First concert?

[Genericguy]

What was the first concert you attended?  If your first concert was not by choice, also list your first willingly attended concert.

Too young to claim as my own choice... Simon and Garfunkel

First by choice... Paula Abdul!!!

[Ali]

The Gin Blossoms at the local college when I was like 13 or 14.  We thought we were sooooo cool to be hanging out on a college campus watching a band we had seen on MTV.   

Of course, before that I had seen my dad's band play about a zillion times (he is a guitar player) but I don't count that since it was just my dad.   

[Siz]

Ooh goody, love this subject 

This was my first Gig:
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/5797096-dri-at-hammersmith-clarendon-ballroom
Holy Terror, Napalm Death and DRI (dirty rotten imbeciles) at the long-gone Hammersmith Clarendon (London). Truly an eye-opener for a 14y.o.

May the memory of the Clarendon live on in the hearts and minds of thrash musos everywhere.

[Crow]

Limp Bizkit - It was around the time the album "Three Dollar Bill, Yall$" came out. After that it was Slipknot followed by Wu-Tang then Marlyn Manson, after that it gets hazy because I went to a gig of some sort practically every week.

[ibm]

THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY by Genesis with Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Tony Banks, Michael Rutherford, and Steve Hackett.

It was back in 1974. Half the audience was stone and the other half drunk. I don't remember much of it. I wonder why.

[Genericguy]

I think my next one was def leppard. I got offered a ticket to see new kids on the block but i turned it down.

[Tom62]

I think it was Massada, somewhere in the early seventies.

[markmcdaniel]

I think my first concert was The New Christy Minstrels or at least some group very much like them in 1969. The first concert I paid to see was The Carpenters.

[ThinkAnarchy]

Nine Inch Nails was my first and one of my last. The show was fantastic, but I really hated the crowds. And idiots kept tossing their cigarettes into the crowd.

[En_Route]

The Beatles Christmas Show at the Hammersmith Odeon, when I was 13. Not a note could be heard above the continuous
ullulations of their  hysterical (and in some cases literally incontinent) female fans.

[MariaEvri]

scorpions in athens lotsa years ago. I have to find the ticket to see the date!!

[Siz]

scorpions in athens lotsa years ago. I have to find the ticket to see the date!!

Very cool!

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Paul Revere and the Raiders.  Yeah, I'm old.

[Firebird]

Green Day at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. I was 15. They had come there the year before too, but my parents wouldn't let me go because they thought I was too young, and I threw a huge fit over that. Guess it worked I mostly remember Billy Joe Armstrong pretending to masturbate with a soda bottle, and bringing some kid on stage so he could stage dive. Can't believe those guys are still around.

[Harmonie]

Streetlight Manifesto last March.

I went with a friend, the friend who introduced me to the band. I went on my own will. I find it funny how the loudest band I listen to was the first one I went to see in concert. I don't listen to much 'loud' music at all. Still, they're worth it because I just brass/saxophone writing. (Honestly probably wouldn't have ever given them a chance if they didn't have that because the genre is so far out of what I usually listen to. I hate to say that because they're one of my favorite bands now. But that's just how I am. They just opened up my mind.)