What was the first concert you ever attended?

Don't know if this has been done. Hopefully not. In my case it was:

Led Zeppelin - Nassau Coliseum - Uniondale, NY - June 14, 1972

The highest priced ticket was $6.50.

My first was
The Chicago Transit Authority and The James Gang
I think the James Gang were the headliners
It was at the Toledo University Field House in 1968

Foghat - Blue Oyster Cult - Black Sabbath, at the Aud in Buffalo, sometime in the late 70's.

Blue Oyster Cult blew the other 2 away.

Black Sabbath is to blame for my tinnitus.

Johnny Cash Royal Albert Hall 1987, I was young. My mum said she'd buy me a harmonica if I'd go, so I was like WTF. I suppose it was better then letting me watch Transformers all day.

Maybe 1965--the Kingsmen ("Louie, Louie") with the Shirelles opening. I am old.

I hate to admit this (as much as I loathe KISS) but it was KISS, Cheap Trick, and New England in '77 at the Pontiac Silverdome.

1976 Queen.
Saw them during their final concert tour with Freddie in 1990.

Maybe 1964--the Kingsmen ("Louie, Louie") with the Shirelles opening. I am old.

Wow, I would have loved to see that - one of my favourite singles of all time!
PS 'old' is cool - how else could I have seen Eric Clapton, playing with the Yardbirds at my first concert (also in 1964)...

Cream's "Farewell Tour" with the Buddy Miles Express, Deep Purple opened. 1968 in San diego. O HECK YEA!

Paul Butterfield Blues Band, 1967, at the local high school football field. I hadn't really heard that kind of music before - wow.

Let's see... McCoys, Standells, and...The Rolling Stones, at the Syracuse War Memorial in 1966.

I think I was in primary school when my folks too me to Barry McGuire.

Dad took me to Kris Kristofferson/Johnny Cash, as well as Garth Brooks in high school.

First pub show I went to when after I turned 18 - The Holmes Brothers - in a tiny dive in Fremantle, W. Australia. Hooked.

The Cowsills in the gymnasium of a Bible college in East Texas. This was the only case of a real band playing a concert in my hometown.

1960 something, Everley Bros / Bo Diddley...Bottom of the bill THE ROLLING STONES they were all studying or had jobs, performing was still a part time occupation. The show was in Liverpool, I also saw Little Richard around the same time.

Those were the days.

Maybe 1965--the Kingsmen ("Louie, Louie") with the Shirelles opening. I am old.

As old as me I guess. :wink:

Zepp in '72 ? Stones in early 60's ? Awesome.

Rush - Power Windows Tour 1985.

My first concert was Alice Cooper. I was ruined for life...:shock:

Beach Boys at RFK Stadium in DC 1983..Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Al Jardine, Brian,Carl & Dennis Wilson. Great experience..girls everywhere in the stadium with Bikinis and Camals..lots of fun for a 16yr old kid :lol:

Grateful Dead / Country Joe and the Fish - Fresno '68

Joe Walsh (with opening act REO Speedwagon) 1973
it went something like this:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-wOmvt8xT0

Hendrix 1970 in Seattle

Hendrix 1970 in Seattle

Whoa nelly!

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Led Zeppelin - Nassau Coliseum - Uniondale, NY - June 14, 1972

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From your sig you are 49, so you went to see LZ when you were 11?

My first was Black Sabbath Brisbane, November 1974. They started in on their first number (can't remember it, big power chords), and all the lights went off. They trooped off stage, light s came back, band came back and started again. Same thing! I remember Ozzie threw the mic stand at the back wall. They didn't do that number, took too much power. That's rock!

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Led Zeppelin - Nassau Coliseum - Uniondale, NY - June 14, 1972

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From your sig you are 49, so you went to see LZ when you were 11?



Yea. Got the tix for my 11th birthday. My dad took me and a bud.

We were all a little taken aback when the guy in front of us pulled out a cigar-sized fatty.

Black Sabbath.
Dec 09 1973 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Odeon.
First night at the start of the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Tour.

The Who at Freedom Palace, KCMO, July 2, 1970. Summer between my junior and senior years of high school. My best friend and I got tickets because a teacher we both liked our junior year was so stoked they were coming to KC he talked about it constantly. In those days there were no videos, virtually no concert movies, etc., so we had no idea what we were in for... :wink:

I think it was Johnny Winter at Capital Center Landover MD......probably 72 or 73......much of the 70's are a bit of a fog!......I'm thinking Brownsville Station was the opening act which would probably put it in 73. They were awful....ended up playing Smokin in the Boys Room twice....I think they didn't have enough material to do their 40 minutes.

I think it was Johnny Winter at Capital Center Landover MD......probably 72 or 73......much of the 70's are a bit of a fog!......I'm thinking Brownsville Station was the opening act which would probably put it in 73. They were awful....ended up playing Smokin in the Boys Room twice....I think they didn't have enough material to do their 40 minutes.

Isn't that the 'Edgar Winter' group :shock:

Aerosmith with Rick Derringer opening, '76, at the New Haven Coliseum.

The first one I remember is Jimi Hendrix,same month that Electric LadyLAND came out,I think the opener was Soft Machine?but damn,live versions of Come on part one,Voodoo Child,not too shabby.

journey. may 10th 1982 at the spectrum in philly. they just started to tear down the spectrum last week. man, i saw alotta shows there.

I'm jealous of a lot of you guys.

Mine was Pantera & White Zombie in '95. I was a senior in high school. My friends had a blast throwing me on top of the crowd.

The literal WALL of 4X12s makes me chuckle when I think back on it.

Living Colour, February 1991, in Providence, Rhode Island. I was in 6th grade.

My Mom finished my French homework for me so I could go.

My Dad took me and two friends, and sat reading by flashlight and wearing the blue earmuffs he wore to mow the lawn while we stood on our seats and screamed.

I still have the T Shirt and the poster I bought.

