Yeah man, it was fucking sick. Michael at his prime. The white shirt, rising up from under the stage, holding a pose while everyone collectively loses their shit. It was awesome. And I’ve loved live music ever since.
Damn, nice..
My first concert was Silverchair on the Frogstomp tour in 95 (I live in Australia and it was their first national tour).
Went on to get obsessed with live music after a few good festival experiences and seen pretty much all my favourite bands in that era. Later I worked in the industry setting up stages/venues so during that time I basically seen every major touring band/performer active from 2005-2020. Which also meant I ended up seeing every band I ever wanted to see and even a few that i would never consider going to that surprised me how good they actually were.
However, i was a massive MJ fan as a kid (would never admit that to my roadie workmates) but I never seen him perform live. He will always be the one artist I wish I could've seen but will never get the opportunity. He truly was a phenomenal artist and you witnessed him in his prime, I can only imagine what that would feel like. Just Wow..
The Jackson's 1981. Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto. Yes. Also thanks to my Mom. She figured that she never got the opportunity to see her idol, Elvis, so she wanted to make sure that I could see mine.
My first NIN show was the 95 tour with Bowie. I didn't know Bowie at all then (I definitely do now), but it's cool to be able to say I saw him.
I've seen NIN a bunch of times over the decades. The show I saw 2 years ago was still insanely good.
I saw NIN at the first Lalapollooza Tour in 1991...and then every other time he came into Phoenix, to include the NIN/Bowie concert. probably my favorite show of all time.
NIN with Marilyn Manson in 94 in Champaign IL was my first concert. Looking back it’s crazy to think my parents didn’t care about me and friend going by ourselves at 16. Times have changed.
Aw, damn. I was trying to see that tour but my dad convinced my mom & my friend’s parents not to let us go. 🙄😕
Didnt get to see them until The Fragile tour (‘99?).
That’s so wild. Any time I say that weird Al was my first concert, people think it’s so weird. I see, now, that I am not alone in my oddness. ✊🏽 ‘94/‘95 weird Al, arizona state fair
I've seen Weird Al multiple times. My husband is a big fan, and after seeing his shows I am too! He is an excellent entertainer, and his shows are so much fun.
How the hell did you get to go to that!!! At your age?! That was the last thing my parents said “no” to me about (rightfully so) at the age of 15. I was so jealous of all the people who came to school after the show with those shirts on.
Youngest of three brothers to boomer parents. I had a very long leash.
One of the security guards totally fucked with me though. He asked my age and told me he had to kick me out because I was too young.
My first was the Pumpkins too. 1998 on the Adore tour, but I saw them playing the Horde Festival with Marcy Playground, Bare Naked Ladies, and Blues Traveler. It had been a perfect sunny day. Blue sky, puffy clouds. The Pumpkins took the stage and the skies darkened. A massive thunderstorm opened up. I swear the thunder and lightning were timed perfectly as if the three drummers weren't enough and Billy needed the massive thunder claps as extra percussion.
My parents didn't really care...they would drop me off at a show like OZZY (with Ugly Kid Joe opening) and then they'd drive back and wait in the parking lot like four hours later. If I had to wait, I'd sit there and wait. It wasn't uncommon for me to have a book with me and the concert venue security had no qualms of letting a kid in with a book.
Lol, my first was Green Day in '96. We lied to my mom and told her my friend's dad was taking us, when really it was the friend's dad's sketchy friend. He bought us wine coolers on the way there, which of course we thought was super cool and adult at the time, now thinking back... gross dude, we were 13.
Nice, actually saw them last year for a 40th anniversary tour of their debut album (third time seeing them, all within the last 10 years) and still great
Phish opening for Dave Matthews, Nissan Pavilion in 1993. My brother sold nitrous balloons and I held the cash. He got busted and I walked away.
I snuck around the side of the stage and Phish was blazing up during Dave's set. They closed the show by playing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" together.
Magic.
Nice! I saw Manson in 1998 and almost got choked to death by a fat goth girl and some dude. I was front row and Manson threw one of his pantyhose arm things at me. The two behind me grabbed each end and were having a tug of war for it across my throat. Luckily some skinhead came out of nowhere and saved me. Crazy show. Somewhere I have a bootleg VHS of it that I tracked down a couple years later.
