What was your first REAL concert experience?

[Ziggy Stardust]

For example, my parents took me to see Johnny Cash when I was 7.

BUT, my first real concert experience was when I was 17 and my friends and I convinced an older brother to sneak us across the Canadian border to go see April Wine in Montreal in 1983.

AWESOME show.

[Romero]

When I was a kid, I saw a bunch of stuff at the Houston Rodeo.

When I was 11, my sister took me to see The Monkees and Weird Al during the Monkees big comeback tour.

The first show I saw of a national band, sans family, was when I was 17. I went with a friend to see this punk band The Dwarves play a show in Houston. It was all of 20 minutes long and ended with the band fighting with people in the audience, but it was great.

[Gabe De Los Muertos]

Social Distortion when I was 14.

[goof]

Ozzie Osbourne and Metallica at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield Ohio. I was 15 and it rocked!

[clayholio]

I had gone with my family to a couple of shows when I was a kid (like Billy Joel), but I always count my first show (as in dingy rock club show) as being Hazel, Heatmiser (Elliott Smith's early band), and Crackerbash when I was 17.

[Slackjaws_ate_my_brain]

Metallica/GnR/Faith No More in 94 with my sister.

[40footwolf]

My first "real experience" was when I went with my friends to see REM, Modest Mouse and The National instead of going to prom(they were happening the same night).

Coincidentally, it was also the first night I smoked pot and it made for one HELL of a light show! :P

[Alex Smith]

I saw Nirvana in Toronto in '93 or '94, I forget the exact date.

[The Black Guardian]

I went to so many concerts with my hippie parents and uncles, starting from around age 3, that I don't know when they started becoming "real." Plus, there was always the Jazz Fest. Maybe they were always "real."

[Ilash]

Jethro Tull a couple of years ago.

[Nevets F]

I went to see KISS right before 6th grade started. It was fun.

[DonC]

*looks around nervously*


Michael Jackson

[Athena Bast]

My "first" concert was The Beach Boys in 1991 on their Endless Summer tour.

One of the opening acts (Mitsou) cancelled the night before and Glass Tiger (Simple Mission tour) was in town performing at one of the clubs so the promoters asked them to fill in. They were awesome.

[John Asperger]

...The Tubes , :redface: at NYC's Palladium , on either April or May 15?? , 1978...I was 18( Tried to put a " shocked " 'moticon here - ":-(:-( ) .

[Street Worm]

Joe Cocker & Leon Russell Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour in NYC...
I think I was 13-

one hell of a first concert~ :biggrin:

[ardshipman]

David Lee Roth on the Skyscraper tour with Poison opening.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

Stephen Lynch at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, 2004.

[McFarlane's Green Hulk]

Metallica in May of `97...
Corrosion of Conformity opened and we couldn't hear jack -- it was just garbled mess of bass and kick drums. I was pissed nothing was done to change it when Metallica came out. Couldn't make out "So What?" but they finally fixed it during the "DIE!" chant during "Creeping Death".
If you watch the "Cunning Stunts" video, that was pretty much the exact same show -- except they played "Wasting My Hate" instead of the early rough version of "Fuel" on the video.

[howyadoin]

Like a full-on stadium concert? Rolling Stones, Steel Wheels tour. 20 years ago this month.

Me 'n' my dad did once see Lighthouse at a skating rink in the 70s, though.

[Spike-X]

Midnight Oil. Species Deceases tour, before they got all boring and acoustic. I think it was just after my 16th birthday.

[wshaunpennington]

I had gone with my family to a couple of shows when I was a kid (like Billy Joel), but I always count my first show (as in dingy rock club show) as being Hazel, Heatmiser (Elliott Smith's early band), and Crackerbash when I was 17.

Amazing. Jody Bleyle is like Elvis to me.

My first concert was Aerosmith and 4 Non Blondes when I was 12. My first show was Bikini Kill and Nation of Ulysses when I was 13.

[wshaunpennington]

*looks around nervously*


Michael Jackson

...It's OK. He can't hurt you any more...

[Boy Constrictor]

propagandhi was my first

[bert]

KISS on the Love Gun tour (77-78).

