Bands you’ve seen (not local)

JohnnyTheFox

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I saw that tour and my experience was Metallica blew away Ozzy. He literally got booed off stage, partially because someone threw a beer bottle at the stage and knocked the drunk bass player into the drum set. They had to stop the concert for a good half hour. He got booed when he finally came back out. Ozzy was pretty messed up too. Good times!

Haha, maybe my
memory is a little foggy lol but they did get booed and they did sound like hot garbage. It just could have been the instrument mixing or something though.,
 

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One of the most memorable moments was a Southern Rock jam in Mobile with Greg Allman headlining. He had just married Cher and the rumor about passing out face first into a plate of pasta at his wedding dinner was circulating. By the time he hit the stage, he was gone. He fell off the piano bench and Cher came from stage left to help him back up on it and the crowd went crazy. The guy was amazing, he played and sang, didn't miss a note or a word and I don't think he even knew where he was.

The one show I will always cherish and remember was the Allman's in Memphis, 3rd row, when Duane was still alive. Watching him play the slide was like being that cobra mesmerized by the flutist. What a phenomenal player.

But for sheer stamina, can't beat the Dan Fogelberg concert. 3 solid hours and he never left the stage. When his band took breaks, he played the piano and sang on one and the guitar on their second break. He still holds the most talented position of all I've listened to or seen in person. The best all around musician and songwriter I've ever heard. Some people are born to it, he was born to make music.
 

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I think they peaked around Permanent Waves but I know a lot of people who think it was earlier. Spirit of Radio is one of my favorite songs ever.

I think so possibly, although some would say Moving Pictures. I like all of their stuff but prefer pre-Signals. I missed the Time Machine tour which still pisses me off
Stop moving pictures :laugh::laugh:
 

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Ok c'mon now, we want stories and don't leave out any of the details.

Hung backstage with Aerosmith—Steven Tyler was very cool and friendly, cracking jokes and posing for pictures, and I actually told a joke that made him laugh. Did the Wayne’s World “I’m not worthy” with Joe, who said “You’re worthy, you’re worthy!” He gave me a guitar pick. It was cool.

Hung with Van Halen when Sammy was in the band. He and Michael were the friendly ones—just like regular guys. Eddie hit on the girl I was with, and Alex had an iron grip. Lotsa pictures, great time.

Interviewed Alice Cooper. Super intelligent multitasker that NEVER stops! They played our station’s team in softball. He recorded one of his weekly radio shows in our production studio. We had a great conversation and he gave me one of his walking canes he uses on stage. Pictures, autograph—the works!

Also met: Bruce Kulick and Eric Singer from KISS, Ted Nugent, Slash, Collective Soul, Live, Firehouse, Ace Frehley, Brother Cane, etc.

...and Bob Hope!
 

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Hung backstage with Aerosmith—Steven Tyler was very cool and friendly, cracking jokes and posing for pictures, and I actually told a joke that made him laugh. Did the Wayne’s World “I’m not worthy” with Joe, who said “You’re worthy, you’re worthy!” He gave me a guitar pick. It was cool.

Hung with Van Halen when Sammy was in the band. He and Michael were the friendly ones—just like regular guys. Eddie hit on the girl I was with, and Alex had an iron grip. Lotsa pictures, great time.

Interviewed Alice Cooper. Super intelligent multitasker that NEVER stops! They played our station’s team in softball. He recorded one of his weekly radio shows in our production studio. We had a great conversation and he gave me one of his walking canes he uses on stage. Pictures, autograph—the works!

Also met: Bruce Kulick and Eric Singer from KISS, Ted Nugent, Slash, Collective Soul, Live, Firehouse, Ace Frehley, Brother Cane, etc.

...and Bob Hope!
Saw the Welcome to My Nightmare tour with Alice Cooper and that was a lot of fun. One of the people dressed as a spider got tangled in the web and they had to run on stage and get the rope off their neck. That was back when he was drinking a case of Bud a day and bragging about you can't be an alcoholic on beer....right up until rehab.
 

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Hung backstage with Aerosmith—Steven Tyler was very cool and friendly, cracking jokes and posing for pictures, and I actually told a joke that made him laugh. Did the Wayne’s World “I’m not worthy” with Joe, who said “You’re worthy, you’re worthy!” He gave me a guitar pick. It was cool.

Hung with Van Halen when Sammy was in the band. He and Michael were the friendly ones—just like regular guys. Eddie hit on the girl I was with, and Alex had an iron grip. Lotsa pictures, great time.

Interviewed Alice Cooper. Super intelligent multitasker that NEVER stops! They played our station’s team in softball. He recorded one of his weekly radio shows in our production studio. We had a great conversation and he gave me one of his walking canes he uses on stage. Pictures, autograph—the works!

Also met: Bruce Kulick and Eric Singer from KISS, Ted Nugent, Slash, Collective Soul, Live, Firehouse, Ace Frehley, Brother Cane, etc.

...and Bob Hope!

