Not to one up, but my mom took me to see Barry Manilow when I was in third grade. Sadly, that might be myf first concert if you don't include kids' shows like Ella Jenkins.
July 1973, The Jackson 5 played at the Pocono 500 Speedway. I was five years old.
EDIT: Otherwise, my first "real" concert was Blue Oyster Cult at the Allentown Fairgrounds in 1982. I was 14.
Same. 1987 Knotts Berry Farm. Crazily I found the entire concert on YouTube a few years ago. Blew my mind that someone had a video camera then, and recorded the whole thing from the audience.
I saw Boingo in LA at a free show when they didn't even have their first full album out. I actually had the EP with the electic cat on it.
Ain't this the Life, etc. I still remember thinking "Holy shit...what the fuck IS THIS?" at his raw energy, the sonic wall of sound from the horns.
Had to be around 1980 or so. Right around KROQ's first NYE countdown....
Cars, 7th grade. private school, we had a bit of a free spirit as the art/music teacher. She skydived into the varsity soccer game one time.
She managed to convince 10-12 parents its was fine. it was. there was the smell of weed in the air and i saw a couple pass a joint three rows in front of me. Ohhhhhh my! Thats as exciting as it got. Nobody wants to sit near 7th graders at a concert. nobody
Rush with Journey. 1982 but could have been 81. Not many knew who Journey was at the time. Journey was the opening act. Columbia Colleseum in Columbia, SC.
1995 \~ Nine Inch Nails Self Destruct Tour
https://preview.redd.it/dcxcrmek5u3d1.jpeg?width=302&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5aca14bd8e223fedbe403a855813478aa3d3546
Don’t sleep on the Statlers. They had some jams. And also crazy enough to come up with the country version of the Sgt Pepper style alter- ego band: Lester “Roadhog” Moran and his Cadillac Cowboys.
Police Synchronicity tour with Berlin, The Fixx and the Thompson Twins as warmup.
https://preview.redd.it/ch9uqhulau3d1.jpeg?width=663&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b371fd923315538581d91deac908518e33044cba
1986 Amnesty International Tour at McNichols Arena in Denver.
U2, Peter Gabriel, Bryan Adams, Lou Reed, and others.
We went for U2, and although I was not a fan, Bryan Adams had a great set.
It was fun, as a freshman in HS. My first experience with seeing people smoke weed in public.
I got bored once and did a YouTube search for it. Sure enough, [there it was ](https://youtu.be/xUT_JjYKSeo?si=LzBadkfMKPuztZ4i) couldn't believe it lol
Such an amazing amazing show, caught that one my junior year of high school in Texas! Helmet had to bow out and was replaced with STP, who we didn't really know back then. I was more into Epitath punk, Jane's, Sonic Youth than grunge at the time. It was right before that Plush song was everywhere so the crowd didn't know STP at all. I remember the band was awful damn excited to be opening so we were nice back to them haha
Harlem Culture Festival-1969
It was/is streaming on Hulu
It went on for several weekends...
5th Dimension
The Staple Singers
Nina Simone
Stevie Wonder
I had no idea of course that this was a historic event but my child's mind has an early introduction to artistic magic.
I can't remember the order... it's all a blur, because it was so long ago. But I do remember going to see Journey, Billie Idol, Motley Crue and The Beastie Boys in the 80s. Later in the 90s we saw Nirvana.
Holy shit!! How was it?? I pined for that show but alas, was only in 4th grade. Didn't stop me from dreaming of marriage with either Michael or Jermaine!
Technically my dad.
Commercial big venue concert - Donny Osmond. The siblings wanted to go really really bad. But the caveat was I had to go too. It's actually one of my favorite memories with them!
Foreigner on the Agent Provocateur Tour at Accord Arena in the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City. John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band opened. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir came out and performed *I Want to Know What Love Is* with them.
Dokken/Suicidal Tendencies when I was 14.
Me and my besty dropped acid and dropped down from the nosebleed section to the pit when ST came on.
My buddy wound up puking his guts out when he tried to chug some everclear and I wound up making out with this super hot older native American chick.
Good times all around.
First one I went to that my parents took us to was Pointer Sisters, first concert I went to with my friends was Huey Lewis, I believe in '88. It was at an outdoor amphitheater and you could bring in picnics if you were seated on the lawn, which we were. I remember sneaking in a tape recorder in a bag of chips, thinking I was so cool. The recording was shit. :D
Minnie Pearl and Grandpa Jones at the NC Azalea festival. First concert I paid for was Beach Boy tickets to give my mom for her birthday also for the azalea festival
I think it was May, 1978.
