Your first concert

1977 Ritchie blackmore and rainbow and Reo speedwagon. Tulsa assembly center. $5.00 general admission.

Cool and the Gang. 6 Flags. 1984.

Ragweed, Boland, Stoney, Wade Bowen. Luling Watermelon Thump. 2000-2001ish, can’t really remember

The Beach Boys w/ REO Speedwagon opening, I was a kid so probably around 1988-89 ish.

ACDC the Razors edge tour Tacoma dome. 1991 20$ tickets

RUSH- Moving Pictures Tour

I was 16, still in High School and worked part time at Kroger. I turned around and my boss was in the seat directly behind me! Buzzkill!

Charlie Pride opened for the Jackson 5 at the Houston Live Stock Show & Rodeo

Did he puff puff pass?

Three Dog Night and the Beach Boys...late 1980's...not sure exactly what year, but I think 1988...

Righteous Brothers at Shelton Gym at SFA, probably 1970 or so.

Milly Vanilly at Astroworld, I was crushed when I found out it was a fat white guy lip syncing

Metallica 1989 Reunion Arena

Thats how I found out he was behind me. I was doing the puffing and passing.

Hence the Buzzkill ! He didnt partake. Even during Passage To Bankok!

I honestly have no idea, full blown big venue might have been Ted Nugent.

Drugs are bad, mkay!

It didn’t matter how big the show was I was highly likely to pass out.

Van Halen 1984 tour., then a few months later Rush Power Windows tour. Went to a concert every month from 1984 to 1986….lots of great bands. Tickets were 13 to 17 bucks back then and I still have the ticket stubs. Good times.

Trapeze and Leslie West - 1976 at the Memorial Coliseum in Corpus Christi

Heading to RedRock in a few days, can’t wait to see that venue. 💨 😎

1980, 16 years old, Point Blank, Blackfoot, Foghat and Eddie Money.

2004 Texas State FFA Convention. Freshman in high school and saw Cross Canadian Ragweed. My intro to the red dirt scene. Greatness

Cheap Trick 1980 or so at Madison Square Garden

Scorpions and white lion

REO Speedwagon / Survivor '82. Reunion Arena Dallas

I was 16 and it was the 4th of March 1985 Iron Maiden and WASP at Reunion Arena. It was a great concert and how a buddy and I got the tickets was great.

I was a junior in high school.
I think it might have been to see Jethro Tull but can't really remember. It was at Ector County Colosseum in Odessa. There was lots of mexican dirt weed but one of the girls had a brother just back from Vietnam who brought back some stuff that was about 200 times better. Maybe why I cant remember a lot of that.

BTO 1975 in Tulsa, I think the tickets were $8.50

1969 Steppenwolf ... Beaumont, Tx

Elvis 1977 9th row. Monroe civic center in La.
Remember the intro some songs and "Elvis has left the building"

1981 Ozzy w/Randy Rhoades on guitar @ Dallas County Convention Center opening bands UFO/Iron Maiden

Lollapalooza. The first one. Fair park in Dallas. I think that was my firstconcert. Either that or ZZ top recycler. I also saw Ted Nugent right around the same time, as well as Depeche mode. Things were a little hazy then, and I'm not sure which one was first.

Youngbloods - Canned Heat - Iron Butterfly.........60 something

Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty in FT. Worth , 1976

Mothers Finest at the agora ballroom in Atlanta, 77-78

The Eagles hotel California tour, Jepperson stadium, Houston 1976

1973 Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies

Cheap trick at six flags in st louis, early eighties

The Who with Lynyrd Skynyrd opening in Dallas 1973.

Conway Twitty. I was maybe 7 at the time.

1972 or 1973 Uriah Heep and Savoy Brown in Dallas

1972 3 of us went to rome and saw the who, got the tickets thru special services on base so no cost other than getting there from naples. we tried to see pink floyd in pompeii but no go due to not being able to get off watch for it.

first one I remember, went to a couple in 68/69 but don't remember who it was.

remember one now, the guess who, wedgewood amusement park in Okiecity. probably 67 or 68. they played on the roof of the ticket office and trashed all their instruments at the end of the show, friend of mine got a guitar neck to take home lol.

Clash of the Titans Tour
Chicago, IL (Tinley Park)
Slayer, Anthrax, Alice in Chains, Megadeth, Gary Hoey

Megadeth got booed off the stage, it was sad! Looking back, I wish I would have got to see them play.

Ted Nugent, Yes, Fleetwood Mac circa 1977 Hampton Roads VA.

