What Was Your First Live Concert?

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The "first R-rated movie" thread just made this pop into my head. It should be a real gender-gap bonanza, this one.

My first live *rock* concert was Bloodrock and Grand Funk Railroad, Municipal Auditorium, KCMO, 1970.

The *very* first thing that I saw that could reasonably be termed a concert was a strange thing that our venerable outdoor theater (Starlight Theater) did for a couple of years in the mid-60's. They brought in currently popular pop groups and (rather uncomfortably) insinuated them into the course of their usual musical stage productions. For example, Gary Lewis and the Playboys in "Bye Bye Birdie", with Gary Lewis (Jerry Lewis's son and the leader of the band) as Conrad Birdie. There was also a show that had the Buckinghams at the height of their popularity, but I can't remember which show that was.

The bands would come out in mid show, play three numbers (if they were lucky, they actually had that many popular tunes in their repertoire), the chickies would scream, and then the show would go on. I was young and impressionable and a great afficianado of Top 40 AM radio music at the time, so it was cool.