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from the grey lady:

Rock: Lisa Lisa Performs With Cult Jam at Radio City
By ROBERT PALMER
Published: October 31, 1987

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam seemed likely to become ''one-hit wonders'' when a follow-up to their first hit record, ''I Wonder If I'd Take You Home,'' was not immediately forthcoming. Lisa Lisa's lack of polish, the quaver in her voice, and the aching sincerity it seemed to convey sold the record. But raw naivete, however charming the first time around, is rarely enough to sustain an ongoing career.

And if Lisa Lisa was largely an undeveloped talent, the two men who make up Cult Jam, Mike Hughes and Spanador, seemed to be along for the ride. Their contribution to the music wasn't immediately evident; Lisa Lisa sang, and the songwriters and producers, a team of Brooklyn musicians known as Full Force, provided all the tunes and arrangements and most of the instrumental accompaniment.

But Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam persevered, with Full Force's help, and eventually they enjoyed a second big hit, then a third. They returned home to New York City on Wednesday to play to a full house at Radio City Music Hall after a cross-country tour lasting several months. And while the show was over-choreographed, padded with derivative skits and routines, and downright clumsy in spots, it did establish Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam as a genuine group, and a group that has developed some professional flair while largely retaining the appeal of its street-corner roots.

The two members of Cult Jam easily justified their place in the scheme of things. Spanador's sloppy but spirited lead guitar and his workman-like keyboards helped center the music, which was supported by a splendid rhythm section. Mike Hughes's percussion work was more show than substance, but he served as an effective on-stage foil for Lisa Lisa, and provoked sighs and squeals from the audience with his enthusiastic pelvic thrusts.

Lisa Lisa is still an erratic vocal technician. But with Full Force providing catchy songs and a smart musical direction that combines elements of funk, pop, hip-hop and doo-wop, she doesn't have to dazzle with technique. She struts, she emotes, she talks to her audience as one teen-ager to another, and the empathy she establishes helps carry the show. And as she develops musically, it becomes more and more evident that she is shaping a distinctive singing style as well as a vivid stage personality and a much-imitated look.

can't find a review - but there's this

How accurate was the Lisa Lisa review in your opinion?

November 1979 saw Queen return to tour Britain, with the hit single 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' climbing the charts. The 'Crazy Tour' had the band returning to smaller venues, a nice gesture to their fans. The end result was spectacular, and it's a pity that the live album wasn't taped on this tour. The set list varied from night to night, but the 'Live Killers' structure was the same basic framework with the addition of the single (with Freddie on acoustic guitar) and 'Save Me' (with Brian on piano). At the Dublin show, Queen sang 'Danny Boy', while 'Liar' resurfaced on the second night at Manchester. One of the best shows was at the Alexandra Palace in London, which is well worth looking for on tape.

Not much of a review!
Here's the setlist too :

Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley cover)
We Will Rock You (Fast)
Let Me Entertain You
Somebody to Love
If You Can't Beat Them
Mustapha
Death on Two Legs
Killer Queen
I'm in Love with My Car
Get Down, Make Love
You're My Best Friend
Save Me
Now I'm Here
Don't Stop Me Now
Spread Your Wings
Love of My Life
'39
Keep Yourself Alive
Drum Solo
Guitar Solo
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Bohemian Rhapsody
Tie Your Mother Down

Encore:
Sheer Heart Attack
We Will Rock You
We Are the Champions
God Save the Queen

i don't believe a review of the nylons at the des moines civic center at some point in the late 80s exists online, if it was ever put to paper in the first place

Didn't find a review but found some pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nycdreamin/3578216077/in/photostream/

no fuckin way

http://www.tollbooth.org/creviews/u2.html

Don't remember most of this account, but I remember not enjoying the show much. We were in the nosebleed seats and found it hard to see anything, even with the giant screens (which had problems that caused the show to start really late - not mentioned in the review). Didn't know "Daydream Believer" at that age, but I knew it wasn't a U2 song, and I was dumbfounded that seemingly the entire crowd was able to sing along.

