What Was Your First?

[mogrooves]

Tull album: This Was
Tull tour: 1969, Stand Up tour
Yes album: s/t
Yes tour: 1971, Fragile tour (w/KC & Procol Harum)
Genesis album: Trespass
Genesis tour: 1972, NYC, Foxtrot tour, first official US gig (String Driven Thing opened)
Floyd album: P@GD
Floyd tour: 1970, AHM tour
King Crimson album: ICotCK
King Crimson tour: 1971 Islands tour
Gentle Giant album: s/t
Gentle Giant tour: 1973, IaGH tour
ELP album: s/t
ELP tour: 1971 (w/Curved Air)
Obscure album: Music To Eat
Obscure show: ??? Clouds; Petit Wazoo; Manfred Mann Chapter III; Hampton Grease Band; Jack Bruce & Friends; original Renaissance, Quatermass; Lothar & the Hand People, Soft Machine ('68), etc....

[JKL2000]

Tull album- Benefit
Tull tour- TAAB
Yes album- The Yes Album
Yes tour- TFTO
Genesis album- Foxtrot
Genesis tour- SEBTP
Floyd album- Meddle
Floyd tour- DSOTM

Wow!

[JKL2000]

Tull album: This Was
Tull tour: 1969
Yes album: s/t
Yes tour: 1971, Fragile tour (w/KC & Procol Harum)
Genesis album: Trespass
Genesis tour: 1972, NYC, Foxtrot tour
Floyd album: P@GD
Floyd tour: 1970, AHM tour
King Crimson album: ICoCK
King Crimson tour: 1971 Islands tour
Gentle Giant album: s/t
Gentle Giant tour: 1973
ELP album: s/t
ELP tour: 1971 (w/Curved Air)
Obscure album: Music To Eat
Obscure show: ??? Clouds; Petit Wazoo; Manfred Mann Chapter III; Hampton Grease Band; Jack Bruce & Friends; original Renaissance, Quatermass; Lothar & the Hand People, etc....

I dub you Geezer #3. You'd be Geezer #2 if not for Dave Sr.!

[NogbadTheBad]

Tull album: Aqualung
Tull tour: 2004 Stamford CT
Yes album: CTTE
Yes tour: 2011 Cincinnati
Genesis album: Trespass
Genesis tour: Musical Box in Boston 2014
Floyd album: DSOTM
Floyd tour: 1988 Manchester
King Crimson album: LTiA
King Crimson tour: 2003 NYC
Gentle Giant album: Octopus
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): 3 Friends at NF
ELP album:BSS
ELP tour:
Rush album: Exit Stage Left
Rush tour: 1987 Glasgow
Obscure album: Pikapika Teart - Moonberry
Obscure show: Many Arms & Hyrrokkin - Columbus 2007

[Tangram]

Tull album: Best of
Tull tour: never
Yes album: Fragile
Yes tour: ABWH
Genesis album: ATTWT
Genesis tour: ABACAB
Floyd album: Dark Side of the Moon
Floyd tour: AMLOR
King Crimson album: In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson tour: never
Gentle Giant album: Three Friends
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): never
ELP album: Return of the Manticore
ELP tour: never
Rush album: Chronicles
Rush tour: Signals tour

[Progbear]

Tull album: Stand Up
Tull tour: N/A
Yes album: Fragile
Yes tour: Talk
Genesis album: Nursery Cryme
Genesis tour: whenever that reunion thing in the 00s was.
Floyd album: Meddle
Floyd tour: N/A
King Crimson album: In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson tour: N/A
Gentle Giant album: Acquiring the Taste
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): oh, if only!
ELP album: Tarkus
ELP tour: N/A
Rush album: Permanent Waves
Rush tour: N/A
Obscure album: Novalis: Vielleicht bist Du ein Clown?
Obscure show: Eric Martin Band circa 1985. It was for my sister’s friend’s birthday, the young lady in question had a crush on Eric. For shows in which I actually chose the artist: Camel at New George’s in San Rafael, 1992.

[markinottawa]

damn .. there are some amazing shows listed above... heh only time I wish I was even older.

