Great venue - HHH Metrodome

1988: Monsters of Rock: Van Hagar, Scorpions, Dokken, Metallica, and......Kingdom Come!

It's all been downhill since then, except for Manowar in Cleveland '94.

Circle Jerks wonderful tour 1984, my babysitter took me. I was 11, i still have the shirt I got.

First ever: My parents took me to the Nebraska State Fair to see the Moody Blues when I was about 5. I vaguely remember the grandstands and hearing them play "Nights In White Satin" 'cause it had been on the radio a bunch in the car.

First by choice: Rush, Grace Under Pressure tour, Rosemont (IL) Horizon.

First punk rock show: Naked Raygun at Metro. They opened with "Soldier's Requiem".

Fugazi, The Make Up, and Branch Manager. September 1995. Brewery Thunderdome. Louisville, Kentucky.

I was 15 and with a friend who had turned me onto Fugazi a few months prior. We thought the Make Up were such a fucking joke and just ridiculed them in typical teenage fashion. Later on, they became a band I appreciated and enjoyed very much, so....yeah.

First overall show Little Blue Crunchy Things and Violent Femmes at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee, being 12 I had a really good time and I still love the Pabst.

First show that killed me was either seeing Sigur Ros at the Womens Club in Minneapolis or Man or Astroman? around the same time at First Ave.

H-GM wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:Mine would be Ozzy and Metallica at Alpine Valley.

I saw Metallica supporting Ozzy back at the Aragon Ballroom in 86. Awesome show. Cliff Burton. End of chat.

They played at the Aragon? Why did my asshole uncle drag me up to alpine valley if they were playing at the Aragon?

AC/DC, supported by Whitesnake, Fastway, and Quiet Riot at the Tacoma Dome in '83. I was 13, and my dad took me and my brother. Pretty cool of him in retrospect, seeing as though he probably felt kinda dumb around all the puking drunks and wigged-out stoners.

Wish I still had the jersey I got at that show:



Lame album, but a pretty sweet shirt.

BRYAN ADAMS, WAKING UP THE NEIGHBORS TOUR, YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:I went to see my old friend Paul Kopasz play last night (of Paul K. and The Weathermen fame). He told me that his first show, as a kid growing up in Detroit, had been Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow.

The opening act?

I'm confused. I thought Rainbow formed in 74 or 75 and that the MC5 broke up in 1972 or 1973.
I take it I'm mistaken...?

Iron Maiden and Anthrax at the Rosemont Horizon. Sometime in the late eighties. 6th Row tickets I got off of Ticketmaster.

It blew my mind. I would still go see Maiden. Not sure I'd see Anthrax anymore.