What Were The First And Last Concerts You Attended?

[arwalden]

Here are mine:

First concert... THE OSMONDS!! (whoo hoo!)


Most recent concert... Jimmy Buffett

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. First: Boston, Memphis, TN, 1978

Most recent:Los Lost Boys, Pittsburgh, one week ago

[tk2kewl]

2. Cheap Trick/Finn Bros

On edit: actually last concert was NY Philharmonic

[Raster]

3. First: Yes/Close to the Edge. Last: Prince/Musicology

And I would LOVE to see JB.

[Worst Username Ever]

4. First: Beach Boys.

Last? It has been a couple years. I think it was matchbox 20.

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. First true concert (were I paid to get in)

Alice Cooper and Motorhead (Raise your first and yell tour)

Last true concert (where I paid to get in)

Peter Murphy or Gwar... don't remember which one came first...

The last concert I saw on someone else's dime - Rush (2003)

[ret5hd]

6. first: alice cooper

last: rolling stones, smashing pumpkins

[smiley_glad_hands]

7. Conway Twitty was the first & 311 was the last.

Nice turn around huh?

[eddiebrowns]

8. Joni Mitchell was my first concert

and the last was the Moody Blues if you're talking about musical concerts. Otherwise my last concert was Red Skelton(as you can see, it's been a looooooooooooong time since I've been to a concert!)

[Metatron]

9. 1st: John Cougar Mellencamp, last: Flaming Lips

Both sucked.

[KurtNYC]

10. First - Ike and Tina Turner Revue

at the Aud in Buffalo. In the round, so close I got hit by the Ikettes' sweat.

Last: Santana at Radio City -- played till midnight and they turned the lights out on him! he would not stop

[pagerbear]

31. I am humbled by your coolness!

[cmf]

11. First

Erasure as a teenager number of years ago.

Last - REM on Friday night.

[Mike Daniels]

12. First - John Dever (probably not even 12 years old - parents took us)

Most Recent - Richard Thompson a few weeks back in Wash, DC.

[eyesroll]

13. First was a classical concert of some sort at Ravinia

I was maybe 7, and I enjoyed myself immensely. (First rock show was something washed-up at a local fair, I'm sure, because my parents didn't let me go to concert halls or arena shows until I was out of high school.)

Most recent was the Pixies in Milwaukee, a couple of weeks ago.

[Dzimbowicz]

14. The headline act was...

Uriah Heep, but Earth, Wind and Fire opened for them, great show!
Last concert was Fogerty.

[sportndandy]

15. Kiss in 1979 - The Dead in 2004

[arwalden]

16. Whoops... I Forgot About Nancy Sinatra!! (Silly Me!)

She was performing at Seattle's "Bumbershoot" Arts Festival back in September.

So, technically, even though it was a "mini-concert", that would be the last live performance that I saw.

[bushisanidiot]

17. First: Osmonds in '75, last Annie Lennox/Sting last summer

gawd, i'm old.

[loudestchick]

108. Sting and Annie were amazing, no?

They sang "We'll be together tonite" as a duet in KCMO...I about fell out!

[bushisanidiot]

111. Yes, it was wonderful. I was on the lawn and got to hear Annie sing

"Here comes the rain again" as rain fell lightly on the crowd that evening in St. Louis. Unfortunately, I missed the first half hour or so of the show, but I still had a great time. :)

[loudestchick]

116. I saw Sting at the Fox theatre in St. Louis in '87...

What a show...What a venue:D

[City of Mills]

18. First - Testament, Megadeth, Judas Priest

Last - George Winston.

Favorite - The Wailers tied with Cypress Hill. I like music from around the spectrum!

[just some guy]

19. well,

Charlie Daniels, first
Nanci Griffith, last

[NuckinFutz]

25. I love Nanci...

looks like you had quite a turnaround...

[just some guy]

70. always leant more toward folk...

Got tickets to CDB from the radio, Molly Hatchett and the works.
I think the second concert I ever saw was John Denver, wish I could have seen Kate Wolf.
Truly - the Nanci Griffith concert was eye opening to me, as a wannabe musician myself, of the way an artist can use a platform in a graceful manner to speak about what matters to him or her. Not a lot of people manage to do it so well.

