First Concert Ever Attended

[mind at large]

im lazy, i didn't do a search for this topic in the old/new old forums, so if there is one, oh well. 

anyway, what is the first concert everyone attended?

Mine: August 15, 1997 - Merriweather Post Pavilion - Rage Against The Machine/Wu-Tang

i hope to see some embarrassing concerts in here...

[jones]

Phish

Rupp Arena
Lexington, KY
11/7/1996

[tdb810]

Debby Boone
Garden State Arts Center (now PNC Bank Arts Center)
circa 1977
with my grandparents

[Shug]

Foreigner in 1980 on the Foreigner 4 tour (Waiting For a Girl Like You, Jukebox Hero, Urgent and all that crap) at San Diego Sports Arena.  I had to buy my older brother a ticket just so he'd drive me to the show. What I really wanted to see was Foreigner on the Double Vision tour with that lineup, THAT would've been a different story altogether.  At least they had Junior Walker on sax, that was pretty cool, although I had no clue at the time.

The one I didn't get to go to a couple years earlier:

Cheap Trick
Blue Oyster Cult
UFO
Pat Travers

live at the San Diego Stadium in 1978.  I was 11. I wanted to see Cheap Trick so bad. I had no idea who the other bands were.  My mind would've been blown by the other three in 1978!

[vespachick]

1. John Denver, Universal Amphitheater - August, 1974
2. John Denver, The Fabulous Forum - May, 1975
3. John Denver, The Fabulous Forum - May, 1978 (w/The Starland Vocal Band!)

C'mon, who doesn't love a little Afternoon Delight?

[Jon T.]

i hope to see some embarrassing concerts in here...

I'll be your huckleberry.

MC Hammer 1988

You may think you have one more embarrassing, but U can't touch this.   

[vespachick]

 

[peafunk31]

i hope to see some embarrassing concerts in here...

I'll be your huckleberry.

MC Hammer 1988

You may think you have one more embarrasing, but U can't touch this.   

winner! /end thread

As for me, Beastie Boys with The Roots opening in '95 - Philly Civic Center

[CC]

Doe Maar, 1982

http://youtu.be/fHxgJvGtMhI

[searchinbig]

Chicago, Doobie Brothers and Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ  1974
Never forget that smell for the first time. 

[mahg33ta]

John Cougar, right around the time he found the Mellencamp

[Fully]

Loverboy - 1981 Municipal Auditorium - I went with my sister and her friends. I distinctly remember Sue Schnicker vomiting in the car on the way home.

[rmpotsy]

huey lewis and the news - freedom hall, louisville, ky - fore tour (sometime in 85-86)

[Tracy 2112]

A Day of Rock N' Roll ~ June 10th, 1979 ~ Louisiana Superdome  for $12.50!
Boston ~ Van Halen ~ Heart ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Sammy Hagar ~ Nazareth

[Fully]

A Day of Rock N' Roll ~ June 10th, 1979 ~ Louisiana Superdome  for $12.50!
Boston ~ Van Halen ~ Heart ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Sammy Hagar ~ Nazareth

That looks pretty badass, Tracy. I bet you got a baseball style concert shirt at that one.

[jaye]

The one I didn't get to go to a couple years earlier:

Cheap Trick
Blue Oyster Cult
UFO
Pat Travers

I saw them at the Shoreline!  I don't remember UFO but the other 3 were there.  Loved it!

My first that I chose to go to was a Day on the Green - Fleetwood Mac, Doobie Brothers, and the guy who sang Dreamweaver.

BUT - I went with my parents to see Barry Manilow.  :)  Jimmy JJ Walker opened and was really dirty and all the people there with kids were not happy.   

[Devil Ledbetter]

I had just turned 14 when Summer Celebration '78 played at our high school football stadium (Engel Stadium in Bay City, Michigan). 08/19/78.

The headliner was Bob Segar & The Silver Bullet Band. The opening acts were Cheap Trick and Van Halen. Tickets were $9. Van Halen went on first. They blew me away. I'm sure I went out and bought their debut album the next day.

Seriously, they used to be a decent rock act. Don't know what the hell happened.

[Fully]

1. John Denver, Universal Amphitheater - August, 1974
2. John Denver, The Fabulous Forum - May, 1975
3. John Denver, The Fabulous Forum - May, 1978 (w/The Starland Vocal Band!)

C'mon, who doesn't love a little Afternoon Delight?

Wow, Amy. You were really into Denver as a kid.

[Devil Ledbetter]

A Day of Rock N' Roll ~ June 10th, 1979 ~ Louisiana Superdome  for $12.50!
Boston ~ Van Halen ~ Heart ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Sammy Hagar ~ Nazareth

Man, I hate Hagar now but that Montrose album was tits!

And oh god, Nazareth. Band I adored in 9th grade that I can't even stomach today.

[ItBeats4Jew]

U2 - Brendan Byrne Arena,  East Rutherford, NJ - May 1987

I had to leave my freshman baseball practice early to attend and I was benched for the next game.  Worth it, though.