How accurate was the Lisa Lisa review in your opinion?

they played the songs i liked, so that was all i cared about.

July 22nd,1989-London,England (Wembley Arena)
Dazzling Dinosaurs Rock
by David Sinclair of the Times of London (7/24/89)

Smudgy-faced Robert Smith has stated that this will be the Cure's last tour, but nobody believes him. The hard truth is that the Cure has become the kind of dinosaur act that Smith and others of his ilk professed to despise when they started out in that brave post-punk dawn of 1978.

Evidence of bigism was rife at this marathon first show of their London residency. With a combination of mountainous rumbling bass frequencies and stately synthesizer highs they made a noise that would have dwarfed a space twice the size of this huge arena. Visually, the individuals playing the instruments on stage were entirely secondary to the stimuli of the astoundingly atmospheric light show.

This is the Pink Floyd trick, and comes in especially handy when you need to dump founder-members of the group, in this case the keyboard player Lol Tolhurst, whose removal from the ranks (since the recording of Disintegration, earlier this year) was frankly impossible to detect.

The songs in the main body of the show were long, highly developed pieces that trod a winding path through the misty groves of gothic psychedelia. With its slow,menacing tone "The Same Deep Water as
You" was a despondent mantra that unfurled at roughly the pace of autumn leaves dropping from a tree. One was drawn in as if by the glint of the hypnotist's watch and Smith's airy, fagged-out vocals, pasted carelessly on top of the instrumentation came almost as a distraction during the harsh, pump-action groove of "Fascination Street".

As the band drifted like scarecrow wraiths through seas of dry ice the lights bathed the stage in fantastic colours; rose pink and royal blue during "Charlotte Sometimes", lemon and sunshine yellows during "In Between Days" and exquisite pools of mauve, turquoise and orange during "Love Song".

They left the stage for five minutes then returned for a block of sprightlier "encores" that, apart from the neo-nursery rhyme malevolence of "Lullaby", rather destroyed the mood. "Let's Go to Bed" sounded like a Style Council reject, while "Why Can't I Be You", highlighted the odd, almost vaudevillian string to the group's bow which has won them considerable success in the singles chart.

It would be a shame if the band did quit now, just when they have learned how to carry off these big shows.

Sadly no review exists for Anthrax's 1993 gig at the Kentish Town Forum.

doesn't seem to be one for The Prodigy in Cambridge in 1996 either but I could download a boot of it, or so it would seem (probably won't bother tbh)

Can't find reviews for my first (Duran Duran) or second (Yes), found an AP story on my third:
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/29/arts/rock-concert-halted-when-floor-collapses.html

Wow, 1980s health and safety regulations were pretty relaxed.

bootleg info is the best i can do:

May 20, 1980 Elm City Waves
Location: New Haven Coliseum, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Source: Audience
Grade: B-
Setlist: 2112 Overture
2112 Temples of Syrinx
2112 Discovery
2112 Oracle The Dream
2112 Grand Finale
Freewill
By-tor and the Snowdog
Xanadu
The Spirit of Radio
Natural Science
A Passage to Bangkok
The Trees
Cygnus X-1
Hemispheres

Comments: The main reason I got this show is because its supposed to be rare, and with good reason aparently. The performance is pretty good, nothing special though. The sound is good for its era, not distant, but some distortion and bad mix make it a less then average sounding show at sometimes, but still very good for its era considering that there are millions of terrible Permanent Waves shows out there that I do not yet have, this is in the middle pack of all of the Permanent Waves shows though. This is incomplete, as there are numerous cuts, not too many distracting luckily, but we miss everything after Hemispheres. A show for the collectors.

full set-list:

2112 Part I: Overture
2112 Part II: The Temples of Syrinx
2112 Part IV: Presentation
2112 Part VI: Soliloquy
2112 Part VII: Grand Finale
Freewill
By-Tor & The Snow Dog
Xanadu
The Spirit of Radio
Natural Science
A Passage to Bangkok
The Trees
Cygnus X-1
Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres Part I: Prelude
Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres Part IV: Armageddon
Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres Part V: Cygnus
Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres Part VI: The Sphere
Closer to the Heart
Beneath, Between & Behind
Jacob's Ladder
Working Man
Finding My Way
Anthem
Bastille Day
In the Mood
Drum Solo
Encore:
La Villa Strangiato

the neo-nursery rhyme malevolence of "Lullaby"

um: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/primus/1995/pacific-coliseum-vancouver-bc-canada-43d0ef6f.html

no review but there's film of the same tour the night before i went.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eab49YNUKh4

i too am unable to find a review
http://images.wolfgangsvault.com/hall-and-oates/1980s-ticket/memorabilia/CLX880708-T8.jpg

i went to a concert with my dad called The Roundup in Philly and someone has a fansite up for the show:

http://dianewilsonsbrain.com/roundup062181.html

i had never been around that many people. people were so wasted. i felt really young. people kept trying to hand me joints.

great pictures on that page! the black and white shot of the two runaway girls with the kitten is classic.

"Recollections: it was hotter than HELL. The stadium was unpreparred for the amount of dehydrated people the medical staff was hit with so they called the fire department to hose off the crowd. Mosh pit was sprayed indiscriminatly between sets. Water sprays were set up in rear of infield which were left running causing the field to become a mud pit. Drunks eventaully started a mud slide and chicken fights were indulged. Water was shared to anyone who asked as it was a matter of survival. I do remember walking up a north side asile in the afternoon a seeing a guy with a live BLUE CHICKEN on his shoulder. How bizarre. I met people from Virginia and Maryland and remember thinking what a long way to travel to see a show. Weed was everywhere and alcohol was rampant. The show itself was great"

i kept my program for years.

http://www.paul-altobelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/the-roundup-june-20-1981-philadelphia-jfk-stadium.png

i had a t-shirt too! wore that to death.

No review, but I did find a the club's ad...

http://lh4.ggpht.com/gogonotes/SPex1039CSI/AAAAAAAAV6w/F88bQ6L6P4Y/s400/ihEFzf.jpeg

My first ever gig was Andy Weatherall's first band at Windsor Arts Centre, prob around 1980. Memories differ among my close friends as to the name of the band, but I think they were called A Fractured Touch. What has stuck in all our minds, however, is Andy crouched on stage in leather trousers yelping "I-yi-I-yi-I-yi-I-yi-I've lost my memory".

Just checked on Google, and I was right about the name http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/sep/06/artsfeatures2
The support were The First M (they really liked the Cure) and Looking For Annabel

iirc this was my second (or third counting a free local-band outdoor thing) but close enough

August 6, 1972
Alice Cooper
at Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati
Date August 6, 1972
Band Alice Cooper
Venue Cincinnati Gardens
City Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
People who were at this concert

guitarman

Donnamars
Stories from this concert
Donnamars 2013 Aug 7
Front rows

I remember the idiot threw posters or something out in the audience and we were standing on metal folding chairs... Ha .. So everyone jumped to grab them and I ended up under a few chairs and bodies. He had some really stupid outfits , like one was a toothbrush or something really odd.

Dinosaur Jr - Brixton Academy 8th October 1994.

On the way there, my friend was speculating as to whether they would have a string section.

Last night at Nassau Coliseum, 16,000 heavy rock fans cheered Led Zeppelin through three hours and four encores and tonight (June 15) another 16,000 will make the pilgrimage. No opening acts have been scheduled because Led Zeppelin stands alone – the band is the personification of heavy rock. Limiting its personal appearances, and carefully refining the basic concept in its annual album, the band appears quite likely to continue long after the various challengers – Black Sabbath is currently ranked first – have their plugs pulled. And every bit of that ascendancy is deserved.

