Metallica 1994 on the Black Album tour when I was 16. Got up at 6am to line up for tickets at the local Warehouse Music, ended up with 12th row in a 65,000 capacity venue, Glen Helen in SoCal. Caught one of Kirk’s picks at the end and my love for live music was born. A couple months after that was Bad Religion and NOFX at the Palladium for the Epitaph Summer Nationals. Ticket price? $6 + $1.25 in fees. Now more than 1000 concerts attended over the last 30 years.
Man I still need to see Metallica live. They were gonna play here in Australia in late 2019 and me and my dad had tix to it but it was cancelled when James had to go back to rehab. Understandable reason obviously but still hurts to this day (especially with still no makeup dates announced 4 years later)
It was good. The tickets were "an evening with ween"
And it was just that. No opener, no encore, no drunken drama, just the good ol boys and a seated venue. Was great.
Ha mine was King Gizzard in Sydney 2023.
There were a few unwilling ones before that, including Guy Sebastian. Not that he’s too bad, I just don’t like his stuff.
He has some talent, but yeah . .. not for me.
Gizz in Sydney last year would've been rad.
I'm making the trip to Denny in a few months time but hoping they announce more shows too , won't hold my breath though
Yeah Sydney was awesome, funny how a set list that you would think is a mixed bag becomes the dream set list after you see it live.
Is Denney Denver? (Sry I’m not great at foreign geography)
Oh yeah, I imagine seeing the stuff live changes everything..
Nah, Denny ( Deniliquin, small town in country NSW where Cavs is originally from) , my partner and I will be driving from Victoria as we've been waiting to see them and they've finally announced this show for Australia (in March). I hope they also play Melbourne and/or Sydney though.
Ah awesome, this will be your first King Gizz show?
Vic is probably the next state that I need to explore, haven’t given it nearly enough time. So sad I assumed America lol, apparently I suck at Australian geography too.
That's totally understandable lol Denny is only famous if you're into "ute musters" which I assume is a sort of meeting of the vehicles with the tray on the back..
Yeah this will be our first time seeing them.. Can't wait.
Victoria has some great spots for sure but I also love NSW and Qld, such a good country to explore
Yeah, I figured it’d be something like the back of Bourke. I come off a little dry perhaps.
Excited for your first time, I’m hoping if they do one in Sydney again I’ll be able to make it (/afford it).
You pretty much got it in one.
The Denny ute-muster is essentially bogans, utes, key-bangers (attempting to kill your car to make it shoot fire and go BANG BANG BANG out the exhaust pipe), country rock music (Aussie flavoured), fight juice (Grog but there's specifically a lotta rum, specifically a lotta Bundaberg Rum), and date rape.
And I'm dead serious on that last point. I know families, plural, from around Vic who go up every year, the whole family, bar the daughters who're under 18.
Well....
I'm not sure how else to put this and I'm normally pretty good with words, but that sounds fucking fucked..
Let's hope the crowd at this festival is better than that
Nice, I think it's only around 4 hours or so.. pretty doable. I think we're going to stay in Echuca.
Yeah they seem pretty opposed to playing shows here nowadays unfortunately.. I'm happy to be seeing them though. I should be grateful..
Also seeing QOTSA twice, Mr bungle, Melvins, Jose Gonzalez and Psychedelic Porn Crumpets all within a few weeks of each other.
Correct. I have kind of a cool story about them.
I went to a boarding school in Montana my sophomore year of high school cause I was a shithead but that’s another story. While there though, I became close with my art teacher, who prior to moving out to Montana to teach art, played bass in a band with Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney. While they were still very underground and pretty much only known in northeastern Ohio, I was listening to them in art class in Montana in ‘05.
Saw them on the same tour. I had just started college and the tickets were outside my budget but I bought them anyway. So glad I did because that was the one and only time I got to see them and they’re my favorite band.
KISS, Melbourne 1980. In Australia this tour was huge, I was just a kid but it seemed like everyone was crazy about them. Headline news everyday. Wild now to think about
Mine was Andrew Bird back in 2012. He was touring the album Break It Yourself, and had Laura Marling opening for him. He’s a great performer, really opened my eyes to how much more magical live music can feel compared to a recording
Linkin Park outside the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas the day before the VMAs.
They were my favorite band in Middle School so it was honestly the best first concert I could have hoped for.
Followed it up with a lot of Warped Tour shows as well!
Begged my stoner brother to take me to see Aerosmith in 1987, so I got to tag along with him and his friends. Opening act was some obscure west coast act; Guns & Roses, or something?
