Your First Live Concert (Spectator)...?

[CapnSev]

I can’t remember if it was Cheap Trick or Solomon Burke. Both were at the end of the summer in 1997.

 

[Thwack]

I was starting to think I was the only punk rocker here...aside from @Fat Freddy

HA! We're out there! My next show was 999/Dickies at the Showbox 3/80 then Ramones, Devo,....and the die was cast.

 

[Michedelic]

Pink Floyd
1972
Brighton


My Mum was heavily pregnant - with me - and I went absolutely nuts. Almost danced myself out of the womb right there.

Nice T-Rex reference; they weren’t support, were they?

 

[JMarkD]

Wow. That would be 1968, The Association at the Villanova University Field House on an October Sunday afternoon.
Took this photo with a little piece of crap camera. The PA: two Shure Vocalmasters. I don't think any amps, mostly Fenders, were run through the PA. They were great!

 

[T-boneParish]

It was AC/DC on the For Those About To Rock tour. Unforgettable! Your turn...View attachment 3012595

That was MY first full-on rock concert too, same band, same year, in Montreal. The best part was, my high school English teacher hooked me up with the tickets when I wrote an essay on the topic of my favorite band - AC/DC. My parents had no idea who AC/DC was, but they figured if my teacher was OK with the band, then that was good enough for them. I believe I suffered permanent hearing loss when they fired the cannons near the end of "For Those About to Rock", and I loved every minute of it. Angus Young was BEYOND HUMAN.

 

[Wood and Wire]

Nice T-Rex reference; they weren’t support, were they?

No idea who was the support act (I'm sure it's well documented somewhere, as there is film of that particular show).

If it had been T-Rex, I'm sure my Mum would have mentioned that at some point.

 

[Mannyinnewyork]

freedomland amusement park in rye NY. I think it was 1961. Mary Wells doubled billed with The Temptations, both playing live five feet from me on the park grounds. I was blown away. Was even more blown away three years later seeing the Beatles at Carnegie Hall.

 

[juancaminos]

As far as a real rock concert it was ZZ TOP and some unknown band called Aerosmith in 1975. Before that it was Santana at Griffith Park about 1970. They were playing in the park (concert?). Before that Tex Williams would have a free X-Mas show every year at The Lemon Tree in Newhall Ca. My mother took us every year in the 60's.

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

But then my first real rock show wasn't until a decade later, early '70: Ten Years After. View attachment 3013536

But wouldn't that have been 1969 not early '70's?

 

[rtslinger]

Okay at the Capitol theater Passaic NJ

 

[Passinwind]

But wouldn't that have been 1969 not early '70's?

Nah, the time-space continuum was a lot different back then. And that's all I have to say about that!

 

[StephenR]

Young Rascals at Long Island Arena in July of 1966. My second show was also there in January of 1967, Yardbirds with Jimmy Page, Vagrants with Leslie West, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Syndicate of Sound, probably a few others since most shows back then were package deals.

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

Nah, the time-space continuum was a lot different back then. And that's all I have to say about that!

Yah! Back then we never had enough time to fill all the space, or enough space to contain all the time.

You might be a Redneck if you think continuum means, make um keep goin'.

 

[Hues]

KISS Alive 2 tour,'77,...Kemper Arena,Kansas City.Age 15.

Went with two friends,one of which said we should get there early...We did.Found our way to the loading dock,a guy came out and asked if we wanted to make some money setting up chairs on the floor.We worked as we watched the stage get all put together and afterwards found our way to the band's dressing room,where a woman was getting everything ready.We stuck our heads in the doorway,she turned and saw us,we asked if we could come in.She smiled and said no and we stepped back into the hallway.A second later she came out with Gene's boot and let us take some pictures.She took it back in and the guy came up and told us we were done working and had to go wait outside with everybody else.

I don't know what was going on with my face here (mimicking Paul or something),I hate it ,but oh well.Laugh if you will.

 

[Zooberwerx]

Blue Oyster Cult / July 1978 Capitol Center / Largo MD.

Opening acts were British Lions and Cheap Trick.

Riis

 

[mikeyjm2]

January 30th, 1982 - Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman tour - Toledo, OH

What a great first concert!!!!!

 

[Passinwind]

Yah! Back then we never had enough time to fill all the space, or enough space to contain all the time.

How can you be in two places at once, if you're not anywhere at all?

On further reflection, I think I did see at least one or two concerts of a sort during that 10+ year time span. Spanning the ridiculous to the sublime as well: Up With People, NRBQ.

 

[Yogi Bear]

Yes Big Generator tour 11/25/1987

 

[Pdaddy1978]

1969.... The Buddy Miles express, with opening act, Micheal Bloomfield blues band.

 

[Carl Hillman]

Allman Brothers '80

Followed by Zappa in '81