What was the first live concert you attended?

[rampside]

"Woodstock 1969".......Just kidding.... Woulda if I coulda though. Let's just say I was there in spirit. :wink:

 

[Thunderface]

First: The Beach Boys at the Duluth Arena in 1980.

(Bonus material):
Last: The Tragically Hip at the Mill City Nights in Minneapolis in November.
Next: Soundgarden this Saturday at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis.

 

[guitarslinger]

The Beach Boys, Fresno Memorial Auditorium August 3rd 1964. I was 12.

 

[adorshki]

Boy, this made me realize I'm actually not sure off the top of my head...big name national act?
Then I think it must have been Larry Coryell's 11th House at San Jose Civic Auditorium in late '74. I wrote a review of it for a junior college "Music Appreciation" class.
Everything else I remember from that far back, I was already out of college.
Bonus material, "The one that got away":
I was invited by an older buddy in high school to go see Black Sabbath at the notorious Winterland Ballroom, but my folks wouldn't give permission in '71 when I was just 15. Oh well, the opener was only some unknown band called Yes, anyway. :?

 

[Taylor Martin Guild]

John Denver, Mid 70's.
It was my third try to get tickets for one of his concerts.
He sold out fast.

 

[zulu]

Oingo Boingo at Great America amusement park in Santa Clara. 1985?

 

[walrus]

Elton John at what now is Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA, July 4, 1976. He came out dressed as the Statue of Liberty!

walrus

 

[fronobulax]

"Woodstock 1969".......Just kidding.... Woulda if I coulda though. Let's just say I was there in spirit. :wink:

A friend and I talked about driving down for it but decided not to because we didn't have tickets. I did make Summer Jam, however.

 

[ladytexan]

"Woodstock 1969".......Just kidding.... Woulda if I coulda though. Let's just say I was there in spirit. :wink:

Me, too, rampside. Ah, Woodstock '69....Summer of Love. Several friends went, my my ex-husband and I were seriously finishing up our undergraduate degrees to graduate in '70.....so, not only couldn't we afford it, we didn't want to take our infant son along for the adventure. Gosh, those were the days.....my friend! :wink: 8)

 

[kevin the bass man]

Aerosmith at riverport, june 2009.
Creed opened for them IIRC.

 

[southernGuild]

Ah, Woodstock '69....Summer of Love.

:lol: I was only 8 years old during the 'sumer of Love'. But I did have a mighty 3rd grade crush on a red headed girl....so Yea, I was in touch with it all. Grooovy! :lol:

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

A female vocalist with bass and drums. I don't remember who it was. That's because I was three or four years old. It was at Wills Point, which was one of the greatest venues for country-swing.

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[adorshki]

"Woodstock 1969".......Just kidding.... Woulda if I coulda though

A friend and I talked about driving down for it but decided not to because we didn't have tickets.

In retrospect, would you consider that a "bad music decision"?
:lol: :lol: :lol:
I still have a copy of the San Francisco Good Times underground newspaper which has an actual mailorder ad for tickets. Off the top of my head I think it was something like $7.00/day or all 3 days for $18.00. I still wonder how many people received "soldout" letters, and if they ever got refunds, and how many of 'em said "H-ll with it, let's go anyway".
I myself was spending my usual summer holiday with my grandparents in the agrarian paradise of Hollister, California, and giving serious thought to attempting to hitchike across the country to get in on the big party that was all over the nightly news. It'd only take a day or two, right?
Probably woulda taken that long just to get out of Hollister.
The farmers weren't real big on picking up young teenage hippie hitchhikers back then.
:lol:

 

[Bing k]

Mission Mountain Wood Band(the first one) Or maybe it was the Stampeders? That was up in Saskatoon.

 

[tjmangum]

They still had "Battle of the Bands" type shows that went around the Chicago area in about 1968-69 and I saw at my high school one Saturday the Buckinghams, American Breed, Grassroots and probably a few other area bands that were making it big. Seems like they each did only 3-5 songs, which would have been the scope of their top 40 hits, respectively.
The first really big concert I went to was in 1972 at Columbia, Maryland outside of Baltimore. Richie Havens, with Sha-na-na opening.
T

 

[killdeer43]

Late December, 1962.
The Star Club in Hamburg, Germany.
A little group called....the Beatles! 8)

Joe

 

[bluesypicky]

Jimmy Dawkins. In a 300 seats concert hall that no longer exists, in my home town of Le Mans, I was 13 or 14, and completely mesmerized. Mid-seventies.

 

[GardMan]

Gordon Lightfoot, ~1971 or 72, at the Portland (OR) Civic Auditorium.

 

[Scratch]

Ike & Tina Turner Review, Charleston SC, 1968. It was free...

 

[poser]

Wow. Hard to remember that far back. It was probably Peter, Paul and Mary sometime in the late sixties. One of the first was Richie Havens. His opening act was Linda Rhonstadt. At the time, I wasn't too impressed. :roll: Boy was I wrong!