djmelbatoast Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 What was your first concert?Mine was Cracker opening up for the Spin Doctors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble at Massey Hall in Toronto, in March, 1985 (the "Couldn't Stand The Weather" tour). I had an 8th-row floor seat. Aloha, Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Mine was The Hip at Copp's Colloseum on February 9, 1995. The Odds opened. It was the actual day of my fourteenth birthday. It was awesome!! My sister's friends thought it would be funny to get me high....and they were right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 The Headpins opening for Loverboy. GA show and I was front and centre. I caught a drumstick and Darby Mills' towel. That night changed my life.I walked outta there saying I was going to go to every concert that ever happens, and I've pretty much kept the promise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcO Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Pink Floyd @ CNE Exhibition Stadium 1987 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hal Johnson Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 My parents took me to see Toto when I was almost too young to remember. My friends make fun of me for it all the time. Yes, my friends and I think Toto blows, what of it? :susel: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Pink Floyd @ CNE Exhibition Stadium 1987You got to see Floyd when you were twelve?!?! What the fuck! Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJFH Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 The Beach Boys with my dad when I was a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwa. Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Steve Miller Band in Ann Arbor, MI 1992.....also first time smoking the reefer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevO Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 2) Guns N Roses @ Copps Coliseum w/ Brian May Band (opener) --- 1993?2) Lollapalooza 1995Main Stage: Sonic Youth, Hole, Cypress Hill, Pavement, Sinéad O'Connor (first few shows; bowed out due to pregnancy), Elastica (replaced O'Connor, as did Moby for a few shows), Beck, The Jesus Lizard, The Mighty Mighty BosstonesSide Stage: Coolio, Doo Rag, Possum Dixon, Poster Children, Yo La Tengo, Brainiac, The Coctails, Geraldine Fibbers, Dambuilders, Laika, The Pharcyde, Tuscadero, Built to Spill, Helium, Redman, St. Johnny, Dirty Three, Mike Watt, Versus, Hum, Blonde Redhead, The Roots, Blowhole, The Zeros, Pork Queen, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Sabalon Glitz, Psychotica, Patti Smith, Overpass, Moby, Superchunk, Beck (acoustic, generally), Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A., Ariel, Incredibly Strange WrestlingAll I remember though is Cypress Hill and Elastica, and trying to wade through the crowd to get to the bathroom while Beck was playing. I didn't know what was going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Loverboy with opening act Bryan Adams at the Kingston Memorial Centre, spring 1982. I believe The Blushing Brides were also on the bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blane Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Corey Hart, Memorial Gardens, Sault Ste. Marie.It was the Boy in the Box tour, so whenever that was, 1985 or 1986. Basically like a million years ago. I was proably 9 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wooly Mammoth Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Village People with Gloria Gaynor opening. 1976 (I think), Maple Leaf Gardens.That one is sort of embarrasing. I like to say the following was really my first concert:Cheap Trick with Graham Parker and the Rumour opening up 1977 (I think), also MLG. (Speaking of Brian May, I saw Queen at the CNE Grandstand in 1980) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basher Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Neil Diamond at Maple Leaf Gardens. Coming to America Tour.Top that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 It was either Genesis or Peter Gabriel in the summer of 1980, can't remember which was first.I can't wait for Freak By Night's answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottieking Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Neil Diamond at Maple Leaf Gardens. Coming to America Tour.Top that.Bon Jovi/Cinderella The "Slippery When Wet" TourCNE Stadium 1986Still have the shirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Cheap Trick with Graham Parker and the Rumour opening up 1977 (I think), also MLG. I wanted to go to Cheap Trick back around that time when they played Kingston, but being 9 with a dad that hated rock and rock stars made it a little difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Photogeek Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 The Who, June 1989 CNE Grandstand. This was a fantastic show for my first time...got to see the Stones that summer too (or was it the fall?) in the same venue...Overture, 1921, Amazing Journey, Sparks, The Acid Queen, Pinball Wizard, Do You Think It's Alright, Fiddle About, I'm Free, Tommy's Holiday Camp, We're Not Gonna Take It, I Won't Run Anymore, All Shall Be Well, A Friend Is A Friend, I Can't Explain, Substitute, I Can See For Miles, Trick Of The Light, Boris The Spider, Who Are You, Magic Bus, Baba O'Riley, My Generation, A Little Is Enough, 5.15, Love Reign O'er Me, Love Hurts, Save It For Later, Too Late The Hero, My Wife, Give Blood, Join Together, Behind Blue Eyes, Won't Get Fooled Again, You Better You Bet, Summertime Blues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Rush! at the Ottawa Civic CentreDec. 21 1977 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 The Who, June 1989 CNE Grandstand. This was a fantastic show for my first time...got to see the Stones that summer too (or was it the fall?) in the same venue... First or second show? I went to the first show. Townshend wore a cast on his strumming hand because he impaled it at the Buffalo show a night or two before. Great show.I went to The Stones "Steel Wheels" tour at the CNE that same summer. Another great show. Bill Wyamn still looked like a man back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Janet Jackson with Tony Toni Tone at Skydome 1993 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irie Guy Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Does Beatlemania at Hamilton Place in 81 count or Blue Peter in the gym at Highland Secondary in 82 or 83. If not it would have been Aztec Camera at the Concert Hall in 85. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 aerosmith, skid row opened i had previously tried to go to 2 concerts, michael jackson and the stones but couldn't get in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Does Beatlemania at Hamilton Place in 81 countIt depends on the context. My parents took my brother and I to see Beatlemania at the O'Keefe Centre in 1983 or so, but I call that a family outing (it was a gift they decided to give us) that had a band playing; the first concert I went to by myself and because I wanted to go to it was SRV a couple of years later.Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothedShredder Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 The Doughboys and hHead at the Masonic Temple(I think?! Could be another old theatre venue which started with a 'P' that's no longer around). Good Times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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