Not counting Pete Seeger at a Anti-War rally my Mom took me to at U of H in 1968.... My first concert was..... Chicago, at the Summit, 1976. At least I got to see Terry Kath before he blew his brains out.
Grateful Dead at the Summit. I was 12 or 13, so it must have been around 1981. I was bored silly. I like some of their stuff now, but still not a huge fan. My next show was the Rolling Stones at the Astrodome, with ZZ Top and the Fabulous T-Birds opening. That rocked.
I was at both of those shows. The Dead show at the Summit was in December 1978 actually. I remember because it was a couple of weeks after the first time I saw Springsteen, also at the Summit.
i was about 12 or 13 and on a group trip w/ my church youth group to astroworld. some guy walked up and gave me and my buddy 2 tickets for the richard marx/wilson phillips show at southern star amphitheater. we caught the end of wilson phillips set and the first 30 minutes or so of richard marx before heading back to the park...the rides were just more fun. it definately felt like we stepped into another world though. despite the acts, i thought it was cool. it took another year or so before i started looking at what was going on beyond 93.7 (was that the station? - the q-zoo?) and/or 104 krbe, but i remember at the time thinking the whole thing was kind of neat. the first real show i went to by choice was houston's own spunk. it was at some kind of warehouse/art gallery/loft place in 1990 or so - i think it was on the southeast side of downtown, close to 59?
Are you talking about the Axiom or the Ensemble or the Unicorn for the Spunk show? I used to see Sprawl at the Axiom a bunch. The Rev Dave Dove was in my English class.
no, i know where the axiom was/is. this was actually in downtown. its been long gone for probably 15 years now.
gifford I also went to those two concerts. Like you, I was bored to death at the Dead show. I've never really been a fan and wasn't on acid, so that might explain alot. OTOH, I was all 'luuded out for the Stones concert and remember (that which I do) it much more fondly
I remember that "warehouse/art gallery" jo mamma and the name will probably come to me in the mildle of the night - maybe sooner as I'm now obsessed. A band I was in played there a cou[ple of times - once, backing up Green on Red. It was actually a pretty dismal turnout
Midnight Oil for their Blue Sky Mining album. Hunters and Collectors opened. I had a great time, but have only been to two other (non-classical) concerts since then -- concerts aren't really my thing: Huey Lewis and the News (on the freeway to inaugerate Beltway 8) and Blues Traveler (at Numbers, I think, right before they became big enough to sell out major venues).
fixed it for ya. as for me...geeze...I think it was one of the early Texxas Jams at the Dome. possibly the one with Heart. anyone remember what year that was? 80? depending on what year that was...I might have attended one at the Coliseum first...they were pretty close together timewise.
the butthole surfers show at homage was actually cancelled. the poster for that show (with a version of the human figure with the starfish head) is worth a bit of cash because of that. they played that same year down the street at the ensemble.
i was at that show and it did rock! my first concert was actually a few months before that: A Flock of Seagulls.
