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Re: Your first concert

Posted: Wed March 20, 2013 11:58 am
by MattA75
Mecca wrote:2002 Pop DisasterTour: Saves the Day, Green Day, Blink 182
Kind of amazing that in 3 years Green Day went from opening for Blink 182 to headlining stadiums in some markets

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Wed March 20, 2013 12:13 pm
by oasisfan35
bada wrote:
oasisfan35 wrote:
bada wrote:My first was....I don't remember the year. '88 probably. It was a triple bill at Lake Compounds. Extreme, Cinderella and David Lee Roth. David Lee came out on a giant mechanical banana.
Lake Compounce wow... nice when there were more venues in this state. Triple bill I saw there: BulletBoys, Slaughter and Poison.
Dude I've been calling it Lake Compounds my entire life is it really Compounce? I must be an idiot! I've only been there 100 times. :D
:haha: That's probably more fitting. It's almost fruitless to even hope bands play CT anymore, few and far between these days. Went to a Whale game Saturday and it still really burns me that the promoters starved the New Haven Coliseum then destroyed it.

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Wed March 20, 2013 2:41 pm
by phantomanddevil
AC/DC: Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, Australia: October 1991.

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Wed March 20, 2013 5:20 pm
by bada
oasisfan35 wrote:
bada wrote:
oasisfan35 wrote:
bada wrote:My first was....I don't remember the year. '88 probably. It was a triple bill at Lake Compounds. Extreme, Cinderella and David Lee Roth. David Lee came out on a giant mechanical banana.
Lake Compounce wow... nice when there were more venues in this state. Triple bill I saw there: BulletBoys, Slaughter and Poison.
Dude I've been calling it Lake Compounds my entire life is it really Compounce? I must be an idiot! I've only been there 100 times. :D
:haha: That's probably more fitting. It's almost fruitless to even hope bands play CT anymore, few and far between these days. Went to a Whale game Saturday and it still really burns me that the promoters starved the New Haven Coliseum then destroyed it.

Saw STP and The Meat Puppets at the New Haven Coliseum I think that's the only time I was there.

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Wed March 20, 2013 5:36 pm
by oasisfan35
bada wrote:
oasisfan35 wrote:
bada wrote:
oasisfan35 wrote:
bada wrote:My first was....I don't remember the year. '88 probably. It was a triple bill at Lake Compounds. Extreme, Cinderella and David Lee Roth. David Lee came out on a giant mechanical banana.
Lake Compounce wow... nice when there were more venues in this state. Triple bill I saw there: BulletBoys, Slaughter and Poison.
Dude I've been calling it Lake Compounds my entire life is it really Compounce? I must be an idiot! I've only been there 100 times. :D
:haha: That's probably more fitting. It's almost fruitless to even hope bands play CT anymore, few and far between these days. Went to a Whale game Saturday and it still really burns me that the promoters starved the New Haven Coliseum then destroyed it.

Saw STP and The Meat Puppets at the New Haven Coliseum I think that's the only time I was there.
I saw quite a few shows there plus hockey, nice being the next town over now there is nothing except Toad's which is essentially a shit-hole.

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Thu March 21, 2013 2:28 am
by Norah
Mecca wrote:2002 Pop DisasterTour: Saves the Day, Green Day, Blink 182
I was at the Boston date for that tour.

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Thu March 21, 2013 2:29 am
by Norah
MattA75 wrote:
Mecca wrote:2002 Pop DisasterTour: Saves the Day, Green Day, Blink 182
Kind of amazing that in 3 years Green Day went from opening for Blink 182 to headlining stadiums in some markets
I remember being at the show wondering why Blink was the headliner.

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Thu March 21, 2013 7:39 am
by Mecca
MattA75 wrote:
Mecca wrote:2002 Pop DisasterTour: Saves the Day, Green Day, Blink 182
Kind of amazing that in 3 years Green Day went from opening for Blink 182 to headlining stadiums in some markets
Green Day opening was on purpose; Blink was huge, Green Day cooled off, but they knew they would blow blink out of the water. I'm pretty sure it became a point of contention between the bands by the end if the tour.

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Thu March 21, 2013 1:39 pm
by Chloe
Aside from a few christian bands I can't remember, my first REAL show was Third Eye Blind w/ Eve 6 & Stretch Princess in 1998.

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Thu April 18, 2013 10:11 pm
by LetMeSleep
Dire Straits in 1986.

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Fri April 19, 2013 12:26 am
by Rangi Guy
1995 - R.E.M. - Monster tour, Western Springs Stadium

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Fri April 19, 2013 12:34 am
by Dscans
Arrested Development, 1995.

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Fri April 19, 2013 11:10 am
by red calzolaio
Jackson Browne circa 1993.

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Fri April 19, 2013 11:32 am
by Birds in Hell
Dscans wrote:Arrested Development, 1995.
AWOAHAAOOWHAHWAAAA

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Fri April 19, 2013 11:38 am
by Jorge
Birds in Hell wrote:
Dscans wrote:Arrested Development, 1995.
AWOAHAAOOWHAHWAAAA
I want so badly to believe this is simply your reaction to the post, and not something from an AD song.

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Fri April 19, 2013 12:27 pm
by warehouse
Mecca wrote:
MattA75 wrote:
Mecca wrote:2002 Pop DisasterTour: Saves the Day, Green Day, Blink 182
Kind of amazing that in 3 years Green Day went from opening for Blink 182 to headlining stadiums in some markets
Green Day opening was on purpose; Blink was huge, Green Day cooled off, but they knew they would blow blink out of the water. I'm pretty sure it became a point of contention between the bands by the end if the tour.
did u guys leave after green day too?

pearl jam 1998

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Fri April 19, 2013 12:28 pm
by Kevin Davis
My dad took me to see Huey Lewis and the News in 1987. I would have been about 4. We left about 7 songs in; it was way past my bedtime.

The first concert I attended sans parental supervision was Smashing Pumpkins in 1996 on the Infinite Sadness tour.

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Sat April 20, 2013 12:56 pm
by Dscans
theplatypus wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote:
Dscans wrote:Arrested Development, 1995.
AWOAHAAOOWHAHWAAAA
I want so badly to believe this is simply your reaction to the post, and not something from an AD song.
It's the chorus to Mr. Wendell, right?

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Sat April 20, 2013 1:05 pm
by Birds in Hell
Dscans wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote:
Dscans wrote:Arrested Development, 1995.
AWOAHAAOOWHAHWAAAA
I want so badly to believe this is simply your reaction to the post, and not something from an AD song.
It's the chorus to Mr. Wendell, right?
More that yell he does at the beginning of the song, but yeah. It's immediately what comes to mind when I think of Arrested Development.

(Jorge, look away.)

Re: Your first concert

Posted: Sat April 20, 2013 4:04 pm
by vegman
Lol. Thinking about my firat show makes me laugh. Me and my buddy took the LIRR to MSG in 1984 to see Billy Idol. We did the scam where both our parents thought we were staying over a third kids house. We were 13. Totally awesome, cheesy show. Smoke machines, dancers in lingerie and a white wedding. Awesome memory.