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Subject: Your First Concert?
Written By: u-wish on 05/20/02 at 10:37 a.m.
Mine was 1983, David Bowie ('Let's Dance' album) and the ticket price was $13.00 :o.
I haven't been to a (major) concert since '87, for U2's 'Joshua Tree' tour, and am blown away by today's ticket prices!!
Sincerely Yours,
Old Fogie ;)
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: OlDsKoOl_fAiRy on 05/20/02 at 11:09 a.m.
~K, your probably going to laugh but its true, the first concert i went to was in 1990. It was a New Kids on the block concert in Boston... YES I SAID NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK.
;D ;D
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Rapture_Man on 05/20/02 at 11:15 a.m.
REO Speedwagon, Sept 1982, Capital Centre Landover MD.
I've seen them 19 times since and will again on Saturday :-}
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: chris on 05/20/02 at 01:03 p.m.
The Almighty, in 1990 at the Borderline in London.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: oneonone on 05/20/02 at 01:50 p.m.
The Monkees 1987. But I would have love to have seen hall and oates in concert first. The h2O tour or The big bam boom tour. :D
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: sleevewipe on 05/20/02 at 02:03 p.m.
1987, (88 maybe?) Echo and the Bunnymen at the Wang Theater in Boston.
God, I used to be so cool.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: dagwood on 05/20/02 at 02:10 p.m.
My first ever concert was The Bellamy Brothers at the state fair. The first rock concert that I went to was Heart.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Tbullsr on 05/20/02 at 04:03 p.m.
;D RATT 1984 At the Spectrum in Philly. ;D
Tim RATT-n-ROLL
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: spdracr on 05/20/02 at 05:40 p.m.
Duran Duran in 83 or 84. Isn't that terrible that I can't remember the year? :(
I do have the ticket stub tucked away somewhere though :)
*Edited to say I believe it was 84! :D
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: lebeiw15 on 05/20/02 at 05:50 p.m.
I saw the C.R. Symphony play in 4th Grade.. ::) My first and only concert. Never seen a "real" concertyet..
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: mc_ubba on 05/20/02 at 06:10 p.m.
Hmmm...can't seem to pinpoint the very first, but Night Ranger with Cheap Trick in '85 was one of the first. Others in contention are Ratt and Rick Springfield/'Til Tuesday. These all occurred pretty much within the same year span...
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Arcfire on 05/20/02 at 09:59 p.m.
Boston on thier "Dont look back" tour! in '79. I was such a fan that my bro took me when I was 13 yrs old.. Still my most fav concert of all -wide eyed and star struck-
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: RockandRollFan on 05/21/02 at 08:50 a.m.
I saw Van Halen up in Logan, Utah in 1978...ticket price....$6.50...Great show, but we weren't quite sure how to pronounce thier names :D
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: goldie on 05/21/02 at 09:41 a.m.
It was in 83 or 84 and I saw Rick Springfield and Corey Hart in Little Rock.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Wicked Lester on 05/21/02 at 05:22 p.m.
Elvis, in Jackson, MS in 1975.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Indy Gent on 05/21/02 at 05:28 p.m.
More than like the only rock concert I'll ever attend. The Rollings Stones "Steel Wheels" tour of 1986 (I believe). I went with my dad, a very big Stones' fan at the time. It was fun, but there was a lot of standing, and pushing and shoving. There were also pot smokers behind us. And the police tried to arrest the troublemakers in the nosebleed section. :)
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 05/21/02 at 06:27 p.m.
Phil Collins at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in the mid-90's
(I was a late starter...... :'()
FBVP
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Busbybabe on 05/22/02 at 05:40 a.m.
My first concert was Erasure in 1990 in Hanover - favourite though was Wet Wet Wet the same year - oh what Marti Pellow did for me!! :P
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Syanne on 05/23/02 at 12:00 a.m.
Canadian band - April Wine - was my first concert back around 1981 or 82. Oooowattanite!!!!
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: E_Woman on 05/24/02 at 03:54 p.m.
'82 or '83 (WAY back in the day). Pat Benatar. Saw her again about 8 years ago - that girl can still rock! A group named Saga was her opening band in the 80's - Madison Square Garden practically booed them off the stage! The title of their one big hit back then is escaping me.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Wicked Lester on 05/24/02 at 05:27 p.m.
Quoting:
A group named Saga was her opening band in the 80's - Madison Square Garden practically booed them off the stage! The title of their one big hit back then is escaping me.