Awesome, and thank you :clap:
 

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One of the most memorable moments was a Southern Rock jam in Mobile with Greg Allman headlining. He had just married Cher and the rumor about passing out face first into a plate of pasta at his wedding dinner was circulating. By the time he hit the stage, he was gone. He fell off the piano bench and Cher came from stage left to help him back up on it and the crowd went crazy. The guy was amazing, he played and sang, didn't miss a note or a word and I don't think he even knew where he was.

The one show I will always cherish and remember was the Allman's in Memphis, 3rd row, when Duane was still alive. Watching him play the slide was like being that cobra mesmerized by the flutist. What a phenomenal player.

But for sheer stamina, can't beat the Dan Fogelberg concert. 3 solid hours and he never left the stage. When his band took breaks, he played the piano and sang on one and the guitar on their second break. He still holds the most talented position of all I've listened to or seen in person. The best all around musician and songwriter I've ever heard. Some people are born to it, he was born to make music.
I have a Greg Allman story, sorta. A number of years ago I worked music venues and got to meet Leon Russell. After the show, his long time bus driver, Mike, invited me to hang out and party on the bus with them. This was Leon in his latter years, but he was still partying a little. While we're hanging out, Mike says that Leon doesn't let just anybody on the bus. Mike starts telling the story with Leon adding some very colorful commentary. It was back in the 70's during one of those music festivals and everybody is partying on the bus and there's a loud banging on the door. Mike checks it out and it's Greg Allman and he wants on the bus. Leon grits his teeth and says "Hell no!" I ask Leon why he wouldn't let Greg on the bus? Leon grits his teeth again and says "that @$#&%$, he comes on my bus, smokes all our weed, drinks all our whiskey and tries to steal all our women. &%@$ Him! Tell him to go get his own GD bus! At this point I'm rolling and laughing my arse off and asked what happened next. Mike said what could I do and told him that Leon said no and closed the door on him. Greg banged on the door for a little while and finally left.

I got to hang out with them a few more times when they came to town and a couple other places. Leon was always a very nice and mellow dude, just not when talking about Greg Allman....... lol
 

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Some of the good shows I saw
Kinks
Stones
The Who
Led Zepplin
Ramones
Iggy Pop
The Clash
The Police
Blondie
B52's
Ian Dury
Todd Rundgren
Jeff Beck
BB King or it was Muddy Waters
Peter Frampton
Dead Kennedy's
Takling Heads
Lou Reed
Nick Lowe
The Jam
Devo
Sex Pistols
Chuck Berry
Fleetwood Mac, after Peter Green left
...and a bunch I can't remember..lol
 

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It’s amazing how concerts vary, even with the same band. I saw KISS in Pittsburgh in the 80’s, and they we’re like any other hair metal band of the day—nothing special. Saw them in ‘96, and they blew me away.

Saw the Stones once and they sucked. Few years later—goosebumps.
 

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I was a part-time roadie for Pantera and Molly Hatchet in the mid 80's, so I've seen or at least heard every band they toured with from 1984-86.

That was half a lifetime ago in another life, so don't ask me to produce that list. I knew Vinny Paul and Darrell Abbott (may they both RIP) before they were famous and am still in contact with their Dad, Jerry Bob.

As for the bands I remember seeing...

Elvis in April of 1977(same year he died)
Foreigner
Bryan Adams
Styx
Breathless
Kiss X 6
Riot
WASP
.38 Special
Ted Nugent
ZZ Top
WAR
Cheap Trick
Lover Boy
Joan Jet & the Black Hearts
Yes
Super Tramp
Triumph
Ozzy Osbourne
Krokus
Scorpians
Metallica
Soul Asylum
Van Halen with David Lee Roth
Van Halen with Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar without Van Halen
The Hooters
Night Ranger
Journey
Kansas
Korn
Lacuna Coil
Tool
Beatlemania
Vandenberg
Wendy O'Williams and the Plasmatics
REO Speedwagon
Poison
Garbage
Def Leppard
Ratt
Bon Jovi
BTO
Rush X 4
Plumb
Lennon Murphy


I know I'm forgetting more than a few.
 

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Well, I can certainly try this off of memory. My memory seems to suck these days :muttley: but I will give it a go. I have tried to save all my concert tickets I've been to over the years, so I have a stack of them somewhere. I will have to look later. I'm sure I am missing a few as well.

Breaking Benjamin (x3)
Korn (x2)
DJ Tiesto (x2)
Godsmack
In This Moment (x3)
Five Finger Death Punch (x3)
Nickelback
Chevelle
Bullet For My Valentine (x2)
The Game
Linkin Park
Eminem (x2)
Avenged Sevenfold (x2)
Atreyu (x2)
Dr Dre
Snoop Dogg (x2)
Boyz II Men
Killswitch Engage
Lamb Of God
Stone Sour
Ice Cube
Ludacris
Papa Roach
Flock of Seagulls
Cheap Trick
ZZ Top
Rob Zombie
Xzibit

I'm sure there might be a few more that will come to me later.

