985 (Sacred Heart tour) ...

Then Summer 1985 ... Scorpions, Ratt, Y&T, Metallica, Day On The Green, Oakland Coliseum.

Then it was about 150 more over the next 33 years ... the bands I've seen the most times are U2 (7) , The Cure (6), and Robert Plant (or Plant/Page) (6).

Other artists I've seen at least 3 times: Van Halen, Aerosmith, Rolling Stones, INXS, Metallica, G&R, Steve Earle, (Pink Floyd/Waters/Gilmour), Rush, Eagles/Don Henley, Matthew Sweet, Radiohead, Counting Crows, (Uncle Tupelo/Jay Farrar/Son Volt/Wilco).

You are the man, lucky man at that ! Wow !

I can't even tell you.

It'd take me all night to list the people I saw once or twice in the 80's/90's ... Dead/Dylan in 1985, Depeche Mode, Mellencamp, REM, The Boss, Elton, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Janes Addiction, Red Hots, Pumpkins (Siamese Dream Tour at the Warfield), Sugar, Alex Chilton, Pearl Jam, NiN, Rage Against the Machine, Green Day, Rancid, Adam Ant, Sting, Peter Gabriel ... just to name a few ...

And I still got most of the stubs to prove it, too ... though it's that old thermal ink and many names have almost faded away over the years ...

Your list, it is impressive.

...I think my first concert was The Fifth Dimension at the Ohio State Fair, Will You Marry Me Bill?

In '72 I saw the Eagles as a warm up band for The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Yes at the Akron Rubber Bowl, also that year at the Rubber Bowl was Commander Cody with The Jefferson Airplane, featuring tear gas and rioting!

Chicago Amphitheater 1973

Dark Side of the Moon was just released and they played the whole album.

Favorite band,favorite LP

got the tickets for my 13th birthday, went with my best friend

I remember a real high energy show.

Bangor Auditorium. Bangor Maine.

City Island one of the cooler concert venues anywhere...out in the middle of the river.

Shippensburg State College, Heges Field House (basketball court) Fall 1974. I wasn't a huge fan then - am now - was the original group sans Brian, with Bruce Johnston.

Farewell tour, October 1968, The Forum, Los Angeles, CA. Wow! I was just blown away.

Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum.

Golden Earring w/ J. Geils Band.

It was supposed to be metallica, Alice in chains, candlebox, and suicidal tendencies, but Layne Staley of Alice in chains was having a rough time with his heroin addiction. The only reason i bought the ticket was to see Alice in chains, but they had to drop out. The band that replaced them was called Fight, led by ex Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford. I enjoyed suicidal tendencies. Candlebox and Fight were ok. I guess it was neat to see metallica, but they pissed me off when they briefly made fun of Layne's addiction. Made me realize they were a bit douchy. Anyway, it was at Houston Raceway Park summer 1994.

Washburn University, Topeka KS 1964

"Shepherd Boy" that I use sometimes

...Tucson Arena...1977.

"Fly Like an Eagle"

They were in Jacksonville on my 12th birthday in 1967. Opening for the band was an unknown guy by the name of Jimi Hendrix.

I saw Herman's Hermits. Their opening act was this little known (at the time) band called The Who. I was 13 in 1967, and living in Seattle.

SIU is Southern Illinois University.

Outside Kc Mo with the Kinks, Steve Miller band , and other groups.

I was 9.

ELO 1978

Lansing Civic Center, November 4, 1964

My mom made us wearing slacks and ties. We went with a teacher friend of hers and her boyfriend. My brother was 14 at the time so he bailed - hid his dress shirt and tie behind a fire extinguisher. I just remember everyone wearing black and seeming a bit confused.

They played a Earth Day concert outdoors, and I was 13. That fall they released their debut album.

1961 Michigan State Fair Colosseum. I was only 12 years old.

Rick Nelson.

Dad was running part of the fair, my brother and were working mucking stalls in the barns. Barns were connected to the colosseum by an room over the road between the buildings and we were sleeping and staying there. We got in free. First time I ever saw that many teens going nuts. After that I went to Folk music shows, then Motown and then and still tons of rock and roll.

On a visit to NYC as a young teenager I found myself in front of the Brooklyn Fox Theater and Murry the K was having a special show
Walked in, paid $2 whole dollars to see:
Murray The K's Holiday Revue | Brooklyn Fox
Ben E. King, Little Stevie Wonder, Drifters, Miracles, Tymes, Chiffons, Randy & Rainbows, Angels, Jan & Dean, Ronettes, Jay & Americans, Gene Pitney, Dovells, Dionne Warwick, Dick & Dee Dee
September 4, 1963
The following fall I was driving through Newark, Delaware and got caught in a traffic jam caused by people going to see a free concert
Band set up on a flat bed trailer in a parking lot of the University of Delaware 1964, James Brown and his band taught us a few things that day.

