1st Concert you attended?

This is my older daughter at her first concert in Aug 2008. Birds of Avalon (my wife’s brother was lead singer) at an outdoor concert in downtown Raleigh. She was 5 months old.
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Buddy's parents took us to Aerosmith when we were about 12. She must have smoked some good stuff while there bc on the way home she swore she saw Steven Tyler hitchhiking on the side of the highway every 5 miles and would scream stop the van! We laughed so hard the whole way home... great night!
 
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ImYourHuckleberry said:
Alabama, 1984 in Charlotte
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Alabama playing at the Bowery in Murder Beach as the house band … we’d sneak in on Spring Break. Then in ‘80-81 they hit it big and moved on. Damn, those were great times … 18 year olds could buy beer and fake IDs were easy plus they never really check ‘em at the door unless it was a major night.
 
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I've been to less than 6 concerts in my life. First was freshman year of college, 1972, Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids. They put on a helluva show.

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My first concerts were picked by my parents.
Barry Manilow
Jonny Mathis
John Denver
Tom Jones

First thing I chose myself was OMD and Depeche Mode around 1988.
I'd later see some good shows. I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn play his last show in Wisconsin. Got to see the Eagles and Clapton and Robert Plant.

I walked out of a Sheryl Crowe show.
 
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Metallica in 95. Only reason I went was that Days of New, and Jerry Cantrell opened for them. It was the only concert I’ve ever attended
 
My live music entre was in the early 80s at Raleigh's Village Underground.
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I think the first band I saw at the Pier was Arrogance
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I had a friend who's dad owned another nightclub in the area, so we were on the guest list and could get in. Had by first beer there.

Early 80s was a great time for Triangle / mid-NC music scene.
 
Charlie Daniels, Long Island, NY, 1979-80.

I did see Beatlemania on Broadway in NYC when I was very young, more like a concert than a play if I remember correctly.
 
FWIW we took our kids to many rock concerts when they were little, so even if they don't remember it they can say they saw 'X'. Now they're late teens and wont go anywhere with us. Last shows we saw with the kids were Weezer and Beck / Cage The Elephant (pre-covid).
 
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Crazy Carl said:
Grateful Dead in OKC, summer of '81. Talk about underwhelmed. The drugs were cool, but the music sucked shit through straws & the chicks all smelled like feet & ass.
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Give it another ten years and see how the memories age.
 
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Probably Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons at NCSU in 1968. Two of my buddies were big Four Seasons fans and they went backstage after the show and got them to autograph a poster for me to give to my girlfriend who attended the show with me. I should have kept the poster... we broke up and I never saw it again. But the girl who went with me to see the Fifth Dimension didn't get a poster. She did get a wedding ring, and next month we'll be celebrating our 50th anniversary.
 
Ritchie Havens with Ten Wheel Drive at Carmichael Auditorium, 1969. Great show.
 
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First and only concert (unless tailgating counts) was Live 8 in Philly in 2005. It was really cool that it was a global concert and huge names from all genres were there.

I got pretty close too, not far behind the statue near the stage.

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MrBitey said:
Give it another ten years and see how the memories age.
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I dunno. I have never understood that genre of tuneless noodling & dirty hippies disgust me, especially this new generation with the moldylocks hair thing. Drugs are still fun, though.

Going to watch my kid cousin's '80's hair/glam metal tribute band tomorrow night. Oughtta be a good time.
 
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This isnt the question asked, already did that, but I wanted to elaborate a small bit.
I mentioned my parents, dad especially, being cool with my seeing live music.
At 15 he let me go with a friend to the original Ziggy's to see a bunch of bands he'd never heard of. Ok, no big deal, it was 20 minutes away. That's when the flood gates opened and I was hooked.

But, and this one shocks my fiance, at 16 there was a conversation I remember well
Me - Im going to Charlotte tomorrow for a show
Dad - Oh ok, who are you going with?
M - Just me
D - Who is it?
M - Suicide Machines
D - Have fun!
 
Some girls invited us to a 3rd eye blind concert in Raleigh. We got so drunk that when we got there we just tried to walk in with no ticket. Security stopped that so we went right beside them and climbed the fence.

I lost both my shoes and tore my shirt half off but i made it over. Security was laughing at us and let us go. Soon as i made it over the fence, some guy walks up and pulls a half gallon of vodka out of his pants and hands it to me. We both swig and high 5 and he left.

Found the girls and passed out on the lawn with em. Great time! The music? I don't remember a thing.
 
Iron Butterfly, 1969, Carmichael Stadium, Chapel Hill, NC
Yes, 20 November 1971, Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durhm, NC
Grateful Dead, September 3, 1972, Folsom Field, Boulder Colorado
Leo Kottke, 1973, Memorial Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC
 
DangerRuss said:
My first concert was fall of 1994 - Collective Soul and Aerosmith at Walnut Creek Amphitheater in Raleigh. It was the start of my 2nd year at NCSU.
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Not sure I’ve seen you mention that before. I was there ‘93-‘97.

I’ll bet you also saw Hootie & The Blowfish at some point in those years? I saw them four times. 😁
 
The actual first concert was going to see Trace Adkins with one of myself friends and his girlfriend and her friend probably when we were around 15 or so....

MadMardigan said:
My first was Ozzfest 1998 in Pittsburgh PA.
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I was there as well.

1996ish to 2003 were my prime concert years..X-Fest, Warped Tour... whatever the one with Powerman5000, Korns and that group was.

Was usually a Jimmy Buffett concert in there somewhere as well....I wonder what that hippie chick will the weird "cigarette" and funny tasting watermelon is up to these days....😂

Just spent two days at Dreamville...
 
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