First concert?

[graceanne]

I wasn't allowed to go to concerts. It didn't matter who was in concert, my mother was sure that everyone was smoking pot and having sex. Then I got married, and we didn't have the money for things like that. Although, K took me to see Phantom of the Opera as a wedding present. I went to my first concert about a year and a half ago, because my brother and sister in law had free tickets, and that was newsboys.

 

[FurryFury]

I'm not really a concert type of girl. I'd rather stay home with a book or a CD rather than go to a huge concert.

The first was some group that came to our highschool. You had to buy tickets. I think there was some sort of assembly to MAKE you want to buy tickets. I have no clue who they were.

I have to either really care or being going for someone else. So the ones I cared about were:

Prince
BB King
Etta James
Johnny Lang

The ones I just went along to were:
Heart
Allman Bros
Damn Yankees
John Prine

I very much prefer smaller more intimate venues to concerts.

 

[Dreamliner]

The Stones. 18 and excellent. in the pit with the rest of the rowdy bunch. It rocked.

 

[WriterDom]

I saw Jimmy Buffet in Seattle. Bought the tickets on a navy base. Was in the first or second row. Makes me wonder if Jimmy wanted it that way. Probably so. Pretty cool of him.

 

[eastern sun]

Boz Scaggs. I was 13.

(My favorite concerts, though, have been the reunited Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and the most Reverend Al Green, both at Madison Square Garden. Oh, and War in a free concert in Central Park.)

 

[ThorkelGriersen]

well, everyone else has all these rock concerts and I am pituring myself as a kid in my ruffled dress clutching my flute case, dreaming of the day I would play in an REAL symphony. Didn't happen but I did enjoy my years playing.

It wasn't the first, but an early one that was impressive was Gotterdammerung conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Jerome Hines as Wotan and Miklos Benza as Hunding -- Houston, Texas 1959. Miklos is a personal friend.

note: Stokowski was once Greta Garbo's SO.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Black Flag

 

[Cattypuss]

I didn't go to concerts til I was in my 20s. Didn't really occur to me before then.

It was Lenny Kravitz at the height of his first wave of fame.

Edited to add - no, hang on - I saw Katrina and the Waves when I was 18.

 

[Cattypuss]

I have just been reminded of the day I wished I'd been born in 1949 too (instead of in the late 1960s). I was talking to my friend who was born in '49 and he said ".... yes, I remember that day..... that was the day I was late for the Who concert because I'd been watching The Stones in Hyde Park".

 

[ThorkelGriersen]

I have just been reminded of the day I wished I'd been born in 1949 too (instead of in the late 1960s). I was talking to my friend who was born in '49 and he said ".... yes, I remember that day..... that was the day I was late for the Who concert because I'd been watching The Stones in Hyde Park".

I was born in 1939. Remember Joni Mitchell when she was "crashing" with various friends and playing a local coffee house in exchange for food -- "Gaslight South" in Coconut Grove. Hanging out with Freddy Neil ["Everybody's Talking" --aka theme from Midnight Cowboy] and Vince Martin [early fifties-- "Cindy, Oh Cindy"].

ETA to add: Vince from "Musique des Annes 60 et 70" --if it weren't fur dem furners we might not have a musical heritage:

http://www.radiorock6070.com/VinceMartin.html

 

[DVS]

God, there's so many I would have loved to see but didn't. I really don't remember which was my first concert. I do know it had to be in the early 70s, because I was too young to go to things like that in the 60s.

I always kept my ticket stubs, and had started a collection. But when my house was burglarized in 1983, that was one of the things they took. So, I don't have any ticket stubs from before then.

I was really heavy into going to concerts when I was younger. Not just because of the good music, but because being a musician you want to go see the pros in their element. And it was before the prices got out of hand.

I don't remember the exact dates, but I remember seeing the bands Canned Heat and Country Joe and the Fish sometime around 1972. I also remember seeing The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band around then, too. All of these bands played at a local venue where there were no seats. You just brought your blanket and staked out a section of floor. There was no need for security in those days. There were more concerts, but those are what I remember as the earliest.

Some of my favorites were Kansas, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, Arlo Guthrie, and Jackson Browne.

 

[DVS]

Black Flag

So...no roaches at that concert?

 

[00Syd]

The Circle Jerks, at some shitty club in NJ, when I was 13.

 

[00Syd]

Black Flag

Fuckin' awesome. When/Where was that?

