What was you first concert.

[fr0sty]

Re: What was you first concert.

Judas Priest, Defender of the Faith Tour...

[Ozz666]

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ZZ Top with Black Crowes opening in 1991 at the Rosemont in IL...I was 11. Killer show...that was back when they put on "shows"...not just coming out and playing with a banner in the b/g.

- Joel

[Baum83]

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No arena show here. First concert experience was Slayer with Paul Bostaph in 2001, though.

[Jack The Riffer]

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Iron Maiden Powerslave tour with Accept opening for them

[Shawn Lutz]

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Journey at Detroit's Cobo arena in 1979. My mom dropped me and a buddy off. It was a moving experience [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] joints going by from both directions from people we didn't even know [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] From that point on I knew I wanted to play guitar and perform live.

[toejam]

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Anthrax on the Among The Living tour (at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ). I think it was '87 or '88, so I had to be 14 or 15. Celtic Frost and Exodus opened. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[vitovanhalen]

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Blue Oyster Cult - Spectres tour 1977 - abundant wrist lasers and Godzilla

[Boxcar Willie 84]

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Yngwie and Lizzie Borden!!

[Newc]

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Cheap Trick in 1982 with Uriah Heep opening - still got the shirt [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

That wasn't really an arena, though - it was a smallish theater called the Saenger Theater in New Orleans. First bona-fide sports-arena concert was at the University Of New Orleans Lakefront Arena, and I don't remember who it was [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
The bands I saw there (not in order) were:
WASP with someone, or opening for someone, can't recall, but it was a trip (first album)
AC/DC with Queensryche opening (Maximum Overdrive tour)
Stryper with Rocketboy opening (In God We Trust)
Iron Maiden and someone I just don't remember [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] (Powerslave)
Ozzy and somebody (Ultimate Sin)
Twisted Sister and Dokken (Stay Hungry)
Alice Cooper and G-N-R (Raise Your Fist And Yell)
Judas Priest and somebody (Turbo)
Motley Crue and either G-N-R or someone else for Theater of Pain, and Girls Girls Girls with G-N-R

I think that's it.

I saw these bands at the Colosseum in Biloxi:
Motley Crue (Girls, like a week after the first one [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img])
DLR and Krokus (Eat Em and Smile, and the guy from Krokus had a totally Glow In The Dark Strat of some sort)
Whitesnake and somebody (Still Of The Night - whatever) with Viv and V-berg
Ozzy again for the Ultimate Sin tour like a week after the other one [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

There were probably a couple or more I'm forgetting [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

The Saenger was small, but had the single best concert ever - Accept, Keel, Helix, and Lillian Axe (before they got signed) in one show - 5 hours of Metal [img]/images/graemlins/drool2.gif[/img]
I also saw Y&T with someone there once - can't recall who [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] but I do remember the giant chrome Robo-Dude in the Hot Pink Speedo [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Every time the guy turned and caught the lights in the armor, everyone in the joint went blind [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Also saw the Stray Cats there - damn good show.

Newc

[fett]

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Hell, that was back in the late 60's. It's a little foggy. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] I did go to Altamont. That was "The Bummer of Love." Actually I had a good time. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[jgcable]

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1976 Kiss at MSG. Judas Priest was the warm up act.

[atomic charvel guy]

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me too. '76 kiss at the garden. i was 11 years old, and there was alot of reefer in the air.
tits show, it was like the circus.

[Sephiroth]

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Anthrax on the "Among the Living" tour was my first concert

[skidd]

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J. Geils Band at SPAC
1st cool show a few weeks later Aerosmith Back in the Saddle Tour. Joe Perry made me want to play!

[txcharvel]

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Krokus and Kick Axe in Waco, TX [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]