Only kind of cool story I really have is at one of the concerts in the early 2000s, during the couple years Xzibit was big, my buddy and I had floor tickets. We were standing on the floor during an intermission, just chatting, and people were clearing out to go to the concessions and whatnot. Well, we kind of moved over to the side which had some fencing for a private walkway. Next thing you know, in the middle of our conversation, we just hear loudly "What's up Boise?!??!". I flip around and there is Xzibit and crew standing there giving us the "whaddup" nod and getting us on his camcorder (back when camcorders were still a thing). So my buddy and I joke to this day that we are on one of Xzibit's home movies. haha
 

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Over 200 big shows, over 1,000 local shows, over 40 years reading, writing, playing, reviewing, categorizing, and listening to music—-no wonder I’m freaking deaf!

Get off my lawn! God bless all you surly old rockers! Never put down that guitar!✊
 

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Back in the day, there was this cool shopping center in Dallas called Olla Padrida and they had a theater in the round and we saw Carlin there, took my parents to the Glenn Miller show and saw Ricky Nelson there and it turned out to be a very special evening for one of us. Back in the older days, Ricky Nelson was the heartthrob of every young girl in America. He was on Ozzie and Harriet, his real parents, and was cranking out one hit after another. He was also "I hate him" handsome for every guy because when the girls could see him, why look at you? And he had this dreamy look he would get when he sang which made the girls swoon.

Well, he's singing and the guy's lost nothing and he's still got the look and every woman in the place is dreamy eyed and right after one of his songs, my wife said to me, but loud enough for him to hear, "if he sings Poor Little Fool, I am going to melt into this seat". He turns 90 degrees and starts walking toward her and says "OK, darlin', get ready to melt" and sings the song to her!!!! You talk about not knowing what to do. It's just the two of us and I am waiting for a refill, I can't even act disinterested and drink. Every woman in the place want to be my wife and every man is glad he's not me. To make matters worse, I try to lean out of the spotlight and the light tech moves it to keep me in it. I log the moment. If your life does flash in front of your eyes at the end, I don't want this in it or I'll accelerate my demise. Damned former heartthrob is seducing my wife right in front of me!! He finishes the song and leans down to kiss her hand, hell, I think he could have gotten what it took me marrying her to get. Then, he extends his hand to shake mine and said "I hope you don't mind". I thought that was pretty classy of him. I said "not at all (lying) but tell your light guy I'll see him after the show" and he just laughed because he was aware of what had happened.

If you were a teenage guy in the 60's, as I was, you competed with these dreamboats. Ricky, Fabian, Tommy Sands, Pat Boone and Elvis. The girls all screamed and you'd beg for a guy that looked like Roy Orbison to come along and give you a break. Then the Beatles show up and it's all out war with the moptops and the head shaking, we didn't stand a chance. Then there's the Dave Clark 5 and more cute guys but then the gift from the gods shows up. The Animals, Kinks and Stones had butt ugly members and the guys just gravitated toward them and they had a more raw sound to make it even better. They were preparing us for something, the next move in music, metal. Then they had to go and spoil it with the hair bands.
 
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Back in the day, there was this cool shopping center in Dallas called Olla Padrida and they had a theater in the round and we saw Carlin there, took my parents to the Glenn Miller show and saw Ricky Nelson there and it turned out to be a very special evening for one of us. Back in the older days, Ricky Nelson was the heartthrob of every young girl in America. He was on Ozzie and Harriet, his real parents, and was cranking out one hit after another. He was also "I hate him" handsome for every guy because when the girls could see him, why look at you? And he had this dreamy look he would get when he sang which made the girls swoon.

Well, he's singing and the guy's lost nothing and he's still got the look and every woman in the place is dreamy eyed and right after one of his songs, my wife said to me, but loud enough for him to hear, "if he sings Poor Little Fool, I am going to melt into this seat". He turns 90 degrees and starts walking toward her and says "OK, darlin', get ready to melt" and sings the song to her!!!! You talk about not knowing what to do. It's just the two of us and I am waiting for a refill, I can't even act disinterested and drink. Every woman in the place want to be my wife and every man is glad he's not me. To make matters worse, I try to lean out of the spotlight and the light tech moves it to keep me in it. I log the moment. If your life does flash in front of your eyes at the end, I don't want this in it or I'll accelerate my demise. Damned former heartthrob is seducing my wife right in front of me!! He finishes the song and leans down to kiss her hand, hell, I think he could have gotten what it took me marrying her to get. Then, he extends his hand to shake mine and said "I hope you don't mind". I thought that was pretty classy of him. I said "not at all (lying) but tell your light guy I'll see him after the show" and he just laughed because he was aware of what had happened.

If you were a teenage guy in the 60's, as I was, you competed with these dreamboats. Ricky, Fabian, Tommy Sands, Pat Boone and Elvis. The girls all screamed and you'd beg for a guy that looked like Roy Orbison to come along and give you a break. Then the Beatles show up and it's all out war with the moptops and the head shaking, we didn't stand a chance. Then there's the Dave Clark 5 and more cute guys but then the gift from the gods shows up. The Animals, Kinks and Stones had butt ugly members and the guys just gravitated toward them and they had a more raw sound to make it even better. They were preparing us for something, the next move in music, metal. Then they had to go and spoil it with the hair bands.

Great story CC! I gotta say, though, I loved several of the hair bands—just not the generic-but-cutesy ones like Sleeze Beeze and Brittny Fox and Poison.
 
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