Tull album: TAAB
Tull tour: Passion Play
Yes album: Yessongs
Yes tour: Tormato
Genesis album: Live
Genesis tour: Selling England
Floyd album: Saucerful
Floyd tour: Wish You Were Here
King Crimson album: ICOTCK
King Crimson tour: Three of a Perfect Pair
Gentle Giant album: In A Glass House
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): I'm with Bill, Greg and Ian - Three Friends at FMPM - I think we should get the bonus point
ELP album: ELP
ELP tour: Works Vol 1
Rush album: Fly By Night
Rush tour: Rush
Obscure album: What on earth would actually be obscure to this group? ok then.. Prime-Time Sublime Community Orchestra: A Life in a Day of a Microorganism
Obscure show: again... ok then Danubians, no wait.. The Pale Orchestra: Mirror Man w. David Thomas, Bob Holman, Chris Cutler, Linda Thompson, Jack Kidney, Keith Moliné and Robert Kidney

[Casey]

Tull album: War Child
Tull tour: War Child
Yes album: Fragile
Yes tour: none
Genesis album: Live
Genesis tour: A Trick of the Tail
Floyd album: UmmaGumma
Floyd tour: DSOTM 1975
King Crimson album: ITCOTCK
King Crimson tour: none
GG album: none
GG tour: none
ELP album: ELP
ELP tour: none
Rush album: none
Rush tour: none
Obscure album: Quiet World (Steve Hacket's first band). Anyone interested?
Obscure tour: Laurie Anderson "Strange Angles" - talk about pretentious...

[flytomars]

Tull album: stand up
Tull tour: little light music
Yes album: Fragile or Relayer? Dont remember
Yes tour:ARW
Genesis album: Nursery Cryme
Genesis tour: PG in the 90s
Floyd album: Meddle
Floyd tour: Pulse
King Crimson album: ITCOCK
King Crimson tour: 7 headed beast
Gentle Giant album: the first
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): Three Friends GORGG israel
ELP album: Trilogy
ELP tour:-
Rush album:-
Rush tour:-
Obscure album: non credo happy wretched family
Obscure show: Uz Jsme Doma in a place called Uganda in Jerusalem, a room smaller than my living room, celebrating the Czech independence day

[thedunno]

Being basically a child of the 80ies:

Tull album: broadswoard
Tull tour: Crest of a knave tour
Yes album: 90125
Yes tour: 90125 tour
Genesis album: genesis
Genesis tour: Invisible touch tour, it mainly sucked. Paul Young as the opening act. brrrr
Floyd album: The Wall
Floyd tour: A momentarely lapse of reason tour
King Crimson album: Discipline
King Crimson tour: last tour with the three drummers. VERY happy to have that opportunity!
Gentle Giant album: Acquiring the taste
Gentle Giant tour: Unfortunately...... Was going to see three Friends a couple of years back but show was cancelled. never knew why.
ELP album: Do not think I ever owned an ELP album. Had some things on tape.
ELP tour: Never
Rush album: 2112
Rush tour: Grace under pressure tour
Obscure album: Cardiacs- A little man
Obscure show: Cardiacs -1988 Paradiso club Amsterdam

[flowerking]

Bursting Out Live, Stormwatch tour
Yessongs, Tormato tour (second time around)
3 Sides Live, 3 Sides Live tour
Meddle (I think?), Delicate Sound of Thunder tour
ITCoTCK, don't know the name of the tour but it was the US tour 2 years ago
GG: no albums, never seen them live
ELP: Welcome Back My Friends..., never saw them live
Rush: All The World's a Stage, Permanent Waves tour
Obscure album: my first 3 albums were a Beatles album, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Remember the Future
Obscure show: probably JD Blackfoot (This is the Ultimate Prophecy!), he opened up for Frampton in St. Louis but I went to see JD Blackfoot, not Frampton, circa 1980

[spacefreak]