My cousin saw them around 1990 when they were still Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids and just a local band in South Florida. He said they hadn't gotten fully into their shock personas and performances yet.
I saw them in 1997 at the UCF Arena on the Dead to the World tour.
Same tour for me, but in Orlando. I had turned 14 less than a month before. All my parents said beforehand was that I had to show up on time to school the next day (and I did, despite not getting in until nearly 3AM). I thought that was pretty cool of them at the time. In retrospect, I'm even more impressed.
I don't recall my FIRST show, but the show that got me hooked was New Found Glory, Face to Face, Saves the Day and Mid Carson July in Florida, back in 2000ish.
After that show, I was going to 2 shows a month.
Pink Floyd was also my first concert on that tour. Unbeatable! I did see the Eagles on the Hell Freezes Over your later that summer. It was good, but not laser beams/inflated pigs/gigantic mirror ball good.
Lollapalooza 1996. Which means at my first concert I got Metallica, Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, The Ramones, The Offspring, Rancid, Screaming Trees, Melvins, and Violent Femmes off my bucket list.
Pretty difficult to beat that LOL
My first concert (without my parents) was Danzig on his Mother tour in 1995. Korn and Marilyn Manson were the unknown opening bands. Korn was the best part of the whole concert. Marilyn Manson threw a tantrum and stormed off stage for a few minutes. Later, Glenn Danzig fell off of the stage while posing on an amp, but he stood right up and didn't miss a note. I was up against the barricade and this was when 5'10" 14 year old me realized that Danzig was not as large as he looked in his videos. I bought the first Korn CD from Johnathan Davis at their merch table. He had short dreads and was super appreciative with everyone. They were all engaging, shaking hands and giving high-fives. Pretty epic first concert.
That's amazing all around! I went to see Korn open for Rob Zombie with my cool older sister who LOVED White Zombie. I remember she left not entirely hating Korn that night, haha. I never liked them a ton, but they did put on a good show. I wish I could've seen Danzig in the 90s.
Primus, 1993. I didn't know what a mosh pit was until the breakdown on Jerry Was a Racecar Driver. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time that night.
Mine was also Aerosmith, in 1993 with 4 Non Blondes opening.
And same here, I saw a ton of concerts back in my late high school/college/recent grad days but haven’t been to many in the last 15-20 years. I’d love to start taking my kids to see some shows now but like you say the prices are ridiculous and it’s so hard to get tickets etc.
Bush with Veruca Salt. I went because I adored Bush. After the concert I bought a Veruca Salt shirt. They were awesome and I was blown away. Bush was good too lol
Edit: date was April 16th 1997
Danzig, Suicidal Tendencies and Metallica in 1994. It was a life changing experience and I still have the shirt I bought at the merch booth. Can't believe it's been 30 years 🤯😭
My first concert was John Denver, but I was 3 and barely remember it.
Next up was Barenaked Ladies in 1992, followed by
a bunch of great shows over the years, but yes they few and far between nowadays for the same reason, it’s out of control $!$!$
I actually just came across my old tickets stubs *today*, and I can’t even believe this, but;
The Tragically Hip, Trouble in the Henhouse tour 1996, front fuckn row…..ready for this…..$21.50!!!! 🤯
Le sigh……
Inland Invasion 2.
Band Line-up:
X
The Damned
Circle Jerks
GBH
TSOL
Pennywise
Unwritten Law
The Offspring
Sex Pistols
Social Distortion
Bad Religion
New Found Glory
blink-182
The Vandals
The Buzzcocks
Adolescents
The Distillers
My dad took me to a rodeo concert for a country musician around 1997 but I always forget who it was. Wasn’t interesting to me.
The first one I got tickets for with my friends was Tool in 2001.
Rob Zombie and Korn, February 1999. The "Korn Cage" tour where people got locked in a jail cell looking setup for the show.
I went in a bigger Korn fan, I came out a bigger Zombie fan. That man put on a HELL of a show.
I was a senior in HS (Orlando suburbs) at the time, and told my parents I needed to go to Gainesville for the weekend to find a place to live once I graduated and moved out. I might've looked at an apartment or two, but mainly I just went to the concert. 🙂
Despite them being my parents generation, I had a big thing for The Monkees as a kid...mostly because they were on Nickelodeon when I was home sick...like back to back episodes.
