# Your first "real" concert? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037 "2006-03-19T20:31:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/41 "2006-03-20T02:56:31Z")
I saw Paul McCartney at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, CA in 1989. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/42 "2006-03-20T03:00:02Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > Jethro Tull, 1975. Awesome!!! Very awesome!! Wish I could have seen them then. I have seen them twice, once in the '90s and once a few years ago… My first concert was when I was 18 (wasn’t allowed to do such things… or really much of anything, when I was growing up) and it was Sinéad O’Connor in 1990. Amazing concert. ---
**Author:** ![Adoptamom\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adoptamom\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adoptamom_II)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/43 "2006-03-20T03:03:51Z")
Peter Frampton - 1975ish - LSU Assembly Center. Got a contact high from all the pot smoke 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/44 "2006-03-20T03:12:08Z")
First show without a chaperone was James Brown and the Famous Flames - Altanta Municipal Auditorium, Spring 1967. I was in the 10th grade. We were supposed to be working on the school newspaper that night. It remains one of the best shows I’ve ever seen! My parents took me, my sister, and a neighbor kid to see the New Christy Minstrels at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium in the Fall of 1964. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/45 "2006-03-20T03:12:32Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > **Marlene Dietrich** , Valley Forge Music Fair, November 1973. That is so cool! At the other end of the cool spectrum, we have my first concert - **Hall & Oates** on their _H2O_ tour. The year was 1982. Twas not bad, but then I was easily impressed at the age of 11. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/46 "2006-03-20T03:26:40Z")
Olivia Newton John on her “Physical” tour. I am sooooooooo gay! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/47 "2006-03-20T03:45:09Z")
> [@supervenusfreak](#): > > Olivia Newton John on her “Physical” tour. > > I am sooooooooo gay! 😉 Oh my god, don’t tell your boyfriend how gay you are! 😉 My first ‘real’ concert was **Corey Hart** , Sunglasses at Night tour, 1985. Yes, I was a teenager in small-town Alberta, why do you ask? 🆒 \<- Lookit my sunglasses. It’s night here. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/48 "2006-03-20T03:49:28Z")
On second thought, it may have been The Boy In the Box tour. It was 1985, I know that for sure. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/49 "2006-03-20T04:02:35Z")
First large venue concert: Allman Brothers Band and Chicago at SUNY Stony Brook around 1970. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/50 "2006-03-20T04:04:09Z")
My first concert that I remember is a free Ray Charles concert in Boston in the very late 1960s or very early 1970s, when I was a tiny child. I remember great-sounding music and the backs of peoples’ knees. My parents took us to all kinds of performances throughout our childhoods. But the first concert of “my” music, where I actually obtained tickets on my own volition, was the Police “Synchronicity” tour in 1983, at Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, MA, when I was 16. Flock of Seagulls was one of the opening acts, and I caught the end of their act, but got there too late to see The Fixx. :mad: There was a heavy connection to this still fairly new MTV thing. A screen over the stage played videos in between acts (I only recall “Mexican Radio” by Wall of Voodoo), and Martha Quinn introduced the acts. Mrsandrsn saw Depeche Mode in 1987, followed shortly by Morrisey, with PiL, Sugarcubes and New Order opening, as well as the very first Lollapalooza. ---
**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 20, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/51 "2006-03-20T04:24:50Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > My first ‘real’ concert was **Corey Hart** , Sunglasses at Night tour, 1985. Yes, I was a teenager in small-town Alberta, why do you ask? 🆒 \<- Lookit my sunglasses. It’s night here. I turned 12 in 1985. My aunt took me and my older brother to see Rick Springfield. Corey Hart opened. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/52 "2006-03-20T04:33:12Z")
May 4, 1984 was my first real concert when I saw Van Halen performing on their _1984_ tour. I was 14 at the time. They played to a sold-out crowd at the Boise State University Pavilion. Two weeks later I saw Rush on their _Grace Under Pressure_ tour. Both were great shows. ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/53 "2006-03-20T04:40:42Z")
October of last year, **U2** ’s Vertigo Tour in Pittsburgh (I live in Louisville). I made a weekend of it: leave after class on Friday, drive a few hundred miles, line up at the arena at 2:00 am, watch the show, sleep in my car at a McDonald’s, drive home Sunday, go to class Monday. It was especially great that I just _did_ it. No one knew I was going, except me and TicketMaster. And yeah, the concert kicked ass. My second (and so far, only other) concert was much less eventful: **Coldplay** came to town, I bought a ticket, and that was that. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/54 "2006-03-20T04:43:59Z")
Well, things are fuzzy from that far back, but I think it must have been 1968/69, Joan Baez at some concert hall in LA\* that doesn’t exist any more. She introduced “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” with: > [@](#): > > My momma told me, if you ever have a top 10 hit, you play it every chance you get. (the crowd went wild) \*Los Angeles, California, USA ---
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I’ve only been to two ‘real’ concerts, and both were of bands past their primes. 1989 - The Who reunion “The Kids Are Alright” tour, at Foxboro stadium. 1992 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer “Blackmoon” tour, at Great Woods. ---
**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 20, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/56 "2006-03-20T04:44:45Z")
Good Og, **This Space Left Blank** …between you, **ddgryphon** , and myself, we have too many people who live in Louisville hanging around here. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/57 "2006-03-20T04:44:47Z")
Was a USO show, SE Asia / South Pacific in the early 70’s, a multicultural group about half South Vietnamese half US, playing Hendrix covers, other trippy stuff, even had tie-dyed type visuals projected on a screen in the background like something you see in movies about the 60s/70s. Can’t remember their name though, but was great! Lots of feedback I remember. ---
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> [@Superdude](#): > > Good Og, **This Space Left Blank** …between you, **ddgryphon** , and myself, we have too many people who live in Louisville hanging around here. That should be **This space intentionally blank**. My apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037/59 "2006-03-20T04:57:59Z")
August 19, 1983 – Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Fastway at the Philly Spectrum. Our seats were for shit. We were on the floor, but way, way, _way_ the hell in the back. And to make matters worse, we were directly behind the sound board, so our view of the stage was completely blocked. However, because of this, the crew took our tickets, jotted some new seat numbers on the back, and sent us up to our new seats in the 5th row. 😃 Hmmm…now that I think about it…wait here. \<5 minutes pass in the real world\> Ok, back…[with evidence](http://www.sirblah.com/photo/view.php?album=Misc&pic=Misc015.JPG&picindex=14). 🙂 ---
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My first two were when I was 14 and 16, and I had to haul my dad along. Promise you won’ t laugh? Sonny and Cher and Gordon Lightfoot. I also saw ELO, 'cause my friend’s boyfriend had tics. Saw the Stones in’89, cause we got tics from the neighbour for helping paint their kitchen. Ah, but then come the _GOOD_ stuff… Alice Cooper, Pacific Colliseum, Vancouver BC '77 Alice Cooper, Pacific Colliseum, Vancouver BC '79 Alice Cooper, Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver BC '05 Alce Cooper, Prospera Centre, Chilliwack BC '05 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-real-concert/349037.md?page=4)