What was your first concert? [Archive] - The Diamond David Lee Roth Army

sonrisa salvaje

05-13-2009, 10:28 PM

My first concert was a Waylon Jennings concert my parents took me to around 1980/81 and i was 11 or 12 yrs old. Place was jammed packed and i thought, "what the hell is going on?"

First concert of my own free will was Judas Priest with Dokken in the summer of 1986.

My first show would have been VH 1984 but i was too young to drive and my parents wouldn't let me go with friends. I still hold that against my parents to this very day.

Full Bug

05-13-2009, 11:33 PM

Ozzy Osbourne, '83, Bark At The Moon tour, was 12 so my parents made me go with an adult friend of theirs, was still a cool experience though....

lesfunk

05-13-2009, 11:42 PM

KI$$ 1978 Alive II tour. My Mom took me and watched the show too

High Life Man

05-13-2009, 11:42 PM

Neil Diamond in 1985 (I think). I remember it was raining and we were in lawn seats. My little sister and I had a great time sliding down the hill in the monsoon.

Still a fan!

Golden AWe

05-14-2009, 07:23 AM

I had a rough start. The first foreign band I saw was Van Cherone in 1996. I only went to see finnish bands before that, plus living up north made it hard. I miss missing Soundgarden that year.

Since then, I've seen plenty of HUGE bands and been to a ton of festivals.

Mr Walker

05-14-2009, 08:59 AM

Ted Nugent on the World Penetration Tour...
Alcatraz was the opening band... damn the crowd was rough on them.

Cato

05-14-2009, 09:32 AM

my first concert was Rainbow. I can't recall the exact date of it but I remember that Blackmore was not wearing a wig yet at that time.

when I saw him again 13 months later his hair was too abundant. I think it was why there was a stir in the audience when he appeared on stage.

btw, this thread is dupe. there's the same topic somewhere in this forum....:cato2:

sonrisa salvaje

05-14-2009, 10:21 AM

Sorry for the dup thread. I usually use the search engine to make sure i am not overlapping anything. I didn't in this case. Combine it, trash it, whatever. Just trying to get some action going.
I love hearing people's first concert experience. We all wound up here for the same reason, our allegiance to the man -DLR. But, we all may have had some unfortunate or funny first time experiences and i get a kick out of it. Thanks.

indeedido

05-14-2009, 10:22 AM

It was the 26th of February in the year 1986! Lloyd Noble Arena, Norman, Oklahoma. KISS on the Asylum Tour with W.A.S.P. opening up. I was like 13 and went with two of my friends and one of their parents drove us and waited in the car. I remember like it was yesterday. Back in those days the pot in the air at those shows was so thick you could hardly see the stage. W.A.S.P. had the bloody heads on stage on poles. It was a great show.

sonrisa salvaje

05-14-2009, 10:31 AM

Ozzy Osbourne, '83, Bark At The Moon tour, was 12 so my parents made me go with an adult friend of theirs, was still a cool experience though....

Was Motley Crue opening this show or someone else?

What is funny, i had a friend go see Ozzy on Speak of the Devil with Vandenburg opening. It was here in Alabama, the heart of the bible belt, so the show was picketted heavily with local church goers who were handing out material and warning concert goers that they were being sinful by going to see such a person as Ozzy. LOL. Due to all the controversy, only about 300 people showed up but Ozzy played anyway. I thought that was so cool. However, toward the end of the show, Ozzy raised his hands up in his classic pose and said, "I shall never return." And he never did.

sonrisa salvaje

05-14-2009, 10:33 AM

Ted Nugent on the World Penetration Tour...
Alcatraz was the opening band... damn the crowd was rough on them.

Tell me more. This would have been a cool show. Was Vai in Alcatrazz at the time? What did the crowd do and how did the band react?

binnie

05-14-2009, 10:48 AM

Metallica, Sheffield Arena 1996

WACF

05-14-2009, 11:32 AM

Streetheart in '83

ELVIS

05-14-2009, 11:36 AM

Ozzy and Vandenberg - 1982

:elvis:

kwame k

05-14-2009, 11:41 AM

REO Speedwagon and Cheap Trick-1986?

