Like Woodstock, I guess if you can remember it you weren’t really there. 
Apparently we were at the same concert, but you saw it two years earlier than I did. 
Colibri;
Boy my memory is going, I would have bet the farm I went to that show right before joining the Military. Thanks for the correction.
NoCoolUserName;
Jethro Tull at the Forum; was this the show where Charles Lloyd opened for him? Anderson had a Green Felt top hat and a Seersucker Mourning coat. He looked out over the crowd and said “It’s nice to be in L.A.” That was a good show, just before Aqualung was released, he did almost all of “Stand UP” and “Benefit”
My first concert was Jethro Tull at the Anaheim Convention Center, 1971, the Stand Up tour. I remember something about “Jeffrey Hammond Hammond had just gotten out of jail…” or something like that! (Mark-Almond opened.)
I saw Jethro Tull several times at the Anaheim Convention Center, and once at the Inglewood Forum (Passion Play).
Still love them and listen to their music regularly.
1977… I was 12, and there was this crazy outdoor show on top of a local ski hill (it was summer though) called Grouse Mountain.
Playing:
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils - for some reason I really liked their song “Jackie Blue”, and that was pretty much the sole reason I went
Papa John Creech - I had no idea who he was (still don’t, really) but he had played with Jefferson Airplane, apparently.
and
Blue Northern - some lameassed Canadian country folk rock band.
I remember thinking it was a pretty cool show… there was also a hang gliding competition going on plus it was the first time I ever saw someone smoking pot (it wasn’t very glamorous though… on my way to the concession stand I saw him smoking up and on the way back I saw him throwing up).
If Janet Jackson counts, then it was her. Must’ve been early 1990, at the Nassau Coliseum. I’m not sure who was next. Probably Aerosmith around 1995 at Jones Beach.
Bridge School Benefit featuring Neil Young, Tom Petty, Pearl Jam, Pete Drodge, Mazzy Star, Paul Barker and Al Jourgenson(I know I spelled that wrong)of Ministry.
It was 1994. My mother took me. She was really cool about it too. She just told me to not inhale the “smoke” that was clouding around us.
KISS, in Seattle in 1975 or early 1976. It was just after “Rock and Roll All Night” hit big and me and a friend convinced our folks to let us go. To this day I have no idea what they were thinking, I was only 13.
I remember it being loud.
I seem to remember that my first Tull concert was the Stand Up tour, 1967? But I remember the show with Charles Lloyd opening–the drummer had the wierdest voice. And Martin Barre was wearing a safari suit–which is all right s’far as it goes. From this distance they all sorta blur together. I saw Tull 5 or 6 times in 3 years. During the same period, I had a band with a flute player and we did 'em all.
Flashback! Yeesh.
I suppose the loudest concert you ever saw would be a different thread, but several folk have mentioned losing their hearing…
The absolutely loudest I ever heard anyone play was Sly and the Family Stone at the Forum. They stacked those 275w. Acoustic amps (6-12: speakers each?) 2 high all the way across the back of the stage. OH. MY. GAWD. The white noise from various reflections around the room was as loud as the music–a continuous buzz. Of course, I never got to see The Who or Blue Cheer in those days…
Mine was Iron Maiden too, but on the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son tour… I think it was 1986 (or 7) at the Meadowlands Area. I was 15 and this was a very big deal. We had to walk across a metal bridge over the Jersey Turnpike, and the crowd kicked the sides of the bridge out, ripped the light fixtures off and threw them onto the road below… it was terrifying, so of course I loved it.
Ah, those were the days when I had bangs and wore leather…
Parliament - 1979, somewhen in the D/C/ area. Still may be the best concert I’ve ever seen.
Cake on the Comfort Eagle tour. It was November 1st, 2001, which I remember because it was my mom’s birthday.
There were fake Christmas trees on the stage. I don’t know why.
Ted Nugent, Houston, 1977
Well, hell, so are most of us boomers. I will admit to having seen my first concert in September 1967 at the University of Oregon and yes, it was The Association.
However, my first rock band was in 1963 when I went stag to the prom, as a high school freshman (just about the lowest combination plate on the high school food chain) just to see the band playing for the dance: Paul Revere and the Raiders. They kicked major butt 40 years ago (and how it hurts to write that number), even so far as to work in a naughty double entendre when they asked the prom queen up on the stage to hug Paul Revere from behind as he stood at his Hammond and coyly asked her to “Reach around and touch my organ.”
Heady stuff for a 14-year old, you betcha.
First concert - New Kids on the Block, 1990
First rock concert - Bryan Adams, 1991
First concert I’m still willing to admit to - U2, 1992
Sting, at the Hollywood Bowl, 1991. It was his 40th birthday.
The Police at Shea Stadium…1983. I was 13! I think the only reason I was able to go was because my friend’s dad was taking us…Of course, unbeknownst to my parents, friend’s dad smoked pot the entire time…lol. Oh, and REM opened for them!
Anyway, it was fun! Sting used to be so cool.
Boston, Dont Look Back Tour.
To be shortly followed by:
RUSH, Hemispheres tour.
Cool shows.
Yes, September 18, 1984.
I was in 7th. grade, and not old enough to understand that they sounded a lot better if you were baked out of your skull.
Jethro Tull in 1970. Clive Bunker was one of the best drummers I ever saw. Tull made their first US tour in 1969. Started at the Fillmore East. They played The Forum in 1970. Show dates.