First Bigtime Concert

[samhexum]

ABBA Voulez-Vous tour at the ASU Activity Center. I was 10 years old and the entire family went.

Not my first concert, but I saw them at Radio City Music Hall w/ my sister in Sept. 1979 when I was 17. Came home from freshman year at Syracuse University to go.

 

Donna Summer in NJ. Front row ( but sat next to a nun in full dress-serious fun killer).

 

Saw her twice (Donna Summer, not the fun-killing nun) at the Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden & at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium the week Hot Stuff & Bad Girls were both in the top-3 on the Billboard chart.

[+ purplekow]

Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden on Mick Jaggers Birthday with Stevie Wonder as the opening act. A friend of mine won the tickets on a radio call in promotion.

[Eggman]

Boz Scaggs in Central Park circa 1970.

[+ MysticMenace]

It was a Justin Timberlake concert with Pink as the opening act in Spring 2007.

[jeezifonly]

Beethoven 5th Symphony, conducted by the composer.

 

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At least I thought so at the time aged 10, cause he had long hair that matched the portrait in the program, and the style was rare in adults in Midwest of the 60’s.

 

Clowes Hall had just opened a year or so prior. It was Beerthoven 5, though I can’t recall the first piece. My piano teacher took me.

I liked the music.

I l o v e d the carpet

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[Epigonos]

Damn am I out of touch with you all. My first concert was the Australian soprano Joan Sutherland at the Hollywood Bowl. I was a freshman in college so it must have been around 1960.

[+ WilliamM]

Not a concert, the pre Broadway tryout of the musical "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" with Elliot Gould, Lillian Roth, Sheree North and Barbra Streisand. In Boston on a week night.