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My kids and their friends were posting regarding their first musical act concerts (I hadn't heard of 90% of the acts). I had to insert that mine was in very early 1950's and I wasn't in school yet. Act was country group Johnny & Jack with Kitty Wells and (here's the good part) they performed on top of the concession stand at the local drive-inn movie!
 
Jim Ed Brown at the county fair. Shortly after that I got to see Tex Ritter at the local race track.
 
Best I can remember, it was at a lakeside resort/beach, probably about 1970.

A radio station rented the place for a day, had lots of local bands. The main performance was a group called Steelers Wheel.

It was a good time for a teen boy, no alcohol, no drugs, and a lot of girls!
Steelers Wheel
 
IT WAS MANY YEARS AGO.( Im 75) Allegan County Fair, Michigan. Brooks & Dunn, and opening for them was Faith Hill !! How did I get so lucky...
 
I don't know if they count as concerts but as a little kid I went with my Dad (Voc. Ag teacher) to all the major stock shows in Texas and that included the rodeo. There generally was a musical act. Tex Ritter, Rex Allen, and others I can't remember. obviously I'm over 60.
 
Jim Croce at the Mississippi River Festival in Edwardsville Illinois in August 1973. He was killed in a plane crash one month later.
 
I guess the first would be Little Richard in San Diego around 63-4. The Beatles in 1965 also in san Diego. That was a big concert. Stan
 
I had forgotten that band, thanks for the link.
My first was Bill Mack and band at the hs gym about 1960. He had one hit song (Drinking champagne) later on but was just a famous disk jockey at the time with a tour band if I remember right.
 
Akshewly you left it kinda late;B & D didn't pair up 'till 1990 and FH 's first recording was in '93
 
Mid 1970s, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Headliner, with a large band was C. W. McCall (Convoy). Ray Griff played his piano, and a young gal, just starting out, with one accompanist. Her name was Crystal Gayle. Great show.
 
It wasn't a concert but I remember seeing Little Richard at a hometown fireman's (now fire fighter) fund raiser variety show in '51 or '52. My Dad was a fireman and sold tickets to the show every year.
 
Hank Thompson & the Brazos valley boys at the high school foot ball field in Great Bend Kansas 1961.

Not counting Joe Lukish & the Czech Masters in Holyrood Kansas at the legion hall 1961
Touring Polka Band.
 
I'm only 46 but, summer I was 16 my brother and I ,with our girlfriends , would park at a little country church and sneak through the woods to the fence around the Central Alabama music park. Huge " barn" stage down front and open on 3 sides. We saw Ray Stephens, oak ridge boys. T Graham brown. Sawyer brown. Restless heart. Randy Travis. George Jones. And more. Had one or two acts every Saturday night. Nitty gritty dirt band was my favorite ,back then. Good times. That place is long gone. In 89 i saw Alabama in bham great show,but it cost!!
 
I got tix to see him next month, hear it's a real good show. I am under the age limit of the post so I can't list all the ones I seen this summer but u did get to see tom petty before he passed.
 
I saw the Eagles at Norfolk Scope in 1977 on their Hotel California tour. Got turned around (didn't help being half blitzed!) leaving and was headed to Va Beach before I realized it! Saw a lot of the big names over several years, especially when my wife and I were dating, young, had disposable income to spare. Saw kenny Rogers, John Denver, BeeGees, Foreigner, Aerosmith and a bunch more. Last one we went to was Josh Groban.
 
Later 60s Turtles, Vogues, Buckingham's, Rascals, Righteous Brothers?? and early 80s Spanky and gang, Association, Jay and the Americans and one I can't remember, at the Five Flags Center in Dubuque Iowa.
 
I'm over 60 inches tall so I will chime in! LOL First was either Little Jimmy Dickens or Kitty Wells, at a county fair, have pics standing next to both along with signed hats and cassette tapes!
 
I can?t remember for sure. It was either Franki Valli and the Four Seasons at the Wisconsin State Fair, or the Guess Who at Dane County Coliseum (Madison).
 
Way back in the early 50's The grand ol opry came to town Yankton SD I remember seeing Minnie Pearl and the other acts I do not remember who they were.
 
During college years from 1969-73 I remember The Happenings, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, Fifth Dimension, and Chicago Transit Authority. We saw The Who during their Quadrophenia tour in 2012 in Greensboro and The Who 50th anniversary tour in Raleigh in 2015. The earliest and latest.
 
Only one I ever saw was Grandpa Jones at Ohio State Fair last time I was there in I am thinking late 60's to very early 70's.
 
Bill Mack was the late night DJ "Midnight Cowboy" right here in my hometown.

WBAP 820AM, Ft Worth, Texas. WBAP was a very powerful station, could be heard across the country at night. A truck driver favorite!
 
Delta State, Miss. 1967? was the first, I think it was the Lettermans, Miss State frat house 68 or 69 Spider Turner. Later, Bob Hope came to West Point in 1970 before doing the troop tour Vietnam that year. Don McLean was from Highland Falls if I remember right, played at Point, so did Diana Ross

Was in Fort Lewis Wa 75-80. Was the most wonderful concert area in the world. Elton John, Wings, Queen in the Opera house, Guess Who, Frampton. My favorite all time was Harry Chapin, saw him maybe 7 times in different venues. Saw Heart play in a bar, Earthquake?

regrets? never saw Joplin in concert
 
I saw the Four Seasons and the Beach Boys at Music Hall in Cincinnati in (IIRC) 1966.

