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Now before your mind races away from you all

and the mob tears me to shreds

the momentous day has come for my daughter to go to her first concert

 

now......

 

while my first was David bowie glass spider tour in 86

i wasn't that into him then (but that did kick start it for me)

and would have loved my first to have been a favorite of mine ( was iron maiden, metallica, priest, twisted sister at that time)

 

one direction is her favorite group, and she is bursting out of her skin to see them

it's for her birthday and going to be a surprise

 

so i booked the limousine front row and all

and looking forward to sharing this unique experience with her

regaurdless of the screaming, and pop insanity

 

just wanted to share this with you all

 

which poses another question

 

what was your first show??

 

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Well you're doing a great thing for your kid :) Hopefully she will get into Metallica and Iron Maiden instead of One Direction :P

My first and only big concert was Slipknot / Killswitch Engage and it was awesome!

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my parents took me to see collosseum when i was 10 or so. i liked it :)

 

what's one direction?

 

edit: youtube answered my question. i'm sorry for you, but, well, at least it's not justin bieber ;)

yesh well i guess, have got some good earplugs at least!

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Excluding Greek rock artists,

 

My first big concert was in 1998, I was 16ish. Judas Priest, Megadeth, Savatage, Craddle of Filth + some more I don't remember and the day after it was PJ Harvey and Placebo. The second day I didn't find a ride back home so I slept on the grass and waited for the tube to start at 5:30am.

 

Nowadays I got to many concerts, event to bands that I barely know. Some are great, I.e Truck Fighters, Orange Goblin and others not so much i.e Kylesa, New Sepultura, House of Pain

 

There have also been 2 bands that I ADORE but both were dissapointing live: Ozric Tentacles and Tool (especially Tool).

 

This month I've planned Plissken festival (Athens), Pottergeist (Greek southern rock band, their basist is a friend of mine, Manu Chao (Thessaloniki), Clutch (Athens) and anything else that might pop-up

 

When I lived in London I lived next to Wembley Arena but didn't go to any concerts.. I really regret it.

 

I also regret not going to RATM when they came to Athens in 2006 and Dream Theater 2 years ago, the bad thing is that Mike Portnoy left the band 2-3 months after this concert and he probably won't play with them again. Also, although I had a ticket for Rotting Christ's 20 year anniversary, I couldn't go, I was also quite upset about this.

Also missed DRI (... We've discussed this before I think with Tehcnossomy) and KISS and I'll miss the Deftones this months because I'll be in Thessaloniki for the Manu Chao concert.

 

Edit: I don't only go to rock/metal concerts... some of the concerts I've been to include Sakis Rouvas, Madonna, Groundation (reggae), George Michael, Lana Del Rey (this was part of a bigger festival) and I'll probably go to Lady Gaga in September.

The great thing is that I've got many ways in getting into gigs for free (legally or ileggally) so I'm always on the look out for nice events around Athens. I reckon I can get in for free at Thievery Corporation too mid-june.

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I can't really remember the first big concert but my mom was into rock and did enjoy taking me to concerts. Among the first for sure where the Leysin Festival where I saw Billy Idol and Guns'n'Roses together with Sepultura and Faith No More (both concerts took place in the 90ies). Other bands I saw where Pink Floyd on their Division Bell Tour, Jean-Michel Jarre, Guns'n'Roses a second time, Bon Jovi, Skunk Anansie (and also Skin solo later) and Roxette with Bonnie Tyler. I'm not going to concerts that much anymore but during the last years I was able to catch Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Prodigy, Faithless and Madonna.

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I can't really remember the first big concert but my mom was into rock and did enjoy taking me to concerts. Among the first for sure where the Leysin Festival where I saw Billy Idol and Guns'n'Roses together with Sepultura and Faith No More (both concerts took place in the 90ies). Other bands I saw where Pink Floyd on their Division Bell Tour, Jean-Michel Jarre, Guns'n'Roses a second time, Bon Jovi, Skunk Anansie (and also Skin solo later) and Roxette with Bonnie Tyler. I'm not going to concerts that much anymore but during the last years I was able to catch Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Prodigy, Faithless and Madonna.

I've seen alsmost all these live... Some were good others not so much, although a lot of times concerts get plagued by bad sound or venue management so it's not usually the band's fault.

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Not counting small local band shows (and one really crappy slightly larger touring band show) I consider my first 'real' concert to be Floater in probably 1995 or 96. It seemed big at the time because I was young and it was new and they were my favorite band, but in retrospect it was a regional band at a modest sized club. I blame my parents for not letting me see Nirvana a couple years earlier.