James Brown was free

April 10th 1985, Houston in what was then the Summit (and is now Joel Osteen's church!). Apparently the opener was Graham Parker and the Shot, but I don't remember them.

The Spectrum, Philadelphia

Aug. 1974. Midway Stadium, St. Paul. My first concert and my first

Guns and Roses was the opening act, but Axel is Axel. LA Guns filled in. I was 15

I had previously seen them twice with Yngwie Malmsteen opening one and Saxon and Fastway opening another. All killer shows - I doubt I would have even been disappointed at an Axel no-show bc I don't think I even knew who they were at that time.

I believe it was the Tarrant County Convention center (Fort Worth, TX). No idea which real members where in the band at the time. Opening act was Delbert McClinton.

It was one of the final straws that led to me leaving home. I was 17 but had graduated high school some months before and was attending Jr College*. Still lived at home but had to beg for permission from step-asshole to go to a concert. Had a curfew of 10:00. Beach Boys were maybe 1 song into their set at 10 and my friend turned to me and said, "Hey, aren't you gonna get in trouble if we don't leave". I said yep and we stayed for the whole thing.

There aren't enough pixels on all the monitors on the internet to air all my grievances with my step-asshole (He'll never be a father to me) but I was highly offended to have a 10:00 curfew in college so when the inevitable shit-storm (which featured a full-on slamming me up against a brick wall and choking me while kicking our dog who always tried to protect me when he got to abusing) came down after getting home much later than 10 I made my preparations to leave. Was out of the house before I turned 18 and don't miss him a bit.


*Jr College, by the way, that I was paying for myself as he had no intention of helping with that. I couldn't help but notice his biological son got full tuition from him for University but I was already gone by then and didn't give enough cares about that little shit to find out where he went. My little brothers got to go to a Jr College too but only because my mom got a job at one so they could go there pretty cheap.

Jan 1976 Pullman WA WSU Colesium ticket 8.00 festival seating

NKBs = Nude Kitty B**ches.

The only song I remember was them playing "Go to a Party and act like an asshole"

I fell into the local hardcore scene after that.

Rock Pile Toronto, Rod the Mod sung, Ron Wood on bass, opening was this dude playing a stand up bass and the band was wearing red jackets, Willie Dixon & the Chicago All Stars, someone told me I was a moron for saying, wow these old dudes do some great covers....learned Willie wrote a ton of tunes covered by many rockers. Same venue, Savoy Brown, Led Zepplin pre fame stage, Arthur Brown, Zappa, 19 years After, Deep Purple and a ton of others, most interesting in the same era was Cream, in Massey Hall, no PA...

I had no idea who she was and it was a great night in SF...we had only moved there a week earlier.

I was 10 and it was a free concert in the park down the hill from my house.

Worked at night at time. When concert was announced, I simply told my boss -- "let me off, or I quit." Big Byrds fan.

I had a ticket for the city's "Summer Concert" series, to see Blood, Sweat, and Tears and The Brooklyn Bridge. One of the band members got caught with a joint coming through the Canadian border a few days before, so the concert was canceled (bad influence on the city's youth, you know!), and they made the ticket good for any of the rest of the series.

This was in June of 1969. James Brown was in top form, and it was an experience to be remembered.

That was my first and only concert. I didn't have any friends to go there with, but I still had a good time and at least got to see what a concert is like. I also scored a free CD from a rapper named "Anonymous That Dude".

I think it was the Nassau Coliseum or somewhere on Long Island in the 70s

An absolutely horrible experience, virtually wiped clean from my memory. Morrison was drunk and angry and the Antioch students were pissed - led on by David Peel, who had arrived to launch a protest. There were other performers, but I haven't the foggiest idea who.

This concert was omitted from the equally dreadful movie, but apparently noted in the book "We have come for your daughters: what went down on the Medicine Ball Caravan" by John Grissim.

at the now defunct Met Center in Bloomington, MN
Bow Wow Wow opened

at CCNY 1976. They told us there were no seats so we sat down right below the stage. Amazing talent.

Maybe Spanky’s in Riverside CA.

The first in a proper concert venue was around the same time in 86 or 87, when I saw Nuclear Assault at the De Anza Theater in Riverside.

With Ravi Shankar at the old Chicago Stadium

I was 13 years old. My parents drove me and five of my friends in to the city, dropped us off for the concert and picked us up afterwards...mind-boggling now that I think about it .... 1974 was a very different time.

George Harrison is one of my most favorites... Ravi did an album with Philip Glass, another favorite.

Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. I think I was all of 10.

Southwestern University Georgetown Texas. Saw him twice again at Bass Performance Hall UT Austin.

I can't remember the year --- but it had to be about 1966 or 1967. I was a teenager. Jackie was awesome.
He was reaching out to the crowd and I was so close. There were two girls between me and him and they wouldn't let me in. I'm so mad at myself that I didn't push through.

Mercer Unuversity

2 days before my 16th birthday!

It was Wham - Miami Dolphins Stadium. I was in 5th grade, with my Dad and older sisters.