Your First Concert was.....

Alan Freed's 1955 Rock&Roll Show.Acadamy Of Music in NYC
A Group named 'The Wrens opened the show and 2-3 hours later "The Cadillacs" Closed the show.

REO Speedwagon. Summer 1974. I was 13.

Buddy Rich and his big band or Cleo Lane with Dankworth & co - can't recall which was first - my parents took me - and it must have been 1970 or so. (My dad played trombone in a jazz band.)

The first concert I paid for myself (as a student who got pocket money from gardening) was in 1979 in Nice, France - Average White Band with Steel Pulse (as the opening band) - that was when my jaw dropped after hearing Steve Ferrone on drums - astonishingly musical performer and a superlative groovemaster. It was the same year that the Police "Message in a Bottle" came out and Copeland became a household name. Great stuff.

Very hard to remember -but among the first were Bruce Cockburn and Janis Ian, both in London, Ontario. James Taylor and Kim Carnes and Linda Ronstadt at the CNE in Toronto. Exciting stuff!

Jefferson Airplane, 1967 or 69, University of Hartford, in CT. Boy was that an eyeopener!!