What was your first concert?
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Posted 2011-05-15 11:07 PM (#27509)
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Mine was July 2, 1982. Rose Bowl, Pasadena Ca.

Journey
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Triumph
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I was 12 and it was amazing. A few people needed medical attention for heat exhaustion and someone broke their leg on a makeshift blanket trampoline on the lawn. I also found my first pipe left behind by some old stoner.

I only really new Journey. I had heard of Triumph and BOC but didn't really know who they were. I had no clue who Aldo Nova was.

Aldo Nova blew my fucking mind. They were the loudest thing I had ever heard in my(short) life. I also instantly became a fan of both Triumph and BOC. I obviously loved Journey. But in retrospect, I wonder which band I would have liked better, had I known a little more about each, previously. Anyway, it was incredible and this concert is the reason I have loved live bands ever since.
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Posted 2011-05-16 1:17 AM (#27514 - in reply to #27509)
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Mine was Blackfoot opening for Deep Purple, at the dreaded Merriweather Post, Columbia MD, August 1985
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Posted 2011-05-29 3:12 PM (#27696 - in reply to #27509)
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Posted 2011-05-29 3:36 PM (#27697 - in reply to #27509)
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Iron Maiden at the Edinburgh Playhouse, Sept. 1990, on the, "No prayer On The Road" tour.
They were amazing!!!!
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Posted 2011-06-01 2:56 AM (#27730 - in reply to #27509)
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Ahhhh....Terry...you have me beat my friend

Many, many moons ago, I had the chance to go see Blackfoot. I didnt. I went shagging some girlfriend at the time (I was led astray).

Blackfoot never came back to Manchester, UK. I think they played Monsters of Rock that year too. Didn't make that either. They split the following year. Not seeing them when I had the chance is a big regret of mine....

HOWEVER.... my first concert...the first live band I saw was Praying Mantis. I had idea why they were playing. What is a support band? You mean two bands play tonight?? I was THAT new to concerts...

Mantis were opening for non other than Iron Maiden!!. Paul Dianno was singing, Dennis Stratton was on ryth/guitar, and Eddie was just a masked man. But it were as cool as f**k!!!! It was a return fall visit supporting their debut album and Sanctuary was in the charts and on Top Of The Pops....I was 14 at the time.

Just to throw this in...my first TS concert was at the Ashton Metro Theatre. Wish I could remember the date. I think it was April 12th...1983 maybe? Could have been '82.
The Metro was an old cinema. It was very cramped, sweaty.....AND....I just found the pictures!!! They are not very good quality. Taken with an old 110 mm pocket camera. If somebody can tell me how to put them up on the Slamboard, I will do so. I also found some Donnington pics and a couple from Hammersmith, just before Stay Hungry came out.

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Posted 2011-06-01 4:27 AM (#27732 - in reply to #27509)
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the first concert that i paid for was the smashing pumpkins around 1996. i have to go home and look at my ticket stubs to be 100% sure
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Posted 2011-06-02 7:56 AM (#27751 - in reply to #27509)
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AC/DC w/opening band Judas Priest, Cologne, Germany, November 13, 1979. I was thirteen standing among all those 8 ft (that's what they seemed to me) bikers and long-haired Metal freaks in my white tennis-jacket. Still a show I can remember as if it was yesterday (well, not really....). I just remember that my hearing was gone for three days after..............
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Posted 2011-06-08 12:12 PM (#27789 - in reply to #27509)
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Twisted Sister Ratt and Lita Ford. Stay Hungry tour.
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Posted 2011-06-10 3:39 PM (#27804 - in reply to #27509)
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You know its really interesting to see the different experiances and ages here on the board. Shoot my first concert -- Now dont barf now, cause it kinda makes me want to was Neil Diamond in the late sisxties. My second was the young rascals which was just a little better. By the later sisxties I saw what to me was my first real rock show which was Leslie west and mountain.

Oh man what a difference Leslie west was at least a real rocker so that was much better. Then of course there was woodstock which brought rock to a whole other experiance. But my favorite first solo show was of course Twisted which for me I think was around 78. Then there was Wendy o Williams and the Plasmatics, maybe my second favorite to this day ( not to shaby either) Twisted has been my favorite band to this day -- well the one ive felt the closest to in a way thats a little hard to explain except I used to be right with JJ on so many of those leads. I dont think I will ever be able to replace this band on my top list -- I guess it may just be a loss one day -- hopefully not any time soon. What a great rockin band !






