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First show I ever saw was AC/DC's Back in Black tour at the Budokan in Tokyo in '80. In the intervening years between 1980 into my early 40s I attended shows into the triple digits in several countries. Here's a pic of an envelope I just pulled out of a drawer in my desk. There are other envelopes full of stubs but this is the one I am fondest of. Oldest ticket is the AC/DC one (black in color). I had that thing in my pocket 44 years ago in Tokyo, being blown away by the band and the sound. In attendance with me on that night in addition to my brother Cap'n Chaos was my then little GF, and now wife for 20+ years. I was ten at the time of that first one and a budding metalhead. My tastes changed over the years, as most folks' do, and my headbanging days are decades old memories. A lot of water under the bridge and a long way we've come since then, but our world of memories includes those associated with this old bits of paper. There are many, many more, but I'm not bothering with dragging them out and taking pics. Guess you'll have to take my word for it. Haven't been to a show in years and there are precious few I'd spend money on seeing today, but there are a few. Thanks for the memory trigger, Hanco. Would like to hear from others. AC/DC x4 Aerosmith x6 Pink Floyd x4 Rolling Stones x4 Iron Maiden x2 Scorpions x2 Judas Priest Rainbow The Cars Whitesnake Deep Purple Blue Oyster Cult Styx REO Speedwagon Grateful Dead Molly Hatchet Yes U2 B-52s Steve Miller Roy Orbison Tom Petty Adam and the Ants (ha, ha) Roger Waters x3 David Gilmour Jimmy Page The Pretenders ZZ Top Loudness Page and Plant Bad Company Boston Stevie Ray Vaughn Jethro Tull x2 Dio Twisted Sister Anthrax Black Sabbath x2 Ozzy x2 David Bowie Lenny Kravitz (backstage) Heart Foo Fighters Keith Richards Max Creek The Cranberries Garbage Pantera In Living Color De La Soul Dead Kennedys Pearl Jam TOOL Soundgarden STP Lollapalooza and a bunch of other big festivals ICE T Public Enemy x2 Lucky man!! How did Yes sound live? Was Steve Howe there?
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It was a memorable New Year's Eve concert. I wore boots and a ski vest and snuck in about 8 bottles of Michelob beer:
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson
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Man my list of national acts or acts people would know is much shorter lol.
Garth Brooks Brooks n Dunn Joe Diffie Chris Ledoux Goo-Goo Dolls Buffalo Tom Fun Loving Criminals The Architects Live (x2) Luscious Jackson Bush ZZ Top Cheap Trick Foghat Styx 38 Special Great White 3 Doors Down Collective Soul Loverboy Joan Jett Dropkick Murphys Flogging Molly (x2) Frank Turner Samantha Fish What, no Chris Ledoux? (Grin) Nice list though 4th one down
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Here's a few that I saved, sort of an eclectic collection...
Pursuit may be, it seems to me, perfect without possession. Robert Kelley Weeks (1840-1876)
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I'd have liked to seen John Prine.
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I'd have liked to seen John Prine. He was great even though his voice was pretty rough by then. I also got to see him a few years earlier with Iris DeMent in Boise.
Pursuit may be, it seems to me, perfect without possession. Robert Kelley Weeks (1840-1876)
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I saved a lot of mine thru the years. Some, I barely remember the shows, much less what happened to the stubs. I'm sure I have others stuffed in drawers but these were the ones I could put my hands on. '80s Journey x 2, Stryper x 2, Ratt x 2, Ozzy, KISS w/ Nugent, Whitesnake, Motley Crue, Foreigner, Chicago '90s-2000s KISS x 4, Metallica x2, Def Leppard x 2, AC/DC, Van Halen, Journey, Queensryche, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, Damn Yankees, Ozzy, 2000s- recent Deep Purple/Scorpions/Dio (front row!), Def Leppard/Journey, Iced Earth, Blue Oyster Cult Black Sabbath - 1999 with confetti from the show
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I still have 2 unused tickets for the Lynnyard Skinner concert that they were coming to play when their plane crashed.
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And the 2 stubs from The Rolling Stones Steel Wheels concert in New Orleans. Post a picture of the Skynyrd tickets. ? Unused Skynyrd tickets? I'd love to see a picture
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