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14th July 2009, 06:33 AM
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What was the first rock concert you attended?
I was listening to some old rock this morning, and remembered my first concert experience.
I don't remember the year, but from what I've researched it was probably Dec 1973. Humble Pie at the Sam Houston Colliseum. ♪♪thirty days in the hole♪♪ I was 15 and it was so very cool. The sweet smell of pot wafting through the air as soon as the lights went out, the booming rock and roll, the packed house. Ah, the good ol' days! What was your first concert? 
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#3
14th July 2009, 06:38 AM
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STYX in about 1975 or 76. Salt Lake City at about age 16
I enjoyed that concert very much--I remember staying up all night to get tickets when they went on sale. Similar experience at the concert though as what you described. My wife and I were brave souls last year, we took my daughter and two of her friends to see Panic at the Disco when they were here in Seattle. Still had the same intesity, just the music was different. Luckily there was a bar where the parents could escape to.
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#5
14th July 2009, 06:58 AM
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1976. Winterland, in San Francisco. I'm a little hazy on who opened:
T-Bone Burnett (?) Humble Pie Robin Trower. Loud as FUCK. Pretty much retired from concerts now; the exception is when I take my son to see Cheap Trick. Last edited by rhythmonly; 14th July 2009 at 07:00 AM. Reason: Thought Frampton was in HP at the time; wrong answer!
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#7
14th July 2009, 07:11 AM
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Wasn't until I was an adult and married - and even then, we won the tix from a local radio show.
Yes concert at the Assembly Hall, Champaign, IL. Late eighties... I think? Great concert, but even after all these years, I'm still miffed that they didn't play "Leave It".
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#8
14th July 2009, 07:13 AM
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#9
14th July 2009, 07:14 AM
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Some skate-punk band (I think it was "No Need for a Name") at the local hangout. I was in High School, so let's say -96.
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#10
14th July 2009, 07:27 AM
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Worm, I bet it was No Use for a Name
(I was a huge ska fan back in the mid-late 90s) HKF, I hate Rush. I hated the concert sooooo much. Flames. Flames, on the side of my face. If you really want to know the source of my detest, send me a PM and I'll send you the gruesome details.
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#11
14th July 2009, 07:30 AM
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mlerose, that's probably it. I just tagged along a friend who was a major skater. I was mainly there for the girlz.
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#15
14th July 2009, 08:03 AM
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I've been chewing on this, and the funny thing is that I don't remember for sure. And it's not like I saw a ton of concerts back then; oddly, I see a lot more concerts nowadays in my forties.
The funnier thing is that I think the answer is "Debbie Gibson". (I'm interpreting 'rock' concert here pretty loosely.) I went with some guys at work from a summer job. I thought we were going more or less ironically, as a joke that no one wanted to be the first to back out of. Woo-hoo! We're gonna see Tiffany Gibson! Haw haw! It turned out that I think the guy who spearheaded it was an actual DG fan. He spoke glowingly of her piano playing and songwriting. I remember he held his fingers in his ears throughout the opening act so that his ears weren't already blown out when Gibson came on. LOTS of mothers with tween and early-teen Gibson wannabes there. I'm sure they were uncomfortable with our presense. I know the ones around me weren't amused when I held up a lighter. It wasn't a terrible concert. Could have been worse, anyway. It remains the only arena concert I've gone to.
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#16
14th July 2009, 08:35 AM
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Hell, my younger days are a blur that run all together. I guess I'll just list the ones I remember.
Heart with Kansas opening. Fleetwood Mac Chicago The Who And the best concert I went to... Queen ETA I forgot Styx (free tickets) Last edited by Who_me?; 14th July 2009 at 08:40 AM.
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#17
14th July 2009, 08:37 AM
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1985, New Order, in Sydney. I still listen to the music by the support acts that night (Scattered Order and I think Ed Kuepper was there too). I haven't listened to New Order in ages.
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#18
14th July 2009, 08:52 AM
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ZZ Top, 1977, at the Paramount in Portland. We brought our cheap sunglasses.
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#19
14th July 2009, 08:55 AM
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Black Oak Arkansas, 1972, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
I was 15. The air was so thick with pot smoke, I caught my first buzz without taking a hit off a joint or pipe. Tommy Aldridge (excellent drummer) did a 15 minute drum solo that ended with him throwing the sticks into the audience- and I caught one! I still have it, too.
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#21
14th July 2009, 11:48 AM
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Not sure if this counts as rock (it was loud) -- I took my 12-year-old daughter to see The Bay City Rollers in the early 80's. Plaid scarves, heh.
My first non-country concert was Bruce Springsteen in the mid 90's. Is that rock? It rocked.
