Your first concert was...

[Kakia69]

Corey Hart

He was so dreamy back then.

[BigMark]

Paul McCartney at Blockbuster

[wolverine]

Ozzy Osborne, Bark at the moon

[VOR]

Gene Autrey 1953 my cousins took me at RI auditorium.

[The Brain]

The 106.5 END of Summer Weenie Roast #1 and I've been to everyone since

[wossa]

1974

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Tour. When he Really could rock the house.

I was 13. My brother had mono and couldn't go.

Tickets were $7. Greensboro had festival seating then which meant first come first served. Top level was blocked off from floor level. People used to hook belts together and climb and/or fall and/or jump to get down to the floor.

The whole placed reeked of reefer.

The good old days of the classic rock and roll concert.

Damn a head rush of memories!:cool:

[The Brain]

I wasn't BORN in 1974

[VOR]

Originally posted by Wossamotta U
1974

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Tour. When he Really could rock the house.

I was 13. My brother had mono and couldn't go.

Tickets were $7. Greensboro had festival seating then which meant first come first served. Top level was blocked off from floor level. People used to hook belts together and climb and/or fall and/or jump to get down to the floor.

The whole placed reeked of reefer.

The good old days of the classic rock and roll concert.

Damn a head rush of memories!:cool:

A ha I knew you were one of those little shits that used to try to mooch a joint from us older wiser individuals.

[wossa]

hell there was so much smoke in there didn't have to mooch nothin VOR.

Second hand buzz was the shiznitz.

[QueenCityHillbilly]

2 Skinnee J's at Ziggy's. That was before I saw the light and now stick for the most part to just rock n' roll and country. But it was loud, so it was a good experience for my first show.

[SandMan]

Other than the symphony in grade school, the first concert I went to was Heatwave (Always and Forever)... An up and coming hip band - Cameo was the introductory band... I'll never forget, I think it was around 1979 or so... Me and my girl made out the entire extended remix of always and forever... and "Cameo" rocked..

Soon after, I enjoyed live cover bands like "Molley Hatchet" "The Voltage Brothers" and others...

[magnus]

Dwight Yoakam. First concert I wanted to go to? B. B. King. Seen him thrice now. Best? The Mavericks at the end of their tour at Spirit Square (you don't often hear pop or country groups get into improv), or catching Coltrane's kid in an abandoned church.

[ezy ryder]

R.E.M. - Green Tour - Dean Smith Center

[QueenCityHillbilly]

Wow Magnus, I've been meaning to see Dwight, and I'm gonna have to make sure I do next time he's around. I bet the Mavericks whipped ass too. Willie is in G'boro in April.

[magnus]

They really did. I always liked their style, I like some country variations a lot more than most straight country. I want to catch Willie or Johnny Cash once while I can...or rather, while they can.

[DJ_Tet]

Def Leppard baby. It was the first sell-out in the "new" Charlotte Coliseum. It was sometime in October of 1988 during the "Hysteria" tour. They had an awesome drum solo which thanks to "Behind the Music" I learned the lead players (i.e. all members with two arms) were banging groupies heh. Queensryche opened the show, albeit before their "Silent Lucidety" single. Awesome show :)

[Fro]

B-52's. 1990, Carowinds Ampitheater

[cltbuilder]

Lallapallooza, the original. Siouxsie Souix and the banshees, Ministry, Ice-T, Henry Rollins Band, and a few others....
I remember so well the smell of pot and spilled beer. Ministry only agreed to do the tour if they could get the first night spot during the show. When the lights went down, and ministry opened with New World Order, pizza boxes, beer cups, trash of all kinds hit the air. It was like watching a tornado form from the inside out. 5 bonfires were started on the grass knoll at Raleigh's Walnut Creek Amphitheatre. I was naive and thought I'd try my hand at moshing. My first true bloody nose. I was in heaven.

[gutter]

Originally posted by QueenCityHillbilly
2 Skinnee J's at Ziggy's. That was before I saw the light and now stick for the most part to just rock n' roll and country. But it was loud, so it was a good experience for my first show.