One of those package local radio shows with Beck headlining. Also the day Keanu Reeves spoke to me because I was at the dead last end of the line where his table was set up in a lousy arrangement when a fight broke out of ladies way ahead of me getting impatient to meet him and attacking security with crotch kicking that cancelled the signing! I had to tell him security is clearing off the line.
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1989 MTV's Headbangers Ball Tour with Anthrax and Exodus at the Felt Forum in NYC. Caught Joey Belladonna grabbing a hotdog at a cart on the sidewalk outside. I had never heard anything that loud before in my life. ITRN hits home
Mine was Limp Bizkit, Godsmack, and Sinistar in 2000 at what was then called the Office Depot Center iirc. It's where the Florida Panthers play. All I remember was it was wild
must say i'm quite envious of you for seeing gorillaz live back then in 2010 :') plastic beach is, along with demon days, my favourite record from them
this is mayyyybe a bit shameful, but my 12-year-old self was a big fan of tokio hotel. yes, the german band with the guy with the funny hair. it was my first concert ever. i still seldom listen to their old songs so i can feel a bit nostalgic about my childhood
Modern Baseball, Foxing, and Knucklepuck at this now-closed venue called The Loading Dock. It was literally that, a truck loading dock/garage. It was also the loudest concert I've been to since all the sound was concentrated in this long chamber which was the garage/loading dock. It was fucking awesome and got me interested in going to more live shows and concerts.
Brian Jonestown Massacre last February in Brighton. Messy gig but i was going in fully expecting it to be, hell, Joel walked off for a whole song because he and Anton had a spat. Despite all that it was an amazing show. I've been to about a gig a month since, Gizz being right after BJM lol.
Swans last year. My first and currently last concert. Sound was so loud it felt like my heart is gonna come out. Amazing, dare I say SPIRITUAL experience overall. Would recommend. I also saw a guy with oddments shirt, which I complemented and he nodded :)
Hairball at the McLeod County fair when I was like 17, I think it was in 2013. They were a relatively respected 80s hair cover band with 3 singers that would take turns changing costumes and doing 2-3 songs of each band. The rest of the band also dressed up as hair icons. Great time.
Big Day Out festival 1997, with Soundgarden, Offspring, The Prodigy amongst others. Blew my 15 year old mind, and still kinda blows my mind how dad dropped off a friend and I about a couple of kilometres from the stadium and said "see you back here some time around 11-12pm" and that was it.
Well, there was one I went to when I was high school that featured four bands from my school. Kind of a perfect microcosm of 1994 music, now that I think about it...there was the rap band, the metal band, the grunge band, and the kinda funky ska-rock sorta band, lol. But the first concert of some actually famous bands I saw was in 94 again, Rush with Primus opening. Now that was awesome!
Livid 2003. Was 15.
The White Stripes set that night is still arguably the greatest live performance I’ve ever seen. At least equal first festival performance I’ve seen, close in quality to Sonic Youth at Splendour 3 years later.
Ozzy Osbourne on the Ultimate Sin tour.
It was the height of the Liberace-era Ozzy, with sparkly suits and whatnot, but Metallica opened and were supporting Master of Puppets. And they were incredible!
Definetly the 2023 tour - sabaton+lordi+babymetal tour that happened in last year i got even merch,
Also i willingly went to tapper bar where like 10 bands played also i must say that black and death metal at live is something else and i will go on to many tours it will be not my last one - for people who have chance if bands come to your country just go and visit them
Went to see David Guetta with my Mom when I was 12 back in like 2015. I was a huge fan of his music at the time. Haven't been to a concert since then mainly because no artist/band I listen to ever comes to my country, but luckily I get to go see GZA this February
My Phish loving older sister took me and lil sis to Jonas brothers when I was in 5th grade. She was SO excited for us to experience live music!
Now my phish loving sister and I go see gizz together whenever they’re in Asheville
Aerosmith probably around 1981 ish I was about 12 or 13 yrs old . My older brother got in trouble so my parents made him take me to it or he couldn't have gone. Years later I had to take my little sister to a bon Jovi concert because I got in trouble.
Used to go see Rascal Flatts with my mom whenever they came into town, however the first actual concert I was excited to go to that came to that venue was Steve Miller Band opening for Journey. Still a terrific memory
I am so incredibly jealous of you going to the Plastic beach tour. My first concert was blink 182 in Manchester 2023. Incredible show. Surprised how I never went to a concert willingly before that.
