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Little Village 1994

Butthole Surfers 1993

The Who , Central Park, Wolman Rink NYC, 1967, cost $2.00, $1.50 for the cheap seats, sponsored by Schaffer Beer

First show was Alice Cooper on June 3rd 1973 at Madison Square Garden.

Second was 7 days later at RFK Stadium in Washington DC for The Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band. 

It was quite a week. 

First real rock concert was Def Leppard and Tesla at the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum in 1987.   Freeking loud and my ears are still ringing.  

ski

I had tickets for that Alice show bought months in advance but forgot my sister was 16 that day and had to sell them and go to her party, lol. I hit the Dead / Allmans on the 10th, first time I saw them with Chuck and Lamar

Burl Ives (late 60's)

Grateful Dead, Syracuse, Fall '82.

BTO, Bob Seger, Climax Blues Band;

 San Diego Sports Arena 1974

Van Halen - The Fabulous Forum - Inglewood CA -1982

Do the Osmond Brothers count? LOL. Saw them at age 9. 

Otherwise, my first big concert was the Rolling Stones at the Seattle Kingdome... I wasn't even 21 yet.. What a debacle that was. Had to go to RockMed station for a little while. What I saw in there was an educating eye opener for sure!

WLIR Party in the Park II Aug 1980 ( though i think i saw the Good Rats earlier than this ) maybe Twisted Sister too,  however : 
Party In the Park II

Good Rats

Flo & Eddie

Blotto

Pure Prairie League

Rick Derringer

Todd Rundgren

Al DiMeola

David Bromberg

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes

Jazz - Buddy Rich - 1974 or 3

Rock - ELO - 77 - MSG 

Hey, pretty close Bluelight.

Jazz - Buddy Rich - 1976 - San Jose City College

Rock - Boston - 1977 - Cow Palace

Vanilla Fudge and Iron Butterfly, Fairleigh Dickinson University Gymnasium, Rutherford, NJ. I believe 1967. All the years combine....

Doobie Bros/Michael Stanley Band/???  - 1980 - Del Mar Fairgrounds

Beach Boys 1963, the Surf Ballroom, Nantasket Beach, MA.

I was only 12 - my dad had to take me.

Rush with FM opening, September 26, 1980, The Capitol Center, Largo, Maryland.

A Farewell To Kings Tour

Setlist

A “2112” – (Overture/The Temples Of Syrinx)
“Freewill”
“Limelight”
“Cygnus-X1: Book II: Hemispheres” (Prelude)
“Beneath, Between And Behind”
“The Camera Eye”
“YYZ”
Drum Solo
“YYZ”
“Broon’s Bane”
“The Trees”
“Xanadu”
“The Spirit Of Radio”
“Red Barchetta”
“Closer To The Heart”
“Tom Sawyer”
“Vital Signs”
“Natural Science”
“Working Man”
“Cygnus-X1: Book II: Hemispheres” (Armageddon)
“By-Tor And The Snow Dog”
“In The End”
“In The Mood”
“2112” (Grand Finale)

Encore: La Villa Strangiato

6-24-69

u guys are absolutely killing me

yes 35th 2004 in san jose with my dad

Van Halen march 1984...philly spectrum. 

Apparently this was the typical setlist...

Unchained"

"Hot for Teacher"

Alex Van Halen drum solo

"On Fire"

"Runnin' with the Devil"

"Little Guitars"

"Cathedral" and "House of Pain"

Michael Anthony bass solo

"Jamie's Cryin'"

"I'll Wait"

"Everybody Wants Some!!"

"Girl Gone Bad"

"1984" and "Jump"

Eddie Van Halen guitar solo [and "Eruption", "Spanish Fly", "Little Guitars", "Women in Love..." and "Mean Street" (Intros)

"Pretty Woman" 

"Panama"

"You Really Got Me"  [encore]

"Growth" and "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" [and "Happy Trails" (

Remember us when we're gone Daylight.

Same az OP

Aerosmith 76 derringer opened (was suppossed to be foghat)

Next 2 were same in 77...as we kept going until we finally did get the Foghat opener on third one...it was springfield, new haven, springfield....the old civic center, all those early springfield shows were GA...just crazy...and the band was crazy good

Springsteen, Giants Stadium 1984.

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Hey, pretty close Bluelight.

Jazz - Buddy Rich - 1976 - San Jose City College

Wow Lance cool. 

My Dad & I saw Buddy Rich 3 years in a row in Garden City's Roosevelt Field Mall. My mother was a manager of a bank in their. 

With Maynard Ferguson one show, then with his band and then with Lionel Hampton - which was the best of the 3, only because The Who's Tommy was hot and the shows climax was Pinball Wizard

Beatlemania 1982

Old man with feeble memory guesstimates

Dead at the el Camino park 67

Winterland NYE 68 w santana , quicksilver  an it's a beautiful day

Oakland arena cream 68

dead carosel ~69?