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"On the Loose"
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Davester on 05/24/02 at 11:45 p.m.
Van Halen '1984' Tour.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: dagwood on 05/25/02 at 09:47 a.m.
Quoting:
Van Halen '1984' Tour.
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Hey, Davester, where ya been...I haven't seen ya for a while. We missed ya. :)
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Katrinawitdh on 09/06/02 at 11:57 a.m.
The Police, 1981, The Brendan Byrne Arena, Meadowlands, NJ. They were amazing, and sounded just as great live as on their records. I went on to see them again in '82 and again in '83.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: carrilynn on 09/06/02 at 10:28 p.m.
Can't remember my first. It's one of these two...
Billy Idol. Now THAT was a concert!! Billy is not just a great singer, he's one hellva performer.
OR was it...
RUSH. God I LOVE this band. Who else loves RUSH? They tie as my favorite of all time along with The Eagles (whom by the way is almost equally as awesome in concert)
Either way, these were back in '86 or '87.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Jonman on 09/06/02 at 10:39 p.m.
Quoting:
Canadian band - April Wine - was my first concert back around 1981 or 82. Oooowattanite!!!!
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Hey! My first concert was April Wine as well!! It was Mother's Day 1976...on their "Whole World's Goin' Crazy / Stand Back" tour...opening act was a little known band called "Heart"!! It was in the civic arena in Vernon, BC....I'll never forget it! I was front row!!
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: EightiesMusicDJ on 09/07/02 at 11:24 a.m.
mine was back in 88: Poison and Tesla at the meadowlands in nj.. it was poison's first headliningtour wit ope up and say ahh and tesla supporting the great radio contreversy.. I was 13 and thought that was the best thing i've ever seen
-Thomas
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Danaann on 09/07/02 at 08:37 p.m.
My first concert was Adam Ant and the Romantics!!Who-hoo
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: MissInformation on 09/07/02 at 09:30 p.m.
Mine was The Monkees reunion tour in 1986.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Race Bannon on 09/08/02 at 02:39 a.m.
My 1st was with my older sister and her boyfriend. 1980 Doobie Brothers, cost was $12, a few bucks to a 13 year old. My 2nd was the Police in '83, also saw Echoe and the Bunnymen in '87 and Depeche Mode in '88, my how tastes develop. Best show ever- Pear Jam in '98.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: ArchAngel on 09/08/02 at 09:37 a.m.
:) mine was the B52's in New Jersey, early 90's i believe.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Meltd0wn on 09/08/02 at 06:25 p.m.
First: 1980 - DeGarmo & Key performing in a High School Auditorium.
My first in a Large Venue would be in 1982 Cheap Trick with Aldo Nova opening for them, at the now destroyed Market Square Arena in Indianapolis IN.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: fosforo on 09/08/02 at 09:15 p.m.
I was too stoned to remember
marica -
Quoting:
Mine was 1983, David Bowie ('Let's Dance' album) and the ticket price was $13.00 :o.
I haven't been to a (major) concert since '87, for U2's 'Joshua Tree' tour, and am blown away by today's ticket prices!!
Sincerely Yours,
Old Fogie ;)
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Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: 85GradInTx on 09/09/02 at 10:38 a.m.
The first concert i went to was the TEXAS JAM at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas... April Wine, Cheap Trick, Foreigner and I think Sammy Hagar... I had to tag along with my older sister and her friends... I was like 11!
The first one I went to that I chose was Rick Springfield in Shreveport LA with all of my high school girlfriends... GOD HE WAS HOT!!! We were all big General Hospital fans when he played Dr Noah Drake, Bobbie Spencers love interest... That is when VCRs were actually made affordable and my family was one of the first in our tiny town to have one so we watched GH at my house every afternoon... GREAT DAYS!!!
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Gilbert C. on 09/09/02 at 03:03 p.m.
My first concert was Cinderella who went on tour with White Lion. I was in 5th grade. I even caught the drumstick that the drummer from Cinderella through out. Cool memory! ;D
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Tempest (Guest) on 09/10/02 at 02:01 a.m.
a-ha at Ullevaal Stadium in Oslo, June 8th, 2002. ;D :)
- Tempest -
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Chele on 09/10/02 at 06:28 p.m.
I saw the Bee-Gees, HA, when I was like 7. We saw them
at Soilder Field, Chicago.
