What Was Your First Live Concert?
 

The "first R-rated movie" thread just made this pop into my head. It should be a real gender-gap bonanza, this one.

My first live *rock* concert was Bloodrock and Grand Funk Railroad, Municipal Auditorium, KCMO, 1970.

The *very* first thing that I saw that could reasonably be termed a concert was a strange thing that our venerable outdoor theater (Starlight Theater) did for a couple of years in the mid-60's. They brought in currently popular pop groups and (rather uncomfortably) insinuated them into the course of their usual musical stage productions. For example, Gary Lewis and the Playboys in "Bye Bye Birdie", with Gary Lewis (Jerry Lewis's son and the leader of the band) as Conrad Birdie. There was also a show that had the Buckinghams at the height of their popularity, but I can't remember which show that was.

The bands would come out in mid show, play three numbers (if they were lucky, they actually had that many popular tunes in their repertoire), the chickies would scream, and then the show would go on. I was young and impressionable and a great afficianado of Top 40 AM radio music at the time, so it was cool.

AC-DC when i was about 12
then probably Big Day Out. a big festival here

I still haven't gone to one. It's generally too expensive to go... considering going to concerts are rather low on my priorities.

I think it was Ray Price with my folks when I was in short pants, outdoor venue Ghost Town in the Glen. On my own, it was probably the Charlie Daniels Band at our hockey palace in Binghamton.

get a load of this. Judas Priest opened for them. I was nine. My dad took me. He said it was the loudest thing he ever heard.

Momma took me to Three Dog Night.

First show without mom was Asia, the pathetic "supergroup" which gave us so much pain in the early 80s.

Living in Maine, we would only get one (or if we were lucky, two) rock bands coming through each year.

Just after I graduated from high school, I saw REM playing at the Cumberland County Civic Center. They had just released Fables, and were touring with The Three O'Clock, a band from LA. The Civic Center held about 5,000 people, but it wasn't full that night. It was a lot of fun.

Moody Blues

The Beatles, 1964 Las Vegas with Jackie DiShannon and The Righteous Brothers.
Wish I had kept the stubs but I was only 11 :(
and they were good ones -- 7th row floor, center.
That same night I went to see Liberace -- one of the few LV Club shows kids could go to.

Paul Simon, Rhythm of the Saints tour, 1990.

Yes. Close to the Edge tour (1975?)

Jeff Beck at The Palladium, Sunset Blvd.

Glastonbury 2005. One of the best times of my life, can't wait to go back '07 :).

We were supposed to play Glastonbury in '05, but band members' wives started popping out babies and no one could afford the plane fare. I've always wanted to play the side stage at a big festival and then walk around listening to bands for the rest of the day.

I can't remember the first concert I saw...I used to lie to classmates and say I had been to shows that my parents wouldn't allow me to go to. My "memories" of the fake shows are as vivid as those of the real ones (because I was wasted at the real ones).

Small venue: 3 dog night
Large venue: Black Sabbath