Jimmy Page is a highly proficient electric blues guitarist whose expertise is essential to the group’s effect, but the star of the show is vocalist Robert Plant. By talent or design, Plant is the man who discovered that the key word in the term “power blues” was not “blues” but “power”. Blues singing is about emotion. Its influence on popular singing has been so widespread that, at least among males, singing and emoting have become almost identical – it is a matter of projection rather than hitting the notes.

Some find this effect chilling, but I think it is exciting when it works, which is most of the time. It’s not that Plant can’t emote. On some of the band’s acoustic elections, especially Stairway to Heaven, he hints at real feeling. But just as he begins to reach out, his voice shifts into one of its shrieks or wails, and you realize that Page’s guitar is so heavily miked in the huge arena that he could just as well be playing electric – it’s another mechanical effect. At some deep level, Led Zeppelin’s music is about technology. Philosophically, the band prefers humanity pure and simple, but in practice it must realize its humanity technologically. That seems truer than most good-time pastoral fantasies.

Led Zeppelin attracts a rougher, less affluent and self-righteous crowd than the country-flavored bands that dominate rock these days. For some reason, this crowd gets off not only on the kinky textures of Led Zep’s ensemble playing, but also on displays of dubious instrumental virtuosity - Page bowing his guitar, or John Bonham clubbing his way through a 15-minute drum solo. Also, the music ran a little long for everyone as jaded as myself. But Since I’ve Been Loving You, with John Paul Jones providing a great thick wall of organ behind Plant and Page, is the ultimate power blues and Rock and Roll, the first encore is simply the most dynamic hard-rock song in the music.

It was a heavy evening. (R. Christgau / Newsday, June ‘72)

unbelievably, i think my father waited for us in the car (1970 ford custom 500) to take us home. that must have been some wait. i hope he had a book.

Setlist here: http://www.u2gigs.com/show310.html

· Awesome show submitted by John R. McInerney
It's hard to remember a concert from 23 years ago with any real precision.
However I can say that it was a very emotional evening. I was a sophomore at RIT at the time, and was just being introduced to U2 by our college radio station. I recall Bono climbing the speaker stacks with the white flag and later, going into the crowd and picking out a girl to dance on stage with him. All in all it was a fantastic show and it made me an instant fan.

I remember there was a review in the afternoon daily the next day, but that paper is long since out of business and has no online archive. Maybe next time I'm in Rochester, I'll go to the library and look it up.

'Love Crowd' Cheers Rock Idealists U2 At The Spectrum

By John Milward, Special to The Inquirer
POSTED: September 14, 1987

To call the sellout crowd at U2's Saturday-night concert at the Spectrum enthusiastic would be a gross understatement: Borrowing Otis Redding's description of the folks at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival, they were "the Love Crowd." They danced to songs by the Beatles, mounted human waves around the arena and knowingly anticipated that the end of John Lennon's version of ''Stand By Me" would signal the entrance of the idealistic Irish quartet.

By then, the fans were on their feet and cheering, but even that didn't prevent the crowd from emitting a collective sigh when the spotlights finally caught the object of its affection. For a band characterized by its political righteousness and Christian temperament, the adoration U2 generates is downright carnal. Bruce Springsteen is the only other artist to provoke such a resonant response, and, like Springsteen, much of U2's mystique is explained on the concert stage. (The group returns to play JFK Stadium on Sept. 25.)

On the surface, U2's music is extremely limited. Executed with only slight variation, the band's formula since its first hit, 1980's "I Will Follow," has been for drummer Larry Mullen to lay down a martial tattoo, while bassist Adam Clayton secures the middle with thick bass lines and Dave "The Edge" Evans adds decorative elements with a guitar style characterized by the poetic use of sustained tones and aggressive chords. The group cut its musical teeth creating this style, and while it is unarguably limited, it's equally true that nobody else could have made this music matter.

