First concert

[Ash333]

Less than Jake - University of Essex.

Aweseome

[Max Flower]

Kiss - Dynasty Tour 08 08 1979 in Buffalo at the Aud.

[Twichaldinho]

Jimi Hendrix- Munsterland Halle...Munster (West )Germany...

amazing what a little digging online can come up with

http://stratohendrix.blogspot.com/searc ... %20Munster

WOW Epsilon, thanks for the link. That setlist is the stuff of dreams.
So envious that this was your first gig.

[Mancuso]

Queen - Newcastle City Hall - Mon Dec 3rd/4th (?) 1979

Reputed to be one of the best gigs they ever played, but I remember little of it now.

[angry pirate]

^^^same venue, about a year later. The Police. I was 9 or 10, but that night i felt 18.. ,
Then nothing til my first Floyd gig.

[sam]

AC/DC The Who Made Who Tour Aug. 28 1986 in Sioux Falls, SD. I was 17 and do not remember much of the concert other than we smoked a lot of hash and that AC/DC was so loud they done damage(many cracks in the brick/block) to the building. After that concert they put a limit on how loud bands could play there. I think the damage came when the canons went off during "For those about to rock" as the whole building would shake every time they fired it was crazy loud.

[doobydave]

Haha. Mine was Hawkwind, at the Folkstone Leas Cliff Hall in '87 or '88.

Best gig(s) were either RATM at glastonbury or Gong in Sheffield on mushrooms

[plantpot]

Roxy Music - St. Georges Hall Bradford 1973 ?

[YourGuru]

Rush - Phoenix - 1999... Thanksgiving week, Thanks Uncle Rex!!! I was 14 at the time..

Although I might have seen "Hootie and the Blowfish" earlier, I would never admit it.

Warmest..

~Ian

[Nimrod]

Boston, on the tour for their second album. Late seventies.

[spidergawd]

My first proper outdoor concert was "Goodbye Summer" at the Oval cricket ground in London 1971, a concert to raise funds to help Bangla Desh.
The Who, The Faces etc. etc. Mott the Hoople, anyone remember them?
A glorious memorable late summer day. I was celebrating my freedom having just been chucked out of the royal navy that week, via the military prison at colchester, for being an acidhead and chasing F4B Phantoms down the flight deck of HMS Ark Royal. Crazy dayz

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/goodbye-summer-1971.html

Went to gigs during the 60's saw the Stones among others when they were still playing local dancehalls.

[artymac]

Got taken by my brother to see "The Jam", at the Glasgow apollo and the "Loch Lomand" Rock festival, (Where my eyes were opened wide for the first time ), camping for the weekend, i think this was 1979, or 80.
First gigs with friends, we would have been 16 and 17 year olds, 3 in 7 days (Bang went my bursary!!) in order, "Ozzy Osbourne", Glasgow Apollo, "Thin lizzy", Glasgow Apollo, "Queen", in a big shed in "Ingliston" near "Edinburgh". We were in the queue for 6 hours before the "Queen" show, to get ourselves as close to the front as possible, it was the hottest day of the year and we had nowt to drink . No more than 10 feet from the stage, it all got to much for "Groagie", during the "Teardrop explodes" set and he fainted and was passed along the top of everybodies head, into the arms of the bouncers as is traditional. 'Lost' big "Joe", my shirt and nearly my life it felt like, when "Tie your mother down" started and had to fight my way out backwards!! 'Found' big "Joe", who looked like he'd been raped by a bear, then thrown in front of a bus, stood shoutin' in each others ears how we got out, Oh fuck, where's "Groagie", when up strolls "Groagie", (who's dad was coming get us home.) right as rain with a pint of beer in his hand!! Bliss.

"Glasgow" Apollo, one of the best venues i've ever been in for a gig...brother in law saw "Led Zeppelin" there when it was "Green's Play House", said the seats started to unscrew themselves from the floor when "Bonzo" started hittin' them high hats .......and they knocked it down. Total wankers.

[artymac]

My first proper outdoor concert was "Goodbye Summer" at the Oval cricket ground in London 1971, a concert to raise funds to help Bangla Desh.
The Who, The Faces etc. etc. Mott the Hoople, anyone remember them?
A glorious memorable late summer day. I was celebrating my freedom having just been chucked out of the royal navy that week, via the military prison at colchester, for being an acidhead and chasing F4B Phantoms down the flight deck of HMS Ark Royal. Crazy dayz

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/goodbye-summer-1971.html

Went to gigs during the 60's saw the Stones among others when they were still playing local dancehalls.

"Spidergawd", that sounds like you were having some crazy times back then ....chasing planes down a flight deck!! I'd say that was pretty hard to beat, but from stuff i've read on various threads, who knows what ridiculous antics are waiting to be posted to 'up the ante'!!
It was a dream of mine to see ,The Who, with the four originals and along with the rest of the bill, it must have been quite a concert....unless you started having flashbacks to the "Ark Royal"
Excellent thread, "codejd", just keeping up the quality to be found all over the forum.

[StonedSince67]

my first proper concert was the woburn music festival on 6 july 1968

the big act of the afternoon session was pentangle with jacqui mcshee doing the vocals and bert jansch on guitar

in the evening was the jimi hendrix experience with guitarist-turned-bassist noel redding and mitch mitchell on drums ... also playing were the family and tyrannosaurus rex (with marc bolan before he formed t-rex and steve peregrine took, the band was described as a psychedelic-folk rock acoustic group)

the rest of the summer of '68 was spent, it seemed, in the marquee club in soho ... the highlights were joe cocker, spooky tooth and the nice

here is the woburn abbey poster... note that the saturday evening session with jimi hendrix and family and others cost all of £1 ...

[artymac]

Oh god, "The Family", "Stonedsince'67", another one along with the "Who" that i never got to see.....I was born too late

The gig i'd have loved to have seen....."The Who" at "Parkhead", ...also starrin' "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band", who amazingly blew "The Who" off stage even though i heard "The Who" were fantastic as well... That's the one band i would have chosen to see above ANY OTHER. Why superstardom didn't happen i cannot understand "Little feat" where also on the bill and a huge drunkin' brawl erupted half way through their set!!! ....i know,...a drunken brawl in a football ground in "Scotland",....who'd of believed it I think even "Pete Townshend" and "Roger Daltrey" had a bit of fistie cuffs durin' their set.....i know who my money would have been on