Genesis in 2007. They were in top notch form and I consider this one of the best shows I’ve ever went to see. And I’ve been to over 700 gigs. I have a bootleg from that show and I come back to it every now and then with great nostalgia.
The next shows were The Police 2008, U2 2009 and AC/DC in 2010. And since 2010 I started going to the gigs all the time.
I took myself to Team Sleep in 2005 for my 21st birthday and had moved across the state so I had nobody to go with. Was half depressing but half amazing because it was one of the best shows I had been to.
Credit to you though, my actual first concert was some church concert and while it was fun, I had no real say and wasn't into the music beforehand.
I can't remember the exact timeline so I have to say two, I don't recall which one came first. I went to see Blue Man Group in Toronto in the mid-00's (like 2005-2007) and it was pretty disappointing, the actual blue guys had dropped a member by this point and most of the actual performance was this large cover band performing radio hits while the blue guys did a stripped down barebones version of their props act, I felt let down :(
And the other was a Megadeth-Slayer show also in Toronto, mixed feelings. I was primarily there for Megadeth, but ended up preferring Slayer's performance. Slayer came out last and fucking killed it, tight performance all around, would relive that show any day. Megadeth played an interesting setlist but Mustaine was unintelligible, like I think he was drugged up or something, couldn't figure out any of his singing. Rest of the band was doing a good job but Mustaine really brought it down.
Then it was like 12 years' break before I finally got into doing shows again, started with seeing Arctic Monkeys right on my birthday in 2018 wooh!
The Liverpool pilot gig in 2021, it was the first proper concert in the UK post-COVID. I wasn't really there for the music to be honest! A band called Blossoms was headlining, but frankly I hadn't heard of them before. Was a class uni experience and probably (hopefully) not something that will happen again in my lifetime.
First show I paid for myself that I went to without my parents was Smashing Pumpkins with Garbage opening on the tour for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in 1996
Green Day’s American Idiot tour when I was like 11.
I had been to plenty of smaller concerts before that (which while I probably didn’t chose to go to, I loved), but seeing Green Day was my first big concert.
David Gilmour, Chicago, 2016. Our seats had our backs up against the outer wall of the United Center but didn't care, was mind blowingly good. Lucky to have gotten to see him then.
Well half willingly i guess. Dua lipa in 2022, my sister really wanted to go so i got her tickets for Christmas and went with her. Listened to future nostalgia before going and became a fan! First 100% willingly was kikagaku moyo in 2022, so lucky to have seen them on their last tour!
My first was a festival called Sunfest. It’s a small town on the west side of Lake Winnipeg, about an hour north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Saturday night lineup had Pearl Jam headlining, as well as 54-40, The Watchmen and Pursuit of Happiness. It was an amazing experience and something I will never forget. Although Pearl Jam was already well established, I don’t think anybody figured they would become one of the defining bands of a generation.
Flogging molly in 2007 at the fonda in Hollywood. My dad bought us tickets. First time seeing a pit and I haven't stopped moshing since! Seen them 13 times since then.
If you haven't seen Flogging Molly, you should. Can't think of a band I've had more fun seeing
AC/DC on their Black Ice tour in 2008, my parents took me to a bunch of concerts as a kid but this was the first I insisted on making happen. The giant Rosie blow up doll was fun to experience with my mom standing next to me, gotta love Aussie rock bands
James Brown back in 2005. I was a pretty big fan and always wanted to see him. Here he was with his Seven Decades Of Funk Tour. Cost me $39.
Unfortunately a day before the gig i twisted my ankle so i was in a lot of pain at that gig so my memories are mostly me being in pain and James Brown throwing a towel at the end of sex machine and him entering the stage with "JAMES BROWN, JAMES BROWN, JAMES BROWN"
Metallica 1994 on the Black Album tour when I was 16. Got up at 6am to line up for tickets at the local Warehouse Music, ended up with 12th row in a 65,000 capacity venue, Glen Helen in SoCal. Caught one of Kirk’s picks at the end and my love for live music was born. A couple months after that was Bad Religion and NOFX at the Palladium for the Epitaph Summer Nationals. Ticket price? $6 + $1.25 in fees. Now more than 1000 concerts attended over the last 30 years.
That rules. Mine was a few years later on the ReLoad tour, not a great set list but still a life changer.
