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Old 02-21-05, 09:10 AM
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Toni, Toni, Toni / En Vouge @ Sea World - San Antonio, TX

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Poison / Slaughter @ Freeman Colliseum - San Antonio, TX

Can't remember which one came first, but it was the late 80s.
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Billy Joel 1978 The Stranger Tour at MSG, I was walking home from Jr. High one day and found a envelope full of tickets in the street!! The envelope was unmarked must have been a scalpers stash because they were all different tickets, ticketmaster and direct from the box office type, all in different locations. I sold some of them and went to the show and had a great time
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Aerosmith...what a show. (Technically the first was the Statler Brothers when I was a kid, but that doesn't count.)
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Hmm......I THINK it was Kiss on their Alive tour, which ahd just been released.. with Bob Seger as their opening act; Night Moves hadn't been released yet so he was touring with the Live Bullet set.
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as I recall I think it wsa Janet Jackson 'Rhythm Nation Tour'
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Originally Posted by Giantrobo
Shit! You saw KISS just as they were starting to decline. Assuming '76 to '78 were their "best years".
That would be the period I saw 'em SIX times ......with Bob Seger opening one tour, Styx opening one tour and a few times with Atlanta Rhythm Section .....
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The Cure July 27, 1986 Staring At The Sea Tour at The Fabulous Forum in Los Angeles, well actually the very lovely city of Inglewood for those of you keeping score.
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HA. My very fist concert was Alanis Morissette with K's Choice opening in '96. That would put me at 11, I think.
Old 03-07-05, 03:39 PM
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The Clash -- 1982 -- Pontiac Silverdome

They were opening for The Who (along with Eddie Money) but I was there to see The Clash. Concerts have been all downhill ever since.
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Ricky Martin with my mom back in 2000 thank god it was just a phase. next concert Im going to is the 2005 junos (the canadian grammy's) I can't wait to see The Guess Who and Neil Young live!
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The Rolling Stones with opening acts Third Eye Blind, Dave Matthews Band, and Smashing Pumpkins. 12/05/1997 (I'm a young'n, I was only 13 at the time)
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Oh man...the first concert I can remember going to....was Barry Manilow...holy crap maybe thats why I am a Gay man...I went and saw him when I was 10-11 or was I 16 - 17...LOL
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Van Halen at least over 20 years ago ...
Old 03-10-05, 06:01 PM
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I remember vividly:

Dramarama - Hollywood Paladium '87

I was a paltry 15 years old and never saw a mosh pit before. Decided to never enter one.
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1980. Blue Oyster Cult. The Rockets opened the show. Good times.

Totally different experience going to concerts these days.
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Earth, Wind & Fire 1977 at MSG. My Brother and I were on our way to the movies in Times Square and a scalper outside the Garden wanted to get rid of his last 2 tix. We paid $9 each for 20th row seats. We were two rows behind Stevie Wonder. Best Night Ever.
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June 19th 1992 at the Vertex Nightclub in Hadley, MA... Weird Al Yankovic!
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Molly Hatchet at Six Flags over Texas, July or August 1982.
"I'm travelling down that road and I'm flirting with disaster!!!"

I also saw the Police "Synchronicity Tour" w/ UB40 at the Summit, Houston in 1984.
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Originally Posted by johnbook
Hopefully it wasn't the Montreal show...
I don't get it. What was so important/dreadfull about the montreal show? (and yes, i know i am bumping an almost 3 year old thread. )
Originally Posted by BillSD
This is a good, funny thread. Makes you think of how your musical tastes change over the years.
Yeah i know, kinda out grew the whole rap metal genre, also since papa roach's last album was pure crap. now i'm more into hardcore/ metal type music.

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Old 01-23-08, 04:09 AM
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Huey Lewis And The News....85, well maybe 84.
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Originally Posted by Rypro 525
I don't get it. What was so important/dreadfull about the montreal show? (and yes, i know i am bumping an almost 3 year old thread. )
Basically, there was a pyrotechnics incident during Metallica's set which burned up Hetfield's arm and they had to end their set early. GN'R could have saved the day but Axl Rose decided to be his whiny, bitch-ass self and cut their set short, and a huge riot ensued.

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The most famous event during the tour took place during a show on August 8, 1992 at Montreal's Olympic Stadium. Metallica frontman James Hetfield suffered second and third degree burns to his left arm after stepping too close to a pyrotechnics blast during the opening of "Fade to Black". Metallica was forced to cancel the second hour of the show, but promised to return to the city for another show. After a long delay, during which the audience became increasingly restless, Guns N' Roses took the stage. However, the shortened time between sets did not allow for adequate tuning of stage monitors, resulting in musicians not being able to hear themselves. In addition, GN'R's notoriously volatile frontman Axl Rose claimed that his throat hurt, causing the band to leave the stage early. The cancellation led to a riot by audience members, reminiscent of the rioting that had occurred during a GNR show near St. Louis one year earlier. This time the aggrieved audience members overturned cars, smashed windows, looted local stores and set fires. Local authorities were barely able to bring the mob under control. Footage from the debacle was later included in the 1992 documentary A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica.
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John Denver with my Parents. First show I went to on my own was They Might be Giants (they opened for Hootie)
Old 01-23-08, 08:10 AM
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The Who - 1989
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Kiss Love Gun tour 77.
Cheap Trick opened up.
Ticket cost $7.50
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Judas Priest "Defenders of the Faith Tour" 1984 at the Phila Spectrum

Great White opened


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