First 10 Bands You Ever Saw!

Unfortunately I had the double-whammy of living in a small town in Montana and having very religious parents so there were precious few concerts prior to moving out on my own in the early 80s.  I did get to attend a few album-smashing and burning events in the church parking lot, for whatever that's worth, and was summarily booted from parochial school for playing Cheech & Chong's Wedding Album on the PA.

^that is a pretty awesome list, Chuck. You sure lived through some real music history! 

cstack3 wrote: September 2, 1977 - Yes with Donovan, "Going For The One" tour - Chicago Amphitheater.

cstack3 wrote: presdoug wrote: ^that is a pretty awesome list, Chuck. You sure lived through some real music history!  Thanks Doug!  I forgot Triumvirat and Fleetwood Mac, that was 1974!

A dream concert for me, for sure!

Wow, this is going to take some remembering, but I'll take away bands that played at my Toronto high-school, except for three that went out to go big


Not sure the list will be all that chronological ("if you remember the 70's, you weren't there" thing), but all of them should be before the passing of the 70's

Rush (I guess this was 2112 or Caress Of Steel High-school tour, given the set-list I remember >> totally too high that evening)
Max Webster (Borrowed Shoes HS tour, if I guess by the set list... But at least four times afterwards)
Supertramp (Moments tour)
Triumph (RnR Machine tour + two more times before the Just A Game album)
Genesis (ATTWT tour)
Goddo (An Act of Goddo high-school tour, I think)
Yes (this became the YesShows tour album)
Neil Young (Rust never Sleeps tour >> see DV of same name)
The Police (Outlandos at The Edge ... only 13 people in attendance, all of them had won tickets from the Q-107 FM radio, yours truly as well)

Also in there somewhere:
Grateful Dead (in Syracuse NY State, but not sure this is in my first 20 concerts or a bit later)
ELP (in Montreal at Olympic Stadium)
Harmonium (In Montreal for l'Heptade tour)
Alvin Lee solo (got in under-aged at the El Mocambo club)
Rory Gallagher (see above)
Canada World Music Festival (this would summer 79, I think and well, it should've been the  CBS North Am Music Festival really, incl Mahogany Rush, Aerosmith, Nugent, Nazareth, Ramones, Goddo (again), Johnny Winter) >> another totally too high day



I had tickets in my hands for the Stones' "free concert" (in Oshawa) for the Blinds after Richards' drug bust, but couldn't afford them, so I passed up on it. (Same thing later for Floyd's the Wall tour in New York)





Edited by Sean Trane - February 19 2016 at 01:48

Grand Funk Railroad (1972)

Dr. John (1974)

Rasputin (1975)

Chicago (1976)

Thin Lizzy/Queen (1977)

Genesis (1977)

Donovon/Yes (1977)

George Bensen (1977)

Return to Forever (1977)

The Beach Boys (1977)

Well, lets see:

1 - Black Label Society (yeah)
2 - Ian Anderson (TAAB2 tour)
3 - Focus
4 - Jorge Mautner
5 - Uli Jon Roth
6 - Gal Costa
7 - Milton Nascimento
8 - Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull Rock Opera)
9 - Ney Matogrosso
10 - Elza Soares (will be my tenth show now in 1st April!)


Edited by GKR - February 20 2016 at 15:32

That would be the first ten acts at Live Aid, Wembley, 1985. As that was my very first live rock music event. 

Piffol_Four_Times wrote: That would be the first ten acts at Live Aid, Wembley, 1985. As that was my very first live rock music event.  So: Status Quo Style Council (although I took that opportunity to go for a piss and get some food and drink) Boomtown Rats Adam Ant Ultravox Spandau Ballet Elvis Costello Nik Kershaw Sade Sting, Phil Collins, Branford Marsalis.

You must have seen Ultravox around the same time I did, and they ruled. Saw Status Quo open for Emerson, Lake & Palmer (in '77[?]), and they ruled. A very underrated rock band.