first prog concert?

Well I saw Pink Floyd at Live 8 last year, and Dream Theater last year if you could say they are my first prog gigs but I did go and see man and wishbone ash 2 years.

Sadly I've yet to see a prog band in concert

chamberry wrote: My first concert will be tomorrow and it's going o be with DREAM THEATER in there start of there 20th aniversary tour ! I'm so exited!!!

AWESOME!  Seen them several times, the show where they performed the entire SFAM was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.

Green Day 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Jokin'

 

Frank Zappa 1975

Queen 1976

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ELP, the Tarkus tour, that would be 1971 I think. I was about 15 at the time.

Opening for them was Taj Mahal and Edgar Winter's White Trash.

I saw that whole Styx/REO thing. I guess that was my first real taste of live prog. Complete with a spinning keyboard set and all that.

My first REAL prog show was when Rush came to Chicagoland for their 30th anniversary tour. Geddy had a "bit of a frog in his throat" but it made him sing more subdued. Frankly, I thought it sounded amazing. And Peart did a drum solo with a swing recording in the background!!!

Chicapah wrote: YES on their Close to the Edge tour in 1972.

I want to die

Mine was Porcupine Tree-Deadwing tour....when I first I got into Prog I listened to all the 70's Symphonic stuff and that was only a couple years ago so I missed it all by not being alive.

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Jethro Tull, Jon Anderson or Rick Wakeman in 1993
..can't recall which was first..

Hibou wrote:

"Genesis “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” with Peter Gabriel, at the Montreal Forum, December 1974. And to think that I came out of there disappointed because they hadn’t played one single song from Selling England by the Pound.

he truth is, the distribution of the album The Lamb had been delayed and no one had had a chance to hear it before the show. So many of us walked out of the Forum that night scratching our heads, trying to make sense of it all and wondering what we’d all just seen.

Now I'm scratching my own head when I think I lived a historical moment and didn't even appreciate it ."

Well, Hibou, I have seen The Wall in London and Dortmund but when I had seen it just after The Wall 2-LP was released, perhaps I also would have been disappointed or walked away halfway because the musical direction between The Lamb and Selling is as different as between The Wall and Animals, both were at that time controversial concept albums with lots of variety and short songs, way ahead of the sound of the previous (s) album (s). And you were waiting for Selling songs, I was waiting for Animals, Wish You Were Here and Dark Side songs but in vain ..Pink Floyd only played The Wall and then left the stage .. we started screaming for 'more' but the lights went out and the stage crew very quickly removed the equipment .. ..

chamberry wrote: My first concert will be tomorrow and it's going to be with DREAM THEATER in there start of there 20th aniversary tour ! I'm so exited!!!

Im going to see them on march 2nd, im so excited too.. i hope you ´ll enjoy it Chamberry