# What was the first concert you attended? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298 "2011-03-28T19:23:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/41 "2011-03-28T20:46:04Z")
Kiss, 1976, Cobo Hall, Detroit. Awesome! I was 14 and my older brother took me. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/42 "2011-03-28T20:48:35Z")
Hard to say for sure, my parents took us to a bunch of country concerts when I was a kid. I’d guess that the first one I saw that anybody had ever heard of was probably somebody like Bill Anderson or Ronnie Milsap. First one I saw independently of them was (I think) Styx. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/43 "2011-03-28T20:48:41Z")
Styx in 76 right before they hit it big with the Grand Illusion album. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/44 "2011-03-28T20:50:03Z")
It was either Ravi Shankar at Severance Hall in Cleveland, or Judy Collins with Arlo Guthrie at Blossom Music Center. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/45 "2011-03-28T20:50:57Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > In addition to the first, which act have you seen live the most times? For me it’s a toss-up between Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Buffett, with the count well into the dozens for both. Interestingly, I think the concert I’m attending this Friday will push Yes into the forefront, in that regard … if I’m allowed to count Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe as seeing Yes. But not dozens. I think this will make the third time I’ve seen them. The only other bands I’ve seen more than once are Aerosmith, James Taylor and Crosby, Stills and Nash (no Young). Of course, I could be misremembering most of that as well. The only memory ain’t what it used to be. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/46 "2011-03-28T20:55:19Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > In addition to the first, which act have you seen live the most times? I saw Rush twice. I’ve seen Richard Thompson four times. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/47 "2011-03-28T20:57:04Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > In addition to the first, which act have you seen live the most times? Tom Petty. I think I’m up to 8 or 9 times with him. In three states. ---
**Author:** ![wonder\_lust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@wonder\_lust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonder_lust)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/48 "2011-03-28T20:58:13Z")
I have the lamest one. What do I win? It was A-ha in, I believe, 1986. Taaake meeee oooooon… ---
**Author:** ![Cell\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Cell\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cell_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/49 "2011-03-28T21:41:27Z")
Whitesnake with Great White opening. Feb 11, 1988 at the Rosemont Horizon. I still have the ticket somewhere around here. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/50 "2011-03-28T21:42:29Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > In addition to the first, which act have you seen live the most times? Marillion, four times.Three with Fish, one with Hogarth ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/51 "2011-03-28T21:43:24Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > In addition to the first, which act have you seen live the most times? Jethro Tull, around 25 times, I think. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/52 "2011-03-28T21:44:59Z")
Greg Lake at the Palladium, with Novo Combo as opening act. It was a pretty lame show, overall. Novo Combo had only one decent song (“Up, Pericope”), and Lake chose to concentrate on songs from his godawful new solo album. The only ELP songs he played were “Lucky Man” (which even hisbiggest fans were surely bored with), “C’est La Vie” (which he reinterpreted, and turned into a bad power ballad) and “Fanfare for the Common Man” (the least inspired classical cover ELP ever did). ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/53 "2011-03-28T21:46:20Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > As an additional question that doesn’t really deserve its own thread, if the OP will allow the partial digression… > > In addition to the first, which act have you seen live the most times? For me it’s a toss-up between Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Buffett, with the count well into the dozens for both. Digress away! I’ve seen Counting Crows, Metallica, Queensryche each three times. Aerosmith and Billy Joel twice, along with White Lion, Poison, Winger, and various other hair bands. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/54 "2011-03-28T21:47:38Z")
Eagles, 2009. ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/55 "2011-03-28T22:00:25Z")
Lefty Frizzell, at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii about 1957. Woo Hoo! ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/56 "2011-03-28T22:06:56Z")
Sting’s _Nothing Like the Sun_ tour. 1988 or 89? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/57 "2011-03-28T22:09:18Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > I saw the hottest band in the land - - - - KISS!!! at Dayton’s Hara Arena 1976 My first concert was KISS in 1976, in Seattle. I was 13 at the time. My ears still hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/58 "2011-03-28T22:21:42Z")
Phil Collins, the No Jacket Required tour, 1985 ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/59 "2011-03-28T22:25:04Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > In addition to the first, which act have you seen live the most times? For me it’s a toss-up between Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Buffett, with the count well into the dozens for both. It’s either The Steve Miller Band or Lynyrd Skynyrd, but I’d have so sit down and think real hard to be sure. The count in either case would be 3 or 4 times. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/60 "2011-03-28T22:41:36Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Phil Collins, the No Jacket Required tour, 1985 Were you in the first row? Did he look right at you the whole time he was singing “In the Air Tonight?” Is there anything more you’d like to tell us? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298.md?page=4)