I was cleaning out my garage this morning and came across my box of old sports/concert tickets. I had forgotten I kept all this crap. Started going through it and a lot of memories came back, especially with the concerts. Thought this might be a fun topic here. What are some of your favorite concert experiences? Here are some of mine..
US Festival Mem Day Weekend 1983 Glen Helen Park, San Bernardino CA. Too many bands to mention all of them, but Bowie,U2,Ozzy,Motley Crue, Priest,The Clash, Van Halen (for the wrong reasons) and the Scorpions stood out. 3 days. Slept one night on a sidewalk and the next in a parking lot. Totally Awesome!
REM/Dream Syndicate 6/27/84 The Music Hall, Seattle. First time I saw REM. Reckoning tour. They werent very well known at the time. I remember the theatre marquee showed that "RAM" would be appearing that evening.
Midnight Oil/House of Freaks 6/16/88 Visage, Orlando FL. Performance wise, this may be my favorite. Man, Midnight Oil tore that little piece of crap ex-warehouse apart that night. Peter Garrett...quite a presence on stage. A good friend of mine who at that point I had not met was at that show. We still talk about how great it was. And House of Freaks werent bad either, guy on guitar, guy on drums,,,thats it.
Social Distortion 5/24/92 The Edge, Orlando FL
Mike Ness comes this close to kicking the crap out of an audience member. Which made perfect sense. Great show.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Ramones, Stray Cats, Modern English, Bow Wow Wow 4/23/83 San Diego Stadium
Great lineup...great show, great memories, both the music and the atmosphere. The night I became a Stray Cats fan.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush. 8/23/92 Central Florida Fairgrounds
Lollapalooza. Look at where Pearl Jam is in the lineup:). HOT day. Liked every band here. I think at that point Ministry may have been the loudest band I ever heard.
The Cure 6/6/92 Jacksonville Coliseum...only concert ive ever been to where the band played EVERY single song I wanted to hear. Every one. Still remember all the goth girls in their little huddles crying after the show. they were in heaven:)
Beastie Boys/Rollins Band/Cypress Hill 11/13/92 The Edge Orlando FL...Best memory of this one...Cypress Hill was in a van adjacent to the stage prior to their performance. Everyone is waiting for the show to start. Doors of the van open, and here comes Cypress Hill, surrounded by a huge plume of smoke:). Think Spicoli getting out of the van in Fast Times, but x2. Another really fun show.
Bob Seger System at the Vienna Community Center. Place held about 100 people and Pep Perrine was sporting a drum set with double base drums on the floor as well as overhead. They blew the windows out of the place. Bob Seger at his hard rock best. Check out "Mongrel" for a taste.
Neil and Crazy Horse were as perfect as I've ever heard, Neil in fine voice, nice cameo's by Crosby and Nash.
Also worth noting was a great night in 92', an acoustic show at the Garden State Arts Center - an entire show he mostly let the crowd pick, took request after request, making for a fantastic set list of rare songs. Really intimate, really sweet.
Also, the first concert I took my daughter to was New Kids On The Block. Started a tradition that we go to at least one concert every year.
Younger daughter was into hair bands. Saw Cinderella, Dokken, Poison with front row "seats"
Had front row seats a few days later to see him again, this time in the tiny Binghamton Veterans Arena. He opened the show playing "The Waiting" acoustic - the crowd pushed to the stage, and security got grabby, hands on fans, pushing them back.
Petty stopped playing.
Glared at security and yelled "YO, MAN, get your fucking hands off my fans!" - place went nuts, security personnel backed away - "They'll be good, they'll be good, you have my word!" - BIG push to the stage - "Now... y'all be good, OK?" - big laughs and he goes back into "The Waiting", halfway through, the full band kicks in ant THAT was an inspired show.
At the end of the night, after the encore, band leaves the stage, waving, Petty, last off, walking past his guitar rack... snags the last axe on it - Telecaster - and turns back to the crowd, starts strumming, loud, giant E chord - into the first verse of "I used to love her" by the Stones - I could see Stan Lynch off to the side, arms out "WTF" expression - he runs up, rest of the band follows.
House rocked.
A great end to a great show.
Stevie Wonder in the Bitter End
John Prine in the Bitter End
The Who - I think it was in Downing Stadium
Is this the New Year’s Eve concert 70, I was there also great concert
I have a memory of Corky playing drums with his sticks on fire
Given my state of mind at the time I’m questioning my memory though
At the time and me and buddies watched from under left
Tower
At the time and me and buddies watched from under left
Tower
That’s 29 palms
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It was unreal. Played about a dozen songs.
Aerosmith’s Back In the Saddle Tour When Perry and Whitford rejoined the band. Just and awesome show. 1985 maybe?
Black Crowes/Metallica/Aerosmith in Rochester back in 89 or so. My three favorite bands at the time.
I still laugh at Geddy introducing Jacob's Ladder on opening night of the R40 tour in Tulsa with a "and here's a song we've never played live before." The whole crowd is looking at each other like, um it's on a fucking live album isn't it?
He corrected himself the next night in Omaha.
Not your band opening for Bettie servers?!?!?!
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Massive Attack in 2008, My Morning Jacket in 2011, and most of all, Jeff Tweedy performing solo in Golden Gate Park in the late 2000's particularly and immediately come to mind for me.
Not your band opening for Bettie servers?!?!?!
Wow, how did you know about that? Even I almost forgot playing with Bettie Serveert.
No, the best parts of any show I played was watching the other bands. Technically, we opened for Radiohead at Lollapalooza in 2008 -- we were the very first band to play that day and had a great view of people storming through the gates to reserve good spots at the main stage.
I got my butt handed to me in the mosh pit and had to find my shoes after the show was over.
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In comment 14294517 santacruzom said:
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Massive Attack in 2008, My Morning Jacket in 2011, and most of all, Jeff Tweedy performing solo in Golden Gate Park in the late 2000's particularly and immediately come to mind for me.
Not your band opening for Bettie servers?!?!?!
Wow, how did you know about that? Even I almost forgot playing with Bettie Serveert.
No, the best parts of any show I played was watching the other bands. Technically, we opened for Radiohead at Lollapalooza in 2008 -- we were the very first band to play that day and had a great view of people storming through the gates to reserve good spots at the main stage.
Lol!!! There was another music/concert thread were I mentioned them as a favorite band or show n u replied that u had opened up for them once!!! Life’s in the details...