First Concert

[Lightnin' Rod]

Peter Hartlaub in today's chron:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/13/DDPRTRKJ7.DTL

Don't know how many points I scored in the quiz, i'm too awesome to count.

My first show was a Day on the Green with:

The Edgar Winter Band
Johnny Winter
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Earthquake
Climax Blues Band

The encore was the Winters Brothers Jam.  Pretty sure the longest guitar solo of the day was "15 minutes or more (100 points) ."

[Gazoo]

Hartlaud would find me decidedly unawesome.  My first concert was Quiet Riot, 1985, with my brother and a few of his friends.  None of us drank or smoked anything.  Keel were the openers.  And then, a few weeks later, my second concert was watching Three Dog Night at a shopping mall with a bunch of older bored women.

[mshray]

My first concert was Chuck Mangione (outdoors at So. Ill. Univ. - Edwardsville).  My mom not only drove but waited for us in the parking lot throughout the show.  We drank lemonade.  I think my overall score is negative.  But Hartlaub's poll is missing an important element.  I should definitely get some major points for my first kiss -> makeout session -> getting to second base, all at the same show.

If I get to use my second concert (Styx, BOC, Eddie Money, Bob Welch & Angel at Busch Stadium) a couple weeks later, I think I might even be awesome.

[Lightnin' Rod]

My first concert was Chuck Mangione (outdoors at So. Ill. Univ. - Edwardsville).  My mom not only drove but waited for us in the parking lot throughout the show.  We drank lemonade.  I think my overall score is negative.  But Hartlaub's poll is missing an important element.  I should definitely get some major points for my first kiss -> makeout session -> getting to second base, all at the same show.

If I get to use my second concert (Styx, BOC, Eddie Money, Bob Welch & Angel at Busch Stadium) a couple weeks later, I think I might even be awesome.

Second base at your first concert?  Automatic awesome, in my book.  Even makes up for it being Chuck Mangione.  (perfoming, not getting to second base on -- though that would be special too)

[princessofcairo]

i don't remember my first concert. my mother took me to see natalie cole at the circle star when i was a baby. after that, it gets all fuzzy. there was chaka khan and jerry lee lewis at some county fair in texas. then natalie cole again at shoreline. those were both with my mom, too. i don't remember the first one after that. maybe soundgarden at sj state. the swedish band eleven opened. really heavy duty stuff, but no one was moshing. so i went to stand in front of the stage. i enjoyed their set. then the curtain went down for the set change. soundgarden starting playing "jesus christ pose" while the curtain was rising. i had one delicious glimpse of cornell before the mosh pit came alive and my glasses went flying. i got down on all fours to search for them, and almost had them when some barechested hirsute gaul picked me up by my nape, and said, "you're gonna die, dude!" he carried me all the way back to my seat, ignoring my "but, my glasses!" cries. i squinted through the rest of the concert. headache ensued. some nice boys offered to find my glasses for me. they were 12, and i think they just wanted to have a reason to go into the pit. i rocked out blind. it wasn't soooooo bad. driving home without my glasses wasn't fun, though. i pulled the same trick i used a couple of years earlier, though, when i dropped acid and had to drive home before curfew: i followed the taillights of mac truck.

[SFGuy]

I've actually never been to a live concert other then seeing a couple performances before or after a couple Giants games over the past 30 years. Beach Boys performed once around 1980 after a game and in the late 90's the Village People performed before a game (I couldn't believe there were still alive).

[Gazoo]

in the late 90's the Village People performed before a game (I couldn't believe there were still alive).

Rotating cast of characters.  It takes a village to make a Village People.

[Alicat]

i don't remember my first concert. my mother took me to see natalie cole at the circle star when i was a baby. after that, it gets all fuzzy. there was chaka khan and jerry lee lewis at some county fair in texas. then natalie cole again at shoreline. those were both with my mom, too. i don't remember the first one after that. maybe soundgarden at sj state. the swedish band eleven opened. really heavy duty stuff, but no one was moshing. so i went to stand in front of the stage. i enjoyed their set. then the curtain went down for the set change. soundgarden starting playing "jesus christ pose" while the curtain was rising. i had one delicious glimpse of cornell before the mosh pit came alive and my glasses went flying. i got down on all fours to search for them, and almost had them when some barechested hirsute gaul picked me up by my nape, and said, "you're gonna die, dude!" he carried me all the way back to my seat, ignoring my "but, my glasses!" cries. i squinted through the rest of the concert. headache ensued. some nice boys offered to find my glasses for me. they were 12, and i think they just wanted to have a reason to go into the pit. i rocked out blind. it wasn't soooooo bad. driving home without my glasses wasn't fun, though. i pulled the same trick i used a couple of years earlier, though, when i dropped acid and had to drive home before curfew: i followed the taillights of mac truck.

Very cool.
My first was Journey with the Babys opening. I think it was Cow Palace. No recall on how we got there. Parent must have driven. I don't think alcohol or other was involved but I have no memory which is a little troublesome.

[princessofcairo]

in the late 90's the Village People performed before a game (I couldn't believe there were still alive).

Rotating cast of characters.  It takes a village to make a Village People.

and it takes a child to enjoy them.

[Alicat]

re Village People. Totally listened this morning to a disco CD with San Fran & Hollywood as one track. I like.

[ggould]

according to the awesome test, my first concert is a big zero, or even a minus points!  40 years ago this very weekend: