Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    Should have stated live Concerts you've seen. Some of the ten I
    listed don't get much airtime on my stereo anymore.
    
    
    Stephen 

    
    
    	1. Bon Jovi  (oooh yeah, big surprise, I know)  =)
    	   Out of the dozen or so times I've seen them, I'd say
    	   the Providence gig with Cinderella backing or the second
    	   time I saw them with Skid Row.
    	2. Jimmy Buffett - the tailgate parties were worth it alone
    	3. Heart
    	4. Motley Crue - NOT the Girls, Girls, Girls tour.  That show
    	   at the Centrum was very boring IMO
    	5. Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
    	6. Candlebox - at the Orpheum.  Though their opening bands 
    		were horrible!
    	7. Michael Bolton - sorry.  =)  He's great in concert
    
    	
    	Can't really think of any others, so they can't be that 
    	memorable.  =)
    
    
    
    	

    
    	Judas Priest - twice on the "Turbo" tour
    	Queensryche - "O:MC" with Metallica
    	Motley Crue - "Theater of Pain" tour
    	Dokken - "Under Lock and Key", I believe
    	The Cars - "Door to Door" tour - boring, but they sounded good
    

    
    The Cure
    Judas Priest 3 times on the Vengance tour plus a couple other time
    Ozzy  Blizzard of Oz a young Def Leppard opened
    Molly Hatchet Once with Danny Joe Brown once with Jimmy Farrar (sp)
    Rush 
    Kiss - Destroyer tour
    Concrete Blond
    Blackfoot with Molly Hatchet
    Iron Maiden with Judas Preist  3rd row
    Boston  My first concert
    
    
    Mike
     
    

    10. Ice T/Body Count (decent pit)
     9. Clash of the Titans (Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Alice in Chains)
     8. Queensryche/Suicidal Tendencies(Q redoing the "operation mindcrime
                                        thing, with the screens)
     7. Ice Cube/Digable Planets
     6. Iron Maiden/Anthrax(Maiden did about 6 encores!!!)
     5. Sam Black Church/Tree/Stompbox(Broke my nose!!!)
     4. Zia/2 bumb bands(won $50 playing pool!!)
     3. House of Pain/Cypress Hill/Funkdoobiest(good show, and I got out
                                                 alive!!!)
     2. Lollapalooza I (The best, with Ice T, NIN, Jane's Addiction
                        Butthole Surfers, Living Colour, and that big turf
                        fight during LC's set when the bouncer grabbed me
    			by the shirt and asked me if I would like him to
    			break my legs!!)
     1. Marilyn Manson/Zia/Monster Voodoo Machine (see topic 1129 for a
    						   a bloody, obscene
    						   review!)
    
    
    dave		

    
    Hmmmm.... I think I may have only been to 10 shows..... oh well, here
    goes....
    
    10. Def Leppard w/ Tesla opening. summer '88  - good show. some clown
    threw a fire cracker at one of Tesla's guitar players. 
    9. Motley Crue w/ Tesla opening. Dr. Feelgood tour. (help me here Bobby
    T.... '91??)
    8. Queensryche w/ Warrior Soul opening. Queensryche was awesome!!
    Warrior Soul sucked big time.
    7. Tragically Hip. Canada Day Festival -  w/4 other bands. Great show.
    6. Tragically Hip w/ Kashtin opening. Another great Hip show!
    5. Headstones w/ some local crap band opening.  Great mosh pit!!
    4. Headstones by themselves. Another great show by them.
    3. Tragically Hip. Canada Day Festival (differant year)
    2. Stone Temple Pilots w/ Mighty Mighty Bosstones opening. Core tour.
    Got right up front to see these guys. Bosstones kinda sucked.....
    1. Metallica Black album tour. The best show I've been too. (although I
    have not been to many.... 
    
    Dave
    

    
    A few I've been to...
    
    - Iron Maiden w/ GnR opening (forget which year)
    - Samantha Fox.....wasn't my fault....my cousin was a huge fan.
    - Motley Crue w/ Tesla opening...after the concert the Crue boyz were
    driving by my place and Mick tossed a beer out to my cousin and hit him
    in the head.
    - NKOTB....again not my fault....mom made me take my little sister.
    - Metallica, GnR, Faith No More back in '92, not a great concert...
    Hetfield got burnt, Axel walked off and a riot happened in Montreal.
    - Corrosion of Conformity last year.....bar fight halfway thru the set
    
    I know there's more but I can't think of them right now......
      c'mon gimme a break.........it's 3:30 in the morn!!!!
    
    Rick
    
    

    
    NKOTB?!?!?
    
    NKOTB?!?!?
    
    I think the Moderator should delete that last note....
    Isn't NKOTB taboo like A** S*****??
    (if not it should be..... =^P
    
    Dave
    

    
    Sorry dude.......
    
    Mom said I had to take her or I wouldn't get the
    car......I know, I probably should've taken the 
    bus for the rest of the year but I was young and
    tryin to impress the friends.
    
    Thought of a few more.
    
    - Def Leppard w/ Ugly Kid Joe, got a guitar pick from
    UKJ....3 yrs ago
    - Areosmith w/ Collective Soul opening....2 yrs ago
    Also Kim Mitchell, Lee Aaron, Colin James at various
    Canada Day festivals.
    