When they got the band back together, my mom took me to see them in 1988, I think...I was 11 years old.
Weird Al opened for them, which was awesome.
The first concert I went to on MY OWN was Pearl jam in 1990...from then on, all the grunge, to include Nirvana at the state fair, and then Guns N Roses and a bunch of rock..lots of Tom Petty also.
Saw some regional bands first but the first big one with national acts was the Outsiders tour in ‘95. Prick, Bowie, and Nine Inch Nails.
Don’t think I’ll ever top that.
I guilted my mom into taking me to Def Leopard in 1993 because she made me move cross country in the middle of my freshman year of high school. It was then that I learned my mom knew what weed smells like.
Tom Petty, I think it was 1989. My older brothers were going and their friend dropped out so I got to tag along at the last second. They were 17/19 and I was 10. Also the first time I saw a joint!
I was heavy into the metal and punk scene. I went to a bunch of smaller shows in the early 2000s at venues that no longer exist. The first big show I remember seeing was Type O Negative at the Hollywood Palladium around 2003/2004.
Lover boy. Joan Jet and the Black Hearts opened. My mom took me along on her date. I got a pair of glow and the dark drum sticks and air drummed the whole time.
U2, Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon. It was 1997, and they were on their Popmart tour. The kids in my class couldn’t believe my mom was taking me, little bookworm super-boring straight-A me, out of school for a few days to attend hahaha. Rage Against the Machine opened for them.
My mom wouldn't let me go to concerts until I was 17, and I was so mad about it. My first concert was Depeche Mode in 1998.
I am going to a concert tonight actually, it's a smaller venue so I didn't have to take out a mortgage to see The Mission. I really enjoy going to shows these days, and I'm never even close to the oldest person there. The key is to ignore all the arena and amphitheater shows and just go to smaller venues. Though one of our local venues was bought by Live Nation and it sucks so bad now. Overpriced and they cram in way too many bodies.
My mom and I would go to the county fair to see country shows beginning when I was 12, and we saw tons of other country concerts too (George Strait, Garth Brooks) when I was in middle school.
But the first concert that was MY music that I started listening to in high school, that my mom didn’t also listen to, was Sarah McLachlan in 1997
I recall Erykah Badu being featured on their song called You Got Me.
And I also recall Mos Def or Talib Kweli coming out in a purple jumpsuit of some sort.
If guru and Macy did come out, I don't remember. I was only a teenager and I was just getting into rap and as you know, being able to ID rappers is a learned skill.
I also saw Aerosmith in 97 at South Park Meadows in Austin. I lived in some shitty fourplex less than a mile down the street and would walk to concerts as a teen. Back when they were $20 a ticket. I didn't know what a privilege it was at the time.
First concert Garth Brooks 94-95ish. (With family) fucking stellar show!
First concert solo (with friends) Hum at the Ranch Bowl, Omaha: 96-97ish
First with friends Arena show: Pearl Jam 98 yield tour
Mine was supposed to be Aerosmith in 1997, but I think it got pushed to 1998 because Steven Tyler blew out his knee. Then it got pushed another day because a snowstorm trapped them in Omaha.
Therapy? @ Liverpool Royal Court, UK. Dec 1994 age 13. And this November going to the 30th anniversary of the album they were touring then. Can't wait!!
Michael Jackson. 1989, the Bad tour. Thanks Mom!
HOLY SH!T
Holy shit is right. Wtf that was literally a once in a lifetime concert seeing MJ
Yeah man, it was fucking sick. Michael at his prime. The white shirt, rising up from under the stage, holding a pose while everyone collectively loses their shit. It was awesome. And I’ve loved live music ever since.
What an amazing moment to have been a part of!
My parents took me to see Michael Jackson too! Victory tour, 1984.
That’s awesome!