Mr Walker

05-14-2009, 11:54 AM

Tell me more. This would have been a cool show. Was Vai in Alcatrazz at the time? What did the crowd do and how did the band react?

I don't remember it was late spring or early summer of 1984... I seem to remember that it might have been Yngwie, but I can't be positive. They were having alot of problems with their sound/gear and at one point early in the show Bonnett mooned the audience. He was heavily booed for the rest of the set by the rabid biker/hunter Nugent fanbase after that.

Jack68

05-14-2009, 01:17 PM

David Johansen/The clash/The Who shea stadium oct 1982.

vaijuju

05-14-2009, 01:52 PM

ACDC in 1981

Kristy

05-14-2009, 03:22 PM

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 1995 "Dogs With Wings" Tour. I was only 12 at the time and my dad took me to see two years before he died of leukemia so I always had a soft spot for Petty even though I'm not a big fan of his music.

Igosplut

05-14-2009, 03:26 PM

Chuck Berry with one of my parents. First on my own was Lynyrd Skynyrd ( the original band)...

Kristy

05-14-2009, 03:30 PM

Ha! I saw Chuck Berry in Vegas in 2003. Probably one the funniest shows I've ever been to.

katie

05-14-2009, 07:07 PM

Donington 1990

Golden AWe

05-15-2009, 10:12 AM

bluepenguin

05-15-2009, 10:43 AM

Rush 1978

sadaist

05-15-2009, 02:29 PM

Motley Crue on the Theatre of Pain tour w/Loudness opening...1985. I remember my first few shows getting butterflies in my stomach & not being able to sleep the night before. For Crue, I was dressed & ready to go probably 4 hours early. Couldn't even eat I was so excited. Just waiting for my older sister & her boyfriend to get there to take me. Man, the 80's was so great for arena shows.

I remember Nikki Sixx was wearing the black & white striped jumpsuit just as he was in the MTV videos.

Full Bug

05-15-2009, 03:09 PM

Was Motley Crue opening this show or someone else?

I wasnt Motley Crue, I know that, I think it was 'Accept'? Thats the first one to pop into my head....

sonrisa salvaje

05-15-2009, 05:44 PM

Cool deal. That was probably on the end of Accept's Balls to the Wall tour or start of Metal Heart. Either way that would have been killer show.

binnie

05-16-2009, 04:21 PM

Donington 1990

What was the line up that year?

GAR

05-16-2009, 05:12 PM

I had seen parts of 2 VH gigs in backyard parties, probably my first really loud band, 1976 and the next summer, 1977.

In SoCal sometimes to get on campus to flip 1/4 page gig flyers into the school locker vents, the bands would play free 20 min school lunchtime assemblys from junior high up to high school, so I may have seen a lot of bands.

I followed The Sharks, because they were proliferant in posting fantastic 11x14 flyers on telephone poles for their gigs, and at one of these shows was what I learned later to be the first Motley Crue gig, Pookies in Pasadena.. they operated a sub sandwich restaurant during the day but at night they'd clear tables and had a 3ft stage full on..

But I'd have to say my first real loud concert with lots and lots of kids was Dio-Dokken- and some poser band opener they both blew away by lightyears (gun club? jetboy? I forget) I think it was may 83 at long beach sports arena.

I had the ringin' bells for hearing 3 days later.. that place is an awful concrete bunker and echoed terribly.

Funny thing of that show, DIO had nets up in the rafters witholding thousands of party balloons and couldn't yank 'em down for whatever tune they do that, or used to do that (man on the silver mountain) and wed laugh about that for years later.

katie

05-16-2009, 07:19 PM

What was the line up that year?