    A few others but I ain't gonna mention them here!!!
    
    Rick

    First a question......
    
    Doris......why would you even admit to this????  Read the topic.  I
    gather you found this to be one of the top 10 shows you've been to????
    
    
    My choices....
    
    10. Monsters of Rock - L.A. Coliseum '88
    	- Great set by Dokken......but Metallica and the Scorps stole the
    	show.
    	- KNAC (R.I.P.) had their big black balls in the sky that day!
    
    9. Guns/Metallica/Body Count - San Diego, Jack Murphy Stadium '92
    	- Ice T had the local Law Enforcement agencies on stand by. Said
          they would raise h@ll if he played "Cop Killer".....He opened with it!
  	- Metallica accidentally set one of the large stage banners on fire.
    	 The show was originally postponed due to James being burnt in
    	 Montreal.
    
    8. Van Halen - 5150 tour (86?) - Montreal Forum
    	- Sammy was on fire trying to fill Davey's boots. Alot of F*&K
    	  Dave! banners flying that night!
    
    7. Motley Crue/Faster Pussycat - Feelgood tour - San Diego, L.A.(twice)
    	- Followed them for 3 shows.....Helluva weekend!
    
    6. Guns - The Palace, Hollywood - '87
    	- Great show, before Appetite got big, great club.
    
    5. The Stones/GnR/Living Color - 89 - L.A. Coliseum
    	- One of the 2-3 shows that GnR were on the tour for.  Great
    	  monologue by Axl about "One in a Million", which got him in a
    	  tiff with Vernon Reid of LC.
    
    4. Motley Crue/Whitesnake - '84? - Ottawa Civic Center
    	- Probably one of the best matchups for the price.  Vandenberg
    	  smoked on the strings that evening.
    
    3. Van Halen/Our Lady Peace - '95 - Landsdowne, Ottawa
    
    2. Another Roadside Attraction - The Hip/Blues Traveller/Ziggy Marley
    					etc. - '95 Capital City Speedway
    	- killer crowd, turned into a mud fest after 4 hours of rain!
    	- The Hip are a MUST SEE live.
    
    1. Steve Stevens/Atomic Playboys - The Roxy, Hollywood - '89
    	- Met Steve and Perry from the band, out on Sunset coming off the
    	tour bus.
    	- Met Eddie VH inside when I bumped into him and Trevor Rabin
    	(Yes). Valerie Bertinelli is a BABE up close.
    	- Met Randy Castillo (drummer 4 Ozzy) and Billy Idol as they pulled
    	up on their Harleys. 4 months before Billy did his in!
    
    Paully 8)
    

    well no ranking - all of them kicked a**:
    
    - NIRVANA, in utero tour '94 - last concert ever
    - PANTERA, far beyond driven tour supp. almighty, downset. - just kicked a**
    - SICK OF IT ALL, scratch the surface tour I - supp by 4 bands !
    - -"-,-"- II supp. CIV, H2O
    - BIOHAZARD, fu**ing Sh**t up in the nine five tour , supp. ORANGE 9mm
    - BEASTIE BOYS, jumping arround from the begining to the end 
    - BODY COUNT , born dead tour '94 - the video for necessary evil was
                   filmed at this show ...
    - BODY COUNT , born dead tour '95 - the only club gig in europe 1995
                   was here in munich
    - stones
    - downset. supp. sullen, shootyz groove - generation of hope tour 95
    
    
    coming up:
    
    fear factory , supp. manhole, drain - only 12 days to go !
    
    max_
    

    I was just speaking with a so called "HMer" who has admitted to seeing
    more shows that can't be mentioned in here, than shows that can.....
    
    Let's just say that his list is small because he'd give away his true
    identity if he told us about all the rest of his concert experiences...
    
    Paully
    

>    Blackfoot with Molly Hatchet
    
    Wow!
    
    Blackfoot was a name I thought I'd never hear again when I moved
    out of New Jersey but they just keep popping up in here even though
    for all intents and purposes, they may as well have been dead the
    last 10 years or so.
    
    Every Blackfoot show I ever went to was great.   It shoulda been them
    instead of Lynyrd Skinhead (who suck IMHO) that got all the fame
    and attention.   "Freebird" is a rip-off of Blackfoot's "I Stand Alone"
    as far as I'm concerned.
    
    	db

    	I'll do top five...
    
    	Van Halen, 1979, The Boardwalk in New Jersey, promoting
    	their second album. Alex Van Halen played the encore with
    	fire breathing drumsticks. There were tubes connected to
    	the sticks feeding some sort of flammable substance. That's
    	the photo on the inside of Van Halen II, Alex perched on
    	his drum stool with the flaming sticks. Eddie virtually
    	blew my head off. I'd never seen anyone play Rock & Roll
    	guitar like that before. Then again, I'd never seen Hendrix
    	in concert. But I would've painted Eddie's house after that
    	show fer sure... Dave was in top form. Class clown incumbent.
    
    	There is or was a club down on Long Island, NY called
    	"My Father's Place". Don't remember the town, it was in
    	Nassau county.

    	A music fanatic friend of mine forced me to go see this band
    	he loved called The Dixie Dregs. Myself being a music lover,
    	accepted grudgingly, because I was too busy ananlyzing Neil
    	Peart and Bill Bruford at the time.

