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My First Concert

Posted by: Mogwai ZOO FREAK on 7/2/2023 5:52 PM

Sharing amongst friends. my first 3 live concerts in order, all at the Ohio Center, Columbus OH.

1. Dokken / Sammy Hagar
(we went for Dokken (kicked butt!) Sammy was in his fluorescent colored pop phase, not cool)

2. Twisted Sister / Iron Maiden
( Twisted Sister didn’t last 2 songs before crowd booed Dee Snider off the stage. House lights turned on, Dee threw a little hissy-fit and gave us a lecture about “partying and drinking”. Bruce Dickinson walked out drinking a bottle of Jack and kicked Dee and his band off the tour)

3. Queensryche / KISS
( we went for Queensryche)
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Added by Wildcard ZOO FREAK

Great stories Mogwai!

I *think* my first concert was Kansas in the mid 70s. I double dated with a few mates. My date was a bottle of boones farm apple wine. Turns out we had an on again off again stormy relationship that only lasted a few months. Again, I can’t remember much about her except she left a bad taste in my mouth.
Added by Angela ZOO FREAK

Definitely remember my first concert, at Moody Coliseum. Pat Travers was the headliner, Rainbow was the middle band, and local band Lightning (Rocky Athas!) opened the show, so they were the very first band I saw play live.

And that started the rock 'n roll addiction...

...when concerts were reasonably priced, and really fun, people tossed around frisbees and beach balls...ah, those were the days!
Added by JayMan76

!977 Dallas Convention Center Arena. A triple bill, featuring Head East, Foghat (when they were still riding the success of "Fool For The City") and J. Geils Band (four years before the fame of "Freeze-Frame"). Never will I forget that night!
Added by KDTO Willy

I was born about a dozen years too late - saw some awesome concerts, but missed some that I really wished I could've seen.

This is awkward, but my first concert was a 1980 Blood Sweat & Tears show at (wait for it...) Six Flags of Texas. Mom took us kids to Six Flags and it just happened the band was playing that night. Mom was a fan, so I went with her. I was thoroughly impressed. I mean, those cats were tight!

First real concert (I still have the t-shirt), 02 July 1980, The Who at Reunion. (I think my ears still ring from that show.) I was a month from getting my driver license, so I had to buy a 2nd ticket for an older classmate with wheels. He was a devout prog rocker and this wasn't his kind of scene, but he said afterward that he was DEFINITELY IMPRESSED BY THE VOLUME!
Added by greg

1976,Boston's first album,1977 LED ZEPPELIN OAKLAND COLISEUM,DAY ON THE GREEN
Added by chazmix ZOO FREAK

My first concert was Grand Funk Railroad in 1975 in Amarillo, where I grew up. We had a lot of great shows pull through there in my high school years. The funny thing about the GFR show was that my mom bought the tickets at her work, Bell Helicopter, and got them for half price....$2.50 instead of $5.00. Ahhhh those were the days!
Added by GerDon ZOO FREAK

Me2 Chaz! Not sure what year but my first was Grand Funk Railroad & Bloodrock. In Lubbock. I was still in high school so it had to be 1970,71, or 72. My female cousin bought the tickets and drove to the concert. We lived in Levelland.
My first time to experience marijuana. We were on the front row. I didn’t smoke but it was like a big cloud. Second-hand smoke big time.
Added by chazmix ZOO FREAK

Gerdon yeah GFR was always associated with marajuana. Even on one of their live albums Mark Farner asks the audience “What’s that funky smell?” And then says “Blow some of that up this way”. Something he said at a lot of shows. I was 14 or 15 at the time and not a smoker at that young age. We used to drive to Lubbock for shows that didn’t go through Amarillo. Thanks for rockin, brother!
Added by Big Sexy Eddie

1st concert, Freakers Ball Saturday, October 30, 1999
Starplex Amphitheatre, Dallas, TX

Cold and Rainy AF!

