Mine was Randy Travis. So lame! I remember 2stepping on the floor of the colliseum in my home town during his concert. He stood perfectly still on stage. The only thing that moved the entire time was his hands picking the guitar and his mouth while he was singing. Other than that, he could've been a wax figure. Booooring! My daughters 1st concert was 50cent. Her daddy took and in a limo and they had a great time. What was your 1st concert experience?
NKOTB baby !! LOL shameful ;-) 6th grade !
2nd concert Aerosmith ! 8th grade AWESOME
I gotta say there Is something Yummy about 50cent ;-)
Sugar Ray came to my college and I got tickets for $10. Used to have a huge crush on Mark McGrath! Ha ha! (Oh and he walked the crowd and I touched his arm, thought that was so cool at the time)
New Kids on the Block!
My parents took me, my sister and my brother! Looking back I feel terrible that my father had to sit through that, he's more of an oldies kind of guy! LOL
Vanilla Ice.
Bwahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the warped tour with a bunch of bands, i went to see less than jake mostly
The band "Live"
"Lightning crashes....a new mother cries"
MEMORIES!!
You've probably never even heard of him, but Donovan. That's showing my age.
The Rolling Stones at Brendan Byrne Meadowlands arena- Tina Turner opened for them. FANTASTIC.
I was 14 and my mom made me go with my uncle (ok he was the young hip kind of uncle, really hot for Tina at the time. I BEGGED to go - my argument was the Stones were OLD (this was 1979) and they would NEVER tour again, after all they were OLD. I had no idea who Tina was - it was before her comeback album.
The answers make me miss the smell of summer concerts - beer and pot - nothing else really smells like summer.
Billy Joel! Pretty awesome.
Hootie and the Blowfish when I was 15. It wasn't too bad. After that, it was Tonic, The Foo Fighters, Tori Amos, Slipknot, The Allman Brothers, The Dead, Steve Winwood, Ben Harper, Widespread Panic, Ryan Adams a few times, Phish 15+ times....I could go on and on. Strangely enough, it was Hootie who opened my eyes to the pure magic of live music!
New kids on the block at reunion arena! I just knew jordan was gonna marry me!
Midnight Oil at the West End. I was 14, so all I really remember is that they were awesome, someone peed on my mom's shoe in the crowd, and I sat on my big brother's shoulders so I could see the band really well. :)
Mine was the Monkees back in their late-80's revival days. It was actually a lot of fun. After that it was all hair bands - Bon Jovi, GnR, Poison, Aerosmith, Metallica etc.
Monsters of Rock in Frankfurt in the 80's. Snuck out with some friends-we smelled the stadium (beer and smoke) before we saw it-never saw so many acres of leather and long hair. Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, Flotsom and Jetsom type bands. Before that I only liked Depeche Mode and the Cure type stuff, so it opened my metal eyes :) Soon after were Morrissey, U2 concerts etc. I'm now married to a metal singer. But we both likes all kinds of music.
Elton John, 1978, SPAC, tickets were $6.50.
(And furthermore, a nickel was only 5 bucks, and would last through Santana, Talking Heads, Grateful Dead, and Tom Petty, too! tehehe, I mean that's what I HEARD anyway!)
The Beach Boys at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis my freshman year of college - good times!
Charlie Daniels Band... I was no older than 7 and he was playing at a Country Music Festival in my hometown! It was a blast- we sang along b/c my parents are Southern Rock fans and at that young age we had heard all of his music! Buffet played that concernt too!
New Kids on the block!
I've never been to one.
I'm 44 and I've only been to 3 concerts my whole life! In high school I went with my bff to see Lionel Richie and it was great! In my 20's my mom won tickets to see Liza Minelli...OMG...we got up and left after about 15 minutes! My last concert was with my ex, some all day, multi-artist country singers concert that was good but exhausting since it was all day.
Haha, Backstreet Boys in 6th grade!
1984 - Bruce Springsteen. It was awesome - he had no opening act, played for 3+ hours and had 2 encores.
Radiohead w/ R.E.M. when I was 14. My Dad took my best friend & me, we had such a blast. I remember realizing how cool my Dad was that night! Good memory :)
Weezer at a club called the DV8 here in Seattle.
I was still in Junior High School...So, my dad came with us just to check it out...He stood in line like four or five back from us and then stood in the back the whole time....It was freaking cool of him to not be my dad but be there....My BF and I were deaf for two days afterwards:) Small price to pay for a great show.
Jenny B....I would go see every single one of those bands still to this day! great line up you have!!!