    	Needless to say my jaw fell onto the floor, and I had trouble
    	getting it back off the floor the whole night. I tried to give
    	my jaw away after the bass, keyboard and violin players walked
    	off the stage to let Steve Morse & Rod Morgenstein do a medley
    	of Led Zepellin tunes.
    
    	I've been mortified by some incredible musician's before, but
    	as far as Rock & Roll is concerned, NO ONE has ever floored me
    	the way Morse & Morgenstein did that night. I would've painted
    	BOTH their houses after seeing 'em do that medley. I felt somehow
    	de-virginized after witnessing the sheer chops and expertise of
    	those guys. I would never see musicians in the same light again.
    
    	I had a similar experience seeing Billy Cobham at a drum
    	clinic back in the early '80's, why bother to keep playing
    	the drums after seeing that kind of talent?

    	I also remember seeing Bill Bruford promoting his solo albums
    	at this same club with Jeff Berlin/bass, Allan Holdsworth/guitar,
    	and I'm not sure on keyboards/Dave Stewart? I'm not sure if it
    	was '81 or '82? Best part was during Jeff Berlin's bass solo,
    	there were several drunks in front of the stage who thought
    	they were at a football game. Kept screaming his name while
    	standing right in front of him. He stopped playing, leaned
    	over and screamed SHUT UP right in their faces. They actually
    	did shut up, incredible stuff...
    
    	And the first time I ever saw Rush live, was at the Nassau
    	Coliseum on Long Island. The opener was the Good Rats. During
    	a John Gatto guitar solo, he disappeared from the stage, only
    	to appear on the opposite side of the venue still wailing on
    	the guitar. John invented some sort of guitar accessory, called
    	the Bow? Can't remember, it had a 9-volt battery, designed to
    	be held over a guitar string, it provided infinite sustain for
    	the string. It had a red light on it, (only saw the thing once).
    
    	You're showing your age if you've ever seen John G. playing
    	with the thing.

    .10
    
    Paul when you came into the OTO office and used my terminal, tell the
    truth, you weren't looking for an address - you needed a Heavy Metal
    notes fix.Right.
    
    Stephen

Page/Plant 1995 Boston Garden  I've wanted to see these guys all my life.  The
		show was great, but our seats weren't so hot.  I was very
		impressed with Robert's voice.  Page was a bit rusty but at the
		next show they did in the fall he supposedly was much, much
		better.

Robert Plant  1990 Great Woods.  He was in top form and did a few Zep songs 
		including Nobody's Fault but mine.  It was a great show for
		me since I'd never seen Zep.

Rush 1980  Monteal Canada.  I had the best seats ever for the Permanent
		Waves tour.  I have slides of this show that came out great.

KISS  1976 Destroyer tour  Montreal Forum first concert ever  Max Webster 	
		opened.

Gnr/Aerosmith 1988  Great Woods.  Just as GnR was getting big.  Axls voice was
		trashed.  Aerosmith was doing their comeback Album Permanent
		Vacation.  

Black Crowes/ZZ Top 1992 Worcester Centrum.  Crowes opened and did a tremendous
		set.  ZZ was cool with their junkyard set

Pink Floyd 1994?  Sullivan Stadium.  Amazing what they can do for effects.
		Sound was amazing - standard for Floyd I guess.

Yes Worcester Centrum/GreatWoods 1991  On the Union tour.  I liked this tour
		so much I went to Great Woods and got Golden Circle tickets.

Styx/Moxie 1977  Memorial Auditorium Burlington (Vt).  Styx got snowed out of
		a show in Montreal so when they came back they played 2 nights
		in the 4000 seat Auditorium.  I was in the balcony 15 feet 
		from the stage

U2 1992  Worcester Centrum   This was the much hyped Achtung Baby tour.  Very
		good show.  Went to see it again at Sullivan stadium where it
		was no where near as good.

    
    	RE: .5
    
    	I wasn't impressed with Queensryche when I saw them play with
    	Suicidal Tendencies ... Geoff's voice was nowhere near as good
    	as it had been on the "O:MC" tour.
    
    	[This was at the Providence Civic Center.]
    

    
    re: -1  Tate was in excellent form when I saw the same tour in Wooster!
    
    In no particular order, will put year in if I can remember which one!
    
    Queensryche w/Suicidal Tendencies, AWESOME show, Tate was in great
    form, saw them at Centrum back during Building Empires tour where they
    were doing their last FULL O:MC in concert touring. circa '91
    
    Metallica, an evening with, '92 at Centrum, lousy seats, good show
    though, especially watching all the kiddie headbangers banging away,
    like 1000's of 'em going all at once! It was funny as hell.
    
    Queensryche with Type O Negative at Great Woods last July, what can I
    say? EXCELLENT SHOW! Hated standing all through it in the pavillion,
    legs/back got rather sore from that night! '95
    
    Rush, Music Hall, '79 w/Starz opening for them. Excellent show, some
    illegal stuff going around inside. Great seats. All in all, best of the
    3 times I've seen them. 2nd time takes close second though!
    
