QUESTION: What’s the first concert you ever went to, and was it good or bad?
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QUESTION: What’s the first concert you ever went to, and was it good or bad?
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Black Sabbath. 1984, so Tony and Geezer, no Ozzy nor Bill. Opening act was Quiet Riot, awful. It was a great experience, but I cannot recall much of it, due to memory erased due to some traumatic events. I recall loving the music, there was a stage set of Stonehenge, and it was great seeing Tony and Geezer play, but I cannot recall any specific songs.
Megadeath at the concord pavillion a few years ago. Awesome show really enjoyed it.
Cyndi Lauper in 1987 of November in Stockton, CA at the UOP (University Of Pacific). Me and my sister went to the concert.We were the only one that gave a flower to her but not directly, the security guard took the flower for us and gave it to Cyndi Lauper and she even hold while she was singing and the song was time after time. That was the best concert of my life. No camera was allowed.We were told if anyone caught taking picture the security, not afraid to take away.The camera.
Loggins & Messina Chico state mid 1970s was GREAT
Have absolutely no idea how I got back to the dorm.
Pioneer Week by any chance? Mine was James Taylor at Chico State during P-Week.
My first big concert was Led Zepplin at Nashville Municipal Auditorium in 1971. That was a year before Stairway to Heaven, but it was an amazing show! My girlfriend at that time complained about all the Women Libbers in attendance, but I had no complaints at all.
^1970
Sorry, I fat-fingered it
Hot Tuna at Winterland, 1973.
Excellent!
Lynyrd Skynyrd and Nazareth. Concord Pavillion in the mid 70s. Excellent show! Followed by almost every Day on the Green, Cow Palace, Winterland, etc. – especially New Years Eve. I’m a rocker!
Would have loved to be there, I love Lynard Skynyrd, and I was living in the Bay Area then (San Rafael). Seen clips on UTube it looked like a great concert.
Same here, my older brother worked for Columbia Records for many yrs, so I got free tickets, preferred parking along with backstage passes too most of the shows, it was frick’in amazing!!!
Furthermore, I’ve seen, met and partied with so many big name musicians it would make your head spin.
Do you play? I play Guitar.
I can sing, but I don’t play. I’ve met a few musicians myself, but I had to be careful not to look like a female groupie. Just a fan!
Hahaha, no doubt!!!
I will be dating myself with this answer because they were the first British group to tour the
U.S. before the Beatles. I was a young teen when we went to the Cow Palace and saw The Dave Clark Five. It was both, good and bad. It was good because we sat up close and their performance was as expected. It was bad because there were too many young girls screaming, and actually attacked them, tugging at their clothes and pulling their hair as they were getting into their limousine after the show. The opening act was The Nashville Teens,
they were also from the UK, their hit song was Tobacco Road.
Admission was $2.50
First one was Neil Diamond. My parents dragged me along since they wanted to go. That was in the early-mid 80s. First concert with just friends was Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Pavillion probably around 1995.
Elton John and Kiki Dee at Oakland Colosseum 10/10/1974 it was pretty awesome.
OH My Gaud this was so fun reading about all these memories. Day on the Green! The Cow Palace, Winterland, Keystone in Berkeley….Oakland stadium…The Rheem Theather, I don’t remember the first concert I went to, but I remember my first album. My older brother gave me a Three Dog Night album, I was probably in the 7th grade,1970. It’s Still great Music! THANK YOU! THIS WAS FUN.
I flat out loved the Keystone!!!
I saw So many bands that were just starting out, that ended up to be huge in the rock & metal world. Back then you could buy beer, booze and wine, at any of the Berkeley Liquor stores, even though you were in your teens, they just didn’t care, as long as you let them keep the change.
Man, those were the days!!!
Day On the Green, 1976(?): Aerosmith, Foreigner, Pat Travers, Van Halen, AC/DC (w/Bon Scott). OMG!
Day on the Green #4 1976
J Geils, Blue Oyster Cult, Jeff Beck, Mahogany Rush and Sammy Hagar
Was there as well, I went to pretty much all the Day On The Green shows, they were awesome!!!
One of the best Day on the Green concerts! Thanks for the memories!
July 23, 1978. Great concert! Day on the Green rocked!
From what I remember of them, haha, I’ll have to agree 1000%
I went to that one. I think it was 1978. “Heavy Metal” on the green. I saw things I had never seen before. It was the first Day on the Green I went to. We got in line at 3 am. When the opened the gates to the parking lot people ran from across the street. We did that at the next Day on the Green we went to. No more waiting in line for hours. But it added to the experience. It was a long hot day.
I was there! Good old days.
Same, they were flip’in amazing!!!
I don’t understand why they don’t have better shows in the Bay Area these days?
Most likely because promoters and musicians don’t want to come to this crap hole of a State any longer.
I was there as well, what a great show!!!
The Beatles at the International Amphitheater in Chicago in 1966. The Screaming was so loud you couldn’t hear them play. Billy Stewart was the opening act.
