# Your first concert **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2000, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440 "2000-04-01T12:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/1 "2000-04-01T12:57:00Z")
There have been threads on the best concert you ever attended and concert etiquette, but what was the first concert you ever attended? The first one I ever went to was a triple-header: Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Hollies, and Wilson Pickett. A song highlight from each, in order: Incense and Peppermints, Bus Stop, Midnight Hour. Next. ---
**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/2 "2000-04-01T13:12:00Z")
Well the first one that anyone would recognize the band names was Mike and The Mechanics with The Escape Club. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/3 "2000-04-01T13:40:00Z")
The first one I was at would have been Bachman Turner Overdrive, it was awesome. * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/4 "2000-04-01T14:07:00Z")
Hall and Oates, the H2O tour. I was 12. No parents. It was very cool. * * * You know you are a vet tech when: you can eat your lunch with one hand and clean up a parvo blowout with the other. ---
**Author:** ![bedboy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@bedboy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bedboy4)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/5 "2000-04-01T15:02:00Z")
**Foreigner** with **Bryan Adams** as the opening act…lol ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/6 "2000-04-01T15:04:00Z")
Aerosmith, with Joan Jett opening. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/7 "2000-04-01T15:07:00Z")
The first one I saw without my parents was Def Leppard with Tesla. Pretty damned cool. I love it when the opening band upstages the headliner. * * * ## There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust. – Demosthenes Joe Cool ---
**Author:** ![Nanno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nanno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanno)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/8 "2000-04-01T15:17:00Z")
## Doobie brothers 197? ,stood in line for hours and hours it was summer. got totally wasted. (yes 197?, no not going tell my age) whatever ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/9 "2000-04-01T15:34:00Z")
I was like 13 or 14. I won two tickets to see Alice Cooper with The Rockets. Coop was at a low-point in his career (this was like the very early 1980s, before he had a temporary resurgence with the song “Poison”), and he was actually playing outdoors at a drive-in movie theater in the tiny town of Alpena, Mich. I took one of my brothers. My Mom drove us (about a 1:15 drive) and waited in the parking lot in the car until it was over. She could be pretty cool sometimes. Anyway, it was good. Alice is one of those acts that you don’t fully realize how many songs he does that you like until you go to a concert and hear them all back-to-back. * * * “We are here for this – to make mistakes and to correct ourselves, to withstand the blows and to hand them out.” Primo Levi ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@Carl\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Berry)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/10 "2000-04-01T15:50:00Z")
## The Erie Philharmonic Orchestra circa 1954 Fur Elise: Beethoven Die Forelle: Schubert Toccata & Fugue in D minor: J.S.Bach Concerto Grosso: Vivaldi Carl ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/11 "2000-04-01T15:53:00Z")
You were there too, Carl?! I was the guy selling the loose joints and blotter acid! * * * “We are here for this – to make mistakes and to correct ourselves, to withstand the blows and to hand them out.” Primo Levi ---
**Author:** ![Nightingale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/12 "2000-04-01T16:00:00Z")
How 'bout this one? The Jets, with Stacy Q as the opening act. :o * * * “There are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.” – Dr. Morgenes, _The Dragonbone Chair_ ---
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/13 "2000-04-01T16:25:00Z")
Ted Nugent 1977or8, got really stoned, can’t remember shit ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/14 "2000-04-01T16:29:00Z")
Okay, mine was the New Kids On The Block. I was 14. Hey! Stop laughing at me! * * * I never hate myself in the morning. I sleep till noon. –Sig line courtesy of Wally 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/15 "2000-04-01T16:47:00Z")
Linda Ronstandt, Eddie Money, and Orleans in the late 70s, I think it was Angels Camp, California. Don’t remember much about it except smoking too much dope and laughing a lot. * * * _…send lawyers, guns, and money…_ ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/16 "2000-04-01T17:19:00Z")
I can’t summon any details of various symphony visits in my youth, but my first pop concert was the Beach Boys on their _Sloop John B._ tour at the Houston Music Hall (c. 1965). Openers were Neal Ford and the Fanatics. The Beach Boys had less equipment on stage than my own garage band had just a few years later. I went with my older sister and some of her friends who, as did the rest of the mostly female audience, just screamed through the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/17 "2000-04-02T06:05:00Z")
i think mine was a sarah mclaughlan (sp?) concert. * * * if wishes were fishes, we could walk on the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/18 "2000-04-02T06:28:00Z")
Chicago, in the late '70s. The only song I remember is ‘Colour My World’ _sigh_. That, and getting really lost going home, ending up about halfway to Corpus Christi (for those who don’t know, I live in San Antonio) before turning around, was 3 hours late getting home, and watching my Mom blow a gasket from worry. * * * You sing in my consciousness like a counterpoint to my life. L.L. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/19 "2000-04-01T19:05:00Z")
The Fabulous Thunderbirds. I don’t remember when it was, though. ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440/20 "2000-04-01T19:11:00Z")
Oh dear. Robert Palmer, just after his Power Station days, with a band called Bourgeois Tagg opening. At the Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, NY, when I was 14. Think I’ve still got the obligatory t-shirt from that one somewhere… * * * Gamera is really neat, he is full of turtle meat, we’ve been eating Gam-er-aaaa… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-concert/15440.md?page=2)