1967 Oklahoma City Oklahoma Civic Center.

Local band opened called Truth

Vanilla Fudge

Jefferson Airplane

Ticket price $3

It was I believe 1973 and ZZ Top opened for Uriah Heep. Broome County Arena in Binghamton, NY

The old Roosevelt stadium in Jersey city....Leslie West.Johnny Winter....headliner..Alice Cooper.....Winter blew them away..amazing.

I saw Bread at Palmer Auditorium here in Austin.
It was the fall of 70'.
They were good, but the guitar player (Tele) was out of tune.
England Dan (Seals) and John Ford Coley opened up.

My next show (71') was The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
They had a bass player who wore a RCMP uniform.
They were all in tune.
B.W. Stephenson opened up, he was in tune, too.

The Jam at the Michael Sobell Sports Center in Hornsey, London, December 1981...

I was 13 and my life was changed forever.

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Guns 'n' Roses '93...IIRC...:confused:

first concert i went to was eric burdon & the animals 1966

Blue Oyster Cult, Angel, and Be Bop Deluxe. 1976???

Be Bop Deluxe was SO good; made everyone else look ridiculous.

My first concert was Alice Cooper. I was ruined for life...:shock:

Same here - the Billion Dollar Babies tour in '73 (with Flo & Eddie opening). It spoiled me for years - I was always disappointed that other bands didn't have the theatrics.

I grew up in Nashville, so it probably wasn't my first concert. But it was my first rock show, and the first show I went to without my parents. Blue Öyster Cult, 1983 (The Revölution By Night tour, I had to look it up). I don't even remember who opened.

The first concert I ever attended (in a rock concert at a big arena context) was the Beach Boys. The first concert I ever attended without my parents was Cheap Trick on the Dream Police tour. For the latter show, the opening act was this band I had never heard of called The Romantics. They came out onstage decked out in red leather and playing Rickenbacker guitars. They were fantastic.

REO Speedwagon w/ .38 Special, Lansing (Mich) Civic Center, 1980.

First show was a doozy: Scorpions (Lovedrive tour), Blackfoot (Strikes tour) and Terrible Ted the Motor City Madman! 8.18. 1979, I was 12. Me and my 13 year old buddy were dropped off by my parents in the parking lot at Capital Centre in Largo, MD for this general admission(!) show. Whew..for a little suburban wannabe gitar player and beginning burnout, this was an adult dose, ya'll!
A couple of months later, the same buddy's cool-ass Mom took us up to Towson State College, above Baltimore to see Pat Travers Band (Go For What You Know Tour, feat. the killer Pat Thrall) and AC/DC on the Highway to Hell Tour!
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The Lovin Spoonful - 1965/6 great band

Stevie Ray Vaughan in 1986 at Laronde amusement park in Montreal Canada...I was 14.

Thin Lizzy on the Live and Dangerous tour

It was either..........................

The Shadows at Northampton Derngate theatre or Elton John & Eric Clapton (support was Bonnie Raitt) at the old Wembley Stadium. Either way it was probably in 1991/2 at a guess?

'66, Paul Revere & The Raiders. Keith Allison opened. He played the guitar behind his head, between his legs and with his teeth, all this was before Hendrix. Mark Lindsay had a ponytail, 1st guy I'd ever seen with a ponytail. All that aside, they were excellent, great players and great showmen and the girls went insane. This is when I got serious about learning to play guitar.

First 'serious' concert I went to must have been either Joe Jackson or Suzanne Vega, with Michael Hedges as her support act.
That would have been around '86 I think.

Joe Jackson was good as ever.
Suzanne vega sounded like on her records, pretty boring performance, but Michael Hedges opening for her totally blew me away! Real shame he passed away to soon :sad:

He's still a huge inspiration for me on the flattop!

My first show was Rush "Farewell to Kings Tour" '78-'79 ticket cost was $8.00 and special guest was April Wine ... wow, what a show.

Just a short story to go along with it: When we left the show it was 30 minutes back to our home town my buddy I went to the show with had a '72 Cuda 318 (which was a sweet ride) it was fast as hell and we wanted to get to McDonalds before it closed @11:00 (in our hometown) ... we had a 1/2 hour. So were flyin' down this 2 lane highway @ around a 120MPH and come up on this car in front of us and my buddy starts to go around and it's the State Patrol! We were going so fast that we were overrunning the headlights and didn't see the lights in top of the cruiser. In essence he had to pay some crazy fine and got his a$$ beat by his father when he got home. Later, that summer when drag racing some other dude he totaled the car ... loved those 70's!

BTW~ we never made it to McDonalds

mungo jerry,dando shaft and flying fortress newcastle city hall 1971-tickets were 50 pence(i know,we wuz robbed).:neutral:

April 26, 1965, Treasure Island Gardens, London Ontario Canada, Rolling Stones, short show, the police pulled the power in fear of a riot, which they got. Mick promised a make-up show that never happened.
My late friend Rick Wadds (you may know him as "Rick Alexander") opened with his band the Fortune Tellers.

The WHO at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, either 78 or 79....a little foggy :lol: The first tour without Moony unfortunately....wish I coulda seen that lad behind the skins. The opening act was Blackfoot. To this day it has to be the loudest show I've ever seen....

Saw Bruce Springsteen at the Spectrum in Philadelphia on December 8, 1980. Great concert--about 4 hours of raucous joyful noise--followed by dead silence in the car on the ride home with Beatles songs playing in the background on the radio.

Iron Maiden, Edinburgh 1981. It was the Killers tour and Paul Di'Anno was on vocals.

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sorry-off topic-what is wrong with me?

Kansas, 1978 or 79 at The Fabulous Fox Theater in Atlanta, GA.

This isn't THE show that I went to but it's about the same year...It's odd but I don't really remember the other singer with the big hair and beard being there that night...check the video at about 2:59. He looks like he's thinking "Dang, I shouldn't have thrown my tambourine away!" :mrgreen:

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Iron Maiden, Edinburgh 1981. It was the Killers tour and Paul Di'Anno was on vocals.
Great show! I caught the same tour in the US-Maiden opening for Priest!

