First concert? Favorite Concert? (Page 2)

My age-reflective list:

First (at least that I can remember):  The Beach Boys back in 1972 in Mackey Arena at Purdue.

Favorite:  Simon & Garfunkel Old Friends reunion tour concert (with the Everly Brothers) in Tampa in December 2003.

Honorable Mention:

John Denver (musical equvalent of comfort food)

The Canadian Brass (at their peak with Mills & Romm (trumpets), Watts (trombone), Dallenbach (tuba) and Ohanian (horn).)

Neil Diamond (great back-up band).

James Taylor & Carole King

Isaac Stern

America

Jefferson Airplane

Stephen Stills

Mark

my first concert I think was in 1976,Bad Company and Cheap Trick.

Best concert by far, GnR I believe in 90 or 91. We were on the floor maybe 6-8 rows back...dead center!  Axl was on his game and I have never seen so much energy at a concert and I have been to many. 

First concert was Yes in 72, Kitchener Ont.

Best was Roger Waters The Wall in Vancouver last year.

Me too!!

First - I saw Elvis in Vegas in 1975, I was 8 years old.  We were there for a wedding and I got to go.  Zero appreciation for the fat guy on stage.  Sad looking back on it.

Best - toss up between Oingo Boingo's Halloween show 1987 or Berlin in 1984.  Berlin was front row and I kissed Terri Nunn.  I'm 6'4", she's 5 foot nuthin' and smokin' hawt!!! I'm still smitten by her.

First: mom dragged me to Whitney Houston.  I wasn't thrilled.

Fave: Too hard to choose just one:

-Violent Femmes in the 90's, surprisingly good

-Rob Zombie last year, an amazing show if you're into old B horror movies.  Very theatrical.

-Can't beat the experience of killing it in the pit at Ministry.  Yep, I'm a small female but TRY me.

First music I ever purchased with my "own" money (80s). My mom heard it, confiscated it and destroyed it.  Consequently, it was also the second music purchase I ever made with my own money;)

I would have loved to see them in concert.

ETA: Pit at a Cypress Hill concert in DC is probably the most fun and most sacred I have ever been in my life.

First: can't remember. Probably some show at First avenue that I got free tickets for.

Favorite: RATM in 2008 when the RNC was in town.

It was quite the experience and I hope to do it again.  It's a "planned" vacation organized by a travel agency that specializes in "band trips".  The trip I went on included three concerts and a private acoustic show for the tour group in a cozy bar.  They try to do the Ireland tour about once every 18 months, I just need to save up the money again (new bike or Ireland trip, hard choices!).

First time I saw Ministry was with Helmet and Sepultura in '93.  They played in a parking garage and it was basically a giant pit with small pits all over the place as well.

First concert was Kiss in 1981 

Favorite concert was one of the numerous Jimmy Buffett shows that I've been to.  This particular one IIRC was in 2000... 

On Friday afternoon I cut the roof off of an old Mercedes to make it into a pirate ship.  I assembled a mast to mount between the front seats and rigged up the sail.  Later that night we had a party with about 200 people and a local band playing everyone decorated the pirate's ship and we had a rather good time.  Saturday morning we loaded up the pirate ship, complete with one left over keg of beer and headed to the show.  Needless to say we were the life of the parking lot party.

Ahhh... good times. 

AWESOME!

First:  Jimmy Buffett w/ my dad when I was 12.

First on my own:  The Hooters (can't believe someone else mentioned them,) at local college.

Best:  Roger Waters the Wall, last year.

Favorites:  Grateful Dead, Phish, P-Funk, The Who

Wish list:  Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Hot Tuna

1st - Huey Lewis & The News - Hershey Lake Compounce, CT.

Favorite - Jimmy Buffett with my wife.

I don't know you at all, but I like you. I'm not even a Buffet fan, but that is completely awesome.  Strong work.

Hmmmm, as a major concert venue the first concert would have been Iron Maiden opening for Judas Priest in 1983 with the "Number of the Beast" and "Screaming for Vengeance" tour.  Too, too good.

The best/Favorite?  I can't decide, really, since it reflects on sound quality, stage show, theatrics, song selection, etc. etc.  If I HAD to choose the "best" one that I've seen then it would have been Pink Floyd (sans Roger Waters) at Camp Randall in Madison, WI in 1988 for the "Momentary Lapse of Reason" tour.  I can not choose my "favorite" - there's no way.

I saw Zepplin in the Kingdome in Seattle in July 1977 and has to be at or near the top of the list.  I was a sophomore in high school and my mom drove me to Seattle to get tickets when they went on sale.  Bless her.

First was Average White Band in a high school gym in Arizona when I was in about eighth grade.  Went with my big sister.  Hmm, may have been about the first time I got high too.

First real concert? Jethro Tull in 1979 with my older sister and her boyfriend.  I had just turned 16.  Blew me away.

Best concert? U2 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1985 on The Unforgettable Fire tour.  Awesome show.

First:  Doobie Brothers at Saratoga Springs, NY  1978 or 1979

Favs: Hard to say....U2 Zoo TV Tour at JFK Stadium, several Bruce and E Street concerts, CSN (no Y) 1982, Head and the Heart, James Taylor, John Denver (I'll admit it), Avett Brothers, Jimmy Buffett (opened with the line "don't worry...I will spend your money foolishly")