BoatBird Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy Birthday Vanelle! All the Brits are going to be laughing at me- the first concert I went to was Jason Donovan- it was about 17 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+LadyBee4T Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy Birthday to You!!! I'm asuming you mean something other than the scool band or orchestra concerts. I honestly don't remember the first one I attended and that could be a very bad sign. My parents wouldn't let me go to concerts in high school. In college the school brought in the band "America" so that I guess could be the first one. I vividly remember the last one though--The Who...... Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy birthday Vanelle!!!!! Well... living in an island and not in the capital of greece is not the best for conserts etc! We only have some greek singers coming, so... my first consert if I remember well was with Vasili Papakonstantinou, a long time ago! Since you probably never heard him.... Sparticus... tomorrow is your birthday????? WOW!!! Happy birthday to you then!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+IthacaDoodle Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR VANELLE! I'm glad to have the opportunity to participate in your bday coinfest: First concert was Eric Clapton in 1986. I'm guessing yours was Police or U2 in 1983...or maybe The Salads (for reasons only local cachers will understand!) Quote Link to comment
+DJ.J.ROCK Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy b day and sparticus too I probably have no chance but when I was 7 I got to go to steamboat springs for a bigfoot littlefoot concert. Anyone remember them? Quote Link to comment
+burgessfour Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy Birthday!!!!! My first concert was Night Ranger...... Quote Link to comment
paganfrog Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 (edited) my first concert/gig was to see Rockbitch. this wont get me a win in your cointest as i doubt you would have seen them, i got to see them the first and only time they played in the uk. then they got banned from ever performing again in the uk. ETA - HAPPY BIRTHDAY Edited January 9, 2009 by paganfrog Quote Link to comment
+summerandnana Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy Birthday Vanelle I think I have everyone beat regarding the number of years past but I doubt I will win the contest My first concert was Sonny and Cher, now that's taking you back. Myself and a bunch of teenage girls, driving downtown in my daddys Plymouth station wagon(pinkish color) that had a bad battery and half the time had to be jumped when you shut it off. Seats were somewhere in the first ten rows. After the concert we heard a rumor that the 2 were heading to their hotel for eats so we threw caution to the wind and made up our minds we were going to find them and sure enough we did. What a bunch of groupies Along the way we had to have the car jumped twice and the third time when it died downtown it would not start and we had to make that terrible call to our parents Not sure how we talked our parents in to it but it was a great adventure. Thanks for the memories, it was like it was yesterday Charlene Quote Link to comment
+CanadaKate Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy birthday! Fading memory cells so can't guarantee this answer but I think the first concert I attended was Harry Chapin. Quote Link to comment
+Chur Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy Birthday, Vanelle! My first real concert was Jethro Tull... yes, they already were old, when I saw them, but they still rocked! Have a nice birthday!!! Quote Link to comment
+fairyhoney Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 HAPPY BIRTHDAY , VANELLE ! ! ! My first real concert was LED ZEPPELIN (LOVE your name cuz it reminds me of VANILLA Quote Link to comment
+Elmasj Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Congrets to your birthday. I just passed mine. Hope you had a nice day! (Oh yes, my first concert was Toto in Rotterdam) Quote Link to comment
+Vanelle Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 Sonny & Cher! ELO! The OSMONDS! What I would have given as a young teen to go see any of these - absolutely no need for embarassment there. Folks I have seen in concert (not including the most embarassing first one at age 12 or 13) are as follows: Billy Joel (3 times) Queen (in Hyde Park, London) The Indigo Girls Styx Chubby Checker Blues Traveler Hootie & the Blowfish Cindy Lauper Bruce Springsteen Joe Cocker Paul Simon Blue Man Group Quote Link to comment
+susiemerlin1 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 First off HAPPY BIRTHDAY Vanelle. Now for the embarrassing bit, many many moons ago my first concert was to see SHOWADDYWADDY! (I wonder if anyone has ever heard of them on your side of the pond). Also I am soooo jealous of Opalsns for getting to see Queen. Quote Link to comment
+drneal Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 happy birthday Vanelle! First concert was Three Dog Night (I'm old,) #2 (just because I can remember,) was Cheech & Chong (I'm still old!) Quote Link to comment
+Harwell5 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Hey VANELLE, Just curious to know if anyone has given the right answer to your query yet. Just curious, H5 Quote Link to comment
pauljsurfer1 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy Birthday!!!! I know this won't even be close but here goes. My first was a country concert: Keith Urban Quote Link to comment
+Laval K-9 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy Birthday Vanelle !!! The first concert I went to was Johny Cash when he came to Montreal around 1979 Quote Link to comment
