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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: tO dReAm oF lOvE on January 18, 2005, 05:07:00 pm
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My first concert was Twisted Sister when I was eight years old. Me and my parents were living in Japan, and they took off for a fun filled week in Seoul. I had a fifteen year old baby sitter who showed me my first nude-y movie (Porky's), and then took me to my first concert. I was a little scared because I was into Neil Diamond and Olivia Newton-John. I have never experienced anything like Twisted Sister before. It was awesome!
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i started late. my first concert was oasis at the patriot center in march of 1996. o how liam gallagher and his star-shaped tambourine made my little high school heart go pitter patter!
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celia cruz in miami when i was like 6 (w/ parents).
first sans parents concert was depeche mode in '90 for the 'violator' tour.
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wasn't this topic covered a few months ago???this is where a search option would be great...
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1987
MaDonna w/ Level 42
My friend won tic's on the radio.
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Well, sorry for the redundency. I haven't logged on in about a year. Search option would be nice. But you have to admit, it's fun to answer this question!
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tO...good call on the classic, "Porky's".
Welcome back. We have you been? hsftival.com?(sorry, couldn't resist the tease).
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I was like 15 and saw ZZ Top and Lynard Skynard in Chicago. It was awesome.
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Was a freshman in high school, the Grateful Dead came to Merriweather which was right down the street from me. Was a lot of fun, hung out before the show in the mall with all the tripping kids. This was when they still did two good sets with songs that were not super slow. 1984.
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My first was the worst concert of my life - I was 13 and HIM from Finland were playing one of their first gigs in Germany.. gosh, I was traumatized after that night.. it was like hell, to be in the middle of 2 thousand gothics who didn't care about being alive or going to die.. I just wanted to stay alive!!!!!
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The Jacksons, Victory Tour, 1984 (or 85? Can't remember), 14th row on the floor. I was eight. I went with my blind grandfather, who I'm sure didn't like the music but took me anyways because he knew I was a fan.
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heh... my first concert was a bad Lyrd Skynrd tribute band called "Freebird" which played at a talent show at my school.
My first REAL concert was The Who, sometime around the time "It's Hard" came out.
And my first 9:30 show was Minor Threat and The Faith. Good stuff.
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1st show not my choice: Tony Orlando without Dawn
1st show my choice: The Go Gos with I think Flock of Seagulls...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers w/ Silverchair and The Rentals opening @ USAir Arena. Don't remember if it was '95 or '96, but I believe it was in support of One Hot Minute.
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Merle Haggard @ Painter's Mill (somewhere in MD), I think I was 5 or 6.
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12/10/78 WPGC Toys for Tots - Capital Centre
Dr. Hook, Firefall, Pablo Cruise, and The Atlanta Rhythm Section
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First show was Rage at the patriot center in Fairfax VA. I saw a guy loose his pinky toe in the mosh pit.
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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Dr. Hook, Firefall, Pablo Cruise, and The Atlanta Rhythm Section
hahahahaahahahahaa....
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Saratoga Performing Arts Center...I was young (around 8 or 9)...my pops took me to see...Men at Work.
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I saw many concerts at SPAC growing up...but not that Men at Work show.
Originally posted by bbbsmith:
Saratoga Performing Arts Center...I was young (around 8 or 9)...my pops took me to see...Men at Work.
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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
12/10/78 WPGC Toys for Tots - Capital Centre
Dr. Hook, Firefall, Pablo Cruise, and The Atlanta Rhythm Section
Ha! Mine, too. My sister gave me a ticket for my 15th birthday.
First 9:30: Swimming Pool Q's sometime in the Fall of '84.
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Loverboy at Merriweather! I think it was 1981.
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Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
12/10/78 WPGC Toys for Tots - Capital Centre
Dr. Hook, Firefall, Pablo Cruise, and The Atlanta Rhythm Section
Ha! Mine, too. My sister gave me a ticket for my 15th birthday.[/b]
That's pretty funny. I don't know of anyone else that would even admit to going to this one, much less it being their first.
First 9:30: Swimming Pool Q's sometime in the Fall of '84.