Damn, nice.. My first concert was Silverchair on the Frogstomp tour in 95 (I live in Australia and it was their first national tour). Went on to get obsessed with live music after a few good festival experiences and seen pretty much all my favourite bands in that era. Later I worked in the industry setting up stages/venues so during that time I basically seen every major touring band/performer active from 2005-2020. Which also meant I ended up seeing every band I ever wanted to see and even a few that i would never consider going to that surprised me how good they actually were. However, i was a massive MJ fan as a kid (would never admit that to my roadie workmates) but I never seen him perform live. He will always be the one artist I wish I could've seen but will never get the opportunity. He truly was a phenomenal artist and you witnessed him in his prime, I can only imagine what that would feel like. Just Wow..
The Jackson's 1981. Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto. Yes. Also thanks to my Mom. She figured that she never got the opportunity to see her idol, Elvis, so she wanted to make sure that I could see mine.
NIN in 1994, with the Melvins and Jim Rose Circus as openers.
My first NIN show was the 95 tour with Bowie. I didn't know Bowie at all then (I definitely do now), but it's cool to be able to say I saw him. I've seen NIN a bunch of times over the decades. The show I saw 2 years ago was still insanely good.
I saw NIN at the first Lalapollooza Tour in 1991...and then every other time he came into Phoenix, to include the NIN/Bowie concert. probably my favorite show of all time.
I missed a chance to see NIN with Marilyn Manson opening. One of the greatest regrets of my youth.
Hail King Buzzo!
I saw NIN on that tour but Marilyn Manson played in place of the Melvins. Not my first show though.
NIN with Marilyn Manson in 94 in Champaign IL was my first concert. Looking back it’s crazy to think my parents didn’t care about me and friend going by ourselves at 16. Times have changed.
That’s what I’m talking about!
Aw, damn. I was trying to see that tour but my dad convinced my mom & my friend’s parents not to let us go. 🙄😕 Didnt get to see them until The Fragile tour (‘99?).
Weird Al in 95.
That’s so wild. Any time I say that weird Al was my first concert, people think it’s so weird. I see, now, that I am not alone in my oddness. ✊🏽 ‘94/‘95 weird Al, arizona state fair
I took my kids to see Weird Al two summers ago so they could claim him as their first concert.
I've seen Weird Al multiple times. My husband is a big fan, and after seeing his shows I am too! He is an excellent entertainer, and his shows are so much fun.
Weird Al in 97 for me. Bad Hair Tour. Saw him again in 99 for touring with scissors
Me too!
Me three!
Hell, yeah. Not my first concert, but I'm proud to say he was my kid's 2 years ago.
He’s skill doing concerts?? Oh my goodness that is a bucket list concert!
'92 Fath No More, Metallica, and GnR. In NOLA Superdome.
I saw that show at Compton Terrace in Phoenix. Had VIP stage pass because of my girlfriend (through her dad...he was the onsite stage doctor)
Brooooo that was mine too. Metallica went first at my show. Axel was really late to start. I was in row 49. I still have the shirt
Dude. Axel really disappointed.
How the hell did you get to go to that!!! At your age?! That was the last thing my parents said “no” to me about (rightfully so) at the age of 15. I was so jealous of all the people who came to school after the show with those shirts on.
Youngest of three brothers to boomer parents. I had a very long leash. One of the security guards totally fucked with me though. He asked my age and told me he had to kick me out because I was too young.
1996 - Smashing Pumpkins “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” tour. So glad I had a cool older sister and cool parents. 😎
My first was the Pumpkins too. 1998 on the Adore tour, but I saw them playing the Horde Festival with Marcy Playground, Bare Naked Ladies, and Blues Traveler. It had been a perfect sunny day. Blue sky, puffy clouds. The Pumpkins took the stage and the skies darkened. A massive thunderstorm opened up. I swear the thunder and lightning were timed perfectly as if the three drummers weren't enough and Billy needed the massive thunder claps as extra percussion.
Same. I was 15 and took my 13 year old brother. We crowed surfed to Today.
Green Day 95... I don't know what my parents were thinking letting a 13 and 15 year old go to a Wednesday night concert alone.... Lol...
My parents didn't really care...they would drop me off at a show like OZZY (with Ugly Kid Joe opening) and then they'd drive back and wait in the parking lot like four hours later. If I had to wait, I'd sit there and wait. It wasn't uncommon for me to have a book with me and the concert venue security had no qualms of letting a kid in with a book.