Wait, I just had a flashback. It was The J Giles band, Morgantown, WV circa 1973.

Dang! Me too but in Columbus about the same time frame. They tore it up through Georgia through those years.

1986 - The Cult and Billy Idol

1973
KISS at UTA Texas Hall

Springsteen 1987... Dan

First Rock concert: Janis Joplin with Rotary Connection opening. 1969

Supertramp
Reunion Arena
1985

Outside of local acts, first big concert was Boston in 1978 at the newly opened Erwin Center. Then a few at The Armadillo, Black Oak Arkansas, Frank Zappa, Van Morrison and even more local acts.

Saw that tour at Municipal Auditorium in Austin, front row center. Awesome!

Styx Pieces of Eight Tour - Ambrosia opened (pretty sure i missed them)

November 4, 1978
Tarrant County Convention Center

Tina Turner at the Galaxy 500 NCO Club in Rein Mein AB Germany, early 1970's.
She played for 3 hours non-stop. Best show ever...

Grand Funk Railroad with Black Oak Arkansas opening....Oakland Coliseum in 1968. Saw Gracie and Jefferson Airplane in Golden Gate park when I used to go with my Dad to the Presidio for his VA checkups back in the day. Back before the park turned into a pit with all the bums and homeless....it was safe for a kid by himself back in the day.

Charlie Daniels Band at the Summit in Houston in 77 or 78. Brian Adams opened for him.

Boston - Charlotte Colosseum 1976

Wasn't necessarily a concert but ZZ Top played at the local teen hangout and dance gig in Groves, Tx called the Towne House in the 1970's. They were there monthly or so. Didn't know we were in the presence of music legends at the time.

ZZ Top

That is a good one.

Senior year at the Aladdin in Vegas I saw Goo Goo Dolls, No Doubt and STP at the same show. That was my first "real band" show and possibly the most 90s concert ever.

Saw lots of friends bands play locally. Including a band that featured 1/2 of what became the The Killers. Ron Vannuci eventually became their drummer. He and I went to High School together. We were not BFFs but we knew each other, had some close friends in common. He still owes my about 20 beers and a few J's. Never did pay me back that rat...

Two stories for the price of one!!

Triumph and Molly Hatchet, 85.

I think it was '81? Scorpions Blackout tour with Iron Maiden and Girl School in El Paso. Tickets were $13.

Texas Jam, I think it was in 1978 or 79, cannot remember for many reasons

Gary Stewart in Humble 1980

About 1975 - Cal Smith - most people won't know him but he had the 1974 Country Song of the Year.

He always had a kicka** band too.

Same here but in Jones Beach, NY w/ Young MC of Just bust a move fame. Great concert.

72 or 73 Three Dog Night. Mobile Convention Center.

1980 Bad Company

First time I saw weed and smelled it up close. I was shocked. No, I did not partake.

June 1974 Texas Stadium
The Allman Brothers
Marshall Tucker Band
Joe Walsh
$8.00 to get in

In I think 1974 went to the Rolling Stones concert (in Chicago). It was billed as their "FINAL" tour.

1972, Paramount Theater Seattle, WA. Blood, Sweat and Tears.

The Hag and No Show jones at Billy Bobs around 1980,was the CC water back tour,saw the Hag at the Surf in clear lake Iowa in like 2015,last concert I went to,to old for that now.

Mine was somewhat memorable, It was a first for several things, first concert (Led Zep) first joint, first nookie..all in the same night.

Was in the Blinn College Band and all the trumpet players went to see Maynard Ferguson perform at aTm in 1976. What a showman, and what a trumpet player.

Neil Diamond in his prime. About 1972 at Arizona State Gammage Auditorium. Everyone was rocking to Holly Holy! And Sweet Caroline!

TDawg digging on MF.... Joyce has a set of pipes for sure...

My wife pretty much never lets loose but put on MF and she is reaching for the volume knob..

BW Stevenson, Rod Stewart, Three Dog Night at the Cotton Bowl around 1971. Halter tops galore!

KISS headlining, they were touring on the Destroyer album...Blue Oyster Cult, Johnny & Edgar Winter, 38 Special, and Bob Segar at Fulton Co Stadium in Atlanta.

The 2nd show l ever saw. One of the hardest working bands that ever worked a stage. Played at my hometown's Civic Auditorium. Blowed the roof off the place, pyro & all. It was the first rock show at our auditorium and the last as there was a lot of old money living across from the venue. They put a stop to anymore rock bands coming to town.

Don Williams - 1988 - 6 Flags amphitheater. I was in 7th grade.