Many people see their favorite artist for their 1st concert. In August of '81, Benatar was my #1. What makes the concert exceptional, at least to me, is the fact that: not only was she my favorite, but...
I was against the barrier for general admission (festival seating)
I got to shake hands w/ her warm-up artist--known then as David Johanssen, now known as Buster Poindexter
Got her to sign my ticket stub after the show--still got it.
Did this with no backstage pass and although I went w/ a buddy, he had never been to a concert either.
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the unintentional comedy of this post almost lol'd me to death.
so she hit you with her best shot, huh?
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Well, technically Donny & Marie Osmond (and the rest of the cult clan) @ the Circle Star Theater in ~1980
but Mom & Dad righted their wrong with a Dead show a couple of weeks later.
First solo/with friends & of my choosing was Day on The Green 1983 - Journey Triumph, Night Ranger, Bryan Adams.
I then went on to see at least one DOTG every year they had them, only missed a couple of the new wave/pop themed.
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Circle Star Theater?!? Holy shit! My brother and some buddies tended bar there for a while...my folks saw Sinatra(!) there...I used to watch 4th of July fireworks in parking lot every year...
Second show I ever say was Night Ranger in the parking lot at Great America...going to see 'em again when they open for Journey in October...
good times, good times...
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Yeah, I lived on the other side of the bay, but remember driving by that place a million times as it just crumbled.
I'm also old enough to remember when Marine World was over there also.
Night Ranger still hold a nostalgic place in my ears. They played along with Y&T at my high school, and I eventually got to know Brad Gillis when I lived in Alameda. Great, fun scene.
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My first job was flipping burgers at Marine World corporate outings. Not so good times. I have a friend who's backyard abutted Joey Alves'; he being the guitarist who never got to solo in Y&T because Meniketti took 'em all. When you are the rhythm guitarist in Y&T, you are the RHYTHM GUITARIST in Y&T...see Young, Malcolm. "Rescue Me"...great song.
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Kiss Unmasked Tour 1980. They are playing here tonight and it's the first tour of theirs i have missed since then, and yes i still have my Kiss Army card here somewhere.
My first concert was Billy Squire. Last week I took my 8 year old son to his first concert - KISS. He'll thank me someday when he doesn't have to say his first concert was the Jonas Bros or some crap like that.