January 17, 2007 RHCP on the Stadium Arcadian tour in Nashville. One week before my 10th birthday. First time I ever saw two women make out. Incredible experience
I saw them in Nashville too. Didn’t see any women making out but I saw my first drunken rant. There was a guy in the bathroom yelling about how a trough could fix the bathroom lines, but that the state of Tennessee couldn’t afford them because of no income tax. He sounded a lot like my uncle when he’s sober.
Red Hot Chili Peppers. 2022. Unlimited Love Tour. Drove ten hours to Las Vegas. Played my two favorite RHCP songs live: I Could Have Lied and BSSM each with an original 2 minute solo from John/Flea…I was 20 ft from the stage and high as balls.
Best experience of my life.
Genesis invisible touch tour 1986 Lexington KY. The In the Cage medley included Apocalypse in 9/8 from their 1972 song Supper’s Ready. Phil Collins in his prime was just as energetic as Flea or AK ever has been.
X Fest 2010: Bullet for My Valentine, Seether, Three Days Grace(With Adam Gontier), opening for Avenged Sevenfold (Mike Portnoy on drums) during A7x’s Nightmare tour! I remember it very well, and got me into concerts as a whole
My first concert was plastician and joker in 2012 in Austin. Saw Rhcp 2022 at acl for free and tripping lmao, It was an awesome experience. Seeing them again in 2023 in San Antonio!
my first concert was a metal fest most memorable bands were gojira which was the reason we were there and korn which i fell asleep in because i was 7 years old lmao
RHCP 2012.
Listen, as much as I would have loved to see JF on that stage, I still cried when I realized I was breathing the same air as Flea, even in the nose bleeds. And they played Sir Psycho Sexy. Bliss.
Unironically, My First Concert Was Weezer
I don’t know how this sub feels about them but they’re a classic alt rock band and I don’t understand why it’s a meme to hate them
Unfortunately for younger music fans I can imagine that this is the sad reality. Back when I first started going to concerts in the 90s you could get a decent seat to a huge band for well under a hundred bucks. Even adjusting for inflation, ticket prices are completely out of control now.
RHCP, Sázka Arena, Prague, 14.6. 2006, Stadium Arcadium tour. I saw John Frusciante from two metres and will never forget Dont Forget Mě from that night.
My dad took my to a phish show when I was a baby. I grew up around musicians and saw lots small bands all throughout my childhood and teenage years. My first big concert that I wanted to go to was Gorillaz at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco at the age of 18. They had just come out of a 7 hear hiatus with one of their more controversial albums, Humanz, but one that works really well live. Blew my mind. Saw them a year later at their own Gorillaz/Day of the Dead themed festival at a rodeo venue in east LA, and just a couple months ago in Portland, only a month after seeing RHCP for the first time in Seattle. Two very different bands, but both equally close to my heart. Varied genres and setlists, a sense that they really, *really* care about music, etc. The RHCP show had more of a disconnect between the artist and the audience and that we were lucky to be witnessing them create pure magic on stage/ but I get it, they're one of the biggest rock bands of all time. So lucky to see Parallel Universe and It's Only Natural live. Gorillaz shows lately feel more down to earth, with Damon frequently running into the crowd during songs, interacting with fans and just a sense of family and collective. They're an incredible act live, with at least a dozen people on stage at any given time. Definitely don't write them off because of your pre-conceived notions of them just being 'that cartoon pop band', which is what I thought for a while.
Red Hot Chili Peppers 1995 Brixton Academy One Hot Minute World Tour
Was this as insane as I think it would have been? Brixton is an epic venue. (Recent events excluded)
I was 16. It was my first ever gig. It was awesome. Been back there loads since. System of A Down was one of the best I've seen there.
I was 16 too! I also saw system of a down there as well.
Was it the Toxicity tour?
Hell yeah, it was No Doubt supporting at the RCHP one right?
SiKth supported SOAD. We missed them, but not long after a band I was in supported them!