San Jose Hendrix 69

all three kings Albert my fav

frost summer be in series. 16 yr old Neil in SantanA, sly, Clapton , cold blood, at least 20 more super memorable acts

so memorable in fact I probably should've kept a record of all the concerts i used to go to

Emerson Lake and Palmer April 24th 1973 Munich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zza1MY4ANc&t=28s

1978 KISS @ the Spectrum

herbal dave, I was at the Rush show in Philly the night before. 

The Eagles on March 15, 1977 at Nassau Coliseum. 

First smoking pot real concert. 1972 , Humble Pie, Canned Heat, JJ Cale solo in that order.

Remember it better than other shoes.

Now that I think about it, I also saw the Doors in Vancouver summer of 68 while on a teen tour. Not really sure which show came first if I’m wrong about the year of the other one. I’m old.  Either way those were the first two. 

My first was the Grateful Dead Spectrum 4/5/82. 

My second was Ozzy Osbourne also at the Spectrum just a couple weeks later on the Diary of a Madman tour. A good show, but also a big disappointment because Randy Rhoads had died just over a month earlier. My friend who had the tix was sure they would cancel the tour & they did postpone it for a couple of weeks, but resumed in time for Philly. 

As far as I know the best venue on the planet - and definitely the best within a mile of my childhood home  is being renovated

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The Grateful Dead played 13 shows at the Amphitheater in 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989.[. Mf The Grateful Dead,

some of the great acts are mentioned in the article posted here  http://rockprosopography101.blogspot.com/2010/05/frost-amphitheater-stan...  I think I remember that for shit out and when fritz played I wasn't in love with StevieNicks yet!

Also Joan Baez, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, an

Just your first LLTD, not the whole damn list.

And BTW daylight, GREAT first show!

You must have a good dad.

 The dead played two shows at El Camino ball park

and I had forgotten about the new riders mAfter a October 1, 1972 show with Miles Davis (nominally a jazz show, although the New Riders Of The Purple Sage were also on the bill) was marred by people trying to get in for free (a breeze for agile locals who knew the grounds well)

very interesting to history  buffs and  those interested in counter culture and the hippie movement and implied  and what it spoke to       ---here's a link to the mid peninsula free university.   Also mentions our weekly  Friday evening concerts  downtown  Lyton  plaza  i'm pretty sure Kevin Mckernan Ron's little brother played with my friends bad Osiris at one of those shows !

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 Old man, I've never been very good at following directions (perfected the art of free shows and sneaking into shows long ago though (miracles too) 

I wouldn't call it a swing and a miss  though,  just feeling pretty blessed and sharing with the whippersnapper's and other historians

i'll try not to post but the truth is I couldn't remember my first show maybe the musicals like the music man my parents took me to downtown San Francisco I do remember the last one I went to iand the one I'm going to on Wednesday.  Go sell some smoothies.   My number five and  last one graduates in a few months

Ya' got trouble, right here in River City.

And that starts with a T and that rhymes with a P and that stands for POOL!

Ah, I love that show.

And yeah, soon there will another venue in the Bay Area where folks can whine about the ticket prices & service charges.

Still, a nice place.

And the kid gets a discount if she mentions your name.

Great thread.

Yes @ Roosevelt Stadium (shithole) in Jersey City, NJ Summer 1976. Gamechanger.

Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies tour @ MSG 1973

KISS - 1979, I was 15 years old.

Second concert was Foghat & Blue Oyster Cult 1981 

1975 Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band with one of them Canadian bands i think Starz opened at Cleveland Public Hall ticket was in the $6-$7 range

a great benchmark for judging future performances, Seger burned the house down

Sacramento Symphony performance of Peter and the Wolf at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, circa 1960. I was 5 or 6, I think.
Used to go to a lot of symphony stuff when I was a kid, but this is the first one I can remember.

Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies tour @ MSG 1973

Amazing that with the small sampling of people on this board that 2 of us had the same first concert. 

Sha Na Na -- the old outdoor Oakdale Theater August 1980. 

Circle Jerks 1985 9:30 club in Washington DC. I was 15, Keith Morris had a broken leg from a skateboarding accident but still did stage dives 

My first show was Loverboy, in 83. A band called The Streets or The Street opened, never heard of them again. I won the tix from a local radio station. 

Billy Joel - Nylon Curtain Tour.  Fab Forum '82

World Series Of Rock - Cleveland Municipal Stadium, June 1978

Trickster (The English band, not the metal band)

Journey

Foreigner

ELO

12 years old. Smoked bowls with my assistant Scoutmaster and his sons. Those were very different times.

