CONFESS!!!!! First Rock Concert you ever saw!!!

Mine: Shaun Cassidy. I went with my mother and one of her Card Club friends took her daughter (who I was not necessarily friends with myself).

I made up for it - second concert was Yes and the third one was David Bowie!!!

Grand Funk blew the other band away


DDQM

Shaun Cassidy and Grand funk make me suddenly feel better about Peter Frampton.

should EVER feel good about Peter Frampton :D

how lame is that!

On their football field (they played football then). And yes, it was the '60s, and Bob was just a local guy.

Around 1975. heh..

Osmonds, then the next year my dad took me to see Boston and ELO. I think we saw all those godawful late 70s bands...Kansas, Foreigner, etc. :scared:

Things didn't turn around until I went back to San Diego to visit family a couple years later and saw Black Flag. :D

.... well the Osmond Boys - the sons of Alan Osmond were on the same billing as my a cappella group.

Second was AC/DC. Third was Judas Priest. :evilgrin:

In Duluth a few years ago. My parents took me and my sister and our neighbor Pam came with her two kids. Lots of fun! Couldn't see anything, but lots of fun.

They sucked at the time, but now they're actually quite good.

Flowers in her hair; flowers everywhere! Thanks for the memories.

;-)

Total guilty pleasure for me. Did you know that John Cowsill is engaged to Vicki Peterson of the Bangles. Just a little trivia for ya, there!

is married to Peter Holsapple of the dBs, who was also the unofficial "fifth member" of R.E.M. Susan and Peter play together in the Continental Drifters, and Susan and Vicki Peterson in the Psycho Sisters.

or perhaps the Beach Boys. To tell the truth the most fun I ever had was at the Beach Boys concert in the mid 70s.

Jesse Colin Young, the Beach Boys and Crosby Stills Nash and Young---July 1974

That is where I saw almost every "rock" concert I ever attended. To tell the truth I was more likely to go see a play or musical in the theater.

or it might have been at Arrowhead, the football stadium there.

Just about every concert I went to in high school was at SPAC. Great memories--- Santana, Clapton, Pink Floyd, CSN&Y, BOC. So what the heck, I go check out the web site and what do I find

Life sucks.

Saw The Fifth Dimension and The Association...I'll never forget how awed I was to hear music in person I had already heard on the radio ~ Cherish, Up Up and Away and Georgy Girl.....I still love going to concerts..

At the old Eagles Auditorium in Seattle. Great show!! I was 12.

A friend and I took the El from the north side of Chicago to the south to see our idol. We even snuck backstage afterwards to catch a close-up glimpse, and got caught up in a near riot. Big stuff when you're 12.

1973 University of Western Ontario Alumni Hall

It sucked.

a Floyd cover band that doesn't suck. In fact they're damn good.

a precursor to Rolling Thunder

Family and friends were--

David Bromberg
Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth
Doc & Merle Watson
Ramblin' Jack Elliot
the Byrds (when Clarence White was still alive)
Joan Baez
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Earl Scruggs Band


on edit, I just realized the first rock Band I saw was Country Joe and the Fish on a flat bed truck in Golden Gate park outside of Kesar stadium just before going inside and seeing them play. It was May 1, 1967, on the occasion of a anti-Vietnam rally that was held in San Francisco and New York City simultaneously. Coretta Scott King spoke also.

AFOS had just done their 'hair thang', like they had in the video. (MTV was just in it's infancy, and we were into the "new wave style').

Good show. 6th row center.

Had a huge crush on Jane Wiedlin.:loveya:

But here's the kicker: it was in 2001! Yes, my very first rock concert when I was the ripe old age of 30.

but the first one I went to on my own was The Guess Who. It was during Burton Cumming's skinny years! Randy Bachman was not with the band then. I did see them again a couple of years ago. Randy Bachman was back, and Burton Cummings (who is a real cornball) was still making the exact same jokes. I remember my mother made me wear a dress the first time (a sailor suit dress!) so I was SURE to wear jeans when I went the second time!

They rocked. Second concert I went to was Journey (ach).

... in exchange I had to go with my parents to see "Up With People".