 

[midwestyankee]

Might have been John Phillip Sousa but I don't recall precisely. Either him or Al Jolson.

 

[MisterSir]

First would technically be a schoolfriend's band. They were pretty rubbish.

First actual, professional gig was Muse. Which was sexy as all hell.

 

[Keroin]

The worst concert I ever went to was...and I hate to admit this, as a Canuck...Bryan Adams. SNORE.

My friends talked me into going, (not my brand of music at all), mostly because they had floor seats and wanted me to help them get to the front of the stage. They were all concert newbies and I had several under my belt at this point.

I gave them the pre-concert instructions, (there were six of us in total), told them I would lead the way and everyone else was to hang onto the person in front of them and not let go, no matter how many dirty looks they got. Adams takes the stage, crowd goes nuts and I use the chaos to start bashing my way through the mob. I get right up against the boards with my friend Kurt and...no one else. They'd all panicked and let go. So there I was, stuck up front, plastered against the boards, for the most boring concert of my life.

Every time he'd leave the stage, I kept praying he wouldn't come back.

I think he did five encores.

Five. Sigh.

 

[Keroin]

God, there's so many I would have loved to see but didn't. I really don't remember which was my first concert. I do know it had to be in the early 70s, because I was too young to go to things like that in the 60s.

I always kept my ticket stubs, and had started a collection. But when my house was burglarized in 1983, that was one of the things they took. So, I don't have any ticket stubs from before then.

I was really heavy into going to concerts when I was younger. Not just because of the good music, but because being a musician you want to go see the pros in their element. And it was before the prices got out of hand.

I don't remember the exact dates, but I remember seeing the bands Canned Heat and Country Joe and the Fish sometime around 1972. I also remember seeing The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band around then, too. All of these bands played at a local venue where there were no seats. You just brought your blanket and staked out a section of floor. There was no need for security in those days. There were more concerts, but those are what I remember as the earliest.

Some of my favorites were Kansas, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, Arlo Guthrie, and Jackson Browne.

Country Joe and the Fish? Cool!

"And it's one, two, three,
what are we fighting for?"

 

[SlaveNano]

First concert was at former Methodist Hall in Chatham, Kent, a suburban town in the UK. It was 1971 I think and I was 13. It was Deep Purple and they were loud ----very loud!!! What is interesting is that Genesis were the support band for them just a few years before they became massive themselves. I still can't believe my parents allowed me to do that!!

Been to many concerts since then. The Grateful Dead at Empire Pool Wembley in 1972 and any other time they came to the UK after has to be the best. The Dead were just amazing live, there has been nobody who quite do what they do. Every style of american music going, stretch it out, mix it all up, add some psychedelic drugs - KA-BOOM.

 

[graceanne]

The worst concert I ever went to was...and I hate to admit this, as a Canuck...Bryan Adams. SNORE.

My friends talked me into going, (not my brand of music at all), mostly because they had floor seats and wanted me to help them get to the front of the stage. They were all concert newbies and I had several under my belt at this point.

I gave them the pre-concert instructions, (there were six of us in total), told them I would lead the way and everyone else was to hang onto the person in front of them and not let go, no matter how many dirty looks they got. Adams takes the stage, crowd goes nuts and I use the chaos to start bashing my way through the mob. I get right up against the boards with my friend Kurt and...no one else. They'd all panicked and let go. So there I was, stuck up front, plastered against the boards, for the most boring concert of my life.

Every time he'd leave the stage, I kept praying he wouldn't come back.

I think he did five encores.

Five. Sigh.

ROFLMAO

K's been to lots of concerts. He got kicked out of a pink floyd concert (he was really drunk and picked a fight) and had some serious eye contact going at a joan jett concert with joan jett. He thinks it was part of the act, cause she was singing 'do you wanna touch me here' and making eye contact with him. He says she probably does that at every concert to some guy, but it thrilled him and his girlfriend at the time. He nearly sliced a tendon at another concert. He went to the bathroom and his ticket was in his girlfriends purse. Someone decided he'd crashed the concert and kicked him out and he put his fist through a pane of glass (he was drunk and pissed) and had to get a shit load of stitches.

 

[ultramarineblue]

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[rosco rathbone]

Fuckin' awesome. When/Where was that?

Last tour, Washington DC.

 

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[lightsaver]

The Pet Shop Boys.

 

[maggiemayipls]

Joan Jett too -- with my parents - when I was about 9. One of my absolute best memories.