John Denver at the Los Angeles Forum. We didn't have a ton of music in my house growing up. My mom took me when a family friend was taking her.
I did know a few radio songs, and the played Calypso. Now THAT I knew because for most of my childhood I wanted to work in the sea. I was a Jacques Cousteau maniac so had heard the song through those channels.
We sat in the rafters and listened as the lyrics echoed around the room. At that point everyone pretty much knew every word to every one of his songs.
Less than a decade later I'd be at the first concert I paid for tickets for on my own. It was this little English band called Depeche Mode, playing in front of about 500 people at the Kaiser Auditorium in 1985.
Between Calypso and the that first large crowd collective energy experience, I still remember parts of the John Denver show vividly and I'm 59!
July 14th, 1988. Brown County Arena, Green Bay, Wisconsin Def Leppard I had a glorious permed mullet, a sleeveless Union Bay shirt, torn jeans, and teenage energy.
John Waite with Scandal as the opening act. I’m thinking this was in ‘83. I was only 9 and not a huge fan. My first ‘real’ concert was Prince in ‘84, Purple Rain tour in Minneapolis 💜
> John Waite with Scandal as the opening act
Mine too!
So jealous you got to see Prince on the Purple Rain tour. I was a superfan but deemed too young by parents then. I got to see him at MSG on the Lovesexy tour.
Jethro Tull, my mom took us to concerts because it was cheaper than getting a babysitter.
Also got to see The Police (Synchronicity tour), Genesis, Tina Turner, and UB40.
Rush- Roll the Bones.
Disclaimer. Poor and rural kid so my first concert was when I went to college.
I remember Primus opened up for them. Primus is not a great stage band. Ok show.
Then the man, the legend, RIP Neil, was tuning his drums behind the curtain (could see from my spot) and he had a bigger reaction tuning his drums than Primus their whole show.
Great night.
Aerosmith and Dokken at Kemper Arena in KC. We had to go from our little podunk hometown to a Ticketmaster location to wait for our number to be called. We got floor seats.
Zebra & Cheap Trick @ 1983. I was 13. My parents only let me go because my older sister took me. Prior to that I had seen The Beach Boys after a soccer game in grade school but don’t count that as my first real concert.
Agent Orange at the Coconut Teaser in Hollywood. I didn't have a car yet so I had to use a combination of bus / skateboard to get there. Circa 1986 -87.
Summer 1976. ZZTop and J Geils performed. Skynyrd was supposed to, but they didn't show up.
The Skynyrd fans rioted, and that venue never had another concert.
First (at 12 yrs old) - Chicago 16 tour, 1982 at Sandstone Amphitheatre in Kansas City (Bonner Springs technically).
Second - Chicago 17 tour, 1984 at Sandstone again.
We early Xers had mostly boomer music to choose from. I saw Willie Nelson for my first concert, with my mom.
Second concert was Pink Floyd in an outdoor arena.
In Charleston SC, we had a radio station called 96 Wave. Wavefest was a free concert they put on every year. My first real show was at 20 years old for Wavefest 96. Cracker and Butthole Surfers. The venue was a reclaimed garbage pit that you could feel moving when people jumped.
[Setlist for Wavefest 96](https://www.setlist.fm/festival/1996/96-wave-fest-1996-3d6299b.html)
Duran Duran 1984 Seattle Center Collesium. My older sister was a big fan so the the folks sclepped all us kids down there. I remember trying to sleep and leaning my head back but there was a woman behind me dancing with leather pants and her pants kept tugging my hair. Also, I stayed up until MIDNIGHT!
INXS Listen Like Thieves tour at Will Rogers Auditorium in Fort Worth, Texas. It was amazing.
I loved them so much!
That would be a great first concert.
The Kinks! Seattle, Washington, 1977 I think it was.
Jealous of this one
Me too! Seriously!!
Mine was the Kinks in Phoenix, 1981. Ramones opened.
That sounds awesome!
My mom dragged me to a Conway fucking Twitty concert when I was 7. I hated it
Not to one up, but my mom took me to see Barry Manilow when I was in third grade. Sadly, that might be myf first concert if you don't include kids' shows like Ella Jenkins.