I was probbaly there. I love that band.

[gutter]

Originally posted by The Brain
The 106.5 END of Summer Weenie Roast #1 and I've been to everyone since

All of them? Last one I saw was with Bush. It absolutely sucked. I said i would never go back unlesess Weezer headlined. Speaking of Weezer, I see them in Raleight tomorrow night.:)

[gutter]

Oh yeah.. my first concert was Skeeter Davis. Anybody remember her. My first rock concert was White Heat at my high skool. This band later became hair metal band Firehouse. My first real arena show was Motley Crue on the Dr. Feelgood tour. I was absolutely blown away. Until i saw the band............Metallica. I got my head busted open by a beer bottle but I was not about to leave so I just stayed there with blood running down the back of my head. Cool, just like a rock show should be.:cool:

[slydevl]

Jimmy Buffett 1986 at Carowinds. I was 14. Have since seen him 22 times and counting. I once saw him on back to back days in Raleigh and then the next weekend in Charlotte. Gotta love Buffett.

[mathmajors]

1982 - Emerson, Lake, & Powell. It remained the best concert I'd been to until Clapton in 1990.

[Freakshow]

AC/DC! Fly on the Wall tour! Yngwie Malmsteen opened. I remember my Dad taking me and 3 other guys. He read a book and wore earplugs. He still became a "cool Dad" to all of my friends.

Seems like I saw Ozzy's Ultimate Sin Tour next. A little known band named Metallica opened...

[chipshot]

Allman Brothers/Little Feat - 1991 - Charlotte Coliseum

[rabbit]

"Your first concert was..."

so long ago that I can't even remember.

Springsteen at Ovens Auditorium
Arlo Guthrie ditto
Jesse Colin Young (and the Youngbloods) ditto

am I old or what?

Anybody remember a big show at Charlotte Motor Speedway?
early 70's Alice Cooper Allman Brothers Emerson Lake & Palmer
I think it was a 2 day Woodstock wannabee thing

Eric Clapton at the real Charlotte Coliseum (on Independence Blvd)

Todd Rundgren at Kenan Stadium - the warm-up was some unknown band called U2.

Pink Floyd
Billy Joel
Elton John
Fleetwood Mac
Ringo's All Stars!
Traveling Wilburys
Yes

and I'm sure a few dozen more I'm forgetting...

[HPCatFan]

Kansas, around 1980. I still have all my ticket stubs somewhere. The cost for the concert was $7.50. We had some good acid too (oops did I say that out loud?)

[Piper]

Ozzy/Metallica, back in the 80s I think. I was 14 or so.

[The Brain]

Originally posted by gutter


All of them? Last one I saw was with Bush. It absolutely sucked. I said i would never go back unlesess Weezer headlined. Speaking of Weezer, I see them in Raleight tomorrow night.:)

Hell I don't go to the Weenie Roast for the concert... its just one of the best damn parties you'll EVER find

[Freakshow]

Hey, Piper! Remember those shows in the Old Coliseum? General Admission? I remember getting to the Ozzy show at 4 (got out of school at 3:15). Standing in line for hours. The door would open and it was a mad rush!

[Piper]

Sorry, grew up in Tennessee. Freedom Hall (immortalized by Aerosmith's Rag Doll Video)

Same concept though. Generally admission, big rush, like the begging of the WALL.

[meatpile]

The first 2 don't count - I was with my parents:
Shaun Cassidy at Ovens - I was 6 and fell asleep.
Billy Joel on Glass Houses tour - Old Coliseum


True first concert - no parents, plenty of drugs:
Iron Maiden / Quiet Riot tour.

[The Brahma Bull]

The first (and only) concert that I went to was Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw.

[celyn]

i think? the first concert I ever saw was Duran Duran back in the 80's when I was in 8th grade when they were all just TOOOOO COOL!

