My dad got me 2 backstage passes for the concert. Had no idea that meant i could watch them from the stage, I thought it just meant i could pick my seat out before anyone else
The first one I remember was 2000 Vans Warped tour, headlined by Green Day (favorite band at the time). I remember Billie Joe walked around the back of the stage at the end of the set, and walked up turn 4 of the Malta speedway, all by himself.
I was seemingly the only person to see this, so I dragged my buddy to walk towards him in a manner so that we would casually cross his path, not walk directly up to him. Gave him a quick hand-shake and a "good show" without even breaking stride, and he appreciated that with a quick "thanks, man". Then he got swarmed a minute later when more people caught on. Even at 13 I was a boss.
1984 in New Haven, CT. I was 12 years old, slept out for tickets and lost my money in 3-card monty.
My friend had to buy my ticket. Lesson learned at an early age.
sorry, my mother just told me i was a lunatic and made her seem to be one too when I asked her about this. she wouldn't let a 12 year old sleep out for concert tickets. it was 1986 and it was the 5150 tour and i was 14 years old. my memory is foggy I guess.
at the old New Haven Coliseum, during the Heavy Horses/Bursting Out tour. Great show, with much of the audience dressed up in costumes. I was 16 at the time.
That 1990 Billy Joel concert is also the last real concert I think I've been to. I obviously was never that big on concerts, but there are a few I either passed up or never pursued that I now wish I hadn't.
Grateful Dead, October 15, 1989 Brendan Byrne Arena
Hoobastank
N.E.R.D.
311
JayZ
So mine is David Lee Roth/Tesla at NVMC in 1985.
My friend had to buy my ticket. Lesson learned at an early age.
Please forgive me it was the early 70's and memories from that era are fuzzy.
For a formal concert, it was Billy Joel's Stormfront in 1990.
It's all been downhill from there.
it sucked, board to tears even as a 12 year old
I was seemingly the only person to see this, so I dragged my buddy to walk towards him in a manner so that we would casually cross his path, not walk directly up to him. Gave him a quick hand-shake and a "good show" without even breaking stride, and he appreciated that with a quick "thanks, man". Then he got swarmed a minute later when more people caught on. Even at 13 I was a boss.
1984
My friend had to buy my ticket. Lesson learned at an early age.
sorry, my mother just told me i was a lunatic and made her seem to be one too when I asked her about this. she wouldn't let a 12 year old sleep out for concert tickets. it was 1986 and it was the 5150 tour and i was 14 years old. my memory is foggy I guess.
WITHOUT - Ramones @ Ritz 1989
That was a good time period to see Weezer.