Music QotD: First Concert

What was your first concert?

My first real concert (not counting things like school concerts and stuff like that) was Dream Theater in Worchester, MA at The Palladium on 8/21/2004. Originally it was intended to be a couple weeks later at the new york state fair on September 2nd 2004, with Dream Theater opening for Yes. But they added a headlining date to the tour and I just had to go there.

The venue was a bit of a dump, an old converted opera house with all the seats removed. General Admission, complete with mosh pits, a horrible opening band and a guy behind me smoking pot and asking me what the name of each song was…

But it was AWESOME. From opening with Metropolis Part 1 to the warped version of Pull Me Under to A Fortune In Lies…the setlist was awesome. Especially Fatal Tragedy, the song that had gotten me into the band originally played at my first live rock show. It's a weird feeling when you first realize that the people on the stage are the people you've listened to on the CD and they're actually playing the music for you right there.

The keyboards were broke for the entire first half of Metropolis, but I didn't even really notice at the time. I was too busy being excited.

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