What is the first concert you ever went to, and how much did tix cost?

i don't want to say who i saw 'cause it's really embarrassing, but it was while i was in cub scouts and the tix cost 5.00 in 1990

 

311
Summer of 1994
Liberty Hall, Lawrence, Kansas
$15 or so (don't remember the exact price, but less than $20)
Kick ass show

 

I think my first was the Rolling Stones "Steels Wheels" (or something like that) tour in 1989.
Foxboro Stadium.

 

2002 Incubus/Hoobastank $25

(First one that I bought myself.)

 

Allman Brothers at the Beacon, maybe five years ago. I think the tickets were around $25-30

 

The Power Station
Riverbend in Cincy
$20-$25, i think

 

Now the best show I've gone to was march 15 2001 at nation in dc to see reach the sky/lars frederiksen & the bastards/dropkick murphys and tix were 12.50, that was the first REALLY good one.

 

X-Fest, 1983, at Jack Murphy Stadium (now called Qualcomm Stadium):

The Flirts
Bow Wow Wow
Modern English
The Ramones
The Stray Cats
Tom Petty

I think it was $15.

 

Ronnie James Dio/Megadeth/Savatage 1/29/88 @ the West Palm Beach Auditorium (which has since become a Jehovah's Witnesses HQ)...tickets were $18.00 with Bass Ticket Outlet SC, which was like $1. My oh my how things have changed.

 

1984, Notre Dame Convocation Center, Billy Joel (with a surprise visit from Christy Brinkley.)

$12.50.

 

The Police - Synchronicity Tour, 1983. My sister paid for the tickets so I have no idea how much they cost.

 

First big concert

1993 Pantera, tix about $20, good show.

 

Rush, 1986, Rosemont Horizon, I think tix were about $15.

 

Depeche Mode (Some Great Reward Tour), April 1985. Tix were $18 I believe.

 

I went to that show here in San Diego. I remember
Madness and Oingo Boingo also played...

 

Remember that dance that Joe did? Or when he
screamed "FROM YOUR HEAD TO YOUR FIST!" right in my ear?

 

Live Aid, Philadelphia, 1985. $35, and that was considered outrageous even though the show included a Led Zep reunion, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, Dylan, Petty, CSN, Neil Young, Madonna, Duran Duran (remember, this was the mid-80s), Sabbath reunion, Phil Collins, The Cars, The Thompson Twins, Beach Boys, Temptations, Four Tops, Hall & Oates, Bryan Adams, Judas Priest, Run DMC, etc.

Oh yeah, the Hooters were there as well. They made the whole thing worth $35.

 

1983
Charlie Daniels Band w/ .38 Speical (stop laughing)
@Augusta Richmond Co. Civic Center
$8

1984
Van Halen w/ After the Fire
@Augsusta Richmond Co. Civic Center
$10

1984
Adam Ant w/ the Romantics
atlanta Civic Center
$12

1984-85 (New Years Eve)
REM w/ Love Tractor & Guadalcanal Diary
atlanta Civic Center
$12

You can adust for inflation all you want, but today ticket prices are a rip.

 

English beat, '83 no way in hell I could remember how much. Hell, I saw Paul Weller two weeks ago and I can't remember how much I paid for tickets.

 

My first concert was around 1981 or 1982. Stevie Nix and Joe Walsh double-bill at the Byrne Arena (as it was known back in the day). I have no idea how much the ticket cost though because I was given the ticket in order to escort one of my parent's friend's daughter to the show.

Regarding ticket prices, while the prices for big-name acts have gotten into the "stupid range", the inflation for small-name bands has been much flatter. I remember spending about $10 to see The Swans in NYC around 1986 and I spent about $17 to see Man Or AstroMan a little while ago. Compared to $100+ for classic rock dinosaurs, that's a rather mild increase.

Murf

 

Bad Company, 94, 17 bucks. I thought I was the best, I was the first of my friends to be allowed to go to the Newport.

 

Natalie Merchant
Red Rocks Amp., Morrison, CO
$24.50 (I still have the poster)

RS