Chele
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Katrina on 10/22/02 at 11:21 a.m.
The Police at the Brendan Byrne Arena (Meadowlands) in NJ, in the winter of 1981. Awesome! They're still in my top 3 bands of all time.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: feldy32000 on 10/22/02 at 11:30 a.m.
Mine was in 1982 Styx the "Kilroy Was Here" Tour!
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Marci on 10/22/02 at 12:03 a.m.
Quoting:
a-ha at Ullevaal Stadium in Oslo, June 8th, 2002. ;D :)
- Tempest -
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Oooh.....I'm so jealous!!
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Marci on 10/22/02 at 12:05 a.m.
My first concert was Starship at the fair. Now my first indoor concert was David Lee Roth on the Skyscraper tour. It had been supposed to be Whitesnake and Great White, but they had to reschedule their show, so DLR came first. ;D
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: JHC on 10/22/02 at 12:12 a.m.
My first was Metallica at the coliseum in Hampton, VA, on their Justice tour. That was also the first concert where I saw someone pass out from OD'ing. (there have been many since)
So young, what good memories....
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: oneonone on 10/22/02 at 02:04 p.m.
Quoting:
Mine was The Monkees reunion tour in 1986.
End Quote
That's when I saw them. What state did you see them in. I went to the one in Chicago. :D
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: MissInformation on 10/22/02 at 03:24 p.m.
Quoting:
That's when I saw them. What state did you see them in. I went to the one in Chicago. :D
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At the convention center in Baltimore, Maryland.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Marci on 10/22/02 at 04:18 p.m.
Quoting:
Mine was The Monkees reunion tour in 1986.
End Quote
I saw that one too, here in Washington. It was really good! I remember that we were about the youngest ones there...one lady even commented that it was so cool to see the different generations enjoying it and knowing all the music. :)
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: pell on 10/22/02 at 09:38 p.m.
Chicago on their "17" tour, probably in 1985. That was their last good album.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Aphasia2000 on 10/22/02 at 11:02 p.m.
David Bowie's "Serious Moonlight" tour at Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand, in 1983. I was 10 at the time, and it totally rocked!
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: TripsMom on 10/22/02 at 11:09 p.m.
The Kinks. The Forum in Los Angeles (actually Inglewood). About 1978.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: GenesiNJ on 10/23/02 at 08:00 a.m.
I was 17yo (1986)
"Supertramp"
@ the Hallen Stadion, Zurich , Switzerland
ahhh memories....*sigh*
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: kaz on 10/23/02 at 09:25 a.m.
My first was probably Showaddywaddy with my dad. First on my own was Duran Duran in 1983 or 84.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?/LOL
Written By: Amanda (Guest) on 10/24/02 at 01:17 p.m.
Oh, Ive got you all beat. My first concert was Hermans Hermits! LoL, I believe that was in....'88
I had forgotten all about it until now!
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: go_noles28 on 10/30/02 at 00:10 a.m.
Judas Priest at reunion arena opened by Dokken. I want ot say it was around 85 or so.
mike
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: max_power on 10/30/02 at 00:41 a.m.
My first concert was Def Leppard, Pyromania 1983.
Max Power
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: TOMCAT on 10/30/02 at 11:25 a.m.
It was "YES"
Sometime in the 70's
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Crazy Don on 10/30/02 at 11:44 a.m.
The first concert I remember seeing was The Monkees in 1969. They were a trio then, Peter having left the group. I also saw Elvis in concert in 1975 and Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1976 when I won free tickets off the radio. I haven't been to any since, though.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Benny on 10/30/02 at 04:13 p.m.
Quoting:
Boston on thier "Dont look back" tour! in '79.
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My first - 1985. A triple-band blowout: the Beach Boys, the Moody Blues and the Fixx. THE FIXX RULES!!!
I also loved Boston growing up - unfortunately I didn't get to see them until the Mid-90s "Livin' for you" tour.
B.J.R.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: bagpipechick on 10/30/02 at 05:32 p.m.
My first concert was actually the Clancy Brothers in 1983 and my dad took me. I was about 8 years old. I really loved Irish music back then! (still do now!)
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: itgirl on 10/31/02 at 09:19 p.m.
Joe Jackson and Marshall Crenshaw, 1981 (PLEASE tell me I am not the only one who knows who they are!).
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: arothman on 11/01/02 at 11:04 a.m.