[NuckinFutz]

20. First: Chicago back in eighty-something

Last: Livingston Taylor, a little over a week ago.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

21. First - Led Zeppelin...

Most recent, E.S.T. (Esbjorn Svenson Trio)...just over a week ago.

Edited for spelling.

[skygazer]

22. First was Emerson, Lake and Palmer in 1976

It was also the first time I did acid so it was a memorable show.

Last was (I think) Joe Cocker and The Guess Who right after 9/11. I don't think I've gone to a show since.

[arcos]

23. First... Bon Jovi...

last: If we count DJs, then Deep Dish last Saturday...
If not, I guess it was Alanis Morisette.

[nine23]

24. Beach Boys (1970) - Tom Waits (two weeks ago)

[pagerbear]

26. First--who remembers that far back?

Last--National Chorale (:puke: ) performing Orff's Carmina Burana, Friday night.

[arwalden]

30. Wasn't Your First Concert "Up With People" or Debby Boone?

[pagerbear]

33. It very well could have been!

[skooooo]

27. Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

[bowens43]

28. First: The Who (1974) , Last: John Prine

[Bluzmann57]

29. First

Black Oak Arkansas in 1973, for which I make no apologies, and last to date, Bobby Rush. That was a good show. Last "name" show I attended was Neil Young earlier this year. I guess Summerfest and Bluesfest don't really count as "concerts" since there are a whole lot of bands.

[ohiosmith]

32. First: The Beatles. Last: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.

[eoberhauser]

34. My first and Last

My first concert was Cheap Trick and Lita Ford in San Antonio when I was in 6th grade. My last concert was PJ Harvey at First Avenue in Minneapolis. It was my favorite concert of all time.

Erin

[LiberalEsto]

35. First: Grateful Dead

in NJ, Fall of 1969

Most recent: not sure, maybe seeing Arlo Guthrie perform at a community festival about a decade ago.

[starroute]

36. First: Joan Baez, Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, August 1963

That was just before I went off to college. It wasn't normally my sort of thing, but a folkie friend of mine asked if I wanted to go and I said, "Sure." We had tickets for the next to last row and had to guess at what was happening onstage.

After the intermission, Baez brought on some guy I'd never heard of and he sang "Blowin' in the Wind." It was ... interesting.


Most recent, I guess Iris DeMent a couple of years ago. That one was disappointing. I like her voice, but she seemed to be in a terminally depressed mood and sang all her most suicidal ballads. Ah well, you can't win them all.

[Oreo]

38. First: Hall and Oates with Til Tuesday opening early 80's

Last: Sarah McLachlan this September

[slestak]

37. Pictures!

first:



last:

[Carni]

39. 1st concert Aerosmith 1976

Last concert I attended was the Cranberries (like two years ago)

Having kids takes a bite out of one's musical social life!

[huskerlaw]

40. First: Whitney Houston

::hangs head in shame::

Last: Dave Matthews Band. Hey, at least I developed taste!

[Minimus]

41. First: The Knack Last: Jimmy Buffett

[DemocratSinceBirth]

42. First Concert

Saw the Eagles, Jimmy Buffet, Hall and Oates, and Warren Zevon at the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Florida in 1978 for $10.00....


Last concert- Paul McCartney at the Blocbuster Bowl in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1993

Also saw the Stones, Clapton, Public Enemy, Elvin Bishop, BB King along the way....

[arwalden]

44. What A Bargain!!! Only $2.50 Per Show!!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

54. Saw The Stones At The Tangerine Bowl in 81 For $16.00

I saw Buffet three times back in the day...

Twice at the Tangerine Bowl and once at the University of Florida...

[Squeech]

43. First: Rolling Stones, 1965

At the Manning Bowl in Lynn, MA, a civic stadium that the various high schools play football in.

It was very long ago, and I don't remember much about it, but I do remember that I was disappointed because (a) I was only 12 years old, and short for my age, and everybody in front of me was standing on their chairs and I couldn't see anything; and (b) nothing they played sounded like the records, and at the time I thought that was a bad thing.

I think the last concert I saw was the Willem Breuker Kollektief, a magnificent 10-piece jazz band from northern Europe.

[TrogL]

45. Me performing....and me performing

I end up onstage more than I watch somebody else on stage.

