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First Rock concert you went to

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Started 2 years ago by Cougar Bob
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Obviously not Ballard related but it might be interesting.

As real little kid I was told I saw The Doc Severinson Tonight Show band and/or Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. I have only vague memories of one of those shows.

The first show I went to on my own was Taj Mahal.....and I think he was opening for John McGlaughlin/Mahavishnu Orchestra but I can't substantiate this for sure. My Mom drove me and friend to the show in St Paul, we lived in SW suburbs of MPLS. Thanks Mom! I told her to pick us up at 10:30! Taj Mahal hadn't even finished! So I was either 14 or 15 at the time.

The next show was Leo Kottke at the Minnesota Orchestra Hall. Emmy Lou Harris opened for him. I think that was Nov-Dec of 1975.

Of course many great shows since then!

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dsomers

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Gawd help me. Peter Frampton in Hartford CT. 1974? Maybe?

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Betsy

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So embarrassing...10 years old - Nelson, row U at the Spokane Opera House. I remember they were swishing their hair in a lovely way and throwing out guitar picks like confetti.

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Edog

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Dont laugh! Howard Jones circa 1986. Cause no one ever is to....

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pandabur

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Def Leppard, 1988, Hysteria tour, Tacoma Dome

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NorthBeachNative

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First I remember - My parents took me to see the Everly Brothers at the Paramount in Seattle ~1984-86? (can't remember how old i was)

I think my first concert without parents, was at the OK hotel back when it was all-ages, I want to say I saw Sage.

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bbennett

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Badfinger, Colorado Springs CO. early 70's

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Gilman Girl

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Local: The Wild Dogs & Shadow at a church in Fremont.
Major: Journey - Escape Tour 1981 Seattle Coliseum (sp?) $6, still got my t-shirt.

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pennygirl

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First big one - UFO 1979 Wolverhampton Civic Hall (I think)
First club one - Diamond Head 197? Penn YWCA, Wolverhampton (I think).

I also think these both could be wrong,

Edit: The Diamond Head show was 3rd August, 1978 at Warstones YWCA, Wolverhampton. I love the internet :-)

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mostobstreperous

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Bowie -- Serious Moonlight, Seattle Center Coliseum, summer of '83 I think.

PG -- UFO, I'm jealous, tho' I did see them reunited 12 years ago or so at the Ballard Firehouse

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onederfullone

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My first concert, as I've shared before was...

"BOYD GRAFMYRE PRODUCTIONS, INC.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 1, 1969

Spectacular fireworks, arts and crafts displays, a variety of food service and more than twenty top musical performers are scheduled to highlight the FIRST ANNUAL SEATTLE POP FESTIVAL set for July 25, 26 and 27 at Gold Creek Park, Woodinville, Washington.

Representing the total spectrum of "pop" music today, nationally and internationally known artists set to appear are: CHUCK BERRY, TIM BUCKLEY, ERIC BURDON, THE BYRDS, CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY, ALBERT COLLINS, BO DIDDLEY, THE FLOCK, FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS, GUESS WHO, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY, LED ZEPPELIN, CHARLES LLOYD, MURRAY ROMAN, SANTANA, SPIRIT, TEN YEARS AFTER, IKE AND TINA TURNER REVUE, VANILLA FUDGE, AND THE YOUNGBLOODS.

"Gold Creek Recreation Park is a perfect setting for a family event such as this," said Boyd Grafmyre promoter of the POP FESTIVAL. "In addition to the continuous entertainment scheduled daily, the facility includes swimming pools, large picnic areas, golf driving ranges, a miniature train and much more."

The Festival opens at 12:00 (noon) Friday, July 25 and will run from noon until midnight daily. The Retina Circus Light Company from Seattle will provide a special light show each evening at dusk designed specifically for the artists participating in the festival."

yeah, the others, even those I can clearly remember, tend to pale in comparison. ;-0

Rail (& Co.), 1978, in the cafeteria. (we still deny it really happened) But, it did.

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HeatherHeather

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Gilman Girl is officially my hero.