-- Allen

and without makeup, too. I can't believe I was actually into these guys. At least I have an excuse: I was 12.

As I remember they could barely play their instruments but they had this pretty good chick singer.

1974, in the old Sam Houston Coliseum.

I just saw a BOA video on VH1 Classics the other night - he looked like he had a chinchilla stuffed down his pants!

Joan Jett was the opening act - about 6 months before "I Love Rock 'N Roll" became a hit. She was booed off, but I think she'd be booed off even after that.

remember them????

i was 12. they really weren't all that bad. shame about that benign brain tumor, though.

OK, it's not THAT bad. It was during their "17" tour, and they actually had a hit song.

My review (some 20 years later)? Eh. Not too bad.

I was 13 & the tickets cost $5.75.

I didn't know any better at the time...

And I was deaf for a week afterwards. My ears still ring a bit and i blame that concert from thirty years ago.

David Lee Roth. Sammy Hagar ruined that band. :-(

7th row center floor - but unfortantely it was sammy and not david lee roth :(

Hey I was a kid, whaddya want from me. I missed out on The Stones' Steel Wheels Tour because I was sick.

Then about month later, The Animals.

Famous Last Words tour. In Austin, TX.

The last time they played there. My mom bought me tickets for my 12th birthday.

Kiss and the Rockets. Couldn't believe mom let me go with my buddies neighbors (they were older teens I was 12)

And the warm up band was Golden Earing (with their one hit: The Twilight Zone).

I was 8 years old.

was a good concert, as I recall.

Ok, I was 13, a huge fan, and for some bizarre reason my mom thought it was ok for my 11 year old brother to tag along as well.
This was 1977ish in Baton Rouge at the Centroplex.
Every river rat and red-neck biker for 100 miles around was there.
Novice dumbass that I was, I wanted to get close to the stage on the floor.
Made it to within a dozen or so yards when the crowd decided to play "push and shove".
Everyone pushed from side to side about 10 or 15 feet... people were getting trampled... my little brother went down but I managed to get him up ok... we headed for the cheap seats.
On the way off of the floor some 25 year old "biker-neck" decides he wants a piece of me... Riiight.. beating on the goofy, chubby blonde kid with glasses is gonna make you feel like a *MAN*.

The show rocked and by the time the lights went up the other side of the arena was obscured by the pot cloud.
lol

The *best* arena show I've been to had to be a ZZ Top show in Lake Charles.
The best show period was standing 5 feet from Stevie Ray Vaughn in a little bar in Lafayette, La. and just about peeing myself watching his guitar work.

Oh, and accidently catching Mojo Nixon and Skid Ropper at The Grotto in New Haven back in '86.

Sweet.

Mojo

Yeah Yoo Rite!!
It was either the same year or it was the year before the show you saw.The Municiple Auditorium. GREAT SHOW.
Saw Stevie Ray Vaughn too in Baton Rouge--
at the Hog's Breath Saloon.

It was the hot ticket among us young fundies back in the day (early '80s). MWS was great. Amy was great. I was saved and I knew it and clapped my hands.

And now: Jesus saves. God spends like there's no tomorrow.

My dad as a bass player in a local group, The Shags, and when I was three, I rmember sitting in front of the stage, watching him play. That kind of early stimulus made me want to be a musician myself.

The first "big" concert I went to was The Monkees reunion tour in 1986. I was 10.

in your pic --right?
D Boone?

I was 16, and he was a rock-and-roll god to me. He played at the Ludlow Garage in Cincinnati. I borrowed the family station wagon and had to promise to be home by 11PM. But he had two warm-up bands and didn't even come out until almost 10:30. I phoned home and asked my father for an extension, but my father wouldn't give it to me and I went home, leaving my friend to get back by himself. I found a prescription drug container full of pot but I gave to my friend because I didn't want to carry it around.

My ex-wife claimed that I should have defied my father and stayed til the end of the concert. And that that incident had negatively affected our relationship ever since. Who knows?

and the Allman Brothers showed up as unannounced special guests.

How long was that show? Do you remember?

