First Concert

A former co-worker on FB posted...

My top 5 favorite concerts of all time (and I've seen many)
5. Metallica/guns and roses 1991 (New York)
4. Eagles 2003 (Biloxi Ms.)
3. Paul McCartney 2013 (Memphis Tn.)
2. Radiohead 2009 (St. Louis Mo.)
1. Pink Floyd 1996 (Nashville Tn.)

I may have been at one or two of those concerts, probably in a different year, most are a fog when I squint and think back. The one that is most memorable though is my first. I do believe it was the summer of'65, in between junior high and high school. Mary Ellen, her cousin, and I went to the Ohio State Fair. 

A chainlink fence was holding back zillions of screaming young girls. It was the British Invasion! There were so many they didn't have enough seats. So in their mind to keep it fair (at the fair), when they opened the gate everyone was supposed to grab their own chair. We stormed the gate, only one of us could grab a chair because we wanted to get up front fast! And we did! The second row just right of the stage (stage left). Three of us sat on that hard metal folding chair while everyone cried and screamed. I remember thinking I don't feel like crying, I really didn't feel the emotion the others did, something must be wrong with me. Instead I googly-eyed Peter Noone, so cute, singing to me.


Carole King co-wrote this one...

  
 In 1965 they actually sold more records than The Beatles!