 

I haven't been to any truly big, like arena big, concerts. Probably the first big one was Tori Amos when I was about 20, so 1999-ish. That actually was in a stadium (basketball), but it was far from full.

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seems alot of you been to a few metal/rock shows

mine have been mainly those so thought would share what i could remember

 

metallica 3 times from and justice tour on

alice cooper 4 times

guns n roses and skid row together

iron maiden 3 times

judas priest

black sabbath

ozzy osbourne

david bowie

kreator

d.r.i

misfits with and without danzig

anthrax

faith no more to about 100 people in crowd (was amazing)

slayer 3 times

megadeth

napalm death

pungent stench

morbid angel

pink floyd

biohazzard

paradise lost

nirvana - hand full of people at show (before they took off in new zealand)

carcass

primus

white zombie

pixies

stooges

sham 69

nofx

bad religion

body count

cypress hill

ac dc

zz top

rolling stones

donovan

fleetwood mac

pitch black

fat freddys drop

 

have missed a few

dam i been to alot!

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Been to a lot of concerts too, a lot common with you Technosomy. It seems that you went to a lot of conecets in the 90s. I've been going the past 8 years mostly.

Biohazard played a few years ago, no1 told me, I was bummed to miss it, since then I check on a daily basis what's playing around and I still miss some interesting ones.

I concur that Faith No More is a great live and I saw them in 2007 which is way past their best.

 

For me there is 1 live concert that I'm pretty sure is never going to be surpassed:

 

Pear Jam - They played for about 3 hours and 20 mins. It was the final stop of the tour and there were people from all over the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Israel and Turkey, great atmosphere. 1,5 hours live + 1 hour acoustic program (including the banzo and harmonica) + 1 hour mix of their best with rock n roll classics (Hendrix, Rod Stewart...)

I've talked with a lot of concert-goers about this concert and most of them say it's been their best experience.

Many times I've dreamt in my sleep that I'm at a pearl jam live concert.

 

2nd is Meshuggah but for a totally different reason: It was only 1 hour and 15 mins but considering how complicated their music is, I couldn't believe the pure technical perfection.

 

Other good ones: Down, Metallica, Truck Fighters, Nine Inch Nails (pretty quiet crowd though), Soulfly (my mate went crazy when Max played NailBomb tracks), Madball (heard them 4-5 times, never get tired of them), Aerosmith, U2

 

ooooooooooooooohhhhh and there's one live that was TOTTALY TOTTALY a waste of time and money: Lenny Kravitz! He was tottaly wasted and played for maybe 45 mins. I remember that the concert finished and I asked my friends "It can't be over so fast? How drunk can I be?...How long was the concert?" and we all check our clocks and it was less than 45 mins.

 

 

I would have travelled anywhere in Europe for a Pantera concert but unfortunanetly this cannot happen RIP Dimebag Barrell.

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Oh if we're gonna list them all the my major ones are:

 

Front 242

Frontline assembly

Throbbig gristle

Pink Floyd

ColdPlay (great concerts, not a fan of their music at home)

Nirvana

Soundgarden

Pearl Jam

Fear Factory

Mayhem

Slayer

Napalm Death

Metallica

Marduk

Sepultura

Pantera (3 times)

Aborym

Rotting Christ

Greenday

Opeth

Behemoth

Meshuggah

Cannibal Corpse

AC/DC

Rolling Stones

Jimmy Barnes/Cold Chisel

Dimmu Borgir

Cradle Of Filth

NIN

Marilyn Manson

Rage Against The Machine

Ice-T

Ice Cube

NWA

Body Count

Cypress Hill

Dead Kennedy's

 

 

And loads more popular & underground.

 

Oh I got paid in the 90's to infiltrate & report on some nations socialist/neo nazi gigs/groups at that time. Absolutely horrifying experience. When I eventually got caught out I had some serious reconstructive surgery after they kicked my skull in :lol:. Luckily the info I had help the bring them down!

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Sepultura

Pantera (3 times)

Rage Against The Machine

Rotting Christ

Sepultura: My older mates tell me than in the early 90s Sepulturas were a power house, I saw them with their current line-up and didn't like it at all

Pantera: I'll go in a corner and cry

RATM: Still have hopes of seeing them!!!!!

 

Rotting Christ: When did you listen to them? With me being Greek, I have been several times to their concerts. I don't like them for home listening but I always have a good time at their lives. A lot of people around here say that last year's Greek 20 years anniversary tour was superb.

Opeth: Can't stand the growling but I can't deny that they are great musicians and composers (I just realised that Sweden must have great music education with so many technical musicians coming from there), was pleasantly surprised!

 

Mastodon and Tool are 2 bands that I love to listen at home but both have been dissapointing live... and I'm a huge Tool fan.

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