ModalMood Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I'll go... Led Zeppelin - Nassau Colluseum - 6/14/72 Back Door opened. Ticket prices were $6.50, 5.50 and 4.50. You can't get a hot dog at a show for that these days lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bongoscot Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Van Halen 5150 tour in 1986 at the Rosemont Horizon in Illinois with BTO opening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 "The Beatles," August 21st, 1966...at Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri. I was 16, and I had never seen so many beautiful girls, in one place, before (or, since)! Oh, and the concert was Great, too...what you could hear of it, over the screams, from those very same girls. CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyBillyBob1 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 The Beatles @ Shea Stadium 8/15/65. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quapman Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 My first ever concert was the Stampeders. But my first real rock show was Kiss, Love Gun tour 1977. They were awesome. The drum kit rolled out to the front of the stage and raised up to to roof. I was 16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeppelinguy Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Van Halen 2007, Honda Center, Anaheim CA. I was 16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleb Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 My first ever concert was the Stampeders. But my first real rock show was Kiss, Love Gun tour 1977. They were awesome. The drum kit rolled out to the front of the stage and raised up to to roof. I was 16. What I wouldn't give to see that! Well, I saw Ace live and that was awesome too! My first show was B.B. King at some blues festival in Missoula, MT in 2004. I was a youngster then. Can't remember a thing! Elvin Bishop and Dr. John were there too. Not bad for a first concert! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A add9 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 The California World Music Festival in Los Angeles 1979.. I went on day one. Here was the line up. Cheap Trick Toto REO Speedwagon Journey Outlaws Ted Nugent Head East April Wine Mahogany Rush Fabulous Poodles <<<<< Got booed and pelted off the stage with shoes/various items.....and rightfully so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Thanks to young parents that were artist and hippies it was Woodstock but I was only 9 almost 10 though only three months away. So I'm not sure how much it counts but it should it was amazing still the most people Ive ever seen in one place even after all these years. My memories are those of a kid though I thought it was great but I didn't realize it would have such a huge impact on the world at that time. I was amazed and overwhelmed it was overwhelming in many ways including the smell. It was part of an amazing summer where my parents took us from Wisconsin there and then across the country to Lompoc California. My dad was a military diver and had been assigned to Vandenberg AFB's reopening. My mom was a total hippie and a ballet dancer/painter that also did modeling so it was all kind of a really weird childhood. I was actually about 12-13 before I realized T-shirts actually came from the store white and not tie-died. I thought my dad's white t-shirts were military issue since I had never seen one that was white! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad4d8 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Not sure, either Gerry Mulligan or Judy Collins/Odetta, both in autumn, 1964. Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windmills Optional Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Jethro Tull at the Chicago Stadium, 1972. We sprung for the expensive seats--$6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModalMood Posted July 30, 2012 Author Share Posted July 30, 2012 Jethro Tull at the Chicago Stadium, 1972. We sprung for the expensive seats--$6. In 72 I was 11 years old. My dad was going to take me and Danny Turner to one of two concerts. It was either going to be Zep or Tull (Passion Play tour if I remember correctly.) It was the hardest choice I ever had to make. We went for Zeppelin. \M/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasbluezman Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I can't remember what year or how old I was, and I wasn't even messed up. But my first concert was Poison, Lita Ford, and Britny Fox. That should put it about '88 or '89, or possibly '90, which should put me between 16-18. Hair Metal to the MAX. Too many fine looking girls to count! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LT ED Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 1979 Manchester apollo UK. AC/DC with Bonn Scott and supported but a very young Def Leppard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyMoon Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Triumph 1979 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Skid Row supported by LA Guns.. Docklands Arena London 1991 lol :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Blood, Sweat & Tears. 1968 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Rush came to Fitchburg Mass in like, 1974/75? that had to be it for me. 20 minutes before the show, walking to my seat up the steps in the old Fitchburg Theater I see (who I learned later on were) Geddy and Alex about 10 feet away from me, they were standing down off to the side of the stage talking to the sound crew, I knudged my buddy ans said, "who are these hosers" -- the rest,, as they say is history.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickFromMunhall Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Late '60s early '70s - Righteous Brothers Pittssburgh's Civic Arena ... I looked it up - 04/22/1967 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellion102792 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Good Charlotte & Sum 41 when I was 12..sheesh First concert of significance however was Paul McCartney's US Tour about a year later, goooood show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boozeball Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 My first was Johnny Cash in 1981 at the State Fair, I was seven years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vega1 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Mine was Poco, sometime in the very late 70's. I was about 11 or 12, my first guitar teacher took me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Lots of little live music encounters as a kid, but the first big show I remember buying a ticket for was The Eagles in early 1980. But now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I saw Molly Hatchet before that and maybe Marshall Tucker even before that - it just doesn't seem that way in my memory. The Eagles show, being bigger and all, seems like the first. Ima go look this stuff up on the Internet... Yep turns out I saw Marshall Tucker Band on 12/8/79 - (you can find their complete tour schedule on the internet - crazy). I saw the Eagles on the Long Run tour on 1/27/80 (thanks to the Internet again) Can't find the Molly Hatchett dates, but the first album came out in 1978 so that may have been the first. It's a ll a bit foggy anyway - as perhaps it should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pittstrummer Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Kiss and Head East. Kansas City Missouri 1976, 8th grade. $7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaysEpiphone Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Thanks to young parents that were artist and hippies it was Woodstock but I was only 9 almost 10 though only three months away. So I'm not sure how much it counts but it should it was amazing still the most people Ive ever seen in one place even after all these years. My memories are those of a kid though I thought it was great but I didn't realize it would have such a huge impact on the world at that time. I was amazed and overwhelmed it was overwhelming in many ways including the smell. It was part of an amazing summer where my parents took us from Wisconsin there and then across the country to Lompoc California. My dad was a military diver and had been assigned to Vandenberg AFB's reopening. My mom was a total hippie and a ballet dancer/painter that also did modeling so it was all kind of a really weird childhood. I was actually about 12-13 before I realized T-shirts actually came from the store white and not tie-died. I thought my dad's white t-shirts were military issue since I had never seen one that was white! So besides the one's that where still in there mothers womb you where one of the first children to do acid? LOL! (Just a joke man) I was present at a new type of festival that had started in the early 1980's that we called a street party then. Greensboro North Carolina it was the City Stage event. Charley Daniel's was the head-liner but there was lot's of local act's too and a new guy named Mike Cross (The Bounty Hunter). I was 16 or 17 years old, one of my older sister's and brother in-law took me. It was a free event that was put on by the City/County Art's Counsel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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