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So first concert for me was Steppenwolf and last concert was last weekend. The Stadium Tour. Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Poison, Joan Jett and Classless Act
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I couldn’t get tickets for Rod, Jane and Freddy. 
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A very underrated band. It was a great gig. In the form of a musical play. Even had a ‘remember your a womble’ T shirt.
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*Technically #1 The First Americans at the Copacobana NYC. All Native American Rock/Pop band late 70s
*Jackson Brown was my first Stadium Concert
*Last Concert Many Moons ago I saw Avenge7fold.
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Don’t even remember my first concert, somewhere in the '90s and was quite young. Know which band though, BZN.
Last concert today, well technically yesterday for us in Europe as it’s now well past midnight.
Went to Deventer for a music festival. 14 stages with bands/performers rotating every 15 minutes instead of people going from stage to stage they did and what a hassle that is for many.
Went there mainly 'cause I know the Bassist in a country band but wandered around during the stafe building and where some where already doing soundchecks to check out basses and gear.
This is what the bassist I know took along and she wasn’t the only one with an upright bass, she has electric ones as well (mainly P).
Photo’s not the greatest but neither was the lighting as it was outdoors and the stages weren’t lit.
Frankly the general consensus was that the whole thing once again was FUBAR. 16 sound techs for 14 stages and many couldn’t get the mix right.
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Great bunch of lads, especially Duff wearing that shirt!
I was at that concert, but way at the back with my kids. That was my most recent concert.
First big one was Oasis in Slane (on before REM!) in 97.
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@wheelcowboy I didn’t realize you were living in The Netherlands! It takes some guts to admit you went to a BZN concert 
For you non-Dutchies out there: BZN (Band Zonder Naam or Band Without Name) was the quintessential easy listening, middle-of-the-road pop band in The Netherlands in the seventies. The band your parents would like, and that you had to hate yourself because of that
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Like the Carpenters in the US?
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I live in the polder near Nijmegen these days.
Am half Canadian though.
And lasted until 2007 when Keizer pulled the plug on it.
They still hold the record of most songs in the Top 40, 55 of which 22 were in the Top 10. No other band achieved that here. Not the Beatles, not Queen, not the Stones…
Jan Keizer’s sketches during concerts were always hilarious. I remember a Demis Roussos impression where one of his “arms” got lose and flew in the crowd
Not the specific concert but the sketch, Jan Tuijp and the rest trying hard not to laugh
My music likes are all over the place. I go from BZN to André Rieu, The Who, Sabaton, Reba, Brooks and Dunn, Drukwerk (4Daagsefeesten was a blast this year with them bringing out my flat Amsterdam dialect again as my Dutch family’s from near there 
) and anything in between.
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Yes, probably. Not familiar with their music, but I know them by reputation.
just got tix for adam neely’s band sungazer. i’m not a huge jazzzzz guy but i do like it now and then and they are a pretty fun band.
bass
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They would be a fun one to see.
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First concert was when I was 14 or 15, Guns N’ Roses.
Last concert would have been the last time Tori Amos came to Australia.
Next concert will be The Darkness, can’t wait! I love Justin Hawkins Rides Again on YouTube.
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Should be a good night out @StartedAt48 .
I followed The Darkness religiously when I lived in the UK and enjoyed every time I saw them even during Justins “problems “
We actually grew up in the same small fishing town in Suffolk and attended the same high school
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awesome! I love Justin’s reflections on his experiences during his career.
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I was dragged to a lot of big, flashy country concerts as a kid, since my mom was a country radio DJ - Garth Brooks, Travis Tritt, etc. And sillier things like Roy Orbison impersonators at community halls.
But the first show that I went to of my own volition was a tour called Summersault 2000, organized by the Canadian band Our Lady Peace. (Never liked them, but they were huge at the time.) This teenager from rural Nova Scotia got to see A Perfect Circle and Smashing Pumpkins that day (and some other bands I’ve forgotten)! Ended up covered in mud despite not moshing. And someone covertly unzipped my backpack and stole everything I had on me, including souvenirs I’d been holding for my friends. 
Still a happy memory overall. I felt so grown up and edgy.
The most recent show I attended was a little space rock / stoner rock bar gig between covid waves (back when things like masking were still around so case numbers sometimes went down instead of forever up up up). Two of my friends from high school are in Elektric Mistress (https://elektricmistress.bandcamp.com/) (stoner rock/classic rock vibe - they work hard and deserve all the support in the world) and I also really enjoyed the performance by Earth Altar (https://earthaltarband.bandcamp.com/).
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First Concert - Alice Cooper 1978
Last Concert - Dead and Co 2021
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Read through these, such a variety.
First concert - Styx/Starcastle/Badboy, Fairgrounds in Marshfield WI. Funny part about this one was it was the Grand Illusion Tour and a good friend and I were listening to that cassette all the time. We both asked if we could go, of course were told since we were 14 the answer was no. So being the geniuses we were, we came up with the foolproof plan of saying we were staying at each other’s house, bought tickets and went. Afterward we just pitched his scout tent in a local park. It was an amazing show for us young-uns. But our foolproof plan fell apart when one mom called the other and we were busted. We both got grounded big time but so, so worth it.
Last Concert - KISS End of the Road Tour March 2019 in Chicago at the United Center. It was the 25th time I’ve seen them. Always a good time.
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