Who was your first concert?

The Dead Milkmen

Milli Vanilli with En Vogue and Young MC as the openers.

Madonna with Beastie Boys opening.

Duran Duran at MSG 3/19/84. I was 13.

The Cure 1985

Nirvana, at the Saint Louis show that about turned into a riot.

Andy Gibb - 1978

The Cure and Depeche Mode 🎶

INXS Kick tour. 1986, Pine Knob in Michigan.

Rush. 1981

Def Lepard 1983

Weird Al Yankovic! Such a great show!

Whitney. I was 11. ♥️🔥

My first concert is the same as the last one; ‘84 Duran Duran. 2023, Duran Duran 🙂

U2 in 1985

Mötley Crüe with a new breaking band called Guns N’ Roses opening, 1987.

Rolling Stones

Second one was Ween

Stone Temple Pilots. Older brother took acid and tripped balls while the younger kids laughed. I think (hope?) I drove the 2 hours home.

My first rock concert was Ramones at Warner Theater. Had to get my mom to drop me and pick me up two hours later (and wait for me if I wasn't out yet -- no cell phones, no waiting area back then)

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Styx

The Stray Cats, 1982, Grand Circus Theater, Detroit, Michigan. There was a Rumble in Brighton that night!

The police. And Wham opened for them

Public Enemy 1989

Loverboy

The Sisters of Mercy, 1991.

The Smiths. 1983

Poison with Lita Ford

The Ramones. 1983.

Motorhead. 1982. I had no idea what I was getting into, I went with friend and his older brother.

The Cure, Love & Rockets and The Pixies. 1989ish

Ozzy 81, or 82. Can't recall.

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Dead Milkmen 1987

Tom Petty, early 80s

Pink Floyd 94 in Birmingham Alabama. It was the Division Bell tour.

Metallica/Queensryche on the and Justice for All/Operation:Mindcrime tour at McNichols Arena.

The Go-Go's

Duran Duran on the Seven & the ragged tiger tour

Prince, Purple Rain tour, 1984. 4th row tickets for $18.

Van Halen 1979

Suicidal tendencies, 88?

White Zombie.

Iron Maiden, 1987

Moody Blues 1986 I think.

Queen,1980 at the LA Forum. Amazing and still the loudest concert I ever saw.

New kids on the block 😅

Lenny Kravitz opened for The Cult. 91 or 92

The Dead Milkmen and Two Free Stooges opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Eddie Rabbit and Crystal Gayle in 1981 or so.

Ratt in 1984 ( out of the cellar tour) and Bon Jovi was the opener which seems weird but at the time Ratt was the bigger band at the time

Van Halen 1982

They Might be Giants, 1996.

With my parents, Donny and Marie 1979. Alone, Frehely’s Comet and Cinderella. 1986

RUSH

Day on the Green at the Oakland Coliseum: Metallica, Queensrÿche, Faith No More and Sound Garden. Missed SG, was not sad about it. Everything else was excellent.

Lallapalooza 1996.

Queen!!!! 1982. Their last tour of the US, in Boston. I was 14. It was like going to see god, honestly.

I forget. Either Bon Jovi with Cinderella opening (never heard of Cinderella before I went and ended up liking them better than Bon Jovi), or Tina Turner. Sometime in the mid/late 80s.

Wow my memory is failing!

U2

Huey Lewis and the News - 1985

Blue Oyster Cult/Foghat - Boston Garden, 1981.

The Eagles. Opening night of the Hell Freezes Over tour. Then a couple weeks later I saw Alanis Morrisett 🤣

Ratt with Bon Jovi opening in ‘85.

My parents took me to see Bread in 1977.

The first concert I went to by my own choice and by myself was Metallica/Queensryche in 1988.

Ratt and Night Ranger at red rocks in 85.

Loads of local punk bands but some of the first bigger venues were De La Soul, Beastie Boys and RATM

Texxas Jam, 1986. Loverboy and Van Halen

I saw Kiss with Judas Priest opening in 1979. This was the Dynasty tour. Someone's mom drove us and dropped us off at the civic center. I think there were 7 of us from our junior high who went. I was the only one who shoved my way to the front (well, as close as I could get until I hit a wall of denim). The ticket was $10 and I had worked for my grandpa to pay for it.

You didn't ask, but my second concert was Cheap Trick.

Rick Springfield, baltimore arena.

Scorpions and Fastway . Little headbanger me loved it and saw a lot more afterwards.

Asia, 1982

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble with the Stray Cats as the opener. July 21, 1989

Simple Minds- Street Fighting Tour.

Dublin, Ireland 1989.

Twisted Sister 1982, at a roller skating rink on Long Island.

I was in India from 1985-1989, relocated with Dad for work. In 1998 Amnesty International held a Human Rights Now! concert in New Delhi. I tagged along with the embassy kids for a front row view to see: Sting, Tracy Chapman and Bruce Springsteen. It started my musical journey. My biggest regret was that as a 17 year old Thai kid FOB with noodles for brains I only knew The Boss. I wish I could have then appreciated the other artist as much as I do now.

Bay City Rollers

New Order, Public Image Ltd and the Sugarcubes, 1986.

Kix

INXS

KISS, 1979.

Judas Priest and Dokken, June 1986

A lot of older Gen Xers posting. I wasn't alive or was too young to see most of these bands. My dad took me and my cousin to The Monkees reunion tour in 86 or 87. After that, got into the New Kids on the Block. Saw those bad boys twice! 😎

The Clash. (without Mick) Second concert was Stevie Ray Vaughn. outdoors live on the Mississippi river. It was fantastic.

Thompson Twins

Rush 1980

Rolling Stones Steel Wheels tour

Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain tour - 1984

Soundgarden / Screaming Trees / Tad in 1989.

I’m on the younger end of Gen X, my first concert was Rush, in ‘91 or ‘92. Primus opened. It. Was. Amazing.

Paul McCartney with wings.

He does live and let die better than guns n roses does.

Suzanne Vega, 1986

It was either one of the Fresh Fests with Whodini and the Fat Boys or Adam Ant on his “strip” tour.

The Police, probably in 1981.

The Doobie Brothers around 1979 or 80

Aerosmith on my 12th birthday.

Pink Floyd 1987?

Great White, Mr. Big and Scorpions! Early 90s

Spinal Tap. True story. They went on tour in support of Break Like the Wind.

1. I was in high school and they played at the ranch bowl all the time before moving to California and becoming soft

Quiet Riot, 1984

Mötley Crüe 1986 Kansas City

The Who 1974

Huey Lewis & The News at MSG when I was 12 or 13

I asked my sister what that funny smelling smoke was. Soon thereafter I became that funny smelling smoke

Metallica /Guns N Roses

Waylon Jennings at the N.C. State Fair, back in the late 70's. First time I smelled pot too....😂

Huey Lewis and the News, 1990. My Dad took me. I was 11.

Boston ... "Don't Look Back" tour, June 1979. I think Sammy Hagar opened. Had just turned 15.

Weird Al, 1987 at Knotts Berry Farm. What’s crazy is I found the entire concert on YouTube a few years ago, someone in the audience filmed it with one of those over the shoulder VHS camcorders, which was kind of rare for 1987. https://youtu.be/ELcalomaYLI?si=_DEbLDZKgcZf3YWl

Morris Day and the Time…lol

Nine Inch Nails - can't remember the year or who opened, though

Bryan Adams - 1985?

Kiss

Van Halen 88

Three Dog Night at Summerfest in Milwaukee. Sometime in the mid-80s.

JFK Jam 1983 - Bryan Adams, The Tubes, Sammy Hagar, John Cougar & Journey. I was 15 and I went with my friend and her Dad's girlfriend. I can't believe my mom let me go. What an adventure. Great memory.

Bonnie Hayes & the Wild Combo

Beach Boys early 80s

Bryan Adams

Pantera late 80's

Arlo Guthrie and John Prine 1986. I was 8 and it had a profound effect on me. Been addicted to live music ever since.

Olivia Newton-John & Rick Springfield

Harry Chapin 1979

Black Sabbath

Cyndi Lauper with Quarterflash

Blue Oyster Cult, Molly Hatchet opened for them.

B-52s, 1990 at UCSB. My boyfriend ditched me at the concert!

Siouxsie and The Banshees, at Constitution Hall - 1987, I think? Another awesome band also played but I can't remember who, fml.

Billy Idol, 1990, at the Arizona State Fair. Came out still limping on a cane from his motorcycle accident

1987 Depeche Mode, Music for the Masses tour.

Cheap Trick, Aldo Nova, and Axe

Tom Petty, Hard Promises tour.

Johnny Cash 1976

Oingo Boingo, Halloween show 1987

pearl jam, opening for RHCP, in my college hockey arena 1991.

Ice-T and Bodycount Bogarts Cincinnati It was Valentines Day-Ice-T’s birthday-the audience sang “Happy Birthday” to Ice-T.

Stone Temple Pilots at the AZ State Fair. Nirvana played the following week too.

Anthrax Among the Living and Kiss when they took off the makeup. Went for Anthrax who killed it, Kiss sucked!

New Order/Echo & the Bunnymen Irvine Meadows 9/12/87, 13 yrs old, courtesy of my late brother✌🏼

The Beach Boys circa 1976

Madonna - The Blonde Ambition Tour in 1990.

Rock concert? Foreigner, on the 4 tour.

Phil Collins 1985 - right before I graduated hs!

Also 1981 Altered Images in Leeds.

John Cougar Mellencamp. I was 5

First on my own? Ozzfest

The Osmones, sometime in the mid to late 70’s.

Kiss

Mine was Snowflake Mod and the Crybabies.

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But seriously, Monsters of Rock June 1988 Rich Stadium in Orchard Park, NY (Bills Stadium) eight weeks before And Justice For All? came out and changed the musical world forever, and we got to hear it live that day. Or John Denver 1980 with my parents. He sang about all "those ugly girls in Cleveland" because he played Cleveland the night before.

I went as a VH/Dokken fan, but I saw Metallica 3 more times on the Justice tour with the exploding stage-not the top 40 Black album-the actual Metallica.

Def Leppard

Shaun Cassidy in Los Angeles in 1978. I was six years old and in love with him.

Bob Seager and the Silver Bullet Band on the Like a Rock tour.