Ted Nugent and Night Ranger. Ft Sill polo field. Paid for my $22 ticket with most of a roll of Susan Bs and the big gal in the booth says, “ Honey you short, these is quartas”.
Suicidal Tendencies with A.D.T. (Android Death Troopers) Woodlawn theater. 86? Farm kid exposed to punk rock? Yeah it happens believe it or not. Weird stuff comes out of the country alot more than you would imagine.
Probably a few before this, less memorable; but Rolling Stones and Beach Boys on the same show. Legion Field in Birmingham; 1965.
Back to the same venue 25 years later to see the Stones Steel Wheels tour. My ,at the time girlfriend, had some connections and I tasked her to do what ever it took to get good seats. I did not ask what it took; but we sat on row 2 with 60,000 people behind us. She had skills.
The Kingston Trio, in Martin Tennessee, 1963. Of course, that doesn't count the years in the mid-1950's I spent hanging out backstage at the Ryman Auditorium, watching the Grand Ole Opry from the interesting side of the curtains! Jerry
Who was your first concert you saw without parents.
Black 'n' Blue opened for Night Ranger at the Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon. Good show. It was too loud .. new sound system that completely overwhelmed the space. It was like how thunder sort of rips the air instead of booming when you are too close.
The earliest celebrity I remember seeing was Little Jimmy Dickens at the county fair in the late 60's. After that was a long spell until Waylon Jennings in about 1983. Saw a bunch in the 90's until about 2010, Last one was Dwight Yoakam and Alan Jackson about 4 years ago..
First concert was Black Sabbath in 1974-75. I only went because my best friend was a huge Sabbath fan. It was a good concert. The first one that I went to because I liked the band was The Who at the Pontiac Silverdome. That was a GREAT concert!
Jane's addiction. Nov. 17, 1990. I was 18. Memorial gymnasium UVA, Charlottesville VA. Life altering.
After that, Faith no More, Danzig twice, Sound garden, The Ramones all at the Boathouse in Norfolk VA. The cramps, somewhere in Georgetown VA. Seen Phish and The Dead multiple times, Jimmy buffet in D.C. and in Key West. Eek-a-mouse in a local bar 3 times as well as burning spear and yellow man. Bunch of others.
Never forget my first. Opening band, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, followed by the Jeff Beck Group and the headliner, The Who. What a concert! !968[?] at the Shrine Auditorium L.A. Friggin' great.
Something like 1968. I saw The 5th Dimension at the Minnesota State Fair. The first "real" concert I saw at an arena or stadium was Led Zepplin in 1975.
Fleetwood Mac 1979. I have a brother that is 8 years older. He was a senior in HS and our mom said he could go with his buddies IF he took me. Everybody knew I had a thing for Stevie Nicks, even at 10 yds. old!! He did and it was Awsome and LOUD! I’m sure my bro and his pals did a few things our mother would not have approved of but I was totally oblivious as I couldn’t take my eye off of Stevie!! Oh and Lindsey Buckingham is MEGA talented!
Steppenwolf, 1970 in the El Paso (TX) Civic Center. Not a bad concert, but the bitch I took with me got kicked from the curb to her daddy's front door when I dropped her off. Figuratively speaking, of course. She ruined the whole experience for me.
Early 70”s I walked into a place on the Jacksboro highway in Wichita Falls Texas. It was called Kickapoo Cantigo. There was a damn good band playing some blues. They were called ZZ Top.
Queensryche opening for Metallica during the and justice for all tour. Queensryche was amazing and Metallica put on a good show too. Salt palace SLC maybe 88 or so.
Steppenwolf, 1970 in the El Paso (TX) Civic Center. Not a bad concert, but the bitch I took with me got kicked from the curb to her daddy's front door when I dropped her off. Figuratively speaking, of course. She ruined the whole experience for me.
Yeah, I guess it still pisses me off.
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1st - Jerry Lee Lewis - ENMU, Portales, NM - 1972 2d - Loretta Lynn - front row - Ft Leonard Wood, MO - 1973
A small handful, since.
I forgot - Chrystal Gayle - Palomino Club - ABQ, NM - maybe '73 or '74. She was doing a gig at a nightclub while Loretta Lynn was at the NM State Fair.
Teen dances, the old Cobblestone Ballroom, Bobby Vee, Conway Twitty, Jerry Lee Lewis, good times. berin' young was great.
Once met Bobby Vee over a backyard fence in a retirement community down around Mesa. He was visiting his parents next door, we were visiting Grandma. I helped him clean out some rain gutters and he autographed his greatest hits cd for us.
Super friendly man. I liked him even before I knew who he was.
Suicidal Tendencies with A.D.T. (Android Death Troopers) Woodlawn theater. 86? Farm kid exposed to punk rock? Yeah it happens believe it or not. Weird stuff comes out of the country alot more than you would imagine.
My son is in a metal band and has fans from places liek the deep piney woods of Arkansas.
The Who 1968 Moody Blues Sly and the Family Stone...he was from Oak Cliff Dallas Zeppelin in Dallas, next night in Ft. Worth. Couldn’t hear for days! ZZ Top about ‘71. Seems Rio Grand Mud had just come out Grand Funk Railroad Three Dog Night/Rod Stewart Stevie Ray Vaughn...often. He was from Oak Cliff Dallas.
My best friends father was the GM of Memorial Auditorium in Dallas...all we did was go to concerts it seemed. I graduated HS in 1972 so the touring talent in those years will never again be duplicated. No lip syncing or computer aided vocal aids. All those cats could play.
I guess it was Grand Funk Railroad. Bloodrock usually opened for them when they played in Dallas. The chicks liked to take off their tops for some reason. It was fun.
My first concert was Jackson Browne in '74. Some of my most memorable concerts are: Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Review in Burlington Vt Fall 1975, Grateful Dead Cornell University '77 at Barton Hall, Bruce Springsteen in Giants Stadium, Peter Frampton (where some of his Frampton Comes Alive album was recorded), Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble at his Woodstock NY home studio, Malcolm Holcombe at Bodles Opera House in Chester NY, John Fogerty at Bethel Woods (the site of the original Woodstock). Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young at Bethel Woods.
First concert was the summer of 1968, at Indiana Beach, in Monticello, IN. I got to see the WHO [with Keith Moon], for a whopping expensive ticket that cost me $5.00!
Jefferson Airplane at the Atlanta Civic Center, 1970. As the show went on, during the breaks etc, kids kept yelling out "White Rabbit!!" "Play White Rabbit!!!"
After 45 minutes of this, Grace Slick got on the mike and said, "Shut the F*** Up about White Rabbit!! We will play it if we want to."
Fall of 1973 REO Speedwagon was the headliner. Some guy named Bob Seeger was opening up for them. Didn’t know who he was though. I knew damn well who he was at the end of his show and have been a fan ever since.
