So what is the earliest concert you can remember going to

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Mötley Crüe 1996? Cheap Trick opened for them, I also seen Cinderella but can’t remember if it was before after Mötley Crüe...and many more good and bad ones since lol
 
RustyRatRod said:
About 1975, The Allman Brothers had a house on Orange Terrace In Macon. I used to ride my bike down there since I already knew Gregg and got to know the rest of them. Dickey Betts showed my my first acoustic slide guitar licks and I just kinda took off from there. Anyhoo, I saw Dickey in the Piggly Wiggly in Macon and he told me to come down that Sunday afternoon, that they were puttin on an impromptu front porch practice session/ concert for the neighborhood. It was pretty cool. There were less than 25 people there I would guess, sittin in their front yard...and some across the street in the little park that used to be there. It was a lot of fun. I was ten.
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That’s very cool, not many people can say they did that!!
 
I gotta think it was the late 70's. Went to see Sha na na at the local arena and snuck in behind the curtain as Bowser was coming off stage. I said "hey Bowser, can I have your autograph?" LOL....he looked at me and he said, "f$%k off kid!". Still laugh about it today.
 

Rossington Collins Band ( bet no one knows them ) July 1980 with special guest Ronin. Still have the ticket stub and the hand bill.


They were/are pretty famous.
 
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Black Sabbath 1973 maybe.
Snowblind tour. Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis.
Well I sorta remember it.:lol:
 
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Sublime one said:
Dicky Betts is some serious talent that just never got recognized.
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It's a southern thing. You look at almost an guitar great from the south. They were all pretty much shunned for great recognition. Duane Allman was an exception simply because he couldn't be overlooked. Dickey was perhaps even more talented. The skinny has always been that he learned slide guitar OVERNIGHT on the bus on the way to a concert. I can tell you the skinny is right. I heard it from the horse's mouth. He knew nothing about slide guitar and said that was the scardest he'd ever been in his life. If you find some of their earliest videos from right after Duane's death, you can clearly tell Dickey is not completely comfortable playing slide. It's really obvious. But he was still very good even when he first started.
 
CFD244 said:
I gotta think it was the late 70's. Went to see Sha na na at the local arena and snuck in behind the curtain as Bowser was coming off stage. I said "hey Bowser, can I have your autograph?" LOL....he looked at me and he said, "f$%k off kid!". Still laugh about it today.
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OK, so actually I guess I attended something earlier but not exclusively. I think it was the Fabulous Thunderbirds at the portland swap meet in the late 70's. 77 or 78 maybe? Then there was always the bands that played as far back as I can remember playing the Clark County Fair. I remember none of them by name.
 
krazykuda said:
No, dad took us and it had to be "G" rated... :rolleyes:

I was twelve...
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Mama and Daddy took us to see Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry at the Riverside Drive In in Macon when it came out in 74. I was nine and my sister was twelve. When Susan George stood on the curb and hollered "Hay Asshole" to Peter Fonda, I looked at Mama and asked "what'd she say?" Without missin a beat Mama said, "She called him Ansel, that's a dutch name" Mama was lightening on her feet. LMAO
 
RustyRatRod said:
Mama and Daddy took us to see Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry at the Riverside Drive In in Macon when it came out in 74. I was nine and my sister was twelve. When Susan George stood on the curb and hollered "Hay Asshole" to Peter Fonda, I looked at Mama and asked "what'd she say?" Without missin a beat Mama said, "She called him Ansel, that's a dutch name" Mama was lightening on her feet. LMAO
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Dad used to take us to "R" rated movies when we were young...

We saw Blazing Saddles and Bad News Bears (Walter Matthews & Tatum O'neal edition) around 1975 when they first came out in the theaters (boys night out)....


My brother talked my parents into taking us to see Saturday Night fever... Mom and dad were a little embarrassed that we saw some of the scenes in there... :eek:

Dad had to listen to mom complain....
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krazykuda said:
My brother talked my parents into taking us to see Saturday Night fever... Mom and dad were a little embarrassed that we saw some of the scenes in there... :eek:
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Damn you guys sure are whipping out the good memories today.

Mom and Dad took the three boys to a cinema after I think it first opened. The movie? North Dallas Forty ( had Mac Davis in it ). My moms didn't have enough hands or move fast enough to cover all her boy's eye's... I still laugh my *** off thinking about it to this day.
 
SGBARRACUDA said:
Sorry.
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No worries :D
I just thought it ironic that I had that memory show up after a slightly different inquiry.
The first concert I paid for, The Eagles 1976 I think. Before the '77 release of Hotel California.At The Forum in Inglewood. I bugged my buddy at the local music store for weeks about that album. "Have you got it yet? When will it be released?" ":wtf: are you talking about was his usual response". :lol:
 
Unconventional said:
No worries :D
I just thought it ironic that I had that memory show up after a slightly different inquiry.
The first concert I paid for, The Eagles 1976 I think. Before the '77 release of Hotel California.At The Forum in Inglewood. I bugged my buddy at the local music store for weeks about that album. "Have you got it yet? When will it be released?" ":wtf: are you talking about was his usual response". :lol:
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I saw the Eagles here at Soldier Field around 2010... When Glenn Frey was still alive...

When we walked out my son said to me, "That's the first concert that I've been to where everybody stood up the whole time"....

That was a great concert, nobody sat the whole time that they were playing...
 
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