    Yes, Boston Garden, 6th row from stage, in-the-round layout, just
    awesome show all around! '79
    
    Queen, Mid-South Coliseum in Tennessee, 2.5 hrs, lousy seats sorta, but
    excellent show by freddie and crew. '80
    
    Kizz, w/ New England, Providence Civic center, '79, excellent
    pyrotechnics, including Ace's psycho guitar solo with the lights in it,
    etc, shooting it down with same guitar type, gene spitting blood,
    blowing flames, huge flames near front of stage, peter criss rotating
    drum stand with huge cat head underneath, paul, nothing real fancy from
    him basically, trying to look pretty I guess.
    
    Savatage, w/ hard licks, and sweat cheatah(sp) The Channel, met former
    lead singer that night, felt rather rough the next day! Loud,
    etc...decent night! '90
    
    Rollins Band w/STP opening, The Channel, I think this was '91 or '92 as
    they were JUST getting really popular on the radio...Rollins was
    INTENSE to say the least, excellent guitarist and drummer in that band.
    Bass player was ok, good overall intenseness from Hank! Stomped by me
    about 3 ft. away with a look of "out of my way" on his face! ;-)
    
    Too many others I've missed.....
    
    
    

> Styx/Moxie 1977

Moxie!  Has anyone else in here heard of Moxie?  I know some of you 
Canadian folks must have, but how about the other non-canadian noters?

A friend of mine turned me on to this band a year or so ago.  What a great band!
They remind me a lot of The Sweet.  Some of the songs are a little
teeny-bopper-ish, but hey, that was the era then!

Ken

    Moxy ?Fruvas? (sp) ???
    

    
    Me...I've heard of them! In fact,someone in this notefiles(a nice kind
    gentleman)made me up a tape a little while back.I liked it a lot!
    
    
    
    						Ian

I remember Moxie closing their show doing covers of Rock & Roll and Whole Lotta
Love, I don't remember anything else about them.

Tim

    RE: db,  Yea, great show.  Had drinks with some of the band
    members after the show at the hotel bar.  Even had a drink
    with Dave Klubek (sp?).  Checked out the same time the band was.
    you should have seen the stack of hundreds the manager had to
    pay for all the rooms.
    
    
    Mike
    

    re.Queensryche
    
    
    A kid Marty I used to hang out with and I were on a mega-'Ryche kick
    for a couple of years. We would drive around in his 79 Mercury Grand
    Marquis(about 75 feet long) listening to Mindcrime. We saw them once at
    the centrum, and once at the Garden. Suicidal opened for them at the
    centrum, and it was cool cuz we liked ST, and they had a lot of hard
    core ST fans, with the hats flipped up, ST on the brim, etc. Real good
    show. Our seats were good too, not that we used them. The show at the
    Garden was with Warrior Soul. WAAF was making a big deal about it
    because it was Warrior Soul's first arena show, blah blah blah. They
    were so terrible. Marty and I went in intending to boo them, as we
    already hated their crap music. At the end of the first song, Marty and
    I boo'd, along with a few others. At the end of the second song, we'd
    picked up some momentum with a couple hundred more booing. By the end
    of the third song it was a big disaster; the singer would announce the
    song, the crowd would jeer, there was no way for them to rebound from
    it. It was merciless, too, because they played for 50 minutes, with all
    kinds of projectiles raining down on them from the balcony. I started
    feeling bad for them, you know, because I figured they must have been
    psyched after x-amount of years playing clubs, they finally got to go
    in front of 14,000 people. They may have been psyching themselves up,
    preparing to set Boston afire, and they dropped like a rock. Anyway, I
    was feeling bad until the singer got all cocky and said "shut the
    {blah} up!!!! I'm speaking for your generation!!!", as though he'd been
    elected president or something. Anyway, after that I enjoyed watching
    them squirm through the set.  A standing ovation occurred about 10
    minutes after Soul was finished, when they took the banner down,
    revealing the Queensryche banner. When Tate came out, he made some kind
    of joke about the way Warrior Soul was treated. 'Ryche was OK, but, as
    Billy Joel once said, even hockey sounds bad in the Garden. Both shows
    were on the EMPIRE tour, where they would do about an hour of
    EMPIRE/RAGE FOR ORDER, and then about 2 hours of MINDCRIME. Just being
    there, with the two screens, it was really cool. They're the only band
    I've seen at the height of my affection for them. All the others I've
    seen it was before I got into them, or when I had already been into
    them the year before and was already into somebody else. The centrum
    show was much better, anyway.
    
    dave

    	Aerosmith '90 Pump Tour - Opening band was Skid Row. At the Ottawa
    		   Civic Center 6th row side view (bout 30 ft away)
    
    	VanHalen '91 F.U.C.K. Tour - Opening band Alice in Chains. Montreal
    		  Forum. Nose bleed section!
    
    	Kiss     '9? Revenge Tour - Opening band Tesla. Montreal Forum.
    		  Bout 30ft away center stage.
    
        VanHalen '93 Right Here, Right Now Tour - Opening bands Vince Neil
    		  Alanah Myles, Kim Mitchel, The Jayhawks & Bob "cat"
    		  Goldthwait MC'd. 10th row, Barrie Ont (Molson Park)
    
    	VanHalen  '95 Balance Tour - Opening band was Our Lady Peace 20th
    		   row. Frank Claire Stadium Ottawa Ont.
    
