You never forget your first (concert).

[bc-chris]

the first concert i ever went to was in ontario with my folks when i was a kid - maybe the late 70's but more likely in the early 80's - to see nana mouskouri. ha... i still remember little bits of even though it was so long ago!


the first 'real' concert i went to was def leppard (euphoria tour). it was their first time in kelowna and one of their tour buses got broken into and some stuff was stolen. they were not in a good mood for the concert and it showed. they just wanted to leave.

[Ashartus]

Well my parents took me to see the Irish Rovers as a kid. My first "rock" concert though was Corey Hart at the Dome in ~1985, I wasn't really familiar with his music but some friends were fans.

[Wood]

I was about 7. They were having a Coke vs Pepsi taste testing challenge at Spruce Meadows, and I correctly guessed and won two tickets to see Prozzäk at Cowboys

My dad took me

[Lubicon]

Iron Maiden and The Scorpions (don't recall for sure who headlined but I think it was Iron Maiden) with Girlschool opening for them. Max Bell arena and it must have been 1981 or so, I was 14.

[Huntingwhale]

I saw a bunch of Jesus concerts at church/youth group when I was younger, but I don't really count those.

Therefore my first live music event was DJ Paul Oakenfold at Tantra nightclub in 2004. Was the very first music event I ever went to. He was the first DJ that got me into dance music (his Gatecrasher '99 set was legendary and got me hooked). One day we went to some bong store on 17th ave to buy some gear and saw the event flyer on the checkout desk. Me and my buddies figured sure, why not? Never been to a DJ show but love his music. Never been to a club either, so might as well see what it's all about.

At the time I had just started dating this super hot Colombian girl. Figured I would invite her along too so she could see how "cool" me and my friends were going to a nightclub. The night was great. Awesome music. Great light show. Beautiful girl to dance with. Couldn't have been better for my first time dancing all night.

One of my friends was the hostess in the VIP room at the time and said she saw huge mountains of coke on the tables Oakenfold and his entourage were snorting before he went on. She had to clean the table after and said it was like wiping a bunch of flour you spill on the counter. Oakenfold was hammered/coked out of his brain but still managed to mix the vinyl pretty well.

After his set was done, the closing DJ came on and that's when my night went downhill. My gf ended up dumping my ass in the middle of the dancefloor unexpectedly before it was finished (and after I had given her taxi money home!). Said her parents hated me and the car I drove (an old Mazda 323) and didn't think I was good enough for her. Looking back at it, she probably wasn't that into me anyways and I also should have demanded the taxi money back. But at the time my young brain didn't want to process fully it since I had come from such a great high of being at the show, to now the ultimate low. I was also drunk and didn't think it was real.

It got real when I got in the taxi and as my friends were all saying how awesome the night was, I piped up and said ''guys, xxxxx broke up with me ". Suddenly everyone felt bad for me and even the taxi driver did his best Darth Vader impression and screamed out Noooooo!!!!, which suddenly made it hilarious.

Finally hit me the next day of getting my ass dumped. But for some reason I remember the music being so good and amazing that I remember that night fondly and one of the best parties I've been to, instead of depressing.

[habernac]

Kiss at the Kinsman Fieldhouse in 85. They sucked, the sound was brutal.

[Pizza]

Edgefest at Race city

I went in not knowing what it was all about. I walked out covered in mud and had my music in my teen years defined from that festival

Also, Big Shiny tunes 2 is the greatest compilation album ever

[terryclancy]

Tommy James and the Shondells backed by the Beach Boys at the PNE Agrodome or Gardens in Vancouver.

JFC, I’m old.

[Redliner]

I saw Raffi at the Yates in Lethbridge sometime in the early 80s when I was a little kid. I'm pretty sure half that audience was singing along with "Baby Beluga".

First "real" concert was Barenaked Ladies, also at the Yates. Would have been in 1993. The Waltons opened for them and almost stole the show. We were in row 8 and in that venue it was like being on stage it felt so close. My buddy got hit in the head with a box of Kraft Dinner that someone threw at the stage during "If I had $1,000,000."

[SuperMatt18]

Blink 182 and others as part of Edgefest in 2001, I would have been 13 at the time.

Believe these were the bands:

Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Good Charlotte
Jimmy Eat World
New Found Glory
Project Wyze
Sum 41
blink‐182

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Huntingwhale

I saw a bunch of Jesus concerts at church/youth group when I was younger, but I don't really count those.

Is he still touring?

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by troutman

Probably it was Rush at the Corral in 1982. Signals tour.

My first concert too. The crush of thousands of jean-jacket clad headbangers in the Corral foyer chanting “open the ####ing doors... open the ####ing doors.” The mad dash of rush seating. My first taste of weed. The technical virtuosity of Rush in their prime. Memorable night.

[Erick Estrada]

Kiss in Lethbridge 1985 on their Animalize tour.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Kiss in Lethbridge 1985 on their Animalize tour.

Same tour, hope the sound was better for yours.

[Swift]

Originally Posted by Yamer

Is he still touring?

Lots of people still under the impression that he'll be coming back on stage for that encore any day now.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by habernac

Same tour, hope the sound was better for yours.

TBH I can’t recall as being my first I didn’t have a measuring stick and after that I was going to concerts pretty regularly. It didn’t stand out that’s for sure.

[bigtmac19]

Rush when Fly By Night came out, small venue in Windsor, first time my parents let me go out with a friend by ourselves.

[rotten42]

Rush: A Farewell to Kings tour. I think Max Webster opened up for them.

[Julio]

April Wine for their "Farewell Tour" in 1984...front row at the Centennial Auditorium. Very wacky vibe, because Corey Hart opened...so a good couple hundred guys in denim stayed out in the lobby and drank, and the same number of teenaged girls left after Hart was done.

[Puppet Guy]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Kiss in Lethbridge 1985 on their Animalize tour.

That was my *second* concert! First one was Bryan Adams with Luba opening, same venue about two months earlier.