I still remember my very first concert when I was 9. It was a rock concert at the Ohio State fair that my dad had brought me to. Even though I was little, I remember jamming there with my father like I was one of the members of the band. Doing my little air guitar, banging my fingers on people like they were my drums and not being able to get that ringing sound out of my ears for what seemed liked days later.

What was your first concert like? Who did you go see? Any funny stories that you will remember for the rest of your life?

Cheers to all!!!!

Wow! I was pretty old when I went to see my first concert (compared to you anyway!) I was 15 or 16. I went and saw Green Day with my sister (It was '95 or '96, I'm pretty sure it was '95, but not entirely sure... ).

It was heaps of fun. We had seats, which meant we pretty much stood on our seats and danced all night!

Nothing particularly funny happened, although I remember our Dad gave us his mobile phone to call home with after the show. We were so embarrased of it (back then we thought mobile's were really "yuppie") and we had to walk into this dark laneway to use it so no one coming out of the concert would see....

Well, my first hard rock concert was that of my father's band. I was about five years old then. Unfortunately I don't remeber much about it.

But the first time I heard (and saw) a world-famous musician sing was when I was 17 and the musician was Joe Cocker. I was in Budapest with my family and there was some kind of festival at the time. We just happened to be in the right place at the right time to enjoy Cocker's concert totally free of charge! It was one of the most memorable things about our trip to Hungary.

My very first concert was the Country Jam '81. I was in 5th grade, and we went because my dad was working security for it. It started about 10 in the morning and went untill about 1 in the morning. My brother and I spent most of the day running around and playing with 2 of our friends, whose father was also working security. It was out in an open field. We got the bright idea to collect aluminum cans, because people were just throwing them down on the ground. We had a huge pile of them, and we were planning what we were going to do with the money. By the time we finally found some bags to put the cans in, and returned to our pile, someone had taken our cans.

My first rock concert was Bon Jovi/Cinderella in '87. That was the first of many concerts where I lost my voice from screaming, singing and having a great time.

I'm not sure, could have been Tom Petty and the heartbreakers...

I'm pretty sure the first concert I saw was The Kinks. At least, a little bit of The Kinks.
We lived a fair way from Brisbane Festival Hall, and caught the train to get there. The warm-up group was an Aussie band called 'Healing Force', who had recently had a hit with a song called 'Golden Miles'. Well, they got carried away with the general good mood of the crowd and jammed for what seemed like hours. I remember the longest 'song' they did was called 'Sex Machine'. Now, as an impressionable 10-11yo, this was not exactly what I had envisioned as a 'Sex Machine', but it went for about 20 minutes.
Eventually, The Kinks appeared. Unfortunately, they had done about 2 songs, and we had to leave to catch the last train home!
Now, if you want hear about my second concert, the abysmal CCR farewell tour....

Mine was Bryan Adams. I thought he was brilliant at the time. He's a good live rocker. I was 16.

Mine was Joan Jett and the Blackhearts when I was 12. We begged and pleaded with out parents to go. It was an amazing show.

Mine was Ozzy Osbourne in the Birmingham NEC in May '89. I remember UFO was supporting and I think another band which I don't recall.

My friend and I convinced our parents we were responsible enough to go on the coach a local concert company had arranged and off we went. I had the most amazing time, I had been an Ozzy fan for several years and the show was magnificent.

The only downside was we could not wait around outside later for autographs because we had to make sure we got on the coach to get home or I would never be allowed out of the house again

I'll never forget my first concert. It was 1970, I was 14, and I saw Steppenwolf. The theatre was called "The Syndrome", and it was a converted barn with bleacher seats. (It burned down shortly thereafter; at that time pot was pervasive at concerts - perhaps that was the cause of the fire.) We were very close to the stage and I could see all of the band members very clearly. Their performance was terrific. It was an exciting, magical experience for me.

Im so ashamed of this..but my first concert was the Spice Girls...i really dont remember it that much, cause I want to try and clear it from my mind, but the one i remember the most was Joan Jett at our state fiar. I dont know if you call that a concert, but that's the one i had the most fun at.

My first concert was Gloria Estefan at Hershey Park and it was okay but our seats were crappy, camera were not allowed and a t-shirt cost, I think, 20 bucks!! The perfomance was good, it just was cold and we were seating on the right side, facing the stage at a bad angle , but who can complain?