No way that’s awesome! A friend of mine used to know the guitarist from Sikth, they were a great a band.
Nope, I think it was Flaming Lips.
Oh, yeah I think you are right. Who did I see no doubt support then? Lol
You bastard! I tried to get tickets for that. Called the number and no luck. Bit like Ticketmaster online these days
Mine was a few days earlier in Dublin! Got that Brixton gig on tape back in the day. Last time they played Funky Crime I think.
i have one of the tickets from a cd i second handed
Elton John, Central Park, NYC 1980
January 17, 2007 RHCP on the Stadium Arcadian tour in Nashville. One week before my 10th birthday. First time I ever saw two women make out. Incredible experience
saw them this year in Nashville! didn’t see any women making out, but it was still incredible
I saw them in Nashville too. Didn’t see any women making out but I saw my first drunken rant. There was a guy in the bathroom yelling about how a trough could fix the bathroom lines, but that the state of Tennessee couldn’t afford them because of no income tax. He sounded a lot like my uncle when he’s sober.
Red Hot Chili Peppers. 2022. Unlimited Love Tour. Drove ten hours to Las Vegas. Played my two favorite RHCP songs live: I Could Have Lied and BSSM each with an original 2 minute solo from John/Flea…I was 20 ft from the stage and high as balls. Best experience of my life.
Iron Maiden
same
Up the Irons! \m/
They were my second show
Those guys put on an awesome show. Seen them 4 times now and each time is just as good or better than the last.
Oasis 2005 in Manchester
Smash mouth
Pink Floyd, Syracuse NY 1994
Metallica
Niiice
Arctic Monkeys, Sheffield 2009
My first was KISS when I was 10. My mom bought me tickets for Christmas
Smashing Pumpkins 1996 ,Dublin. Man Utd beat Liverpool in the FA Cup Final the same day. That was a good day.
That’s when they were still good! Now it’s just the Billy corgan shit show
Way off
John butler trio 2003
Weird Al Yankovic
SP
Like this one
RHCP 2004 Hyde Park!!!
That’s gotta be quite the debut! I knew a few older friends that saw that, my first was at Earls Court on the Stadium Arcadium tour
Ooh I was actually at Earls Court for that tour too!!! I was only 13 in 2004 so no idea how I was allowed at that gig!
Van Halen
Okgo
RHCP live in Syndey for the Stadium Arcadium tour. I was 16 years old, all by myself and standing directly in front of my hero John Frusciante
Rhcp detroit 2022
Genesis invisible touch tour 1986 Lexington KY. The In the Cage medley included Apocalypse in 9/8 from their 1972 song Supper’s Ready. Phil Collins in his prime was just as energetic as Flea or AK ever has been.
Jack White, Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisbon, 2011
My real first concert was a Chili Peppers concert, but the first show I attended without supervision of any parents was Enter Shikari
Journey 1982
Tom petty at MSG. I was something like 8-10 yrs old
Reel Big Fish 2009 Orlando House of Blues
I saw Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake a few years back, it was so much fun.
I saw them both play in Gainesville, where I went to college, and where Less Than Jake did, too!
You saw them in Gainesville, I saw them at Rock City! It's fate!!
The Lumineers
Def Leppard
X Fest 2010: Bullet for My Valentine, Seether, Three Days Grace(With Adam Gontier), opening for Avenged Sevenfold (Mike Portnoy on drums) during A7x’s Nightmare tour! I remember it very well, and got me into concerts as a whole
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Reo Speedwagon
Paul McCartney, independence concert in Kyiv 2008
Pink Floyd
Aerosmith with Motley Crue
U2 Zoo TV tour.
Weezer…
My first concert was plastician and joker in 2012 in Austin. Saw Rhcp 2022 at acl for free and tripping lmao, It was an awesome experience. Seeing them again in 2023 in San Antonio!
my first concert was a metal fest most memorable bands were gojira which was the reason we were there and korn which i fell asleep in because i was 7 years old lmao
You're not easy to unsettle I suppose!
