@livenationwest just asked: [blackbirdpie url=“https://twitter.com/livenationwest/status/129294076674703361”\] Which got me thinking - what was my first solo show? I’d been to earlier shows with family, and I knew that in 1992 I went to a bunch of shows.
But thanks to the miracle of the internet, I have discovered which was (I think) my first “solo” concert.
On March 20th, 1992, 3 friends and myself all did the “I’m staying at so-and-so’s house” trick with our parents, and traveled from Toronto to Hamilton to see [The Grateful Dead at Copps Coliseum.](http://www.archive.org/details/gd92-03-20.sbd.gardner.9757.sbeok.shnf “Archive.org archive of the show.
Give it a listen!”) I can’t recall if we were discovered or not, or if my parents know to this day (if not, surprise!) that I did this. I must not have gotten in immediate trouble if I did because my second concert concert was only a few days later - U2’s ZooTV show at Maple Leaf Gardens on March 24th, 1992 - although maybe my older sister took me to that concert? I can’t remember who it was with.
Those two concerts started about a 15-year run of my seeing lots of concerts that ended more or less with the birth of Liam (I still get to the occasional show, but at a much lower frequency).
What was your first show?