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/don-1990-cover.jpg

maybe a tad too glam for you binnie?

katie

05-16-2009, 07:21 PM

Band of the day -

1 Thunder
2 Aerosmith (Jimmy Page)
3 Whitesnake
4 Poison
5 Quireboys

mott5607

05-16-2009, 09:27 PM

Twisted Sister 1983 in Poughkeepsie NY (You Can't Stop Rock n Roll Tour). IMO one of THE most underrated rock bands ever. Fastway and The Cities were the openers. Both sucked.

thome

05-16-2009, 11:47 PM

How about a thread of the "First Concert You Wish You Had Seen But Your Dad Blocked You Out"

Wouldn't that be a better thread...?

My buddies older brother who was 17 had three tickets to Grand Funk Railroad and one was mine (8$)....1973.(I was 13)...I could have died, needing to go, but the old man thought I was too young...

He didn't know I had already been to a couple..lol

I should have done the old, -I am going to spend the night and we are going rollerskating at the rink-...bla bla stuff.

I saw them later within a year..I cannot remember what my first one was....

Probably Black Oak or Alice Cooper..?

binnie

05-17-2009, 10:03 AM

Band of the day -

1 Thunder
2 Aerosmith (Jimmy Page)
3 Whitesnake
4 Poison
5 Quireboys

Were Thunder really that good?

katie

05-17-2009, 10:36 AM

Were Thunder really that good?

Well back then they had everything to prove.

They had just released their 1st album, an album that is a classic rock 'classic'

An album that still today dominates their show. so they were hot to trot.

After the 2nd album it all went downhill very fast, but on that day in August 1990 they rocked! They crowd loved them.

I'm a big Whitesnake fan but at this point in their career they were just fucking terrible! By adding Steve Via the soul had just gone alltogether.

Aerosmith were fantastic! Still touring on the back of 'Pump' (great LP)

Poison were a joke! Just did not come across at all well on a sat afternoon.
(But like Roth says "If you can't do it under a 60 watt bulb then you can't do it at al" Which proved to be the case with Poison (they were shit!)

Quireboys - Just a club band that did not transport well to a festival gig.

Great day, I was even interviewed on Radio 1 when they were asking people about Heavy rock in the Uk etc.

urban

05-18-2009, 04:07 AM

How about a thread of the "First Concert You Wish You Had Seen But Your Dad Blocked You Out"

Wouldn't that be a better thread...?

Lucky I lived with my mother. She hired a caravan back in the '80s 'cause I wanted to see Van Halen at Pink Pop but had to stay overnight with my boyfriend (something she did'nt like).
My complete family shared the caravan but I got see Van Halen at Pink Pop and it was GREAT!!!!!!!

Douglas T.

05-18-2009, 05:04 PM

I had a rough start. The first foreign band I saw was Van Cherone in 1996.

Damn that sucks!! Sorry!!

Douglas T.

05-18-2009, 05:06 PM

http://www.dking-gallery.com/pix/ConcertPrograms/prog_florida79.jpg

Aerosmith
Ted Nugent
Cheap Trick
Blackfoot
Brownsville Station
Mahogany Rush

GAR

05-18-2009, 05:09 PM

Was Joe Perry still in at that point - or did you not know enough to care at the time?

Douglas T.

05-18-2009, 05:34 PM

Joe Perry left the band in July, during the middle of the tour. One thing I was stupid enough not to do and I kick myself to this day for not doing ... staying on top of Andrea when she was pulling me down onto the blanket during their set! I'm like ... "what the hell Aerosmith is on stage!"

Nickdfresh

05-19-2009, 09:37 PM

Rush: Buffalo Memorial Auditorium ("The Aud" is now being torn down and gutted), 1987....

Diamondjimi

05-19-2009, 10:14 PM

I had seen parts of 2 VH gigs in backyard parties, probably my first really loud band, 1976 and the next summer, 1977.

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Federaljim/Smellslikebullshit.jpg

WARF

05-19-2009, 10:36 PM

Van Halen 1/18/84

Jacksonville Colliseum... with autograph!

Douglas T.

05-19-2009, 10:46 PM

Van Halen 1/18/84

Jacksonville Colliseum... with autograph!