Which brings us to singer Bono, who along with Prince is the most enigmatic rock presence to emerge in the '80s. Prince, of course, has made sex a central concern of his art. By contrast, the songs of U2 address everything from political violence in Northern Ireland ("New Year's Day") to the human violence of heroin ("Bad"). But that doesn't stop Bono from working the stage with a charisma that is subtly sexual. Dressed down in black jeans, boots and a quilted denim vest, he is the offhand and undisputed focus of attention.

U2 hit its stride Saturday on its fourth song, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," which Bono introduced as a "restless gospel." Appropriately, the band slipped a few measures of the Wailers' back-to-Africa anthem "Exodus" onto the song's ending, underscoring the fact that the tune carries both a personal and political message.

Bono struck one of his favorite poses at the beginning of "The Unforgettable Fire." Crouched at the base of his microphone stand, it appeared as if he were militantly planting a flag. And sure enough, the rockets glared red on the next song, "Bullet Through the Sky," which conjures the moral confusion of a Central American war zone, with The Edge's air-raid guitar moving into Jimi Hendrix territory and Bono's dramatic cadence recalling the emotional style of Patti Smith.

But U2's hearts are in Ireland, and it was only appropriate that "Sunday Bloody Sunday" provided one of the night's more striking performances. The song of Irish troubles, which now includes a plug for the human-rights group Amnesty International, took a peculiarly moving turn on Saturday. As everybody in the hall anticipated the key guitar rhythm The Edge was about to strum, his instrument went on the fritz. Above the bass and drums, Bono began to chant, ''It doesn't matter, music matters," and when The Edge finally cranked out the rhythm on a new guitar, the band and its fans cheered their common victories and vulnerabilities.

U2's encore of "With or Without You" again implied that spiritual peace can be both a personal and public matter. By contrast, their song about Martin Luther King, "Pride (In the Name of Love)," was a touching celebration of community. At the song's conclusion, the Spectrum's lights came on to reveal the fans raising their hands and singing as one: "In the name of love, one more, in the name of love." It was not a dream; it was a great concert.

Don't remember too much about the show itself, but I do recall spilling out of the Spectrum with all the fans still singing the refrain from "40," for what felt like half an hour. Also, I've repeatedly scratched my head over the opener, Mason Ruffner. ?

No review but I found this on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOFRj-WZQS8

Cheap Trick, AC/DC, Molly Hatchet and the Babys (who got booed mercilessly)

Review/Pop; Bleak Tidings and Visual Spectacle From Genesis
By JON PARELES
Published: June 04, 1992
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Phil Collins comes across as a droll fellow. While singing with Genesis tonight at Giants Stadium, he made popeyed funny faces, folded his limbs to imitate the television evangelist Oral Roberts, trucked across the stage like a cartoon character and knocked a tambourine against his feet, knees and head. Between songs, he played the emcee with jocular self-parody. Yet the songs themselves told a different story: one of pessimism, isolation and despair. Although Genesis has sold millions of albums since the early 1980's, it offers no pop reassurance.

The music often sounds like romantic ballads, with Mr. Collins' grainy voice enfolded by Tony Banks's keyboard chords. But in the band's current hit, "Hold On My Heart," the singer warns himself not to get involved. A previous single, "No Son of Mine," was about a man who left home to get away from an abusive father and "the crying of my mother"; when he returns as an adult to try and reconcile, his father disowns him. As in many other Genesis songs, the music shifts from minor keys to triumphant major chords for its bleakest tidings.

Such material doesn't suit cheerful stadium sing-alongs, so for its first tour in five years, Genesis provides spectacle instead. Three video screens suspended above the stage mixed enlarged pictures of the performance with animation, computer graphics and film; "Domino," a technological tour de force, put Mr. Collins himself (on a high platform) in the middle of computer graphics that rushed by like the trippier sections of "2001: A Space Odyssey." When the music threatened to become too somber, Mr. Collins went back to a drum kit and traded volleys with the group's touring drummer, Chester Thompson. The group also includes Mike Rutherford, on guitar and bass; Daryl Stuermer on guitar completes the touring band.

