The Medusa Fora

The first five concerts I ever saw were:

1. Three Dog Night, Aberdeen, SD, 1975(?)
2. Pablo Cruise, Aberdeen, SD, 1977
3. Rush (Golden Earring opened), St. Paul, MN, 1978
4. Cheap Trick (AC/DC opened), Sioux Falls, SD, 1979
5. Van Halen, Rapid City, SD, 1979

Just a kid living out in the "sticks". I never even heard the Clash until 1980. Hopefully my kids will be more impressed with their first concerts which will be The Violent Femmes (2 years ago) and The Pogues in 2008.

I saw Oasis at Earls Court in 95, I was only 7 I hardly remember much and could barley see anything.

The Spinners, when I was 4.

The only concert I've ever been to other than passing by the stage at the yearly fair was a John Kilzer concert here in Jackson, TN back around '97 or so.

Hmm in some sort of order.
1. S Club 7
2. Steps
3. James (All so far at Radio 1 Roadshows
4. The Flaming Lips
5. The Who

Maybe I should have kept that all to myself

1. Evil Superstars
2. Nemo (the band, not the fish )
3. Ashbury faith
4. Rock Torhout 1996 with Channel Zero, Body Count, Senser, Greenday, Offspring, PJ Harvey, Spearhead, Cranberries, Therapy?, The Cure, R.E.M., Belly, dEUS, ...

Green Day
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Letters to Cleo
all in the summer of '93....i think?

Horslips

National Stadium, Dublin

May 1972

(the support act, by the way, was Chris Davison, who later went on to change his name back to Chris De Burgh. No, he was always rubbish. )

Whilst having always claimed to my friends that it was The Clash at Aylesbury Friars, it was in fact the more mundane Big Country at Wembley Arena, curiously supported by The Cult.

The Osmonds. August 1973 at the CNE Stadium in Toronto. I don't remember much about it but do recall Donny did a karate demonstration at some point. Openers were the Stampeders.

My mom took me to a few country music concerts when I was a kid. I believe my first concert was the Oak Ridge Boys, but she also took me to see Don Williams and a triple bill of Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton and Ray Charles. My mom wasn't a Ray Charles fan, so I spent most of his set waiting in line for hot dogs.

If you don't count pub bands and sessions, then Pogues '05. I was a big fan of hip hop music (still am, just nothing much decent has come out since then) and never saw the appeal of going to see it live - Pogues on the other hand is obviously a whole different kettle of fish... maybe that should be pint

DownInTheGround wrote:Maybe I should have kept that all to myself

When we took the kids to their first concert to see The Violent Femmes (Joe West Trio opened for them). The conversation with our friends was how lame all of our first concerts now seem in retrospect. Of course we were at some disadvantage living in a town of only 25,000 and 5 hours from Minneapolis, which would be considered the nearest "big city".

I suspect many who view this thread will be too "embarrassed" to admit to seeing a particular band...

Where I grew up we often had spring/summer/fall festivals with our own bands on a stage and an audience of 750-1000. I don't count those.

The first shows that were offered up to me were things like Quiet Riot and Def Lepard (my cousin was a big fan of these, and was nearly forced to take me until I was asked if I wanted to go - "No way." Now if The Police, or DEVO, or The Clash, or Elvis Costello, or Joe Jackson, or a dozen others had been on offer ... I'd have gone in a hot second. Sadly I suspect my cousin would not have been my chaperone, though, since at the time he hated these bands.)

The first two shows that I recall paying money to see were Sting, Dream of the Blue Turtles tour in Berkeley CA and Oingo Boingo, Dead Man's Party tour in Santa Cruz CA.

First real concert was Foreigner touring in support of Agent Provocatuer in 1983.
Next was Skinny Puppy with Severed Head in 84.
Then The Beastie Boys in 84.
Then The Whiplash Bash (Ted Nugent presiding) in 85.
Followed by Pink Floyd in 87.

From there it gets hazy. I did catch Big Audio Dynamite when they opened for PIL in the 90's. Plant and Page Un-Leded. Billy Bragg with Robin Hitchcock. Several Lolapaloozas, an Ozzfest or two...

Last was Type-O Negative about 7 years ago...