I've discussed this before, but it's always fun to hear from new readers or people who were too shy to comment last time.
Depending how you calculate it, my first concert was either Gordon Lightfoot -- my big brothers were huge fans so I totally tagged along to two late-'70s shows -- or the Go-Go's, which my friend Greg and I picked and paid for. (And boy was it fun!)
So ... what was YOUR first concert?
Ugh, I loathe telling people about "my first", though I rarely admit to it.
ReplyDeleteMy mother, forced us to see Barry Manilow at an outdoor venue. It was her and four of her kids, myself included. I have no idea what possessed her.
The one I see as my first, since I selected it and paid for the event: Fleetwood Mac on their 'Rumours' tour.
Three Dog Night!!!! LOL
ReplyDeleteThe Osmonds, including Donny and Marie, and it was spectacular. I was levitating the whole time.
ReplyDeleteIt was 1972, my best friend and I, high school freshmen,chaperoned our older sisters to Led Zepplin in San Antonio. We went to the bathroom, got lost and spent the rest of the evening trying to steal t-shirts from the vendors.
ReplyDeleteMy first was Jethro Tull. I was a moderate fan but really a tag-a-long with my sister and her future first husband who was a major fan. I can't say I remember too much but the stage was made up like a pirate ship and Ian Anderson was wearing rose colored glasses because a fan had thrown a rose to him the previous night and scratched his eye. The music was good but the crowd was rough.
ReplyDeleteKiss. 1979. Dragged along by a super-fan friend in 6th grade. I still remember the heat from the insane (and surely illegal these days) pyrotechnics... and Peter Criss singing his semi-hit "Beth."
ReplyDeleteThe Police, it was a full day concert at Comiskey Park in Chicago back in 1983. My older brother took me, the line up was:
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Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Simple Minds
The Fixx
A Flock of Seagulls
The Police
How is that for a first concert experience. My brother rocked.
Leif Garret with my older sister , I was 10 , and she was 13 , at the Del Mar Fair in CA.
ReplyDeleteAh yes! The Go-Go's Vacation tour was my first concert..82, maybe 83. An unknown band called A Flock of Seagulls opened for them & I was HOOKED!!
ReplyDeleteNirvana at Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio. Oh the grunge memories!
ReplyDeleteIron Butterfly, of "In-A-Gadda-da-Vida" infamy, Honolulu 1969, I was 9. My parents made my older brother go with me, I couldn't figure out why the arena was so filled with smoke, that's how naive I was. :-)
ReplyDeleteFor reasons I've never been able to figure out, there was a 5 year gap until my second one, but it was a great one: Elton John at the Forum in Los Angeles on the "Caribou" tour in October 1974, he was amazing. Opened with "Funeral For A Friend", played a bunch of my favorites and ended with "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" which had 18,000 people going nuts.
I knew what the smoke was about by then. :-)
The Ike and Tina Turner Review, 1973, Villanova Field House, Villanova, PA.
ReplyDeleteAlice Cooper. Not really a fan, but had just moved to a new high school and was desperate to make friends. Jumped at the first invitation.
ReplyDeleteFirst concert (involuntary): The Oak Ridge Boys at the UGA Coliseum, very early 80s. First concert (voluntary): Hoodoo Gurus and The Bangles at Emory University. We were in high school, but we crashed it and had students pass us their IDs through the fence so we could get in.
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ReplyDeleteAvant que l'ombre ... à Bercy (Paris, 2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEVZUCiTrDQ
Little River Band! 2nd was Foreigner [4] -- best friend and I got drunk [and sick] on homemade red wine. Early 80's, but not exactly sure when...
ReplyDeleteHow about a concert by The Supremes (no, not those court folks) when they were just the Supremes and not Diana Ross and the Supremes at Virginia Beach. Man, we thought we were cool...Stop in the Name of Love!
ReplyDeleteMy first concert was Sheena Easton in 1982. Yar, I'm still a fant. Saw her in Vegas. A few years ago.... Fun!
ReplyDeletemy first concert...Kansas at Madison Square Garden, June 1978. High school senior, ears blown out. How long, til the point of know return???
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