First Show Ever Thread

[bman]

So I was in the 7th Grade I think. Circa 87. Iron Maiden Sevent Son of A seventh Son tour. Brendan Byrne Arena in NJ. My Friends Mom drove us!
First club show ever was EMF, summer going into senior year of high school. 1991. The Ritz in NYC I think.

[Larry B.]

February 11, 1998: U2 PopMart Tour in Santiago de Chile. At that time, I knew a handful of U2 songs (One, Even Better, Lemon, Numb, Stay, HTKK) + Pop. When they played Mysterious Ways I was like "wow, these guys play that song?". Incredible breathtaking show, specially for a 13 year old.

[Mescal]

Like I said in another thread.

Michael Jackson in 92.

Werchter festival grounds, went with the older brother of my neighbourhood friend.

Got the tix for free, and I believe my mom drove us.

Excellent show all round

[Artemis]

My first concert was with a friend and her mom in 1978 to see Shaun Cassidy.

My first real concert was summer of 1980(between grade 7 + 8. I was 13) with The Who, Heart, J Geils Band, and Nash the Slash. I went with 2 friends and the odler sibling of one of them. It was in the days before noise laws and bands came on late. It was my first time to try pot and come home after midnight too. Obviosuly, the older sibling wasn't a very good influence.

My musical tastes changed drastically in 3 years.

[bman]

My Second club show ever....October 1991, The Roseland Ballroom, NYV. Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, and The Red Hot Chilis.....WHAT A SHOW! Never heard of Pearl Jam or Pumpkins till this show.

[Mescal]

February 11, 1998: U2 PopMart Tour in Santiago de Chile. At that time, I knew a handful of U2 songs (One, Even Better, Lemon, Numb, Stay, HTKK) + Pop. When they played Mysterious Ways I was like "wow, these guys play that song?". Incredible breathtaking show, specially for a 13 year old.

I saw this tour too!

I had tickets to Zoo TV Tour, but my dad wouldn't let me go because of bad grades (or a bad report card, don't know how you guys call it)

[Warped]

1981 - Grobschnitt
Absolutely mindblowing - after the gig the band went down to the audience and you could talk to them, get autographs and stuff. It was like heaven for me. And i still love them.

[Mescal]

My Second club show ever....October 1991, The Roseland Ballroom, NYV. Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, and The Red Hot Chilis.....WHAT A SHOW! Never heard of Pearl Jam or Pumpkins till this show.

WOW

Would have loved to be there

[Mescal]

1981 - Grobschnitt
Absolutely mindblowing - after the gig the band went down to the audience and you could talk to them, get autographs and stuff. It was like heaven for me. And i still love them.

What's their" hit" again? I know it's not gamma ray, but something in that vein? Solar something.

[farrellgirl99]

I'm gonna win lamest first concert. I went to A.J Mclean (of the Backstreet Boys) solo endeavor called Johnny No Name at Irving Plaza in 2000. In my defense, I was 9 and any girl born in the 90s loved one of the boy bands out.

My first 'real' concert is one I'm actually proud of. In 2005 I went to see the Vandals play at CBGBs right before it closed. It was awesome and I'm super glad I got to see the bathrooms where Johnny Ramone pissed.

[Warped]

1981 - Grobschnitt
Absolutely mindblowing - after the gig the band went down to the audience and you could talk to them, get autographs and stuff. It was like heaven for me. And i still love them.

What's their" hit" again? I know it's not gamma ray, but something in that vein? Solar something.

Solar Music, great that someone here knows them too. They are so amazing. Gamma Ray was Birth Control.

[MYXYLPLYX]

This again?!

Okay, I'll play along (again).


REM on their tour supporting the GREEN album, October 1989, just a day or two after the '89 Loma Prieto earthquake.

I was fourteen; a freshman in high school.

[bman]

My Second club show ever....October 1991, The Roseland Ballroom, NYV. Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, and The Red Hot Chilis.....WHAT A SHOW! Never heard of Pearl Jam or Pumpkins till this show.

WOW

Would have loved to be there

It was awesome. A VERY young Eddy Vedder stage dived and was carried all the way to the back. Billy Corgan had very long hair. Chilis opened up with Love Trilogy. I was 17 and loved every minute of it.

