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What Was the First Band You Saw in Concert?


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Molly Hatchet 1979.     ***  Best concert.....Zac Brown Band. 2018.   ...he referred to themselves as musicians...

they performed Billy Joel's ...Longest time ....Acapella without instruments 

 

 

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Paul Revere and the Raiders. Geez, I'm old.

Best Sound like their album - Little River Band

Best Light Show -  Blue Oyster Cult, close second - Joe Walsh

Most memorable - AC/DC on October 2, 1979, just about 3 months before Bon Scott died

Call me 76 and just about deaf.  ;^)

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U.K. Subs / Vandals , 1989 . 

While I'd been to a number of local bands' gigs (mostly Punk bands or Revival Mod bands) , that was the first "big name" concert I'd attended . I'd just gotten my driver's licence , and was ready to travel everywhere ; Hollywood was a favourite spot .

Then there was the granddaddy of them all : the  Benson & Hedges Blues Festival on 9th June 1990 at the Pacific Amphitheatre . That sucker was 7 hours ! Worth every minute (not to mention the sunburn--- a cloudy , hot , humid , rainy day until around 16:00 when the sun made its appearance) .

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-04-28-ca-394-story.html

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8 hours ago, Can-Con said:

Huey Lewis & The News in 2012. 

Dare I say they put on a better show than the ZZ Top show I went to a few years later. 

Too bad Huey can't sing anymore. I got their last album a few weeks ago and it's great.

First concert was Wang Chung in Boston, MA, in 1986, and I did see Huey Lewis & The News in Worcester, MA, in 1987.

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 1972:  it was a great concert year for me, I was young and single had a full time job and thought I had plenty of money!  lol

1) ZZ Top   Greensboro, NC

Blue Oyster Cult   Greensboro, NC

Grand Funk Railroad  Fayetteville, NC

Deep Purple  Fayetteville, NC

Allman Brothers  Fayetteville, NC

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Neil Diamond 1975 in a large 9,000 seat venue. My now wife (girlfriend then) and I were the youngest folks in the whole place!!!!

Two weeks later we went to Emerson Lake and Palmer.......talk about a different world!!!  Same venue as Diamond but now we were not the youngest but by the end we were among the few that could walk out upright!! 

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Horde Festival, 1992. There were six bands but I can't remember all of them, I know it was the Spin Doctors, Blues Traveler, Bela Fleck, and Col. Horton Heat. My dad took me because he was a Bela Fleck fan but the Spin Doctors stole the show, I saw them again about two years ago. 

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I believe it was Foghat and Spooky Tooth in 1971. Used to remember this stuff better but that was a long time ago.

I like my wife's first and 2nd concert. First was John Denver and next was Ted Nugent. A little different from each other.

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