[SarahB]

46. First- Sting 1990, Last- Sarah McLachlan 2004. (nt)

[MuseRider]

47. The Turtles

and Steppenwolf together in Lawrence, Kansas in about 1969 or 1970? Last, Bella Fleck and the Flecktones this last summer.

[RetroLounge]

48. First: Pink Floyd - Last: Cake

Pink Floyd, 1977, Soldier Field Chicago

Cake, 2004, Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee

at least I can remember the Cake Concert....

RL

[Beer Snob-50]

49. my first was kiss

during their destroyer tour and the last was jimmy buffet at fenway park

[bif]

50. The Temptations--Bob Dylan

Temps about 1966. Dylan about 2 weeks ago.

[mondo joe]

51. Devo / Barenaked Ladies

Having been to fewer than 10 concerts in my life it's not hadr to figure it out:

First: DEVO

Last: Barenaked Ladies

[fleabert]

87. BNL rocks- I've seen them six times. n/t

[fleabert]

88. self delete, whoops

[flvegan]

52. First: Kiss, "Crazy Nights" Tour...Last: Beastie Boys

Kiss was with (sigh) Ted Nugent. 1988, Boston, MA.

Last/most recent: Beastie Boys w/Talib Kwali (sp?) a few weeks ago, Tampa, FL.

[Wallflower_Liberal]

53. First: Cool & The Gang - Last: Barenaked Ladies

My taste has come a loooong way! Lol.

[Fleurs du Mal]

55. 1983: Styx or Quiet Riot (maybe with the Scorpions)

Last concert was Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (season tickets) on 11/13.

[Rowdyboy]

56. Charlie Pride 1968; Blues Travelor, 2004...

[RUDUing2]

57. 1st: Pure Prarie League (1977) last: B.B. King

[Ann Arbor Dem]

76. One regret I have is never seeing Pure Prairie League....

Amy, what you gonna do? :)

[tyedyeto]

58. 1st: The Youngbloods

at a free concert in a park in Berkeley circa 1969

Latest: Styx in late September.

[juslikagrzly]

59. 1st - ThreeDogNight, last - Crosby Stills Nash

[Left Is Write]

60. First: Heart/John Cougar; Last: Aerosmith/Cheap Trick (nt)

[Ron Green]

61. BEATLES 1964 - RAY CHARLES 2002

[XNASA]

62. 1st: Bloodrock 1973 Last: Saturday night, HIM & Monster Magnet

I took my 14 yo son and his pal to see HIM on Saturday. For Scandinavian Goth/Love, they're pretty good.

[obreaslan]

63. First, Roger Daltry (From The Who)'85, Last-Tommy Makem, 2003

[kitchen girl]

64. First: Beach Boys. Most Recent: Slaid Cleves...

and King Wilkie. Awesome show!!!

[Dora]

65. First: Adam Ant on the Vive le Rock Tour

Last: 2004 Austin City Limits Festival, band saturation city!

[NamVetsWeeLass]

66. 1st : Kiss 1985, Civic Arena.

Last: X-Fest 2001... Got to see Nickelback and Sevendust. Oddly, I was really there to see Henry Rollins...In the 80's if there was a "god" Henry Rollins be thy name. I loved Black Flag and I wanted to just "do things" to Henry Rollins. When I saw him in 2k1, I was disappointed, disenchanted and I was left feeling like someone had taken something very dear to me when I was a Kid. Dunno, may be just me.

[gollygee]

67. First: Adam Ant - Strip tour; last: I believe it was Barenaked Ladies

I have a little kid so it's been a while since I've been to a concert. The Indigo Girls were in town recently - I *LOVE* them - and I tried to talk my husband into going, but he sadly doesn't like the Indigo Girls. I wasn't sure who else would want to go. So I just didn't go. *SOB*

[Placebo]

68. I lost my concert cherry to U2...

and my last concert was November 7th, saw Green Day. Awesome show. :headbang:

[sangh0]

69. 1st - The Who, MSG, 1972 - Last - Phish, Coney Island - 2004

.

[DrZeeLit]

71. First: Beach Boys, Lovin' Spoonful, Chad&Jeremy, Neil Diamond, and more...

Last... BRUCE!!!!! I've been to one concert on every tour Bruce has ever made.... raised hands and singin' along!