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Edog

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Gigi - Journey? I always took you for more of a New Kids on the Block kind of girl.

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Gilman Girl

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For the local HH?
Shadow included Mike McCready, still in Roosevelt High School.
I've always been partial to the Friel brothers tho.

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allisonw

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Bee Gees, Coliseum. Don't know the year but I'd guess '79.

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HeatherHeather

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Journey and Steve Perry for life yo. Best music ever, ain't no shame.

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teigyr

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dsomers, AHA! Peter Frampton was mine too, at the Forum in L.A. It's kind of cheesy in retrospect but so was the era :)

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pennygirl

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"Gigi - Journey? I always took you for more of a New Kids on the Block kind of girl."

Edog...

How on earth did you come to that conclusion?!!!

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waughoutwoud

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Mine was Def Lepard back in the late 80's(:

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tdub

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god help me. I was two months away from turning 17. Took the parent's Olds to

day on the green in Oakland, CA

Poison

White Snake

MOtley Crue

Oct, 1987

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Edog

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PG - Pulled it out of thin air as sort of a playfull epithet of endearment. I suppose you were more into Boyzone?

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Gilman Girl

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Penny, yer funnin' with me.

MEET ME U KNOW WHERE, U KNOW WHEN ;-)

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pennygirl

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Edog...

Actually, I was more of a Take That fan.

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pennygirl

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GG...

HOPING TO!

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cdpenne

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Triumph - Allied Forces Tour - Sullivan Arena, Anchorage Alaska.
Greg Kihn Band was the warm up act. It was late 1981 or very early 1982.

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Mr. Crankypants

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KISS, summer of '77 (Love Gun tour) with Cheap Trick opening at the Seattle Center Coliseum.

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dsomers

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Teigyr,

It was a rather cheesy era wasn't it. Scary to see pictures from back then. Of course, scary to see pictures from just last summer. Sigh.

By the way. How do you pronounce your MB name? We were debating that last night at the scrabble fest?

I thought it was Tiger. Others thought it was teeger. And a few other variants were bopped around as well.

<grin>

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gooner

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Huey Lewis and The News. Petaluma Fair Grounds

1985 ish.

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onederfullone

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Greg Kihn...my girlfriend LOVED them.

damn them ;-)

Break up song

[edit] I thought it was taaayger ?

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InterbayGirl

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Heh, I feel kinda young seeing some of the shows being posted.
Anyway, my first was Depeche Mode in '93 or '94.

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pennygirl

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"KISS, summer of '77 (Love Gun tour) with Cheap Trick"

This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^I am jealous of!

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bbennett

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cdpenne-

I was at that Triumph show too. Also saw The Fixx there in Los Anchorage.

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Edog

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"Depeche Mode in '93 or '94" And that was when they were fat! Its hard to take an overweight frontman seriously. Especially when the bring the attitude DM does.

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seattletree

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Grand Funk in 1976 at the Yousuka, Japan Naval base where my dad worked.. it was very cool. Was also another first that day, but I am too old to admit that one.

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onederfullone

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Damn, I'm so jealous of the young...

And, it means I can't tell a lot of stories.

Blame yourself young-en...

somebody has to start a concert story thread...when the kitty is asleep...and when the young-ens are off doin' what they do...;-)

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In the United States.. Black Sabbath, BOC, and Randy Hansen and I still have the ticket and a tee.. and I got grounded forever.. because I missed the ferry back to Whidbey Island, and had to sleep in my boyfriend's car, dad was NO happy man. That was in the late 70s.

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crownhiller

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The Eagles with Linda Ronstadt as opening act, in the Kingdome of all places - a very very long time ago.

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Edog

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Biggest concert regret, not seeing Pixies open for Love and Rockets in 88. And I had a friend who was nagging me to go, but I could not stand LnR!

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Walt

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Bread, in the early '70s, with Steely Dan opening.

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InterbayGirl... No offense, but Streaker claims the MB young title :-) Technically tied for it with Kat, but Streaker rarely ever sees Kat post these days. And ah, Depeche Mode...

