What was your first Stones concert?

No Not Again ....................... Holland '73

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Glasgow Apollo,May 1982.

"I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon."

San Francisco's Candlestick Park October 1981

July 13, 1978 - New Orlean - LA Superdome!

LIVE'R THAN YOU WILL EVER BE

Oakland '69

Caught Rod Stewart 11.6.91 in Lexington, KY

Not a live Stones performance, but I'm pretty sure Woody was there that day

Does that count?

Otherwise, first show was freshman year of college

Harlem Shuffle in Columbia

Munich, June 10, 1982

"Willkommen in München" (VGP-099) 2CD

July 1966, Hollywood Bowl

Berlin The West (!) 90 short while before (after?) Berlin wall collapsed....Incredible show and fantastic memories.Very long intro before Midnight Rambler.I was thrilled with Steel wheels . their power and exceptional mix of refined lyricism ( almost hear you sigh )and nonchalant fury (hold on to your hat).It was glorious come back and german people are great Stones fans.I was 22 years old , i was in love and happy.

Los Angeles Forum 1969 - Second show

Got there at 09:00 p.m. when I got home the sun was coming up.......
I lived about 30 minutes away..

Start was delayed several hours, Jagger said in the middle of the show:

You people don't sleep around here, Ok we'll play all night!!!!

NEVER forget it!!!

MLC

Errr... Brno July 22, 2007..

Cleveland Municipal Stadium June 14 1975



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Toronto Sky Dome 2002

Berlin, 1976 - it changed my life!

St. James Park, Newcastle 23rd June 1982. Good show but not as great as the first Wembley show two days later.

Wembley Stadium, London, Friday July 6, 1990.
The week before my 10th birthday!

New York June 1975, but i don't remember which show.

September 6, 1989 Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, PA

Was too young to see them in 1981, but grew up watching Let's Spend the Night Together.

First show was the first Giants Stadium show in 1994, quickly ran to get tickets for the last show of that little run the next day.

Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, California 1978.

Scotty

Tour of america's 1975?

1981, New Orleans,LA Superdome.. Was huge 87,500 people a record..
Great Concert...

drummer_dude Wrote:
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> 1981, New Orleans,LA Superdome.. Was huge
> 87,500 people a record..
> Great Concert...

This was my 3rd Stone's show.

June 1978 Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN. Front row center -- $10.

Second 1981 Superdome - New Orleans - $18.75

Shawn20 Wrote:

> July 13, 1978 - New Orlean - LA Superdome!

Mine too!

philly 78!!!!!!!

Longchamp '95

THE FIRST TIME I GOT STONED


Wednesday, July 16, 1975, second of 2 shows, Cow Palace, San Francisco (or is it South San Francisco or which municipality, Sweet?)

god, there is too much to tell about this EVENT.

Waited all night in line, passed right next to Bill Graham on my way in outside the place making sure everything was going smoothly

ran like hell, got into the equivalent of about 4th row right side of stage ("festival seating" = FOS)

drunken/high woman liked me, holding onto me whilst singing "Short and Curlies" rather loudly

some hippie passing around small pipe with what was either hash or hash-oil laced pot which I partook in (had smoked pot a few times but nothing had ever happened)

The Meters open

after a few songs, the floor starts going uphill and downhill, I'm thinking "what's going on?", then slowly realize "I'm stoned"

Soon, I cannot understand anything anyone is saying to me, have to tell my friend to watch out for me when the Stones come on

long break

lights go down

wild cheering, fanfare for the common man trumpets, strobe lights

suddenly, wiry figures start to climb onto stage being hit and framed by the strobe lights, you recognize the rooster haircuts and others and begin to realize these people u have worshipped for years are here

loud, opening chords of Honky Tonk Women, going on and on, drawn out

suddenly, white lights hit the far, back right point of the lotus

a figure in white laying on his side rolls like a log down the uptilted lotus petal

he jumps up, it's Mick Jagger, and the place explodes

he sings "I met a gin-soaked bar room queen in Memphis," prances down towards the front of the stage wearing an American Indian upright feather headdress, mocking, preening, teasing, coming right up to us

can remember a few songs, esp All Down the Line and singing 'wont you be my little ba-by, for a while', great line

getting worse and worse, sit down on floor, open my eyes -- all is black, I start to panic

then slowly realize i am on floor as a little light streams down in between peoples legs

i cant continue this, i must get out, get some fresh air, i stand up

slowly, ever so slowly, make my way out, must have been stumblin and falling as people were saying "take it easy man"

get out to the exit doors and breathe in blessed fresh cold Bay Area cool summer night time air, try to calm down in the hallways

finally, begin to regain my right mind, go back in

i watch the final i dont know how many songs from the lower stands/tier, one that stands out in my mind is Midnight Rambler and Mick with the belt

remorse is already setting in, you goddam fool, you waited so long for this and you had to fu*ck it up

the remorse reaches a crescendo as, during Street Fighting Man, last song i think, Mick throws a bucket of water onto the crowd . . . RIGHT where I had been standing

for 3 years after this, I had dreams that I would go to a Stones concert and they wouldnt show up, or some other band played, recurrent nightmares of this ilk

1978 -- Anaheim -- get in with the surge of the crowd being literally lifted off my feet and carried several feet

to the front row up against the wooden barrier, hot as hell, during the show a woman completely bares her upside to Mick whilst he reaches down to his crotch and makes bug eyes at her

last song, Mick brings out a water hose this time and sprays us all -- BAPTISM AND REDEMPTION

no more nightmares

I ruined my first Stones concert by getting stoned out of my mind, but still remember parts of the show (not all of which are herein recited), one of my old teachers Br. Thomas Dodd, F.S.C. laughed and said "you got stoned at the Stones"

But at this late date, no more remorse after many years of that, I think now "what a helluva ride and helluva story."


Tim Bernardis "The Plexiglass"
January 8, 2008



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Hound Dog Wrote:
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> Was too young to see them in 1981, but grew up
> watching Let's Spend the Night Together.
>

i was too young to know how to get a ticket for a sold out show in '81 so figured i'd see them in a couple of years...finally 1989 came around!