It started around noon & went until 7 or 8. There were some psychedelics involved so I still flash on Bobby singing Black Throated Wind as the sky got really ominous. Grace Slick also showed up & I remember her flashing her boobs. Did you go to any of the shows at the Palace Theater, Waterbury?

Back in 1967 I think. I took my kid sister and saw Melanie for the first time. Remember thinking Beautiful People was a fantastic song.

I can't remember his name.. but i think that's it.. he played sorta jazzy pop in late 70's.

If he don't count as rock then eric clapton.

If he don't count either, then Tbone burnett and the clash opening for the who in LA collusieum in 82? Funny how the concerts were out of my linear memory.

The best live performance: Talking heads at the US concert.

Second best: Tangerine Dream in Albuquerque 1986

Glen Campbell subbed for Brian Wilson, who was beginning that weird stage he went through.

Supporting acts included Chad & Jeremy (my sister's faves) & Buffalo Springfield (mine!)

'twas a long time ago...fun first show thought...Horslips were really good, and I dug Nazareth at the time...

:toast:

KISS was my 2nd

What were you thinking?!?! Certainly glad you atoned for it in your later years. ;-)

Me, Blue Oyster Cult :-)

I think it was the Signals tour if I'm not mistaken.

Went to plenty of country shows with my folks before that, though: Waylon, Willie, The Gatlin Brothers, The Statler Brothers, The Oak Ridge Boys, Merle, Marty, Emmylou, Mac Davis, Jerry Reed, Chet Atkins, Roy Clark, Mel Tillis, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride, George Jones, Freddy Fender, Don Williams. If they hit town, we was there. The whole family.

Miami Jai Alai Fronton. I was about 14 years old. People kept passing me joints. Those were different times. :smoke:

I was seven they were...old I was with my mom and my friend kevin

Special NEW entertainer guest..

Little Stevie Wonder..

it ruled

Between the show in Portland and the show in Seattle, they cut their first live album, didn't they?

Check #8 above. You're not alone.

I was 12 & It was a blast...

My memory is terrible (saw them both, just don't remember the order)

I belive a band name Shooting Star opened for them. I was in 10th grade (1980ish)

Cheers
Drifter

probably 1971.

.

and Ten Years After!! Whooohooo!

At the Orpheum Theater in Boston.

after a show at Ten Years After show at Catholic U. here in DC. Can't remember what year...had to have been '69 or '70.

I think I made up for it when I saw B.B. King a few years later.

At the first Detroit Pop Festiival at Cobo Hall around 1967.

I. Am. So. Jealous.

I would have loved to have seen the 5. I got to interview Wayne Kramer about 8 years ago, and he told some great stories about the Detroit days.

There are a whole bunch of posters at this site:
http://makemyday.free.fr/mc5_concert_posters.htm

and here's the main page:
http://makemyday.free.fr/

It was an unbelievable who's who of Detriot music. 10 hours of jams! And I forgot, it was at Olympia.

San Diego Sports Arena, 1970?

First show in our Cowtown's first O-fish-ul rock venue. Early or mid '70's. Kenny Loggins slapped my hand....too bad I never cared for his solo stuff. }(

1979 at the sam houston colisium...also the first time i got high...steve tyler fell off the stage too....

1997 at the Summit (now known as the Compaq Center- bleh) in Houston. Awesome show! Aerosmith is the only band I've seen more than once live, and I've only seen ten or so concerts. Opening act was "Marry Me Jane" who weren't particularly great...

I believe it was in 1993 or 1994 during a rock festival here in Nijmegen/Holland

and Gary Puckett (sp?) & The Union Gap

First time I smelled pot too !!!

Second one was Led Zeppelin, and third was Pink Floyd pre-DSOTM.

At the Fabulous Forum, December 1978

I think I was about 5 years old at the time. Changed my life, dude. :smoke: :hippie:

Note, I didn't really get into the live music scene, still really haven't...

no text, just bragging (and showing my age)

The first of hundreds that I attended over the decades. Some I actually remember. :hippie:

Phoenix 1981

I barely remember it now. But I do remember living in San Francisco during the Summer of Love.

April 1975.

McLaughlin's second band, with Narada Michael Waldon and Stu Goldberg. 900 seater at my high school.