I also took my Sister to her first concert (since she was dying to go, and I was a "concert veteran" according to my parents: Olivia Newton John, and Quarterflash opening. (I don't remember much of the concert, but I do remember liking Quarterflash).

[elbobbo]

I was taken to see the Statler Brothers and Johnny Cash when i was young, I was in first grade with one of the Statlers's daughters, but my first real concert was Bon Jovi opening for Ratt.

[christoph68]

first show with friends was in duluth Sammy Hagar VOA tour winter of '85 with either Krokus or Dokken opening [i'd have to dig out my ticket stub to make sure].
before that i'd seen the beach boys when i was at the national boy scout jamboree in virginia in '84 and the oak ridge boys when i was in high school marching band in '84 also some country concerts with my parents when i was way younger like 5 or 6 years old.

[billyzoom666]

I was taken to see the Statler Brothers and Johnny Cash when i was young, I was in first grade with one of the Statlers's daughters, but my first real concert was Bon Jovi opening for Ratt.

I think seeing Johnny Cash counts as a "real" concert. I missed him and Waylon Jennings and I'm still kicking myself for it.

[DrewTheXenocide]

I saw a free Sonic Youth show at Prospect Park when I was 17.

[howyadoin]

I think seeing Johnny Cash counts as a "real" concert.It certainly counts more than pop-metal cheese.

[G. Wayne]

Marilyn Manson opening for Nine Inch Nails at the Mellon Arena (that's what it was at the time, don't know offhand what it's called now) in Pittsburgh around '95 or so, which would have put me at 15ish.

[Treqqor]

What the heck is a fake concert??

[SayOcean]

What the heck is a fake concert??probably concerts where you wre forced to stay with your parents......

anyway i think my first real concert experience was Saves The Day at the Fox in Atlanta.....i got to meet them and the drummer Eben said he really dug my outfit....AWESOME

[G. Wayne]

What the heck is a fake concert??

I'm guessing in this case, things like school concerts or local acts.

[Spike-X]

What the heck is a fake concert??
A Britney Spears show?

[howyadoin]

A Britney Spears show?Or Janet Jackson, maybe?

[Magnificent Bastard]

Cheap Trick and UFO at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. Changed my life

[jdwrocks]

I saw Gordon Lightfoot with my parents. It was pretty good, IIRC. But as far as on my own, it was ZZ Top in the early 80's.

[jessecuster3]

Like a full-on stadium concert? Rolling Stones, Steel Wheels tour. 20 years ago this month.




Ha! Me too. But it had to be more than 20 years ago, I know I wasn't driving, yet. I am thinking I was 14 or 15. Because I remember the girl that drove us to the show, she was the nanny for my friend's baby brother. She passed us all a joint after the show.

[Slam_Bradley]

First concert I went to without my parents would have been Whitesnake and Quiet Riot.

[jessecuster3]

Without any adults, at all, my first was Young MC.

He got drunk on his way to the show and the 8:00 start time became midnight, before he even got onto stage.

[clayholio]

Or Janet Jackson, maybe?

I saw her play at the Tacoma Dome! Rhythm Nation tour...

[howyadoin]

Ha! Me too. But it had to be more than 20 years ago, I know I wasn't driving, yet. I am thinking I was 14 or 15. Because I remember the girl that drove us to the show, she was the nanny for my friend's baby brother. She passed us all a joint after the show.One of the tours for Tattoo You, then?


I saw her play at the Tacoma Dome! Rhythm Nation tour...Probably some of the finest lip-syncing you've ever seen.

[schwamp]

1982. UFO with Aldo Nova as the opener.

[Slam_Bradley]

One of the tours for Tattoo You, then?



Saw the Stones in Rice Stadium in Salt Lake City on their Voodoo Lounge tour. Seventh row center.

[GeneralBobby]

Anthrax/Iron Maiden in 1990. It wasn't my first concert, but it was the first time I got tickets from a scalper and got floor seats.

I also met Charlie Benante(Anthrax drummer) at McDonalds before the show and met Steve Harris(Iron Maiden bassist) after the show when he had his bus driver park the tour bus so he could sign autographs when he saw us waiting outside the building.