Early 60s. Probably one of these:

Stones at the Marquee (with Brian)
Yardbirds with Eric at the Marquee
Who at Loyola Ballroom

Rory Gallagher in the Ulster Hall,Belfast in 1972.....ish

Link Wray & The Wraymen in the basement of a church in Annandale, Va.

Summer of 1963

First Concert - The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1966,
Theater seating in the Sheraton Wash, DC., we were dead center front row, I was 13 yrs old and there are images and sounds from the evening still imprinted on my brain 44 yrs later, phenomenal.

Last concert - Tuesday, Michael Buble.
What did you expect 44 years later? He was great too, in a very different way.

Grateful dead with the new riders oy the purple sage opening. Rochester war memorial 73' all I seem to remember is at one point the silver heating and air ducs hanging from the rafters turning into a space station and the ceiling dissolving into stars.

First concert was Peter Frampton in, I think, Louisville around '77.

Smelt like burning hay.

Grateful dead with the new riders oy the purple sage opening. Rochester war memorial 73' all I seem to remember is at one point the silver heating and air ducs hanging from the rafters turning into a space station and the ceiling dissolving into stars.

Beerfish, did they use the "Wall Of Sound"? I'd understand if you don't remember :wink:

I saw them at the Hollywood Bowl in July of '74. It was the last "Wall Of Sound" tour . Oh, and Garcia was clean shaven. Unfortunately, it was only an average show.

My older brother & sister picked my twin bro & I up early from 3rd grade and we went to the old Greenville Memorial Auditorium and saw Three Dog Night with Brownsville Station opening up for them.

In the time of real "general seating", we waited in the lobby until they sprang open those doors and we ran like heck to be the first ones at the stage! We stood with arms on stage for the whole night. What an experience! The Dogs were so tight as a band and lyrically, well,... no need to explain if you don't already know. At the time (1973), TDN was on top of the world.

We were without a doubt the coolest third graders in Greer, SC.

And after that, some 300+ live shows later and the rest is history...

Incubus - 2003 in Richmond. I was heavily into their music, so that's what inspired me to GAS for a PRS and a Mesa amp. Now I'm into Tele's and Dr. Z's. Show's how things change over the years.

1967: Dick Clark's Calvacade of Stars
At a large high school gym!! (Oh the poor acoustics, oh the humanity, oh the Vox Super Beatles and Continentals!!)

Headliner: Paul Revere and the Raiders (fair)

John Fred and His Playboy Band:
(in retrospect, they were good, I was too stupid to appreciate it at the time!)

Sly and the Family Stone
(FANTASTIC!!! they were new on the scene with "Dance to the Music" just out)

BTW: That Kansas clip is good. Never a fan, but good is good!)

Wow, would love to have seen Sly back then!

So talented. Too volatile to last too long? I remember back in the 80s when the artist previously known as Prince was deemed so original and trend-setting.

How soon they forget? Or never knew?

Great thread.

Bruce Springsteen in 84 or 85 at the Oakland Coliseum. I was a freshman in college and tickets were like 15 bucks or so.

Sorry double post.

Started going to The Marquee in Wardour Street when I was at school, probably about 1973 to see bands like Thin Lizzy, Zzebra, A Band Called O, Greenslade.

Led Zeppelin, Rick Derringer, & Judas Priest - 1977, Oakland, CA.

Led Zeppelin, Rick Derringer, & Judas Priest - 1977, Oakland, CA.

The meltdown show?

I was at that one too.

Whew.

My older brother & sister picked my twin bro & I up early from 3rd grade and we went to the old Greenville Memorial Auditorium and saw Three Dog Night with Brownsville Station opening up for them.

In the time of real "general seating", we waited in the lobby until they sprang open those doors and we ran like heck to be the first ones at the stage! We stood with arms on stage for the whole night. What an experience! The Dogs were so tight as a band and lyrically, well,... no need to explain if you don't already know. At the time (1973), TDN was on top of the world.

We were without a doubt the coolest third graders in Greer, SC.

And after that, some 300+ live shows later and the rest is history...

I was there also, remember this?
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A young lady asked me to a concert when I was 16, late 70's, how could I refuse to see Billy Joel. Not Led Zep or The Who, but he was at his prime and had a lot of big hits then and really, really put on a show. He had all the band money could buy and they were good. Probably one of the best concerts I have been to.

A young lady asked me to a concert when I was 16, late 70's, how could I refuse to see Billy Joel. Not Led Zep or The Who, but he was at his prime and had a lot of big hits then and really, really put on a show. He had all the band money could buy and they were good. Probably one of the best concerts I have been to.

I saw Billy Joel from the front row on the Nylon Curtain tour. He and his band sounded awesome.

Anyway my first concert was the Beach Boys.

Soul Singer Roger Collins opened, followed by The Mojo Men, Harpers Bizzare, The Turtles and the headliners, Paul Rever & The Raiders. Oakland Collisium, Feb. 1967.

A few months later, I saw Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis at the local college. There was a major musical shift for me that year. Saw The Byrds at Winterland in SF, and spent New Years Eve '67/'68 again at Winterland with Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Freedom Highway. What a night that was! My fifteenth birthday.

Micheal Jackson Thriller tour I was super young like 3 or 4 and have a few memories of the Zombies dancin on the stage. I was lucky though my parents and older sister took me to a bunch of shows growin up like the Stones in the mid 80s, Elton John and Billy Joel in the early 90's. Then I was ruined for life when my sis took me on Dead tour in the early 90's. I was only like 11-12...

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends" - 1973 (I think). $11.00 (I think). Memphis, TN. (I'm sure).

I lost a lot of brain cells that night but I'll never forget it.


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Paul McCartney, 2005. Went with my sister. I was the older of the two, at 15....!

The "Monsters of Rock" tour in 1988 at the Hoosierdome. Van Halen, the Scorpions, Dokken, Metallica and someone else. I was 16

The Byrds, 1965, LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park, just outside of Mason, Ohio. I went with my best friend at the time... I was 14 and he was 15. His mom drove us up and dropped us off, then came back and picked us up a few hours later.