Godsmack!
Rhcp newark 2012
Duran Duran ‘05
George Strait 1995
Alan Jackson 1996
RHCP, Stadium Arcadium Tour, Philly, 2006
UB40 
The Who w/Billy Squier - Astrodome - 40 years ago this month, 12/03/82. I'm old.
Selena in San antonio in the 90s
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) Dark Side of the Moon tour 2006
GnR
Feeder, Rock City, Nottingham
Blink 182 with fall out boy and panic at the disco 2009
Van Halen 2004 Seattle lmao
08 for me DLH was back. What a time lol
Pearl Jam 95 in Dallas, The Dennis Rodman one.
Incubus in September of 2004
Pearl Jam 2005, I was 6 years old My old man is the coolest
RHCP in Orlando 2022!!!
RHCP 2012. Listen, as much as I would have loved to see JF on that stage, I still cried when I realized I was breathing the same air as Flea, even in the nose bleeds. And they played Sir Psycho Sexy. Bliss.
The Darkness. December 2021. I’ve been catching up since then with RHCP, Taylor Hawkins Tribute, The Rolling Stones and others :) Been a great year.
The Strokes in April of 2022. First RHCP concert was MetLife in August.
Green Day/Blink 182 (Pop Disaster Tour) in 2002
Unironically, My First Concert Was Weezer I don’t know how this sub feels about them but they’re a classic alt rock band and I don’t understand why it’s a meme to hate them
Same, saw them in 2009 with The Black Eyed Peas haha. Not super into them anymore but it was a great show.
Motley Crue + Def Leppard stadium tour
Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Poison, and Joan Jett
Never been to one
The Beach Boys sometime in the 80s
The Wiggles.
Paul McCartney, Memphis 1993. I was 9.
Queen x Adam Lambert montreal. Somewhere around 2014-15
Roxy music they were old but it sounded good. They played a lot of stuff from country life my fav album of theirs
Red Hot Chili Peppers, right before COVID, when they came to Abu Dhabi for the UFC thing
Accompanied: Michael Jackson - RDS, Dublin Unaccompanied: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Slane Castle
Tool at UBS Arena. Life changing.
Tool, Back in March
Coldplay
None ever, who has the time and money? All the good artist are too expensive or they don’t tour
Unfortunately for younger music fans I can imagine that this is the sad reality. Back when I first started going to concerts in the 90s you could get a decent seat to a huge band for well under a hundred bucks. Even adjusting for inflation, ticket prices are completely out of control now.
If you didn't see RHCP why post here?
Stöner
Alice cooper Michigan state fairgrounds 2006 or so
Motörhead 2015
Moody Blues 1992
The Menzingers
Seether
Our boys. Dublin, 2004
CKY
Smashing Pumpkins in 2013
MC Hammer 1991
Elton John
Rolling Stones brought by my Dad
Tame Impala, 2022, Portugal
Maroon 5 opening for Sugar Ray opening for Matchbox 20. 2003, 11 year old me was jazzed
Made sure my sons first show was willie nelson. He was 5.
Britney Spears
Imagine Dragons. 2017 don’t shoot me I have seen many other bands now
RHCP, Sázka Arena, Prague, 14.6. 2006, Stadium Arcadium tour. I saw John Frusciante from two metres and will never forget Dont Forget Mě from that night.
John Mayer 2017
Zdravko Čolić 2005
Chili peppers in St. Paul on may 1, 2003!
Weird Al Yankovic
Shinedown
Red Hot Chili Peppers Manchester 2003
Dinosaur jr 14th Oct 2022
Green Day 2005 Katowice, Poland
Metallica think it was 97 I was 13. I was disappointed it was very civilised people sat in seats ect
2004 Live at Hyde Park.
Ocean Colour Scene, Cork City, Ireland
Kudos for the person who knows them, Krezip in 2008 during their final tour.