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#22
14th July 2009, 11:53 AM
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S, A, T-U-R, D-A-Y, NIGHT!
Thank you for that lovely earworm, Auntie! btw, that's not country.
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#23
14th July 2009, 12:17 PM
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1983. 15 years old. An all day metal extravaganza in Las Vegas, Twisted Sister headlined.
I was no sort of metal fan, even then. My Mom sent me to get me away for a day, during a summer visit shortly after the divorce.
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#24
14th July 2009, 12:41 PM
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First concert was New Kids on the Block, 1990, just before my 12th birthday. The first concert that could actually be considered rock, of sorts, was Bryan Adams about a year after that. The first one I'm not embarrassed about was U2, November 1992. I'm too lazy to check the exact date right now, but it was election night in the US, and I still remember the roar that went up when Bono turned to election results on ZooTV, and we saw that Clinton was the new president.
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#25
14th July 2009, 12:47 PM
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Molly Hatchet, with Shooting Star as an opening act. In 1984.
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14th July 2009, 12:57 PM
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The Moody Blues with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra at Red Rocks in 1992. It was a good show.
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#28
14th July 2009, 01:10 PM
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Talk about earworms, said daughter was over the moon last week because Brett Hudson friended her on Facebook (he's kinda flirty and if she wasn't 42 I'd have been concerned). Anyway, she just had to call and tell me, and remind me of all the times she played Rendezvous.
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#30
14th July 2009, 01:28 PM
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Jeff Beck with Mahavishnu Orchestra opening in June, 1975. I was 16 and a couple of friends and I drove to "The City" on our own for the first time. In a lot of ways I never went back. (None of those ways was "literally".)
Still one of the best concerts I've ever seen.
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#33
14th July 2009, 02:25 PM
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I wouldn't say it was exactly rock, but it was my first concert ever:
Terrorvision, 1995. I was 13. My dad picked me up at 10pm. The next evening we went to see Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat - it was that wonderful age of being on the cusp of growing up and wanting to be in the cool gang, but still wanting to see musicals with my family
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#35
14th July 2009, 04:02 PM
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Kiss in 1976. Rush opened up for them.
Damn I'm old!
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14th July 2009, 04:27 PM
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In the fall of 1984 I was 9. The Jackson Victory tour. My mother took me and some of my friends and we screamed like crazy.
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14th July 2009, 04:30 PM
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New Years Eve, 1992. Nuclear Assault at "On The Rocks" in Deep Ellum. Club was later famous for being a hangout for David Koresh.
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#41
14th July 2009, 05:50 PM
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1984. I was 10 and the show was Fresh Fest! I had shared a joint and a cigarette with my big sister and I enjoyed Run DMC, Whodini, Fat Boys and Curtis Blow. Oh, and Slick Rick and Dougie Fresh! Was Big Daddy Kane there? Or LL? I know I saw LL around that same time, but I can't remember if it was Fresh Fest.
ETA: Wow, Sleeps. I thought you were way younger than me, based on your pic.
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#42
14th July 2009, 07:46 PM
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I saw a lot of rock 'n roll bands in Memphis in the 70's. I get them all mixed up, but I'm sure of : The Stones Yes Guess Who Foreigner Black Sabbath Van Halen
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#43
14th July 2009, 07:52 PM
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Well, the first concert I ever went to was The Beach Boys at Lanierland Music Park in the middle of nowhere north of Atlanta. It was in June of 1983, and it ended up being kind of cool because Dennis Wilson died later that year. The show was all my Dad's idea, as he was a huge fan back when he was in high school. I didn't dislike it, but it really wasn't my thing, either.
The first concert I went to that was actually my idea was Men At Work, at The Omni in Atlanta in September 1983. The Red Rockers opened. It was a cool show. Quote:
The "wall" of the arena behind our seats was actually one giant intake vent for the AC system. There was a group of like, 4 couples sitting in front of us, and a couple of songs into the show all the guys pulled out joints and started passing them back and forth. They offered me a toke, but being a) with my uncle; and b) 12 years old, I was terrified. Come to find out, it didn't matter if I toked or not - all the smoke was being sucked into the wall behind me, and I got a little buzz anyway.
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#44
14th July 2009, 07:58 PM
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For me it was the Dade County Civic Center (I think) in Lakeland, Fl, 1977 at age 18. The concert was Atlanta Rhythm Section headlining, opening acts Rick Derringer and Blue Oyster Cult. Festival seating, $6.50.
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14th July 2009, 08:12 PM
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15th July 2009, 10:51 AM
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15th July 2009, 04:25 PM
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