Your First Concert was.....

Velvet Underground
MC5
Buddy Miles Band

Summer of 1971

Edgar Winter

Rutgers University Auditorium. Their first song had me covering my ears – and I still felt like a knife was being pushed into my eardrum. It actually hurt. The SPL was probably around 140dB. I ran out of there, but I'm still paying for it with hearing loss at certain frequencies. C'est la vie!

I became an audiophile that same year... so it was a good thing after all.
Alón

Ramones at Rutgers University (for some reason it doesn't show the 'subject' line in these postings...

for some reason my parents let me go to the clash's rock the casbah tour... when i was 11. i was lucky to survive.

the thing i remember most vividly was that a guy climbed one of the speaker towers and, essentially, hugged it through the whole concert - with his left ear pressed right up to a cone, and it was LOUD. i doubt he heard too much out of that ear for months, if ever.

as my brother said: at least it wasn't altamont...