    	Melissa
    	 Etheridge'96 Your Little Secret Tour - Opening band Ashley
    		   MacIsacc 10th row (side view) At the Paladium.
    
    	H.A.G.O.
    	

    
    	RE: Dave Lunchbox
    
    	I LOVE Warrior Soul!!
    

    We have conflicting tastes in music, methinks!! :>)
    
    That's alright, I'll let you live anyway!!!

    
    	And now I've been whistling Warrior Soul songs since you posted
    	that ... I'll have to dig the albums out and listen to them a-
    	gain very soon!!
    

    In the wasteland, are you?   :>)

    
    	Yes, "Punk and Belligerent" in the "Wasteland".  Going "Downtown"
    	because "Charlie's Out of Prison" and we're gonna "Get Down" to
    	some "Ass Kickin'" r'n'r and leave you "Losers" behind.
    

    
    	Eesh, sometimes I scare myself.
    

    Us too.
    
    
    Mike
    

    that's not so scary.

    It is when you consider he's the mod.

    (8^E

    
    	Mods are people, too!!
    

    Which means, in this country, they're innocent until proven guilty.

    
    	Then if found innocent they're declared not guilty.
    

    It seems like people get the point over here a lot better. Must be the
    warm atmosphere.

    
    	No, we're collectively quite dumb and lack what it takes to
    	make a good argument.
    
    	8^)
    

    I don't care, as long as everybody agrees with me!!!  :>)

    Rush....( Mr. Big  opened )  1990  Hartford, Conn.
    Aerosmith ( Black Crowes opened ) 1990 Bristol, Conn.
    Whitesnake ( can't remember who opened ) 1990 Bristol, Conn.
    Deep Purple ( can't remeber who opened )  1991 Burlington, Vermont
    Heart ( Michael Bolton opened ) 1988  Saratoga Springs, NY.
    Stevie Ray Vaughan ( can't remember who opened ) 1989 or 1990
                                                        Burlington, Vermont
    INXS ( some comedian opened ) 1988  Montreal, PQ., Canada
    Styx ( Little Wing opened ???? I think )  1991 Burlington, Vermont
    Jethro Tull ( can't remember who opened ) 1988 Saratoga Springs, NY.
    Guns & Roses ( can't remember who opened ) Montreal, PQ., Canada
    
              *** Kit ***

    
    Pink Floyd LA Col.           '80
    Pink Floyd MSG New York      '80
    Pink Floyd Montreal forum    '88
    Pink Floyd Providence CC     '88
    Pink Floyd Foxboro           '88
    Pink Floyd Foxboro 2nd nite  '88
    Pink Floyd Foxboro 3rd nite  '88
    Pink Floyd Foxboro           '94
    Pink Floyd Foxboro 2nd nite  '94
    Pink Floyd Foxboro 3rd nite  '94
    
                                    

    It must be nice to have no short term memory.
    
    8^)

    I don't know....I can't remember...I was really drunk at the time.
    
                                         

    Comfortably Numb, eh?

    re .43...Floyd fan?!? 8)
    
    Paully 
    

    
    Pink Floyd rooooooolzzzzzzz!!!!!!!
    

    
    
    OK, here's an old man's memories ("ahhh....memories, Stimpy...)
    
    *Aerosmith w/ Mad Angel & Duke and the Drivers, 1973 or so,
    Westboro speedway, A'Smith's first album tour...my 1st concert!
    
    *Kiss, Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band, 1976, Cape Cod Colliseum...
    
    *Genesis (Peter Gabriel singing), 1975, Orpheum Theater....
    (Phil Collins suks!!)
    
    *Elton John, w/ Dave Mason and some other dude, July 4th, 1976.
     Foxboro (remember the fireworks???)
    
    *Alice Cooper, 1977, Bah-stin Gah-den....Alice wuz drunk asa skunk,
     but ROCKED!!!
    
    *Queen w/ Thin Lizzy, 1977, same sinkin' Gah-din....Freddy lives!!
    
    *Rolling Stones, 1980 (methinks), Sir Morgan's Cove, Worcester...
     (warmup show fer the upcoming tour that year...WOW~!~!~!~!)
    
    *Todd Rundgren and Utopia, 1980, Hampton Beach Ballroom.....
    
    *Pink Floyd, 1988, Foxboro
    
    *Pink Floyd, 1984, Foxboro_in_the_rain_and_fog
    
    
    Thanks fer lettin' me share that...kinda makes me feel like I got
    a life again.....kinda......
    
    macky

    ...oppps. that's "1994" fer the last Floyd show...sorry, those
    responsible for that mistake have been sacked.
    
    macky

    	I was at that show, that was the first of three nights...
    
    	There was a low cloud cover, and the lasers were hitting the
    	sky creating patterns. I was sitting all the way on the side
    	of the stage in front of the PA stack. Couldn't see Nick Mason,
    	but I enjoyed the show anyway.
    
    	The sound company those guys used was THE BEST. I thought I was
    	going to have my ears blown off. Not so, I could feel every
    	tom-tom and bass drum hit in my chest, but my ears felt fine.
    
    	And this was at an outdoor stadium, 7th row in front of the
    	PA Stack.
    
