Concerts
Let's preface this by going over the bands I've seen. That should give you an idea of my music tastes. I still have 99% of my ticket stubs, and many poor quality pictures of the concert. Many were from the front row, as I had more money than sense - until I got married! Plus one of the women I worked with in the Marines in Memphis - well, her husband ran the base Special Services office. He always got premium concert and sporting event seats for the Marines & Sailors serving their country. God bless that man!
Aerosmith x 2 - (The Iowa State Jam & Hollywood Bowl - talk about extreme opposites of the spectrum!).
Accept - (Iowa State Jam) - You remember them? They sang "You've Got Your Balls to the Wall". One hit wonders...
AC/DC - (Memphis) - I got a great shot of Angus somewhere, as he came into the crowd playing his guitar solo. I fell over 3 or 4 people to get the shot, but strangely, they were more concerned if I got the picture than about their spilled beers. Oh, I love my fellow rockers!
Autograph - (Memphis)
Bon Jovi - x 2 (Mud Island - Memphis) - I was pulled backstage before Ratt took the stage. I was (ahem) using a compressed butane canister to fill my mouth and blow 4 - 6 foot flames during the show (in the audience). Well, security being what it was, they came and pulled my ass backstage so that I could be questioned. "Are you part of pyrotechnics team?" was the first question... "How'd you make those big old flames?" was the other. I sheepishly showed them a lighter, which the chief promptly tossed into the Mississippi river and sent my back into the crowd. My fellow Marine and good friend, Rodney Glidden, handed me the butane bottle and his lighter, and I was back in action - with the added benefit of having seen Jon Bon Jovi sampling hot dogs from the cart backstage. Turns out my sister-in-law graduated with Jon from a New Jersey high school.....small world!
Boston - Los Angeles
Barry Manilow (hey - it was for the wife) - Thousand Oaks, California. Barry actually put on a decent show. He's quite the entertainer....there - I said it!
Cult - San Diego
Def Leppard - Irvine Amphitheatre. Man, this was perhaps my last, great drinking binge rock concert. My neighbor, Stormin' Norman, and I went to his friends in Huntington Beach in his Acura, got quite loaded with some friends there (my last memorable quarters game) before heading south to Irvine. Def Leppard still kicked ass...
Dokken - Rockford, Illinois. They opened for Sammy Hagar's VOA tour.
Flock of Seagulls - 1983 Chicago - Cominsky Park - My first rock concert. 5 bands and a great road trip. I got fired from my job at Camp Abe Lincoln in Blue Grass, Iowa for going...(Denny Henson - your an Ass!).
The Fixx - 1983 Chicago
Foreigner x 3 or 4...let's see...I saw them in Memphis several times, in California (Hollywood Universal Amphitheatre).
Hall & Oats - Memphis
Glen Fry & Joe Walsh (Eagles) - Hollywood - Universal Amphitheatre
Genesis - Los Angeles Forum
Joan Jett x 2 - Chicago 1983 and Del Mar (California) San Diego County Fair
Kinks - Memphis - I tried to give Ray Davies a drink of my brew, he respectfully declined before some big football bouncer tried to find out who had threatened Mr. Davies with a glass bottle.
Loverboy x 2 - My second concert - one week after the big Chicago, 5 band show. Since I was no longer employed, I might as well enjoy life!
Metallic - Iowa State Jam - Back when they were NO ONE still....
Motley Crue x 3 or 4 - Iowa, Memphis, Los Angeles....yeah, I like the Crue
Night Ranger x 2 or 3 - Memphis (twice in 1 week I think!)
Ozzy Osbourne - Iowa State Jam
Quiet Riot - Scott County Fairgrounds - they opened for Loverboy
Ratt x 3 - Memphis 3 times in 2 years. They rocked each time.
REO Speedwagon - Hollywood - Universal Amphitheater
Rod Stewart (Another wife concert, but he does rock out) - The new Arrowhead Pond - Orange County, California
Peter Frampton x 2 - Hollywood, Universal Amphitheatre
Police - Chicago - First concert ever!
Sammy Hagar x 2 - Rockford, Illinois & Hollywood - Universal Amphitheater
Survivor - Del Mar (San Diego County Fair)
Ted Nuggent x 2 - Iowa Jam....The Motor City madman didn't disappoint us. Carried off stage by 4 bikini-clad women after shattering his guitar and sending splinters into the crowd.
Van Halen (Sammy years - 5150) (Memphis)
Weird Al Yankovic (Col-Bal Room - Davenport, Iowa)
ZZ Top (Mid South Stadium - Memphis)
The background music you heard on this page is from the Blues Brothers movie. If you buy the live Blues Brother album, it was recorded just about 4 blocks from my house in Rock Island, Illinois - at the Augustana College auditorium. I believe hearing that album kindled my passion for music, as did the Blues Brother movie. Strangely, another movie (Star Wars) made me appreciate the classical, or more appropriately, symphonic movements. Diverse to say the least. My favorite rock song? Too difficult to say, as it changes with my mood. My favorite classical song is Adagio for Strings, by Mr. Samuel Barber (it's also the theme music for Platoon).
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