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mine was phish alpine valley 7/24/99 and i was 16. serious noobage.
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Sugarbush 95, Although I went to new years 94 and GW 95 but didn't get into those so its gotta be Sugarbush - I was 18 -
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7/10/1994, I was 22.
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Clifford Ball....16
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1st post and glad to be aboard - 1st show 7/19/92 - was 23
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Paradise Rock Club, Boston 11/30/89....I was 19. They were so good I went the next night 12/1/89.
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The Paradise - That is seriously sick! I saw Jackie Greene there in Feb - 1st time in the paradise - the club is freaking intimate!
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Pittsburgh '94. I had just turned 15.
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Yes, the Paradise only holds 3 - 4 hundred people. I saw my first three Phish shows there.The sick part was the setlist of that first show:
Set 1: Bathtub Gin, The Divided Sky, Ya Mar, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag, Foam, The Lizards, My Sweet One, Run Like an Antelope, Lawn Boy[1], Frankenstein
Set 2: Reba, Possum, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Undun, Fee, Split Open and Melt[2], Take the 'A' Train, Suzy Greenberg[3], Contact, David Bowie[4]
Encore: In a Hole, Golgi Apparatus
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7/11/92, Garden State Arts Center. I was 18. Part of the H.O.R.D.E. tour w/Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors, and Aquarium Rescue Unit. Not gonna lie, I had no idea who the phuck phish was at that time, and my friends and I spent the whole spring making jokes to that effect. Ph- on everything. We were there to see Blues Traveler and Spin Doctors, who were more or less local bands for us at that point. I enjoyed ARU most of all 5 acts. It was an incredible day in every conceivable way.
First big concert ever was fall of 1988, Van Halen OU812 tour @ MSG, I was 14. There were about 6 of us little tykes there for a b-day w/2 moms as drivers/chaperones. Valuable lessons learned: it is kinda dorky to go to a concert with your parents at that age; flipping a bad driver the bird is much more effective when its coming from 2 middle aged women and double-barrelled from 6 kids; sammy hagar making jokes about eating... err...performing cunnilingus is kinda awkward when your best friend's mom is right behind you.
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5-6-92 St. Andrew's Hall, Detroit.I was 18. Had about 8-10 Dead shows under my belt, but a newbie to the max at the Phish show.
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7/2/94 Garden State Arts Center. I was 17
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7/10/99 Tweeter Camden, NJ. To put into perspective, 1st concert was DEC. 1, 1978 Foreigner w/Cars @ Spectrum
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2/28/03, was 15 or 16, i forget, was in 8th grade. Know im a noob but that show was fucking sick, been to about 15 since. Made it to IT that summer, too which was amazing, first festival, great playing, glad i got in when i did.
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10/26/96, just turned 18.
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08/20/1993 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, COSet 1: The Divided Sky, Harpua, Poor Heart > Maze, Bouncing Around the Room > It's Ice > The Wedge, Ginseng Sullivan, Rift, Antelope
Set 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Slave to the Traffic Light > Split Open and Melt, The Squirming Coil, My Friend, My Friend, Chalk Dust Torture, You Enjoy Myself > Purple Rain > Hold Your Head Up, Cavern
Encore: The Mango Song, Free Bird
17 years old
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3/21/92 Chestnut Cabaret, Phila18....first time using my new fake id.....and it worked!
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6/22/95 - I was 14 years old.
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Pro-tip: If you know your birthday and the date of your first show, it is possible to determine with certainty your age at your first show.just sayin'
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Molson Amphitheater 99, great age of 16 and man was I freaking out! Another country and I had some really good boomers and I was not expecting the light show! Luckily I had some great friends to help me through it!
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8/10/96. Alpine Valley, WI.First show after the Red Rocks riot.
Also the first Alpine show ever.
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Oh sorry. I was 16.
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Roseland 5-23-00 i was a wee 16 years old then. I was a total Custy back in those days.
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7/13/94 age 16
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4/17/92, their first time at the Warfield in San Francisco. Little did I know what I was in for. WSP opened. My 24 year-old mind was left permanently warped.
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I win.Darien 8/13/09. Age 19.
Welcome CLEVER. This place can get hairy.
watch out, and have fun.
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phish: 7-31-97 (cinnamon girl)dead: 1972 (winterland -- that's as close as i can remember :-)
ever: either '70 or '71, and either crosby/nash (stills joined unannounced) at deanza college, or doobie brothers (when they were a long-hair leather-biker band) & youngbloods (last show ever) at foothill college
most notable is that the doobie brothers blew out my right ear, permanently
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12/29/09 i was 16
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Mine too, ChuckJustice......
8/10/96 - 22yrs. old
8/10/96 - 22yrs. old
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6/7/09 Camden. Age 19.Would've been seeing them for a few years already if not for that thing known as the breakup....
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8/15 8/16/97 The great went I was 18 and the shows irrivocably changed my life forever... never had I felt so free and happy in my life... since than I have been to a small but respectable 58 shows. Just glad that I went
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Reba Candide you live in Indiana and have never been to Deer Creek?That's crazy. Also, I've been to all the shows you've been to.
So what shows are you hitting up this summer? Toyota Park through Hershey. Plus, Alpines and Deer Creeks for me.
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2003-07-30 Camden, NJ 20 years old
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1/2/2003 Hampton I was 19 and just getting ready to start my second semester of college. Got to see the whole run (felt like the luckiest guy in the world). Still one of the greatest Christmas gifts my mom ever has given me. Changed my whole idea of what real rock concert should be like.
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Binghamton NY 4/09/1994...I was 15.
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8.9.2004 Hampton. 17.
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11/22/09 I was 19 - a lot of us who saw Phish for the first time last year seem to be around the same age... huh.Also, same, I would have seen 'em a lot sooner if I hadn't been 14 for the breakup.
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6-25-04 I was 22 at the time.
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Just got on the train, 11/20/09, the day after I turned 17. Best birthday I've ever had.
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10-18-96 Pittsburgh Civic Arena, I had recently turned 23.
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deer creek june 19 2009 i was 17. went not knowin what to expect. ac/dc bag fucked my face and they didnt stop for the next 3 hours
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10/27/96 in Charleston, SC.. a few weeks after my 22 birthday. i had no clue. i mostly count my second show, 11/23/97 in Winston-Salem, NC as my 1st show, because seriously, no clue. my very 1st show ever was dizzy gillespie @ a small place in washington dc called blues alley. i was 13
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nuh-uhhh!!!!????? seriously!? dizzy!!!!???? jesus christ!
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6/16/1990, townsend family park. I was 16. First rock concert ever? Chuck Berry at some state fair in Vermont, probably '87. He was amazing!
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January 1989 at The Paradise in Boston. Walked in during Icculus and thought, "what the hell is this crap?"...went outside for a second, came back in during Possum... And here I am today. I was 15.
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I wonder how many of us went through a "What the hell is this crap?" moment or phase before it clicked. I know I sure did. I'd imagine that was more common the further back you go.One of my brothers was constantly playing tapes and I'd be like "What the hell is this crap, can't you listen to something different?" And I remember the exact moment it clicked - tape of 3/13/92, transition from Dinner---> Divided Sky. Perfectly seamless, had never heard anything like it. Rewound it like 5 times in a row. Wasn't a segue, Dinner ended and DSky began, but totally in rhythm and key. Perfect transition.
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yem -- i agree, dizzy takes the top prize for 1st show!!!
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12/28/98 MSG, first night out of the four holiday shows, I was 16. Check out the Wolfman's Brother from that night, one of the best ever.
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8/13/09 Darien, and 17