Your First Concert

JesusisLord wrote: with an unknown opening act called Bad Company

My First Consert was Slade back in early 70's when i was 8-9 years old, was fantastic, still like em.

First gig: Rasmus in 1997, the pop rock band of today around their second album, which had a wild blend of funk, metal, reggae, hip hop and whatnot. Brilliant stuff.

Mine was Deep Purple in the Stadthalle Bremen, Germany in 1973, just after they released 'Who Do We Think We Are'. Mark II lineup.

Damndest thing: Rainbow didn't exist yet, and had a big rainbow spanning the stage. Weird. Now it's one of those WTF! memories.

First concert: I suppose a classical concert, as a kid, with my parents. I went to quite some classical concerts with them. Maybe somewhere in 1975.

First rock concert: Rainbow in... 1982 or something. My friends at school were into hard rock / heavy metal and I liked some of the stuff: mostly from the more progressive bands. I don't remember the Rainbow concert being good: just very noisy.

First prog concert: Genesis in 1987. I had discovered them via a rock encyclopedia, and I had no friends who were into prog, so I went all alone to the concert (the first and only time that I did that). It was a bit disappointing.

First real prog concert: Pink Floyd in 1988. A friend asked me to go with him and I was very impressed.

First concert:

1st Rock Concert-  Edgar Winter with Rick Derringer, with an unknown opening act called Bad Company

1st Prog Concert- A trick of the Tail, Genesis... Complete with Supper's Ready and White Mountain.......

My first concert was Steve Vai in Fargo ND, in 2005 I believe, it was the Real Illusions tour, when he still had Tony Macalpine in the band.  My first prog concert was this years Prog Nation tour in Minneapolis, MN.

My first is a bit embarrasing. 

It was a concert called Edgefest held at the Molson Amphitheater in Toronto during the summer of 2001.  The headlining  band was Blink-182.  The other bands on the bill included New Found Glory, Sum-41, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Jimmy Eat World, and Project Wyse.  I was 16 years old.  I actually had a good time though since it was my first legit concert experience.  Plus my sister might have payed for my ticket, and I never went to another concert with that many females in the audience again.

My second concert is what I would consider to be the most significant show I've been to as it turned me on to 2 great bands.  It was the following summer at the same venue, and Dream Theater and Joe Satriani were co-headlining.  I went for Satch, but Dream Theater made the biggest impression. 

The other band I was introduced to was the opening act, King's X.  Their sound was very much dominated by the bass in the mix and uneven, as expected for most openers, but performed well given the conditions.  I remember they played "We Were Born To be Loved" and it sounded great.   Some time after the concert, I picked up a copy of Gretchen Goes To Nebraska on cassette and was hooked.