1st Concert you attended?

BigWaylon said:
I ain’t ashamed.

MC Hammer
Boyz II Men
TLC
@Carowinds

Maybe ‘92?
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Ha! No shame in my game. I took a chic to see Color Me Bad at the Paladium at Carowinds, probably around the same time. Didn't know her too well but figured I could change that after taking her to a concert....nope...denied. The thing I do remember was when her mom picked us up she had fuzzy handcuffs hanging from her rear view mirror. At time time I didn't make the connection...
 
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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Went to a Widespread Panic New Years eve show with a couple hippies I worked with. It was Atlanta, sometime around 2004ish. I was an entrepreneur at the time and figured it was a good place to peddle my wears. I wasn't let down...
We had a room in some swanky hotel down town cause it was all that had vacancy when we booked. You'd never guess it lookin' at the people staying there. And forget sleeping, when both rooms on either side of you were filling nitrous balloons.
 
First one I can remember, touring company of Jesus Christ Superstar at Charlotte Coliseum like 1972. It was a great show with excellent musicians and singers. Next show at same venue, Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babbies tour. Saw Kiss, Slade and Gary Wright in GBO for $5. Still have the ticker stub.
 
Was either The Who in Chicago or Rush at Notre Dame, hard to remember.

First big comedy show was George Carlin, that was a time!
 
My 1st was Van Halen on the 1984 tour - Autograph opened. Old Charlotte Coliseum.
Saw a lot of shows in my younger days.
Best, musically, was Prince. Guy was a genius.
Worst was Rod Stewart. He was so drunk he was forgetting HIS OWN LYRICS! But...he kicked soccer balls to the back of the arena. Impressive, for sure.
Saw Robert Plant on the Now & Zen tour, front row center in the Old Charlotte Coliseum, also.
That was back when you could camp out for tickets and get decent seats. :D
 
I need to dig through to count the bands I’ve seen. When I moved to NC in 2000, my sister had a friend that worked in promotions for the pavilion and gave me a stack of tickets, only stipulation is that they all had to be used.

Ozzie 8 times (Twice with Sabbath)
Foreigner 4 times (always as an opener)

Some that stick out in memory, Metallica was a beast of a show. Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Pantera, Korn, Linkin Park, Slipknot.

My guess is 200ish bands, No Show Jones was good, ZZ Top didn’t do it for me, Charlie Daniels was fun, Lynyrd Skynyrd at Kyle Pettys farm is very memorable.

I had a girl I was seeing in college, her dad played in a Grateful Dead cover band, that was an experience at a bonfire…
 
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The first time I saw Frampton was 2002, opening for fake-Journey at the NYS Fair.

This was a "go because my wife wants to" show. I didn't want to get there early to see the opener (I figured I'd heard enough of him on the radio for decades).


We got there on time and saw Peter. His set was fantastic! I was an instant fan. I've seen him multiple times since then. He is fantastic.

By the time he was done I didn't even want to stick around for fake-Journey.



At one of the Frampton shows, he told the story of how his high-school art teacher (his father) would let Peter cut class and play guitar in the office with fellow student David Jones.

David Jones would later assume a stage name, because the name Davey Jones was being used by a Monkee.




Years later, they toured together.

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With as much as Bowie mixed art and music, I can't help but think that high-school art teacher had a pretty huge impact on music in the 1970s.
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As I was reading your post “A Space Odessey” was playing on my shop radio. More than fitting....
 
1987 Ft. Myers, Fla. Motley Crue with Guns and Roses opening was the Girls, Girls, Girls & Welcome to the Jungle tour, I was 13 was pretty amazing. I did also get to see Pantera once in NYC Crystal Ballroom in the village w Sacred Reich opening in 91 and again at the Pepsi arena in Albany in 93. Got to see ,Sepletura, Biohazard, Megadeath, Judas Priest, in my concert going days, last couple were some of the best, 05' saw Shadows Fall opened, then Lamb of God, then Slipknot as the headliner, in Lowell, Massachusetts, the very next night saw Breaking Benjamin @ a small College campus in Vermont via they're basketball courts/arena, that was a great weekend.
 
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1987 Ft. Myers, Fla. Motley Crue with Guns and Roses opening was the Girls, Girls, Girls & Welcome to the Jungle tour, I was 13 was pretty amazing. I did also get to see Pantera once in NYC Crystal Ballroom in the village w Sacred Reich opening in 91 and again at the Pepsi arena in Albany in 93. Got to see ,Sepletura, Biohazard, Megadeath, Judas Priest, in my concert going days, last couple were some of the best, 05' saw Shadows Fall opened, then Lamb of God, then Slipknot as the headliner, in Lowell, Massachusetts, the very next night saw Breaking Benjamin @ a small College campus in Vermont via they're basketball courts/arena, that was a great weekend.
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Watched acoustic set of Breaking Benjamin at the Fillmore I think, Starset opened. But a great show
 
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My boss loves Jimmy buffet and told me today he contacted somebody in his inner circle offering to take him by helicopter to go fishing on some river in nc.

He got an email today saying due to jimmys schedule, he couldnt make it but gave my boss 4 tickets to his upcoming show including backstage passes. I thought that was cool. I guess money recognizes money.
 
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Electric Light Orchestra. Greensboro. October 1981.
I’ve seen well over a hundred concerts since then. Big arenas and small clubs. Rock, metal, folk, country, classical.....
Funny thing is if I could see any of them again just as they were, that ELO show is always at the top of that list.
 
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