+MlKE Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy Birthday! Mine is tomorrow! I was hoping to win Titan tickets at work but a geocoin would be the next best thing. But I doubt I'm close. George Jones / John Anderson - in the 80's Quote Link to comment
+Turlutortue Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 (edited) HAPPY BIRTHDAY VANELLE My very first concert was Mickael Jackson at the olympic stadium in Montreal. We were so high seated that we had problem seing him on the big screen and the sound was....let's say we never go to hear a complete song just parts of it when sound got to us!!! After that I went to see Luther Vandross and Gino Vanelli Edited January 9, 2009 by Turlutortue Quote Link to comment
+Vanelle Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 Hey VANELLE, Just curious to know if anyone has given the right answer to your query yet. Just curious, H5 No one yet has matched the concert, but there is an alphabetically close option too. Quote Link to comment
+opalsns Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Susiemerli1, It was FANTASTIC... Black stage under a black curtain ... lights go down ... Freddie starts , Buddy Your A Boy Make A big Noise..... into ...we will we will rock you and as the guitar started , the curtains opened and Freddie was Standing there in a pool of colored smoke that poured down the stairs and into the audience. Man , What a show. Only my Aerosmith Concerts, were better, if you can believe that.!!!! Opalsns Quote Link to comment
+DresselDragons Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy b-day! The first concert that I went to see was Kenny Loggins MANY years ago...the first concert that Brenda went to was Jimmy Buffet (I was rather pregnant with her at the time...LOL). Quote Link to comment
+SYOTT Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy Birthday!!! Mine is next weekend... First Concert- Rush Quote Link to comment
+sweetlife Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Vals first concert she ever attended was seeing FasterpussyCat, Slaughter, and SkidRow, in Ironwood Michigan Quote Link to comment
+tsunrisebey Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Not entering but just wishing you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! tsun Quote Link to comment
+sweetlife Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Barrys first concert he seen is Poison and Warrant in Green Bay Wisconsin Quote Link to comment
+slowdownracer Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy Birthday Vanelle. My first concert was Elton John at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, June or July of 1976. Since then my tastes have improved. The only concerts I go to now are RUSH !!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+catsnfish Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Happy Birthday Vanelle! My first concert was the Doobie Bros. My husbands was Gordon Lightfoot. Quote Link to comment
+gardengorilla Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 (edited) Vals first concert she ever attended was seeing FasterpussyCat, Slaughter, and SkidRow, in Ironwood Michigan Barrys first concert he seen is Poison and Warrant in Green Bay Wisconsin Cool!!! I would've preferred them to my first concert, Trooper. But hey I lived in a small town and by the time they came around they were ancient.... also my first and last puff on a smoke! Happy Birthday Vanelle! and many more! Edited January 10, 2009 by gardengorilla Quote Link to comment
+Team Black-Cat Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Well, just about a lifetime ago I went to my first "real" concert and had the pleasure of seeing RUSH during their All the World's a Stage tour. Pretty sure that's not the same as your first, but it was one of the best concerts that I've ever been to. Quote Link to comment
+kini_ont Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Ouch going to date myself here but first and foremost “Happy Birthday” and thanks for letting all of us share it with you (and we get the present, I like those kinds of birthday parties). Ok here goes, I was oh 15 if memory has not failed me and I asked the girl I met at summer school that year. We caught a bus to Toronto and I even had enough money to take a taxi to the O’Keefe Centre (rename now) the band; Jefferson Airplane “the man” even threaten to shut down the concert if “all you hippies don’t stop smoking that stuff”. Had no idea or clue (at that time) to what he was referring too. About a year later I had the chance to join some people to go to a town in New York State called Woodstock, but I was 16 and not sure I’d be alive once I got back home so I turned it down, doh. Loved reading all the firsts and stories, a very wide range of concerts, but if I was asked about my favourite concert there would be a tie The Moody Blues and in 1974 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young where I was, just like Eltada, only feet away from my future wife and didn’t know it. So as the song goes; “Remember what the dormouse said, Feed your head, feed your head” Happy Birthday Quote Link to comment
+The Fossillady Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Happy Birthday. I think I may be one of the oldest so I have no chance to win but my first concert was "THE BEATLES" in 1964 at Cleveland Stadium. I have seen a lot since then by last was Garth Brooks last January when he put did 5 concert in 26 hours in LA. Quote Link to comment
+hollora Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Happy Birthday - first concert but sort of small scale was a local band called the Jesters. Good Luck to all! Quote Link to comment
+mfamilee Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Happy Happy Birthday! My 1st concert ever was just last year to see Damien Rice at the Opera House in Chicago! Quote Link to comment
