re: What was your first concert?

Not my first but did see Van Halen and cheap trick lake Charles in 1980. First one was prolly Grand Funk Railroad. Have seen tons of show but that was the loudest I have ever experienced.

December 19, 1980: Kansas with Alvin Lee of 10 Years After opening

Within a couple of years I saw shows like:

Van Halen (Fair Warning tour)
Rush (Moving Pictures tour)
Ozzie Osbourne with Randy Rhoads, and then a few months later Ozzie with Brad Gillis on guitar.

ARMS concert for Ronnie Lane featuring Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Joe Cocker, Paul Rodgers, and others (Jan Hammer, Ray Cooper, etc.).

Those were the days.

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The Spinners
Ike & Tina Turner
and Chuck Berry opened.

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It was awful

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well, that's disappointing

Can't remember, but I think I saw Boston, Kiss, Kansas, Charlie Daniels Band and Styx, in 1978, at the Mobile Municipal Auditorium.

Not all at once. It was one of these.

Marilyn Manson, dead to the world tour that I snuck into

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march 19, 1982
the centroplex
the police with the go-go's

ETA it was joan jett not the go-go's...my memory is bad

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That was a very good show. J Geils played there too and I think it was within a few months. Excellent. And then the Centroplex was killed off as a concert site.

My first - ELO in Denver, 1979 I think. The spaceship tour and a lot of fun.

Second - America at Red Rocks in 79 or 80. Gorgeous setting and the band was so wasted they forgot the words to Horse with No Name and just walked off the stage mid song after it fell apart.

Garth Brooks- Memphis- Mid 90's... I had my black cowboy hat on

Bachman-Turner Overdrive, October 24, 1975.

Paul Revere and the Raiders, Lafayette Civic Center, 1966

Kicks

Rick Springfield with Corey Heart opening