Your first concert....?

pacmanjack
pacmanjack Posts: 866 Member
edited October 1 in Chit-Chat
This might be fun... (then again, maybe not).

Share your first concert memory. Who was the headliner? Where was the venue? What year? Did you have fun.... get wild?

I'll start: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Boston Garden, 1981. Awesome show... I was 16. Drank vodka for the first time in my life. :sick:
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  • 99clmsntgr
    99clmsntgr Posts: 777 Member
    Summer 1994, Spin Doctors with Gin Blossoms and Cracker @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Wasn't too wild - the group of us that went were all 16 and 17.
  • dls06
    dls06 Posts: 6,774 Member
    Rolling Stones, The Spectrum in Philadelphia, 1970. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat. I was 15 and on a first date.
    Last was Rod Stewart, Wells Fargo Center, 2011. He still got it
    And many many in between.
  • thegymbunny
    thegymbunny Posts: 602 Member
    Gosh I think it was Reel Big Fish in 95 at La Luna.


    lol
  • thegymbunny
    thegymbunny Posts: 602 Member
    Rolling Stones, The Spectrum in Philadelphia, 1970. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat.

    I've got major concert envy
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    Moody Blues - when I was like 8 or 9 years old, with my parents
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    Skinny Puppy the hollywood paldium 1991,I dont remeber who else played,but I still have the ticket stub and came home covered in fake blood it was awesome!!!!!!! I was 15.
  • summertime_girl
    summertime_girl Posts: 3,945 Member
    Poison, 1987. It pains me a little (a lot!) to type the year.
  • momma3sweetgirls
    momma3sweetgirls Posts: 743 Member
    The year was 1989 (I was 15). Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Rob Base and DJ E Z Rock. So embarrasing! My second concert isn't any less embarrasing...New Kids on the Block in Montreal the same year!
  • rorosaw
    rorosaw Posts: 360 Member
    Rolling Stones, 1981, Philadelphia. Unreal.
  • miovlb6
    miovlb6 Posts: 339 Member
    Poi Dog Pondering at the Art Bar in Baton Rouge, LA around 1990.
  • yasemasuyo
    yasemasuyo Posts: 177 Member
    1990? Prince at the NEC, Birmingham (UK)... I could barely contain my excitement!
  • Dtho5159
    Dtho5159 Posts: 1,054 Member
    The first concert I went to on my own (I went to several with my mom when I was little) was metallica in 2003 with my husband (he was my fiance at the time). I was 19 and it was in gillette stadium in Foxboro Massachusetts. We rode over with my husbands friend, his sister and her husband and my brother in law and sister in law. We were in an old (1970's) Suburban with attached plates and an attached inspection sticker. We got home around 4am and had to be up at 5 for work. My other brother in law wound up falling asleep behind the wheel on the way to work and got in an accident and nearly died (he had just turned 18 the week before) and was in the hospital for a week and rehab for 2 months. He's fine now though.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    The Monkees in 1986 at the Bloomsburg Fair in PA with my best friend and my Mom.

    I was 14 and had the biggest crush on Davy Jones, who was 45 at the time. Now I find out that he's married to a woman 6 years younger than me. First I was too young for him, now I'm too old for him! :laugh:
  • emariec78
    emariec78 Posts: 530 Member
    Guns N Roses & Metallica with Body Count opening at the old Mile High Stadium in Denver. I was 14 sor 92 or 93, I guess.
  • novalee13
    novalee13 Posts: 14 Member
    Bryan White when I was 10 years old. My family was very much into country music and he was soooooo cute! I remember I almost passed out because my uncle lifted me up so that I could touch his boot :) Then that same night, I saw Meatloaf. :) That was an AMAZING experience. That was in 1995 at Summerfest in Milwaukee!
  • cedarhurst2006
    cedarhurst2006 Posts: 378 Member
    My very first concert was Bobby Sherman at a local theatre in Connecticut. I was with my mom and I was a teenager. After that, my first "big girl" concert was David Bowie.
  • Kate6868
    Kate6868 Posts: 159 Member
    1980? 1981? It is all so fuzzy! :) It was an outdoor concert with Journey, Quarterflash and Foreigner.
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    Haircut 100, about 1981, Hammersmith Odeon. Concerts are never as good as your first one.
  • writtenINthestars
    writtenINthestars Posts: 1,933 Member
    Oh man, I went with my dad to Billy Ray Cyrus when Achy Breaky Heart was a hit....I was maybe 9? I still have never forgave him for that...

    But the first concert I remember buying tickets for was Vertical Horizon, 1997, Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, NH! Woot!
  • dls06
    dls06 Posts: 6,774 Member
    This might be fun... (then again, maybe not).

    Share your first concert memory. Who was the headliner? Where was the venue? What year? Did you have fun.... get wild?

    I'll start: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Boston Garden, 1981. Awesome show... I was 16. Drank vodka for the first time in my life. :sick:

    Saw Tom Petty a couple of years ago. It was one of my best concerts. http://www.tompetty.com/
    Almost as good as Pearl Jam in 2001
  • MOOOSEEE3
    MOOOSEEE3 Posts: 218 Member
    1990 - I was 13 and it was New Kids On The Block with my mom and my cousin.
  • ziggy67
    ziggy67 Posts: 351
    My husband took me to see Hot Chocolate on our first date back in 1975..I can still remember belting out the lyrics to "I believe in Miracles you sexy thing" .....the memory makes me cringe!
  • avalonms
    avalonms Posts: 2,468 Member
    Year: 1979, I think
    Headline Act: Jefferson Starship
    Support: .38 Special

    I've seen better since.
  • kippit
    kippit Posts: 78
    Dating myself but...KISS
  • SueGeer
    SueGeer Posts: 1,169 Member
    Showing my age here......Showaddywaddy at Brighton - 1981 or 1982....


    Also seen Lighthouse Family, BeeGees & Neil Diamond (4 times!)

    Sue :smile: x
  • Sh1tsRainbows
    Sh1tsRainbows Posts: 1,227 Member
    1989..Denver..Mcnichols sports arena..(Torn down to build the Papsi center)...EnVogue, Vanilla Ice, and MC Hammer..for my 14th b-day
  • jbdowns35
    jbdowns35 Posts: 352
    Metallica with Corrosion of Conformity as openers, in 95. Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. Security guys lifted me & another girl over the gates so we could get down on the floor, but didn't let our boyfriends by. We ditched the guys & took off for the mosh pit! Great show, love COC.
  • statia152
    statia152 Posts: 558
    I'm almost embarrassed to say -- Statler Brothers in 1976 with my mother. I was 10! Anyone remember the song Elvira (giddy up, giddy up, maw maw). What I remember most is that I got all 7 autographs! Then Aerosmith at 16 -- friggen awesome!!
  • Erica_theRedhead
    Erica_theRedhead Posts: 724 Member
    Bare Naked Ladies in the early 90s when I was like 7 or 8. I didn't understand everything they were saying, but they threw mac 'n' cheese in the air, which I appreciated at the time
  • MrsMills712
    MrsMills712 Posts: 350
    1998- 98 Degrees - Ft.Wayne, IN - An arena full of screaming girls - I probably got permanent hearing damage from that, but remember loving every moment of it. I bought my first over priced concert t-shirt which I couldn't wait to show off at school the next day :-P
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