first concert/ best concert ever?

so i was sitting around wondering this the other day and i know mine...
how old were you?

I was 5, it was dr. hook and sha na na..
and the best i think would have to be....
crap tooo hard..
rammstein i guess but i think that was just a sexual desire thing.
m.m. puts on a great live show too.

People are gonna shit when they read this.

The first rock concert I ever went to was KISS, at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. 1979, last tour with the original band (before the reunions, at least)...full make-up, insane stage show, the works. It was 13-year old heaven.

I don't remember my first time (heh) but I have 2 new year's eve shows that stand out in my head...Fugazi opening for Nine Inch Nails in Detroit on New Year's Eve, 1989...then Helmet opening for Ministry in Detroit, another New Year's Eve show a year or two later...

My first concert was Billy Ray Cyrus....he was a hometown boy and my mom drug me too it...seeing how we lived out in the middle of nowhere...not many shoes came around....

My favorite concert was Bosshog.....Jon Spencer made me swoon all night long......
Other concerts up for the running...Magnetic Fields...Elliot Smith....Nick Cave...blonde redhead...Smog...Ani..Michael Gira...oh ask me tomorrow and I will probably change my mind about my best one...

First: NIN - New Years Eve 1994-95

Best: Wilco - 2001, at the Majestic in Detroit/Explosions in the Sky 2002, opening up for ...Trail of Dead (first concert I went to alone)

First concert...oh man... Summersault 2000. Our Lady Peace, Finger Eleven, A Perfect Circle, Smashing Pumpkins, etc. Ripe ol' age of 16. I was so deprived of concerts...still am.

Best concert... Tie between Summersault and Tool. Summersault was just an awesome experience, Tool just blew my mind.

First concert I went to... lotsa local shows, hmmmmm i think Blink 182 with Unwritten Law, but i was in like 7th grade then... best show... any Aquabats show, Flogging Molly show, and Ska Summit Kicked Major ass!


Dylan

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Can it be in a club or does it have to be some huge crazy place? I'll put both:

first club show - Green Day, Gilman St. in Berkeley, '90
first show at a big place - 1st Lollapalooza w/ Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Rollins Band, I can't remember who else...
first show at at REALLY big place - Rolling Stones

First concert, Duran Duran with Erasure opening.

Best concert...I'm leaning towards Depeche Mode at the Pasadena Rose Bowl (the 101 show).

Honorable mentions to The CULT, U2, Ramones, Social D, Midnight Oil, AC/DC.

This is a good one:

First concert was in 7th grade - Billy Ocean. That's right, the Caribbean Queen himself!

Best concert - Not sure if this counts as one show, but the Emissions From The Monolith Festival last year in Ohio was the most incredible musical experience of my life.

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Prince 1999 Tour...Fresno Ca., Selland Arena.

opening acts: The Time & Vanity 6.

The Time stole the show.

I made out with a chick for the first time.

Bling....

**tries to remember first concert**

**remembers it was a phish concert, and also remembers why it was almost forgotten**

the stripes and the strokes at Radio City last summer was the best show i've ever been to

everything was really amazing, the crowd, the bands, the VENUE, having your own seat (especially since i had 18th row tkts )

1st = Lilith Fair

Best = Placebo

Worst = STP + Red Hot Chili Peppers

First show at all was Peter Paul & Mary. I was in kindergarden with one of their kids and they played the show at an assembly as community service for a pot bust.
First that I chose to go to was a pure early '80s 1-hit wonder...Boys Don't Cry (remember?? "I wanna be a cowboy, and you can be my cowgirl")

Best show is tough. Among the best are: Ozzy/Ratt in '86; Tina Turner '92; Grateful Dead/Santana '90; Kid Rock '01; Willie Nelson/Ray Charles '01; Sugarcult/Good Charlotte/Unwritten Law '01; Spinal Tap/Tenacious D '00.

Since it's kind of a different catagory, best festival was Reading in '93: Butthole Surfers, Juliana Hatfield, Porno for Pyros, Lemonheads, Siouxsie, The The, New Order, Magnapop, Tool...a bunch of others too...can't remember them all right now...

I don't remember the first concert I ever went to, I was too young. But the first one that I ever cared to go to was Violent Femmes, it was FABULOUS!

The best concert I've ever been to is a tie between any Flogging Molly show and any Insane Clown Posse show. Flogging Molly is just plain awesome and ICP gets everyone so riled up that there's no way you can't have fun!

First Concert...

Seseme Street Live!!!

Best Concert....

Belly/Radiohead in 1993 at the Warfield in S.F.

Wow, it's been ten years since then... crazy.

first? jesus, i think it was country legends alabama at a local state fair (1984 -- sixth grade)

the best was either dinosaur jr. with my bloody valentine or pavement with helium.

First - Adolescents @ the Roxy

Best - Beyond the Pale 2001: two nights of Neurosis, two nights of Shellac +Isis, Zeni Geva, Steve Von Till, Scott Kelly, Amber Asylum etc.

My first concert was "Wierd" Al Yankovic in Buffalo, my mom got me tix for my birthday, I think I was 7 or 8, it was AMAZING.
Clearly, my tastes have refined, and the best show I've seen was probably weezer in summer 2000 @ the Phoenix here in Toronto with Dynamite Hack opening...that was killer.
There have been plenty of not as great ones, but I can't say I didn't enjoy them...I definitely would not go to a concert I was not going to enjoy.

First show I ever saw was Hank Williams Jr. with my father when I was about 8...

best show is hard...it's honestly a tie between 3...the queers with the independants, agnostic front at the elmo in Toronto, and dillinger escape plan lastnight

Ok, the old man's voice grinds into function:

First: Dire Straits, Live in '85, at the hockey rink in Helsinki. They put on a good show, although we had crapp seats we bought from a scalper.

Best: The "last" Jane's Addiction show at the Aloha Tower in Honolulu. I think they beleived that was the last time they would ever play together, so it was completely balls out. Actually, I think it's the last time they played with Eric Avery on bass. Farrell got naked and jerked off into a chagnepagne bottle. I saw god during '3 days'

Honorable mention: The Specials revival tour rocked nads. I skanked for the entire set. The Smashing Pumpkins on the gish tour - no one knew who they were yet. Mary's Danish, in a club at about 1/4 capacity. The selecter, where Pauline black snapped my suspenders. And on and on. =

First concert: Soundgarden and Tad at the Greek Theatre in berkeley.

Best concert: Mr Bungle with the melvins, no means no feat. j biafra, fantomas, and kids of widney high in sf on new year's eve!

so unbelievably good....

Best Ever (thusfar) - Placebo - May 15, 2001 at the Palace in Los Angeles. It was one of the biggest natural highs ever.



Jenna