It was utterly amazing and stupendously loud.

I think Yes at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City was number 2 - later that summer.

In Chicago, same tour, except the show I saw was with Mahavishnu opening for Jeff Beck (the Blow by Blow band) I went to see Mclaughlin and then Beck completely blew me away. It was like the two poles of guitar playing. McLaughlin blazing fast and Beck stretching single notes out for an eternity.

I saw Narada's band...they opened for the CBS Jazz Allstars. Narada is(was)a kick ass drummer, with a whole lot more finesse than Cobham could ever hope for.

Only bummer was that Ray Gomez' heroin problem had knocked him out the band...I *think* the guitar player was Hiram Bullock, but I can't remember for sure. I was looking forward to Ray Gomez at the time.

Walden and Gomez - it boggles the mind. Two of the all time greats.

Hiram Bullock, oh how I hate his playing.

in Memphis. I also seen John in Memphis a few years back with the Steve Morse band also. John had Trilok Gurtru with him. The Indian guy that plays a little modified trap set sitting down. He has the little bucket of water that he gets some most interesting sounds from with a couple of little cymbals and gongs.

first tour -chicago.opening acts were "little" stevie wonder and martha and the vandellas, and they were alot better than the stones....

Their reunion tour a few years ago.

I don't go to many concerts. I think I've been to 3 alltogether. And I almost killed a guy at a Bob Dylan concert, so I've been hesitent to go back to them.

In Rio de Janeiro with Eric Carr on drums and Vinnie Vincent on guitar. I was only nine!

I was 15. It was a great show.

with my family. I still have the program.

I am green with envy.

Although, i've heard that things didn't sound very good (60's PA equipment lacked quite a bit) and the screaming and all.

But, to have been there must have been most excellent.
The Professor

I have some great memories of being on my sister's boyfriend's shoulders. I was 6 at the time. It was tough but you could hear. The recordings of the concerts make it seem as tough you couldn't because of crappy recording techniques for live shows back then.

(on a sadder note, my sis's boyfriend enlisted in order to not be drafted, made it home from being a demolition expert in Viet Nam and was killed in a motorcycle accident two weeks after returning...the creepy thing was that we stopped to watch an accident by the roadside while the medics attended to it and in the morning found out it was his accident we had watched)

That's a sad note, indeed.
The Professor

And boy, do I feel old. Black Sabbath's second albumn had just come out.

"I..am..Ironman.."

:smoke::hippie::smoke:

and BTO when I was about 10 years old, my first concert was Black Sabbath (with Ronnie James Dio, not Ozzy). My second was the Rolling Stones on the Tattoo You tour (won those tickets off the radio!)

Wife said of him at his funeral, "He was the most famous man nobody knew". His music was from the heart. Give a listen to "It's About Time"......he was a great humanitarian to boot.

september 1973 at the hollywood bowl.

:hi: hey I was 13

International Amphitheatre in Chicago. I think (but not sure) Bloodrock was the opening act.
The Professor

And we actually went to their hotel room for autographs! I was in high school and so naive that I never gave it a thought that we were in their room. Honestly, they signed our program and we left!

The next year we saw Herman's Hermits. No hotels; we were older and wiser. :evilgrin:

I attended was Earth Wind and Fire while in college. Way cool!
I started attending other concerts (mostly classical and jazz) when I was really little, because that's what my dad wanted to hear. :D

After Hendrix's warm up, me and my brothers asked our Mom what Mike of the monkees was going to play now that that mean black man smashed the guitar.
Little did we know.

He remembers it vividly.
The Professor

summer of '77. It was the summer between 6th grade and Junior High for me. I had to beg like a dog before my folks begrudgingly let me go.. providing my uncle take us. I never have cared for Cheap Trick, but I guess it was kinda cool seeing them before they became famous.

Long time ago ....

Civic Center, right? I saw at least 2 Hendrix shows there...once with the Experience, and once with Buddy Miles, but before Band of Gypsies.

