Poll: What was the first concert you ever went to?

What was the first concert you ever went to?

Throat Culture (a capella group from Columbus) playing at the anual arts festival.
After that, TMBG...
...and more TMBG.

The lads came in somewhere after that.

TMBG, fall '97, Cincinnati (@ Bogart's). Since my mom hadn't let me attend Lilith Fair that past summer, I had this huuuuge spiel made up in my head to convince her to let me go to see this show... and she just said "OK" without my having to say a word of it. :D I think she just understood how much I loved them and how much this meant to me. Besides, TMBG is a far cooler first concert than Lilith Fair would have been.

(I think Fruvous was my third concert, for what it's worth.)

Other than all the Concerts Under the Stars at upper Merion to see Trout Fishing, Susan Werner, Patty Larkin and Dar Wiliams when I was little? Other than "seeing" the Beach Boys when i was a baby?

Alanis Morrisette. August 26, 1996. Hershey park stadium.

First one I vaguely remember as a kid was .... a band my uncle was in... so it was either Meatloaf or Orleans.

First one *I* decided to go to was probably one of the many shows put on by local hardcore bands. And probably at the Greenfield Grange.

First "big" concert was probably... hrm.... I'd say it might have been either primus or nirvana.

I read that as "anal arts festival" Goes well with Throat Culture, if you lived in a porn movie.

The first concert I went to was classical at Carngegie Hall. I don't know the orchestra. Well actually I think I might have performed with my school orchestra before that.

My first Pop concert was Diana Ross and the Supremes with Little Stevie Wonder opening. That was with camp.

The first concert that I went to on my own initiative was Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Review tour. With Bob I saw lots of other great musicians including Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell.

Fall 1987, Louisville KY.

1989 or 1990. I begged my dad to take me...I was 13. I had idolized Paul since I was 9. I went and it was the most amazing experience of my life to that point. :) I'm so glad my first one is something I'll always be proud of.

in the late 70s but I can't remember the year...

May 25, 2000. I remember the date because it's my half birthday. It was an enjoyable concert. We were on the lawn of the Tweeter Center and got hit on by many a-guy, but for a shy girl like me, it was an awesome eye-opener.

1978

Then Sha na na in 1978 or 1979

1979
Lou Rawls

Philadelphia Orchestra? I've seen them a couple times. and stuff with school. that's it.

...at the moment....

mid-to-late 80s. Concrete Blonde opened!

Mine was either the philly orchestra also, or it was a tower of power/average white band concert. Then Weird al, he was a great performer. But it was way too rehearsed.

1978 I think I saw Yes. It was an outdoor concert at Colt Park in Hartford, CT. The last they ever had cause people threw glass bottles and climbed the scaffolding that the lighting was mounted on.

No Doubt.

Summer 1997.
Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center.

For a while I decided to say I'd reformed and really count Fruvous at the Lilac Festival in spring 1998 as my first concert, but now I realize I must come to terms with my past.

1978 - I was eight and I though he hung the moon. :)

Might have been the summer after, actually. My friend John had two tickets to see Counting Crows. A few of his other friends had argued over who got to go with him, but they all ended up having to work that night. So he called me in the afternoon: "Know you hadn't mentioned wanting to go, but d'you want to come to the concert?" (Or something along those lines.)

Wasn't really much of a fan, but (as Talcott can testify) I have a hard time turning down free concert offers. (Didn't hurt that I had a huge crush on John at the time, either. *L*)

did you see the simpsons last night? it wasn't a new one, but weird al was on it. good episode. somehow i had never seen it, though.

"lisa, if i were a straight, eight-year-old boy, i would *so* be holding your hand right now."

*giggle*

My parents were hippies who took me to see Jimi Hendrix when I was three. As far as the first concert I can actually remember, it was either when they took me to see Frank Zappa or The Who, not sure which came first. There are some advantages to being an old timer :)

I just remembered another band that I might have seen before Throat Culture:
Hot Pursuit

At the time I thought they were unique, but I suspect that every DARE program had a version. It was a big reward for going through propaganda DARE in 5th grade.

Nothing says "cool first concert" like a group of policemen doing only the safest covers from the 50s and 60s.

Oh, and the ever-cool theme.
.oO DARE! To keep the kids off drugs Oo.
I'm not sure how or why I remember that ;-)

not counting local shows (well i might as well say for good measure that my first local show was Sewing With Nancie (now The Reason), with Majority D, The DBG's, Jersey, and Bigwig)
my first real concert was just a couple years ago. boxcar racer (who were good) with the following bands that were awful: new found glory, good charlotte, and the used.
my first concert that i enjoyed: the white stripes with the Paybacks as openers.

Awwl jeah. Fall of '97 @ the Electric Factory.

probably a kids' classical concert when i was three or four. and by seven i was performing in concerts all the time.

my first non-classical or jazz concert probably wasn't until i was in high school, and was probably a local band. maybe the dixie power trio? i saw a lot of local bands at the city park's summer concert series and at other city festivals. a lot of them sucked.

i always wanted to go to "real" concerts when i was in high school (some that i remember were tmbg at wolf trap, rem at hershey park, hfstival '94, and that earth day concert in dc in '95), but i wasn't allowed. so the first concert i counted as "real" was dar in '97. i think.

I'm just going for the first ones I remember. My mom started me out YOUNG and I intend to do the same if I have a protege in the young generation.
Jan and Dean (after Jan's accident, of course, poor guy looked way out of it)
Adam Ant... the '84or '85 "Strip" tour--that's a lot for a child to take in!!

So, I'm the only one, huh?

