First Concert Ever Attended

[lpkell2145]

Everclear with Jimmy's Chicken Shack...around 1997, can't remember the venue in Columbus, OH. It was somewhere on OSU's campus. Don't remember too much about the show, but can remember very clearly that I was on a bad blind date with a guy wearing rainbow suspenders...in 1997.

[NoVa_NoLa]

My first show was punk/ska band Mustard Plug with Catch 22 opening at a club that closed down about 10 years ago. In High School all I listened to was punk. There was probably another band that played too that I can't remember. I don't have a ticket stub for this and payed at the door, so I don't know what the date is. Back in those days if you paid at the door you didn't get a ticket.

Mustard Plug - Mendoza
Catch 22 - On & On & On

Would you believe that Mustard Plug is still touring?  I saw them on too many occasions at the Trocadero in Philly, but saw them here in New Orleans maybe 6 months ago!  Can't skank like I used too...

[NoVa_NoLa]

Summer 1985...the Power Station (Duran Duran off-shoot) at the Spectrum...both the band and the venue are no longer in existence.

Gotta say, Robert Palmer was incredible.  I owe my T.Rex obsession to this band.

Get It On (Bang a Gong) - Power Station

I also owe them for clueing me into the Isley Brothers (my older sisters actually had this record which I'd never listened to)

The Power Station - Harvest For The World [2002]

[jcoyote]

If you have a turntable and find this used somewhere, pick it up.  It's a VERY good sounding record!!

[paloozajam]

Radio 104 Fest - Hartford CT - May 27, 2002

Headliners were Blink 182, Green Day, and Saves the Day (Pop Disaster Tour)

Others included:
Good Charlotte, The Used, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Sugarcult, Remy Zero, Unwritten Law, Andrew W.K., Mest, Gob, Throne, Trik Turner, Riddlin' Kids, Headstrong, Reveille, Quarashi, Grover Dill, Abandon Pools, 2 Skinnie J's

http://articles.courant.com/2002-05-23/entertainment/0205231450_1_blink-182-fest-green-day

[Shug]

Gotta say, Robert Palmer was incredible.  I owe my T.Rex obsession to this band.

Yep, that dude had a lot of smooth style and he was pretty good at some R&B singing. A lead singer/frontman in the best sense of the term, for sure!

[NoVa_NoLa]

If you have a turntable and find this used somewhere, pick it up.  It's a VERY good sounding record!!

I still have the vinyl =) ...but no turntable.  I'm a little hesitant to pick one up b/c I don't want to start collecting vinyl.  My CD collection takes up enough space.  Somehow, I don't doubt that I'll find a turntable somewhere just to replay this record. 

[jones]

Radio 104 Fest - Hartford CT - May 27, 2002

Headliners were Blink 182, Green Day, and Saves the Day (Pop Disaster Tour)

Others included:
Good Charlotte, The Used, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Sugarcult, Remy Zero, Unwritten Law, Andrew W.K., Mest, Gob, Throne, Trik Turner, Riddlin' Kids, Headstrong, Reveille, Quarashi, Grover Dill, Abandon Pools, 2 Skinnie J's

http://articles.courant.com/2002-05-23/entertainment/0205231450_1_blink-182-fest-green-day

Where you being punished or something?

[Jackets N Pones]

Candlebox
Opening Act: Flaming Lips
1994
The Summit
Houston, TX

[slappymoe]

peter frampton, freedom hall, louisville.

the "i'm in you" tour, 1977, maybe '78.

[rincon]

Gotta say, Robert Palmer was incredible.  I owe my T.Rex obsession to this band.

Yep, that dude had a lot of smooth style and he was pretty good at some R&B singing. A lead singer/frontman in the best sense of the term, for sure!

I read somewhere that Robert Palmer hated rock and roll,(including his solo stuff) and only did it for the money because he was not able to be very successful in his preferred style. 

My first who was Cal Jam 2, March 1978. Heart, Santana, Foreigner, Aerosmith, Nugent, Dave Mason, Bob Welch (not the pitcher), and Frank Marino. Aerosmith was the headliner. THEY SUCKED, and we left mid set, after 24 hours of sitting in a crowd so huge it took over an hour of people hopping to take a leak. Only went once in that period. Nightmare, but being 16, and first show, I did not realize it at the time. Santana is the one one I would ever want to see again, and I did 3 times.

[marino13]

Took my future wife to see:

Salt n Pepa
Illinois State Fair
August 1994

They had male dancers bouncing around wearing banana hammocks.  I have felt inadequate ever since. 

[MMJ_fanatic]

Black Sabbath
Mob Rules tour
March 1982--Boston Garden
featured some forgettable band name Wrabit as an opener.  Got to see Dio, which was quite memorable

[NSLrecordings]

The Who - Raleigh, NC - 1997

[LBSUNFLWR]

My dad took me to see Don Henley at Merriweather Post Pavillion, either the summer of 1989 or 1990. I was 14/15 years old and had been listening to The Eagles my whole life with my dad since that was one of his favorite bands! It was awesome...and so it began! :)

[Gonnaraisehell]

First concert I attended was Elvin Bishop with Eric Carmen opening in Sacramento, Ca. First big concert I went to was at Cal Expo in 79. Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Pat Travers and Shakin' Street. Great loud and rocking show. The good old days.

[Bulldog]

Pat Travers....WOW that brings back some memories....good stuff !!!

[dmooney99]

Rolling Rock Town Fair 2001

STP
Deftones
Live
Tantric
Oleander
Staind

and a field full of mud, so awesome as deftones killed it

I was at that show.  Not my first concert though.

The Cranberries in '94 in Gettysburg with MC900 Ft. Jesus and the Gigolo Aunts opening

[tippitoes22]

I talked my Dad into taking me to see INXS open up for Adam Ant, on the Goody Two shoes tour.

(God Damn that man Loves me! My father that is. I'm unaware of any feelings, good or bad, that Adam Ant has for me )

P.S. I was in fifth grade

P.P.S.- Antmusic is still a great record

[johnnYYac]

I talked my Dad into taking me to see INXS open up for Adam Ant, on the Goody Two shoes tour.

(God Damn that man Loves me! My father that is. I'm unaware of any feelings, good or bad, that Adam Ant has for me )

P.S. I was in fifth grade

P.P.S.- Antmusic is still a great record

Love me some Adam Ant!