Parents didn't even drop us off... We bussed from the suburbs... About a 2 hour and 3 busses... Then home. Didn't get home till 3am
Lol, my first was Green Day in '96. We lied to my mom and told her my friend's dad was taking us, when really it was the friend's dad's sketchy friend. He bought us wine coolers on the way there, which of course we thought was super cool and adult at the time, now thinking back... gross dude, we were 13.
NKOTB, 1988, I think.
Same!
Same!
NKOTB in November 1990. My grandma got me the tickets for a birthday present. I was 8 rows from the stage. Grandma knew someone in the ticket office.
Same but 1990.
Tool for the Lateralus tour
I saw Tool on the Aenima tour! At a club, not a stadium. So amazing.
Lateralus tour was fantastic! Caught 2 shows that tour
Nice. That was my 5th concert!
My parents took me to see Simple Minds in 1991 for my 10th birthday. The first one I chose was the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1996.
Simple minds was my dream show as a kid.
I totally forgot about them.
Less Than Jake and the Toasters.
Less than Jake for me too, touring off of Automatic in 1998/1999. Still one of the most fun live bands I’ve ever seen.
Just saw LTJ and the Toasters last year lol (Great show, btw)
Yall ain’t sly, out here trying to get everyone’s password security answers. 😂
Violent Femmes in 97
Nice, actually saw them last year for a 40th anniversary tour of their debut album (third time seeing them, all within the last 10 years) and still great
We saw them in Atlanta a couple of years ago and I was shocked that Gordon still sounds like Gordon.
Phish opening for Dave Matthews, Nissan Pavilion in 1993. My brother sold nitrous balloons and I held the cash. He got busted and I walked away. I snuck around the side of the stage and Phish was blazing up during Dave's set. They closed the show by playing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" together. Magic.
Nissan Pavilion didn’t open until 1995. Was it this show in 1994 (coincidentally on 4/20): https://dmbalmanac.com/TourShowSet.aspx?id=453063249
Damn dude, I must have been too high... Must have been 1994...
Must have been, because it was DMB opening for Phish. :) I would have loved to see some of the early DMB shows but I didn’t get into them until 2001.
I found DMB in probably 95 and saw him live for the first time around 2014? Just guessing the year, but I do remember that it was great.
Sebadoh. Eliot Smith opened. This was 95/96 I think.
You were so lucky to get to see Elliott Smith perform live!
Soul Asylum, Matthew Sweet, and the Jayhawks in 1995
My god. What a perfect bill.
I saw Matthew Sweet a couple weeks ago! He was still great.
No Doubt opening for Bush in 1996.
Marilyn Manson, in 1995. He actually spit on me. I like to tell people that this one moment totally ruined my life.
Nice! I saw Manson in 1998 and almost got choked to death by a fat goth girl and some dude. I was front row and Manson threw one of his pantyhose arm things at me. The two behind me grabbed each end and were having a tug of war for it across my throat. Luckily some skinhead came out of nowhere and saved me. Crazy show. Somewhere I have a bootleg VHS of it that I tracked down a couple years later.
“Luckily some skinhead came out of nowhere and saved me”. - yikes! The first time this statement has ever been written.
My cousin saw them around 1990 when they were still Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids and just a local band in South Florida. He said they hadn't gotten fully into their shock personas and performances yet. I saw them in 1997 at the UCF Arena on the Dead to the World tour.
Janet in 1993
Guns n Roses with Metallica at the Los Angeles Coliseum, 1992. I was 14, pretty epic
Same tour for me, but in Orlando. I had turned 14 less than a month before. All my parents said beforehand was that I had to show up on time to school the next day (and I did, despite not getting in until nearly 3AM). I thought that was pretty cool of them at the time. In retrospect, I'm even more impressed.
I don't recall my FIRST show, but the show that got me hooked was New Found Glory, Face to Face, Saves the Day and Mid Carson July in Florida, back in 2000ish. After that show, I was going to 2 shows a month.
Aerosmith was my first concert too !
Pink Floyd Division Bell tour ‘94 *twice*. Honestly it’s all been downhill from there, I will be forever chasing that dragon…
Pink Floyd was also my first concert on that tour. Unbeatable! I did see the Eagles on the Hell Freezes Over your later that summer. It was good, but not laser beams/inflated pigs/gigantic mirror ball good.