I also saw the Beatles at Crosley Field in Cincinnati in August, 1966.

Though not the first, I saw the Kingsmen of Loui Loui fame play at a county fair in SE IN in 68 or 69.

Dean
 
Grandparents took me to the Sidney, Iowa rodeo in 1956. The Sons of the Pioneers came out and sang Cool Clear Water. I was already hot and thirsty and that song didn't help. In 1965 went to see Johnny Cash and he was so drugged up they would not let him on stage. Statler Brothers was the opening act so they had to do the whole show. They was giving everyone their money back, but the Statler Brothers did put on a good show.
 
Well the first one I can remember seeing was the Nitty Gritty dirt band when I was in high school. My dad was a Professor at Delta State U in Cleveland MS. That would have been around 1972 or 73. I also saw Jim Stamford right after he did his Spiders and snakes song around the same time and he did a one man band thing and there might have been 2 people there. I was front row with my then girl friend and he kept picking on me because I did not laugh when he thought I should. Then in the mid 70s I saw Emerson Lake and Palmer doing there works volume 2 concert in Hartsburg CT. Saw them 2 or 3 times doing the same concert. Still have that concert on a CD. Still wish I could connect with the girl I took to that concert just to see how she is doing
 
Couple of the firsts were Jefferson Airplane and Soul singer James Brown he still stands out in my mind as having one of the best concerts I have ever been to in my life.
 
Not exactly a concert, but I went to the Louisiana Hayride in 1949. Later saw Johnny Horton, the (Slightly Fabulous) Limelighters, and Roger Williams, in college.
 
I met Minnie Pearl in about 1951 when she came to town for the grand opening of a new Purina feed mill here. She simply walked around among the crowd and schmoozed with people. If
she put on a show, I didn't see it.
 
I honestly don't remember which one was first but James Taylor might have been (Carly Simon made an appearence). Saw him again a couple years ago and he still sounded great. Also an early one was Molly Hatchett in a college gymnasium, sounded terrible we walked out-no acoustics, saw them years later in an old theater and they sounded great. Been to many more since.
 
I saw Leon Redbone , Bonnie Rait, Arlo Guthrie and the last one was Chris Christoferson in keene NH.
 
Glenn Yarbrough, college, about 1967- memorable because I was in a service club and was supposed to stand outside his practice room door and make sure nobody came in- he heard me singing along to one of his songs, and invited me in to sing a couple with him. Nice guy, didn?t call security, didn?t tell me I sucked.
Later Merrilee and the Turnabouts, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Glenn Campbell, Rightous Brothers, Lettermen, others. Most recent- The Guess Who, put on a great show, 2 years ago.
 
Goose Creek Symphony right here on a farm here in little ole Oakway SC. I was 16 and saw stuff I had never seen and some I don't ever want to see again. Was funny watching some old time overweight deputies wading into a fish pond to arrest high, naked girls in the water.
I had just bought 100 acres next to this place for $175 an acre. It was old forest and I can only imagine what went on in the woods that day and night.
Richard
 
When I started this topic didn't dream I would get such a response! Second concert in 1968 - Sonny James & Tammy Wynette, opening act was Grandpa Jones and when he came out by himself carrying a guitar and a banjo i was underwhelmed, thought oh boy this won't be much. He may have even performed in front of the curtain so the empty stage wouldn;t look so huge and barren. BUT that old man knocked it out of the park, everyone loved him. I think Hee Haw started the following year.
 
The late 1960's; The Trash Men. I heard "Surfin' Bird" performed live in an armory building. I'm pretty sure it was in Brainerd, MN. They were good musicians. Too bad they achieved fame from such a stupid song! They were all from the Minneapolis area. I've got their "Surfin' Bird" album in front of me: Dal Winslow, rhythm; Tony Andreson, lead; Bob Reed, bass; Steve Warner, drums. The album jacket gives MPLS DJ Bill Diehl the credit for naming that song. There may have been different versions of the album pressed, but mine is in mono.
 
Pink Floyd two times. Jethro Tull seven times. Billy Joel two times. Harry Chapin four times.Elton John-three times. Glenn Campbell, Lou Rawls. Tina Turner. Carlos Santana. Doobie Brothers. Steppenwolf. Richie Havens. Bo Didly. Yes. Heart.
 
Kingston Trio. College auditorium USD, 1959. Later that year. Harry James. His un amplified trumpet SHOOK the stage.
 
(quoted from post at 16:30:02 10/12/17) Jim Croce at the Mississippi River Festival in Edwardsville Illinois in August 1973. He was killed in a plane crash one month later.
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My first concert was also at the MRF. The Eagles in 1972 or 73.
 
First Concert was Chicago in about 1973 at Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Columbus, Ohio....Then there was a concert outside tOSU stadium, that i don't really remember. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and Carlos Santana opened for them in Cleveland, Labor Day Weekend 1974.... The Rolling Stones in Cleveland in 1975. All day concert Dave Matthews Band, J Geils Band and a couple more.... Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon tour in 3 Rivers Stadium, and the next year Pink Floyd Animals tour at Cleveland Municipal Stadium...
 
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