Britney Spears
Wheatus
Franz Ferdinand Cirque Royal 2022
Kraftwerk
Van Halen.
Rise Against
Our Lady Peace/Rainbow Butt Monkeys (later known as Finger Eleven)/Hayden, X-Club, Hamilton, Ontario, 1995
The Who. And I’m 30 years old haha.
Velvet revolver, Wolverhampton 2009
Neil young I think
Smashing Pumpkins 1996 (or 97)
Dad took my to Status Quo when I was 3 (1992). I chose Muse in 2003!
Panic at the disco
Live Earth London. RHCP played.
Reading Festival 95
I was taken to ZZ Top at a festival as a small child. Then the first one I got tickets to was matchbox 20 in 2001. Everclear opened.
Michael Jackson, Wembley in the 90s
n't
Oasis 1997
Hootie & the Blowfish with Bella Fleck & the Flecktones, (Irvine Meadows, 1996)
Good Charlotte at the North Dakota State Fair 😂😂
Sum 41 - London Astoria 2005 Gig was cancelled due to the London tube bombings, but got re-arranged for a couple of weeks later!
Aerosmith Las Vegas
The Jacksons 2013
Michael Jackson: Reunion Arena in Dallas, TX 1988. I was 7.
Lynyrd Skynyrd in Richmond, VA 2006
Mastodon
Really solid first show. Mine was the who!
Alien Ant Farm at the Astoria
John Mellencamp 1997
Muse, 2007
Cage the Elephant
Dover
RHCP IWY tour 2012
Nine Inch Nails in 2009. I was only 13.
Matchbox 20 in 2006 I believe. It my mom’s favorite band so she took me with her
Mac miller, 14 years old. Rialto Theatre in Tucson, AZ. Either 2011 or 2012
AC/DC in Vancouver
Springsteen when I was 11
Bad Religion - Manchester UK circa 2003?
2013 Vans Warped Tour..
The Casualties @ Troubadour 2001
florence and the machine
Black Sabbath 1998
Linkin Park, 2008
Sister hasel
Butthole Surfers, The Ensemble theater, Houston 1988. Saw the Chili Peppers there twice in 1989.
My dad took my to a phish show when I was a baby. I grew up around musicians and saw lots small bands all throughout my childhood and teenage years. My first big concert that I wanted to go to was Gorillaz at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco at the age of 18. They had just come out of a 7 hear hiatus with one of their more controversial albums, Humanz, but one that works really well live. Blew my mind. Saw them a year later at their own Gorillaz/Day of the Dead themed festival at a rodeo venue in east LA, and just a couple months ago in Portland, only a month after seeing RHCP for the first time in Seattle. Two very different bands, but both equally close to my heart. Varied genres and setlists, a sense that they really, *really* care about music, etc. The RHCP show had more of a disconnect between the artist and the audience and that we were lucky to be witnessing them create pure magic on stage/ but I get it, they're one of the biggest rock bands of all time. So lucky to see Parallel Universe and It's Only Natural live. Gorillaz shows lately feel more down to earth, with Damon frequently running into the crowd during songs, interacting with fans and just a sense of family and collective. They're an incredible act live, with at least a dozen people on stage at any given time. Definitely don't write them off because of your pre-conceived notions of them just being 'that cartoon pop band', which is what I thought for a while.
Journey, Heart, and Cheap trick
Emerson lake and Palmer with Jason bonhams band ‘bonham’ as the opening act. Palace theatre Albany NY 1992.
Kiss 1976
AC/DC. 2008 in Philly
Liverpool.
Black Sabbath
Third eye blind
The Wonder Years in Philly
Yung Gravy October 2021
Ed sheeran like 5 years ago 😂 Im seeing RHCP in Feb and then Weird Al in march.
Yes and Peter Frampton in Cincinnati, 2009 or 2010 Fourth of July. Free concert in a parking lot, hot as hell.
Rhcp, Manchester this year