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Posted 2011-06-11 3:47 AM (#27811 - in reply to #27509)
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Hey Jim!!!!

You saw the Plasmatics!!!! Dang.....I envy you dude.....great band. Her Kiss produced solo CD was very good.

Evel Az
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Posted 2011-06-12 5:52 AM (#27817 - in reply to #27811)
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Evel - 2011-06-11 3:47 AM

Hey Jim!!!!

You saw the Plasmatics!!!! Dang.....I envy you dude.....great band. Her Kiss produced solo CD was very good.

Evel Az



Hi Evel--- Sorry I dont get on the board as much as Id like, so sometimes I dont see these. Yea before poor Wendy's demise I was a big Wendy O and the Plasmatics fan.Her solo efforts as you said were really good to. To me besides the great bands like AC/DC and the who etc There are just so many etc,TS and Wendy's band were big favorites for me. Its a shame, Great band to me and alot of what you could do back then --I dont know would fly today, after all the terrorist shit that has happened , I guess its hard to blow stuff up much anymore. Great band musically I thought. I so loved those days, but by the grace of god or whomever we still have TS So thats good.

For those who dig Wendy she ( probably most know ) also did some cool movie stuff like Reform school girls and there were a couple of others --- Good stuff -- Course like most here I am a "SMF ". I love it !





Edited by Jim Hudson 2011-06-12 5:55 AM
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Posted 2011-06-12 8:10 AM (#27820 - in reply to #27509)
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Technically, I could say it was The Guess Who when the played a pregame show at a baseball game. Otherwise, I would have to say it wasn't until May 83 when I was in the service. I went to the MayJam festival at Jacksonville North Carolina where the headline act was Nantucket.
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Posted 2011-06-19 11:40 PM (#27898 - in reply to #27509)
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E.L.O. @ MSG NYC! AND I HAD to be chaperoned by my older brother cuz my Daddy-O wouldn't let me got with a slew of my friends via Long Island train alone. {too much drinking going on he said! haha} what he didn't know......{Happy Father's Day Dad, I love you!} LOL...it was the best light show ever. They rocked my world back in "the day".....ain't tellin' ya what day either...hehe...

And then.....then........there was TWISTED F*UCKIN' SISTER! HOOKED......The end...lol...
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Posted 2011-06-23 2:50 PM (#27933 - in reply to #27898)
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Mine was The Who at MSG a very short time before I saw TS the first time - 1977
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Posted 2011-06-24 7:57 AM (#27940 - in reply to #27509)
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Joe Satriani at the Manchester Apollo, July 1987. My ears were ringing for days..

Had to wait until 2004 to see Twisted Sister...
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Posted 2011-07-02 8:48 AM (#28003 - in reply to #27509)
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First concert was a festival in 1986 Donnington Monsters of Rock 1986, Ozzy, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Motorhead, Bad News and Warlock

First indoor gig Saxon, still one the loudest I have ever been too.

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Posted 2011-07-06 4:05 PM (#28023 - in reply to #27509)
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Bryan Adams with Survivor as support
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Posted 2011-08-04 7:38 PM (#28307 - in reply to #27509)
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KISS
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Posted 2011-08-05 12:25 AM (#28310 - in reply to #27509)
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Iron Maiden w/ Twisted Sister
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Posted 2011-08-14 9:55 AM (#28395 - in reply to #27509)
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The Beach Boys in 1976
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Posted 2011-08-14 9:58 AM (#28396 - in reply to #27509)
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My first Twisted Sister concert was TS & STARZ at the convention center in Asbury Park in New Jersey in the summer of 1980
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Posted 2011-08-14 3:44 PM (#28414 - in reply to #27811)
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I saw the Plasmatics at Circus Circus in the early 80's, a club that used to be in Bergenfield, New Jersey.....Also I saw Twisted Sister there many times!
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Posted 2011-08-14 7:16 PM (#28419 - in reply to #27509)
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I'm going to my first concert in October. It's going to be Warbringer, Lazarus AD, and Diamond Plate. Thrash metal!
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Posted 2011-08-28 2:33 AM (#28573 - in reply to #28419)
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This is gonna sound dumb, but I was in high school in the late '70s and never went to a concert.