[pariah-1972]

Ok don't laugh but it was Reo Speedwagon and Billy Squire:redface:

[M. Bushbug]

My first real concert experience was a band my mom took my brother and I to see. ZZTOP. Before this I had seen a few bands that I would consider a "real concert experience" later in life. But the likes of Bob Dylan or Heart didn't mean much to me back then.

Not only were they a band that we liked but we got to see a biker stab another biker. I pulled mom away from it while my brother ran for security. Must have been '87 or '88. making me 15 or 16. my brother is a good two and a half years younger.

On the ride home afterwards we didn't say anything. Until my mom said it would be ok for us to go see The Beastie Boys/ Run-DMC tour without her. Since we proved we could handle it "if something were to happen".

[M. Bushbug]

I saw her play at the Tacoma Dome! Rhythm Nation tour...Tight show.

[M. Bushbug]

Probably some of the finest lip-syncing you've ever seen.She actually sang a little. She goes to sync when it's dance intensive though.

[howyadoin]

The Beastie Boys/ Run-DMC tourHow was that?

[Eric D.]

started a little late at 19 years old.

1st show was in oct 1994 at Deep Ellum Live, in Dallas, TX

Weezer (Blue Album) opened for Live (Throwing Copper)

[jessecuster3]

One of the tours for Tattoo You, then?


Naah, it was Steel Wheels, maybe they came to the Chicago area well before Vancouver.

[parrish]

Santana in the summer of 1994. I was 13 and a friend of mine and both of our dads went.

[howyadoin]

Naah, it was Steel Wheels, maybe they came to the Chicago area well before Vancouver.According to Wikipedia, the tour only ran from August 1989 to August 1990. And it was December of '89 that I saw them, in Montreal.

[Electric i]

It was Kiss, Slaughter, and Little Caesar and it must have been somewhere between 89 and 92. Kiss was good, Slaughter was okay, and I think maybe 30 people went into the Philadelphia Spectrum to watch Little Caesar. The rest of us stayed outside and made pizza jokes.

[twitchinmonkey]

Van Halen, August 1979 at the Oakland Arena, then about 10 days later I saw AC/DC in the same building on the Highway to Hell tour (saw being the operative word, all I heard was white noise).

[ardshipman]

It was Kiss, Slaughter, and Little Caesar and it must have been somewhere between 89 and 92. Kiss was good, Slaughter was okay, and I think maybe 30 people went into the Philadelphia Spectrum to watch Little Caesar. The rest of us stayed outside and made pizza jokes.

Hot in the Shade tour. I saw 'em that tour in Little Rock with Slaughter and Winger. Terrific show! At one point during Slaughters set, Sebastian Bach came out and jammed with Mark and the boys. I think they played Back in Black, But kicked major ass.

[Justin K.]

2004: Green Day; Opening act, My Chemical Romance

I wouldn't call myself a fan of MCR and missed them opening up due to frisking at the doors.
Saw what I came for, Green Day. Lucky I saw them then, before American Idiot made them ultra-big.
Happened around the time American Idiot was released, but you could still get tickets to their concert for a reasonable price.

For a first concert, it was pretty awesome.
I was still in Junior High.

[SlightlyMad]

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert - 20th April 1992

I would've loved to have seen Queen, but never got the chance. However, to have my first gig with the 3 remaining members + Bowie, Elton John, George Michael, Robert Plant, Roger Daltry, Guns 'n' Roses, Metallica, etc. was a helluva way to start!

[Motormouse]

My first concert was U.K Fresh at wembly in 1986. The first real hip hop/electro comncert in England featuring Grand master flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Mantronix and stuff like that. Great concert:cool:

[Ziggy Stardust]

According to Wikipedia, the tour only ran from August 1989 to August 1990. And it was December of '89 that I saw them, in Montreal.

Montreal?

Old Forum?

LOVED going to shows there.

[Plex]

I think it was either KISS or Alice Cooper I can't remember which one came first.

[howyadoin]

Montreal?

Old Forum?

LOVED going to shows there.If by "old forum" you mean Olympic Stadium, yeah. If you mean the old Montreal Forum (home of the Habs), no.

[BeastieRunner]

Run DMC!

That was awesome.