My first concert was . . .

Friday 15 July 1988 (13yo), Jethro Tull. Went with an older cousin and I loved it.

My first was Crosby, Still & Nash and Fleetwood Mac in Stowe Vermont, I went with my friend Jessie, we were both in our early twenties. We had lawn seats and sat on the grass and got really high smoking the weed. I was tripping on acid before we got to the concert and I remember stopping at Ben & Jerry's somewhere in Vermont, the thing about Ben & Jerry's their outside serving area, it's really really bright and colorful and Vermont grass is really vibrant green, add tripping on acid to that and it was like a magical fiesta for my eyeballs. I didn't eat any ice cream because food sucks on acid it doesn't even feel real in the mouth (don't take that as a new diet fad either, ok?)
It was a lot of fun and I remember seeing a bunch of freaky hippies on the way in and one guy just kept trying to reach out to me and told me he loved me a lot. Jessie kept us walking though, because I was like I love you too man.
The music was a lot of fun, the atmosphere was fun, the walk out was crazy insane because you basically go down this huge steep path in the almost dark out of Stowe back to the parking lot. They no longer have it as a music venue.
I think I spent the car ride home coming down off the acid, so I don't really remember a lot about it.
I no longer do drugs or drink I've been to a lot of concerts since, but that was my first 'well known musicians' concert.

For lesser known musicians we had family friends 6 brothers who had a band that played mostly 60-70s music, southern rock/rock while I was growing up, I lived in a small rural town that liked to party and heard them at a semi-professional they got paid gig, around 16 where I went to a BYOB dance at the local town hall.

My family also went to fiddle-fests when I was growing up those I think I was 10 when we started going.

Alice Cooper on his Dirty Diamonds tour, I was around 13

KC and the Sunshine Band

Merle Haggard, I was about 17, and my family cleared the whole day (including my exercise plans, ouch) to have fun. To top it all off, we almost didn't get wheelchair-safe seating in the actual arena, maybe having to watch at the door. It wasn't that bad, though, once we got in just in time for soundcheck & warmup band.

Ozzy Diary Of A Madman tour

Michael Jackson on his Bad! Tour at Wembley Stadium. Surprise for my big brothers birthday, it was awesome!!

After the encore, three big wooden crates were lowered onto the stage... The first one opens with a little explosion: a white jumpsuit. He puts it on. Second one, boom: Space helmet. Boom! Smoke clears...its a freaking jetpack! Stage hands help strap him in, he takes off, flies out over the crowd in a big loop, then up and away over the top of the stage! Open air arena. Nothing above him...mind:blown!

Duran Duran. Right up front, against the stage. A sea of screaming girls.

As much as I love music, I didnt go to my first concert until I was 31, about 7 years ago, and I saw U2 with an old high school friend. The band was great, absolutely... but Bono taking a pause between every single song to talk about the One Foundation seriously killed it for me.

I still get emails from "him" about the foundation because of that concert. Ugh.

Not by choice...The Osmonds.
By choice...Howard Jones opening up for the Eurythmics.

Harry Chapin

Marilyn Manson, want to say it was around 1998, I went with my bff. I lied to my mom and said I was going to see a movie but got busted because the local news was there doing a story about the concert.

This is embarrassing but...New kids on the block...1990

Silverchair in 1999. I was 15.