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Post by ZacAttack on Oct 15, 2004 20:05:13 GMT -5
I am not talking about some unknown local group you saw at the comunity center. Or getting dragged along with your parrents to see some group you hated or even didn't hate.
This thread is asking what was the first band you wanted to, and then got tickets to, and then went and saw live for your very first concert experience.
For me it was AC/DC and their "Fly on the Wall" tour way back in the day 1985. Yngwie Malmsteen opened up the show. I had never heard anything like that before and I was impressed. But then AC/DC took the stage and blew my mind! Back when Ol Angus was still in his prime. They opened with "Fly on the Wall" and closed with "For Those About To Rock". Everything in between is kind of a blurr, but it rocked.
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Post by Steelpriest on Oct 15, 2004 20:32:24 GMT -5
For me it was KISS in 1980 on their "Unmasked"-Tour, and guess who was the support act back in the day? Iron Maiden in their original line-up! Wooohooo! I was a 14-year old and me and a pal from school bought tickets for us and his father to accompany us. Even my pal´s father had fun. ;D
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Post by ZacAttack on Oct 15, 2004 20:42:40 GMT -5
For me it was KISS in 1980 on their "Unmasked"-Tour, and guess who was the support act back in the day? Iron Maiden in their original line-up! Wooohooo! I was a 14-year old and me and a pal from school bought tickets for us and his father to accompany us. Even my pal´s father had fun. ;D Sounds like one hell of a show. Noeljob and I were also accompanied by my dad who had a good time as well. And we were both 14. Wow go figure. |
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Post by noeljob on Oct 16, 2004 0:19:42 GMT -5
i had hippie parents, so my first concert was grand funk railroad, iwas 5. that was in 76'.but my first concert i wanted to go to was kiss. i think it was in 78'. i cant remember off the top of my head which tour it was. my mom got me destroyer in 77' for my birthday so i begged them to take me, so they did. they had a good time as well, i remember that. rainbow opened for them.kiss was my favorite group until they took me to a johnny winter concert and ac/dc opened up or it may have been the stones i cant remember. the only thing i remember was bon scott w/ angus on his shoulders tromping thru the crowd just killin his sg. i was hooked. they werent really popular in the states at that time. but the first concert i went to by meself was ac/dc flick of the switch w/ a bunch of older friends. i could write all day about concert experiences, but this is enough. you get the picture. i had a pretty colorfull childhood i guess you could say.
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Post by chrisgrimes on Oct 16, 2004 4:15:49 GMT -5
Santana Band 1975
It was a birthaday present from my parents when I was 16, they paid for me and 2 friends to travel by train to London and for the show obviously.
Carlos was just about at his best around this time imho, few years after this he must have had bills to pay and churned out elevator music.
Always remember that gig though
chris
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Post by JoMan on Oct 16, 2004 5:41:12 GMT -5
my first real concert was just about one and a half years ago, Paul McCartney's "Back In the World" tour, here in Vienna.
A month later a went to see the Stones' Licks Tour in Vienna's stadium (a bit more than 60,000) and then last october I went to see Bob Dylan, which was cool too.
My next concert will be the Comets, the Original Comets as in 1954 (without Bill Haley, though...).
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Post by sandman on Oct 16, 2004 8:50:38 GMT -5
can't remember the yearbut i was like 9 or 10 so it had to be the mid 60's. It was the Animals, they were opening for Herman's Hermits. They played at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock. A football stadium. I snuck in to see them (we lived close to the stadium so I knew it like the back of my hand) crawled through the fence. I think it was their first American tour. Place was packed. Liked the opening act the Animals alot more. I was pretty much a music junkie growing up.
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Post by jeje on Oct 16, 2004 9:03:31 GMT -5
I think it was a norwegian band called Dum-Dum Boys, must have been 1989, I was 6... or it could have been a band my mom and dad was in, which would have been even earlier.. can't remember  edit: Okay, next time I'll read the post better  The first band I saw that I wanted to see(and went from my own free will) was Kaizers Orchestra, in 2000.. |
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Post by samicksg on Oct 17, 2004 9:15:04 GMT -5
The Rolling Stones baby!!! Back in 1997, I was about 10 and man they were amazing. Yes at 10, I was already a fan, owning many albums. Then I saw them again on the Licks world tour in 2002. This summer I saw Van Halen and yes, Madonna. Finally about 2 weeks ago I saw Metallica with Godsmack opening. OMG!!!!
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Post by RB on Oct 17, 2004 12:35:47 GMT -5
It would have been in the early 70's ... April Wine and Rush. However I remember watching the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones and others perform on the Ed Sullivan show back in the mid 60's.
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Post by ZacAttack on Oct 17, 2004 14:46:05 GMT -5
The Rolling Stones baby!!! Back in 1997, I was about 10 and man they were amazing. Yes at 10, I was already a fan, owning many albums. Then I saw them again on the Licks world tour in 2002. This summer I saw Van Halen and yes, Madonna. Finally about 2 weeks ago I saw Metallica with Godsmack opening. OMG!!!! I think 97 was the voodoo lounge tour. If so thats the show I got to work. They came to Ft.Worth Dallas area and the local union pulled off the show over some contract crap. Well the call went out and every stage monkey with a cressant wrench with in 50 miles came a running. We had to cross a picket line, which was no big deal. We looked meaner than any union crew. lol It was the biggest non union show to go down since the early 50s around here. But the show was great and the stagehand end of it was the first time I had seen how the REAL BIG DOGS do it on tour. 42 trucks and 8 hours later I was done and on my way home. p.s. those are some really gret posts yall. Keep em coming. Zac |
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Post by samicksg on Oct 17, 2004 17:11:14 GMT -5
Wrong-O 94 was voodoo lounge. 97 was the Bridges to Babylon tour  |
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Post by ZacAttack on Oct 17, 2004 17:19:31 GMT -5
Wrong-O 94 was voodoo lounge. 97 was the Bridges to Babylon tour Thanks for clearing that up, that is a great load off my mind. Damn has it reall been ten years? God I am getting OLD!  |
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Post by Steelpriest on Oct 17, 2004 23:24:44 GMT -5
God I am getting OLD! YIKES! Me too... lol ...but not as old as the Stones are, hehe! |
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Post by JoMan on Oct 18, 2004 13:43:42 GMT -5
well, mick and keith are merely 61 (actually keith is still sixty, for two more months.... december 18th is his birthday)
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