I was at that show! :)

GreenBayLA

05-20-2009, 02:54 AM

KI$$ 1978 Alive II tour. My Mom took me and watched the show too

My first show was KISS in 78 as well. I was 13 & went with 2 friends and his Dad. The Coliseum in Madison, WI holds 10,100 w/ festival style seating but he made us sit up high and far away. I was bummed until KISS came onstage with huge light up logo. Then I was thrilled just to be in the same room with them, Gene spitting blood and fire - WOW!
Detective w/ Michael Des Barres opened, I didn't like them.

I missed Aerosmith that same year for a family trip, :mad: then Joe left in 79 and I was pissed. I did finally see original lineup on Back in the Saddle tour in 84
Also saw Classic Van Halen on every tour starting w/ Van Halen II.

standin

05-20-2009, 12:08 PM

THE Christmas Concert ~Kindergarden ;):xmastree:

SparkieD

05-28-2009, 11:50 AM

Priest and Maiden...July '81.

BruinJer

05-28-2009, 01:36 PM

Ozzy Osbourne 1982- Diary Of a Madman Tour at Irvine Meadows. A band called Axe opened. I had to do a lot of talking for my parents to let me go... I was 13.

sadaist

05-28-2009, 03:45 PM

I had to do a lot of talking for my parents to let me go... I was 13.

Ah yes, the great debate begins. How much time prior to the concert do I ask, being good, pulling weeds, mowing the lawn, washing the car, cleaning your room, begging & pleading, finishing homework early...all that great stuff to see 4 guys play for about 2 hours live. Worth it? Hell yeah!

BruinJer

05-28-2009, 06:49 PM

well... yes, I did all those extra things but it was the fact that they didn't let me go to the Van Halen concert the year prior for the obvious reason I WAS TWELVE. They absolutely would not budge when it came to me going to the US Festival... 3 days in San Bernardino for a 14 year old boy was a bit much to ask for... I think I would freak if my kid asked me to let her go to a 3 day festival like that.... times have changed!

Mr. Vengeance

05-28-2009, 08:39 PM

Van Halen- Montreal Forum, April 1984. A rockabilly band called the Velcros opened and we booed them off the stage after a couple of songs.

rocknrolldork

05-29-2009, 01:32 AM

My parents took my sister and me to see the Osmonds in 73 or 74 I think. I was 5 or 6. I've seen pics but don't remember it.

My next concert wasn't until 7th grade when our drummers mom took us to see Rod Stewart in Indy. That was late 79/early 80. It was postponed due to weather the first time. I'm sure it was still winter when we ended up going.

Concert 3 was either Journey w/Greg Khin opening in Indy or Billy Squier w/Nazareth opening in a 3000 head venue w/no seats on the floor in Louisville. I later saw Maiden/Fastway/Saxon in that same 3000 head venue.

Igosplut

05-29-2009, 07:05 AM

I had seen parts of 2 VH gigs in backyard parties, probably my first really loud band, 1976 and the next summer, 1977.

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I'm sure you tuned Ed guitar for him too, didn't you.....

sonrisa salvaje

05-29-2009, 12:09 PM

kwame k

05-29-2009, 02:03 PM

I'm sure you tuned Ed guitar for him too, didn't you.....

No, he told Ed how to build his Frankie......no wait, that can't be true, there was no Google or Wiki back then.:biggrin:

diamondsgirl

05-29-2009, 05:40 PM

Van Halen July 1981
:jammin:

VH Drummer

05-30-2009, 09:05 PM

I'm not going to bullshit you:

Sammy Hagar on September 6, 2001. But give me a break, I was in 7th grade and 13-years-old and had NO IDEA what Van Halen was or in this case, isn't.

VH Drummer

05-30-2009, 09:06 PM

Van Halen July 1981
:jammin:

If I could see any VH tour, that'd be it.

kwame k

05-30-2009, 09:14 PM

I'm not going to bullshit you:

Sammy Hagar on September 6, 2001. But give me a break, I was in 7th grade and 13-years-old and had NO IDEA what Van Halen was or in this case, isn't.

You're forgiven, just don't let it ever happen again.

Good to see ya posting here, we need all the Michiganders we can get.