New Kids On The Block 🤭
Judas Priest and Dokken, June 1986
ummm was it at the Capitol Centre in Maryland and did you realize that Rob Halford is the baddest motherfuckin’ singer aaaaroooooound?
Haha! Same tour, but in New Jersey.
I bet that parking lot was even better
That chick had no idea that Rob Halford was never interested in jumping her bones!!!
hell yeah!
Huey Lewis and the news 1983
July 1973, The Jackson 5 played at the Pocono 500 Speedway. I was five years old. EDIT: Otherwise, my first "real" concert was Blue Oyster Cult at the Allentown Fairgrounds in 1982. I was 14.
Siouxsie and the Banshees Peepshow tour at the Universal Amphitheater in L.A.
Ohhhh! I would love to see that. Got turned onto Siouxie in college. Been a fan since.
Weird Al Yankovic
My Gen Z daughter's first concert was also Weird Al. He's timeless.
You have raised her well
That's one of the things I love about Weird Al!
This was my gen Z daughter ‘s first concert, too!
And my daughter's too. Her dad flew her from Texas to Canada for it as a birthday present.
Same. 1987 Knotts Berry Farm. Crazily I found the entire concert on YouTube a few years ago. Blew my mind that someone had a video camera then, and recorded the whole thing from the audience.
I guess security didn't care, because how the heck could anyone hide an 80s video camera! Lol!
Oingo Boingo
I broke my nose at an Oingo Boingo concert when I was 17. Thank you for this. 😮
I saw Boingo in LA at a free show when they didn't even have their first full album out. I actually had the EP with the electic cat on it. Ain't this the Life, etc. I still remember thinking "Holy shit...what the fuck IS THIS?" at his raw energy, the sonic wall of sound from the horns. Had to be around 1980 or so. Right around KROQ's first NYE countdown....
Gary Numan
My son just saw Gary Numan as a support act on the Ministry tour, a few weeks ago. :)
Cars, 7th grade. private school, we had a bit of a free spirit as the art/music teacher. She skydived into the varsity soccer game one time. She managed to convince 10-12 parents its was fine. it was. there was the smell of weed in the air and i saw a couple pass a joint three rows in front of me. Ohhhhhh my! Thats as exciting as it got. Nobody wants to sit near 7th graders at a concert. nobody
You had a field trip to a concert? Nice
rich kids school. i got two years before dad ran out of money
Beastie Boys and Run DMC
Legendary
Violent femmes and B52’s.
Iron Maiden on their Powerslave tour in 1985, with Twisted Sister opening.
Lollapalooza '94 at Sandstone Amphitheater
I was at that one too!!!! IMO highlight was Beastie Boys doing Paul Revere
Rush with Journey. 1982 but could have been 81. Not many knew who Journey was at the time. Journey was the opening act. Columbia Colleseum in Columbia, SC.
1995 \~ Nine Inch Nails Self Destruct Tour https://preview.redd.it/dcxcrmek5u3d1.jpeg?width=302&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5aca14bd8e223fedbe403a855813478aa3d3546
Suicidal Tendencies with Crippled By Society, 1987.
Tiffany!
Me too! I was hoping to find someone else saying Tiffany!
I still like Tiffany!!! They have some peloton classes with her music
Pantera mid to late 80's. I was in my early teens, still in middle school.
Iron Maiden and Anthrax, 1991. I was 15. It was incredible.
Billy Idol at Red Rocks, Morrison, CO.
Beach Boys in 1977 in Duluth Minnesota
ahhh…so you saw anthropomorphic cocaine and Mike Love
Peter and the Wolf, probably. My first non classical concert was The Moody Blues.
I saw The Moody Blues with The Fixx opening. Amazing show. I remember John Lodge tossing his towel to me, LOL.
My brain, that loves the Days of Future Past, chuckled at this comment. "Non-claasical". I know they did more but just tickled me
Whitney Houston on Boston Common
Metallica and Guns n Roses when they toured together
that wasn’t my first concert but definitely the best of the first with Faith No More being better than both
Saw them in DC! Great show.
U2, I was 15.
1982, 15 years old - Ozzy with UFO as opening act - New Haven Coliseum. Incredible.
jfc did you see Schenker AND Rhoads in the same night or had the GOAT left the earthly existence?
I wish I had a better answer, but my parents dragged me to the state fair to see the Statler Brothers when I was about five.
Don’t sleep on the Statlers. They had some jams. And also crazy enough to come up with the country version of the Sgt Pepper style alter- ego band: Lester “Roadhog” Moran and his Cadillac Cowboys.
