When I was about 14 or so I went to see Corey Hart.(Canadian singer. Maybe not a household name. Famous for the song "Sunglasses at Night") but the one I prefer to mention is Alice Cooper when I was 17. He put on a fantastic show. I saw him the following year as well, or maybe it was 2 years later. The theatrics were cool. And at one of the shows, Motorhead opened. Gotta love Lemmy.
I went to see Third Eye Blind when I was 18. It was one of those MTV College Invasion tours. I had soooo much fun since I went with a bunch of friends.
my first concert was wu-tang clan (well some of them). i was a junior in high school and went to visit some family in staten island (where wu-tang is from). every year they have park hill day and that year they had a huge concert so i tagged along with my cousins.
it was actually kind of traumatic. this one group threw tee-shirts into the crowd and everyone went crazy, i almost got trampled. not fun.
i think mine is totally hilarious given the type of music that i normally listened to. mine was in 7th grade, it was a tuesday night, that happened to be valentine's day. my friend's mom's bf (got that??) had box tickets to Nine Inch Nails. since i was young, and it was Nine Inch Nails, and it was a school night, my parents were the only ones who would let me go with her. i was so much fun because we were in the box and the people watching was totally worth the ticket price. i was more of a dave matthews or like band kinda girl when i was in 7th grade so i think it's kinda funny (especially when everyone else's was NKOTB).
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Ok, I just want to die now. The first concert I went to was this radio station's Christmas concert when I was in 7th grade. I remebered that Hole, Cake, and Soul Coughing played, but I couldn't remember who else. So I Googled it and here was the billing...Cake, Soul Coughing, Ken Stringfellow, Mark Lanagan, Garbage, Elliot Smith, Hole, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. I SAW ELLIOT SMITH IN CONCERT AND I HAVE NO MEMORY OF IT!
ha.. i was like 4-5.. debbie gibson! my parents were taking my sister and i liked everything she liked so i got to go to.. apparently i "danced" (lawn seats) to the music till i literally fell over and asleep!
My mom used to work for Latin NY Magazine, and was a total disco queen, so I went to tons of concerts as a little girl b/c she got comp tickets from work. I was under 7, I know that for sure, and I also got to meet some of the artists. Not sure if you guys would recognize the artists, so I won't name-drop :)
My first "grown-up" concert was Guns 'n Roses at MSG, with Soungarden as the opening act. I was like 15 or 16- it was the Using Your Illusion tour, and it totally confirmed my absolute obsession with Slash!
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In 7th grade (yes...I'm OLD!), my Mom and I went to see The Bee Gees at the Capitol Center (near D.C.) and were in a sky suite. I thought it was just the collest thing!
The first concert I went to on my own was The Cars.
probably hard to believe, but i've actually never been to a *real* concert in my life. i wasn't allowed to go to them when i was young, so i never really got into wanting to go to them. i guess that carried over into adulthood for me!
i did see rusted root perform at my college my freshman year, but i don't count it as a real concert - it was just them singing in our fieldhouse, no lights or anything even! and i got to see the "traveling" U2 concert last year when they were playing on the streets of nyc on a flat bed truck. here's a photo from that -
but other than that, no concerts for me. :(
maddie that concert you went to sounds so great! cake is my favorite band and i *heart* elliott smith. :)
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