Public Enemy in San Bernardino, CA.

I saw Elton John in 1973, when I was 16.


I bet it was a great concert. Look at Elton, sorry Sir Elton now. It's hard to believe that he was ever cool. Picking up any of his early albums and scanning the tracks tells how talented the man was.

... as well as Bernie Taupin. A great team!

The first time I saw Elton was in the DC area at an outdoor concert. 1970 maybe. I knew nothing about him. Just some crazy frontliner who was absolutely manic on stage, played the piano and sang like no one I had ever experienced before. He was so good, I do not even remember who the main act was. What a showman.

Many of these 1st concerts are scaring me. BTW, I was 6 mo. old when I saw my first concert. :p

Hall & Oates, 1985. How weak is that? Actually, they were good. General Public opened. They were better. My first show. Pretty cool. My girlfriend and I bogarted our way onto the floor and up to the front. I caught a drumstick. Woo hoo. My first show.

Unless you count the Oak Ridge Boys at the 1981 Natl Boy Scout Jamboree. I don't count it.

I bought tickets for Van Halen in 1983, but my über strict dad found out and wouldn't let me go. Ah, youth; so wasted on the young....

Jackson 5 - Dancing machine, around 73 or so, still one of my all time favorite concerts

My first concert wasnt acutally a music concert. It was George Carlin back in 1977.

My first concert was Matchbox 20, yikes... It was in a small room and wasnt really that good, i dont even consider it a real concert.

My first Major concert was U2 in the Calgary Saddle Dome, April 9th, 2001

Peter Gabriel in Pittsburgh.

I saw Elton John in 1973, when I was 16.

I hate you!

I bet it was a great concert. Look at Elton, sorry Sir Elton now. It's hard to believe that he was ever cool. Picking up any of his early albums and scanning the tracks tells how talented the man was.


Peach Tree Road sounds alot like his early stuff. I stopped buying his albums right after
"Rock of the Westies"
But I own Peach Tree

My first concert was "THE FOUR SEASONS", yes I am that old.

Sorry to say, The Judds at the county fair. It's was the last concert they played as a duo. Yes, I'm not proud of this.

:(

Summer holidays in I think 1975. Kiss with Cheap Trick supporting at the Stampede Corral in Calgary.
Kiss blew me away. I had no idea what live performance was all about, I've been hooked ever since.

'Rasher

MC5, Iggy and the Stooges, David Peel and the Lower East Side, Moloch. New York State Pavillion, Flushing Meadows Fairgrounds, 1971, I believe.

OMG, what a show that must have been. you lucky Bas%*rd.
Aging yourself a bit though ;)

Peter Gabriel in Pittsburgh.

That was going to be my first concert but I missed it.


MY first concert was the Rush 30th anniversery concert at the tweeter center on August 15th 2004. Fricken amazing concert.

It's funny the guy who took me who is one of my best friends, back when rush was on its presto tour I think he went to rush as his first concert too. Also the same guy was the one who got me into rush in the first place. So it had some meaning to it :)

The Beach Boys, 1984, in Pensacola, FL. Don't laugh, it was a fun show...

Black Flag

I saw some local shows at the WOW hall in Eugene when I was pretty young, but the first major show I saw was KMFDM in Portland. Took the Greyhound bus up with my blue-haired friends to see it, what a great time.

KISS at the Agridome in Regina in '77 or '78.

Steppenwolf

wow... some of you are older than I am. I feel like a young sprite!

I actually remember BLUE CHEER... (LOTEK). They were sort of before my time but i rememebr seeing an old concert of theirs on tv. They did "Summertime blues".

As for me, my first concert was Electric Light Orchestra, April, 1976.

Hey, this is a 1st concert thread, not a best concert thread. OK, maybe it's both.

My first concert was Tears For Fears in Radio City Music Hall. I got sat in the second to last row, and all the pot smoke rose up and gave me a contact buzz. Amazing. Went back the next month to see The Cure for the Head on the Door Tour, it was the famous performance where they got lost in the building trying to find their way back to the stage, and were found by the Janitor in some completely different part of the building. Can you imagine being the janitor? We of course didn't realize it at the time, but waited for like 40 min. for them to come back on stage. I would go to concerts for quite a while, and literally stand around waiting for the groups to come back on stage thinking that was normal.

Best concert is a toss up. Yo La Tengo, Wilco, Frank Black, Paul Simon (Graceland). Hard to Choose.

I think the 1st was Fishbone & the B-52s opening for the Violent Femmes at Summerfest in Milwaukee, prolly 1990.

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer at the Omni in Atlanta, 1974
Brain Salad Surgery Tour
Emerson's piano rotating in space and quadraphonic sound....

In the day :D

well technicaly my first concert was a wynona jude performence at the state fair that my mom dragged me to when i was in 6th grade. But my first concert that i went to on my own free will was a christain rock concert in boise called light in the night, it was on halloween night 05. The main singer was Hawk Nelson.

First concert was when I was 12, seen Kansas, where else but in Kansas.

Um...much to my shame, Sonny and Cher. I made up for it in the next few years, though, with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Doors. But still...

Crimpshrine.

Crimpshrine.Hell yes.

All in Australia....First live band was "Cold Chisel" before they became big, in a place called Bombay Rock. (very small venue)
The first big Concert was KISS but I can't remember the year. Seen them three times. Best concert I've seen was Prince, worst was either Michael Jackson or Machine Gun Fellatio. (I rate them about the same for entertainment)
I'd love to see KISS or AC DC here in Japan. Oh yehhhhh...
Steve

never been to a concert

The Beach Boys, 1984, in Pensacola, FL. Don't laugh, it was a fun show...

They were my first show the same year in Jacksonville, Florida. They were the headliner preceded by the Atlanta Rhythm Section and Three Dog Night. Metropolitan Park was the place. Been to several shows there.

...Aruba, Jamaica...

Cheesy crap.

Michael

November 1976, Madison Square Garden, NYC.....Earth, Wind and Fire, and 8 times since.

Cheers,

Brian

Smashing Pumpkins was my first concert too. Garbage opened for them. It was at the Hartford Civic Center in '95 I think.

Alice Cooper, 1979 in Tucson, AZ. I was 15 years old.

In 70 i saw Grand Funk, then LZ at the forum and a month later Tull at the Forum and in 71 Ten Years After at Long Beach. Free seating. That was a fun run to the best seat. Pretty good starter concerts.

Jethro Tull opened for the Doors at the Alexandria Roller Rink a loooong time ago.

Jethro Tull opened for the Doors at the Alexandria Roller Rink a loooong time ago.

now thats a concert

Elton john, opening band was Quarterflash.

Bad Company, Runnin' With the Pack tour. Kansas was the opening act, replete with strings accompaniment. Splendid!

the first one that actually mattered was propagandhi