Your first concert

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

My first one without a parent was lollapalooza 96, metallica, soundgarden, rage against the machine, ramones, rancid, and screaming trees were the bands i saw

[zeb]

With Dad: Thin Lizzy 1978
Solo: Living Colour 1993

[William Bloke]

with my dad - Stevie Ray Vaughan (1985) (ABQ)
with friends - The Cure (1987) (Dallas)

Wow on both of those.

[Jorge]

When I was really young I was taken to a bunch of orchestra performances and classical recitals by my parents. My first "real concert" was a terrible Argentine hip-hop group called Illya Kuryaki & The Valderramas. I was 13.

[Norah]

Jethro Tull at Pine Knob (now DTE) August 12th 1997.

Your first concert was 1997? But...you're old!

[nyquillyn]

with my dad - Stevie Ray Vaughan (1985) (ABQ)
with friends - The Cure (1987) (Dallas)

Wow on both of those.

Yup. When you start with SRV, it's pretty much all downhill from there.

[@SkitchP]

Jethro Tull at Pine Knob (now DTE) August 12th 1997.

Your first concert was 1997? But...you're old!

I know! I didn't ever go to one with my parents, so I had to wait until i could drive. I was 17. Then I went to bunches for like 10 years and now I don't go anymore. Although I get to see Bruno Mars in a couple months!

[Angus]

Werchter festival 2000. Pearl Jam cancelled. Good memories...

[EJ]

Werchter festival 2000. Pearl Jam cancelled. Good memories...

Ouch, sorry man. Really unfortunate timing. That Euro leg had been so incredible too.

[dimejinky99]

1st concert-a bad pop band called 5star. (I was 7)
1st big spectacle concert-Michael Jackson, Dangerous tour 25/7/1992(fucking spectacular)
1st PJ-Cork,Ireland 24/10/1996. Great setlist, tiny place.

[VinylGuy]

When I was really young I was taken to a bunch of orchestra performances and classical recitals by my parents. My first "real concert" was a terrible Argentine hip-hop group called Illya Kuryaki & The Valderramas. I was 13.

you know i dont like them at all, but i feel like i should. I adore their influences and i see both of them are very talented.
They just dont make good music.

[Jorge]

When I was really young I was taken to a bunch of orchestra performances and classical recitals by my parents. My first "real concert" was a terrible Argentine hip-hop group called Illya Kuryaki & The Valderramas. I was 13.

you know i dont like them at all, but i feel like i should. I adore their influences and i see both of them are very talented.
They just dont make good music.

Agreed.

[zatara]

Aaaa, nice topic. My first concert was Iron Maiden in Athens, September 1988. I was ten, with some schoolmates and their older brothers. Surreal!! Of course I couldn't be a fan, I had just started to learn English, but I can vividly recall the unknown until then feeling that I experienced, let's name it the revelation of rock instinct

[digster]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at the Beacon Theater in NYC, 2001. Literally the back row, but still had a great time.

[Norah]

Jethro Tull at Pine Knob (now DTE) August 12th 1997.

Your first concert was 1997? But...you're old!

I know! I didn't ever go to one with my parents, so I had to wait until i could drive. I was 17. Then I went to bunches for like 10 years and now I don't go anymore. Although I get to see Bruno Mars in a couple months!

I thought you were even older than that.

[@SkitchP]

Jethro Tull at Pine Knob (now DTE) August 12th 1997.

Your first concert was 1997? But...you're old!

I know! I didn't ever go to one with my parents, so I had to wait until i could drive. I was 17. Then I went to bunches for like 10 years and now I don't go anymore. Although I get to see Bruno Mars in a couple months!

I thought you were even older than that.

How old did you think I was?

[Norah]

Jethro Tull at Pine Knob (now DTE) August 12th 1997.

Your first concert was 1997? But...you're old!

I know! I didn't ever go to one with my parents, so I had to wait until i could drive. I was 17. Then I went to bunches for like 10 years and now I don't go anymore. Although I get to see Bruno Mars in a couple months!

I thought you were even older than that.

How old did you think I was?

65

[Simple Torture]

Rockapella. This was probably in '96 or '97.

[Norah]

lol nice

[Simple Torture]

This was, if I remember correctly, at Christopher Columbus Park in Boston. It was some sort of Boy Scout event. Besides like shows in church basements and Elks Halls through high school, the first real event that I went to was the WAAF Big Field at Lake Winnipesaukee in 2001. Rammstein, Fear Factory, Staind...and others of that ilk. Clutch! Clutch was there, and I was surprised at how good they were.