First one was Paul Revere and the Raiders at the Salem, OR armory. I think I broke protocol and started dancing...First time for that, too. 1966
Next was Grateful Dead at Oregon State University..1967. Both were Free!!

Outside the fence at the fairground in Merced, CA in 67, Janice Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company. We didn't have tickets so we gathered at one of the fences and could hear and barely see anything near the stage, and there were hundreds of people out there with us. Probably was sold out,, I don't remember much. She threw a southern Comfort bottle into the audience and hit a girl in the head.

71, at I believe Your Fathers Mustache in NYC, Jethro Tull. Nightclub, not concert.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band a couple times at NWMSU in the 70's, Coach305 might have been there too... Jackson Brown was with them one of the times.

Sex Pistols-Randy's Ballroom, San Antonio,TX

My first live music shows were a few operas directed by my uncle, but the first rock & roll show I saw was a surfing/car show/rock & roll concert at the Melbourne Civic Center (I believe this was the venue) in about 1965. It had all the big surf bands at the time, and many local Florida bands like the Tropics, as well as the Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels who absolutely blew me away! Mitch Ryder was the most dynamic performer I ever saw live. He had tons of energy and a powerful voice that I already was familiar with from the radio.

Brooks & Dunn 2002 in Raleigh NC.
Keith Urban opened, followed by Montgomery gentry, Toby Keith and then Kix and Ronnie. and Cletus T Judd did the in between stuff.

First one was Paul Revere and the Raiders at the Salem, OR armory. I think I broke protocol and started dancing...First time for that, too. 1966
Next was Grateful Dead at Oregon State University..1967. Both were Free!!

When I was in high school I went to lots of shows at the Salem Armory Auditorium, but my first time was in 1968!

Mid 60's. Six groups but I only remember three: Beach boys, Left Bank and The Turtles. Maybe Question Mark and the Mysterions.

Monterey POP Festival, 67'

Jimi Hendrix Experience
Janis Joplin w/ Big Brother
The Chambers Brothers
The Soft Machine

8/68
The Singer Bowl - Flushing Meadow,NY

Status Quo - Just Doin' It Tour - Belfast, Northern Ireland. 2006/7 I think. What a night !

ha, Huey Lewis and the News when I was 10. (1985). Opener - Duane Eddy. Twangin'!

Chicago in 77 in Columbia Maryland. I was 14 and Blown away.....

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, in Calgary Alberta in 1982.

1967 Oklahoma City Oklahoma Civic Center.

Local band opened called Truth

Vanilla Fudge

Jefferson Airplane

Ticket price $3

Mine was in the same venue 12 years later. I saw The Cars in 1979 at the Civic Center. A friend's mom heard the tickets go on sale, stopped by and happened to get some. The venue was so small that the tix sold out in 30 minutes. It was an awesome concert because there were no bad seats in the Civic Center. Unfortunately, if it doesn't have 20k seats, bands don't want to play there anymore. :sad:

Allman Brothers Band, Trenton (New Jersey) Speedway, October 1973...what an awakening
there were riots, hells angels riding around the race track, people on the roof of the wooden grandstand throwing bottles. Riot cops went up there and there was a huge fight on the roof. People climbing a 40 foot fence and having liquor bottles thrown at them when the show was stopped due to them being up there...

Ah, the memories....LONG LIVE ROCK

Rolling Stones....Altamont......no wait...that was just a flash back he he.....no seriously.....Kiss 1978/1979 ish....Ace is the reason I play guitar today.

When I was in high school I went to lots of shows at the Salem Armory Auditorium, but my first time was in 1968!


I saw Alanis Morrisette in the Salem Armory back in 95. Very cool little venue and more sane than going to the Rose Garden Arena in PDX. I lived in Springfield/Eugene at the time.

The Go-Go's Vacation Tour, Pine Knob, outside Detroit, spring 1982.

Yeah. I know...

Jethro Tull, Madison Square Garden, 1977. Still have the WPLJ button they gave away as the concerts host radio station. Sat in blue seats, smokers paradise.

Fats Domino 1958. Some large venue in the Tacoma, area - don't remember exactly where. I was just a kid then, but totally into music.

KISS at St. Paul Civic Center 1986.
I brought my son to see Los Lobos at the MN Zoo when he was 4.
He's 9 now and has seen Los Lobos 3 more times, KISS and Rush.

Summer 1970, D.C. Stadium. Allman Brothers. Followed by Crow. Then the headliner: Grand Funk Railroad. Kill me now. :oops:

Jefferson Airplane - 1967 Unicorn Coffee House, Boston MA. I saw them twice the same week there. Surrealistic Pillow had just been released.

1973,the Grateful Dead at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City NJ,I was 14.

Cream 1968 farewell tour in Detroit's own Olympia. Tickets were $3.50. Friends and Lovers was the opening act. I was wearing a gold nehru jacket. What a dweeb.

Great thread, makes me feel not quite so old :wink:

My first big concert was the Clash in Milwaukee in the early 80's; unfortunately the sound was horrible and it was shortly after Mick Jones was kicked out so it could have been better. The funny thing was that Frank Sinatra was playing next door at the same time so the parking lot scene was pretty funny.

To be honest, my first official concert was not the Aerosmith show my older brother took me to at the Spectrum in the early 90s, that's what I usually tell people.

My actual first was an Elton John concert at the Cap Center in Maryland with my older female cousin. I was about 13 or 14, she was about 19 or 20, and I was visiting her family in Arlington, VA. Turns out she had plans, and an extra ticket, to see Elton John with a group of her friends, who were all big fans...I wasn't a fan, so I certainly wasn't looking forward to it, until I saw her group of friends, one in particular.

Obviously, none of these college girls had the slightest interest in me, nor should they, but I was on my 'coolest' behavior, ("I play guitar, ever hear of Stevie Ray Vaughn") and doing the math in my head all night..."when I'm 18, she'll be 24, hopefully she's not married by then and I'll have a shot". Though I vowed to, I never saw her again, but she was hot.