God, I had my room plastered with all the band members pics:D :D :D

Black Sabath Iron Man Tour at Asbury Park Pier, 1974. The loudest concert ever. We were 30 feet from the right side of the stage, blasted by the tower of speakers. Ears rang for days.:cool:

[bunkyboy]

Anybody remember a big show at Charlotte Motor Speedway?

My brothers went and speak HIGHly of it. August Jam is what they reefer to it as.

My first show was U2 at the Omni, Spring 85, The Unforgetable Fire Tour.

[QueenCityHillbilly]

My first "big" show was U2 here last year. What a great night that was.

Billy Joel--as a warm up act for Captain Hook and the Medicine Show

[SilverSurfer]

Originally posted by Wossamotta U
1974

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Tour. When he Really could rock the house.

I was 13. My brother had mono and couldn't go.

Tickets were $7. Greensboro had festival seating then which meant first come first served. Top level was blocked off from floor level. People used to hook belts together and climb and/or fall and/or jump to get down to the floor.

The whole placed reeked of reefer.

The good old days of the classic rock and roll concert.

Damn a head rush of memories!:cool:

Wow - My first one was in the same place, except the year before, 1973. I had just turned 14. $5.50 for Grand Funk Railroad I already had my own bag of pot. Smoked 3 or 4 joints and then had parents pick us up afterwards.

Yeah those were the good old days. Now I don't even bother with concerts. The only way I would go to one is if I could get tickets in the first 10 rows so I could really SEE the band. What fun are live concerts without smoking reefer?

[reb]

The first was the biggest. Dec. 1969 the second concert after Woodstock. Palm Beach International Rock Festival. Three days, twenty dollars.
Iron Butterfly led off. I can't name everybody but I remember Janis Joplin, Sly and the family Stone, Steppenwolf, Johny Winters, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, Country Joe, King Crimson and the last Band was the Stones.

not to bad for twenty bucks... L O L

[VOR]

Originally posted by Reb
The first was the biggest. Dec. 1969 the second concert after Woodstock. Palm Beach International Rock Festival. Three days, twenty dollars.
Iron Butterfly led off. I can't name everybody but I remember Janis Joplin, Sly and the family Stone, Steppenwolf, Johny Winters, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, Country Joe, King Crimson and the last Band was the Stones.

not to bad for twenty bucks... L O L

You left out Santana and Grand Funk

You neglected to tell the kiddies that although the concert only cost 20 bucks gas was 30cents a gallon and most of us were taking home about 50bucks a week.

[reb]

Did you go VOR,how small a world would that be. There were over 80,000 as I remember. The guy who owned the drag strip and property also had a used car dealership in Lake Worth. Somebody (probably sheriff Bill Heightman) torched it during the festival. He also filmed a guy that had overdosed until he died. He also didn't allow firewood to be brought in on Sat. night when it got cold. The owner of the dragway told us to burn the bleachers.

It really was Easy Rider back in the day folks.

[jazzredcat]

The first "concert" that I heard was actually at the Main NCO Club here at Fort Bragg. It was Stan Kenton in 1960 [None of you probably have heard of him(?)]. It was supposed to be a dance, but most everyone chose to listen.
The 1st and most enjoyable concert, per se, that I attended was
Count Basie in 1961 at ECU.
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[Ice Man]

Garth Brooks. Awesome show, hard for anything to top that.

[McFly41]

Quiet Riot, 1983! I was in 8th grade, but remember it well!

[FreddyP]

First official concert: Charlie Pride: Goldsboro, NC. My mother made me go with her!

First REAL concert: .38 Special, outdoors in Kinston, NC 1980.

Alot has changed over 22 years.

[Southbound]

Grand Funk, December 1973, Cumberland County Arena, Fayetteville, NC, on their "We're An American Band" tour. Opening band was the Edgar Winter Group, who were riding high about that time with "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride". Festival seating or standing as we were on the floor about 50 feet from the stage. Lots of babes, lots of bumping and rubbing, great time.

