Your First Concert was.....

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...

Edgar Winter Group in Madison Square Garden circa 1973 . . . I remember being more wowed by the drugs being offered for sale in the Men's room. My buddy and I were 15 and took the train in from NJ. My how times have changed.