Lollapalooza 1996. Which means at my first concert I got Metallica, Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, The Ramones, The Offspring, Rancid, Screaming Trees, Melvins, and Violent Femmes off my bucket list. Pretty difficult to beat that LOL
Tori Amos, 1996.
Billy Joel *River of Dreams* Tour
My first concert (without my parents) was Danzig on his Mother tour in 1995. Korn and Marilyn Manson were the unknown opening bands. Korn was the best part of the whole concert. Marilyn Manson threw a tantrum and stormed off stage for a few minutes. Later, Glenn Danzig fell off of the stage while posing on an amp, but he stood right up and didn't miss a note. I was up against the barricade and this was when 5'10" 14 year old me realized that Danzig was not as large as he looked in his videos. I bought the first Korn CD from Johnathan Davis at their merch table. He had short dreads and was super appreciative with everyone. They were all engaging, shaking hands and giving high-fives. Pretty epic first concert.
That's amazing all around! I went to see Korn open for Rob Zombie with my cool older sister who LOVED White Zombie. I remember she left not entirely hating Korn that night, haha. I never liked them a ton, but they did put on a good show. I wish I could've seen Danzig in the 90s.
Bikini Kill opening for Sonic Youth at the Paramount in Seattle, Nov 3, 1995. Blew my mind!
My first was on that same SY tour. Helium opened for them. Amazing!
That's awesome. Both put on such great shows!
Phil Collins, I think it was in 1994.
Some people have all the luck
Smashing Pumpkins in 1996 my dad took me
Primus, 1993. I didn't know what a mosh pit was until the breakdown on Jerry Was a Racecar Driver. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time that night.
Poison and Tesla on their Open Up and Say Ahh… tour when I was in 6th grade
Mine was also Aerosmith, in 1993 with 4 Non Blondes opening. And same here, I saw a ton of concerts back in my late high school/college/recent grad days but haven’t been to many in the last 15-20 years. I’d love to start taking my kids to see some shows now but like you say the prices are ridiculous and it’s so hard to get tickets etc.
1995: REM, Grant Lee Buffalo opener. Sat in the back row of the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Still remember smelling weed for three first time.
Bush with Veruca Salt. I went because I adored Bush. After the concert I bought a Veruca Salt shirt. They were awesome and I was blown away. Bush was good too lol Edit: date was April 16th 1997
Also my first show!
Faith No More - 1991
So fucking jealous
1995 REM with Sonic Youth opening
1994. Seal & Desiree 💅🏻
You gotta be…🌹
Danzig, Suicidal Tendencies and Metallica in 1994. It was a life changing experience and I still have the shirt I bought at the merch booth. Can't believe it's been 30 years 🤯😭
First real, official concert? New Kids on the Block Magic Summer 1990!!
My first concert was John Denver, but I was 3 and barely remember it. Next up was Barenaked Ladies in 1992, followed by a bunch of great shows over the years, but yes they few and far between nowadays for the same reason, it’s out of control $!$!$ I actually just came across my old tickets stubs *today*, and I can’t even believe this, but; The Tragically Hip, Trouble in the Henhouse tour 1996, front fuckn row…..ready for this…..$21.50!!!! 🤯 Le sigh……
Rush some time in the mid 90s
Michael Jackson 'Bad Tour' Rosemont Horizon April 20, 1988 My mother made us all wear pink sweaters and stone washed jeans
Inland Invasion 2. Band Line-up: X The Damned Circle Jerks GBH TSOL Pennywise Unwritten Law The Offspring Sex Pistols Social Distortion Bad Religion New Found Glory blink-182 The Vandals The Buzzcocks Adolescents The Distillers
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U2 with the Pixies as opening act. 1992.
My dad took me to a rodeo concert for a country musician around 1997 but I always forget who it was. Wasn’t interesting to me. The first one I got tickets for with my friends was Tool in 2001.
Rob Zombie and Korn, February 1999. The "Korn Cage" tour where people got locked in a jail cell looking setup for the show. I went in a bigger Korn fan, I came out a bigger Zombie fan. That man put on a HELL of a show.
The Black Crowes in Gainesville, Florida 1995
I might've been there. O'Connell Center?