Hehehe... I saw "Sha Na Na" at a concert venue that closed when I was in elementary school, but I was only like 2 years old. First concert I willingly went to (I think) was Huey Lewis & The News. I remember the Neville Brothers opened for him and they were terribly boring.
Drew
http://www.arothman.com
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Manhattan83 on 11/01/02 at 08:37 p.m.
i dont know when, but it was a bon jovi concert!
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: julie on 11/02/02 at 06:09 a.m.
I saw the Moody Blues and The Fixx in 1983, I think. It was an outdoor show. My first indoor concert, Boston "Third Stage" at the Centrum in Worcester MA.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: JETTA00 on 11/02/02 at 09:14 a.m.
My first concert was in 2000!! Can you believe it...well I am only 19 so I was 17 when I saw my first concert. It was the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND...holla back if you like them!
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: XenaKat13 on 11/02/02 at 11:42 a.m.
I know it was Aerosmith, but I'm not sure of the year. It was sometime in the early '80's, before all of them were clean and sober. It wasn't the best show I ever saw.
I went to see them again about five years later, (after they were all clean and sober) and it was one of the best concerts I've seen. (Andreas Vollenwieder edged them out by a hairsbreadth).
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: oldmangrady on 11/02/02 at 02:37 p.m.
Heart with Bourgeois Tagg in Chapel Hill, NC. It was two days before Halloween and Heart came out on a dark stage carrying jack-o-lanterns and marching around all druid-like. Then they commenced to kickin' major butt on stage.
Then it was Def Leppard and LA Guns, those were the days....
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: oldmangrady on 11/02/02 at 02:44 p.m.
RUSH. God I LOVE this band. Who else loves RUSH?
RUSH....the greatest band ever, but that's just my opinion.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: JETTA00 on 11/02/02 at 11:07 p.m.
Hey I LOVE RUSH!!!!!!!! WOW how i love Tom Sawyer and Limelight. I can't believe you saw them in concert...you are so lucky!! WOW you must send me a message about the concert!!!!!!!!! I just love them!!!!
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: scaryfast on 11/03/02 at 01:53 a.m.
Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Tracy Chapman and Youssou N' dour at the same concert in Costa Rica, I was 15. 8) Amnesty International Tour.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: scaryfast on 11/03/02 at 02:45 a.m.
Joe Jackson sings Steppin' out, right?
Quoting:
Joe Jackson and Marshall Crenshaw, 1981 (PLEASE tell me I am not the only one who knows who they are!).
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Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Jelina on 11/05/02 at 12:29 a.m.
Def Leppard...and it wasn't even in the 80's..it was in the 90's, but they still played everything from back in the day....
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: shy_violet on 11/10/02 at 02:00 p.m.
My first concert was Level 42 in Philadelphia.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 11/10/02 at 02:02 p.m.
If memory serves, my first concert was in 1984 when I saw A Flock Of Seagulls.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: meadowmist on 11/10/02 at 09:00 p.m.
Mine was DEF LEPERD, Regina ,Sask 1983.....Way cool.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: 80sTrivia on 11/16/02 at 05:25 p.m.
My first "real" concert was Prince & the Revolution at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1987. My older sister and her friend took me and we had a blast!!! :)
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: Other on 11/16/02 at 06:19 p.m.
ItGirl: i absolutely love Joe Jackson....and am quite jealous that you have seen him in concert!!
my first concert: Woodstock....i was like 6 months old. my parents were hippies and dragged my brother and i to all these festivals. i dont remeber it, of course, but it is a good story. mom has a 'family picture' of it still in her bedroom **let go of it, mom**
the first concert i remember was another festival with lots of music, but the only ones i remember was Peter, Paul & Mary. i have seen them many times since then.
The first concert i wanted to go to: SHAWN CASSIDY. i was like 8 or something...i went with my dad (who really didnt want to go, but he was a good dad!). i remember i lost one of my 'thongs' (shoes-not undergarments) and Shawn threw roses out into the audience and i got one!
i cant believe i admit these things on message boards!
Other.
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: hotdog2002 on 11/16/02 at 08:15 p.m.
Took my baby sister and her freind, along with my wife to see Elton John, somewhere in the 70'S, and then I found real drug's........hee...hee :o
Subject: Re: Your First Concert?
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/17/02 at 01:12 p.m.
My first concert was the Cowsills (if anyone remembers them). It was at a local amusement part back in the early 70s. Then my next one was Blue Oyster Cult in the early 80s.
Cat