VH Drummer

05-30-2009, 09:21 PM

I'll admit that I have seen him a few times since, but each time it became less interesting and predictable.

But best shows I've seen?
VH in Grand Rapids 6/2/08
Motley at the Palace on 12/31/05
Velvet Revolver at the Royal Oak Music Theatre 5/12/07

kwame k

05-30-2009, 09:26 PM

Reverberator

05-30-2009, 09:40 PM

Motorhead , Iron fist tour 1982 , Birmingham odeon.

VH Drummer

05-30-2009, 09:57 PM

Royal Oak Music Theater is a killer place to see a show. Seen Alice Cooper there, killer show.

I was about 15 feet from Slash, it was sweet. Duff threw me a pick at the end but some drunk asshole got it. It was nice only having to drive 5 minutes to get to the show.

Poor Alice Cooper only plays the State Fair now.

Mr. Vengeance

05-31-2009, 10:51 AM

I'm not going to bullshit you:

Sammy Hagar on September 6, 2001. But give me a break, I was in 7th grade and 13-years-old and had NO IDEA what Van Halen was or in this case, isn't.

Fag.;)

jackassrock

05-31-2009, 12:34 PM

Van Halen July 1981
:jammin:

I saw that tour too in May, I was just a little kid, but DAMN I loved me some Fair Warning, In fact it's still my favorite VH album. Unfortunately though, just a month earlier I went and saw Hall & Oates, so that was the first concert I went to of my own accord.

Unless, of course you count the VT State Fair I went to with my parents featuring Olivia Newton John, or my friend's 10th birthday when we saw Sha-Na-Na. Those two were not my choice.

Panamark

06-01-2009, 09:21 AM

I dont fully recall all the details, but one of my friends was in
the band and hitting a triangle with much determination.
I was in the crowd, somewhere in a former primary school,
South Australia, mid 1970's.....

It rocked !

george

06-07-2009, 08:57 AM

Aug 3, 1980 - Capitol Centre - Largo, MD

AC/DC - Back in Black Tour

Went with my older brother and a few of his friends. I had no idea what I was in store for.

ZahZoo

06-07-2009, 12:04 PM

rocknrolldork

06-07-2009, 04:14 PM

Hmmm... Here come the old jokes...

Sunday June 18, 1967, Monterey Pop Festival. The Who, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Momas & Papas and Jimi Hendrix. I was 9... parents took us for the arts & crafts fair.

Black Sabbath - 1972 in San Francisco - my cousins took me to. We all got our asses whooped and grounded for months since we told my aunt we were going bowling.

Led Zeppelin - 1973 in San Francisco was the 1st big concert I went to on my own.

Damn! I would have loved to have seen all of those shows. I wasn't born until 68 so that rules out Monterey. The Who from 67 or so to about 75 where the best rock n roll band ever. I'm sure the 72 Sabbath show was well worth the ass whooping. I have some boots from that era of Sabbath. Great stuff. The Zep....... well it's just so sad that I never got to see them. Saw Page and Plant, but not Zep.

FORD

06-07-2009, 07:57 PM

Hmmm... Here come the old jokes...

Sunday June 18, 1967, Monterey Pop Festival. The Who, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Momas & Papas and Jimi Hendrix. I was 9... parents took us for the arts & crafts fair.

Black Sabbath - 1972 in San Francisco - my cousins took me to. We all got our asses whooped and grounded for months since we told my aunt we were going bowling.

Led Zeppelin - 1973 in San Francisco was the 1st big concert I went to on my own.

You were at the fucking legendary Monterey Pop Festival in 1967?

Damn, you really ARE old! I thought all these jokes were bullshitting. :biggrin:

ThrillsNSpills

06-07-2009, 08:50 PM

[QUOTE=ZahZoo;1355387]Hmmm... Here come the old jokes...

Sunday June 18, 1967, Monterey Pop Festival. The Who, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Momas & Papas and Jimi Hendrix. I was 9... parents took us for the arts & crafts fair.
QUOTE]

Blown away by Hendrix at 9 years of age !

I couldn't even imagine that.
That's something you remember forever.