My first concert was Tom T. Hall in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii....I was 5 years old and got to sit on his lap!! YAHOO!!!! Then Don Ho!!!
When I was older?! Heart and Triumph...
My first was Hall and Oates when I was in college. (Boy that tells my age!!)
My daughter's first (she is 16) was this past June at the AA Center in Dallas... Back Street Boys and NKOTB.
I had front row seats for her and her best friend, Allen limo service took them and brought them home. They were on the Jumbotron camera.
Talk about 2 excited girls!!
You know I can't remember! I think the first one I saw was at the fair grounds and it was Neal Mccoy and Martina McBride. The first 'real' concert I went to see was Aerosmith in KC.
N*sync, baby! It was out an outdoor amphitheater and it poured rain the whole time, i will never forget it! And Justin Timberlake was and will always be a total babe.
Tim McGraw at the MN State Fair. The opening act was Mindy McCreedy (sp?) who was dating Dean Cain at the time....so hot (both Dean and Tim!)
Willie Nelson and his first 4th of July Concert.. It was all day! Kris Kristofferson, Nelson, and Waylon Jennings and many more singers.. at Nelson's 4th of July Picnic 1972, it was awesome.
The first one I went to on my own (actually w/ my boyfriend now my husband) we were in 7th grade. It was also an all day outside concert called "Sunday Break" With The festival featured major acts of the time, such as America, Peter Frampton, Santana, and Gary Wright. Awesome.
I went to see Live with Veruca Salt opening. It was fantastic!
Depeche Mode at Astroworld in the 80s. :)
My dad's first concert was Aerosmith. I took my little brother to his first concert (my 2nd) to see Aerosmith in 94. I did a little "tour" with my friends when we were 18 where we went to 5 Aerosmith concerts for the Get A Grip tour, one was front row, center stage and he held my hand and I got his bandana.....and a guitar pick from the opening band (Brother Cane). I took my son (age 2) to Aerosmith a couple years ago. I'm hoping they do another tour so I can bring my youngest (and last) baby to Aerosmith also. (Even if it's far away with earplugs). It's just a little family tradition, lol.
The Cure! 1989, I was 15 and I went with my bff. Her stepdad took us, but left us alone when we got there. It was a huge outdoor venue in Phoenix. There was pot everywhere and people kept offering to share with us. It was WILD!
My first concert was New Kids on the Block - I was in 4th grade and had pink jeans and neon tie-dyed shirt with them. It was so cool. My mom took me and we had a blast. Even more so because it was on a school night!
Saw the Toadies for my 12th birthday in Memphis. It was greatness!
Barry Mannilow and my older sister took me - boy, I'm OLD!
It was my first car date and concert. He took me to see the B52's (1980). That was totally crazy.
Alice Cooper at Jimmy's Warehouse In New Orleans. It was a funky, hot, slightly scummy Warehouse that had the best performers. I think I was 15.
Literally sprayed the crowd down with a firehose.
Ah, those were the days.
It was MC Hammer. LOL I screamed so much I had no voice the next day.
I saw George Strait in Pensacola Florida and he like Randy Travis just stood there. Opps he did walk in 4 stops around the stage.
The summer I turned 14, I saw two concerts - Hall & Oates (Private Eyes tour) and Olivia Newton John (Lets Get Physical tour). I don't remember which show I saw first. This was back in the early 80's. I went with my best friend (at the time) and her parents.
Dan Fogelberg - early 80's solo acoustic tour - just him, an acoustic guitar and a piano. I was standing close enough to the stage to make eye contact. It was absolutely perfect.
Alice Cooper on the "Trash" tour in 1990. I was 18. So fun! Still the best concert I've ever seen!
Chicago, and they were great!!!
Power Station in 1985. They were a post Duran Duran project. It was awful because Robert Palmer (singer) didn't tour with the band. Instead it was Michael Debarge (sp?).
OMD (Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark) was the opening band, though, and they were awesome!
Whitney Houston! Hahaha... Seriously!? Yikes. I haven't thought about that in years! I saw NKOTB as well - very close to the same time frame... At least, I think it was around the same time. Haha.
Beck. 14 years ago. I've seen more than a hundred since!!!! (husband is in a couple bands, but we also see global/national acts still)
Beck was really great!
Van Halen with Sammy Hagar as lead singer.
Awww I love Randy Travis! Wax figure that's funny.
Anyway, my first one I was maybe 12 and we went to see Boyz II Men. My first one where we weren't escorted by a parent? A Styx concert.
Good question, thanks for those memories!
New Kids On the Block, when there were cool!!! Now I have really dated myself....