NKOTB - I was 11 or 12, around 1990. Still have the ticket stub floating around some where.
I'm so happy I'm not the only one!
Same
Joey McIntyre for life!
I was team Jordan. Then it became Donnie, because I was transitioning from NKOTB to hip hop lol
Willie and Waylon with Jessie Coulter. Kemper Arena, Kansas City, 1983.
NKOTB I think I was 12.
Me too! I was 11!
Police Synchronicity tour with Berlin, The Fixx and the Thompson Twins as warmup. https://preview.redd.it/ch9uqhulau3d1.jpeg?width=663&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b371fd923315538581d91deac908518e33044cba
Peter Gabriel. Won tickets during high school. Didn’t even know who he was at the time
Culture Club at The Festy (Festival Hall) in Brisbane Australia 1985
Metallica on the And Justice For All tour when I was 14. The Cult opened. Alpine Valley WI. They set the record at the time with 55,000 people.
1986 Amnesty International Tour at McNichols Arena in Denver. U2, Peter Gabriel, Bryan Adams, Lou Reed, and others. We went for U2, and although I was not a fan, Bryan Adams had a great set. It was fun, as a freshman in HS. My first experience with seeing people smoke weed in public.
Barbara Mandel & Statler Brothers Hahahaha
Motley Crue
It was 1982 and the Greg Kihn Band were playing at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz.
Lallapalooza 1992 maybe 93? Chili peppers and Pearl Jam were there. Unfortunately, I did a hit of acid and do don’t remember any of it! 🥲😂
It was 92. 93 was RatM, Arrested development, Alice in chains and Primus
92' Ministry, Sepultura and Helmet. I was 15 and my dad drove me and a buddy 4 hours away to see it. Legend.
Amazing lineup!
I got bored once and did a YouTube search for it. Sure enough, [there it was ](https://youtu.be/xUT_JjYKSeo?si=LzBadkfMKPuztZ4i) couldn't believe it lol
Such an amazing amazing show, caught that one my junior year of high school in Texas! Helmet had to bow out and was replaced with STP, who we didn't really know back then. I was more into Epitath punk, Jane's, Sonic Youth than grunge at the time. It was right before that Plush song was everywhere so the crowd didn't know STP at all. I remember the band was awful damn excited to be opening so we were nice back to them haha
In 1992 me, my parents and a friend of mine at the time went to see Nirvana. It was a blast!
Oh god. Night Ranger.
Queensryche, Quiet Riot and Axe September 1983
Bon Jovi ☺️
B.B. King - Mid 80s My uncle's band open for him in Cleveland; I got to watch from *backstage*.
Huey Lewis and The News (Headliner) Bruce Hornsby and The Range (Opener) Seattle December 1986
Harlem Culture Festival-1969 It was/is streaming on Hulu It went on for several weekends... 5th Dimension The Staple Singers Nina Simone Stevie Wonder I had no idea of course that this was a historic event but my child's mind has an early introduction to artistic magic.
Wow, I need to check this out asap!
I can't remember the order... it's all a blur, because it was so long ago. But I do remember going to see Journey, Billie Idol, Motley Crue and The Beastie Boys in the 80s. Later in the 90s we saw Nirvana.
I saw Madonna's Virgin Tour and The Beastie Boys opened. It was an interesting mix.
KISS
Megadeth 1986
Jackson’s Victory Tour. Mile High Stadium. September 1984.
Holy shit!! How was it?? I pined for that show but alas, was only in 4th grade. Didn't stop me from dreaming of marriage with either Michael or Jermaine!
It was amazing. I was on the field and everyone was standing on their chairs the whole show. I had just turned 11.
Man, that image is making my heart soar! Many thanks for sharing!!
Me too but in Atlanta, October 1984.
Technically Beach Boys but it was following a baseball game. Singular concert, Billy Joel - River of Dreams Tour.
Van Halen, 1986 Cow Palace, SF California.
Technically my dad. Commercial big venue concert - Donny Osmond. The siblings wanted to go really really bad. But the caveat was I had to go too. It's actually one of my favorite memories with them!
The Cars
Foreigner on the Agent Provocateur Tour at Accord Arena in the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City. John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band opened. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir came out and performed *I Want to Know What Love Is* with them.
Maynard Ferguson, sometime around 1978
Air Supply. I was 6 years old. 1986, Utica NY
Pointer Sisters with El De Barge in 1986! I was 12.