    	I still have the newspaper article for that show here in my
    	desk.

    .47 ya think?

    I thought that Rush had the BEST " Lightshow " that I'd ever seen.....
    
    But, I've heard that PINK FLOYD's lightshow is one of the most
    elaborate ones out there.
    
    A friend of mine has seen them in concert nearly 20 times....said their
    show was AWESOME !!!! :-)
                                   *** Kit ***

    .53 
    
    Now that's a die hard fan. There's not many people who can say they have  
    seen a band 20 times...., except maybe a DEADHEAD fan.
    My best so to speak is Styx and N.Young 3 times each.
    
    Stephen

Yes...........Spectrum, Phila. In the round '79.
The Who.......Spectrum, Phila. The tour where fans were trampled
              to death in Cincinati, maybe '78.
Pink Floyd....Nausa Collesium, NY. The Wall tour, '80.
Robin Trower..Tower theater, Phila. Victims of the Fury tour, '80.
Peter Gabriel.Orephum Theatre, Bos. Shock the Monkey tour, mid 80's.
U2............Centrum, Worc. War Tour? Early to mid 80's.
Nirvana.......Wallace Civic Center, Fitch. In Utero tour, '94.
Pearl Jam.....Boston Garden, Bos. Vs. tour, '94.
STP...........Centrum, Worc. Purple tour, '95.
NIN...........Centrum, Worc. Downward Spiral Tour, '95.

	There's been many more, but these stick out as the best of the
	bunch. (All dates are approximate, within in a year ;^)

    	Actually, it's Nassau Coliseum...
    
    	In Nassau County, on Long Island, New York
    
    	I was born down on the Island, Huntington area, spent many a
    	strange afternoon in the Coliseum parking lot before shows...
    
    	They were cool back then, allowed folks in the parking lot early,
    	unlike Foxboro which locks up the parking lot until 5:00 pm
    	the day of the show. I guess people have gotten out of hand
    	partying in the parking lot...

    1. Metallica/GNR - Meadowlands - 1992
    	Metallica was unbelievable. I was in the upper deck at Giants
    	Stadium and the whole place was shaking. It was the loudest
    	and most intense show I've ever seen. GNR, of course, was 
    	awful. I've seen them four times and hated them each time. 
    
    2. Cranberries - Hartford - 1995
    	I know they take a lot of flak in this conference, but they 
    	totally played to the crowd and were a lot of fun.
    
    3. Metallica - Hartford - 1992
    	The ticket read "An Evening with Metallica - No Opening Act".
    	'Nuff said.
    
    4. Nine Inch Nails/David Bowie - Great Woods - 1995
    	I'm more a NIN fan than a Bowie fan, but I doubt that anyone left
    	disappointed.
    
    5. Clash of the Titans - Bristol CT - 1991
    	Anthrax. Megadeth. Slayer. And some band called Alice in Chains.
    
    6. Cypress Hill - London - 1994
    	I was in a hip-hop phase during my study abroad in London. They
    	played a fairly small venue and the place was packed.
    
    7. Green Day - Worcester - 1995
    	I only put this here because I'm anxiously awaiting this summer's	
    	Sex Pistols tour and I'm dying for some punk (music, that is).
    
    8. Queensryche - Hartford - 1991
    	My best friend and I won tickets to this from a CT radio station. 
    	Q'ryche did the entire Operation: Mindcrime set.
    
    9. Iron Maiden - New Haven - 1988
    	I don't remember it that well, but I do recall coming home and
    	saying to my dad, "I never need to see another concert again."
    
    10. Motley Crue - New Haven - 1990
    	Tommy Lee did a drum solo with his kit hanging from the ceiling.
    	When it was over, he was supposed to be lowered down to the stage 
    	and continue. However, instead of being slowly let down, he ended
    	up "bungee jumping" and crash landing on the floor of the coliseum.
    	They took him to a hospital (I think he broke his leg) and ended 
    	the concert. We were pretty pissed. But it was sort of funny...
                                                                     

    
    	Tommy Lee has had "special" drum risers since 1985, I believe,
    	when his riser tilted forward 90 degrees so that he was facing
    	straight down at the floor.
    
    	And I believe they bettered that for "Dr. Feelgood" with a 360
    	degree rotating cage.
    

    	Tommy Lee had the 90 Degree drum riser for Theatre of Pain.
    For Girls Tour he had a drum set in a spinning cage, rotating in
    circles while he played. For Dr. Feelgood, his drum set was on the
    roof. The drum set was lowered to about 15 feet above the crowd
    and it went from the stage right to the back of the arena, while
    he played his favourite rock tunes (ie Zepplin, Aero, ACDC etc)
    the drum set also spun around as it went to the back...The incident
    about him falling, (BTW he always used the bungee cord) he slipped
    and hit his head. He had a concussion, they ended the show, but he
    continued to bungee for the rest of the tour...
    
