Well if the category was instead of first three concerts, give the top three most memorable concerts, my answer would be totally different
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Of course…but I seriously doubt I could have picked a top three only😇
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I can remember back then, it’s the intervening years that I have difficulty with!
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I’m sorry…and you are??
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I can’t remember. She lets me take my tag off when I’m in the house.
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My first live three (big shows):
Yes - 90125 Tour Stockholm 1984
Marillion - Clutching at straws tour - Stockholm 1987
Pink Floyd - Momentary Lapse Of Reason Tour - Stockholm1989
I think there’s a Saga concert in there somewhere also!
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During the previous year’s (December 73) Hawkwind - Space Ritual concert at the Birmingham Odeon it was announced before the band came on stage that ”Stacia’s parents are here tonight". This meant that she performed with a lot more clothes on to the chagrin of many young men in the audience that night. 
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Ahhhhh … another aficionado of Mothers. I went back in 2007 to pay a pilgrimage visit to what was by then a furniture showroom
Led Zeppelin 1970 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver
The Doors, same year and same venue
Tim Buckley, 1971, at the Olde Cellar in Vancouver
I was in high school at the time, and for the Doors concert my friend and I got backstage by showing our bus pass, and saying we were student press. Watched the concert from the side of the stage behind the PA. After the concert ended and the band exited, I walked across the stage and exited behind them. They were surprised to see me appear, I said “great show”.
Great memories.
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Aaahh. I would love to have seen the shows from 1972/73, but I was just too young. I met Stacia a couple of years ago, at a Hawkwind event down in Devon - what a delightful lady.
Joan Armatrading Liverpool Empire 1977?
The Police Sheffield Polytechnic 1978
Wreckless Eric Sheffiled 1978
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1969, Amen Corner, Alton Towers, 4/- (4 shillings)
1972, Pink Floyd, The Rainbow, London £1.50
1972, Roy Harper, Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 65p
The Floyd show featured Dark Side of the Moon, a year before the album was released.
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Käbi Laretei (classical pianist): Playing Beethoven (in the 1960th) in the Concert Hall in Kristianstad, Sweden
Some musicals in the 1960:s such as My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, The Beggar Student in the Theater, Malmoe, Sweden [During the performance of the Beggar Studen the woman to be my wife for 49 years and 350 days (she died in cancer last May) exchange our engagemant rings (31st of October 1970).]
Dizzy Gillespie 1974 (I think), The Concert Hall in Kristianstad, Sweden
Most memorable concerts (in the 1970th) arranged by the Blue Bird Jazz Club in Kristianstad
Charles Mingus, In Åhus, Sweden
Michael Brecker, In Åhus, Sweden
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However I do have a VERY soft spot for “They shoot horses don’t they?”
.sjb
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My first was Thin Lizzy on the 7th June 1980 at the RDS in Dublin.
Several of the performances from that night are on the second CD of the Chinatown Delux CD.
This one I remember vividly - Dear Miss Lonely Hearts.
https://tidal.com/track/6935268
My second was headlined by the Police in Leixlip castle but my memory is of a big field in Leixlip in Co. Kildare just outside Dublin.
Jul 27, 1980 The Police / Squeeze / John Otway / U2 / Q Tips.
I remember Bono climbing up the scaffolding around the stage and either having to be helped down by bouncers or made get down by bouncers. We all thought he was a tosser - and roll on 5 years and I’m going to both headlining Croke park gigs 2 days in a row!
My third was Lizzy headlining what I believe was the first Slane castle gig
Aug 16, 1981
Thin Lizzy / U2 / Hazel O’Connor / Rose Tattoo /
Now that I calculate I was 13 and 14 for these gigs and headed off to them with my mate (his older brother was at the first gig with us).
.sjb
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Can’t remember who was #2 and #3 but my first concert was the Eagles in Oct.1979 in Ann Arbor, MI one week before my 13th birthday. Didn’t get a chance to see them again until 35 years later in Grand Rapids MI on the History of the Eagles Tour in 2014.
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- Eloy/East of Eden - Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium (my Highschool then) Frankenthal/Germany in 1973(?)
- Nektar - Feierabendhaus Frankenthal 73/74(?)
- Alexis Korner & Peter Thorup - Feierabendhaus Frankenthal 73/74(?)
… and the best ever: Pink Floyd at Knebworth Park Festival 1975!
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How was the Nektar concert?
I saw Dizzy in what turned out to be the last year of his life, at an outdoor concert in Washington Park, Albany, NY on a stunning autumn day.
I’ve been attending live concerts since before my memory, which extends well before the age of 5. My parents took a picture of me at Tanglewood, age two or three, which I don’t remember. But one of the most memorable live concerts from my teen years was Arthur Rubinstein in Syracuse, NY, around 1967. He played Beethoven’s Sonata Appasionata, some Villa Lobos pieces and probably something else, but it was the Beethoven I lived for in those days. First live Wagner opera (another passion of mine, to this day) was Birgit Nilssen and Jess Thomas doing Tristan and Isolde at the Met under Erich Leinsdorf (we spotted Lenny Bernstein in the audience). I could probably think of one more but those two really stand out.
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