First Rock Concert

[AVID]

Chicago (the band) in Atlanta (the Omni) in 1977

[mitchum]

1. T Rex with The Ohio Players and Buddy Miles 1974

[slackdude]

2. This is embarassing...

Motley Crue and Ratt, 1984, Shout at the Devil tour.

[alpaca]

3. Hate to admit it

DEVO portland oregon 81

[AVID]

5. devo rocks

stand proud and "whip it good"

[alpaca]

7. Guess it wasn't too bad

for an 11 yr old at the time.

[RoyGBiv]

16. Say it proud!

Devo RAWKS!

Well, they were pretty cool anyway. They just can't get no satisfaction. :-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Genesis, ABACAB, 1982, 16th birthday present from parents

INCREDIBLE!

Not as incredible as Floyd later proved to be, or even as incredible as Genesis proved to be in 1984 or so with their "MAMA" tour, but bloody damned incredible just the same.

[AVID]

6. Also saw pink floyd Wall tour in ATL

rocked

[proud patriot]

8. Billy Squier(sp?) and Saga Cow palace SF 1983

when I was a wee one , my parents took
me to see Dark Side of the moon ,but I
was under 2 yrs old ..

[No2W2004]

9. Isn't this one of those questions

That if you remember your first rock concert, you wern't really there?

ZZ Top, 1979, The Summit, Houston.

[Fenris]

10. The Romantics/Heart double-bill!

1983 baby. I was in the womb!

[HEyHEY]

11. My mom took me to the Beach Boys when I was 7

Of course, no Brian Wilson, so what's the point?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

12. Some little clambake they held...

Up in Bethel, NY, back in the late '60s. Intimate little affair. I remember they were a bit short on refreshments, though...;-)

[section321]

13. Rush - Grace Under Pressure Tour

at the Fabulous Forum :)

(that was before it became the Great Western Forum)

[TheWizardOfMudd]

14. Steppenwolf

Civic Center, OKC, 1968 or 1969. Can't remember which year!

[Capn Sunshine]

15. Stevie Wonder, Dick Dale, the Dovells, 1962

Hollywood Bowl, my whole football team went after winning the Intramural championship for Elementary school level. Pretty trippy scene for fifth graders. It was kind of like Ed Sullivan; I dimly remember plate twirlers.Stevei Wonder was "little" Steveie Wonder then and played "Fingertips". Dick Dale Just kicked Ass, I already had one of his albums.

[RoyGBiv]

17. .38 Special...

First "rock" concert.

I was kidnapped and taken to a Shaun Cassidy concert when I was like 9 or 10. But that doesn't count.

[chrisesq]

18. Beastie Boys, Fish Bone, and Murphy's Law

all in one show. Can't get much better than that.

[Spirochete]

19. Creedence Clearwater Revival

Portland Memorial Coliseum, 1971

[Rocinante]

20. Black Oak Arkansas

1972-Florence, Alabama. Pretty cool for a lad of 15 years.

[CRK7376]

21. Mine Too!

Chicago, '74-75 timeframe in Greensboro, NC. Still huge Chicago fan.

[G_j]

22. Yardbirds '67? nt

[catmandu57]

23. Ozark music festival 1974

Three days of pure madness, estimates ran to 100,000 to 300,000 people in attendance. I was just short of my seventeenth birthday, damn it was fantastic. I remember seeing the Eagles, but nobody else, being under the influence of various substances at the time.

[AVID]

24. Does Ozark still have a festival? nt

[catmandu57]

29. Not after that one

They held it at the Missouri state fairgrounds in Sedalia, they told little white lies, like it was going to be a bluegrass festival. There was plenty of grass, I didn't see any blue though, there was open selling of every drug that existed, people were walking around with signs advertising their wares.
There were people walking around nude, it was hotter than hell, one fatality, one birth.
I bought a toke off of a homemade bong, it was made from bamboo, and used a flower pot for a bowl, six foot long and four inches around. I bought balloons full of nitrous oxide, layed in the street laughing.
There's never been another one like it, and I doubt there ever will be.

[Don_G]

25. The Beatles

Shea Stadium in Ausust 1965.

My parents vacationed in New York that summer and I snuck away with a girl I met to go to the concert.

[RetroLounge]

26. Pink Floyd

Animals Tour. Soldier Field. Chicago. 1977...

RL

[Mr.Green93]

27. Iron Butterfly

[woofless]

28. Jefferson Airplane.......1968

Pirate's World in Dania, FL. Can't remember who else played with them. First time I saw one of those behind the band psychedelic light show screens.

[GOPisEvil]

30. Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, Oct. 1983

The late, great, Hemisfair Arena in San Antonio.