As far as the concert, it was good I guess.

Elvis Presley, 1973. To this day best show I ever saw, and to this day never saw girls go bat crazy like that. Couldn't even hear the band when he sang "hunka hunka burnin love." The chicks were screaming like their toes were burning.
Anyone who disputes that Elvis was the King never saw him.

Kansas, in Billy Greer's backyard: Surgoinsville, TN on the High School football field. It seemed like they tripled their population that night and when Kansas went on, it was magical...what a sound! It was probably in about 1992.

Cream 1968 farewell tour in Detroit's own Olympia. Tickets were $3.50. Friends and Lovers was the opening act. I was wearing a gold nehru jacket. What a dweeb.


Wow...haven't seen that term used since....?

Iron Butterfly....69ish?

Jefferson Airplane, John Mayall, Lighthouse at the Phila. Spectrum '69 or '70.

Kiss at the Omni in Atlanta, 1977. It was the "Love Gun" tour. I went with a bunch of friends (we were all 12) and one of their moms. We were sitting way up high, and everybody around us was smoking pot. The guy behind me offered me a hit and I said "No thank you" very politely.

Pat Travers Band, Calderone Concert Hall ,Long Island, my Ears rang for 3 Days

Fats Domino... some twentytwo years ago at the age of eleven - I still remember him pushing his grand all across the stage with his enormous belly :mrgreen:

Kiss Alive tour, 75 or 76, Charlotte NC, the old horrible-sounding coliseum

Was on crutches, had to be carried inside. Outside on the street, there were all these cop cars with lights flashing, no one at the time knew what was going on. Found out later, some poor loaded teenager walked into traffic, got hit, and got killed.

Simmons and Stanley were apparently moved by the event to an extent, and wrote a song about it, which became Detroit Rock City... I guess charlotte rock city didnt have the same appeal

Young Rascals, Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, PA around 1967. The following year was Iron Butterfly!!

Status Quo, Blackpool Opera House, Dec 1984.
A Green & White Telecaster fest.

Monkees.
1986.
Reunion Tour.
Garden State Arts Center.
NJ.

1972 Dallas Memorial Auditorium
Buddy Miles - opening act
Deep Purple - headliner

Foghat at the Paramount in Seattle - 1973-ish.

RATT @ Irvine Meadows (09-14-91).

Technically, the first "concert" was Black Sabbath - 1982 w/ Dio on vocals

A few years prior, my uncle took me to see the original Beatlemania on Broadway, so that seemed a lot like a "concert" to the 11 year old that I was.

Both of these early experiences caused me to immediately become hooked on live music.

1968 - The Association. They were backed up by this strange band from England who played about 3 songs and busted up their equipment, their guitar player jumped up in the air alot and the drummer was really crazy....what was their name....the What... the Where...something like that.

Janis Joplin with Big Brother & Holding Company at a "FREAK OUT" in Irvine California. My older sister and her bf took me along and sneaked me in. Psychedelic,Baby!
Seriously though, even though I was too much of a kid to really appreciate her, I remember being astounded.

Eagles 2nd last tour of Aus saw the first one too but 2nd wasn't the same without Felder.

Great!!!! but not as great!

The Association 1965

I tend to think it was a concert at Elkhart,Indiana's Northside Gym. Garry Lewis and the Playboys(This diamond ring doesn't shine for me anymore) with The Buckinghams, with my mom and some family. My first "concert" was Jimmy Buffett with a slightly older female friend next door, I was about 18. I have seen my dad play music, even in night clubs, since I was about 13. I remember sitting up on the railing by the soundboard in a bar in West Virginia while my dad played on stage. The drinks the waitresses gave me were called "racecar drivers",non alchoholic "screwdrivers".

One of my first concerts as an engineer stepping up from the club scene to the outdoor summer festivals was around 96' or 97' running monitors for The Buckinghams.

The Beatles 1964, Maple Leaf Gardens. I was 12 years old.

Elvis Presley, Garrett Coliseum, Mont. AL, 74.
The girls went absolutely beserk when he lit into "Burnin Love"

Heart. 1985? Madison, WI. Don't remember much other than a friend and I trying to get closer to the stage and Nancy Wilson.

David Gilmour on his "About Face" tour, Cal Expo, Sacramento CA, 1984. Will never forget that!

The Byrds right after they released the Fifth Dimension album in 1966, the summer before I started high school.

First: Paul Revere and the Raiders
Second: The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The MOST: Todd Rundgren (over 50 times since 1974)

My first big concert was Black Oak Arkansas. Anyone remember them? So big at one time now almost not even a memory.

Genesis. We Can't Dance Tour. I was young, ok ??? :oops:

Emerson, Lake and Palmer - 1971 - Yale Bowl in CT
I was young too - not so much anymore.

My pops took me to see Neil Young and Soundgarden when they toured together...had to be '93, I think? I remember the crowd, it was totally the "40-something dad takes his early teenage son to the concert tour."

Coolest thing was my dad and I were borrowing each others CD's the next day.

In my defense, I didn't chose Genesis, my mom's friend's husband had two tickets and she didn't want to go. I was 15. It wasn't bad at all. I remember the drum solo.

My first was The Police in 1980 I think, I cant even remember where it was but a friend had tickets, i dont think I even knew who they were at the time :)

The Who - Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - October 21, 1976.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 1984 at Newcastle City Hall - i was 12 and one of my mum's friends took me. The sexy female dancers have stayed with me until this day. Obviously i have no idea / point of reference about the quality of the gig.

Santana opened for Clapton at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center...1975?

Heart
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Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Queen

Elland Rd, Leeds 1982

Kansas at the Fabulous Fox in Atlanta in about 1977 or 1978...(unless you count Marty Robbins with my parents when I was about 8 !! I barely remember it. I must have been bored)

Drove up to Montreal for Osheaga Festival 2009. Went to see Arctic Monkeys and Arkells. Have been to about 15 since, live music is a great experience that I hope my ears can handle for a while longer

Rush...back in the early eighties.