My first 9:30 show was around that same time. The Church in '84. Probably in the summer, when I was home from school.
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Quiet Riot and Keel. Maybe 1986 or 1987. You can't name a greater tour in the history of rock than Quiet Riot and Keel. Both bands, on one stage. In an amusement park in northeastern Pennsylvania. Truly a spectacle. I don't know what happened Keel. But damn. You can't rock harder than Keel and Quiet Riot.
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Papa Roach and Hed PE at powerplant in b-more
I was in 8th grade at the time.
don't worry, my taste in music have expanded since then.
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Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel at the Apollo in Manchester...YES! I'm that old. :D
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New Kids on the Block....and Dino...god that's awful....but at least I told the truth!
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It's amazing how so many people's first concerts are utter crap! Taste is definitely something that is developed over time....
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Ok, call me cheesy or whatever you want. I saw Queensryche and Suicidal Tendencies at the Norfolk Scope when I was in the eighth grade. I still to this day can rock out to "Operation Mindcrime" like there is no other band out there. It was awesome, and yes, I drooled over Geoff Tate.
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Originally posted by Chisai Fry:
Ok, call me cheesy or whatever you want. I saw Queensryche and Suicidal Tendencies at the Norfolk Scope when I was in the eighth grade. I still to this day can rock out to "Operation Mindcrime" like there is no other band out there. It was awesome, and yes, I drooled over Geoff Tate.
That's not cheesy. I've seen Suicidal Tendencies and they kicked ass live.
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Oh yeah, there is no doubt that Suicidal Tendencies kick ass. It's Queensryche that makes people look at me funny, like when my boyfriend makes me go to the store for him and buy 3 cases of Schlitz or Milwaukee's Best.
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Originally posted by Chisai Fry:
Oh yeah, there is no doubt that Suicidal Tendencies kick ass. It's Queensryche that makes people look at me funny, like when my boyfriend makes me go to the store for him and buy 3 cases of Schlitz or Milwaukee's Best.
why is your boyfriend drinking Schitz and Beast? Is he trying to be cool, or is he a cheapskate?
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Aerosmith when i was like 8
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My first concert was The Romantics Summer of 1984 at the Ocean City Convention Center.
First 9:30 Club (old) show was The Dickies Fall of 1985.
First 9:30 Club (new) show was Garbage Spring of 1996
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motley crue dr feelgood tour at the Capital Center, I think it was '89.
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Originally posted by HerrDoktorDoom:
Originally posted by Chisai Fry:
Oh yeah, there is no doubt that Suicidal Tendencies kick ass. It's Queensryche that makes people look at me funny, like when my boyfriend makes me go to the store for him and buy 3 cases of Schlitz or Milwaukee's Best.
why is your boyfriend drinking Schitz and Beast? Is he trying to be cool, or is he a cheapskate? [/b]
You know what? He honestly loves those two beers. Those are his favorite. His friends come over and they are all beer snobs, "why don't you put that crap down and try a Stella..."
I am actually allergic to alcohol, so I don't even know how crappy they are.
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Originally posted by Chisai Fry:
Originally posted by HerrDoktorDoom:
Originally posted by Chisai Fry:
Oh yeah, there is no doubt that Suicidal Tendencies kick ass. It's Queensryche that makes people look at me funny, like when my boyfriend makes me go to the store for him and buy 3 cases of Schlitz or Milwaukee's Best.
why is your boyfriend drinking Schitz and Beast? Is he trying to be cool, or is he a cheapskate? [/b]
You know what? He honestly loves those two beers. Those are his favorite. His friends come over and they are all beer snobs, "why don't you put that crap down and try a Stella..."
I am actually allergic to alcohol, so I don't even know how crappy they are. [/b]
Wow... so you're naturally straight-edge? :)
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Yeah, I guess that is a good way to put it. Coffee and cigarettes don't count do they?
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I think on the straight-edge scale, alcohol is the ultimate sin, cigarettes and sex are somewhat lesser sins, and coffee is not a sin at all.
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Foo Fighters. The free concert in Rockville Pike. I think it was 97 or 98; I was in eighth grade.