Genesis has streamlined itself since it got started in the 1960's. Its first albums, beginning in 1969, offered story-songs, elaborate minisuites full of musicianly flourishes like odd meters and pseudo-symphonic pomp. But after the band's original lead singer, Peter Gabriel, left the group and Mr. Collins came out from behind the drums to sing, Genesis cut back.

The lyrics dropped fantasy scenarios in favor of more domestic dramas, and the music compressed its expanded structures and lightened up with arrangement ideas from groups like the Police and Dire Straits. The pomp hasn't aged well (although the odd meters still enliven "Turn It On Again"), and the newer songs don't show off as much, but they risk falling into formula.

The change was obvious in a medley of older material, including parts of "I Know What I Like (in Your Wardrobe)," "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" and "Dance on a Volcano" from the 1970's and simpler songs from the 1980's including "That's All" and "Follow You, Follow Me." A typical Genesis song may still have a few added sections, but they're usually tucked into five minutes of midtempo rock.

As one of the few remaining bands of its vintage -- "It's true, we are that old," Mr. Collins said at one point -- Genesis is fairly spry. Yet with six years between albums, its reflexes can be slow; "Jesus He Knows Me," an attack on television evangelists, arrives years after the subject was controversial, although it perked up the concert as one of the few uptempo songs.

For all its skill and showmanship, Genesis leaves a glum aftertaste. Its songs suit an audience that has settled down and given up on any sense of community or connection; in "I Can't Dance," the singer just sits and stares at a girl he doesn't dare talk to, almost proud of his inertness. The songs promote a morose complacency, a conviction that nothing can be changed and no one would help. In the end, they're anthems for couch potatoes.

June 11, 1999:

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The Song that Jane Likes and Long Black Veil are two of my faves. I almost died when I heard them both. Great show!

User: blakers81
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My first full band show having only seen Dave and Tim just four months prior. The show was great. The rain was definately a highlight. The lawn was just dancing and having a great time. When Dave came around in Pig and sang open up and let the rain come pouring in everybody on the lawn erupted and it was a really great moment for all of us soaking wet and having the time of our life. A good jam on Crush and a #40 tease and Long Black Veil. A good show overall.

User: crozetiga
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This was my 1st DMB show. I lucked out and got to go. I had no interest in DMB until then. The live show hooked me!!!! The concert was incredible!

User: dankcarter
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What a great first Warehouse show. The setlist was great, the Neville Brothers rocked the house as an opener... Nice to finally get tickets that arent lawn.. Thanks WH...

User: davepgn98
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My first concert...it was awesome to finally see dave and the guys perform...i love dmb and everything they stand for, but after seeing them live, my view of them grew so much. The show rocked...and i'm continuing to go to anyone i possibly can.

User: FireDancer76
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This was my first show!! I'll never forget it!! It was unbelievable!! Me and my best friend went and had a hell of a time!!

User: fundr22
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2nd dave show

User: greystreetspaz
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woo

User: jaseOBU
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First concert, LIOG was amazing.

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I met dave on the way home at a gas station! It was incredible.. A fantastic show; but they all are...

User: thevillage2001
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Damn that was a while ago.

SETLIST:

Don't Drink the Water
The Stone
Pig
What Would You Say
Jimi Thing
Rhyme & Reason
Crash Into Me
Pantala Naga Pampa
Rapunzel
The Song That Jane Likes
Crush
Lie in Our Graves
So Much to Say
Anyone Seen the Bridge
Too Much
Encore:
#40
Long Black Veil
Ants Marching

No review but I found (what is allegedly) the setlist:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/ramones/1988/the-bayou-washington-dc-3d94d63.html

Again, no review but it was this setlist:

http://www.space-trash.co.uk/ride/92/920316.htm

Ride were great, I was 15 I reckon and was in awe of the pretty boys in front of me. Their photos had been on my walls for two years already. I also remember be really scared of the crush at the front and tried to signal to the bouncers that they needed to do something. Ahem.
I bought a poster. I'd never seen so many Japanese kids in one place before this gig.