And teigyr... dsomers is correct. There was nearly a five minute discussion of how the heck we're supposed to pronounce your name. Streaker was in the "teeger" camp.

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Walt you are so cool.. I loved Bread FOREVER! I still have all the blue colored cassette tapes I bought by them, but alas.. the tape deck died and the truck has a CD player.. so they sit in "that" drawer....

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onederfullone

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randy who? ;-)

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pennygirl

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"The Eagles with Linda Ronstadt as opening act"

Trivia alert! The founding members of The Eagles were actually one of Linda Ronstadt's backing bands. Funny that she ended up supporting them!

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Barney Rubble

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Posies/Flop 1991.

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rockgal

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Mine was Styx at the Seattle Center Coliseum, for the "Rockin' the Paradise" tour. I believe it was 1981...

mostobstreperous - I saw Bowie on the Serious Moonlight tour as well, but he played the Tacoma Dome not the Seattle Center Coliseum. It might have even been the first concert in the Tacoma Dome - found the date online here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_Moonlight_Tour#North_America_2, August 11, 1983. I had to look it up because I was thinking "now wasn't that show at the Tacoma Dome?"

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Edog

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Death Match: Styx v.s Supertramp?

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pennygirl

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Supertramp. No contest.

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VeganBiker

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Wow what a thought. the 60's were a mass of odd concerts for me, biggest regret was that a friends car broke down on the way to see the Stones in Aberystwyth Sept 7th 1963. I did see the Hyde Park, Brian Jones tribute concert in 1969, well I was there but tripping!
But I did see Bowie in the Chalk Farm Roundhouse in 67 or 68. And Pink Floyd at the Royal Albert Hall in 67.

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silly_girl

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We did this a while back, too, didn't we? I remember some responses.

Mine was Journey Evolution Tour 1980ish - The Babys opened.

cdpenne, I also saw a show on that Triumph tour - but not in Alaska. Still have the vinyl.

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Took my 9 year old daughter to her first concert in Feb 1985 - Prince at the Tacoma Dome, Sheila E opened!

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Edog

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And now Sheila E. and Prince are not on speaking terms. What has the world come to?

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pennygirl

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silly_girl...

Thinking about it - yes we did! I remember being in awe that you saw The Babys! Or was that a record thread?

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Edog, whre was the Pixies/LnR show? I worked LnR around that time @ the Moore but don't remember the Pixies opening. The LnR boys did the encore in bee suits, which was awfully cute.

*heh* I'm Facebook friends with Daniel Ash from LnR, I'll be sure to send him your love.

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Not 'rock', but the first real 'popular' concert I went to, and by myself was John Denver, about 1980.

Next was The Romantics - don't think I can call them rock either! Hee.

Then Chicago. Loved the brass, hated that they were going uber techno. Does that count as Rock?!

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seattletree

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The old man (husband) weights in.. Jethor Tull in Seattle, husband was about 8 years old with his much older bro.. approx. 1970.

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Wow! Takes me back. Grand Funk Railroad and Black Sabbath at the Forum in LA. 1971. Ozzy even remembered that one and mentioned it to a cop, I think, who had been there and they had a second of reminiscing on that Ozzy reality show.

PG+1 for Supertramp

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seattletree

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SuperTramp would be so cool... The hubby saw Zepplin, ZZ Top, Super Tramp, BOC, Ozzie..
I was stuck on Whidbey Island with a dad who thought I should be home by 10pm.. so to go to a concert it had to be worth being grounded for 30 days, which when you are 15 and 16.. seems like forever... sigh.. wish I had.. last concert I saw was WAR, Tower of Power and James Brown on the Pier... I crashed into Bill Gates while "getting down" to James Brown. Mr. Gates was also dancing.. wow.. I am so old..

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silly_girl

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PG - I have probably all The Babys vinyl, so it could be either.... but I'm thinking it was concert thread.

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pennygirl

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seattletree...

If you're old, then so are 75% of the people who've contributed to this thread! And just look at all the great shows that have been mentioned - the whippersnappers missed out on some outstanding stuff :-)

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Jan and Dean and I will NOT say the year or how old I was.

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