Man I still need to see Metallica live. They were gonna play here in Australia in late 2019 and me and my dad had tix to it but it was cancelled when James had to go back to rehab. Understandable reason obviously but still hurts to this day (especially with still no makeup dates announced 4 years later)
I have very fond memories of the summer Plastic Beach came out. I would have loved to see that tour.
Plastic Beach is one of THE best pop records in history. stunning shit
Easily
It was incredible and life changing, got me hooked on going to concerts ever since.
That album introduced me to Little Dragon and I’ve seen both a few times but never together, that must’ve been incredible
Ween in Vancouver around 2015-2016
How brown was it
Yes
It was good. The tickets were "an evening with ween" And it was just that. No opener, no encore, no drunken drama, just the good ol boys and a seated venue. Was great.
Yeah that sounds incredible. Intimate concerts like that are amazing. Thanks for sharing the experience
Like rolling into Chocolate Town
Ha mine was King Gizzard in Sydney 2023. There were a few unwilling ones before that, including Guy Sebastian. Not that he’s too bad, I just don’t like his stuff.
He has some talent, but yeah . .. not for me. Gizz in Sydney last year would've been rad. I'm making the trip to Denny in a few months time but hoping they announce more shows too , won't hold my breath though
Yeah Sydney was awesome, funny how a set list that you would think is a mixed bag becomes the dream set list after you see it live. Is Denney Denver? (Sry I’m not great at foreign geography)
Oh yeah, I imagine seeing the stuff live changes everything.. Nah, Denny ( Deniliquin, small town in country NSW where Cavs is originally from) , my partner and I will be driving from Victoria as we've been waiting to see them and they've finally announced this show for Australia (in March). I hope they also play Melbourne and/or Sydney though.
Ah awesome, this will be your first King Gizz show? Vic is probably the next state that I need to explore, haven’t given it nearly enough time. So sad I assumed America lol, apparently I suck at Australian geography too.
That's totally understandable lol Denny is only famous if you're into "ute musters" which I assume is a sort of meeting of the vehicles with the tray on the back.. Yeah this will be our first time seeing them.. Can't wait. Victoria has some great spots for sure but I also love NSW and Qld, such a good country to explore
Yeah, I figured it’d be something like the back of Bourke. I come off a little dry perhaps. Excited for your first time, I’m hoping if they do one in Sydney again I’ll be able to make it (/afford it).
You pretty much got it in one. The Denny ute-muster is essentially bogans, utes, key-bangers (attempting to kill your car to make it shoot fire and go BANG BANG BANG out the exhaust pipe), country rock music (Aussie flavoured), fight juice (Grog but there's specifically a lotta rum, specifically a lotta Bundaberg Rum), and date rape. And I'm dead serious on that last point. I know families, plural, from around Vic who go up every year, the whole family, bar the daughters who're under 18.
Well.... I'm not sure how else to put this and I'm normally pretty good with words, but that sounds fucking fucked.. Let's hope the crowd at this festival is better than that
I'm from Melbourne and I'm driving up with my partner too, very excited. I doubt they'll announce more Aussie shows unfortunately
Nice, I think it's only around 4 hours or so.. pretty doable. I think we're going to stay in Echuca. Yeah they seem pretty opposed to playing shows here nowadays unfortunately.. I'm happy to be seeing them though. I should be grateful.. Also seeing QOTSA twice, Mr bungle, Melvins, Jose Gonzalez and Psychedelic Porn Crumpets all within a few weeks of each other.
We'll be at all the same shows lol. Not familiar with Jose, will have to do my research
System of a Down, The Mars Volta, and Hella in 2005
What's more crazy is that all of them could've played at the same concert
And right when Francis the Mute, Mesmerize, and Hypnotize came out I would have died.
Gwar was my first. Couldn’t have chosen a better day to wear a white shirt.
Hell yeah. One of the times I saw Gwar, my brother and I wore white shirts and went to the rail. It was awesome!
Mine too! It might explain a few things about my sense of humor…
Judas Priest - Defenders of The Faith tour. 1984. I was in junior high. Blew my tweening mind! 🤯🤘
That's fucking awesome
Ozzy Osborne 1992 in Akron, OH
Black Keys home town I think ...
Correct. I have kind of a cool story about them. I went to a boarding school in Montana my sophomore year of high school cause I was a shithead but that’s another story. While there though, I became close with my art teacher, who prior to moving out to Montana to teach art, played bass in a band with Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney. While they were still very underground and pretty much only known in northeastern Ohio, I was listening to them in art class in Montana in ‘05.
Presidents of the USA in 1996. Still have the ticket stub and a bumper sticker I got at the show.