Garth Brooks, 1992, Charleston Civic Center, West Virginia. I was in the third grade.

It is probably the best concert I have ever seen. That man was an entertainer.

In my defense, I didn't chose Genesis, my mom's friend's husband had two tickets and she didn't want to go. I was 15. It wasn't bad at all. I remember the drum solo.

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Yes, Peter Frampton, Gary Wright, and Pousette Dart Band, at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia 1976. 100,000 people. Pretty much the zenith of Yes, Frampton, and Wright, all at the same time same stage. Not a bad way to start off.

steppenwolf 1970

Guns N Roses, Skid Row June 29th, 1991 Rupp Arena Lexington Ky. I was so into both of those bands at the time too. I was 13. The Use Your Illusion albums weren't even out yet, but Skid Row "Slave to the Grind" was the #1 album at the time. It really was a great show. Guns were amazing. Changed everything for me.

Rolling Stones.
64/65?
Had seats 3rd row center. $11.00 a ticket
About 3,000 people there.
They played 35 minutes.
Most of their songs back then were 2 minutes, 2 minutes 30 seconds long.
Took my high school sweet heart.
Took the bus.
Those were the days. Young and innocent.

Chicago at Montclair State College, Fall 1969

Jethro Tull I think- Cumberland Country Civic Center, Portland, ME. I was in Middle School so it must have been around '90 or '91. My dad took me. About the only detail that I can recall is that the drummer's kit was set up to the side of the band, rather than behind and in the center like you normally see.

Queen, Steve Hillage, Kiki Dee, Supercharge - Hyde Park, London 1976. Free gig. I was a mere schoolchild at the time.

Elton John - Madison Square Garden - 1976 - at his peak:!:

One of the first was about 1971/72 in the student cafeteria on the Indiana-Purdue Regional Campus at Fort Wayne (I’d guess a “student body” of about 1,000?) with the tables and chairs pushed back out of the way. It was free to any student with an activity card to come hear Genesis playing their two most recent albums “Nursery Crimes” and “Foxtrot.” (Ah, Peter Gabriel in costume for “Supper’s Ready!”) The small crowd of probably +200 folks, myself included, thought it was one of those “lifetime” memories. They came back and played “Lamb Lies Down” at the local Army Reserve Armory the next year or so.

Other early concerts: CTA and Three-Dog Night at the Ft. Wayne Memorial Coliseum, the Eagles opening for Yes’ “Close to the Edge” tour at the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago, Carlos Santana opening for Frank Zappa on Mother’s Day in Detroit, Return to Forever in a small old movie theater (the Embassy) in the Fort.

Orange Colored Sky opening for Burt Bacharach at the Dane County Coliseum, must've been 1970. (had to look up Orange Colored Sky the band to figure it out).

My father was a materials buyer for his company, and back then, there were a lot of perks to that. So one of the sellers took our family out to a fairly posh dinner and the concert.

Oddly, my mother preferred Orange Colored Sky to Burt. Odd, given that her musical tastes ran to Pietro Dero and Rafael Mendez.

Dickey Betts and Great Southern
J. Geils Band
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Peter Frampton

Geils and Skynyrd rocked. Half the crowd left before Frampton came on!

June 11, 1977
J.F.K. Stadium in Philadelphia

Found this. I sure wish I still had that t-shirt!

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-PETER-FRAMPTON-LYNYRD-SKYNYRD-TOUR-SHIRT-1977-S-/350440758441

Apparently the show started at High Noon!

Kansas, 1978 or 79 at The Fabulous Fox Theater in Atlanta, GA.

This isn't THE show that I went to but it's about the same year...It's odd but I don't really remember the other singer with the big hair and beard being there that night...check the video at about 2:59. He looks like he's thinking "Dang, I shouldn't have thrown my tambourine away!" :mrgreen:

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That is violinist Robbie Steinhardt, an original member and first rock violinist I ever saw. This was my favorite band through high school. Must have seen them live 5 or 6.

The Beach Boys, CNE Toronto, 1973. Just for fun.

Rush - 1980 - first ever concert at the newly opened Joe Lewis arena.
Max Webster opened...
got searched for drugs at the border coming in from canada...i had a bit of weed in my shoe they never found...i was 15
i smartened up and switched to roots music & beer...

First concert that I ever attended was Gary Wright ("Dreamweaver") opened for The Edgar Winter Band ("Frankenstein") who opened for The J. Geils Band ("Bloodshot"). That led to a few other concerts...I compiled this list on another website awhile back...

