My first concert was Arlo Guthrie at the Shaffer (sic) Music Festival in Central Park, NYC. It cost 2 bucks and it was for his "Running Down the Road" album.
Bachman Turner Overdrive. My mother made my older brother take me. Him and his friends bought me a pack of cigarettes and made me sit about 40 yards away from them so they could meet girls
Chicago in Memphis at the Mid-South Coliseum. August of 1971. Tickets were $4, $5 and $6. I had just graduated from high school and this was my first rock-n-roll show.
I suppose I should add that I went to the Grand Ole Opry and lots of country music shows with my folks through the years. Even saw Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers in 1968. But the Chicago show is what I consider the first.
Ry Cooder, Slide Area tour, Newcastle, England, 1982 was the first. Then it was onto The Boss' Born In The USA tour, Newcastle, Eng in 1985 and also Dire Straits' Live in '85 tour(same city). What a great way to start....
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