Your first REAL concert

[kaatwang]

Mine was Cheap Trick with the Romantics opening up for them in '79. Somehow We sweet talked My Grandma into taking My friend and I to Duluth, MN for this and dropping Us off at the show by ourselves. We were 12 at the time. We each had money for a shirt, pop, and a phone call to pick Us up.
I can't imagine what she thought, seeing what She saw, as She drove through the parking lot to get us afterwards...

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Mine was Mel Tillis and Moe Bandy at the El Paso County Coliseum in 1979. My first rock concert was Rush in LA on the Hold Your Fire tour, with Tommy Shaw opening.

 

[coldsteal2]

Deep Purple with the original lineup at Chico State College
in 1969, i even found the date
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Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn Tour

*30/04/1969 State College, Chico California, USA


It was amazing, and will always be a Huge Deep Purple fan
because of it

 

[twinrider1]

Elvis. June, '74. I had just turned 7. My sister took me. She was babysitting me (Mom worked 2nd shift), so if she wanted to go to the show, she had to take me. It was women screaming and flashbulbs going off for the entire show.

 

[LIBERTYMACHINE]

KISS

1978 Pittsburgh, PA, Civic Arena

 

[E55eT]

Kiss, Stockholm 1980, some unknown rascals called Iron Maiden was the opening act!

 

[Deus Vult]

Oak Ridge Boys about 84 or 85; my parents were diehard fans.

 

[sonar1]

When I was 16 I saw Phil Ochs at The Unicorn Coffeehouse, Boston, c 1966.

Couple weeks later saw my first electric band there: Gram Parson's "International Submarine Band." Knocked my socks off!

The following year I debuted there on a Monday night "Open Hoot," doing a couple of Tom Paxton songs about whores, and Labor issues.

Later on I found out what they both were all about!

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

real as in 'real' like, in an arena?

Metallica 1992 when the Black Album came out.

Wore a Megadeth shirt, got in a fight, got my eardrums blown out, caught a contact high.


it was awesome!!

 

[gibsonguitar1988]

2004. Aerosmith in Peoria, IL. Cheap Trick opened for them. Great show. Sadly I didn't appreciate their music or music in general as much then as I do now.

 

[apocalypsebob]

Journey during the Steve Augeri years

damn fine singer, it is a shame schon and the boys ran him ragged

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Mine was Cheap Trick with the Romantics opening up for them in '79. Somehow We sweet talked My Grandma into taking My friend and I to Duluth, MN for this and dropping Us off at the show by ourselves. We were 12 at the time. We each had money for a shirt, pop, and a phone call to pick Us up.
I can't imagine what she thought, seeing what She saw, as She drove through the parking lot to get us afterwards...

Cheap Trick was almost my first rock show, in 1981. Mom wouldn't let her 14-yo brat go the 30 miles to San Luis Obispo.

 

[sonar1]

Journey during the Steve Augeri years

damn fine singer, it is a shame schon and the boys ran him ragged

Steve Perry?

 

[apocalypsebob]

Steve Perry?

Steve Augeri, the first guy to replace perry

Steve Augeri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

Think Schon mocked him because of that shirt?






...I might've too.

 

[Benjammin]

Santana '00, fantastic show. My parents told me I attended a Ray Charles concert as a kid but I have no recollection of it

 

[sonar1]

Steve Augeri, the first guy to replace perry

Steve Augeri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ah.

Missed one!


Guess I wasn't payin' much attention to 'em after Perry. Neither was the radio I guess...

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Think Schon mocked him because of that shirt?

With his butt-ugly guitar, he would have no right.

eta: And get a look at those Sham-Wow® britches, too.

 

[apocalypsebob]

Ah.

Missed one!


Guess I wasn't payin' much attention to 'em after Perry. Neither was the radio I guess...

they didn't really release much new during that time, they just went around playing and kind of marketing Augeri as perry, they did look similar aside from the curly hair they played constantly for several years with him and wrecked his throat to the point where he couldn't sing

briefly horribly replaced him with jeff scott soto, then he was fired and they found Arnel

Arnel saved Journey, the last few years before they found him were pretty rough

as for the shirt...it was the 90s, can't judge him that harshly

 

[Seceded]

Toby keith about 3-4 years ago