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Post by elaine on Jul 19, 2015 15:13:36 GMT
Billy Squier and Def Leppard in 1983. I was a senior in HS and had to sneak because I wasn't allowed to go to concerts. I went on to go to many more (on the sly, of course) including the US festival in 1983. Hey, I was at the US Festival too! I'm sure we must have seen each other. LOL!  |
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Post by Rainbow on Jul 19, 2015 15:19:24 GMT
Rush in 1982, and Adam Ant (LOL)
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Post by snappinsami on Jul 19, 2015 15:25:32 GMT
I *think* it was Air Supply (good grief  ) in 1983, when I was 15. I know I also saw the Chicago 17 tour in 1985 when they were at the Philadelphia Spectrum (probably one of the worst places to see a concert - the acoustics were terrible). |
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Post by freeatlast on Jul 19, 2015 15:41:05 GMT
Rod Stewart and the Small Faces around 1973. Also my first (and only) time to be teargassed.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Jul 19, 2015 20:26:24 GMT
My first concert with a date was in high school 1966 ~ Dave Clark Five and Herman's Hermits! I was in love with Peter Noone!  |
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Post by Blind Squirrel on Jul 19, 2015 20:32:27 GMT
Huey Lewis and the News!! I was in middle or high school.
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Post by akathy on Jul 19, 2015 20:32:46 GMT
The Who. I was 16  |
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Post by RiverIsis on Jul 19, 2015 21:11:46 GMT
I just want to say we have awesome musical tastes!
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Post by Dalai Mama on Jul 19, 2015 21:28:58 GMT
U2 Joshua Tree tour - I was 16 and I went with my brother.
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Post by scrappymum on Jul 19, 2015 22:11:42 GMT
It was 1974, I was 13 and it was The Osmonds. I thought Donny was gorgeous then and I think Donny is gorgeous now |
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Post by peasapie on Jul 19, 2015 22:50:23 GMT
1977 Genesis Madison Square Garden.
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Post by berty on Jul 19, 2015 23:11:40 GMT
A-HA when I was 13. Thus starting a life long fascination with pale, foreign boys with accents. Hello Duran Duran, depeche mode,and the smiths.  Well, it's not like A-ha grew up ugly, this is what they look like today. They kept their career going for quite some years and have a LOT of great music that probably never made it out of Norway. Has that lead singer even aged? He's definitely got some kind of Dorian Gray situation going on. LOL |
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Post by purplebee on Jul 19, 2015 23:18:53 GMT
August 1964, The Beatles at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in NY. I was 13. Went to see them again at Shea Stadium the following two summers. Yep, I screamed my hiney off!
Still love them....
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Post by brynn on Jul 19, 2015 23:26:44 GMT
B.W. Stevenson opened for Olivia Newton John, and I was 13.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Jul 20, 2015 0:43:42 GMT
August 1964, The Beatles at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in NY. I was 13. Went to see them again at Shea Stadium the following two summers. Yep, I screamed my hiney off! Still love them.... Their concerts were a mess ~ young girls screaming to the point where you couldn't even hear the music.  |
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Post by leeny on Jul 20, 2015 1:05:22 GMT
Michael Jackson. I was an adult and won the trip to Los Angeles. It was in the late 80's and was supposed to be his last concert in the US ever.
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Post by cawoman on Jul 20, 2015 1:56:14 GMT
Beach Boys and Sonny and Cher at Hollowood Bowl. I was probably 14 and went with my brother. Around the same time I saw Dave Clark Five in Long Beach.
In 1968 I saw The Grateful Dead in San Francisco at the Fillmore West. I was 16 and we had to hitch hike home (back to my brothers in Haight Ashbury) because the bus had stopped running. I was a nervous wreck, lol!!
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Post by ntsf on Jul 20, 2015 4:22:57 GMT
I was at the US festival in 1982...my dh never forgave me for falling asleep during one of the groups..I can't remember. still have the t-shirt.