I saw Cream there as well...November 3, 1968. It was their second to last show ever...they kicked ass. Their last gig was Providence, RI either the next night, or 2 nights later. I ended up meeting a guy in college who was at the Providence show...he said they only played about 3 songs, then spent the rest of the time throwing pies at each other.

April 26, 1970 at Cal Expo in Sacramento

A "Dick Clark Cavalcade Of Stars" show- for all the old geezers in here.

The Rolling Stones, Gene Pitney, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas and either Marianne Faithful or Cilla Black (I can' t remember).

I was 12, and I went with my 17 year old cousin, who neglected to tell his date that she would be in the company of not only my cousin but me! Needless to say, there was no second date....

Great show @ the Philadelphia Spectrum. Collective Soul opened up for them...

My mom took me, my brother and my sister, and we each brought a friend. My mom sat with her hands over her ears for most of the show and just about had a cow when she realized there were people all around her smoking pot. The show was at Pine Knob, so we had a bit of a drive from GR for it, but it was fun.

at SUNY Stony Brook....1968...I was a college sophomore at a nearby community college

welcome to DU! :hi: :hi:

I saw them in '68 as well (New Haven, CT) - opening act was Chuck Berry!

at a teen fair that I went to with my mother, and my cousin and her mother. I was around 10 or so. The first "real" concert I went to was the Allman Brothers, with the Eagles as the opening act.

was none other than Jimi Hendrix...London, '67. I haven't been right since lol.

You can't imagine what a monster that guy was way back then. We moved back to the States later that year...I saw him 4 more times before he died. The most memorable was an outdoor show in an unbelievable thunderstorm...don't know how no one was killed from the lightning. Truly an unwordly experience, pardon the play on words.

:bounce:

DemEx

My first concert was also Shaun Cassidy!!! Although I wasn't going to count that one because I was about 11 years old and my cousin took me to it and I didn't really know who the guy was, and he wasn't really a rock artist anyway.

So, the first rock concert I went to of my own desire and volition would be Earth Wind and Fire!

Believe me, after I saw Shaun Cassidy in concert I kinda realized that I was not destined to be a teeny popper watching crap bubblegum singers. I turned to Led Zeppelin!

The "Crazy Horses" tour, LOL! I was six years old.

We were going to go to Creed, but Rob Zombie announced that he would be playing in our area that weekend a couple weeks before the show. I had never been to a rock concert in high school. In addition to being poor, my parents were convinced that if I went to a rock concert that I'd get involved with drugs. It was a small indoor venue. My friend who had been to one of his bigger concerts said that it was really toned down. I liked it though.

on the same bill when I was 13. They had some strange bills back then

My first rock show ever too. Unless you count Mason Proffitt, who I saw with my dad in about'72. They were sort of a country rock outfit and they played bluegrass, which is why my dad took me. But BOA was my first on my own, with my girlfriend at the time. A first concert is sorta like the first time a person gets laid... never mind. Maybe I should have said its like a first car.

with songs about sex, monsters, and cars. Sorta like Southern Culture On The Skids without the chops or irony.

How's that for old?

I was pretty out of it,though.

1974 - Scherrie Payne, Cindy Birdsong and Mary Wilson

Hollywood Bowl, 1960 or 61. It was a reward for our Football team winning the City Championship (junior division, 4-5th grades)
Little Stevie Wonder had one hit then "Fingertips" and he was like our age at the time, 11 or 12. Dick Dale did "Miserlou" and the Surfaris did "Wipeout" and there were a zillion other acts on the bill; it was like and Ed Sullivan Show only live.

But the first "teenage" concert I saw was probably the '63 Beatles show at Hollywood Bowl. My ears rang for days and I was really pissed you couldn't hear the music over the screaming.

but I quickly went downhill from there....Loverboy (lol), Van Halen, Motley Crew

In 1983

in the late 80's.

Does that ever date me! I was 11.

I think it was my 14th birthday present, My dad (with his crewcut, bless his soul) stood in line and got tickets for me and 5 of my friends, then dropped us off at the old Chicago Stadium and picked us up after the concert. It was my first contact high too, but that's another story...

i was 14.. baptism by fire baby!

That... that is just awesome.

LOL...Rememeber "She's a Beauty" early 1980s? That was the 1st one...I believe.