Headliner: Megadeth

Chevelle
Coal Chamber
Machine Head
Orange 9mm
Sevendust
Slipknot
Static‐X

Made it down to the right stage, in front of the speakers, and started blowing up condoms into balloons, passed the Dutchie on the left hand side, and witnessed SO MANY HOT TOPLESS GIRLS!!! Dave Mustaine of Megadeth said "Dallas is crazy AF, Blowing up condom ballons and sh*t!" LOL! Lost my hearing for three days, but totally worth it!
Added by Big Sexy Eddie

1st concert, Freakers Ball Saturday, October 30, 1999
Starplex Amphitheatre, Dallas, TX

Cold and Rainy AF!

Headliner: Megadeth

Chevelle
Coal Chamber
Machine Head
Orange 9mm
Sevendust
Slipknot
Static‐X

Made it down to the right stage, in front of the speakers, and started blowing up condoms into balloons ( free condoms were passed out), passed the Dutchie on the left hand side, and witnessed SO MANY HOT TOPLESS GIRLS!!! Dave Mustaine of Megadeth said "Dallas is crazy AF, Blowing up condom ballons and sh*t!" LOL! Lost my hearing for three days, but totally worth it!
Added by Huey the Vacuum Tube

Oh YEAH, remember that day well until the beer took hold. My hearing took at hit as well. If I recall properly Megadeth (Dave Mustaine) played his latest stuff with french lyrics. The follow-up acts were awesome. Static-X with their stage make-up. Gotta love it!
Added by Huey the Vacuum Tube

My FIRST Concert - pre 80's
Location - Baton Rouge, LA (Centroplex)
Headliner - Ted Nugent. Opening acts: Skorpions and Def Leppard (HAD NO idea who they were then AND not the line up you have today)

My friend (RIP Darrell) where -who are the Skorpions and Def Leppard, ever heard of them. They jammed and Ted the Dred laid down the law. Loin skin only, sweat ALL over his guitar. As he moved his sound ax around while playing the spotlights above would highlight - much like glitter. It was one of the few concerts that allowed cameras (film) and binoculars. It was a magical and transcendant experience
Added by Wildcard ZOO FREAK

I was at that concert in El Paso! 78 tour I believe. That was Def Leppard’s first US tour and before they had any hits in the US so nobody knew who they were. The rest is history!
Added by Barfoul

Who was the head-liner?
I saw quite a few concerts at the El Paso
Coliseum.
Added by bobbyn ZOO FREAK

Wildcard, I was stationed up at holloman in fat alamo, i was still in training but couldnt make it. 78 was a good year for lots of reasons.
I worked at the el paso coliseum between 71 and 73; the great one was
Blood Rock and of course Uriah Heep...
Now I hear the good rock on KZEW which I discovered back in 89 and then a month later they were GONE>>>
Now in the future we have the ZOO back in the saddle again..
Added by bostonfrog ZOO FREAK

I'm just a kid. My first real concert was REM at Reunion in 1989. It was a big concert for a kid from Midlothian. I was 15, and my friend and I went on our own. (My mom dropped us off, though.) I definitely saw sights that night I had never seen before.
Added by AxisII

Well, I did see Tanya Tucker (back when we were both a few years under 18...lol...at the Annual Shriner's Rodeo in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Saw Helen Reddy later that year at Six Flags. But a real concert? October 8, 1975. A carload of us drove from Batesville, Arkansas down to Memphis to see the band at the Mid-South Coliseum. Tommy Johnston had already gone on leave from the band and it was a bit disappointing. Still, it was a 'real deal' and the experience was terrific.
Added by Dar from Dallas

December 17, 1977 in Fort Worth, Tx. I'm an eleven year old little girl who is about to find out what she wants to be when she grows up! (in the music scene) Neil Diamond was my first concert!
Added by nanfield16

Sept 1973, Six Flags in Arlington- The Association; Sept 1974, Tarrant County Convention Ctr- John Denver & Starland Vocal Band; Aug 1975, Wichita KS- Fleetwood Mac Sadly I have no souvenirs from any of these.
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