    	Bobby T

    My Top 10 Are;
    
    10.	Aerosmith - Ottawa - Cheap Trick opening. (Get a Grip)
    
    9. David Lee Roth - Wonder Land - Poison opening. (Skyscraper)
    
    8. David Lee Roth - Maple Leaf Gardens on Halloween Night - Cindrella.
       (Eat Em and Smile)
    
    7. Ozzy - Rochester - Korn & Life of Agony opening. (Ozzmosis)
    
    6. Motley Crue - Maple Leaf Gardens - Y&T opening. (Theatre)
    
    5. Motley Crue - Maple Leaf Gardens - Whitesnake opening. (Girls)
                                                              
    4. Motley Crue - SkyDome - Tesla opening. (Dr. Feelgood)
    
    3. Motley Crue - Buffalo - Warrent opening. (Dr. Feelgood)
    
    2. Motley Crue - Indiana - Lita Ford opening (Dr. Feelgood)
    
    1. Vince Neil - RPM's Toronto - Exposed tour.
    
    Other mentionables, AeroSmith, Dokken, Poison, Van Hagar (cause
    it was free), Headstones, Rainbow Butt Monkeys...
    
    Bobby T

Poison and Warrant!

    
    Hey Bob,
    When did you see the Headstones??

    Never noted in here before, but I do occasionally read through (good
    way of picking up on new bands!). This, however, was too much of a
    temptation not to make a contribution to, especially as its Friday
    lunchtime!
    
    Sorry I couldn't get this down to a top 10, still you get extra value
    with this top 20!
    
    20. Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction, Venue : Croydon Underground
    	Date : April '85
    Didn't bother comming on stage till 12:30am, but then played till past
    2am, place was suppossed to shut at 11:30, ha!
    Top moment was Zod's little speach about going to Bad Girl City,
    apparently a place in his brain which he occassionally visited!?!
    
    19. Underground Zero, Venue : Birmingham University Student Union
    	Date : February '85
    Norfolk's finest delivering the goods in style. Where are they now?
    
    18. Poision Electrick Head, Venue : Reading Trades Union Centre
    	Date : May '90 (?)
    Staying at a friend's on a weeks course at DEC park. Wednesday night,
    out for a beer and this happens! The guitarists and bassist played all
    night with hughe plastic headdresses on while the lead vocalist tried
    to strangle himself with the mic lead -excellent!
    
    17. Skunk Anansie/Dub War/Cecil, Venue : Boardwalk, Manchester
    	Date : October '95
    600 people in the Boardwalk for Skin and the lads, Dub War were a
    relevation too!
    
    16. Blue Oyster Cult/Aldo Nova, Venue : Hammersmith Odeon
        Daye : 1983
    Front row ticket, but no "Kick Out The Jams", bass solo bizarely sticks
    in my memory.
    
    15. Black Sabbath/Cathedral, Venue : Manchester Apollo
    	Date : November 1994 (?)
    Sabbath sucked, but Cathedral were wonderful, they only played 4
    numbers having been stuck in a traffic jam on the M6 for 4 hours! Did
    it matter, out of the van on the stage, 20 minutes of magic!
    
    14. Status Quo, Venue : NEC 
    	Date : June 1983
    Quo were once a great band, this "farewell" gig was excellent without
    any of the sab caberet tendancies they were already showing in their
    recorded output of the time! What went wrong?
    
    13. Pink Fairies/Little Feather/Crazyhead, Venue : Town & Country
    	Date : 1986
    For no good reason one of my fave 70's outfits decides to reform and
    play a gig near me! Twink wore a denim cut-off with "Twink - The Legend
    Returns" on it! Larry Wallis had taken on Leslie West proportions and
    Sandy and Russel were both completely wired - amazing set. This was an
    all dayer, Little Feather were from the USA and did a very psyched out
    Purple Haze, Crazyhead were suppossed to be "next big thing", they
    weren't (still good for a bottle band - ha!)
    
    12. Loop/Godflesh, Venue : Manchester University Students Union
    	Date : 1991
    I can still feel those bass lines thumping through my body!
    
    11. Garbage Grinders, Venue : The Crypt, Deptford
    	Date : 1986
    So impressed I bought the casette on sale at the show, lead singer was
    a mad 50+ punkette who sang like Grace Slick. By the way, The Crypt was
    the Best Club I have ever been to. What a shame the powers that be
    deemed it too devient to be allowed to survive.
    
    10. Solstice/Liaison, Venue : The Marquee, Wardour Street
    	Date : 1982
    Both these bands were regular nights out for me and my mates. The early
    80s were really good for these prog bands and the Marquee was an
    excellent place to see them. I seriously over indulged at this gig and
    was sick all over the floor!
    
     9. Garbage/Bis, Venue : Manchester Apollo
    	Date : April 1996
    Shirley and Butch rock! Great stuff, Bis were very bouncy too!
    
     8. Soundgarden/Corrosion of Conformity, Venue : Birmingham Istitute
    	Date : 1991 (?)
    Just before Bad Motor Finger came out. What a night, just caught "Vote
    with a bullet" by COC, the only thing I new by them, who seemed pretty
    angry and focused. Then for Chris (with hair) and the boys to lay waste
    the venue, most furious pit I've ever seen had to run away upstairs to
    avoid serious injury. The disco afterwards was good too - but, thats
    another story!
    
     7. Budgie, Venue : Portland Club, Birmingham
    	Date : 1985
    Grossly underrated band, even here at the end of their career they
    really rocked. Disaster followed as we went back stage to have a
    drink/smoke with the band and all one of my friends could do was go on
    and on about Burke Shelly cutting his hair, until Burke lost it and
    threw us all out!
    
