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My first concert was...

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(Apologies in advance if this was in another thread. If it was, I missed it)

So. Concerts. We love 'em, right? I mean, listening to music at home or in the car is cool and all, but nothing compares to seeing groups live. But what was your first show? I would suspect that for many of us, our first concert experience was somewhere in early adolescence, when our musical tastes were no more mature than our bodies. So what was the first show you saw? How old were you? Any fond (or otherwise) memories? (I bet we get someone to answer New Kids On the Block or Tiffany.... if we don't, someone's probably lying :) )


My first show was AC/DC, spring of 1989, on the Blow Up Your Video tour. I was 14. In retrospect, not a bad way to start, pretty much straight up rock. I have vivid memories of being totally caught of guard by the smell.... large crowd, sweat, beer, pot, tobacco.... ugh. Also, there were far too many people wearing far too little clothing for their body type (although that may have been a Wisconsin thing...). Pretty much derailed my teenage fantasy of hooking up with some rocker chick... :) Of course, the fact I was 14 wouldn't have helped either. ;)

The band was great. Angus Young just owned the stage. And I have very clear memories of those two giant golden cannons rising from the stage during "For Those About To Rock...". The cannon blasts left my ears ringing for days..... 8)


So what about anyone else? Who was your first?
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Chicago, 1976, the now defunct Hollywood, FL Sportatorium. I had just gotten my drivers license, being 16, and drove myself.

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I never went by myself to a concert again.
(which in effect led to my meeting Hyperception 11 years later)
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...supposed to Be KISS, but I broke my femur and was in the hospital. 9/14/78.

...instead it was ( I had WON tickets so don't harsh on me too badly).... naw, I jess can't can't fess up...
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C'mon, Guns give it up! I promise I'll still respect ya..... :)
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The Osmonds?

My first concert was the highly intense and electic Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McGlaughlin, Billy Cobham, Rick Laird, Jerry Goodman and Jan Hammer at the Waterbury Palace in '72. Phillip Glass was supposed to open, but had to cancel so some unknown band from Boston opened called Aerosmith-amazing show. I saw 5 more Mahavishnu concerts in the next two years.
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I am sooooo old ... don't rightly remember. But it was either Aerosmith on the MIT Campus (before they were BIG but after "Dream On" was out) or Three Dog Night!
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Ha! we posted Aerosmith at the same time!!!
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Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
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Gordon Lightfoot with my Dad. I think I was eight or nine. Embarrassing ones? Let's see, Huey Lewis and the News. That's pretty shameful. :P
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ahhhh, I got embarrassed beat. I once went to Captain and Tenille and separately Barry Manilow! :P And then the Spice Girls; but that was for my daughter when she was pre-teen! :biggrin:
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I don't know if I can beat Spice Girls but I'll call your C&T with Altar Boys and Stryper.
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Neil Diamond back in the late '70s. I still have the tickets for the Zeppelin show at the Capital Center for 10/23/80....That would have been the first one I wanted to go to.

First actual concert was Van Halen in October of '82.
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First concert was Barry Manilow back in Jr. High with my mom. I was in 7th grade. I couldn't tell you the year though, but if I graduated 12th grade in 1987, I suppose it was 1981 or 1982 maybe. I saw Kansas for the next two concerts a year or two later.
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...all right: Mine was....

















Hall & Oates. I still stink of it.
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Oh Guns, that taint will never come out. I am so sorry. That explains the hair in those teenager pictures though.... :P Sorry, couldn't resist. :biggrin:
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Jenn....are your private eyes watching my every move, you maneater, you.
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Now look what you have done..... I have Hall and Oates music stuck in my head. I used to think you lurved me. Apparently I was wrong else you could not have treated me so cruelly. :-x
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Geez Jenn...I do lurve you...this is why your kiss is on my list.
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My dad nixed me on going to see the Eagles at the Chicago Stadium around 1975 when I was 13..... First concert I actually got to would be seeing Kansas in 1980.
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here's my first concert( i think )...and actual rare FOOTAGE from that same tour.

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Aqualung from 1975 Warchild Tour

and here's my second!!

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i believe i saw both Warchild Tour and Relayer Tour in 1975, as to which one was first, i soooooooo can't remember.
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