You are quarantined with the first musical act you saw in concert. What is it?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Me: The Beatles

[LakeArenal]

1. New Colony Six

[Ptah]

2. Blood, Sweat & Tears

[Rhiannon12866]

70. Same for me!

Saratoga Performing Arts Center when I was 14, my camp friends and I had lawn tickets and I remember it was so crowded that it was hard to find a place to sit...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. The Minnesota Orchestra or the Rolling Stones, take your pick.

Better music from the orchestra but better drugs from the Stones.

[guillaumeb]

7. Does the Minnesota Orchestra ever do Stones covers? eom

[guillaumeb]

4. Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger.

I would love it.

[happybird]

5. Michael Jackson

That would be an experience, lol!

I gotta say, hanging out with Paul and Ringo would be amazing! A dream come true.

[niyad]

6. The Sandpipers

[soothsayer]

8. Heart (with the original brothers!)

[tblue37]

9. The Righteous Brothers. nt

[handmade34]

10. omg no....

Dave Clark Five

[dweller]

11. James Taylor

and Carol King
i could handle that again ...

✌🏼

[TexasTowelie]

12. Moody Blues.

At the Frank Erwin Center in Austin in fall of 1983. Unfortunately, Ray Thomas got sick during the performance and had to be hospitalized.

[BlueTsunami2018]

13. KISS

But I don’t want to be in quarantine with them. Although there might be some interesting fights.

[mr_lebowski]

62. I was going to say KISS, and I was gonna have a big sad ... then I remembered ...

Cheap Trick were the opening act!!!

That Counts!!!

Love Gun Tour, 1977 ... Cow Palace, SF. I was 11.

[Mersky]

14. Debbie Gibson

🎶Shake your love...just can’t shake your love🎶 at Astroworld.

It. Was. Awesome.

[ret5hd]

15. no no no no no...Alice Cooper.

I'm sorry. I was young. I would do things differently now, I promise.

[dawg day]

20. What? Alice Cooper did School's Out!

That is STILL a great song.

[ret5hd]

25. Ehhhh...it all just sounds so childish now...all flash no true style other than "shock".

I certainly thought it was cool then.

[dawg day]

41. Think how prescient it was---

"School's out for.... ever!"

[Ferrets are Cool]

16. Dan Fogelberg

[bottomofthehill]

17. Sorry to say The Tubes.

Brought my younger sister to a concert for her birthday. Her first concert and my first concert. She brought 3 friend and my mother would only let the 4 of them go if I brought them.

[bottomofthehill]

33. The crazier part of the story

Is the concert was at the Masonic Temple in Cambridge Ma

[dawg day]

18. WEll, Beatles are pretty impressive as a first

mine not so much: Blood Sweat and Tears.

Actually, as I recall, there were 10 members on the stage, so that takes us over the limit allowed for gatherings in my state.

Can I trade with you? I'd rather have the Beatles!

[woodsprite]

19. Tony Orlando & Dawn

I'd prefer being quarantined with the last act I saw: Home Free. (It's all about the bass! He has a range from A0 to A5!)

[Chainfire]

21. Grand Funk Railroad

1970

[stjohndoe]

22. Van Halen

nm

[Ahpook]

56. Didn't get to see them in their day

I did meet a few people that did sound for them in the Gazzari's Club days.

The stories they have are super fun to hear

[RGinNJ]

23. Frank Zappa

[sinkingfeeling]

24. The Beatled!

[lapfog_1]

26. Fleetwood Mac

[frazzled]

27. The Band

At the Fillmore East, May 1969



Of course I had seen other musical ensembles, but I think this was my first real rock concert

[NRaleighLiberal]

28. Black Sabbath!

[Lochloosa]

29. Edgar Winter's Group. Edgar was wearing tie-dyed Spandex

[Lochloosa]

30. Oh shit. I read it wrong. I thought you wanted our first concert.

So my answer would be The Grateful Dead.

[Hoyt]

31. Byrds.

[RockRaven]

32. The San Francisco Symphony

I was a freshman in high school, and it was some sort of school/class thing.

That's a lot of people to be quarantined with...

[Mopar151]

34. Chick Corea & Return to Forever

UNH, 1975

[AJT]

35. John Denver

[Binkie The Clown]

36. Jethro Tull

Sometime in the 1970s (as near as I can remember, what little I remember of those days...) in Oakland, CA

On edit: My folks took me to see the L.A. Symphony Orch. some time in the 50s, but I really don't remember that myself.

On additional edit: Or maybe Earth Wind & Fire was my first. I just can't sure after 50 years.

[Ferryboat]

37. Pink floyd

Paramount theater. I had no idea. Buddy gave a ticket if I drove.

[rownesheck]

38. My first concert had 4 bands.

It was originally supposed to be Suicidal Tendencies, Candlebox, Alice in Chains, and Metallica. I bought the ticket just for Alice in Chains. Unfortunately, Layne Staley had another issue with heroin, so they dropped out. They were replaced with Rob Halford's (of Judas Priest fame) new band, Fight. I would hate to be quarantined with any of these bands. Well, if I had to pick one, I guess I'd choose Suicidal Tendencies.