I saw all the major names of the 60s: The Doors, Jimi, Janice, Steppenwolf (4x... I was hovering on groupie status), Santana, Three Dog Night... Chicago... hmmm.... great times.

One of my favorites -- the Eagles during their last big tour about 10 years ago. Hell Freezes Over.

I don't think I've ever been to a concert and not had a good time.
It's all in the perspective.

[Forkboy]

72. First-Kiss in '74

Last-Sun City Girls last Easter Sunday.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

73. Cheap Trick/Eric Clapton

Soon to be the Violent Femmes (again)... YEAHH!!

[azoth]

74. First: Bay City Rollers. Last: Eagles.

[Nikia]

75. I didn't go to my first concert until I was 24

I saw Rob Zombie. The last one was Megadeth.

[Robeson]

77. First: Johnny Cash. Last: Cowboy Junkies

[Swamp Rat]

78. Louis Armstrong and Charmaine Neville

... with a whole lotta cool cats in between.

[realisticphish]

79. First: Lollapalooza, Jane's Addiction headlining

Recent: ekoostik hookah (a jam band)


:hippie: THe Incorrigible Democrat

[judaspriestess]

80. well I've been to over 200 concerts

my first, RATT and anchovi (Bon Jovi)

my most recent, last week - Damage plan, shadows fall
week before bangtango and metal church (separate shows)

Dec. 15th SLAYER, SLAYER, SLAYER, SLAYER!!! for the 6th time.
Just saw them in Aug at OZZFEST.
I got to see my alltime favorite band: JUDAS PRIEST at ozzfest, thus my username!!!
:headbang:

[RevCheesehead]

81. 1. No idea 2. Green Bay Symphony Orchestra

[crispini]

82. 1st: Jimmy Buffett. Last: Polyphonic Spree

I saw JB when I was just a little gal. My mom took me.

Polyphonic, a few months ago. I (heart) Polyphonic! :D

[whodiedandmadeUSgod]

83. First: Night Ranger Last: James Taylor

[Califooyah Operative]

84. New Kids On the Block > Thrice,Anti-flag,pipedown,thought riot nt

[malmapus]

85. This is sad...

First concert: Pearl Jam - Atlanta 1994

Last Concert: Smashing Pumpkins - Atlanta 1998

[Frogtutor]

86. First: ELO ('79 or '80) Last: U2 ('98 Pop Mart Tour) n/t

[Frogtutor]

104. Dang, I just remembered I went to an "oldies" concert

with my parents just a couple of years ago. We saw Three Dog Night, The Rascals, The Everly Brothers, etc. It was good, but I'd rather remember U2!

Edit: Seems I have a very selective memory; I also just remembered that the first concert I went to was actually Merle Haggard at Billy Bob's Texas!! I went with a friend and her mom when I was 13.

Maybe I blocked that one out; I despise country music now!

[fleabert]

89. FIRST: 70's music fest age 5 in Austin LAST:Stone Temple Pilots

[Baja Margie]

90. First Concert was

Jefferson Airplane





Last one was Lila Downs, and it was outasight.

[nytemare]

91. First Sonny and Cher, last Lillith Fair, best Peter Gabriel!!

[seg4527]

92. 1st bob dylan, last green day

[Codeine]

93. First:The Cure '88 Last: Morrissey '04

And they both kicked ass.

I've also seen the reconstituted Doors six times in the last two years...

[rppper]

94. first..aerosmith/blackfoot...last...earthday birthday w/ the offspring....

...headlining and 13 other bands including Shinedown, Drowning Pool, Hatebreed, Damageplan, Sevendust, Trapt and Puddle of Mudd. i never miss sevendust....awsome live....they were worth the price of the ticket alone(only 35.00...).

aerosmith was a cool first concert...it was 1978 and i was 12 y/o's, back in the sam houston arena in houston...i clearly remember steve tyler stumbling off the stage...i hate saying this, but i wish they would start back on the drugs again...their music has sucked since they sobered up...this aerosmith will never make another toys in the attic.....

[Catchawave]

95. Neil Diamond/Sarah Brightman

[tsakshaug]

96. long ago...