+LadyBee4T Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Happy Birthday. I think I may be one of the oldest so I have no chance to win but my first concert was "THE BEATLES" in 1964 at Cleveland Stadium. I have seen a lot since then by last was Garth Brooks last January when he put did 5 concert in 26 hours in LA. I am SO jealous!! My friend's grandfather said he would take the both of us to the Detroit concert for her birthday and my mother said no. Her reasoning was that he was "old" (must have been about 65 at the time) and because of that a poor driver at least that is what she told me. We were both VERY dissapointed to say the least. The funny thing is that she is 82 y/o and still driving. I wonder what she would think of her comment if I told her now..... Quote Link to comment
+The 4 F's Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 My first concert was a Phil Collins concert in Miami, FL in the late 80's Quote Link to comment
+cache_in_hand Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 (edited) I already told you my first concert was ELO, but I worked with the local stage crew doing setup and teardown at the special events center. The roadies would come in with all the equipment and use us local hires to do all the work. We would work 5 to 6 hours of setup, and then we got to stay for the concerts free and then worked 6 hours or so tearing down and loading. Hence I got to see lots of concert including Eagles Spyro Gyra Ted Nugent Heart Kansas The Outlaws w/ Willie Nelson Fleetwood Mac Joan Jett Blondie REO Speedwagon BTO America Foreigner Toto Kool and the Gang Journey and way too many more to remember The roadies always gave us T-shirts afterwards and I think that was what kept me clothed through college LOL I wish I had kept them all instead of wearing them. Most recently, (just last year) I took my wife to see John Fogerty. Awesome even after so many years! Edited January 10, 2009 by cache_in_hand Quote Link to comment
JohnMac56 Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! The first concert that I went to was actually the US festival in 1982. There were a large number of bands that played that festival and I couldn't remember half of them so I had to go and look them up. It was quite a while ago and I was a bit younger then and with all the drinking and partying going on I only remember bits and pieces of it. According to wikipedia, the following bands played during that US festival: Gang of Four The Ramones The English Beat Oingo Boingo The B-52's Talking Heads The Police The Joe Sharino Band Dave Edmunds Eddie Money Santana The Cars The Kinks Pat Benatar Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Grateful Dead Jerry Jeff Walker Jimmy Buffett Jackson Browne Fleetwood Mac I do remember seeing the Police, the B-52's, the Cars and Fleetwood Mac, but the others are just a blur now (and they were a blur then too)... I wish I could have been able to attend the second US festival the following year which had a larger line up of bands, but I had some financial problems and had to work two jobs to pull myself out. With the two jobs, it was impossible to get the time off to attend. Oh to be young again.... Quote Link to comment
+Shadow's Friend Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 (edited) Happy Birthday to You!! My first concert, many years ago was to The Carpenters. They had a wild and crazy comedian open for them - Steve Martin. Edited January 10, 2009 by Shadow's Friend Quote Link to comment
+Trick or Treat Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 KISS - lol. I've seen them since just for the nostalgia. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
+opalsns Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 (edited) JohnMac56, It was 1983 when I went to go to the US festival.I still have my ticket from the US Festival. I won a contest on wzou radio, The Zoo, It was The Man With Two Brains Contest. We went to hollywood with other winners from across the Country. They put us up at The Hyatt Regency on Sunset Blvd. We went to the private screening of the Man With Two Brains. (A Steve Martin Movie ) And the next day everyone went to the US festival, except me, I was pregnant with my son and was exhausted, so I stayed at the Hotel and rested. It was , What I called The Punk Rock Day of the Festival. They had Different style of music each of the 3 days. Wow , Thanx for bringing back a memory!!!!!! Opalsns Edited January 10, 2009 by opalsns Quote Link to comment
+Vanelle Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 KISS - lol. I've seen them since just for the nostalgia. Thanks! HA! That's my husband's first concert. Too bad it's not his birthday. Quote Link to comment
+Team CeDo Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 not my first bu......Motley crue Quote Link to comment
3 HappyCampers Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Happy Birthday! I saw Marshal Tucker for my first concert. Quote Link to comment
+IBcrashen Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Happy Birthday First concert was Heart. The opening performer almost got booed off the stage, some guy named Eddie Money. Quote Link to comment
+dhenninger Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Happy Birthday!! My first concert was the Violent Femmes at the State Theater in New Brunswick, NJ Quote Link to comment
+team moxiepup Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Happy Birthday! My first concert was John Denver. Since I'm sitting here with the missus, I asked her what her first concert was. Guess what? John Denver! Spoooooooooky! Quote Link to comment
+Team CeDo Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Umm....Lenny Kravitz, once again not one I've been to Quote Link to comment
+forthferalz Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJPIZ-C-9c stevie wonder Quote Link to comment
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