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Crosby Stills Nash Young, Foreman Field, ODU, 1970 something.
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When I was young, "concerts" consisted of beating on hollow trees with the thighbones of woolly mammoths. So the details of those bygone days are a bit hazy.
First rock/pop concert besides crappy local cover bands playing in the gym might have been the Barbarians in Provincetown MA in 1966.
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Oh, god...the MEMORIES! <rolls eyes> My first concert was Little River Band. Fortunately my taste in music has improved dramatically.
First 9:30 show was Bob Mould acoustic in 96 I think. Best show at 9:30 for me was Prodigy where the entire place was hopping up and down for the entire night. I was totally sweat-drenched by the end but grinning ear to ear.
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Warren Zevon at the Bayou in '96.
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Menudo at Constitution Hall.
Sometime in the 80's
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Styx...Paradise Theater tour...1982 I believe...I shudder every time I think about it
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GNR - METALLICA - FAITH NO MORE
@RFK
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Originally posted by BLACKSTORM:
GNR - METALLICA - FAITH NO MORE
@RFK
i went to that show, got seperated from my sister, and ended up with some strange woman on my shoulders, flashing the cameras. it was a good day for a young highschooler like myself.
the next day, when a member of my father's congregation told him that they had seen me on the big screen with a naked woman on my shoulders was slightly less good, but very funny in retrospect.
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Originally posted by francis farva:
Foo Fighters. The free concert in Rockville Pike. I think it was 97 or 98; I was in eighth grade.
Why can't doodles ever give their actual age? If you're a dumb arse you could be 27 and in 8th grade?
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Originally posted by thatguy:
the next day, when a member of my father's congregation..?
What's the deal with religious parents and heavy metal children?
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Originally posted by Bud Erdbuns:
Originally posted by thatguy:
the next day, when a member of my father's congregation..?
What's the deal with religious parents and heavy metal children? [/b]
I don't know, but that is a funny, funny story. It makes me think of the time when I was in the 11th grade, when I went to see the Mighty Mighty Bosstones at the Peppermint Beach Club in Virginia Beach (I think around '93). My mom (who is this tiny, old school Japanese value lady) walks in asking all of the bouncers and bartenders if they have seen a little "oriental girl." She came to pick me up, and being in high school, that is mortifying. Funny in retrospect, though.
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Originally posted by Chisai Fry:
My mom (who is this tiny, old school Japanese value lady) walks in asking all of the bouncers and bartenders if they have seen a little "oriental girl."
The Dude: Walter, the chinaman who peed on my rug, I can't go give him a bill, so what the fuck are you talking about?
Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
The Dude: Jeez, Walter, I'm not talking about the guys who built the fucking railroad here.
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Depeche Mode. World Violation Tour. Merriweather. I was 9 years old.
First 930 Club show: Atari Teenage Riot - 1997?
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Originally posted by Bud Erdbuns:
What's the deal with religious parents and heavy metal children?
well, i think i'm heavy partly due to genetics (dad's a pretty big guy) and a combination of not eating well and not working out enough. i'm metal in certain places, but only where i put jewelry. i'm not really sure how this relates to my father being a minister.
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Originally posted by thatguy:
Originally posted by Bud Erdbuns:
What's the deal with religious parents and heavy metal children?
well, i think i'm heavy partly due to genetics (dad's a pretty big guy) and a combination of not eating well and not working out enough. i'm metal in certain places, but only where i put jewelry. i'm not really sure how this relates to my father being a minister. [/b]
Groan!
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Originally posted by O'Mankie:
Originally posted by francis farva:
Foo Fighters. The free concert in Rockville Pike. I think it was 97 or 98; I was in eighth grade.
Why can't doodles ever give their actual age? If you're a dumb arse you could be 27 and in 8th grade? [/b]
I guess I would have been 13 or 14. I can't quite remember when the show was.
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Originally posted by O'Mankie:
Originally posted by francis farva:
Foo Fighters. The free concert in Rockville Pike. I think it was 97 or 98; I was in eighth grade.