J.Geils Band/Edgar Winter/Gary Wright
Yes [x2]
Beck, Bogart and Appice
David Bowie [x5]
Mott the Hoople/Aerosmith [x2]/Queen [x2]
Jethro Tull/Brewer and Shipley
Savoy Brown
Moody Blues
Uriah Heep
Ten Years After
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Alice Cooper [x3]
Devo
Gary Neuman
Led Zeppelin [x3]
Pink Floyd [x4]
The Clash
The Rolling Stones [x4]/Foreigner
The Kinks
The Strawbs
Grand Funk Railroad
Peter Frampton
Wishbone Ash
Electric Light Orchestra
Firefall
Jefferson Starship
AC/DC
10CC
Be Bop Deluxe
The Steve Miller Band
Steve Winwood
The Pretenders
Little River Band
Dave Mason
Heart
The Go Go's
The Tubes
Robert Palmer
Steeleye Span
The Doobie Brothers
Mountain
Bachman, Turner Overdrive
Ted Nugent
REO Speedwagon
Bob Segar
ZZ Top/Foghat
Marshal Tucker Band
Blue Oyster Cult
Robin Trower/Rush/Golden Earring
Rod Stewart
Paul McCartney and Wings
Sting [x3]/Chris Botti/Annie Lennox
Eric Clapton [x2]/Robert Randolph and the Family Band
Nazareth
Boston
Roxy Music
Live-Aid [Philadelphia] - can't remember all of the bands...
Bryan Ferry [x2]
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Santana [x4]/Rusted Root
The Cure [x3]
U2 [x6]/DJ Shadow/Primus/PJ Harvey/Stereophonics/Muse
Phil Collins
Rory Gallagher
Johnny Winter
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Journey/Van Halen/Montrose
Fleetwood Mac
Lou Reed [x2]
INXS
Nine Inch Nails/A Perfect Circle
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Neil Young/Sonic Youth
Robert Plant [x2]/Stevie Ray Vaughn/Soundtrack Of Our Lives
James Taylor
B-52's
Dire Straits
Thompson Twins
The Fixx
Peter Gabriel
Joe Jackson
Little Feat
Kiss
Al Stewart
The Cars
Donna The Buffalo [X2]/Carolina Chocolate Drops
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
Massive Attack
The Blue Man Group
Loreena McKennitt
Arcade Fire
Roger Waters - "Dark Side Of The Moon"
The Police
R.E.M./Modest Mouse/The National
Van Morrison
Radiohead
David Byrne [X2]/DeVotchKa
Buckwheat Zydeco
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
The Dave Matthews Band/Martin Sexton
Laurie Anderson
Roger Waters - "The Wall"
Iron & Wine/The Low Anthem (4/20/11)
Neil Young/Bert Jansch (this coming Saturday - 4/30/11)
Ryan Bingham (June 10, 2011)
U2 (July 14, 2011)

There are others, but that's all that I can think of right now...whew

Rare Earth, forgot who the openers were. At the JFK Coliseum in Manchester, NH. 1971 or '72.

Not quite so cool.. My first concert was a Cliff Richard religious song special that I got dragged along to as a kid and which was every bit as much fun as it sounds. The second - Dr Feelgood (supported by Squeeze I think) - was better.

Rush. Capitol Center, D.C. Presto tour. like 1989-ish.

My sister took me. Afterwards, she took me to a bar in Fells Point, where I sat next to the bouncer on a stool and drank cokes. I was 12.

Skyhooks and Ol' 55. Hordern Pavillion, Sydney. 8th August 1976.

GnFnR, 1991...8th grade. Axl was almost 2 hours late.

Sepultura, 1992. I really wanted to be a drummer like Igor. Now I'm a tele player :mrgreen:

1980...Scorpions-Pat Travers Band-headliner>Ted NUGENT.

I don't remember the exact year, but it was Buck Owens and the Buckaroos in the early 60's. Their promo picture at the time was the cover of the "I Don't Care" album. I still have that picture with all their signatures.

First one I can actually remember was Rush Moving Pictures at Anaheim Convention Center in 81. Also saw a lot of bands at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino in the late 70s, bands I didn't like so much like 38 Special & REO Speedwagon.

Van Halen 1981 Fair Warning tour in Dallas, TX.


OK, I did see Captain & Tennelle in Ft. Worth in '77. Went with my mom and one of her friends. I'm still trying to block that out.

Joe bonnamassa black rock tour. The cheap seats were like$ 50

John Denver, 1979. It is by far my favorite concert.

FIRST: Paul Revere & The Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay

SECOND: Jimi Hendrix Experience

jethro tull- under wraps tour i think, maple leaf gardens. kinda vague on the date, but i was in grade 9. bought a tshirt there with the broadsword and the beast album cover on it and wore it until it fell apart lol.

1969, I saw Led Zeppelin in the old Electric Theatre in Chicago.

$5 to get in, medium sized club, the opening acts were REO Speedwagon and Jethro Tull.

Not only my first concert, but in retrospect probably the best one I ever attended.

I was 15. On December 30, 1965 at the Oakland Auditorium got to see The Beachboys, The Turtles, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, Jackie Lee, The T-Bones. Great concert.

Bruce, Philadelphia Spectrum, Tunnel of Love tour

Oakland Colliseum, Elton John, Bennie & the Jets 1975 or 1976.
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Charlie Daniels - Devil Went Down To Georgia
Anchorage Alaska

It was August of 1991 in Dallas, Texas. I paid approximately $25 to see Van Halen at Reunion Arena. The opening act was a band named Baby Animals. I still remember the bottle of Kentucky Deluxe that I had smuggled in the show!

it was 1979. Embarassingly, it was the Eagles, the opener was Christopher Cross

Al Jolson, 1936

Rush.

Moving Pictures tour.

Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY.

Don't remember the year, but it was the early 1980s.

(Scrolling up I see that Doorlord saw the Moving Pictures tour in 1981, so that must have been the year.)

Allman Brothers mid Feb. 1971, a week or so before the Fillmore East recordings.

Bob Dylan @ Santa Monica Civic in, when, late '65? (post "Like a Rolling Stone")

Iron Maiden -Powerslave Tour

Suicidal tendencies and infectious gooves in 92 at the bakersfield civic center haha

Peter Paul and Mary, '60

Starship. I really wanted to hear White Rabbit live. It wasn't the same as the original (obviously) but it was still cool.

I am seriously embarrassed to say:

Loverboy and Quarterflash at the Sioux City (Iowa) Auditorium, summer 1981.

Neil Diamond (long before he tried to be Elvis) in 1967 at Woodbridge High School in Woodbridge, NJ. Great show, but isn't everybody's first ever concert that way?

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BB King in 1967. I was 12 and I got his autograph.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "Welcome Back My Friends...", 1973, Memphis Tennesee.



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Black Sabbath at Madison Square, NYC....1977 (many empty seats)

The Beatles 1964, Maple Leaf Gardens. I was 12 years old.

I envy you!

Paul Butterfield Band - 1966 - Paul's Mall, Boston
(included Mike Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop & Mark Naftalin)

Roy Clark - Early Seventies

Cheap Trick '79

Beach boys in Hawaii 1974
First time I smelt weed too
I was 12

Ian Dury and the Blockheads - 12 years old in 1977 at the Glasgow Apollo. God rest both their souls (Dury and the Apollo).