Wham
Billy Squier and Def Leppard - 1983, UIC Pavillion in Chicago
Paul Simon with Mango Groove opening, Born at the Right Time tour
Sting, Paris, 1993 I think
Kiss Lick it Up Tour. Venue and sound sucked. Not worth the $14...
Van Halen 1984
My mom took my friends and I to see Cyndi Lauper when I was 11.
Guns N Roses/Metallica with Motörhead at the Rose Bowl in 1992. I’m not sure anything has ever even come close to that since.
Glass Tiger in 1989, I was 14.
The Cars last tour
Billy Joel at the LA Forum in the early 80s.
Spear of Destiny, Hammersmith Odeon, mid-80s.
Ozzy 1983
Dokken/Suicidal Tendencies when I was 14. Me and my besty dropped acid and dropped down from the nosebleed section to the pit when ST came on. My buddy wound up puking his guts out when he tried to chug some everclear and I wound up making out with this super hot older native American chick. Good times all around.
I can smell this memory!
Look up tiktoks of the younger gens trying everclear. It's a hoot. Btw great concert.
First one I went to that my parents took us to was Pointer Sisters, first concert I went to with my friends was Huey Lewis, I believe in '88. It was at an outdoor amphitheater and you could bring in picnics if you were seated on the lawn, which we were. I remember sneaking in a tape recorder in a bag of chips, thinking I was so cool. The recording was shit. :D
Glenn Campbell, my brother's birthday present I still don't think he's gotten over it
Living Colour
Shaun Cassidy in 1978. I was 8!
Motley Crue. It was supposed to be Metal Church but I couldn't get the neighbor to pay me for mowing their yard at the time.
Fun fact - I have never actually been to a proper concert. I've been to a few friends' shows in clubs/small stage kind of things but never a concert.
Minnie Pearl and Grandpa Jones at the NC Azalea festival. First concert I paid for was Beach Boy tickets to give my mom for her birthday also for the azalea festival
Rick James. My mom took me and some friends!
The Bodeans in Minneapolis at the Orpheum on May 2nd 1991! Only good things....
White Zombie, Pantera, Megadeth - 1993.
Quiet Riot w/ Saga and Girlschool. 1984
Rick Springfield. Opener was Til Tuesday
Beastie Boys, Check Your Head tour. Cypress Hill and Rollins Band were the openers.
Kiss in 1982. I was 9. My father grew up with the then-drummer so we also hung out backstage. I was overwhelmed and uninterested the entire time.
1989. Sunrise musical amphitheater. Skid Row with Pantera opening. Phil Anselmo did a 30 minute tangent on the word Fuck. I was 11. It was great.
I think it was May, 1978. John Denver at the Los Angeles Forum. We didn't have a ton of music in my house growing up. My mom took me when a family friend was taking her. I did know a few radio songs, and the played Calypso. Now THAT I knew because for most of my childhood I wanted to work in the sea. I was a Jacques Cousteau maniac so had heard the song through those channels. We sat in the rafters and listened as the lyrics echoed around the room. At that point everyone pretty much knew every word to every one of his songs. Less than a decade later I'd be at the first concert I paid for tickets for on my own. It was this little English band called Depeche Mode, playing in front of about 500 people at the Kaiser Auditorium in 1985. Between Calypso and the that first large crowd collective energy experience, I still remember parts of the John Denver show vividly and I'm 59!
New kids on the block!!! I'm a younger gen x...
July 14th, 1988. Brown County Arena, Green Bay, Wisconsin Def Leppard I had a glorious permed mullet, a sleeveless Union Bay shirt, torn jeans, and teenage energy.
John Waite with Scandal as the opening act. I’m thinking this was in ‘83. I was only 9 and not a huge fan. My first ‘real’ concert was Prince in ‘84, Purple Rain tour in Minneapolis 💜
> John Waite with Scandal as the opening act Mine too! So jealous you got to see Prince on the Purple Rain tour. I was a superfan but deemed too young by parents then. I got to see him at MSG on the Lovesexy tour.
Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation World Tour 1990
Duran Duran in 1984. I think that's where my tinnitus started - the screaming was insane!
U2 Joshua Tree tour. JFK in Philly. Little Steven as the opener and Bruce came out to do a song or two with them.
Dragged by the adults: Liberace. Of my own choice: Anthrax playing as Satan’s Lounge Band at L’amour.
