What was the first concert you attended?

[cytyler]

Heart/Journey at state fairgrounds

 

[cwmac]

Barenaked Ladies and Alanis Morissette. You're all jealous. Don't lie.

 

[Cyclone06]

Sevendust, Gravity Kills, and Flaw at Val Air when I was in 8th grade.

 

[mapnerd]

I saw the band Live in Omaha in '95 or '96. The chicks went crazy when they sang Lightning Crashes.

 

[oldman]

Bachman Turner Overdrive, w/ Thin Lizzy (and some other band) in Madison WI, 1975.

 

[jcats322]

This is really hard to admit - MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice at Hilton around '89.:no:

 

[oldman]

Kiss at the Five Seasons Center in Cedar Rapids. I don't remember the exact year but it was the Dynasty tour.

PS - The opening act was a relatively unknown guy named John Cougar (a.k.a. John Mellencamp)

I saw Kiss there in about 1976 or 77. I don't remember the opening act. Was that about when you saw them? They put on one hell of a show.

 

[MNCyGuy]

Sonshine Music Festival in Wilmar, MN. Seems lame in retrospect, but I was able to pass off camping out for three days in a tent with my girlfriend as a church thing.

 

[cybsball20]

Michael Jackson Victory Tour July 1984 at the Gator Bowl. I was five and fell asleep before all the good songs and was mad at my dad for weeks.

 

[MLawrence]

Big and Rich at the state fair.

 

[dtclones]

Kid Rock at the State Fair. I was shocked at how good of a musician he actually is...

 

[ruxCYtable]

I saw Kiss there in about 1976 or 77. I don't remember the opening act. Was that about when you saw them? They put on one hell of a show.

I distinctly remember it was the Dynasty tour and that album came out in '79, so I'm going to say it was '79 or even '80.

PS - According to Wikipedia, The Five opened in January of 1979, so if you saw Kiss there it would have been after that time and was likely the same show I saw.

 

[CycloneSupt6]

Beach Boys at the Mark, 1993

 

[DesertClone1]

All that remains Val Arie Ball Room

 

[Stewo]

Mancow's Lazer Luau at the Ankeny Airfield. July 31, 1999

Megadeth, Fear Factory, Machine Head, Orgy, Static-X, Slipknot, etc.

Effing AWESOME!!

 

[wesley_w]

"Guess Who" in 1969 in Indianapolis.

 

[isucyfan]

"Guess Who" in 1969 in Indianapolis.

Not sure...why don't you tell us?

:wink:

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Crosby Stills and Nash at Hilton in 1977

 

[azepp]

Green Day, Insomniac tour, November 23 1995 @ The Mark.

 

[jsb]

When I was 4, my parents were going to take me to a Barbara Mandrell concert at Cattle Congress in Waterloo. They played that up for weeks and I was so excited, a few days (or weeks) before she was in a major car accident and had to cancel the concert. My little 4 year old self was devastated.

The first concert that I actually attended was probably some country act when I was around 7 or 8, I suppose. I can't really remember. I've been to a lot of concerts.