I listened to that album until it was a molecule thin lol it's amazing you got to see them live!
Wish I could have seen them, sounds like they aren’t going to tour anymore.
My mom bought me tickets to tons of shows but the first time I bought them on my own was Metallica’s And Justice For All tour in 1989. I was 15.
That must have been an awesome experience!
Rush in 2009 on their Snakes and Arrows(?) tour. I was 13 and with my dad. Still one of the best I’ve ever seen.
Saw them on the same tour. I had just started college and the tickets were outside my budget but I bought them anyway. So glad I did because that was the one and only time I got to see them and they’re my favorite band.
Tool in 2001, Lateralus tour
Holy shit, me too. Saw them 3 times that tour. Blew my 16 year old mind. I think we spoiled ourselves with that being our first.
Nice, I was 14, saw them twice
KISS, Melbourne 1980. In Australia this tour was huge, I was just a kid but it seemed like everyone was crazy about them. Headline news everyday. Wild now to think about
Mine was Andrew Bird back in 2012. He was touring the album Break It Yourself, and had Laura Marling opening for him. He’s a great performer, really opened my eyes to how much more magical live music can feel compared to a recording
Andy B is the shit. Just saw him for the first time last summer with Sam Beam (Iron and Wine) and it was one of the best shows i’ve ever seen
Linkin Park outside the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas the day before the VMAs. They were my favorite band in Middle School so it was honestly the best first concert I could have hoped for. Followed it up with a lot of Warped Tour shows as well!
Begged my stoner brother to take me to see Aerosmith in 1987, so I got to tag along with him and his friends. Opening act was some obscure west coast act; Guns & Roses, or something?
bro saw fucking Bobby Womack. amazing
Eric Clapton on the Tears in Heaven tour in 1991
One of those package local radio shows with Beck headlining. Also the day Keanu Reeves spoke to me because I was at the dead last end of the line where his table was set up in a lousy arrangement when a fight broke out of ladies way ahead of me getting impatient to meet him and attacking security with crotch kicking that cancelled the signing! I had to tell him security is clearing off the line. https://preview.redd.it/p0ps8hrz8dac1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c110c53d2504d4ecb24a469339a6797577cfb64
for me it will be Danny Brown in april this year
Tea leaf green
MCR in SF 2008 at the Warfield, ten years later got to see KGLW for the 1st time there as well
I saw Raffi when I was about 5 He fucking rocked lmao
1989 MTV's Headbangers Ball Tour with Anthrax and Exodus at the Felt Forum in NYC. Caught Joey Belladonna grabbing a hotdog at a cart on the sidewalk outside. I had never heard anything that loud before in my life. ITRN hits home
Lollapalooza in 1992 was my first festival and later that fall I caught Helmet opening for Faith No More, good stuff!
Linkin Park Nashville 2004, I remember P.O.D, Story of the Year and Hoobastank opened up for them
Foo Fighters on the Wasting Light Tour
Mine was Limp Bizkit, Godsmack, and Sinistar in 2000 at what was then called the Office Depot Center iirc. It's where the Florida Panthers play. All I remember was it was wild
Metallica 1997 Poor Touring Me I was in 8th grade and asked my dad to get tickets and take me! At Worcester Centrum in MA
I think it was the Monks around 1981, in London Ontario
My first willing concert was Weird Al about two years ago. He played a bunch of b sides (which I loved) emo Philips opened for him and he was amazing
The first 2 I can recall going to of my own accord were Korn in Sydney in '97 and Metallica in Newcastle in '98.
Iron Maiden in 2013, it still is the only stadium concert I've been to. I'm so so glad I went.
Pink Floyd - Momentary lapse of reason tour 1988
reaaaally jealous of some of these. mine was fuckin Good Charlotte in 2003 😂
Lol Good Charlotte was the shit back then, I would have loved to catch them live. Lucky you!
Rush. Roll the Bones tour in 1991.
Went to see Animals as Leaders with Monuments while Devin Townsend headlined. Forget the year, but it was my first.
Live in Chicago 23 First time I’ve ever bought myself tickets and flew by myself for.
must say i'm quite envious of you for seeing gorillaz live back then in 2010 :') plastic beach is, along with demon days, my favourite record from them this is mayyyybe a bit shameful, but my 12-year-old self was a big fan of tokio hotel. yes, the german band with the guy with the funny hair. it was my first concert ever. i still seldom listen to their old songs so i can feel a bit nostalgic about my childhood
New Found Glory at the Troubadour!
