Your first concert was...

Other than the symphony in grade school, the first concert I went to was Heatwave (Always and Forever)... An up and coming hip band - Cameo was the introductory band... I'll never forget, I think it was around 1979 or so... Me and my girl made out the entire extended remix of always and forever... and "Cameo" rocked..

Soon after, I enjoyed live cover bands like "Molley Hatchet" "The Voltage Brothers" and others...

 

Dwight Yoakam. First concert I wanted to go to? B. B. King. Seen him thrice now. Best? The Mavericks at the end of their tour at Spirit Square (you don't often hear pop or country groups get into improv), or catching Coltrane's kid in an abandoned church.

 

R.E.M. - Green Tour - Dean Smith Center

 

Wow Magnus, I've been meaning to see Dwight, and I'm gonna have to make sure I do next time he's around. I bet the Mavericks whipped ass too. Willie is in G'boro in April.

 

They really did. I always liked their style, I like some country variations a lot more than most straight country. I want to catch Willie or Johnny Cash once while I can...or rather, while they can.

 

Def Leppard baby. It was the first sell-out in the "new" Charlotte Coliseum. It was sometime in October of 1988 during the "Hysteria" tour. They had an awesome drum solo which thanks to "Behind the Music" I learned the lead players (i.e. all members with two arms) were banging groupies heh. Queensryche opened the show, albeit before their "Silent Lucidety" single. Awesome show

 

B-52's. 1990, Carowinds Ampitheater

 

Lallapallooza, the original. Siouxsie Souix and the banshees, Ministry, Ice-T, Henry Rollins Band, and a few others....
I remember so well the smell of pot and spilled beer. Ministry only agreed to do the tour if they could get the first night spot during the show. When the lights went down, and ministry opened with New World Order, pizza boxes, beer cups, trash of all kinds hit the air. It was like watching a tornado form from the inside out. 5 bonfires were started on the grass knoll at Raleigh's Walnut Creek Amphitheatre. I was naive and thought I'd try my hand at moshing. My first true bloody nose. I was in heaven.

 

I was probbaly there. I love that band.

 

All of them? Last one I saw was with Bush. It absolutely sucked. I said i would never go back unlesess Weezer headlined. Speaking of Weezer, I see them in Raleight tomorrow night.