[Heartstrings]

39. The Robbs

I had a mad crush on Joey Robb! Met him after a concert and he was so sweet, plus he had a baby face and I’m a sucker for a baby face!

[safeinOhio]

40. I have seen most of the above, but

my first one was in 1961 and it was Ricky Nelson. I was 12.

[GemDigger]

42. Hahaha! Bingo! Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show.

I would probably die laughing.

[Delarage]

43. The Kinks

at the University of Delaware

[enough]

44. Dollar Brand before he became Abdullah Ibrahim. My parents took me. NT

[eShirl]

45. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

some where, somehow, somebody musta
kicked you around some

[csziggy]

46. Nooooooo - not my sister's high school band! NOT THAT!

Yes, that was the first musical act I saw in concert, several times a year for four years. Given, it was a very good band, won all kinds of awards and the marching band won a bunch, too. In fact, it was so good my sister was in the All American Marching Band (now, I think McDonald's supports it and tacks their name on it). She got to march and play in Toronto and in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with them.

After she left for college, I never wanted to hear another high school band. Partly I was burned out and partly every other high school band I have ever heard was terrible compared to the one that Mr. Fuchs trained back in Bartow in the 1960s.

Now, if you mean a real commercial, paid musical act, it would be Herman's Hermits.

[Shrike47]

47. Harry Belafonte with the family. He was great.

[haele]

48. Peter Schikele, PDQ Bach

My parents loved be-bop, classical music and PDQ.
Beethovan's 5th sportscasting...even at 6 years old, I understood it.

Haele

[First Speaker]

49. Duke Ellington...

...I think I could live with quarantine, thank you...

[hunter]

50. Just kill me now. Donny and Marie. I was too ugly for the front rows, so they moved me back.

That's not counting the really weird naked people stuff my artist parents took me to when I was a kid... a vagina art show at UCLA.

My parents took me to some normal concerts as well. My mom knew people. My parents were working in Hollywood when they met.

My mom's dad was a friend or familiar of Sally Rand and my mom as a kid used to hang out with all sorts of fancy ladies, some of them her baby sitters, especially in the Second World War. Her parents were busy as welders, building and repairing Liberty and Victory ships.

When I was seventeen I ran some cables for some local production of Jesus Christ Superstar. I mostly watched that and when the work was done I retreated to the underbrush with a young women named Linda and we drank some cheap beer.

[Kali]

51. I can't remember

I was supposed to see Deep Purple at Big Sruf, maaannn, but I got in trouble for something or other and got grounded.

I honestly can't remember what my first concert was. mid 70s for sure.

[The Figment]

52. Ike and Tina Turner

At the State Theater in Kalamazoo Mi. 1971

[Ahpook]

53. I was super young and

I'd have to ask the folks, but either Cat Stevens or James Taylor. I have VERY vague memories of those shows at Wolf Trap, I think. It was an amphitheater for sure. Could have been Merriweather Post Pavilion.

LOVE that venue

On edit: I actually do remember Cat Stevens coming on stage. His aura and music still sticks with me.

[SKKY]

54. Rod Stewart

1978. Blonds Have More Fun Tour. I was 8 years old. On a side note, it was also my first contact hight.

[lambchopp59]

55. The B 52's!!!

Oh, I'd gladly enjoy extended quarantine in lots of fun with that!

[Thunderbeast]

57. The WHO

Berkeley Auditorium
5th row.

Permanent hearing loss..no doubt🤠

[Glorfindel]

58. Oh, wow...The Grass Roots, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition

Canned Heat, and Ray Stevens. I don't remember which act was up first. It was 1969, so it's a miracle I remember it at all.

[Cicada]

59. The hardest working man in show business, James Brown

Straight out of total hick nowhere interior Alaska to college freshman, seeing James Brown about eighth row, in the fall of 1965, New Haven. That was Some kinda jolt!

[Adsos Letter]

60. Golden Earring.

It was Golden Earring opening for Jethro Tull, so I guess it would be Golden Earring. 1975. Olympiastadion, Munich.

[Cracklin Charlie]

61. Lynrd Skynrd.

It was about this time of year, Memphis, and so hot!

[Coventina]

63. Duran Duran!

My 15 year old self is super jazzed about that!!!!

[Wolf Frankula]

64. The Doors.

Can I have my first girlfriend with me? Don't tell my wife.

Wolf

[subterranean]

65. The Ramones

They played at a small venue at my college. I was pretty close to the stage, and my ears were ringing for days afterwards.

[Tikki]

66. Paul Revere & the Raiders

Probably 1963..
I grew up in E. Washington State. Paul Revere and the Raiders played all over that region.

One of the band members drove a Valiant.
I remember that car.