Stiff Little Fingers 79 (?) in Newport (Wales) credibility slightly ruined by being picked up by my Mum afterwards!

My first - uh, let's see, there have been so many...Oh yeah, it was The Band at Lowell Tech in MA in 1970...

B.B. King in 1970 at the Houston Coliseum.

My first "real" concert that wasn't a local band was The Yardbirds when I was seventeen. It was last year.

The Cars Candy O tour in Springfield, MA. I was 11 years old in the spring of 79 and won tickets from WAQY 102 by bringing a picture of my grandmother sitting in a car to a local record store.:lol: One of my older sister's guy friends took me to the show and I was blown away by how big everything sounded.

1967 - Forest Hills Tennis Stadium - Queens - NY

My brother and I took my two little sisters to see the Monkees. Good show.
Oh yeah, Jimi Hendrix opened for them. Truly memorable. My sisters were crying when he lit his guitar on fire.

October 7th, 1985, I was 16. Saw Dire Straits in Portland, Maine at the Cumberland County Civic Center.

The Jesus and Mary Chain, in 1986 (I think) in Porto, Portugal.

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The Jesus and Mary Chain, in 1986 (I think) in Porto, Portugal.

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I love the Jesus and Mary Chain! I saw them in 1993ish at the University of Southern California with Mazzy Star. They never got the airplay they deserved. "Honey's Dead" is a great album.

Edgar Winter Group...1973 or so...Frankenstein era. At the Twin City Roller Rink in Elizabeth, NJ. GA and SRO, no seats.
Opening act was Montrose....Yeah!!!!

Quiet Riot...1983 at the Salt Palace! WooHoo...

AC / DC Razors edge tour 1991

Blew my 12 year old mind.

Doobie Brothers 1977 St. Paul Civic Center, MN. $6.50 general admission of what was called festival seating.

Led Zep Auckland New Zealand. I believe it was also 72 or there a bouts. Paid $4.75 to change my life BARGAIN!!

Nickelback :) great show

The Firm, with "special guest" Virginia Wolfe (with jason bonham on drums)

Philadelphia Spectrum...85 or 86?

Three Dog Night w/ Brownsville Station opening at the Memorial Auditorium in Greenville, SC in 1973.

Front row, gotta love General Admission!

Iron Maiden - The Beast on the Road tour - 1983
£3.50 for the ticket!

David Cassidy...with my mom and my 11 y.o big sister (she was a fan)
Two years later (1974) "The Sweet" (I was the fan)

A band called "Chalice" at a High School in NC.

First big concert was "AC/DC" with "The Answer" opening in 2008.

Roy buchanan on the bill with Roy Woods Wizard would you believe.
Sundown. Edmonton, North London must have been 1972.
Fantastic player. I cannot imagine why it took me 40 years to buy my first Telecaster.
Forgive me.

KISS concert late November 1976 in Charlotte NC. It was their first stop of their "Rock And Roll Over" tour. Ticket price was $6.75.

I'm 15 now and I skipped school just to fly and watch Slash Live in Hong Kong on July 2010. Front Row! Unforgettable for me!

Dire Straits, December 1985 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London. Eric Clapton and Hank Marvin performed a couple of songs with them which was a bonus.

I went with my parents to see the WLS barn dance when I was 4. Red Foley was the headliner.

Boy George!!
...in the 80s in Austria with my sister, I was something about 7 yrs old!
Dude, that creepy woman scared the ****** out of me!!(...and she still do!) ;D

After being trapped on Guam, Father was in the military, until I was 16 I saw Neil Diamond in concert with my parents. Was an Excellent show.

First concert I bought tickets for was Van Halen's 1984 Concert. Still the loudest concert I remember.

Saw Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Merriweather in 95. I was ten years old, it was pretty amazing...

September 8, 1964 Beatles Montreal Forum.

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1981 saw ac/dc I was 16 at the time,great show

The Jam at the Michael Sobell Sports Center in Hornsey, London, December 1981...

I was 13 and my life was changed forever.

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Lucky son of a gun! :grin:

I've seen some incredible ones (Hendrix, Buffalo Springfield, Steppenwolf) but I can't even remember what was the First concert I went to. I was seated in concert halls watching symphonic music and god knows what all else at age 8 and concerts of all sorts just started happening and gradually evolved. Bands playing in open air venues, State Fairs, local taverns were we slipped in the back door.

I guess the Beach Boys/Buffalo Springfield/Soul Survivors was the first big one I attended with no adult supervision at all. $ 3.00?

I saw the Byrds one time with Clarence White and swear I was sober and yet I remember almost nothing. Sucks. I remember Roger, and the bandstand faced South in the old hockey facility. Everybody else's hair was dark I guess.
Man, I hate this not remembering.

Rolling Stones 1969, Chuck Berry opened.

Great show! I caught the same tour in the US-Maiden opening for Priest!

My first concert must have been the same tour:

Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Whitesnake (before they went 'pop')

It was in a 2,000 seat theater (Rochester, NY Auditorium theater). Very cool. We were in the blacony and it felt like 100 degrees. We took our shirts off! Not to look cool but to feel cool.

The Allman Brothers at the Warehouse in 1970. My brother took me. I couldn't see the band but it sounded great.

The Box Tops at the annual Car show in Atlanta in 1965.

marty stuart and the fabulous superlatives at gruene hall 4.16.11 and i got to tape the whole show. those boys know how to play i tell you what

My first concert was Willie Nelson - I was in 8th grade. I went with a friend and his uncle - his uncle was probably in 11th grade.

A couple years later was my first "rock" concert - Judas Priest - think it was their "Screaming for Vengeance" tour.

Dickie Betts & Great Southern 1976 West Orang New Jersey.

Clapton in '82 in Mannheim, Germany. It was so so, me big fan but a lacklustre performance - was probably withrrawing at the time. EC, not me, i hasten to add :-D

'97 page and plant with the drummer of sound garden and a son of a bass player.

one of my favourite concerts still today!