Tull album: Aqualung
Tull tour: Crest of a Knave tour
Yes album: Time and a Word
Yes tour: -
Genesis album: Genesis Live
Genesis tour: -
Floyd album: Dark Side of the Moon
Floyd tour: The Wall tour
King Crimson album: In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson tour: -
Gentle Giant album: Playing the Fool
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): -
ELP album: Trilogy
ELP tour: -
Rush album: A Farewell to Kings
Rush tour: -
Obscure album: Amon Duul 2 -Wolf City (back in 1976 it was damn obscure for a country other than Germany)
Obscure show: Embryo in 1977

[Trane]

Tull album: Stand Up (my dad's at age 6), but Aqualung at age 12... TAAB just next
Tull tour: roughly 77/8
Yes album: oooh, tough one... CTTE, I suppose (around 75)
Yes tour: roughly 77/8
Genesis album: SEBTP, but I didn't like it (the sound was WTF, I thought) so TOTT was the click.
Genesis tour: 78
Floyd album: DSOTM
Floyd tour: 87 (opening night of the horrid AMLOR tour at the CNE) >> too broke to go to The Wall in NY
King Crimson album: ITCOTCK
King Crimson tour: (Thrakk twice weeks apart tour in 95, but I had turned down the chance in the 80's >> didn't like that 80's Crimson, then)
Gentle Giant album: Octopus (US artwork)
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): never saw them live
ELP album: BSS
ELP tour: Olympic stadium in Montreal
Rush album: FBN
Rush tour: Massey Hall (see All The World's a Stage)

Obscure album: Pawn Hearts (took me 20 years to appreciate)
Obscure show: The Police (The Edge - Toronto 78 >> 13 people present)

[Halmyre]

Tull album: Broadsword and The Beast
Tull tour: same
Yes album: Close To The Edge
Yes tour: Union (or does ABWH count?)
Genesis album: ATTWT
Genesis tour: n/a
Floyd album: DSOTM/WYWH
Floyd tour: n/a
King Crimson album: SABB
King Crimson tour: 2016
Gentle Giant album: n/a
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): n/a
ELP album: Pictures at an Exhibition
ELP tour: n/a
Rush album: A Farewell To Kings
Rush tour: Hemispheres
Obscure album: Bachdenkel 'Lemmings', or Trillion's self-titled album.
Obscure show: Marillion supporting Pallas, Glasgow circa 1981/1982?

[miamiscot]

Tull album: Thick As A Brick
Tull tour: n/a
Yes album: Fragile
Yes tour: 1976
Genesis album: Genesis Live
Genesis tour: 1978
Floyd album: Meddle
Floyd tour: 1977
King Crimson album: In The Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson tour: Next month in Cleveland!!!!!!!!
Gentle Giant album: Octopus
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): n/a
ELP album: Tarkus
ELP tour: 1977
Rush album: 2112
Rush tour: 1980
Obscure album: Antler Joe and the Accidents
Obscure show: For Squirrels

[Joe F.]

Tull album: Bursting Out
Tull tour: Under Wraps
Yes album: The Yes Album
Yes tour: 90125
Genesis album: Trick of the Tail
Genesis tour: We Can't Dance
Floyd album: Animals
Floyd tour: A Momentary Lapse of Reason
King Crimson album: Court
King Crimson tour: Three of a Perfect Pair
Gentle Giant album: Octopus
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): N/A
ELP album: Brain Salad Surgery
ELP tour: ELPowell/Black Moon
Rush album: 2112
Rush tour: Permanent Waves
Obscure album: Ange- Guet Apens, probably around '83
Obscure show: Cluster, don't remember the year. Small club.

[Johnkil]

Sure I'll go along for the ride.

Tull album: Songs FromThe Wood
Tull tour: never
Yes album: Going For the One
Yes tour: Union
Genesis album: Duke
Genesis tour: Mama - 1983
Floyd album: Dark Side of the Moon
Floyd tour: 1987 - Momentary Lapse..
King Crimson album: In the Court of the Crimson Kig
King Crimson tour: Never
Gentle Giant album: Acquiring the Taste
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): - never
ELP album: Tarkus
ELP tour: 1992 - Black Moon
Rush album: - Permanent Waves
Rush tour: - Moving Pictures 1981
Obscure album: Fonya, Castanarc, Jeremy, Mastermind (I - IV)
Obscure show:

[tonewalk]