     6. Ramones, Venue : Birmingham Odeon
    	Date : 1986
    Punks 10th Anniversary, 4 stabbings and 14 ambulance cases - YEehah!
    
     5. Rock Goddess/Omega, Venue : The Marquee, Wardour Street
    	Date : July 1983
    Hottest day of the year, Jody's guitar would not stayed in tune
    (strings warping or something!?). Omega were poor house band and are
    only remembered for supporting just about everyone at the Marquee. Rock
    Goddess were superb (saw them six times in '83), but this gig was tops,
    the heat was amazing, the crush of the crowd made several times worse.
    I don't know how they failed to conquer the world.
    
     4. Radiohead/?, Venue : Manchester University Student Union
    	Date : 1994
    I've seen Radiohead 4 times in the last 2 years, each time they've been
    very good, this was the pick of the bunch. Got to touch Thom Yorke's
    guitar in mid-solo - WOW!
    
     3. Smashing Pumpkins/Compulsion, Venue : Odeon, London
    	Date : 1994
    So good, so angry, so violent. This was on tour for Siamese Twins, fab
    album, the Odeon's a smashing venue. I managed 90 minutes down the
    front before I nearly fainted and had to retreat to the bar and lie on
    the floor! Strangely I saw the Pumpkins on Wednesday night in the
    (spit) Nynex Arena and it was not the same, no rapport with crowd,
    shorter set etc...
    
     2. Slade/Cold Chissel, Venue : Hammersmith Odeon
    	Date : Oct 1982
    Well I luv 'em. Slade rocked and Cold Chissel (Aussie boogie band
    fronted by Jimmy Barnes) were a revelation. Got very drunk!
    
     1. Hawkwind, Venue : Stonehenge Free Festival
    	Date : Solstice Night 1984
    Played for 5 and a half hours as the sun came up over the Heel Stone,
    what an experience. "Do not panic, this is Hawkwind" was recorded here
    and gives a fair feel to what it was like. However, Nik Turner doing
    "Watching the Grass Grow" surrounded by a whole tribe of girlie dancers
    having just jumped out of a coffin was a mystical moment. Probably best
    night of my life (!?!).
    
    Bubbling under : PJ Harvey, ICU!, Angelwitch, Pendragon, The Cult, Thin
    Lizzy, L7 and Faith No more
    
    As a further bonus, worst gig of all time : -
    Heavy Pettin', venue : Golden Eagle, Hill St Birmingham
    Date : Nov 1983
    Suppossed to be band of the 80s (sezs Kerrang! - ha)
    Only 20 people turned up, so they didn't want to play.
    Eventually did 15 minutes in atotally arrogant uncarring manner.
    Got trashed, serves them right.
    Were later heard of attempting to represent UK in Eurovision Song
    Contest, even failed in that!

    
    	I would love to see Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction.
    	Some great stuff on "Tattooed Beat Messiah", the only 1 of
    	theirs I have.
    
    	And I thought Jimmy Barnes was only memorable for that song
    	he did with INXS ["Gonna Have a Good Time Tonight"?] ... I
    	guess I learned something new today.
    

    
    when you've heard one Zodiac Mindwarp song you've heard them all
    "Prime mover" was a good song but the rest gets kinda the same.
    One of his guitar players were flippin' good!
    
    When I was in Oz,I heard some old Cold Chisel and it was pretty
    good.Typical Ozzie drinking/boogie/bluesey/rockin' band.
    
    
    						Ian

    shawn...pick up 'freight train heart' if you want to hear more Jimmy 
    barnes....who happens to have an excellent voice and is one of my
    faves...i'm not sure if he has more releases..but 'FTH' is
    excellent.../k

    
    	What kind of music ... pop/rock?
    
    	Maybe I'll give it a try.
    

    
    his rnage of music ranges from slushy ballads to all out rockers.One of
    his best songs that I ever heard was "working class man".Excellant
    voice...
    
    
    btw...he was born in Scotland! 8)
    
    
    						Ian

    
    	Scotland?
    
    	Maybe I'll pass.  8^)
    

    You know,  I forgot Dio with Love and Rockets and Godspeed at the
    Hampton Beach Club Casino, on the "strange Highways" tour. That would
    probably be in my top 10. Rainbow in the Dark sounds better without the
    keyboards.

>    You know,  I forgot Dio with Love and Rockets and Godspeed at the
>    Hampton Beach Club Casino, on the "strange Highways" tour. That would
>    probably be in my top 10. Rainbow in the Dark sounds better without the
>    keyboards.
    
    I saw this show...it was great!!! 
    
    Andy

    
    
    RE:  1145.70
    
               Hey, Shawn....You don't like Scottish stuff either ????? ;-)
    
    ( Refer back to HUMOR Notesfile 878.12 )
    
               Geez...What DO you like ? ;-)  
                                                 *** Kit ***
    
    

    
    	Oh, I was just kidding.  Here AND there.
    

    
    re Ian
    
    The guitarist in Zodiac Minwarp and the Love Reaction was Flash
    Thunderhide.
    
    Flip

    
    Imaginative name!
    
    
    					ian