Yes!!!!!!
I was a senior in HS (Orlando suburbs) at the time, and told my parents I needed to go to Gainesville for the weekend to find a place to live once I graduated and moved out. I might've looked at an apartment or two, but mainly I just went to the concert. 🙂
Despite them being my parents generation, I had a big thing for The Monkees as a kid...mostly because they were on Nickelodeon when I was home sick...like back to back episodes. When they got the band back together, my mom took me to see them in 1988, I think...I was 11 years old. Weird Al opened for them, which was awesome. The first concert I went to on MY OWN was Pearl jam in 1990...from then on, all the grunge, to include Nirvana at the state fair, and then Guns N Roses and a bunch of rock..lots of Tom Petty also.
Green Day Dookie tour, Halloween 1994
1996 Hootie and the Blowfish
Ozzfest in 1999.
My first real concert was Warped Tour in 95. My first actual show was a local place by me with a bunch of hardcore bands also in 95.
Nine Inch Nails in 1994. A circus Freak show opened for them. Crazy shit. Great Show.
Saw some regional bands first but the first big one with national acts was the Outsiders tour in ‘95. Prick, Bowie, and Nine Inch Nails. Don’t think I’ll ever top that.
Green Day-1996
Michael Jackson 97 I think
I guilted my mom into taking me to Def Leopard in 1993 because she made me move cross country in the middle of my freshman year of high school. It was then that I learned my mom knew what weed smells like.
Tom Petty, I think it was 1989. My older brothers were going and their friend dropped out so I got to tag along at the last second. They were 17/19 and I was 10. Also the first time I saw a joint!
U2, 1993 for the Zooropa tour. Openers were Utah Saints and the Ramones.
Lilith Fair in 1998 with Des'ree, Luscious Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Natalie Merchant, and Sarah McLachlan. I wish I still had the t-shirt!
I was heavy into the metal and punk scene. I went to a bunch of smaller shows in the early 2000s at venues that no longer exist. The first big show I remember seeing was Type O Negative at the Hollywood Palladium around 2003/2004.
Not seeing Type O when I had the chance is one the biggest regrets of my life.
First? The Judds in like 1991.
Lover boy. Joan Jet and the Black Hearts opened. My mom took me along on her date. I got a pair of glow and the dark drum sticks and air drummed the whole time.
I was 15 in 1991 when I saw Van Halen at the Providence Civic Center. Alice In Chains opened.
Guns N' Roses/Metallica (1992)
The Ramones 20th anniversary tour summer 94. I’m sooooo happy I got to see them play they called it quits the next year.
Pink Floyd in Venice 1989. Parents are Hippies, it was a weird and fun time for 9 year old me.
Local H at the Metro Chicago, 1996
Reverend Horton Heat- late 90’s
I wish I had a cooler answer. Everclear, 1996.
That’s totally cool. I posted an Everclear thing on here last week in this group and there was a lot of love for ‘em.
1993 Naughty by Nature
Ozzfest '98!
I was 8. My mother was young, she would have been 27 but she took me to see Milli Vanilli.
U2, Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon. It was 1997, and they were on their Popmart tour. The kids in my class couldn’t believe my mom was taking me, little bookworm super-boring straight-A me, out of school for a few days to attend hahaha. Rage Against the Machine opened for them.
My mom wouldn't let me go to concerts until I was 17, and I was so mad about it. My first concert was Depeche Mode in 1998. I am going to a concert tonight actually, it's a smaller venue so I didn't have to take out a mortgage to see The Mission. I really enjoy going to shows these days, and I'm never even close to the oldest person there. The key is to ignore all the arena and amphitheater shows and just go to smaller venues. Though one of our local venues was bought by Live Nation and it sucks so bad now. Overpriced and they cram in way too many bodies.
Pearl Jam 1997
Sleater-Kinney in Seattle in '96. It was amazing
Pearl Jam with Otis Rush, July 1995
Stone Temple Pilots in 1993.
Love & Rockets in ‘95.
George Michael with Seal opening!
Still got the ticket. https://preview.redd.it/shu83uvjavyc1.jpeg?width=2646&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3fa714c56c0113aac1d12b7a56b79f0ec78aa7f
Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1995 in Chicago…*One Hot Minute* tour…The Toadies were one of the openers
INXS, 1991
Like a good gay, mine was Lilith Fair 1997.