[hasbeen99]

My first concert was the Beach Boys, late summer 1991 at the Tulare County Mid-State Fair. Listened to their music all the way down to Tulare and all the way back. The concert lasted about 3 1/2 hours, and John Stamos was playing drums for them (yes, that John Stamos). I had a great time. :)

[reb]

The first indoor concert I went to was at the West Palm Beach auiditorum. The James Gangs first tour :cool: 1970

[articulatekitten]

My first concert ever was Glen Campbell---musta been 1969, with my parents & little sister.

My first "grown-up" concert was Aerosmith, 1975 or '76, Anaheim Stadium. It was GREAT! I've been lucky, seen quite a few good shows over the years.

[PhotoGuy]

MC Hammer & Vanilla Ice

[VOR]

Oh by the way my first was The beachboys, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Vanilla Fudge, and Buffalo Springfield on a single bill at RI Auditorium. I think tix were 9bucks.

[Miss tery]

Van Halen. My ears rang for 3 days.

[wossa]

Originally posted by mathmajors
1982 - Emerson, Lake, & Powell. It remained the best concert I'd been to until Clapton in 1990.

who was the Powell dude? :p

[Powerbait]

I saw Bon Jovi with Blue Murder on the Bad Medicine tour, right after New Jersey came out. I got the tickets as a birthday present. Still today one of the best shows I've ever seen, JBJ rose out of the stage in a cloud of smoke and lazer lights. It's the only arena rock show I've ever seen. Next closest was Blink-182, coming on stage with "FUCK" on fire as they played. One of the most classic sets I have ever seen, I have never seen so many people get pissed off, they were worse than the BHG as far as crowd response. At one point they mixed up Jesse Helms and Jesse Jackson, I could have sworn I heard parents fainting.

[lex]

palmer, math. emerson, lake and palmer.

i dont remember my first. i believe it was gladys knight and the pips.

my first one in denver is the best. live at the fillmore. :mushy:

[Cath Ddu]

Originally posted by lex
palmer, math. emerson, lake and palmer.

i dont remember my first. i believe it was gladys knight and the pips.

my first one in denver is the best. live at the fillmore. :mushy: Nope, Powell is correct.

When Keith Emerson and Greg Lake got back together, Carl Palmer was drumming with Asia, so they recruited Cozy Powell (who also played with Jeff Beck, Rainbow, Sabbath and many more). I thought it was later than 1982 though.

[Village Idiot]

Originally posted by
Anybody remember a big show at Charlotte Motor Speedway?
early 70's Alice Cooper Allman Brothers Emerson Lake & Palmer
I think it was a 2 day Woodstock wannabee thing I remember it well. I got to go, I was 15 at the time. It was called the August Jam, put on by BigWays radio 610 AM, anyone remember them? Former DJ and now actor Jay Thomas was the man on that station. They also put on some smaller concerts in the years prior to the Jam. They were called the "BWB" (Big Ways Birthday Bash) or something like that. The one at the Charlotte Coliseum (old one on Independence) with Billy Preston, Alice Cooper, John Sebastian (formerly of Lovin Spoonful) and others was my very first concert as a teen. I would'nt trade those days for anything.

[mathmajors]

Originally posted by Cath Ddu
Nope, Powell is correct.

When Keith Emerson and Greg Lake got back together, Carl Palmer was drumming with Asia, so they recruited Cozy Powell (who also played with Jeff Beck, Rainbow, Sabbath and many more). I thought it was later than 1982 though.

Thank you Cath.

Uh, I think that might have been 1986, which means I may have seen The Hollies on a reunion tour at Carowinds in '84. The Spongetones opened.

I don't count the very numerous gospel shows in the Ashbrook auditorium that I had to go to 'cause my dad was the auditorium manager.

[spud]

Originally posted by magnus
They really did. I always liked their style, I like some country variations a lot more than most straight country. I want to catch Willie or Johnny Cash once while I can...or rather, while they can.

I've seen them both numerous times. Willie is going to be in Nashville for NY eve. All good seats are gone though. I think he'll be in SC in Feb. Think your outta luck with Johnny though

[spud]

The BOXTOPS, bet your guys don't even know them "Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane, ain't got time to take no fast train, lonely days are gone, I'm a going home, my baby she wrote me a letter"
Probably around 1968

[MikeNinerHunt]

JOe Walsh and Glenn Frye at Carowinds, 1993, the year before the Eagles got back together.