Why can't doodles ever give their actual age? If you're a dumb arse you could be 27 and in 8th grade? [/b]
You are forgetting a very common Doodle numbskull practice which is very important and, in turn, negates the necessity of one stating their age in this matter.
SOCIAL PROMOTIONS!!!!
It's quite the latest rage all across this once great land of ours. :roll:
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Elton John! I Remembering Getting A Large Soda And It Said Pearl Jam Was Playing A Show There Later That Month Or So, And I Told My Mom Elton John Was Lame And I Wanted To See Pearl Jam And She Said "I Think It Might Be A Bit Tougher Crowd"
Mom, You're Lame :-)
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I think Elton John woulda been the better show. Are Pearl Jam even still together?
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My dad took me to my first concert. It was the Scorpions and Alice Cooper in an ampitheatre in CA. I remember being one of the youngest people there and not really knowing the music at the time, but by the end everyone around us getting a kick out of this kid up on the seat yelling at the stage.
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Are you, by any chance, related to Crazy Jimmy?
Originally posted by KrazeeKarl:
My dad took me to my first concert. It was the Scorpions and Alice Cooper in an ampitheatre in CA. I remember being one of the youngest people there and not really knowing the music at the time, but by the end everyone around us getting a kick out of this kid up on the seat yelling at the stage.
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1st ever show: Met At Work w/Red Rockers Norfolk Scope 1984
1st 9:30 show (old): Camper Van Beethoven w/Big Dipper 1988
1st 9:30 show (new): Paul Westerberg w/Gigolo Aunts 1996
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Danzig at Painters Mill near Ownings Mills Maryland (it burned down awhile back)
can't remember what year....must have been 1990 or 91
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My dad took me to see George Thurogood & the Delaware Destroyers at the Philly Spectrum when I was 8.
I was 10 when I went to see Duran Duran because I actually liked them :eek:
My son's first concert at 18 months: Bob Dylan at the Calvert County Marine Museum. Since then we have seen Elvis Costello; Guster, Rufus Wainwright & Ben Folds at Wolf Trap as a family. Jake is a pretty laid back kid at age 3 and loves all kinds of music. I was actually considering taking him to see Wilco but I figure leave the serious rocking out to mom & dad.
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First Concert was Rush at the Capital Center in 1987.
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The Proclaimers ("i would walk 500 miles, and i would walk 500 more...") w/parents.
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The Beach Boys
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my first:
marilyn manson / jim rose circus / nine inch nails @ hampton coliseum (94)
my first @ 930: the orb may 97
i never really bothered to try to go to shows before 94. i didn't start keeping up with what was going on outside of my immediate area really until 97.
i shouldn't have been so slack. i missed out on a lot.
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First concert was Iron Maiden's "Powerslave" tour in 1985 at the Aud in Buffalo. I was in 5th grade and my oldest brother took me. Twisted Sister was supposed to open but the drummers father died, so local Buffalo faves Talas filled in.
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Originally posted by Got Haggis?:
Danzig at Painters Mill near Ownings Mills Maryland (it burned down awhile back)
can't remember what year....must have been 1990 or 91
Hilarious....I saw him at some redneck heavy metal club in some godforsaken place called Pasadena maryland...it was his first tour in 88. Circus of Power was opening up, but we missed them cuz we got lost as hell though. Pretty cool show though. I still have a soft spot for that first Danzig album, a guiltly pleasure I suppose. I was a total misfit nut for most of my teens and 20's....
A few months later he played at the old 9:30. Maybe the most packed I ever saw the place except for maybe a Bad Brains show...
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Originally posted by L. O. Cutionist:
The Beach Boys
Same here, 1984, Pensacola.
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My first was Sonic Youth on their Dirty tour. Superchunk opened. It was at the International Ballroom in Atlanta Goergia.
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i went to the dc101 chili cookoff in 2002 i think but that sucked. my first real concert was the red hot chili peppers w/ queens of the stone age opening at nissan pavilion in 2003. it was awesome
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U2 at RFK stadium in September of 1987 (I was 13)
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The Ramones
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Originally posted by Jagernaut:
The Ramones
where?
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hfstival 1998-green day, foo fighters and the mighty mighty bosstones.