Your Very first Concert.......

[JTyson]

Judas Priest on the Screaming For Vengeance tour - it was me, my mom, my aunt and my grandma - they've never been the same since...

I remember that tour, I've never been the same since either That was the heaviest thing I had ever seen up to that point. 28 double headed Marshall stacks

 

[JTyson]

This will tell my age a bit, but Johnny and Edgar Winter, Montrose. Montrose changed everything for me back then

That's awesome. I've seen Edgar and I've seen Johnny a few times, but never together. I would've loved to have seen either of them with Derringer (I saw Derringer a few times.)

I did not know anything about them at the time, I really went to see Montrose I was 9, I think. My first exposure to a cranked Plexi ever

Ronnie Montrose KILLS! He was one of my Idols... What a player with chops & feel & vibrato... They were aweome! A young Sammy Hagar on volcals... I got the fire, Black Train, Space Station # 5

OMG! Still some of my favorite Music!

Best,

Roid RAGE

Yep, Space Station Number 5 and Rock Candy almost made me cry Montrose and Hagar were in rare form, and out to prove something at that time. I still listen to that album and get chills. Johnny Winter was badass too, Him and Derringer did some of the most smokin blues I had ever heard, and they both played on Edgars songs as well. Johnny was playing a Firebird with those mini-super humbuckers, that was the first time I had heard those things. He was a frightening figure when your 9 years old Him and Edgar both looked like ghosts up there. Great stuff

 

[H Golf Sport]

79 or 80. Kansas, Doobie Brothers, and Cheap Trick. USO tour at Ft. Derussy Beach Park Waikiki. I was like 10 and my parents friend took me. Bought me a beer and everything. Still have a guitar pick from Rick Nielsen.

 

[ihave27frets]

1986 Iron Maiden / Yngwie Malmsteen... Yeah, It had an impact on what I play today

 

[parntz145]

1983 I was 13 saw Iron Maiden on Number of the beast open for Jusdas Priest/screaming for vengance tour. Went with my older cousins who got me all Fucked up on black berry brandy. My toilet bowl hated me that night.

 

[chunktone]

Dream Theater! Images and Words in 1990. Blew me away!

I saw them on this tour too! Fates Warning opened! This album came out in '92 though.

 

[Chris6870]

Judas Priest Turbo Lover Tour with Cinderella and someone else I can't remember...

Saw that one too! Krokus opened for Priest that night in Michigan.

I saw that one too at Hershey Park Pa. Forget who else wa on the bill Tesla maybe?

 

[Chris6870]

First show was Judas Priest/Queensryche. Defenders of the faith tour. I was 14! Next was Iron Maidens Powerslave tour with Accept I think?and then Ozzy/Metallica, Ultimate sin tour.. Damn those were good times for concerts.

 

[troublehead]

Oingo Boingo as a pre-teen..........lol !

First "good" show was Night Ranger somewhere around 1982-1983.

Next up was Iron Maiden on their Powerslave tour. I think W.A.S.P. opened up if I remember correctly. Saw Ratt with Bon Jovi opening right around the same timeframe.

Some of the most killer shows I remember seeing as a teenager:

Anthrax, Exodus, and Celtic Frost all on one bill in a bowling alley

Motorhead, Mercyful Fate, and Exciter on the same stage

 

[dougiefresh]

My first was Triumph/Molly Hatchett at the Cincinnati Gardens.

The best was probably Iron Maiden/Accept at Hara Arena on the Powerslave tour.

 

[thunda]

My first concert was a Webb Pierce (gawd!) affair that some friends of my parents took me to around 1971 - I was 12 or 13 years old...it was actually pretty cool

then they took me and some friends for my 13th birthday to an underground restaurant/bar called "Down the Hatch" in Columbus, GA. The entertainment was a hard rocking band called "Hawg." Strange, as my parents were *not* rockers. The waitresses were bringing my 3 friends and me ginger ale in Chianti wine bottles and the band kept referring to my *18th* birthday. We had a blast.

The first concert I actually paid for headlined the Marshall Tucker Band, and the ticket price was $5.00.

Damn, I'm old!

 

[Hard&Heavy]

My first was Iron Maiden on the number of the beast tour.

 

[daver101]

Robert Plant - Principle of Moments Tour in Buffalo NY on Freshman Friday....1983 I think....

 

[daver101]

Best show ever was Eric Johnson in 2002 (3?) at the Pageant in St Louis. he was channeling that night.

 

[scottywompas]

First for me was AC/DC on the For those about to rock tour.

Scott

 

[technomancer]

Aerosmith with Dokken opening... IIRC it was the Permanent Vacation tour

It's actually really weird as I'm not a huge Aerosmith fan but I've seen them something like six times because people I know always ask me to go when they tour

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Van Halen - Diver Down tour.

Still have hearing loss from that show.

 

[headlessdeadguy]

Anthrax, Exodus, and Celtic Frost all on one bill in a bowling alley

I hate you.

 

[Mailman1971]

Anthrax, Exodus, and Celtic Frost all on one bill in a bowling alley

I hate you.

What he said!

 

[jerrydyer]

Dream Theater! Images and Words in 1990. Blew me away!

I saw them on this tour too! Fates Warning opened! This album came out in '92 though.

I saw this tour at the Galaxy in Santa Ana also saw them with the Galactic Cowboys at the Celebrity both were killer shows.