Tikki

[LuckyCharms]

67. Humble Pie. n/t

[JustGene]

68. Temptations

[MFM008]

69. Styx

Saw them twice.
Then the Stones...
Styx and Stones...

[Niagara]

71. Dwight Yokum, Randy Travis & Dolly Parton

I was 13 years old. It was a family outing and I didn't have a choice. All 3 performed on the same night what I believe was at the Hillsdale County Fairgrounds in Michigan.


A classmate of mine entered the bench seating area, noticed me and smiled. I tried to smile back but I was actually embarrassed to be seen there. I would have preferred to be at a Def Leppard concert. Country music just wasn't my thing.

[Totally Tunsie]

72. The Journeymen

Scott McKenzie, John Phillips and Dick Weissman - unbelievable talents
I loved the folk era!

[CottonBear]

73. Don McLean

He played, solo, if I remember correctly, in Miller Park, which was fairly new at the time, in downtown Chattanooga, TN. This was sometime in the late 1970s, maybe 1976, 1977 or 1978.

My girlfriends and sat right up front. It was in the early evening. We got to meet him and get his autograph after the concert. Our parents dropped us off downtown, because we were too young to drive at the time.

At the time Chattanooga was, at least to us, so boring. Without cars and money, we couldn’t get ourselves to any big rock concerts in or near Chattanooga or in Atlanta, Nashville or Birmingham. Our parents were quite conservative, so we were really happy to find out about Don McLean’s concert and be able to go! The city must have booked the concert. I think it was free. I’ve long since lost his autograph, although I had it for many years.

It was a lovely performance and a beautiful evening. We sang along to American Pie! The friends, who attended the concert with me, are still two of my very best friends all these years later!

After I headed off to college, my first real rock concert was rem opening for the English Beat at UGA’s Legion Field in Athens, GA! It was a free outdoor concert and it was awesome!

[backtoblue]

74. ZZ Top

[Arkansas Granny]

75. Three bands played that concert. Ozark Mountain Daredevils,

Dr. Hook and Rare Earth. Good times, good times.

[highmindedhavi]

76. Iron Maiden

L.A. Forum 1986

[DFW]

77. The National Symphony Orchestra

Better hire a whole hotel.

[Bayard]

78. Foreigner and Sugarloaf

At King's Island in Cincy. High school, and they locked us in for the night.

[Paladin]

79. The Beachboys and Buffalo Springfield.

I enjoyed The Beachboys, but I went for the second-billed Springfield---they were awesome. This was around 1966 or so.

[jpak]

80. That would be Arrowsmith, J Giles and Alice Cooper

Ugh

[Atticus]

81. The Young Rascals. nt

[Tikki]

88. We saw the Young Rascals and Stevie Wonder 1967...sorta our honeymoon

at the Seattle City Center arena.

And then we saw them again, well Felix and some of the band, with
Tommy James and the Shondells ...like in 1987 or so in Hollywood.

Felix could really rock those Leslie's.


Tikki

[nuxvomica]

82. Richie Havens

He opened for The Vanilla Fudge.

[NNadir]

83. Well, under the circumstances, unfortunately I can't be quarantined with Jimi Hendrix.

[NurseJackie]

84. One of my Facebook friends just recently posted the same thing. Weird, huh?

[Mad_Dem_X]

85. Sonny and Cher.

[Iggo]

86. Styx - Paradise Theater Tour

That'll work.

('81 or '82, not sure when, but it was before my second concert, which was Black Sabbath Mob Rules Tour at The Forum in Inglewood on April 15th, 1982.)

[MrsMatt]

87. Air Supply.

Saw Russell Hitchcock fall off the stage.

[ProfessorGAC]

89. Grand Funk Railroad

Chicago Amphitheater, 1970. My uncle took 3 of us.
First concert I went to when I could drive was Bowie on the Ziggy Tour, October '72 at the Auditorium Theater.
Saw Mott The Hoople there 4 or 5 months later.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

90. Beach Boys - Nashville, around 1964.

Being quarantined with that bunch would be.......entertaining to say the least.

Great show.......

[area51]

91. Deep Purple. n/t

[Trailrider1951]

92. Bob Dylan

Last edited Mon Jul 20, 2020, 04:39 PM - Edit history (1)

November, 1965. My 14th birthday. Veteran's Memorial Auditorium, Columbus, Ohio. Ticket prices were $2.50, $3.50 and $4.50. I ended up with a $4.50 ticket for $3.50 from a scalper (night of the concert). The first half of the concert was him, his acoustic guitar and harmonica, a stool and a glass of water. He played from most of his prior albums. The second half was him, his electric guitar, and his band at the time, in support of his latest album, "Highway 61 revisited". This got quite a few boos from some of the audience. Mr. Dylan was unfazed, and continued to play and sing his music. Love the man!

Oops! On edit, it was 1965 and I was turning 14. A little hazy after all these years!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

93. What? Quarantine with Iggy Pop? Wait-no-I want out. nt

[July]

94. James Brown. nt