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[Bud]

Do you remember the first concert you ever attended?

Jazz singer Diana Krall:

Trooper was the first concert. I got gum thrown in my hair. That's when I said "No, I'm sticking with jazz." Then I went to Oscar Peterson with Ella Fitzgerald at the Orpheum (in Vancouver) when I was 16 years old. My mother made me a blue satin jacket. It was one of those life changing things. My cousin took me. I'll never forget it.

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How would you answer this question?

[TheViolinSkirt]

Tina Turner. It was her 'Wildest Dreams' Tour. My mom, aunt, cousin and myself piled into a car and drove to SPAC. It wasn't life changing. It was more reassuring that chicks do in fact, kick ass.

[CarlG]

Chuck Mangione

but then I got to see the Police on the Synchronicity tour (with the Fixx and Flock of Seagulls) - am I dating myself here??




Carl.

[imnoangel1975]

The Kinks. I think I was 9 or 10 at the time and I went with my parents.

The first concert I went to without my parents was Janet Jackson (Rhythm Nation tour). I was 14.

[sj]

the Guess Who -around my 14th birthday. (And for those of you too young to remember -I'm not playing a guessing game -and Lenny Kravitz did not write "American Woman" )

[jazzfan422]

Probably The Everly Brothers!!!.....Tickets...$5.00

[Coda]

Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit when I was 12. I went with my Mom and sister. It wasn't life-changing, but I was thrilled! And I got autographs from everyone in the group afterward.

By the way, I caught an unofficial portion of a Tina Turner performance in the late 1970s (before her big comeback). I happened to be waiting for my family in the lobby of the Sheraton hotel across from the new city hall in Toronto, and Tina Turner was singing in the lounge there, and I could hear a song or two waiting on a lobby bench. What a kick!

[Bud]

The first megasize concert I remember going to was "A Day on the Green" at the Oakland (CA) Coliseum in '75 headlined by Chicago and The Beach Boys.

In my younger days, in smaller venues, I saw the Carpenters and The Jackson Five. When I saw the Carpenters, I remember thinking how much better Karen Carpenter looked in person than on TV. The Jackson Five concert was before Michael really hit the big time - I think it was when he was high school age (as was I).

My first real jazz concert was, I believe, Phil Woods and Zoot Sims at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. I was probably a junior or senior in high school. I also made it to a Monterey Jazz Festival when I was in high school. A good friend of mine - a trombone player - made the High School All-Star band (or whatever it was called) so a bunch of us tagged along...

[TRX-C]

My first concert was Joan Jett in San Jose. I was 16, and I went with my best buds from school. First, we got pulled over by the cops for speeding, terrified because we had liquor in the car and we were all underage. Thank god we didn't get busted. Then, once in the concert, I got swept under the crowd and trampled on. Then, after I worked my way through the same rowdy crowd to the stage, I got pinned against some girl who proceeded to grab my arm and pinch me so hard that I had a five inch bruise on it for about three weeks. Needless to say, it was a memorable outing.

[harpfingers]

Peter, Paul and Mary... in my teenage years. And even then, they were past their prime.... I am only 31!!

[jazzanddianafan]

thats very interesting Jeralee, one of my first memories of a concert was with my cousin from oregon - she was down here visiting - and it was Peter, Paul & Mary !!... at the old Santa Monica Civic..... i always loved live music and theatre and spent most of what little money i had on that and albums !!!.... of course, concerts tics were not as expensive as they are today - even with inflation factored in !!

and since I am a bit older than you ( by 20 years ! ), PP&M were, as i remember, great !!...

[harpfingers]

HA HA!!! Peter Paul and Mary always reminds me of my dad. He is an architect, and as a kid I remember him sitting at his drafting table working and whistling to "If I Had a Hammer." Still makes me chuckle when I think about it. I have a friend here in Eugene that plays viola with them - on occasion.

[DKJAZZDIVA]

Had to rack my brain, it was either Roberta Flack with Donnie Hathaway or Sergio Mendes Brazil '66 in Central Park in New York City, or Nina Simone in Brooklyn ...so many to choices, brain was fried back then...happy to have a few brain cells left... in any case, prices were certainly more reasonable hey just like candy, gasoline etc inflation you know... had a ball great memories...thanks for the question it made me remember the good old days...ANAE

[char44256]

Chuck Mangione, his cousin did my surgury this past October in Austin, Texas. He had Chuck's picture in his office.
My first concert was Jullis La Rosa. I was about a senior in high school and I drove my mom, but she paid for the ticket. He was my." heart-throb." He walked pass me and I almost fainted. I saw him ago about five years ago, for Valentines Day, and he still could sing and my husbnd nicely sat through it, but it wasn't his type of music. He saw Janis Joplin and Jimmy Hendrix. There no comparing the three of them. I'll take Juliis La Roas any time.


Char

[Rémi]

Lucky Peterson in Limoges on 1998/99 (paid 90 Frs, about 13 €uros) at the John Lennon hall (which is a small concert hall - almost 250 persons max- but way too cool). It's just fun to see that this is where I'm doing rehearsals now.

So that was my very first concert. An incredible blues musician, even maybe one of the best of the actual scene. The most incredible was when the show started: all his musicians came on stage, the concert begun, and though everyone in the audience were hearing him playing, Lucky was not on stage, which was really weird.
Actually, noone paid attention, but he was there among the audience, playing easy on his guitar! We all thought it was a great entrance for a show.

[scielle]

I actually don't have a distinct memeory of the first one, coz I've always gone to concerts. Mostly classical, as a kid, and moved on from there. I do have a very clear memory of being taken by mom to a Marek Grechuta concert when I was seven (he's a Polish poet and songwriter, still love his stuff today...). We were in the first row, and I was the only kid there, which I gather he found adorable b/c he actually dedicated a song to me! After the show mom got me a book of his poetry and he was really sweet and signed it for me...
I also distinctly remember the first time I skipped school - in grade one - and stayed home to watch the national symphony play Ravel's Bolero.

Any by the way, Jim Cuddy was at my high school last week. Did a show and some clinics, I think, as part of the artist in the classroom program. (I went to a great arts highschool in Mississauga; during my days there we got Jeff Healey, Amy Sky, Pinball Clemens... and Sue Johanson - the Sunday Night Sex Show lady - that was a slice! Oh, and Denny Doherty of Mamas and Papas, but that's only b/c his daughter was student council prez).

[smooth_jazz_]

Oh, it was my concert with choir... And first jazz concert- Ewa Bem (called "Polish Ella Fitzgerald"), Lora Szafran & Dorota Miskiewicz sings "Porgy & Bess", wonderful!