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Post by RiverIsis on Jul 20, 2015 4:39:17 GMT
I was at the US festival in 1982...my dh never forgave me for falling asleep during one of the groups..I can't remember. still have the t-shirt. There was a woman so drunk at Live 8- Hyde park, she passed out about 2pm. The concert finished just gone midnight. |
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Post by panda on Jul 20, 2015 4:41:51 GMT
Pat Benatar when I was nine (1979) with my mom and her friend. 36 years later I remember very little of the concert except exactly what I was wearing (tight yellow pants and a red t-shirt) and all the attention I got from the other concert-goers lol.
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Post by mommaho on Jul 20, 2015 10:05:50 GMT
Bobby Sherman, when I was... maybe 12? 13? I don't remember my age but I do remember that we screamed for the entire concert. I'm sure we hardly heard a note coming from him because of all the screaming.  My first was Bobby Sherman too!! 13 - Memorial Hall Dayton Ohio |
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Post by monklady123 on Jul 20, 2015 13:00:03 GMT
Bobby Sherman, when I was... maybe 12? 13? I don't remember my age but I do remember that we screamed for the entire concert. I'm sure we hardly heard a note coming from him because of all the screaming. My first was Bobby Sherman too!! 13 - Memorial Hall Dayton Ohio Civic Arena, Pittsburgh PA. Maybe it was the same tour, since Ohio and Pittsburgh are right next to each other. |
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Post by mommaho on Jul 20, 2015 13:02:02 GMT
Could be! I was 'in love' with him! lol
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Post by Gravity on Jul 20, 2015 13:21:55 GMT
KISS on November 20, 1977 in Lubbock TX. I was a freshman in high school.
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Post by lily on Jul 20, 2015 13:37:42 GMT
Well, my parents took us to see Sammy Davis Jr. when I was 13. I loved it!
But my first real concert I would say was seeing Bread when I was 15, at an outdoor ampitheatre where we sat on the grass on a blanket.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Jul 20, 2015 17:53:36 GMT
Well, my parents took us to see Sammy Davis Jr. when I was 13. I loved it! But my first real concert I would say was seeing Bread when I was 15, at an outdoor ampitheatre where we sat on the grass on a blanket. I saw them at LSU ~ they put on a great concert! |
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Post by ingrid6 on Jul 20, 2015 18:11:34 GMT
Bachman, Turner, Overdrive... oh the memories!
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Post by ~Susan~ on Jul 20, 2015 18:24:03 GMT
My one and only concert was 1988. I had just graduated high school and a good friend of mine invited me to go see Smokey Robinson on Mud Island in Memphis. We were in the middle of a heat wave and even at night it was hot!
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Post by scrapmaven on Jul 20, 2015 18:24:11 GMT
Sammy Davis JR. w/an opening by George Carlin(Love Carlin) when I was 10. Went w/a friend and her parents. Saw tame stuff like Manhatten Transfer, Melissa Manchester, etc. as a teen. My first big concert as an adult was U2 in the 80's. No one told me to wear ear plugs. Now I know better.
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Post by Ryann on Jul 20, 2015 20:13:00 GMT
The first concert I went to was with my mom and was some combination of the Judds, Alabama, George Straight, Merle Haggard and maybe someone else? It was a Marlboro country music tour or something like that, I think? I feel like maybe I went to a couple of them so I'm not sure which performers were at which show. The first concert that was for me (and not a tag-along with my mom) was Whitney Houston (Greatest Love of All tour) for my 8th birthday. My aunt took me, it was two days after my birthday and I fell asleep before she sang my favorite song. The first concert that I went to that was just with friends (no parents and we drove ourselves) was The Posies when I was 16. They have been one of my absolute favorite bands since I was 14 and seeing them live that very first time was magical. I really fell in love with whole live show experience and have been to a few more since then (my last count was 277).  |
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) in 1983, when I was 15. I know I also saw the Chicago 17 tour in 1985 when they were at the Philadelphia Spectrum (probably one of the worst places to see a concert - the acoustics were terrible). 