[Village Idiot]

Originally posted by spud
The BOXTOPS, bet your guys don't even know them "Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane, ain't got time to take no fast train, lonely days are gone, I'm a going home, my baby she wrote me a letter"
Probably around 1968 well she wrote me letter said she could'nt live without me no more. listen mister cant ya see i got to get back to my baby once more. anyway yea.

[spud]

Originally posted by TANK
well she wrote me letter said she could'nt live without me no more. listen mister cant ya see i got to get back to my baby once more. anyway yea.

Crap! Your old like me...

Actually this concert was a funky one in Sioux Falls South Dakota. There was actually a dance floor.
Then after that my next REAL concert was "Moody Blues"

[spud]

Originally posted by magnus
They really did. I always liked their style, I like some country variations a lot more than most straight country. I want to catch Willie or Johnny Cash once while I can...or rather, while they can.

\\HERE"S YOUR CHANCE
Willis is going to be in CONCORD NC on Feb 27th

[lex]

Originally posted by Cath Ddu
Nope, Powell is correct.

When Keith Emerson and Greg Lake got back together, Carl Palmer was drumming with Asia, so they recruited Cozy Powell (who also played with Jeff Beck, Rainbow, Sabbath and many more). I thought it was later than 1982 though.

thank you, cath! :cool:

merry xmas, btw. :)

[FreakOnA_Leash]

Steve Miller BAnd, can't remember if it was at Carowinds or at the Pavalion. Saw them at both places, don't remember which came first.

[CFBall]

August Jam in 1974........................CMS was a war zone in appearance after 3 days of fun. I drove my '71 chevy van full of friends from wnc and dont know how we made it!

Rolling Stones in Rotterdam, Netherlands 1982 was the best concert i ever attended and enjoyed!

[Boxman]

Jackson 5

old coliseum

[Chief Tony]

Grand Funk Railroad,early 70's at the old coliseum.They had a screen behind the stage with a train coming at you.The best was Paul McCartney in Atlanta last year.

[spud]

Grand Funk Railroad,early 70's at the old coliseum.They had a screen behind the stage with a train coming at you.The best was Paul McCartney in Atlanta last year.


Saw them in the early 70's at the forum in LA. (GFR) I don't remember a screen with a train, but could've been.
Those were the days!

[HighPoint49er]

Bachman Turner Overdrive at the Greensboro Coliseum in 1974 or 1975, Takin' Care of Business. :drums:

[mathmajors]

Bachman Turner Overdrive at the Greensboro Coliseum in 1974 or 1975, Takin' Care of Business. :drums:

Did they do any Guess Who stuff?

[HighPoint49er]

math, as I vaguely remember they did. That was a LONG time ago! I do know the tickets were $5.00 general admission and how we ran to get good seats.

[DuelinDalton]

My brothers went and speak HIGHly of it. August Jam is what they reefer to it as.

My first show was U2 at the Omni, Spring 85, The Unforgetable Fire Tour.i wqs at the jam

[DuelinDalton]

I was there and was blowed away....anybody got any soapers????

[DuelinDalton]

i went to see Steppenwolf in 1969 smelled pot for the 1st time
:banana: :nono:

[Cornflake_Girl8]

Tori Amos......@ the Van Andel Arena.....*droooool* :banana: :banana:

[Foxman]

Motley Crew opened for Ozzy in KC around 22 years ago so that would have been 1982 ish.

My next concert was Midnight Star, Shalimar and Climax here in Greensboro Colliseum. What can I say I was given the tickets and the lady was hot.

[Reznor]

My first concert was Metallica (and justice for all tour) with Queensryche opening...it was my senior year in high school and I was tooling around with my bud one sunday morning and the radio promo came on and we were like shit, we should go, so i said ok, and headed toward charlotte. We stopped at Record Bar or whatever the fuck it was back then and got tickets. :laugh1:

[KrackMonkey]

first "real" concert I went to see was aerosmith, but it was lame.

