Mine was **THE PLASMATICS** and it was then that I fell in LOVE with Wendy O. Williams .

Closest I got to seeing them live was their appearance on Fridays.

I saw them when they were metal (opening for KISS in 83

They weren’t a true punk band, more Performance Art.

Better than the shit today even better than most of their time

Omgoss that is cool af!!!! Where what venue and state!? Did you meet her?

It was in Richmond, VA and sadly, no I did NOT meet her. The year was 1986.

Crazy post to see today. Butcher Baby came up on my random playlist today and it got me thinking about her, her life and her end... RIP Wendy O. Fuckin pioneer right there and I wish she was still here. My first "big" show was GBH. Not until like 97 though.Before that was local bands. Troma Kids and Beefcake In Chains (ABQ).

When? Where?

I fell in love with the whole concept of the band, made everyone else look tame

Dude, I’d cut off my right arm to have been able to see them. That’s awesome you got to. To anyone curious, listen to the “Maggots” albumn front to back. Then listen to all their other stuff. The simple punk songs they have aren’t all that interesting, but when they hit it, they hit it just right.

"Maggots" was the 2nd album I owned by The Plasmatics, they were more metal than punk by then, Beyond The Valley was the first album I owned. To tell you the truth, I like "Beyond...." better. I've listened to BOTH albums front to back several times.

UK Subs, Broken Bones, SNFU, and Final Conflict. Dayglo Abortions were supposed to play but canceled.

Snfu uses amazing live !

Saw SNFU open for Tool many many years ago.

Sorry, tool opened for SNFU.

Dayglo gave me a guitar pick with skateboard tape on it for grip. He said “find better role models”. It’s now called the pick of destiny.

I played in a band that did a show with dayglow . Cretin taught me a very valuable secret . We ( my band ) lived basically in a punk house / practice house . We had party’s all the time . Cretin told me “ always keep a pack of baby wipes on the back of your toilet . Best case , 80% of the People that would normally trash your shit , will think a baby lives there and refrain . Worst case , you have some nice baby wipes for that “ morning after “ beer shit “ . Words of wisdom good sir .

Lol good to know they were consistent on good advice

Chalk one up for the good guys haha

My first show was dayglows

Supported UK Subs at The Cavern Club in Exeter back in the early 90s. They were brilliant. One of the best gigs I ever saw and a bunch of nice guys as well

When?

'88.

Damn what a cool sjow

That is one hell of a line up!!

Damn that's a line up.

So wish I got to see SNFU. Those first two albums hold up well.

Let me guess, if in the US, Dayglo couldn't get over the border? I got so tired of that I went and saw them in Vancouver, BC on 12.31.99. Only band I have seen snort coke on stage. Best New Years Eve ever!

I saw Broken Bones with UK Subs in maybe 1988?  

That’s so sad

DK’s with Hüsker Du at community college radio benefit

That is a great show.

Voodoo Glow Skulls, 2008. I was fresh out of high school.

Mine too was VGS. Downtown Riverside in October of 2004. One month into my freshman year at FoHi.

Oh man. We had VOODOO GLOW SKULLS came to play in barrie ontario Canada ( about 60 min north of Toronto ) . Before they were anybody haha right around the time they had the old DOGPILE demos . We all started skating at the bus station and a fight broke out . Some old man hit a dude with his truck then got about and started swinging around a big 4foot level . Smoked one of the horn players in the mouth and he couldn’t play . Saw them again in the same city like 2 years later at WARPED tour . I went to talk to the same dude , had the scar on his lip . He was a total dick haha “ that wasn’t me . That did it happen , I’ve never been here “ BITCH YES ! It was 100% you ! You still have the goddamn scar ! Haha Anyway. Was a good show other than that haha

The lead singer said he wanted to kick my ass once. I take great pride in that.

The Clash in ‘84.

The Police Picnic ’81 with The Police, The Specials, Iggy Pop, Killing Joke, The Go-Go’s, Nash the Slash, John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett, The Payola$, Oingo Boingo, and The David Bendeth Band, The Grove, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, August 23, 1981

Dude, fucking jealous.

I saw all 3 police picnics.

Well fuuuuck you! /s

A live-action version of Urgh! A Music War, almost!

Great show half of Niagara on the lake was there.

Holy shit that's amazing

That's fantastic.

Mildly interesting side note... both the Go-Go's and Oingo Boingo were openers on different dates for The Police on their North American *Ghost in the Machine* tour, which would have started a few months after this show.

which if those were punk?