Beach Boys on the National Mall. 

July 4 1980-ish

Where's Uncle Peej when you need him!?

Grateful Dead, Providence, Rhode Island, April, 1982.  (Also Preservation Hall Jazz band, 1976...lovely but brought by my parents so excluding it as my first.)

>>>>Beach Boys on the National Mall.   July 4 1980-ish

Was that the show that got former Secretary of Interior James Watts' panties in a bunch?   Dude initially banned them because he didn't want that rock and roll music and all the bad elements it attracts disgracing the National Mall.

Funny to think my son started to go to shows when he was only two months old (David Grisman Quintet at the Wilma Theater in Missoula, 10/2/96) and has continued to go ever since then, although his taste in bands has since diverged some from his parents'.

*****Long Live The Dead•••••••

I agree 100% with the Frost Amphitheatre being the best venue on this planet.

I saw the Grateful Dead at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley.

I saw the Grateful Dead at Red Rocks.

Frost Amphitheatre is the best venue I ever saw the Grateful Dead play (or any other band ).

The Jerry Garcia Band was supposed to play there in 1992.

We had tickets.

Garcia got sick and that show and the Eel show were cancelled.

That was a very sad day.

i watched them close every good west coast venue right before i could get there...

Your reputation preceded you.

As hostage: The Four Seasons in Central Park

By choice:  Tull @ MSG in 77(?)

The Cars   Philly Spectrum   1979?

Kiss ... 1975...Philly Civic Center... Alive tour....

Deadly, I was at that show. Used to hit all of the old wsor at the mistake on the lake. 

Peakfifteen, I was there, the Candy-O tour. Most boring stage presence by a band evah. And my friend got stuck with a counterfeit ticket.

Chuck, I was at that OZZY show also.

First outdoor show:  1976 Day on the Green #3:

Boz Scaggs, Tower of Power, Santana, Jeff Beck, Journey, Nils Lofgren (June 5, 1976)

First indoor show:  1/25/1977    Cow Palace    E.L.O.    Firefall    Steve Hillage    

Comments on some of the above:​

^^^^Rush with FM opening, September 26, 1980, The Capitol Center, Largo, Maryland.  A Farewell To Kings Tour

I saw that tour in Oakland, GREAT SHOW, but that contains Permanent Waves and some Moving Pictures material.  Farewell to Kings tour was '77 - '78.

^^^^Yes @ Roosevelt Stadium (shithole) in Jersey City, NJ Summer 1976. Gamechanger.

JEALOUS!!!  That's an amazing show, and a great bootleg.  Missed that tour in the Bay Area.  The GFTO tour the next year was great.

^^^^Frost Amphitheatre is the best venue I ever saw the Grateful Dead play (or any other band ).

The 10/82 GD shows at the Frost really did it for me!

>>First indoor show:  1/25/1977    Cow Palace    E.L.O.    Firefall    Steve Hillage

I was the MSG run of that elo hillage tour. A very good CD of the Steve Hillage set came out last year

1975 Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Review, Bangor Auditorium, Bangor, ME. My big sis took me, I was 14. A week later we went to see Sha Na Na. I love 50's tunes too

Sly & The Family Stone, July 11, 1970, West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills

2 days before this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkztGX6BlPo

Styx.

>>>>Chuck, I was at that OZZY show also.

Very cool Voodoo. Like I said, a good show, but I have to wonder what could have been had Randy Rhoads lived. The next/last time I saw Ozzy was in 1988 when he toured with Zakk Wylde aka Jeff Wielandt again at the Spectrum. He was from Jackson, NJ & graduated 2 years before I did. It was cool to see him with Ozzy after seeing him play locally for so long. 

Pete Seeger when I was 5? Lots of folk singers in small gatherings after that.

Joan Baez/Bob Dylan 1963 at Hollywood Bowl.

GD July 1966 at the Fillmore.

Jan and Dean

Styx- Paradise Theatre Tour - 1981   Meadowlands

The Boss @ The Stone Pony

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 1976,

Yes - in the round 1978

Spectrum Philly

>>>GD July 1966 at the Fillmore<<<

Show off.

Karen went to Magoos pizza for what i believe is the first non warlock show 

says she dated that drummer from Paly  too 

"show off?"

Lance, and then, after the show I was walked to my car by a house security person since I was alone. Pretty sweet of them.

1981 Foreigner and Billy Squier

"Urgent" and "The Stroke" were hits at the time and I was 11 yrs old 

Urgent - one of the worst songs ever.

LLTD is the fucking man!!!

Happy New Year J!

We hope to see you soon. Someone tell Phil The Q is calling

Beach Boys, 1984, Laguna Seca (seemed like a big deal at the time...until the Circus came to town in 1987)