Saturday, Feb. 6th, 1999, I saw Moxy Fr�vous in concert at the Trocadero. It was my first concert ever.

I thought it was awesome, and I begged my parents for their CDs afterwards. We had YWGTTM and I listened to that every day until I got Live Noise, and then listened to THAT every day.

After that, I saw them 4 more times: the Keswick (11/9/99), Allentown (4/30/00), Appel farm (6/3/00) and finally at the North Star Bar (8/21/00)... It sucks hardcore that my Fr�vous obsession occured before college. :o(

Yes you win a prize. You get a bonus prize too since I was at 3 of the four shows you went to. Do you know which one I missed?

Gaw, I only went to the Troc one. Being in high school definite hindered my concerting abilities. >_

I'd been attending edifying for young people Candlelight Concert Society shows for eons, but the first rock show I went to was Ringo Starr and the All Starr Band at Merriwether Post back in 1991 (?)

If I recall correctly the band that year included Burton Cummings from The Guess Who and Todd Rundgren.

I think you might win a prize. :D

Your'e the only person I know personally who was deflowered by fruvous.

(well... concert-wise)

The only one I remember seeing you at was North Star, but I'm gonna go and guess Allentown because you probably had tickets but was too lost to find your way to the music hall it was being held at.

...Stupid Allentown. Took us half an hour to get there, and an hour and a half to get back!

nope he was at allentown! b/c there's a picture of him with Goovie and Jian, and our friend Ian is in the background. cause he was there too. :) umm, i think you guys went together?

I, of course, was deflowered by Fruvous in a different way.

We were at Allentown, that is our classic frutrip saga. I drove from New York to Baltimore to pick up Carey then we drove up to Allentown for the show. After the show Shelly drove Carey back to Baltimore then drove to work in Philly the next morning. Batnoses move in mysterious ways.

The Keswick is the one I missed.

You have the coolest parents in the world.

Best show, that was.

I didn't know that Yoda was a Fruhead.

for me, it was Indigo Girls...they were playing a free show for all the students my first year of college.

for richard, it Frankie Goes to Hollywood with Berlin opening in 1987.

I must thank my mother for NOT being able to get tickets for my 12th birthday or i would have to admit that my first concert was New Kids On the Block...*whew*....
of course my best friend still sheepishly admits that her first show was Millie Vanilli (or would that not count as a "concert") :-D

Oh, that was my favorite show out of all of them.

...until the next morning when I went on to a.m.m-f and people were reaming out my best friends for throwing glowy bracelets at the end of The Drinking Song. It wasn't my fault! I didn't know they were gonna do it! It was their first show! :o(

So what's the prize?! :oD

Oui, we were an item, but not at the time, I don't think. That's back in the day when we were just friends.

Now we're back to that, but I set him up with my best friend and they're much in love, so yay for playing matchmaker!

people were reaming out my best friends for throwing glowy bracelets at the end of The Drinking Song.

the keswick is notorious for their glowy bracelets. I've been there...a bajillion times- it's within walking distance from my school and about a 10-15 minute drive from my house. i've been there at least ten times for school related purposes, plus a few times for these plays my cousins are in. too bad i was....8 or 9 when this concert happened. :P

...sorry...i think i made people feel old again. :)

probably Peter, Paul and Mary in the early 1980s.

Showing my age here

It was the summer of 1975 - RUSH - Fly by Night Tour

This was followed by many, many others including April Wine, Burton Cummings, Trooper and Harlequin.

My biggest disappointment was the year Leif Garrett cancelled the concert I had tickets for...I cried for days and days and days.

My first non-classical and non-school related concert that I went to on my own volition was Billy Joel at Nassau Colesium on a very snowy December night in 1993.

well, it was not moxy fruvous, although i did grow up at folk festivals (ex i remember seeing them at the ottawa ff when i was younger). i have to say i dont remember the very first one i went to.. the first real concert that i have memory of, though, is bnl, in detroit i think it was.

ex i remember seeing them at the ottawa ff when i was younger

Did anyone see them when they were older than they are now? :-)

when i was 15 i saw Nine Inch Nails, playing in detroit with the Jim Rose Circus and Pop Will Eat Itself.

my dad's company had a box at the palace of auburn hills. upside: got to take *10 friends* - downside? had to go with my DAD. in a MINIVAN. to a NINE INCH NAILS CONCERT. :D my poor little 15 year old self was somewhat stressed out about this fact :D

Did he at least have the decency to leave the room when you were watching Jim Rose? I don't think I could handle watching that with my dad in the room now, let alone then.

Rolling Stones, Steel Wheels, 1989. Living Colour opened. Went with Mom, 2 sisters, and 5 Vasser sophomores. I was 13. Sat in fourth to the last row in Shea Stadium. Stadium was bouncing up and down. And so many people had really stinky feet.

with Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers in the summer of 1990. I was 12.

I think my first show was Live, circa 1992. just before Throwing Copper was released. Alumni Hall, Bloomington, Indiana. I had my glasses kicked off by a crowdsurfer and had to drive home blind. :-)

Nope, and I guess no one ever will!

*Ducks.
/hiatus-related pessimism

I drove by Shea Stadium that night. I don't remember seeing you.

My first band was The Vandals The first group I saw was New Kids on the Block I *hearted* Jordan

hey!

my first concert was throat culture opening for the bobs. after that, moxy fruvous (with, i believe, johny vegas opening).

Clearfield County Fair.� The year Kokomo was just being introduced live as "the hit song from the upcoming Tom Cruise movie, Cocktail."� Everyone rushed for the bathroom while they performed it.