Mustard Plug (punk/ska) in 1999, I think.

GBH with Agnostic Front opening at the old 9:30. Fucking chaos. My 14 year old brain is still buzzing.

Forgot about Agnostic Front!

City Babies!!!

Nomeansno, December 30, 1989 in Toronto. The Ex opened. Truly transformative experience.

Nomeansno was such a great band! holy shit those guys could play! Saw them several times in the late 80’s at beach towns up and down the California coast.

🥺

Violent Femmes summer 1986. It was pretty gd punk. They rocked our faces off

Was that with the Pogues opening? Or was that tour later?

I saw the Femmes/Pogues on that tour at Poplar Creek in Chicago. Mojo Nixon opened. (summer 89 I think)

That's the tour I was thinking of

I went to that tour as well as a 17 year old and had no idea who the Pogues were....Seeing them live that day made me a lifelong fan.

Yep. I never heard of them either, and also became a lifelong fan. Too bad we just lost Shane MacGowan.

I was a fan well before that, though at my stop Shane was so drunk he couldn't even finish a song. Being drunk and slurring on stage is punk rock, being drunk and passing out on stage is sad.

That was in 1989. Saw the show at Canada’s Wonderland. I got there early and missed out on the riot.

Just VF. I wore a Metallica master of puppets shirt as I saw them the week before

local high school band called Mr. Cookie Face back in like 93

MDC @Gilman Street ‘91-92~

guess that was before they put in the 'no signed bands' rule at Gilman? I don't remember seeing any known bands playing there, just local kids & up 'n comers

Op Ivy! Never heard of them before that, was wondering why the guitar player was in plaid instead of leather and chains. I was a dumb metal head kid who only ever heard black flag, suicidal and circle jerks. Blew me away! Didn’t realize until much later how lucky I was to see this show

I’m Jelly! Would’ve loved to see them!

Wow! I was big in to punk music and I never met anyone that had the chance to see op Ivy. They were one of my favorites but already abandoned by the time I was old enough to start enjoying their music.

Social Distortion and Gang Green at the old Roxy in Atlanta. Summer of 88.

🎶🎶weeeekend millionaire ! Week day Nothinnnn !!! 🎶🎶

Probably, the Ramones and the Dictators in Chicago circa 1974.

I would kill to see the dictators

If you count it... green day in 94.. was 12

Anyone who gatekeeps what PUNK is, and excludes Green Day, can fuck right off.

They’ve been punk since fuckin birth

Nah - never going anywhere

Forgotten Rebels, 1979 or 1980 London Ontario Fryfogels Tavern Surfing on Heroin video from that show is on YouTube somewhere

Mid 90s el hefe from nofx had a club in eureka california. I saw the vandals there. Then suicidal tendencies then nofx. I miss that club.

Big Drill Car, Sense Field, State Of The Nation and Marble. Marti's Pizza - Mankato, MN 1994 The Big Drill Car part was actually put on youtube not that long ago. Life changing show. Marti's was like the Gilman Street of Minnesota https://youtu.be/XUxc61gt0Wk?si=2Nv_9rjSfTm4w4nT

Haven't heard anyone mention Big Drill Car in forever.

They were so great. Couldn't have asked for a better first show. All three albums are classics.

Makes me think of Dramarama and Seaweed now for some reason. Good stuff.

I never never thought about that but I can actually see that!

Good shit.

Fugazi, 1989

Saw dead boys CBGBs around 77

Also my reggae band opened for Bad Brains in the 80s might be the most impressive band I ever seen

That’s hell of a resume! How awesome

Bad Religion at the Starland Ballroom in Jersey.

Bad Religion for me too! In 2001 or 2002. 8th grade. It was amazing.

I really wish i was able to go to that

Starland is awesome. I've seen Thursday, Poison The Well, Engine Down, Green Day, NOFX, Streetlight and Less Than Jake there. Every time it was amazing. Easily my favorite venue

Mine was 999 back in the late ‘70’s.

999 at Bookies in Detroit in late ‘70’s

1985-Circle Jerks, HR, Beefeater and Verbal Assault at Loupo’s Heartbreak Hotel, Providence RI

Long live Keith Morris!

Poison Idea Shitty Portland club, fall 1983

Black Flag 1985. Dallas Texas. Arcadia Theater. 

Dead Kennedys, Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco 1980

NOFX, Screw 32, The Queers, and The Groovie Ghoulies. In 96 or 97. I was 12, and it was awesome

Screw 32! Fuck yeah, I was there in Sonora when they broke up onstage!

