# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/121 "2011-03-30T01:58:08Z")
Peter, Paul, & Mary at the Baltimore Arena/Coliseum (forgot name of venue) in October or November1964 on a liberty weekend from Class A Navy school at Bainbridge Naval Training Center. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/122 "2011-03-30T17:37:00Z")
My parents took mme to see the New Christy Minstrels and the Rooftop Singers in the spring of 1963. First concert without my parents was James Brown and the Famous Flames in the spring of 1967. Both concerts were at the old Atlanta Municipal Auditorium. I suppose the band I’ve seen perform the most often was the Allman Brothers Band, because they were giving free concerts in Atlanta all the time. I imagine I saw them in the Duane/Berry configuration eight or ten times. In terms of the act I have paid to see the most often, I would say the Who - the Townsend/Daltrey/Entwistle/Moon configuration. I saw them four times. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/123 "2011-03-31T04:29:54Z")
If I really had to say, it would probably be Eddie Money because I associate the show with being confused about some of the things that went on at a typical rock concert. I was far more interested in the opening acts (of whom you’d never had heard because they were local), as it was some sort of anniversary show for a radio station that I typically listened to; the first opening act was basically their morning show who did all sorts of crazy rip-offs while the second was a band one of the DJs was in. I remember a couple of my friends going with me, but I have no clue when other than the mid-late 90s. I’ve seen The Who and Yes twice; I’m not much of a concert goer and the bands I like were past their prime by the time I was born. Ok, technically Yes’s only #1 hit was while I was alive, but it was still past their prime musically and they were very nearly a different band. I’d have loved to see Jethro Tull before Ian Anderson’s throat surgery or whatever changed his voice; hearing live tracks on Pandora from shows since then, he really does not sound that great singing the old songs. The ones from more recent albums that were written for his new voice are decent though. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/124 "2011-03-31T04:39:03Z")
I begged my father to take me to see Liberace when I was kid–maybe 2nd or 3rd grade. He took me. I remember it being very (too) loud for my young ears. But I had a blast. _Googles_. Whoa. Holy crap. I believe [this may have been the concert.](http://www.outernetweb.com/focalplane/liberace/index01.html) ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/125 "2011-04-01T10:55:01Z")
Doobie Brothers…1974 …Wings Stadium…Kalamazoo, MI. Did I mention that I thought China Grove was a teen anthem with the refrain Trying to Grow? ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/126 "2011-04-01T11:01:06Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > That sounds awesome! I just found info on the show I was at when I was 15: > > [http://www.last.fm/event/227520](http://www.last.fm/event/227520) > > I saw the Beastie Boys and didn’t even know it. How did you find that event? I can’t find anything other than future dates. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/127 "2011-04-01T14:00:44Z")
1983, Duran Duran (be still my beating heart) with the double whammy of them performing in the stadium of my fav football (soccer) team, Aston Villa. Supported by Robert Palmer. My evil older brother, who liked to spend his days pinning me on the floor and farting, bought the tickets for me as a surprise. And he took me, even though Duran Duran were for whimpy girls. I still haven’t worked out what trick he must have been playing on me as ‘being nice’ wasn’t his raison d’etre at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/128 "2011-04-01T14:28:22Z")
An unauthorized concert version of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1971. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/129 "2011-04-01T14:37:05Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > How did you find that event? > > I can’t find anything other than future dates. I Googled _dead kennedys reggae lounge_. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/130 "2011-04-02T02:20:34Z")
1st was Traffic, mid/late 60’s Moody Blues 7X Traffic 3X Paul Simon 3X ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/131 "2011-04-02T06:51:29Z")
Peter Paul and Mary and the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Hollywood Bowl, Summer 1965 ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/132 "2011-04-02T14:00:24Z")
Freddie and the Dreamers in the mid-sixties. I don’t go to many concerts and haven’t been to one in decades, but the one I saw the most was the Beatles, twice. I also saw Herman’s Hermits when The Who opened for them. ---
**Author:** ![ptr2void](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ptr2void/32/3406_2.png) [@ptr2void](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ptr2void)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/133 "2011-04-02T17:18:35Z")
First: Kansas (with Molly Hatchet) on the _Audiovisions_ tour. Most: Rush, probably about 6 times, with the first being on the _Signals_ tour, last being _Test for Echo_. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/134 "2011-04-02T17:35:13Z")
First concert ever, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap at Warner auditorium, Anderson, Indiana. 1968? First concert with my friends, Styx and Mahogany Rush at the Indy Convention center. I’ve never seen an act three times, but the ones I’ve seen twice are Journey, Joan Jett, Alice Cooper, Neil Young, Cheap Trick, and Santana. I did have to wait in the car with my dad at Crosley Field while my sister got to see the Beatles. Twice. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/135 "2011-04-02T18:58:35Z")
Rod Stewart, with faces, their first North American tour, ‘Maggie Mae’ was climbing the charts at the time, at the Gardens in Toronto. Band I’ve seen the most would be The Rolling Stones, 3X. I also saw Bob Marley live, very awesome. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/136 "2011-04-02T19:47:27Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > I also saw Bob Marley live, very awesome. Along those lines, I got a free ticket to go see Ray Charles on his last tour. Fucking incredible. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/137 "2011-04-02T22:03:05Z")
I saw some summer jam type concert/carnival thing in sixth grade. I want to say Kansas and REO Speedwagon were the bands in particular I wanted to see at the time. After that my teen years were just packed with concerts. AC/DC, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden all several times. Bands that played the fair circuit like Cheap Trick and Faster Pussycat, Twisted Sister and other bands I struggle to recall. Rush I’ve seen four times. The last one I saw was The Rolling Stones. The weirdest one was George Jones. If I remember correctly he passed out after singing from a stool a few songs. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/138 "2011-04-03T12:53:17Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > I Googled _dead kennedys reggae lounge_. Shoot… I was hoping there was a way to browse old events at that site. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/139 "2011-04-03T14:26:33Z")
Non-volitional: Roy Rogers, the singing cowboy, at the Oregon State Fairgrounds, 1959 as part of the state’s centennial celebration, followed by Harry James and his Orchestra at Disneyland in the summer of 1963. First volitional: The Association, at Mac Court at the University of Oregon fall of 1967. Remember one joke from the stage patter: “[band member] is so thin that when he stands sideways and sticks out his tongue, he looks like a zipper.” A knee-slapper, I tellya. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298/140 "2011-04-03T14:32:48Z")
The Dave Brubeck Quartet at Vanderbilt U in 1960. (If I went to another one before this I have forgotten who performed or where. Brubeck was the first I paid for myself.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-concert-you-attended/576298.md?page=8)