Your First Concert was.....

Loverboy w/ Huey Lewis and the news way back in 82....

my first rock concert was KISS off of the destroyer tour in detroit michigan at olympia stadium. for a 12 year old kid it was the experience of a lifetime. now a must say that as an even smaller child my mother took me to young peoples concert at the detroit symphony orchestra but i really do not remember these.

Senior prom...The Standells. Back in 1967 groups would play for proms if the price was right. They played for us all night long!

The Who, with the James Gang and James Taylor as the two supporting acts in 1970.

The Beach Boys, Summer of '64. Second was The Beatles, Summer of '65. Not a bad way to start!

Beach boys and James Brown at school circa '64 and road trip to DC to see Stones in '66.

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The Stampeders

Came to my Grade 5 Public School in 1970 ? I was 9?
I think they performed 6 songs in the gymnasium.

Bdp24, do you recall who was with the Beach Boys? They often had great openers.

Yep, I do. It was a local Surf Band from Santa Cruz (just over the mountains from San Jose) named The Tikis. They were outfitted in matching suits, the pants of which were cut off at the knees, making shorts! A few years later they had changed their music, look, and band name, to Harpers Bizarre.

Lorin Maazel conducted Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall performing Brahms Symphony No. 3 in 1991.

Maazel was dancing on the podium. He was such an energetic figure. It was my first personal experience to attend concert of Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra live as well.

Pink Floyd doing Dark side of the moon at Olympia Auditorium in Detroit. I believe the year was 1973.

The Almond Brothers Band in 1973 at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, PA.

It was a superb summer evening with the retractable dome roof wide open in a genuine party setting... with bright sunshine streaming into the arena and everyone grooving to some fantastic music.

Only problem was my buddies and myself ended up in a fist fight with some drunken older yahoos who decided that we were not to their liken. Long story short...they were ejected from the concert.

Ah! Those were the days... Wine,woman,music and an occasional fist fight.

Great thread...carry on.

Oh, man, I had my share of concerts at the Pgh Civic Arena back in the day- when you look at the list of people who played that venue, you realize how many more big name acts were touring constantly; pretty accessible. Almost seems like a fantasy now. The acoustics were pretty bad, but The Syria Mosque couldn't hold the bigger crowds (and if memory serves, was not air conditioned). I think I already replied to this thread some time ago, but my first 'rock' concert was there,too, in around '67? Iron Butterfly.

The last couple posters saw some good concerts in 1973.

Damn - In 1973 I had a curfew of 8pm and maybe 9 pm in summer.

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I think this is how the whole stereo in doors in my bedroom thing got started.
Wow , how therapeutic. This thread is better than paying a psychiatrist $150 an hour.
I seem to recall later on when I had more freedom - a big spaceship coming down on the stage - with smoke effects and special lighting.
ELO concert.

I meant The Allman Brothers Band...Not the Almond brothers nut band... Getting old or to many fights. 8^)

The Eagles at the Cow Palace near San Francisco...

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts 1984 I think at the Albany Ga Civic Center

Funny Robladw, the ONLY rock concert I ever went to was Joan Jett and company at the Albany Civic Center . The one in NY though .
A woman forced me to go .

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A woman forced me to go .

Well sure.. ...isn't this why all guys go to rock concerts ?

Alice Cooper in 1978

My first concert was Jethro Tull in November 1971 at the Rhode Island Auditorium on North Main Street in Providence, Rhode Island.  They played all of Benefit and Aqualung plus  songs from This Was and Stand Up as well.  Got me hooked for life.  Clive Bunker was the drummer at the time

Woodstock!I was 9 years old.My dad was in Federal Prison for refusing to enter the draft.My mom,her older sister,me & my little brother made the trip in a VW Microbus!I don’t have much memory of the concert.Bits & pieces of the trip through the Smoky Mountains mostly.Being a rabid SCUBA Diver I was pretty mad at my mom for dragging me away from home(Central Fl.) in the middle of summer vacation.