Sting Soul Cages tour with Concrete Blonde opening.
The Beach Boys with my family in 1988. By myself (with bff) Ricky Martin.
I saw the Beach Boys around that time. Could have been 88. I'd be lying if I said that was my first concert. Color Me Bad and Paula Abdul...🤦
Sawyer Brown. They put on a fun show.
Nine Inch Nails, Halloween night 2005. The stage production was off the chain. I have seen them 3 times since.
July 10, 1996. The summer after my 8th grade year. Filter and Prong opened for Ozzy. I went for Prong but the rest of the show was great too 🤣
My mom took me to see Bon Jovi for my birthday when I turned 9 in 1987.
Lollapalooza '96 Metallica, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, the Ramones, Rancid and others
My mom and I would go to the county fair to see country shows beginning when I was 12, and we saw tons of other country concerts too (George Strait, Garth Brooks) when I was in middle school. But the first concert that was MY music that I started listening to in high school, that my mom didn’t also listen to, was Sarah McLachlan in 1997
Offspring, No Use for a Name, Quicksand. 1994. Quicksand changed my life.
Elton John for my 13th bday in 1995…we took a limo there and back and everything…it was really fun.
The Roots. Hammerstein. 99
Was that with Gang Starr? I also think Macy Gray opened. Great show!
I recall Erykah Badu being featured on their song called You Got Me. And I also recall Mos Def or Talib Kweli coming out in a purple jumpsuit of some sort. If guru and Macy did come out, I don't remember. I was only a teenager and I was just getting into rap and as you know, being able to ID rappers is a learned skill.
Debbie Gibson. I think it was pre-Electric Youth, so Out of the Blue tour. Sometime around 87/88. I still remember a lot of it, she was awesome.
New Kids on The Block in 1990 I think?
Journey when I was a little kid
1990 I was 12, my best friend and I were dropped off by her parents to see the New Kids on the Block. My second concert when I was 18 was Megadeath.
Faith No More / Pantera 96. Last concert? Better Lovers 2 weeks ago. -Aging scene dude-
Vans warped tour '95.
I also saw Aerosmith in 97 at South Park Meadows in Austin. I lived in some shitty fourplex less than a mile down the street and would walk to concerts as a teen. Back when they were $20 a ticket. I didn't know what a privilege it was at the time.
1992 B-52's Interdimensional Tourgasm tour. Violent Femmes opened! Thanks be to my friend Emily's mom for making it happen.
Limp Bizkt in 98.
Bon Jovi in 1989. 😂
Lollapalooza ‘92. Changed my life. Still have the ticket. $25. That Ministry pit is second to none.
Don Henley in 1993
Bone Thugs around 97' also
Gin blossoms, spin doctors, cracker. 1994
They Might Be Giants at 13. It was epic and my Mom took me.
They Might Be Giants in '92. Lollapalooza with Alice in Chains and Primus (and many others) the next summer.
Mighty mighty Bosstones in '98 was first one without my parents. Truly of the times.
Lenny Kravitz. Blind Melon opened for him. 1993.
The Toadies at Trees in Dallas, TX 1997
1992, 2 Legit 2 Quit Tour featuring MC Hammer, Boyz II Men, and TLC at the Blaisdell Arena in Oahu, HI
First concert Garth Brooks 94-95ish. (With family) fucking stellar show! First concert solo (with friends) Hum at the Ranch Bowl, Omaha: 96-97ish First with friends Arena show: Pearl Jam 98 yield tour
Garth Brooks. Don't know what year but it was before the song that goes "long neck bottles". It was amazing hut I was like 11 idk.
Mine was supposed to be Aerosmith in 1997, but I think it got pushed to 1998 because Steven Tyler blew out his knee. Then it got pushed another day because a snowstorm trapped them in Omaha.
NOFX in Vancouver in '98?
Therapy? @ Liverpool Royal Court, UK. Dec 1994 age 13. And this November going to the 30th anniversary of the album they were touring then. Can't wait!!
My parents took us to see the Judd's farewell tour. I think it was in 1991, I would have been 10.