[lollapaloser]

Robert Plant Manic Nirvana tour, Great Woods, MA.

[Hokahey]

Pearl Jam

March 13th(?), 1994

Fox Theater

St. Louis, MO


Vs. tour. Pearl Jam was my first favorite band and this show blew my 14 year old mind. I told my mom I was going to a soccer game, paid for my ticket with mostly quarters, and went absolutely nuts.

[Larry B.]

I'm gonna win lamest first concert. I went to A.J Mclean (of the Backstreet Boys)

[Warped]

My first concert was with a friend and her mom in 1978 to see Shaun Cassidy.

Wow, what a hottie he was. He was in all the girlie magazines at that time. And he was in "Disco" a famous music show here.

[Larry B.]

I'm gonna win lamest first concert. I went to A.J Mclean (of the Backstreet Boys)

Now that I think about it, I think I'd look pretty much the same in those shades and hat, minus that slightly prominent potbelly and rings plus more hair in arms, shoulders and chest.

:cona:

[Xizen47]

The Monkees, with Weird Al opening, Summer of 87. I Was 8 years old and the Monkees were my favorite band. Didn't know who Weird Al was at the time.

1st show without parental supervision was when I was 14, Lenny Kravitz and Blind Melon in Berkeley 1993. Went for Blind Melon, Didn't care for Kravitz

[Bandit72]

Iron Maiden Somewhere on Tour, 1986. I was a 14 year old concert virgin.

[Hype]

I can't remember what my very first show ever actually was, but this is one of the ones I remember really well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molson_Can ... or_Toronto

Really enjoyed the Tea Party's set there.

[farrellgirl99]

I'm gonna win lamest first concert. I went to A.J Mclean (of the Backstreet Boys)

Now that I think about it, I think I'd look pretty much the same in those shades and hat, minus that slightly prominent potbelly and rings plus more hair in arms, shoulders and chest.

:cona:

lol well if you havent been to rehab like three times then youre doing slightly better.

and i should have lied about my first concert but i have no shame

[Pandemonium]

Van Halen, the end of January '77 on a cold, foggy weeknight at the Golden Bear Club on PCH in Huntington Beach. A friend of mine knew the guy who used to occasionally worked the soundboard at the club and he bugged my for months to come with him to see bands at this club (he later talked me into seeing Quiet Riot w/Randy Rhoads around '79 in Hollywood). I was still 17 and a senior in High School with a fake ID recently bought at the local swap meet and had never been in a bar before so the whole night was a big life altering experience for me.

Soundboard guy got us in without even paying a cover. I was such a greenhorn regarding alcohol and especially beer, I ordered a Dos Equis by asking for a "Double X Beer please..." It's a miracle I didn't get thrown out that night, I was so obviously underage.

He let us check out the soundbooth before the place filled up. The soundbooth was this tiny wooden box built into the back wall and ceiling of the club that you had to climb a short ladder to get into like a kid's treehouse. It was big enough to fit the mixing board and a couple short stools but was still so small you couldn't stand up in it and had a small rectangular slot cut out the front to see and hear the stage. It was like being in a space capsule and I've never to this day seen any other club with a similar setup.

I had no idea who Van Halen was and by the time they came on, the club probably had about 75 people max that night. This was well over a year before they were signed to Warner Bros and released their first album and they were still playing about 50/50 covers vs originals. One cover they played that I really liked was "Walk Away" by the James Gang - problem was, I didn't know it wasn't a VH song and it took a few years before I clued in it wasn't their tune. Dave was into wearing disco bell bottoms at the time, Eddie had his rig built into a beat up big ol' upright WWII Bomb Shell they must have picked up at a junk yard sale. The biggest impression I left that show with was how incredibly loud they were in that place.

Still, it was almost over a year later before I saw another live band. To this day I regret passing on that friend's offer to see Led Zeppelin at the LA Forum late Summer '77 (their last shows they'd wind up playing in SoCal). I couldn't come up with the fuckin' $20 for his spare floor ticket. Thus my next show was a big outdoor gig at Anaheim Stadium headlined by The Electric Light Orchestra in April '78.

[SR]

1978-Kenny Loggins-Universal Amp when it was open air.

[Jasper]

Mötley Crüe, Theatre of Pain tour, 1985. Worcester Centrum, I believe.