Your first concert

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hauntedtexan

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I am an avid live music fan. What was your first concert experience? Here's mine. At 18, I drove my 450 Honda Scrambler from Niagara Falls to Detroit Michigan( too many numb body parts to count) where I joined 5 other friends in a 60 Oldsmobile land yacht for a drive up to IMA auditorium in Flint MI. The warm up band was called Ramatam, made up of Mike Pinera (from Iron Butterfly) Mitch Mitchell (from Jimmy Hendrix Experience) and an amazing lead guitarist named April Lawton. They were incredible compared to the headliners, Black Sabbath....
But that concert led me to attend any and all concerts, even if I was unfamiliar with the band. In Bremerton WA, I went to see Randy Hanson, Hendrix impersonator, and the warm up band was a couple girl rockers in something called Heart...so fortunate... Last week, I attended the 10th annual blues festival at, of all places, Luckenbach Texas. The live music vibe cannot be faked or simulated, in my opinion. Check out Kara Grainger if you get the chance... Your turn......Peace
 

Do not remember the year, but in the 60's went with my cousin to see Gary Puckett & the Union Gap. We were probably 13 or 14 at the time
 
My first ever was probably also the best ever. It was at Tanglewood in the Berkshires in Massachusetts the weekend before Woodstock. It was Jefferson Airplane, The Who, and BB King. Hard to beat! I remember being scandalized that people were passing around someone's old beat up shoe and drinking wine out of it. Ummm... no, thanks!
 

My First concert was the Beatles, in Luxembourg, in 1964...before they became such a hit in the States. Perhaps the Best concert I went to was Pink Floyd, doing their Dark Side of the Moon album at the Chiefs Stadium in Kansas City, several years ago.
 
The first "rock" type concert (I don't count the symphony orchestra....no one was screaming there except the lady in the metal bra who was screeching something in Italian) would have been the Beatles at the Indiana State Fair in 1964. I didn't even like the Beatles at that time and the tickets were $2 for general admission, which I wasn't sure I wanted to waste, but my best friend was dying to go. It's a good thing I went, because she fainted at least three times and somebody had to hold her hair when she ralphed. She was positive that Ringo had looked DIRECTLY at her, even though we were approximately a mile up in the grandstands and three miles from the stage (or so it seemed).

OK, I did a little screaming myself but I didn't faint.
 
I can't remember my first but the Beatles were pretty close and the one that sticks out in my mind.. It was in the UK. My whole family went, even all the grown ups, When we got there we were a seat short, my niece who was then nine came and no one realized she didn't have a ticket, anyway they let her in and told us to sit her on some ones lap. As the Beatles were being introduced she happened to be on mine. Despite being deafened by all the screaming which prevented us really hearing the music, I was fast getting bruises on my legs!! After a few minutes I put her on the floor as we were on the front row. So she ended up with the best seat in the house,on the carpet just a few feet from them, just the orchestra pit between her and the stage and was totally thrilled when Paul smiled and waved to her.
 
First concert was early 70's ... I was living on a small Scottish Island.. Billy Connolly ( later years well known comedian ) was then a folk singer, with a band called the humblebums which included included Gerry rafferty ( he later of Baker street fame)... in it's line up!!

The island was so small it only had a big barn as a venue.. and that's where they played......more to this story but I'll leave it there for now.. :)
 
It was a Tom Jones concert in around 1973. And, yes, women threw their underwear on to the stage (to be clear, not me, though. :p )
 
I was just out of Marine ITR , my dad came down TDY to attend a meeting for the Air force, they were staying in a Motel, I got time off to go see him, dad had to meet some people in his motel room, so he told me to go to the park right next to the motel, I went over there, and they were having a love in, the mama's and papa's were singing, when I got there, the Hell's Angles were also there, lot of good looking young girls, I had a lot of fun.
 
Shalimar said:
I saw Led Zeplin in Vancouver. It was their first tour. I was very young. My friend and I missed the last ferry, and spent the night curled up in the woman's washroom at a gas station. Awesome concert!
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I wish I had more of a chance to see Led Zep. John Bonham died when I was 2 months shy of my 17th birthday. I've seen Page & Plant together twice and that was fantastic!

My first concert was Jethro Tull sometime in the late 70's at Boston Garden.
 
JimW said:
I wish I had more of a chance to see Led Zep. John Bonham died when I was 2 months shy of my 17th birthday. I've seen Page & Plant together twice and that was fantastic!

My first concert was Jethro Tull sometime in the late 70's at Boston Garden.
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I think mine was The J. Geils Band. Also saw Jethro Tull- wonderful!
 
RadishRose said:
Poor Karen, wan't she anorexic?
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I was a fan, sadly she was anorexic, it was what caused her death.

I always say my first concert was a Earth Wind and Fire concert, but it wasn't really, it was the first one I went to without it being chosen for my by adults. As a kid, I had attending all kinds of concerts, but, when I was in my teens, I went to the EWF concert with my, then boyfriend and our friends.
 
AprilT said:
I was a fan, sadly she was anorexic, it was what caused her death.

I always say my first concert was a Earth Wind and Fire concert, but it wasn't really, it was the first one I went to without it being chosen for my by adults. As a kid, I had attending all kinds of concerts, but, when I was in my teens, I went to the EWF concert with my, then boyfriend and our friends.
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Gosh I almost forgot about Earth Wind and Fire , they were terrific!
 
Wasn`t really a concert but on Friday nights in the mid-60`s,mine and hubby`s dates consisted of going up to San francisco to the Avalon ballroom and seeing whoever was playing that night. Big Brother and The Holding Company,Janis Joplin,Grateful Dead,Jefferson Airplane,oh,so many great just starting out bands. We would snuggle up on big,old (and I do mean old) cozy couches (God knows what may have been in or on them-yuck)and listen for hours. If we only knew then what we were REALLY experiencing!
 
RadishRose said:
I think mine was The J. Geils Band. Also saw Jethro Tull- wonderful!
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I remember Jethro Tull playing the Boston Garden at least once a year, every year without fail. They played here so many times it got to the point where people got tired of going, lol. I've seen J. Geils Band a couple times, very good show. Peter Wolf is an entertaining guy. Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult use to tour together round here quite a bit, it was dubbed "The Black And Blue Tour", lol. Ted Nugent as well.

One of the best concerts I've ever seen was Joe Walsh solo back in the early 80's at the Hampton Beach Club Casino. Not sure if your familiar with the seating there but they had 10 seat round tables on the floor near the stage rather than the typical bench seats. Full capacity for the whole place was about 1200 back then. The tables were full service with drinks and light food, it was/is a great place to see a show. I was able to get a table for the 6 of us right up front for that show, Joe played like a mad man. It was still Joe's partying days, he came out three sheets to the wind and ended that way as well. Also saw K.C. And The Sunshine band there back in the 90's.
 
Hi guys...I'm new, and I love this one. I love music. Ashamed to say the very first concert for me was a Big Band. LOL My older brother wanted to go,
and my Mom made him take me. I don't think I was even a teen yet. But, I surprised him and loved it. In later years, we lived near Penn State and
they have tremendous shows come to Bryce. Saw Elton John and Billy Joel's joint tour ...back in the 90's there. Also saw Cher's (1st Final) LOL there.
Paul McCartney is coming close to me this year...but I think the students would crowd me out now. I never got to see Elvis and I tried all my young adult years.
 

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