Thanks. That must be it, I knew I saw them in 89 and that was what this site said. I had just moved here, so venue names didn't settle in until later.
a gracious friend of mine hooked us up with a FREE room at The Houstonian!! we're going to be rolling in from austin sometime in the afternoon. send me an email if you're going to make it and maybe we could hook up... DEVO and the Psychedelic Furs...should be cool (except i'm gonna have to look across the street where Astroworld used to sit and...well...pour a sip for my dead homie. )
My first was Van Halen's 1984 tour... I was in the 5th grade. I vaguely remember seeing some strippers on the light stage, and David Lee Roth doing his jump-kicks, and some funny smelling stuff being passed around. After that show my taste in music changed quite a bit because the next one was PIL, and a little later, The Smiths both at the UH/Cullen Auditorium in 1986. From then on, I was going to concerts (small bands, big bands, anything live) for the rest of my middle school and high school life. No wonder my grades sucked.
I'm sure I was at a few other concerts before this, but for some reason the earliest one I can remember is Iron Maiden in 1990 I think (No Prayer for the Dying tour), at Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio. Seen them numerous times since. Greatest band in the world.
Mine too- probably around 1978. I remember that I wasn't sure if I wanted to go because there was a TV movie about Houdini on starring the curly haired guy from starsky and hutch that I really wan't to see, but went with my mom to see Neil instead.
I think my first concert was The Beach Boys, probably around '75-'76, after an Astros game. I remember there being about 5,000 (or less) people that stuck around after the game. Once they started playing you would have thought there were 50,000 in the dome. They were awesome!!!
My first was Paul Revere and the Raiders in the National Guard Armoury in Cheyenne, Wyoming. 1966. Anyone else there?
ZZ Top at the Purple Grape Club in Tyler Texas 1968 Well I had seen John Fred and the Playboys with the Yellow Payges before that at the Hullabaloo Club in Longview but you guys wouldn't know who they were (Judy In Disguise...with glasses) The first Auditorium show was Steppenwolfe and Alice Cooper at the Fairgrounds in Shreveport. We had never heard of Alice Cooper but when he hung himself on his last song we went ape****. 68 or 9 who remembers.
Faith No More with Billy Idol at the summit in 1990. I remember wearing out that "Faith No More" T-shirt that year, lol.
The Cars, my Soph year in HS... must have been 1978, at some small venue in Houston I can't remember. Me and a buddy were goofing off listening to music and playing 2-handed Spades when he said "Hey, The Cars are playing tonight in Houston." His parents: You can go, but you're not taking one of our cars. So, we walked the block over to my house: "Er, Mom, can I take the Olds down to Houston for a concert... right now?" I then waited for the answer in a cringing position. Says she: "OK." Wow! We were out of there in no time and headed to the big time. A few weeks later we were joined by 2 others to go see Van Halen at the same place. Bought 4 4th row center seats from a scalper for 84 bucks. We were also at that Texxas Jamm Concert with Heart. If I recall, they were preceeded by Foghat, who absolutely rocked. Sloooooooooooooow Ride!
I pitched a ****-storm when my Dad wouldn't let me tag along to a Kinks show he was catering for in 1986, my favorite song was "I Want to Fly Like Superman" back then. They probably wouldn't have played it, anyway, it was 7 or 8 years old at that point. I had to settle for my own all access laminate. The first one I actually went to was Paul McCartney in early 1990. My Dad had bought my Mother and I a ticket, but didn't tell me, because they like to watch 9-year olds get all depressed, I reckon. I spent the weekend before (the show was on a Monday) calling up the local classic rock station that was given out pairs of tickets on the hour for answering Macca trivia. By my count, I knew all the answers ("that would be 'Officially Prounounced Dead,' but it really stood for 'Ontario Police Department' ... "that would be his sheepdog, Martha," "that would be Denny Laine ... etc), but I never made it through. I begged my Dad to do the same for me while I was at school on Monday, the station was doing the same thing, but when I got home he told me he hadn't gotten through. He then told me to go to one of his cookbooks and open the page to the fictional (though I didn't know it) "McCartney's Stew" (how lame is that?) that he would prepare as tribute that night. Stuck in the Mc-area of the cookbook were two tickets. The show had lasers, and they played "Jet," but no "Admiral Halsey." Still, they did have lasers. It was sweet. EDIT: Now that I think about it, I guess my technical first concert would have been seeing The Jets who played after a Chicago Sting (MLS) game in 1987 or so. I couldn't name a single Jets song then or now, and my Dad made us leave after their first song.