In fact, (not The) Verve supported. Not Mercury Rev.

GREAT idea for a thread.

And here you go,no less than JOHN PEEL reviewing my first pop concert:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jun/28/michaeljackson-popandrock

And HuffPo on those shows as CULTURAL PHEMOM:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-vogel/michael-jackson-wembley_b_1871878.html

Dinosaur Jr - Brixton Academy 8th October 1994.

I was at this show, jel!

MJ at Wembley!!

Mine was The Jacksons at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=723yxemlsgA

Nice!

And here is my first club show (no review though!). I love how I went from MJ to Mudhoney in 4 years!
http://www.last.fm/event/749677+Mudhoney+at+Kilburn+National+Ballroom+on+22+October+1992

I also went to this that year. Crazy bill!
http://www.myconcertarchive.com/en/event?id=5151

I saw the Who in '82 in Rosemont Horizon. Googling the show it looks like they played there twice, in October and December. I cant remember which one i was at.

There were two Who shows there in October (10/5 and 10/6). The December show (12/8) was a hastily-arranged one-off, and hyped relentlessly by WLS. For weeks they were promoting themselves as "the station that brought the Who back to Chicago!"

I'm pretty shocked that I've been unable to dig up anything on Tommy Page, Tiffany, and NKOTB 7/29/1989.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

I know that there was a local fanzine review of the first show I went to, and that I should still have a copy somewhere, but I'm not sure where my zine stash is. Almost certainly no other reviews.

Elton John at the Capital Centre in Landover, MD in 1975. Now I need to google and see what I can find.

Cherry Vanilla/The Police/The Users - Howard Mallett Club, Cambridge, May 7th 1977. I saw The Police soundchecking with Cherry Vanilla, then The Users, then I had to leave.

The Users thought that The Police's drummer was good at the soundcheck - the singer sounded rather like a donkey singing. The Police seemed very much like school teachers forming a "rock band". They were serious and didn't really talk to each other. Stewart Copeland read a paperback when not playing. It seemed like a career job for them - they were proficent & professional sounding... but without much spark or flair !

More here: http://www.policefans.org/Police_wiki/index.php?title=1977-05-07_(The_Police).

(Inaccuracy in linked piece: The Users actually played first, then The Police.)

Marshall Crenshaw opening for Joe Jackson, Greek Theater, L.A., 1982
all I could find

http://worthopedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumbnails2/1/0411/08/1_a2d0962d1f22b8a44acb68e017061d25.jpg

Found the set list. This is from Neil Diamond's world tour in 1976.

I wasn't even 9 years old but me and my peers were into hard rock like Aerosmith. I knew it wasn't cool but I really liked Neil! He played the classics and changed his clothes ten times. Here is the set list:

Street Life
Beautiful Noise
Stargazer
Surviving the Life
Lady-Oh
If You Know What I Mean
Kentucky Woman
Solitary Man
Cherry, Cherry
Sweet Caroline
The Last Picasso
Longfellow Serenade
Morningside
Play Me
Glory Road
Rosemary's Wine
Song Sung Blue
Cracklin' Rosie
Holly Holy
I Am ... I Said
Be
Dear Father
Lonely Looking Sky
Sanctus
Skybird
Be
(Reprise)
Encore:
Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
I've Been This Way Before

April 4, 1984
Culture Club comes to town, prompting Pittsburgh reporters to sniff at leader Boy George's gender-bending attire. "The effect was Phyllis Diller after shopping at a rummage sale," cracks the Pittsburgh Press. The Post-Gazette, meanwhile, focuses on the attire of fans: "In evidence were spike heels, a smattering of purple hair and quite a few short, tight leather skirts. ... And that was just the men."

