Your first concert was to see who and when?

Lynyrd Skynyrd / J. Giles Band 1976 Buffalo Auditorium. I thought all concerts had to be halted for rowdy behavior. And so it began...

@rockadanny @sns I too was in Detroit in the late 60s and saw all the locals. We had an impressive scene! An early fave of mine was The Frost. The Grande hosted a lot of local bands in its first year or two: the Psychedelic Stooges, the 5, the Frut, Jagged Edge, Up, etc. My first non-local band concert was either Tim Buckley or the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Grande, sometime in ‘67, maybe ‘68. I don’t rightly remember anymore. Time blurs and the belly sags!

I actually lived in Ann Arbor, we used to take the City bus which came right through our neighborhood to UM campus. We were like 12 when we first started this so I was pretty young during 'summer of love'. So many legendary bands based in A2 and the entire SE Mi area during that time, what a time and place to have one's consciousness raised, I'd never trade if for anything!

1969. 
Johnny Winter. 

My high school auditorium. 

Right after the release of his eponymously titled first LP on Columbia. 

I was 15 years old. 

Fifth Dimension (1967 or 68) at age 11. Saw a matinee concert with the family and friends of the family (a fun, wholesome band!)

Later in high school, the first band I bought and paid for was WAR in 1971 or 72. I recall being in nose bleed seats & my ears ringing into the next day!