At GA Southern. Then it was Eric Clapton.

then The Monkey's - then Cream....

He was great.

Giant footprints in your hair. Giant footprints everywhere. We can't be silent cause they might be giants and what'll ya gonna do if they were?

University of Maryland, Cole Field House, 1975

av8rdave

Woodstock 99 was the second

It was an outdoor show and believe me Lita Ford made quite an impression on my impressionable, hormone drenched, 16 year old mind!

w/ tanya donelly from belly and kristen hersch

that was a small club show

my 1st big arena show was r.e.m. on the monster tour

March 1981. Hatchet was still big at the time (I still love 'em), and .38 Special was in their prime - they were still 2 years away from horribly selling out. The Nighthawks were a decent DC-area blues band - a great show. I was 13. Still the densest secondhand smoke I have ever experienced, and I have seen them all... :smoke:

He was at the VP Fair in St. Louis.

And I'm gonna keep on lonin' you....
cause it's the only thing I wanna do....

yada and yada

Anaheim Stadium...

went there instead of the prom.

St. Louis at the Arena. They blew the top off the place especially
with "Jumpin Jack Flash" at the end.

Halloween Night 1975

Arco Arena, Sacto, CA April, 1991.

RIP Hutch.

Got to hear "I Fought the Law" live! They were tight!

sometime in the mid-70's, was a TERRIFIC evening.:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs and Bobby Hebb were also there.

St. Louis..1966...The Cheater

Didn't he disappear, then turn up dead about two years later?

Good pop song, though.

--bkl

He was murdered. Bob, who was the music instructor at Bishop Dubourg HS at the time the Cheater became a hit, is still around with a local St. Louis band. Bob is the drummer.

Hi Dees! :hi:

Damn, I forgot all abowt Bob Kuban! They played @ our high school dance in '63/'64, I think.

I think it was in 1981.

Well, I lied. The first concert I saw was the Moody Blues about four months before that. But the concert was terrible and the band had a lot of equipment trouble. The warm-up act was boring, but on the other hand, they did a few acoustic numbers with just one of them playing a 12-string.

But the Police/Go-Go's concert was fantastic. The only one I'd ever seen that came close was an INXS/Bangles/Squeeze concert I saw in '83. I also saw Squeeze/INXS with the Hooters at the Greek in Berkeley in 1985. Squeeze WITH Jools Holland was much more entertaining, but without Jools, the music was better. So you got to pick.

Recently? Not in years. I don't miss it, either. But I do miss seeing "live music" at small venues like bars. I just can't take the intensity of the tobacco smoke.

--bkl

fall 1982, Pontiac Silverdome. I skipped school to go. I think I told my mom I was going too. She was pretty laid back.

In 1983 at DeVos Hall. I don't remember the exact date.

Jay

... along with tears for fears, the rentals, the nixons, deep blue something, lisa loeb and del amitri.

they also brought out 2 people of a band that no one had heard of yet called "no doubt". i wonder whatever happend to them :shrug:

with James Brown, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Young Rascals...and Herman's Hermit's.

Janis Joplin, SIU edwardsville, 1969



:bounce:

Oops, forgot Ike Turner Review (featuring Tina Turner)
London House East, East St. Louis 1966.

:smoke:

:hippie:

that saw Elvis first? Lubbock, Texas about 1962. He also sang at my mother-in-law's senior banquet about 1951.

I went with my sister's boyfriend - we listened to Led Zeppelin's live album, on 8-track, in the car there and back. Tickets were like $8.50. Too bad concerts have gotten out of control, price-wise. They used to be affordable.

That was November, 1982. Dane County Colliseum.

And it was a HELL of a show. My sister's boyfriend had been to many rock concerts before, adn before the show I looking at the stage and said, "Hey - that whole bank of lights moved!" And he said no way, lights don't move.

HA! Proved him wrong - they moved! He was also completely blown away by the light show, and he was a veteran of many shows!

:shrug:

It's a Powerful medium. Much more so than talking or even movies. Music communicates when nothing else can.

Loved the thread!

xx

supported by Dog Eat Dog. I was 15. :-)