My first concert was...
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My first concert was...
(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.....
So what about anyone else? Who was your first?
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.....
So what about anyone else? Who was your first?
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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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Oh Guns, that taint will never come out. I am so sorry. That explains the hair in those teenager pictures though.... Sorry, couldn't resist.
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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.
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here's my first concert( i think )...and actual rare FOOTAGE from that same tour.
Aqualung from 1975 Warchild Tour
and here's my second!!
i believe i saw both Warchild Tour and Relayer Tour in 1975, as to which one was first, i soooooooo can't remember.
Aqualung from 1975 Warchild Tour
and here's my second!!
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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have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~