Tull album: Benefit and Aqualung, bought second-hand at the same time
Tull tour: Roots to Branches
Yes album: Tormato
Yes tour: Magnification
Genesis album: And then there were three...
Genesis tour: -
Floyd album: Relics
Floyd tour: -
King Crimson album: Beat
King Crimson tour: The Elements
Gentle Giant album: Giant for a day
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): -
ELP album: Love Beach (a present)
ELP tour: -
Rush album: A farewell to Kings
Rush tour: -
Obscure album: Colorblind James Experience - S/t
Obscure show: -

[Dave (in MA)]

"He's the little boy, who never got into Rush...."

I don't get the reference.

[JKL2000]

I don't get the reference.

The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot - its heard at the beginning of the film The Wall, sung by Vera Lynn.

[JKL2000]

I'm waiting for Dave (adapt2it) to blow us all away by having seen GG on an early tour.

[arabicadabra]

Tull album: Aqualung
Tull tour: Thick As A Brick (in Hawaii)
Yes album: Close To The Edge
Yes tour: Tales From Topo Gigio
Genesis album: Selling England By The Pound
Genesis tour: Abacab
Floyd album: -
Floyd tour: -
King Crimson album: In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson tour: Beat
Gentle Giant album: Three Friends
Gentle Giant tour : -
ELP album: Trilogy
ELP tour: - Brain Salad Surgery (flew 6000 miles each way to see this!)
Rush album: Hemispheres
Rush tour: Grace Under Pressure
Obscure album: Mott The Hoople (first album)
Obscure show: Gerk Bonk

[Supersonic Scientist]

Tull album: Aqualung
Tull tour: N/A
Yes album: Yessongs
Yes tour: Tormato '78
Genesis album: Foxtrot
Genesis tour: Genesis (Pieces)
Floyd album: ??
Floyd tour: Early '80's
King Crimson album: ITCOTCK
King Crimson tour: Discipline '81
Gentle Giant album: Octopus
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): N/A for me but my younger Brother saw them in 1980 in Asbury Park NJ.
ELP album: BSS
ELP tour: Works (with the Orchestra MSG)
Rush album: 2112
Rush tour: Grace Under Pressure (Marillion opening)
Obscure album: ??
Obscure show: Fire Ballet (Opening for Black Sabbath '75), Birds Songs Of the Mesasoic (In a Library!!, mid-'80's)

[Lopez]

I'll play

Tull album-This Was
Tull tour-Passion Play
Yes album - The Yes Album
Yes tour-Fragile
Genesis album-Foxtrot
Genesis tour-Selling England by the Pound
Pink Floyd albun-Umma Gumma
Pink Floyd tour-Atom Heart Mother
King Crimson album-ITCOTCK
King Crimson tour- Islands
Gentle Giant album-Octopus
Gentle Giant-Octopus
ELP album-S/T
ELP tour-S/T

Wow, Bob, we must be twins. My list is almost identical. The only differences are the Gentle Giant and Floyd tours: I have not seen them.

I'll add
Obscure album: Womb s/t
Obscure show(s): Pearls Before Swine, Rufus Harley (both ESP label artists)

[Wah3]

Tull album: Aqualung vinyl
Tull tour: think it was Rock Island, the one where the band wore miners helmet with lights on them
Yes album: Yessongs
Yes tour: 90125
Genesis album: And Then There Were Three (listen), The Lamb and Duke (1st albums bought a same time)
Genesis tour: Three Sides Live (3rd row)
Floyd album: Dark Side of the Moon
Floyd tour: A Delicate Sound of Thunder
King Crimson album: In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson tour: the HORDE tour 1996
Gentle Giant album: Octopus (the Octopus shaped cardboard sleeve on the vinyl, which I got from my college radio station)
Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): none yet
ELP album: Brain Salad Surgery
ELP tour: Emerson Lake and Powell
Rush album:Exit...Stage Left
Rush tour: Grace Under Pressure
Obscure album: Happy The Man Crafty Hands (rated 5 stars by the guy who introduced me to Prog)
Obscure show: Pete Bardens at the Bottom Lne with special guest Mick Fleetwood