I feel so OLD! (Well, that's funny, I am!)
My first live concert was the Beatles, live at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, when I was 15. Blue and I and a few friends. We were in the 17th row. And YES, it was all you saw on TV. Don't think we heard much of anything all night! It was exciting, though! The opening act, if I am not mistaken, was King Curtis. We, too, stood on our seats, girls WERE passing out and being carried off, and the adventurous dad in the row ahead of us asked if we would like to use his binoculars for a minute...and *WHIP*...my friend just about took his head off with the quick-snap grabbing manoeuvre she did! We lived about 40 miles away and my parents dropped us off in the "big bad" downtown area...and were very worried. But they needn't have been. It was great!

Lefois! I'm so jealous!!!! You saw the Beatles? Dognammit, Lennon was dead before I was one! I was so born in the wrong era. The 60's that's my one true love. The Beatles, The Doors, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, Hendrix, Joplin, sweet mother of mercy!!

....Green day was okay, but what I wouldn't give to see the Beatles perform live just once!!!

Mine was Billy Joel at the Entertainment Centre in Sydney. The local radio station organized it and a group of us went from school, I was about 16. We were up in the nose bleed section but thought we were so cool and sophisticated. The thing I do remember is that on the bus they played a Billy Joel concert video which stuck me as strange, consdiering we were off to see the bloke for real.

I used to go and see The Rolling Stones when they played at the Marquee Club in London, but the first 'big' concert I saw was The Beatles in December 1963 at The Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park , London. The compere, believe it or not, was Rolf Harris.

I believe it, 'cuz! Now I don't feel quite so old (at least not alone!) and tanzen can be jealous of YOU, too! Interesting little side point here: I live in far northern Canada, and here, in our local theatre, the grand entrance foyer sports a huge mural done by Rolf Harris! He got "real big" in the Vancouver area in the 70's I believe................and must have shot up here for a quick "paint job"! Don't know why I I thought that was amusing....?

My first concert was Richie Blackmore's Rainbow at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney in about 1977. For the 'youngsters' here, Blackmore was previously from Deep Purple.
The standout point for me was a 20-minute rendition of, believe it or not, "Greensleeves"!
I caught the concert 'bug' after that, and saw the Sweet, Meatloaf and Alice Cooper over the next few months...

I cannot believe that some of you actually got to see the Beatles and the Stones!! ...well I'll take those and up the ante...I saw Joan Baez do her Dylan routine and then an Indira Gandhi routine! But Bob didn't show...I guess that's not as good.
She is brilliant though.

Another very intriguing fellow was Leo Kotke...
what a guitarist! had to sit on pillows and even at 20 it was excruciating torture.

I did see the Platters one night! They were fantastic!

My most memorable concert was Roy Orbison. I saw him in 1986 at Expo in Vancouver. Just made it to the concert from the plane.............right on time! I had loved him since my Mom loved him in the early 60's...even before??? Anyway, it was the most moving concert I've ever seen. Serious as ever was Roy, moving from one hit to the next with narry a word in between except a humble "thank you". I DIED when he sang It's Over...LIVE....there are no words to describe it. I was transfixed.....transformed...........I'm a dope......but it was just THE BEST. The opening act was, unfortunately, Bobby Curtola and a bunch of 50's type girls with hoola hoops! geez.........but once you got through that.......it was all CLASS! I cannot tell you how HIGH that concert lifted me........

Lefois! You've seriously upped the ante! Your Roy Orbison beats my Joan Baez as Bob didn't make it with his Diamonds and Rust, and the Beatles and Stones...well this is high rolling poker here!

Honestly, I'd have to just go for the eclectic folks now...Gentle Giant? Or, well, I did see Segovia if that counts.

I saw Pink Floyd in May of 1994. (Not my first concert, just the most memorable) What an incredible show! It was the day before my birthday, so the ticket was my gift to me. My friend Chris and I drove 2 hours to get there, and made a weekend of it, and stayed in Nashville for 2 nights.

I'd have loved to have seen Pink Floyd, I'll never forget spending a summer alone working when I was seventeen, and I'd hook up a system out in the yard and just suntan and listen to that record over and over and over, along with King Crimson.

For those of you who have posted on this thread and don't know how lucky you are...I'm 29 and have never been to a concert. I'm the only person I know who hasn't been to a concert. Maybe I'll get to one before I'm 30.

ShadowHippie

My first concert (indoor) was to see Five Star at Hammersmith, London. They were kind of like a Briish version of the Jackson 5, it wasn't fantastic but it was my first.

My first Outdoor concert was Genesis on their Invisble Touch tour at Wembley Stadium.....but the best concert I've been too is tied with seeing Queen at Wembley for their Kind of Magic tour and Knebworth '90 where several huge acts appeared, including Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Phil Collins, Robert Plant & Pink Floyd to name just a few !!

Been to loads but an outside concert is so much better than an inside one !!