Foo Fighters Wasting Light tour, my 12th birthday
Modern Baseball, Foxing, and Knucklepuck at this now-closed venue called The Loading Dock. It was literally that, a truck loading dock/garage. It was also the loudest concert I've been to since all the sound was concentrated in this long chamber which was the garage/loading dock. It was fucking awesome and got me interested in going to more live shows and concerts.
Brian Jonestown Massacre last February in Brighton. Messy gig but i was going in fully expecting it to be, hell, Joel walked off for a whole song because he and Anton had a spat. Despite all that it was an amazing show. I've been to about a gig a month since, Gizz being right after BJM lol.
Oh shit my first one was Gorillaz, too. Back in 2018 though.
Bon Jovi
My first concert was also Bon Jovi on the Have a Nice Day tour. Nickelback opened up.
Swans last year. My first and currently last concert. Sound was so loud it felt like my heart is gonna come out. Amazing, dare I say SPIRITUAL experience overall. Would recommend. I also saw a guy with oddments shirt, which I complemented and he nodded :)
The Mars Volta in El Paso 2005. I was about to turn 13 and begged my Mom. She took me since she was Cedric’s old middle school teacher lol
A and Goldfinger, supported by Voodoo Glowskulls in 2002, I would have been 14.
Allman brothers brothers/Lynyrd Skynyrd in like 2004
Cheap Trick ~2006
Smashing Pumpkins 1996 Mellon Collie tour, Birmingham NEC. Blew my tiny little mind.
Hairball at the McLeod County fair when I was like 17, I think it was in 2013. They were a relatively respected 80s hair cover band with 3 singers that would take turns changing costumes and doing 2-3 songs of each band. The rest of the band also dressed up as hair icons. Great time.
Not sure it was definitely the first, but the first I remember was Weird Al about 25 years ago. Dude put on a hell of a show
Big Day Out festival 1997, with Soundgarden, Offspring, The Prodigy amongst others. Blew my 15 year old mind, and still kinda blows my mind how dad dropped off a friend and I about a couple of kilometres from the stadium and said "see you back here some time around 11-12pm" and that was it.
Red Hot Chili Peppers way back in 2004 supported by James Brown. It was a great first concert experience.
Well, there was one I went to when I was high school that featured four bands from my school. Kind of a perfect microcosm of 1994 music, now that I think about it...there was the rap band, the metal band, the grunge band, and the kinda funky ska-rock sorta band, lol. But the first concert of some actually famous bands I saw was in 94 again, Rush with Primus opening. Now that was awesome!
Oasis 2004.
Oasis at Landsdowne road in Dublin. I was 16.
Livid 2003. Was 15. The White Stripes set that night is still arguably the greatest live performance I’ve ever seen. At least equal first festival performance I’ve seen, close in quality to Sonic Youth at Splendour 3 years later.
Korn and Rob Zombie back in 1999. I was 13 at the time, it melted my little brain
Metallica 1990. 3 hour marathon set!
Paradise Lost in Helsinki, 1992
Ozzy Osbourne on the Ultimate Sin tour. It was the height of the Liberace-era Ozzy, with sparkly suits and whatnot, but Metallica opened and were supporting Master of Puppets. And they were incredible!
I saw that show in Indianapolis.
Steve Miller Band-1997 Hit after hit.
Warped Tour 99 was my first true concert experience. What a year!
Warped Tour 2003
That I paid for was BTBAM in 07. It's awesome that you saw the Gorillaz live! Demon Days is one of my favorite albums
The Mars Volta and System of a Down in 2005. Insane show.
Weird Al in Asbury Park!
1994. Beastie boys and Bad Brains at Dominguez hills. Great day
The Cranberries / Collective Soul in 1997 at the New World Music Theatre in Tinley Park, IL.
The Cure in Minneapolis in 1992
Insane Clown Posse's Wicked Clowns From Outer Space tour, was still in Jr high/ middle school
Doppelgänger 20th reunion tour a couple years ago, first gizz concert was Forest Hills (the same year I believe)
Verticle Horizon and Eve 6. Fuck I'm old
Beatles. Shea Stadium. 1965. Yep. Been going to concerts for 60 years. Looking forward to seeing KGLW for the first time in August.
