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Black Sabbath, 1981, Mob Rules tour.

First concert would have been a_random_jazz concert that my dad dragged me to, I'm guessing. First one I remember was James Taylor sometime around 1981.

Best concerts:
Prince on the Lovesexy tour
or
U2, Zooropa
or
Jeff Buckley in uh...'99?

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, age 6.

Going into the non-classical world was hard for me, as I was in love with it.

my first non-classical concert was New Kids on the Block, when I was 9 or so. I was also very much into DC Talk and christian bands when I was in junior high and early high school. Saw DC Talk about 5 times, Newsboys, MXPX, Five Iron Frenzy, Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael W. Smith, Sandy Patti, etc.

I finally ventured into the secular world, I believe the first concert I went to was probably Metallica or Smashing Pumpkins. I've also been to several Rage Against The Machine concerts (<3 Tom Morello!!), one of the best ones of them was featuring Wu Tang and Atari Teenage Riot. Been to Savage Garden, SP, etc.

I think my favorite ones of course were the RATM, but also Smashing Pumpkins... seeing Billy Corgan up close at a venue as intimate as the Aragon Theater in Chicago was simply amazing!

Drolgin Steingrinder wrote:First concert would have been a_random_jazz concert that my dad dragged me to, I'm guessing. First one I remember was James Taylor sometime around 1981.

James Taylor

The first concert I went to (mainstream at least) was either Aerosmith/Colective Soul (same tour as xouqoa/zamtuck), or BB. King ... They were both about a month apart, but I can't remember which was first.