OK, I knows what you're thinkin' ... I'm a nerd and a dweeb.

My first concert is when I saw Twisted Sister at Toad's Place in 1982 (my graduation from nerd-land). I saw them several times after that including the show at Great Adventure a few years back, which I thought was a great show.

Years back, I saw The Beach Boys in Yankee Stadium and in the ballpark in San Diego which took place after ball games. The fans in Yankee Stadium were much more responsive than the ones in San Diego. In Yankee Stadium a lot of fans were dancing to the music and formed a chain that stretched from one side of the upper deck to the other. The people in Cali were kinda quiet.

By the way... I heard a rumor about The Beach Boys writing a new song about Hurricane Irene.

The lyrics are...

Come on Irene.
Come on Irene.

I heard what they say
Sounded sad upon the radio
For a thousand miles in mono
Our networks cried
Went along, who'd blame them?

You've grown, so grown
Now I must say more than ever, come on Irene
Gimmie waves and make them way higher
And we can surf just like our fathers.

Come on Irene, oh they say you are mean
At this moment... you mean everything
With waves I'm obsessed
My thoughts I confess
I think dirty... I come on Irene.

These people 'round here
Wear beaten down eyes sunk in flooded places
So resigned to what their fate is
But not us, no never, no not us, no never
We would rather surf forever.

Gimmie waves and make them way higher
And I'll hum this tune forever:

Come on Irene
Oh, they swear you are mean
Ah, come on let's... let's do everything.

That really high crest
Oh, Irene tell me yes
Oh, come on let's... ah, come on Irene.

That really high crest
Oh, please tell me yes
Oh, come on let's... ah, come on Irene.

Come on Irene
Oh, I swear on my knees
At this moment... you mean everything
You give me high crest
I am really obsessed
I think dirty...
I come on Irene.
(Repeat and fade)

-- $$

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Posted 2011-08-28 3:32 AM (#28576 - in reply to #27509)
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I have to make a correction in my post.

My first-time seeing Twisted Sister wasn't at Toad's Place... it was at the Agora Ballroom. What was I thinking? I'll blame it on the booze on the brain.

-- $$
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Posted 2011-09-24 6:13 PM (#28765 - in reply to #28003)
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Posted 2011-10-19 4:01 PM (#28949 - in reply to #27509)
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Donington in 1992, Iron Maiden headlined, wtih Skid Row, Thunder, Slayer WASP and The Almighty. Was a great day!!
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Posted 2011-10-30 7:40 AM (#29019 - in reply to #27509)
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1974 in calgary alberta canada,sait lunch room, a little know band called KISS. i was 6
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Posted 2011-11-02 11:36 AM (#29035 - in reply to #29019)
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The Who @ MSG

First TS show @ The Mad Mad Hatter in the Hampton's
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Posted 2011-11-11 4:15 PM (#29082 - in reply to #27509)
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Posted 2011-11-18 3:47 PM (#29112 - in reply to #27509)
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Posted 2012-06-20 9:33 PM (#30744 - in reply to #27509)
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My first concert was Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival 2011 with Disturbed, Godsmack, Megadeth, Trivium, Machine Head, etc. It was the best concert i've been to so far. I'm hoping 2 go to it again this year, im also seeing TS at the Clearfield County Fair, and i'm seeing KISS and Motley Crue. Now i'm addicted to concerts.
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Posted 2012-07-26 10:16 PM (#30938 - in reply to #27509)
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Aerosmith - Get A Grip Tour

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Posted 2013-02-10 6:30 AM (#31716 - in reply to #27509)
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My fist and only is Steve Vai story of light. 8/17/12 lake Buena vista
It's so hard to find good shows these day in the uk. Desperate to go see m3 but its in the us
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Posted 2013-08-19 9:43 PM (#32563 - in reply to #27509)
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It would have been Slade in The Palace (the palie) in Nottingham (UK) back in '81 i think. That is if we are not including pub bands..
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Nice. Rod Stewart at Radio City in NYC, followed by Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden. Not bad. But with my siblings say that's nothing, as they saw Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, etc., in their heydays...