Your age at your first rock concert?

[targa911S]

It's a dump?? Don't tell our agent he will book us there!

[Gogar]

Originally Posted by Moses

We should start a "Worst Concert Ever" thread. You gave us a solid start.

So true.

Bogarts . . . . . eccchhhh.

[Flyer88]

Originally Posted by Gogar

So true.

Bogarts . . . . . eccchhhh.

Saw Shawn Colvin there 10 years ago or so - great show. My oldest (now 7, then 2) and I went to see Jackson Browne at the Fraze (sat on the lawn outside) on the day after my younger son was born. I took him to see his mom and new brother and decided to go over and listen for a while - at 10:30 the phone rings and it is my wife wondering why nobody is answering the home phone. Busted - the answer went over like a fart in church.

[deathpunk dan]

I was 14 when I saw The Ramones in 1992, forever changing my life. (punk rock ruined me - I coulda been somebody, I swear...if it weren't for punk )

[bivenator]

Cool ddan, familiar story about "coulda been somebody" . I prefer to think that I would have been a nobody without the punk. I saw the Ramones in 83. Was underage (17). We got a group of us in by pretending to be celebrating the 22 bday of one of the girls in the group. We even brought a cake with us that said happy 22, that was our ID that nite, a freakin bday cake. Good times. good thread

[TerryH]

We frequented Don Kirshner's rock concerts. Saw groups like Kansas before anyone knew who they were. Early to mid 70's was a great era of rock music. Wish I could remember 10% of all those good times.

Went to the LA coliseum along with 90,000 others to see great guitarists Robin Trower and Rory Gallahger. Jethro Tull was the headliner. I think this was 1976. The one thing that stands out are all the overdosers being carried out on stretchers long before the first note was played. We were up in the stands and the field was almost full. We were betting quarters on who would be the next dead guy to leave horizontally. I know, we were sick pups.

[austin552]

7-3-76 KISS (the Scope) Norfolk, Va
I was 13 and the show was GREAT.

[Mule]

17 It's a beautiful day at the Warehouse.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by deathpunk dan

I was 14 when I saw The Ramones in 1992, forever changing my life. (punk rock ruined me - I coulda been somebody, I swear...if it weren't for punk )

Saw them a little before that, The Ramones and The Dictators in '76.

[deathpunk dan]

Saw them a little before that, The Ramones and The Dictators in '76.

wow. That's amazing. I am big 'tators fan. Got to open for them a few years ago. Ross n Top Ten patiently answered all my breathless questions.


Did you ever get to see The Heartbreakers, per chance (ie not the tom petty hbs...)?

[David]

Originally Posted by austin552

7-3-76 KISS (the Scope) Norfolk, Va
I was 13 and the show was GREAT.

I'm surprised at the number of people who don't like KISS. I saw them as a teenager around '83 and then with my wife about 10 years ago. They're two of the best shows I've seen.

My wife even commented after the show that now she understood what all the boys in the '70s saw in KISS

[Roadrunner911]

Fats Domino age 12 about 1961

Beach Boys age 16 about 1965

[ramonesfreak]

Originally Posted by speeder

Saw them a little before that, The Ramones and The Dictators in '76.

saw em in 87 when i was 15. met them before the show, even dee dee

3 songs in, was punched in face in mosh pit and transported to hospital

never got a chance to see them again, unfortunately but i still have lump of scar tissue in upper lip that reminds me of the fellas

[MOMO3.2]

California Jam I, 1974 @ Ontario Motor Speedway when I was 12 years old!

My older brothers abandoned me and my 13 year old brother once we got to the concert. I remember being freaked out over several nude hippie concert goers. It was a real "groovy" experience...

Mike

[Seric]

14

Cinderella/Bullet Boys/Winger

[scarletbegonias]

14 - June 1974
The James Gang/Lynyrd Skynyrd/Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Rich Stadium, Orchard Park, NY (Buffalo Area)

[stomachmonkey]

Alone, 13ish Genesis (before Phil turned them into a sappy suck band)

[sailchef]

18 - Pink Floyd at the Montreal Collesuem

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

14. I was too young to drive. My dad took my friends and I to see Nine Inch Nails with Marilyn Manson as the opener (when he was much tamer).


I have a VERY cool dad

[svandamme]

12 maybe 13... alone, and i got on stage too..
arguably not a mega football stadium size rock concert, but still a rock concert...