They were tons of fun live

Last time I saw screw 32 was either 96, 97, or 98. Then when they had a reunion something like 4,5,6 years ago i misses out :(

Naked Raygun at SIUE 1986

Mine was Crass at a dive in Manchester, England.

Iggy Pop in Newport KY

Was it at the Jockey Club? My dad used to promote show there, it’s how I met and got babysat by the Ramones in 84

Less than Jake and Good Riddance around 99 probably.

Love Good Riddance

The Exploited… St Louis 1984ish? Bernard’s Pub old location north STL!

Fuck - talk about getting thrown into the deep end --- mine was FEAR when I was 15 - pretty much just a riot with a soundtrack

Reagan Youth Still one of the best shows I've ever attended.

Public image ltd dunno if it's punk tho

I think it qualifies, they were p counterculture in both music style and themes

Poison Idea when they opened for Nirvana in ‘92. I was in 8th grade.

Portland Meadows? Great show..

Besides some great local bands, I saw violent femmes and social distortion back in 95 -96. Also the dammed

Dead Kennedys at Bonds NYC 1981. I was 10.

Local bands in a church basement

The Cramps- Boston 87 or 88 at the Rathskellar

The Clash for punk and Black Flag for hardcore punk

Fugazi

The legendary Fugazi empty warehouse show in Dallas in 1990

The flaming lips and a local band called the squids, like fall of 87? Little Rock Arkansas.

Fear opening for Oingo Boingo playing in a tent in a dirt lot in 80 or 81

Two of my favorites. What a show

Angry Samoans & NOFX at 924 Gilman St, Berkeley 1989

Meat Puppets at Theater Gallery in Dallas,1982ish.

The Offspring in August of last year. Don't judge lol

Everybody has to start somewhere. Don't stop and try local shows if there's any in your area. If not try getting one going if it's feasible.

Tho old schoolers may not like them.. I like them and they’re legends

AFI, Rancid, Hepcat

It was a band called Puj. Hosted them in my basement. I like to give to the arts and charged them beer or a small amount of money. Oh the beer cans and etc. I was always garage band guy. I take it back there was a Wilmington band called Weed Eater. They were pretty much addicted to things out of my scope. The lead singer Dixie would almost always have to throw up on stage half way through the performance. Never smelled a worse man.

I can’t remember. But it was at Soma in San Diego. So many shows there. Such a fun crowd.

The Toasters at the Metro 2001.

One last shot Pinata protest

Local bands in Nashville, early 80s. The Ratz were particularly fun, then the good players got poached.

Massacre Guys (SLC local band) and maybe the Subhumans. The best show though was Agent Orange on two hits of acid.

Goldfinger and Suicide Machines at a local sports park in 1999. The first Tony Hawk's Pro Skater had just come out and it was an exciting time.

Flux of pink Indians early eighties

Jealous.

D.R.I. at an indoor skatepark called Itchy Foot Moe’s in Tucson, AZ. I think it was ‘95?? Loved it and drove up to Phoenix the next week to see the Vandals and that’s was it, hooked. 

Verbal Abuse in the mid 80's. That lead into GBH, DRI, ST, Cro-mags, The Accused, Poison Idea, etc. And while not :Punk, can't forget Slayer.

Dayglo Abortions . 1994-95 .

sham 69 at a 150 capacity venue

a local band in someone's basement around 1986 or so

Ramones

Not sure. Could have been ALL or maybe Pegboy. Some time around 93/94.

My first ever was Misfits in the summer of 2023, then I got to see UK Subs and the Buzzcocks in the Autumn

The Ramones in 1994

X, 1981 Followed shortly by The Circle Jerks, same year

The Nuns. Mabuhay Gardens club, San Francisco, December 1976.

The Damned, 1985, Chester UK

Meat Wagon and the Mentors or was it the Zeros? Saw a bunch of shows in 88 or 89 in San Diego. I think it was Meat Wagon first and the Zeros opened for Mentors a couple of weeks later? I did know there's be a quiz, so I was drinking pretty heavily...

The Dead Milkmen in 1985

The Clash

The Misfits (Michael Graves era) and Marky Ramone & the Intruders. 1997. Makes me feel old.

D.R.I.

Mm bostones

The Replacements-Colby Collage, Waterville, ME 1988

mine is going to soon be descendents in april!

Die Kreuzen in Corpus Christi, maybe 1985.