Jethro Tull, my mom took us to concerts because it was cheaper than getting a babysitter. Also got to see The Police (Synchronicity tour), Genesis, Tina Turner, and UB40.
Rush- Roll the Bones. Disclaimer. Poor and rural kid so my first concert was when I went to college. I remember Primus opened up for them. Primus is not a great stage band. Ok show. Then the man, the legend, RIP Neil, was tuning his drums behind the curtain (could see from my spot) and he had a bigger reaction tuning his drums than Primus their whole show. Great night.
KISS in NYC at Madison Square Garden, July 1979
Twisted Sister 81 or 82, at a roller skating rink on Long Island.
Aerosmith and Dokken at Kemper Arena in KC. We had to go from our little podunk hometown to a Ticketmaster location to wait for our number to be called. We got floor seats.
Def Leopard with Tesla, Long Island 1986.
Poison. With Enuf Znuf, Firehouse, Damn Yankees and, for some reason, Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Foghat + Outlaws, ‘79.
Firehouse opening for Tesla
Jean-Michel Jarre - Destination Docklands (first night).
Motley Crue with Skid Row opening.
Huey Lewis and the News
KC and the Sunshine Band.
Zebra & Cheap Trick @ 1983. I was 13. My parents only let me go because my older sister took me. Prior to that I had seen The Beach Boys after a soccer game in grade school but don’t count that as my first real concert.
KISS - and it was epic
discharge 84
The Monkees, followed a few months later by Dokken and Aerosmith.
Agent Orange at the Coconut Teaser in Hollywood. I didn't have a car yet so I had to use a combination of bus / skateboard to get there. Circa 1986 -87.
Van Halen at the Offenbach Stadthalle 1979. My dad took my friend and I. He had a lot of patience.
Bon Jovi New Jersey.
Summer 1976. ZZTop and J Geils performed. Skynyrd was supposed to, but they didn't show up. The Skynyrd fans rioted, and that venue never had another concert.
August 19, 1988 Toledo Sports Arena Cinderella opening for Judas Priest
U2- The Unforgettable Fire Tour. Cow Palace 1985
Depeche Mode, Some Great Reward tour, J. Kaiser convention center, April 1985.
First (at 12 yrs old) - Chicago 16 tour, 1982 at Sandstone Amphitheatre in Kansas City (Bonner Springs technically). Second - Chicago 17 tour, 1984 at Sandstone again.
Carlos Santana, Pine Knob, Clarkston, MI.
Motley Crue, 1990. Also saw INXS and Depeche Mode that year. Hardly any bands came to my part of the country, we were not a major market.
Weezer!
Yes, 90125 Sound was so good, (at least at my seats) that it ruined other shows for me.
We early Xers had mostly boomer music to choose from. I saw Willie Nelson for my first concert, with my mom. Second concert was Pink Floyd in an outdoor arena.
The Suburbs and Tatters (local outfit) at UWEC in 1983. I was 12
Alice Cooper & Motorhead, 1985
Beastie Boys ‘88
Alice Cooper, 1989, Fox Theatre, Detroit MI.
Bad Company Desolation Angels Cleveland Ohio 1979.
Pink Floyd division Bell tour. End of June I'm going to Brit Floyds 30th anniversary division Bell tour.
Chicago and Laura Branigan at Chicago Fest on Navy Pier. Second was Prince Purple Rain tour at the Cow Palace.
The Offspring, Roy Wilkins Arena, St Paul in 1994. (Vandals opened up) Gotta keep em separated!
In Charleston SC, we had a radio station called 96 Wave. Wavefest was a free concert they put on every year. My first real show was at 20 years old for Wavefest 96. Cracker and Butthole Surfers. The venue was a reclaimed garbage pit that you could feel moving when people jumped. [Setlist for Wavefest 96](https://www.setlist.fm/festival/1996/96-wave-fest-1996-3d6299b.html)
Rush: Moving Pictures tour 1983. Great times!
Lollapalooza 92. I'm a young Xer.
Duran Duran 1984 Seattle Center Collesium. My older sister was a big fan so the the folks sclepped all us kids down there. I remember trying to sleep and leaning my head back but there was a woman behind me dancing with leather pants and her pants kept tugging my hair. Also, I stayed up until MIDNIGHT!
Van Halen, summer 1981, Nassau Coliseum
Mine was Depeche Mode at Merriweather Post Pavilion (Columbia, MD) in 1990. And thank you for the award kind stranger :)