My mind is not too clear..
Could have been James Taylor/Jackson Browne

Latest was Simon and Garfunkel last spring

[Phentex]

97. first: Foreigner last: They Might Be Giants

:)

[ProfessorGAC]

98. First: Grand Funk Railroad 1969

Last: The Fixx at The Vic in Chicago. 3 Years ago.

I don't go anymore. I don't like people enough to be surrounded by thousands of them.
The Professor

[arwalden]

106. General Admission Gatherings Are Pretty Bad...

and the every-man-for-himself grabbit-and-growl approach makes me uncofortable too. I prefer assigned seating.

[ProfessorGAC]

109. Yeah, You're Right

The one before that was David Bowie/Trent Reznor, a year or so before the one i mentioned. We had dead center 4th row. But, even then, the hustle and bustle, even on the way to very good, and VERY PRICEY, seats, was getting on my nerves.

The Fixx deal was only in a room that seats, maybe, 1200. That's a lot more tolerable, and Fixx fans aren't going to be doing any stage diving and moshing. So, it was ok.

But, i think i'm mostly done with concerts. It would have to be something extraordinary to get me out of my dungeon.
The Professor

[peacefreak]

99. First--Dick Clark Calvacade of Stars

with Little Anthony & the Imperials, James Brown, Young Rascals & Herman's Hermits (I was 14, OK?)
Latest--Toots & the Maytalls

[Mallifica]

100. embarrassingly,

the first "real" concert I attended was Milli Vanilli when I was in sixth grade . . .

If I skip over that, it was Dylan with my parents.

The last, I think, was Sarah Sarah Mclachlan, but I see local acts pretty often.

[Debbi801]

101. My first was Shawn Cassidy (LOL) ...

My last was Alanis Morissette & Bare Naked Ladies.

Debbi

[peekaloo]

102. Loggins & Messina.......Springsteen/r.e.m/Tracy Chapman

[Orsino]

103. Please don't say "last"!

I'm not dead yet!

First: Sea Level (Allman Bros' Chuck Leavell & friends--get it?) and the Cate Brothers (remember "Union Man"?), ca. 1977

Most Recent: Sting/Annie Lennox, this past Labor Day weekend.

[negativenihil]

105. heh

first- huey lewis and the news - manchester nh

last- skinny puppy - boston ma

[loudestchick]

107. 1st--Van Halen w/ Diamond Dave not that loser Hagar

Most Recent (not last)--Sting & Annie Lennox, this past summer...awesome show!

[Rambis]

110. 1st Grateful Dead 1974- Last Rat Dog

I still miss that fat man.

[DS1]

112. Overkill - Suckapunch

[KDLarsen]

113. Let me see..

.. first concert I positively can say I went to, was Midnight Oil on the Orange stage at Roskilde Festival 1990 (I was 8 at the time & there because both my parents were working as volunteers - a tradition I'm currently upholding on the 7th year).

The last full concert I saw was the Basement Jaxx on the very same stage on 3rd of July this year - you couldn't tell where the rain stopped & the ground started, it was sooo muddy, but the group didn't care and made the whole area dance away. I would have liked to stay and see Fatboy Slim do a DJ gig, but I had a shift from midnight onwards (otoh, we could hear the music just about everywhere). The worst thing at this years festival was, that I had a shift right in the middle of the Pixies gig.

[Fifth of Five]

114. First - Steppenwolf (ca 1970) Last - Bette Midler (2004) n/m

[Mr. McD]

115. 1st, Dolly Pardon and Porter Wagner

Last Judy Collins :)

[jonnyblitz]

117. first: zztop, earth wind and fire, uriah heep (one show) , last::

warped tour 2004 in NYC (randall's island) last august...

[brentspeak]

118. Elvis Costello, Framingham MA (1990?)/Yes (2001) n/t

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

119. kristen hersch '93/ the cure back in august

i saw robyn hitchcock record at npr last week, though-does that count as a concert?

[noonwitch]

120. First-The Cars in 1980. I don't know what the last concert I went to was

Pink Floyd in the 90s? I saw the Dead in 1993, before Jerry died, but I think I saw Floyd after that. I don't go to concerts much.

[norml]

121. For large rock concerts,Edgar Winter in 74,Tears For Fears in 93.

It's been to long since I've been to a large rock concert.