Fifth Harmony at Concord Pavilion in 2016
1965 Cow Palace: Sonny & Cher; Bau Brummels; The Byrds; Little Anthony and the Imperials;The Lovin Spoonful, and 10 or more others that I can’t even remember!
I was there too.
Black Sabbath at Winterland, March 10, 1972….The original members….It was the first time I heard of them…I remember every song after listening to their albums…Oh yeah Lots of open drug use and a wild audience…The S.F. Tac Squad walked in during the opening act…they mostly glared at the audience and looked threatening.
color me jelly!
Symphony Orchestra at Concord Pavilion.
My private flute teacher was principal flutist
at Sac State. I was 15.
It was great.
Little Stevie Wonder around 1963 at the Cow Palace. The finale was Fingertips and the place went wild; everybody pushed the folding chairs out of the way and were dancing and rocking with the music. It was fantastic. I wasn’t old enough to drive, but a friend’s dad drove us there and waited in the parking lot in his big white Cadillac. A couple of other early ones were James Brown at the San Jose Civic Auditorium and Dave Brubeck at the Monterey Jazz Festival when I was a junior or senior in high school; I took a date to that one.
I’m embarrassed to say it was Wham!, with the Pointer Sisters opening (I went with a friend who was chaperoning his younger sister and her friends). Oakland, 80s.
The Police – Synchronicity tour 1983 in Hartford CT with R.E.M. as the opener. Best time ever. Also got high for the first time. Good times.
Elvis Presley at the Cow Palace in 1976. It was memorable. Elvis was past his prime but I was happy I got to see him before he passed on in 1977.
I think Elvis was at his best in the 70s. Better songs, musicians, back up singers, and
music. It was at his last couple of concerts when he was so messed up on drugs that
he forgot the words to his songs. The world lost a great talent when he died.
In 1975, the Concord Pavillion, Carlos Santana, … I was 17.
Then 17 years later in 1992, again at Concord Pavillion.
This was the first concert for our 10-year-old daughter.
She still likes them too.
I went to high school with Carlos. I didn’t know him personally, but I remember seeing him
and his friends playing music in Dolores Park, across the street from Mission High School.
After he became a success, I thought, hey, I remember him from school.
The Beatles at the Cow Palace in the summer of 1965. This was before tight security. The concert had a couple warm up band and then the Beatles came on. Everyone rushed the stage area including a friend and I. We were way back and ended up of course on the floor area not far from the stage. Someone came from behind the stage, grabbed John Lennon’s hat and did a swan dive into the audience next to the front of the stage. On the way out I bought a program booklet of the Beatles. Nothing but great photos. Still have it to this day.
Couldn’t call it a concert, but when I was a teenager in Denmark my friends and I were into Jazz, Copenhagen had a great jazz club, and Dexter Gordon (the great American saxophonist) was living in Denmark then and playing in Montmatre. When I was an au pair in Westport, a date invited me to a concert at the local high school, it was Eric Clapton. Living in New York City years later I went to Central Park on a Sunday afternoon, and the 5th Dimension was giving a free concert. Living in New Orleans a few years later with my ex-husband, we went to see Pete Seeger and Don McLean, Jim Croce was opening for Don McLean. Over the years, I have been to some concerts or seen some bands at local fairs. Saw Bob Seeger, John Cougar Mellenkamp in Oakland, and Pete Seeger again with Arlo Guthrie. Bruce Springsteen in Mountain View, and the Stones at the Oakland Coliseum. Saw Country Joe and the Fish at Golden Gate Park, and Blood Sweat and Tears at the Sausalito art fair. To my everlasting regret never saw The Doors (they playing in Hartfor Ct, when I was living in Westport) and The Band, the played in New York when I was living there, and the biggest regret of all times The Last Waltz at Winterland, I was living in San Rafael at the time.
Judas Priest and Rick Derringer opened for Led Zeppelin at the Oakland coliseum for one of the Day On The Green concerts. (it was Led Zeppelin’s final show in the US).
It was flat out Amazing!!!
Yes, it was! And Led Zeppelin didn’t come to the Bay Area often. Tickets went fast!
Supremes & Jackson 5 co-starring at the forum … tickets were $2.50 … Motown was hot back then
The best concert I ever saw was The Rolling Stones, J. Geils and George Thoroughgood – Candlestick Park/Oct 1981. Awesome!
SNACK Concert at Kezer Stadium. It was in 1975 and was a concert to raise money for schools. It was an acronym for “Students Need Athletics, Culture and Kicks”. First time I saw Jefferson Starship and fell in love with Grace Slick. Been a fan ever since.
The first concert I saw was in 1959. I saw Bobby Vinton play at the Minnesota State Fair. I have been to at least 30 concerts at the Pavillion. Still ” I get around”.
Elton John 1976. 6th grade. Great introduction to arena concerts. Ooh that smell, can’t you smell that smell?
“That Smell”?
That was a Lynyrd Skynyrd song about drugs and death.
If EJ had a done a song with that title it would have been about something else entirely that I really don’t want to get into…. and he didn’t so I won’t.