What was the first Rock Concert/Festival you ever went too?

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Answer: An Australian rock band called The Screaming Jets. That was the first concert I ever went to.

THEN four years after I had gone to the concert I found myself playing in a band with the bass player from the Jets!!!

 

Yes, another Gentle Giant fan:2thumbsup:


when the roadies set the stage for them they set up drums and percussion instruments at each band members "spot". we noticed that and were like ???.
Then during one song, don't recall what it was, they all stopped playing, picked up sticks and proceeded into the most intense drum/percussion routine I've ever seen. Hell, the lead guitarist was flipping his sticks 10 feet into the air and not missing a beat! The whole stadium exploded into applause and cheers at that and they stole the entire show except for Yes, of course.

They had a whole series of multi-band concerts for like two summers in a row, don't remember what they called them, but I saw a lot of bands there over a couple of summer's.
Aerosmith (horrible show, Steve Tyler was so fucked up he could barely sing)
Jeff Beck
Rick Derringer
Johnny and Edgar Winter (had to have a special stage setup to shield the albino bros from the sun)
J. Giels Band
Boston
Foghat
ZZ Top
REO Speedwagon
Foreigner
Ted Nugent
Lynyrd Skynyrd ( I believe it was their last show before the plane crash )

And a few others that I can't recall.
Good times, Good times.:sunny:

 

You guys expect me to remember the 70's? I went to a bunch of great shows, but I have no idea which one would have been the first one.

 

I went to see Alice Cooper during his Billion Dollar Babies tour. A huge balloon filled with dollar bills was floated over the audience 3/4 of the way through the concert, but we were too high to care too much and just laughed.

The concert was good, but I wanted more stuff from Love It To Death, especially some searing rock like "Long Way To Go".....

 

Robert Plant at the Hammersmith Odeon,I think.I was 17.We were on the guest list because we knew new Robert's guitarist.It was a good gig.

 

This was my first concert....


It was 1990 and I was 4

My first big boy concert was the Summer Sanitarium Tour with Metallica, Korn, System of a Down, Kid Rock, and Powerman 5000. Im thinking it was 98, I was in 7th grade.

Some people would call that a festival^, but my first multiple day festi was the Terrapin Hill Harvest Fest in '05, and I've gone back every year since

 

the first non bar band concert was sleater-kinney the openers were the gossip and the butchies. it was at the bowery ballroom. i was late (in age) getting to my first concert but i made up for lost time by going to a concert almost weekly for a couple years time after my first show.

 

Neil Diamond in '83 or '84 was my first concert. My sister got 4 free tickets through her job somehow. I'm still not much of a fan of his music but he did put on a great show.

The first concert I actually wanted to see was Kiss and fucking King Kobra in like, '84 or '85. I guess it was okay...maybe. I actually still have the t-shirt.

The first festival was one of the Lollapaloozas. One of the later crappy ones. The Prodigy were the headliners; that's how bad it was. Tool was also part of that tour. I was really into their set even though I knew nothing about them. I wish I could say I'm a fan but I've never been able to get into their albums.

My first real festival, with camping and multiple days of music was the Blue Heron Festival in Sherman, NY. Middle of nowhere to be precise. It was a great festival. Donna the Buffalo and Los Straightjackets were a couple of the bands. Lots of different styles of music were represented at that one. I also ate the best burrito of my life there, lol.

 

Peter Frampton in Vegas. I was ten. Year 1975.
Then the US Festivals in CA when I was 13 or 14.

 

Summer of 1972, Brown County Arena in Green Bay. Saw the James Gang and Foghat. I was very dissapointed to get to the concert and realized Joe Walsh had left the band.

 

, i had went to see coal chamber/slipknot/ and machinehead. we pulled into a party-store parking lot in detroit. i went in and got smokes, then my car wouldnt start for shit. like it had no power at all. i took a piss behind the dumpster, and then my friends took a piss, where we got pulled over by a cop. cop says "this is detroit we cant take someone to jail here for pissin'" then he checked out id's and saw they were'nt 18 yet so he broke all of their ciggs. we called a cab, and missed all of slipknot, saw like 2 machinehead songs, then watched coal chamber.
afterward, we went around back and met dez (coal chamber) the big mike guitarplayer (slipknot) and some dude i dont know, probly corey. and i met the replacement bass player for coal chamber. she was a hot bitch ill tell ya.

so then i had to get my car towed all the way back home from det. $200 it cost.
next day, i took off the battery cable and found the smallest bit of corrosion. cleaned it up, and it started. wtf

 

First concert was Yes - Close to the Edge tour - in '72 at the Armory in Minneapolis, MN.

I was 16 at the time. A bunch of my friends & I were big Yes fans, and had been listening to them since the late 60's, when we first heard them on Clyde Clifford's 'Beaker Street' show (KAAY 1090 AM, Little Rock, AK - The Mighty Ten Ninety). When we heard about the concert, we begged our folks to let us go as a group. Wasn't easy, but we finally talked them into letting us drive to the concert. One of the older guys had a van, so eight of us packed in & headed to the 'cities. It was great concert. The band was tight, the engineer had a great mix going (despite the poor acoustics), and the light show was excellent. That concert sort of spoiled me for awhile. It became my standard of comparison for how other bands sounded, and Yes was a tough act to follow. Nearly everyone was toking up. Joints were being passed all over the place, and a guy was loading bowls of hash & passing them around our area. Coming from a small town, none of us had ever seen anything like that before in person, although we all got high back then. As we were leaving, we saw a 'Vette sitting across the median, high-centered on the divider. The doors were open & there was no driver around. I remember thinking 'damn, that guy must of gotten way too high'.

Definitely one of the best, if not the best I've ever seen.

First festival was the Dakota Jam in '78 at the state fairgrounds in Fargo, ND. I went with a bunch of friends. We drove there in a converted school bus & camped on-site. It was a 3 day affair, and it set the record for the largest single gathering in the state. The headliner was Nazareth, with Head East, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Blue Oyster Cult, and Bob Welch. Nearly everyone was toking-up, and a lot of people were tripping. (Including us.) Head East nearly stole the show with their Flat as a Pancake album. But when ARS played Georgia Rhythm, the crowd got very quiet & everybody listened. After they finished, we gave them a long & loud standing ovation. That was a really cool experience.

 

Mine was the blues collective. I was like 9 so I don't remember the exact date. The first real band I got to see was korn when I was 14

 

The first show was marlyin manson. i been to one festival and that was in france.

 

Rush - Clockwork Angels tour in Detroit in 2012.