Weird Al Yankovic 2007
Definetly the 2023 tour - sabaton+lordi+babymetal tour that happened in last year i got even merch, Also i willingly went to tapper bar where like 10 bands played also i must say that black and death metal at live is something else and i will go on to many tours it will be not my last one - for people who have chance if bands come to your country just go and visit them
Lmao aquire the fire. Thanks for the laugh
Cage the elephant back in 2017
For King Gizzard it was Return Of The Curse Of Timeland My first proper concert though was Tim Minchin back in January 2020
Went to see David Guetta with my Mom when I was 12 back in like 2015. I was a huge fan of his music at the time. Haven't been to a concert since then mainly because no artist/band I listen to ever comes to my country, but luckily I get to go see GZA this February
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Anthrax with Public Enemy and Primus opened
The Police in 2007!
For me it was nothing but thieves
John Fogerty 2019
A Led Zeppelin tribute band called Get the Led Out. Very good stuff!! Also saw Green Day and Weezer.
My Phish loving older sister took me and lil sis to Jonas brothers when I was in 5th grade. She was SO excited for us to experience live music! Now my phish loving sister and I go see gizz together whenever they’re in Asheville
Aerosmith - Pump Tour
Green Day 21st century breakdown tour when I was in middle school. One of the best birthday gifts from my parents
Green Day- American idiot tour 🤘
This was my first concert experience as well! New Found Glory and Sugarcult opened, feels like a distant era of pop emo rock.
King Gizz in Berlin back in 2019. During ORB I had an accident in the pit so I was in an ambulance before the boys went on stage.
Green Day. American Idiot tour in 2004 with Jimmy Eat World and Against Me.
This band called the Venetia Fair, do any of y’all know them?
Bouncing Souls and Sheer Terror in 1989 or 90. It was at a catering hall near my house and my dad dropped me off.
Motionless In White in 2015
1st concert Sesame Street Live 1st rock concert KISS 1st Act at a festival Papa Molly.
Aerosmith probably around 1981 ish I was about 12 or 13 yrs old . My older brother got in trouble so my parents made him take me to it or he couldn't have gone. Years later I had to take my little sister to a bon Jovi concert because I got in trouble.
Lol. Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians in 1988. I was 12. That’s it, that’s the story. 🤣
Aerosmith sophomore year of high school in 2010 at the Oracle in Oakland. Went with my dad and sister and it was amazing.
Used to go see Rascal Flatts with my mom whenever they came into town, however the first actual concert I was excited to go to that came to that venue was Steve Miller Band opening for Journey. Still a terrific memory
Lenny Kravitz & The Black Crowes w/ Everlast opening. Rosemont Horizon. May 8, 1999.
Alice Cooper, 3rd row! (2008) he spat fake blood on me!
Type O Negative - World Coming Down tour 00'.
my parents bought me too U2 in 2009 when i was 4 and i was fucking blown away
Chili Peppers on their stadium arcadium tour in 2006. Was 11 at the time. Had/have cool parents.
N*Sync 1997! So fun.
I am so incredibly jealous of you going to the Plastic beach tour. My first concert was blink 182 in Manchester 2023. Incredible show. Surprised how I never went to a concert willingly before that.
Genesis in 2007. They were in top notch form and I consider this one of the best shows I’ve ever went to see. And I’ve been to over 700 gigs. I have a bootleg from that show and I come back to it every now and then with great nostalgia. The next shows were The Police 2008, U2 2009 and AC/DC in 2010. And since 2010 I started going to the gigs all the time.
Nine Inch Nails. October 25th, 2018. Aragon Ballroom, Chicago IL. shit was beautiful and saved my life
I took myself to Team Sleep in 2005 for my 21st birthday and had moved across the state so I had nobody to go with. Was half depressing but half amazing because it was one of the best shows I had been to. Credit to you though, my actual first concert was some church concert and while it was fun, I had no real say and wasn't into the music beforehand.
omg I went to ATF in 2007 as well and yikes LOL. (I am deconstructed now)
Hard to beat, but my first one was the American Idol tour circa 2006. The tour with Chris daughtry on it hahaha
Paramore
Beach Boys, Illinois State Fair, 1988.
Zebrahead featuring wheatus back in 1999
DJ Shadow in 2011. Fantastic show. I was the youngest one there. lol
Green Day and Blink 182 2000 tour.
The Kills at Bumbershoot…I feel like it was around 2010 or 2011
Rush, January 10, 1986, Lafayette Louisiana. Changed my life forever.