Van Halen, Balch Fieldhouse, Boulder, CO, April 21, 1979

Light Up the Sky
Somebody Get Me a Doctor
Drum Solo
Runnin' With the Devil
Dance the Night Away
Beautiful Girls
On Fire
Bass Solo
You're No Good
(Dee Dee Warwick cover)
Jamie's Cryin'
Feel Your Love Tonight
Outta Love Again
Ice Cream Man
(John Brim cover)
Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love
Guitar Solo
(Eruption and Spanish Fly)
You Really Got Me

Bottoms Up!

I can't find any reviews, but miraculously there are a few photos, maybe from the next night at the same venue. I honestly can't remember which night I went to. The setlists are pretty much identical, except for the bass solo, which I think I remember.

The opener was the immortal Robert Fleischman, who was wearing an outfit that was very shiny satin, possibly a dress.

https://www.themightyvanhalen.net/1979/04/22/4-22-1979-boulder-co-balch-fieldhouse-photos/

Mine: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1984/09/23/jackson-tour-is-thriller-inside-rfk-and-outside/9265f0ac-336d-42b4-8f26-68aced404906/

Wholesome, very family-oriented!

went searching for a review and found the entire concert uploaded to youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gmY2f6GEqk

No dice finding a review of Tanya Tucker at Opryland in 1991.

I'm pretty shocked that I've been unable to dig up anything on Tommy Page, Tiffany, and NKOTB 7/29/1989.

― doom & gloom from the boys allowed in the room (how's life), Friday, August 23, 2013 3:08 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Merriweather Post Pavilion

― doom & gloom from the boys allowed in the room (how's life), Friday, August 23, 2013 3:08 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Found one, but it's on rocksbackpages.com, which is VERY EXPENSIVE!

New Kids On The Block, Tommy Page, Tiffany: New Kids on the Block, Tiffany, Tommy Page: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia MD

Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Evening Sun (Baltimore), The , 31 July 1989

5 Kids, 5,000 screamers produce A YYYEEEEEYEYEOHOOOWWWW!!! ...

One dog-day climate wilts Three-Dog Night

Jeremiah was a bullfrog and, had he been present, he probably would have hopped right out of the Metropolitan Sports Center last night while the rock group Three Dog Night was playing to a near-capacity crowd in an atmosphere that approached the tropical.

https://www.concertarchives.org/image_uploads/photo/image/343324/large_The_Philadelphia_Inquirer_Mon__Sep_14__1987_.jpg

This is the day *before* I saw them but it's the same venue
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/sep/17/popandrock

This was the first proper, standalone concert I saw anyway but I'd been going to folk festivals and similar things my entire life

I don't have a review to post, but I found this the other day: an actual recording of the first gig I ever saw! Terrible awful audio quality, but still, pretty cool to find 40 years on. U2 on the War tour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxZAQasKm2k

Aw, Rochester Institute of Technology Ice Rink sounds like a perfect location for a first show

Found a press release for mine: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=18575&context=newsreleases

Nov. 21, 2001

WILCO WILL ROCK THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA
MISSOULA—

Alternative country band Wilco will bring its distinctive rhythms to Missoula on
Tuesday, Nov. 27, for a concert at The University of Montana.

The show kicks off at 7:30 p.m. with opening act Mercury Rev in the University Center
Ballroom. Tickets are $15 for students and $17 general admission. They are available at all Tic-
It-E-Z locations or by calling (888) MONTANA.

...

Mercury Rev as openers, that's pretty good! U2 had a guy named Robert Ellis Orrall who at the time was trying to be a New Wave phenom and I think eventually became a Nashville country songwriter.

Jacksons Victory Tour 1984, Knoxville TN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuZW6wIyxus

WBIR actually did a 15-minute documentary last year about the backstory to these two shows, which pulled the largest attendance of any venue on that tour (120k total)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYjNceo2VaQ

I couldn't find a review but there are some absolutely sensational photos here:
https://eu.knoxnews.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/2019/11/14/photos-jacksons-perform-neyland-stadium/2517402001/