Most memorable has to be Slipknot, Machinehead, Coal Chamber, and someone else at Ground Zero in Spartanburg.

This was right as Slipknot was emerging and MH was promoting a new album, headlining. I had 3 or 4 cuts/lacerations by the end of the show and had trouble walking for a week from getting an ass whoopin in the pit. What a show.

Pantera at the Omni in Atlanta shortly followed that. Chairs were getting ripped out of the concrete bleachers/stands/whatever and tossed down in the the massive circle pit on the floor in front of the stage.

It's hard to beat either of those shows with what's around these days....

[aircare1]

August Jam in 1974...!The August Jam @ the Charlotte (NC) Motor Speedway was also my first concert... and boy was it a doozy! I was 16 and my female guest was only 13 or 14 (?) - all I remember about her was that she was from Detroit (visiting relatives in NC), and she was gorgeous ... and the Speedway Jam was no place for a couple of young teens!!! Groups included: The Allman Brothers; Emerson Lake & Palmer; Black Oak Arkansas; Eagles; Foghat (the band that truly attracted me to the Jam); Marshall Tucker; Ozark Mtn DareDevils; Grinder's Switch; and many more! I think Wolfman Jack was the MC??? I've heard reports of as few as 150K up to nearly 350K rock fans were there @ some point during the weekend rock fest.

[aircare1]

The August Jam ...was also my first concert...
No, I'm wrong. The Jam wasn't my 1st. I've just had a flashback... I attended a concert @ App State (Boone, NC). It was also a weekend event. I don't remember the date... but a bus load (literally) of rockers rode up there together. I do remember the bus getting pulled over by a state trooper 'cause trash was flying out of the bus windows. It was a wild ride to ASU, and the concert is only a blurrrrrrrrrrr. I don't have a clue who was there, but now I have another topic to research... I'll figure it out and get a post on here...

[solarte1969]

Maynard Ferguson. I was in 8th grade, and he played at my high school (where I would attend the following fall). Jazz trumpter, screamer...dude rules.

Rock concert? Van Halen, 1984, Rosemont Horizon (Now Allstate Arena).

Also saw Ratt/Kix/Brittny Fox in one show. that ruled.

[PantherFanz]

My first concert was in September of 1978 at Oakland Coliseum.

Journey was the feature act with Ted Nugent, Blue Oyster Cult, AC/DC and Cheap Trick. What a freaking rock show!

[Ace13]

My first concert was in September of 1978 at Oakland Coliseum.

Journey was the feature act with Ted Nugent, Blue Oyster Cult, AC/DC and Cheap Trick. What a freaking rock show!Metallica, Danzig and Suicidal Tendancies at the Allentown Fairgrounds (in PA). I forget what year it was, though. Awesome show, though!

[PantherFanz]

Metallica, Danzig and Suicidal Tendancies at the Allentown Fairgrounds (in PA). I forget what year it was, though. Awesome show, though!

I have been a Metallica fan forever, but the first show of theirs I ever caught was a few years ago here in Charlotte when Godsmack opened for them.

[Ace13]

I have been a Metallica fan forever, but the first show of theirs I ever caught was a few years ago here in Charlotte when Godsmack opened for them.How was it? This show was back soon after the Black album came out. I used to be a HUGE fan, but ever since the crap-ass St. Anger album, and Lars' stupid-ass comments to the fans, I don't really pay to much attention to them anymore.

[PantherFanz]

How was it? This show was back soon after the Black album came out. I used to be a HUGE fan, but ever since the crap-ass St. Anger album, and Lars' stupid-ass comments to the fans, I don't really pay to much attention to them anymore.

It was good, although I think Godsmack outplayed them...

[meatpile]

Oakland Coliseum.

Man I had alot of fun in that building.

[KrackMonkey]

It was good, although I think Godsmack outplayed them...
Godsmack will play circles around the Metallica of 1995-present.