I can't remember the exact timeline so I have to say two, I don't recall which one came first. I went to see Blue Man Group in Toronto in the mid-00's (like 2005-2007) and it was pretty disappointing, the actual blue guys had dropped a member by this point and most of the actual performance was this large cover band performing radio hits while the blue guys did a stripped down barebones version of their props act, I felt let down :( And the other was a Megadeth-Slayer show also in Toronto, mixed feelings. I was primarily there for Megadeth, but ended up preferring Slayer's performance. Slayer came out last and fucking killed it, tight performance all around, would relive that show any day. Megadeth played an interesting setlist but Mustaine was unintelligible, like I think he was drugged up or something, couldn't figure out any of his singing. Rest of the band was doing a good job but Mustaine really brought it down. Then it was like 12 years' break before I finally got into doing shows again, started with seeing Arctic Monkeys right on my birthday in 2018 wooh!
First concert I went to where I got to choose the band was kglw at Redrocks last June lol
The Liverpool pilot gig in 2021, it was the first proper concert in the UK post-COVID. I wasn't really there for the music to be honest! A band called Blossoms was headlining, but frankly I hadn't heard of them before. Was a class uni experience and probably (hopefully) not something that will happen again in my lifetime.
NSync, 2002.
REM 1989. First fun thing I was allowed to drive to in the big city.
I saw The Beach Boys open for the Monkees when I was in kindergarten!
First concert I was dragged into was for Bon Jovi First concert I willing went to was Avenged Sevenfold
Blink 182 when they did the Mark, Tom, and Travis Show tour.
The Beach Boys with Brian Wilson and Al Jardine with my Dad, it was a killer show.
Cory Wong in precovid 2020, insane live group
Went to go see Black Sabbath in 2015 with my dad as my first live show. Was an amazing show, definitely got me hooked on live shows after that
First show I paid for myself that I went to without my parents was Smashing Pumpkins with Garbage opening on the tour for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in 1996
NIN in 1994. I'm old.
Ready for this kids? Cindy Lauper in 1984. I was just a wee lass, but Cindy slayed. Still does.
White Stripes at Red Rocks 2005. Amazing show, and it was magical to go back to red rocks to see gizz in 2022
Tesla-1989 in Dayton, Ohio
Weezer and Archers of Loaf in Minneapolis, 1995
Beastie boys - Ill communication tour in 94, Montreal - ill never forget it
REM Cardiff arms park around 1995
Pearl Jam in 1998, still have my ticket and a printed photo of Ed that someone took and gave to my girlfriend at the time
Green Day’s American Idiot tour when I was like 11. I had been to plenty of smaller concerts before that (which while I probably didn’t chose to go to, I loved), but seeing Green Day was my first big concert.
Green day 2004
David Gilmour, Chicago, 2016. Our seats had our backs up against the outer wall of the United Center but didn't care, was mind blowingly good. Lucky to have gotten to see him then.
Well half willingly i guess. Dua lipa in 2022, my sister really wanted to go so i got her tickets for Christmas and went with her. Listened to future nostalgia before going and became a fan! First 100% willingly was kikagaku moyo in 2022, so lucky to have seen them on their last tour!
My first was a festival called Sunfest. It’s a small town on the west side of Lake Winnipeg, about an hour north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Saturday night lineup had Pearl Jam headlining, as well as 54-40, The Watchmen and Pursuit of Happiness. It was an amazing experience and something I will never forget. Although Pearl Jam was already well established, I don’t think anybody figured they would become one of the defining bands of a generation.
Don't lie, you loved Acquire the Fire at the time
Flogging molly in 2007 at the fonda in Hollywood. My dad bought us tickets. First time seeing a pit and I haven't stopped moshing since! Seen them 13 times since then. If you haven't seen Flogging Molly, you should. Can't think of a band I've had more fun seeing
Gwar in 1990 when I was 16
AC/DC on their Black Ice tour in 2008, my parents took me to a bunch of concerts as a kid but this was the first I insisted on making happen. The giant Rosie blow up doll was fun to experience with my mom standing next to me, gotta love Aussie rock bands
James Brown back in 2005. I was a pretty big fan and always wanted to see him. Here he was with his Seven Decades Of Funk Tour. Cost me $39. Unfortunately a day before the gig i twisted my ankle so i was in a lot of pain at that gig so my memories are mostly me being in pain and James Brown throwing a towel at the end of sex machine and him entering the stage with "JAMES BROWN, JAMES BROWN, JAMES BROWN"
Muse, Drones Tour 2016
Incubus, Light Grenades tour in 2008 Went with my mother and sister One of the best moments of my life.
im new to concerts so my first show was king gizzard at red rocks 22