YES (and YES indeed!) June 13, 1979
Ticket $12.00 (Bought from scalper for $22.00)
MSG
17 years old
Again, YES!!
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YES (and YES indeed!) June 13, 1979
Ticket $12.00 (Bought from scalper for $22.00)
MSG
17 years old
Again, YES!!
YES 1979 Ticket stub JPEG.jpg
YES 1979 Swag JPEG.jpg
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Wasn't my first concert (that was The Kinks) but my first Prog concert
Yes
Drama Tour Sept. 1980
Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium (RIP)
16 years old
Don't remember what I paid but it would be a pittance these days.
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Probably Hawkwind at Newcastle City Hall in 82, or The Enid in Whitley Bay the same year. I was 18.
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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Jethro Tull
Spectrum,Philadelphia,winter 1971.I had just turned 18.
Don't recall the ticket price.
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Rush
Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA
December 14, 1987
$17.50
I was 16 and I still have the ticket stub.
Chad
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Jethro Tull - Ottawa Civic Centre $3 1973 and the math would be 17
Rush $35 ($60 in today's dollars)
Alpine Valley, WI
June 1992
Me, too. Except that it was the Power Windows tour (whatever year that was), I probably have the ticket somewhere, but don't know how much it cost. I believe that I was in 10th grade, so I was probably....15? GREAT show. Blue Oyster Cult opened, and they were pretty good, too.
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Genesis, Invisible Touch tour, Feb 1987. I would have been 15. I may still have the ticket stub. (I have a bunch of ticket stubs framed and mounted on the wall.)
Face Dancer Oct 31, 1976 Gaston Hall, Georgetown U., Washington D.C. I was 17.
No stub that I can find.
As I recall they performed "Fanfare for America" a prog suite in honor of the Bicentennial.
The encore was Watcher of the Skies and perhaps some other Genesis material.
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I was 3 years old. The answer to the rest of the OP can be found here:
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First ever concert - ELP Works I sans orchestra at the Richfield Coliseum, July 1977, ticket cost $7.50. Second ever concert was Yes on their Going for the One tour, within a couple of weeks of ELP at the same venue, same ticket cost. I was 16 at the time. Had a ticket for Pink Floyd's Animals show at Cleveland Municipal Stadium that same summer, ticket price was around $8.50 IIRC, didn't have a ride to the stadium and missed the concert.
-=Will you stand by me against the cold night, or are you afraid of the ice?=-
Queen - 7th May 1982 Sporthalle Köln, I was 15, Price was something about 20 - 25 Deutsche Mark
Rush
December 2, 1982
MSG
5th row on Alex's side.
Don't remember the face value but I DO remember the scalped price of the ticket -- 50 BUCKS. Incredible.
To this day the best show I've seen, by any band.
Nektar -rider college, nj 12/10/76
Front row center seat and small movie theater like venue. One of Roye's last shows . I was 9 days short of my 13th bday .
Free - brother ran the show but I believe it was $7.50
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ELP, Yale Bowl New Haven, apparently via google it was 1974
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Loew's Theatre in Providence, RI; April, 1971
$3.50
17 years old
Might still have the ticket somewhere
First rock concert ever was Canned Heat at Providence College, September 1969.
First "pop" concert (not counting orchestra shows they took us to in school) was Ravi Shankar, Providence, Dec. 1967. I didn't know what to expect, and I think I was disappointed it was not psychedelic.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
July 1976
Gentle Giant opened for Yes with Patrick Moraz
Cow Palace, San Francisco
General admission so we camped out all night and ended up a couple sections back on the Howe side of the stage, maybe 10 rows up in the first elevated seats
I was 15
Don't remember the ticket price...maybe $4?
Don't still have the ticket but I did find a photo online that claims to be from the same show...
Next month saw Jethro Tull with support acts Electric Light Orchestra and Rory Gallagher...but that's another story
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Yes - Roosevelt Stadium summer 1975, one year before the more famous show which was broadcast from there
It was rescheduled, cancelled due to heavy rain but the make up date still featured a very muddy infield
Wish I had the stub
BG
"When Yes appeared on stage, it was like, the gods appearing from the heavens, deigning to play in front of the people."
Yes, King Crimson, Procol Harum (headliner), Nov.1971, Academy of Music, NYC. Tickets: $4.50!!
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My first show was:
Rush- Moving Pictures Tour- May(?) 1981.
Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens
I got the ticket as a gift from my mom for my 15th birthday. My older brother had to drag me along. It was the day I discovered he smoked weed. I followed suit by the time my next concert rolled around in the fall of that year (Black Sabbath Mob Rules Tour).
I have never kept a ticket stub for any event in my life.
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First Concert Ever? "Prog" ? Ticket Cost? Venue? How Old Were You? Still Have Ticket?
Are The Animals "Prog"? - Spring 1964 .... $2.50 ..... Hampton Roads Coliseum, Virginia ..... just about to turn 8 yrs. of age .... Yes
"Prog"?
As understood on this board: Soft Machine, 1968 .....
I was there as well. Thanksgiving!!
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
KISS- August 12, 1977, Seattle Center Coliseum. Cheap Trick opened.
I was 12. Folks bought the ticket for me, my brother and a friend. I don't have the stub so I don't know how much they were.
First prog concert: Kansas- January 3, 1978, Seattle Center Coliseum. This was a present for my 13th B-day which was on the 5th. Sadly, no stub for this one either.
Genesis - The Lamb lies down on broadway, 20 something March, 1975, Annecy France
I was 16
No stub
Price ?
Alice Cooper (when that was a band name) Oct 6 1970
opener Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
University of Waterloo gym, Waterloo Ontario
cost ? ticket No
16 years
First prog concert would have been Lighthouse with a bunch of local bands Oct 16/70
Kitchener Auditorium
cost ? ticket No
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