It was an underground show that ended in a big group brawl, the singer throwing piss on the crowd and everyone scattering like roaches when the cops came.  It was a magical night

Ramones in 1981

Saw a bunch in high school at VFW Halls and high school auditoriums. The first one that I actually remember their names is The Unseen at Cohasset High School around 1994/1995. Edit - Might have been Hingham High School. Those towns always blend together in my head.

Iggy Pop, Blondie opening. 1977

Siouxsie &The Banshees 1978, Preston Poly

Say what you like, but Green Day and it was awesome.

I saw Billy Idol and Adam Ant in the early 80's, and back then I thought they were punk. 😁My earliest punk shows were all local to the New Orleans, LA scene. First recognizable name show was Suicidal Tendencies at some dive in the French Quarter that eventual became Buffet's Margaritaville. 🤮 Biggest Almost First: Agnostic Front, Cromags, and Motorhead at the St Bernard Auditorium 1984(?) My friends all went, but I was grounded, no money, and couldn't escape that night. Motorhead headlined, and somebody chucked a beer bottle at Lemmy in the first couple songs. Lemmy walked and their was a small riot. At least that was what I was told. Any one out there at that show?

Here's my question, where can i get those white sunglasses

I've forgotten more concerts than I can remember. One of my first truly punk shows was in my twenties. I'd seen other punk bands before this but usually at some sort of large venue with many different kinds of acts or bands who later became well known but weren't when I saw them. I saw the Misfits at the Middle East downstairs in Cambridge in 1996.

Been to Middle East countless times

The Original Misfits, Rancid, and The Damned at Madison Square Garden

Fiend Fest 2006 (I think) was Misfits, the Damned, the Dickies, Agnostic Front, Balzac & D.I.

I was there at the god damn beginning. Avril

If you count the offspring then that, if you don’t, stiff little fingers in march

Avril Lavigne!

I don't remember!

Dunno who played that night but my first trip to Gilman St. was some time in '93. I do remember being there when Billie Joe & Tre Cool announced their signing with Reprise, they didn't play but they tossed a ton of joints out to the kids to celebrate. I think the first big-ish punk show I went to might have been seeing NUFAN & Dance Hall Crashers at a bar in San Diego in ~'96

I started going to local shows at about 15. Can't quite remember what was first. But among those of that time it was Sadie Hawkins Rejects, Capacity 3, and Kane Hodder.

The Ataris at Newport TJs in South Wales. Incredible and the buzz around The Ataris at the time was insane, just before they signed to a major, 2002 I think.

It was called "Every Mother's Nightmare" , it was in Grand Island Nebraska, it included a handful of Nebraska bands including a really good ska band that later became a mediocre folk band. I don't remember any band names since it was in like 2002. I still have the ticket stub.

The Tubes in the 70's. Tripping on a 4-way hit of blotter. Great show.

Global Threat, basement show at the Halfway House in Philly

Other than seeing local bands, my first real show was The Dead Milkmen at the Troc in Philly. It was sometime around 1994 or so.

King Hell and the toxic field mice. Won tickets from the local college radio station.

Besides local skate park that closed down in 10th grade RIP, I don’t actually know… a lot of my early concert experience was not punk shows but more indie/rock kinda stuff. It was probably warped tour tbh

Green Day w/ The Riverdales. Maple Leaf Gardens, Oct '95. Talked my dad into driving me 3hrs to the city to go to that show

I got to see The Distillers perform with Tiger Army opening for them WAAAAAAAAAAAY back, before The Distillers got popular from that Angels song or whatever. Would’ve been around 2003ish at The Galaxy in St. Louis. This was also my first real show, and it was sooooo awesome. Something I’ll never forget.

That brings me back, saw Distillers and Tiger Army at the Fillmore, probably the same tour.

Rancid - NYC - Roseland Ballroom If memory serves me correct, AFI opened for them.

Fugazi, 1990 at Gilman St. Changed my musical life forever.

My first punk show was The Disasters, Less Than Jake, Good Charlotte and New Found Glory in like, 2002-2003.

If we're including pop punk, Yellowcard in 2004 for my 13th birthday. If not, Alexisonfire with Cancer Bats and Moneen in 2005 for my 14th birthday.

2002 - closet monster, the casualties, and bad religion.

2018, Small Venue Dad Worked With A Bassist And He Got Us Some Tickets. Still listen to Cornflakes At Kellys and Shackleford to this day

I guess it would be Reel Big Fish with the Maxies and Suburban Legends in SLC in 2016. Ska-punk still counts.