Hey Y'all,
Since we've all mentioned what concerts we'd like to catch sometime in the future, let's step back and reminisce about the concerts we've attended. :) (Name the tour you saw, if you can remember)

Here's who I've had the pleasure to see live:

Madonna - Blond Ambition Tour '90
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam '87
Taylor Dayne '88
Beastie Boys '86
Gloria Esefan & Miami Sound Machine '86
Tori Amos - Under The Pink Tour '94
Tori Amos - Dew Drop Inn Tour '96
Tori Amos - From The Chiorgirl Hotel Tour '98
Depeche Mode - Exciter Tour '01
Stevie Nicks - Street Angel Tour '94
Stevie Nicks - Trouble In Shangri-La Tour '01
Fleetwood Mac - Dance Tour '97
The Jets '88
Stacy Q '88
Technotronic '90
Cher - Believe Tour '99
Fishbone '86
Paula Abdul '89
Milli Vanilli '89
Tone Loc '89
Information Society '89
Was Not Was '89
Cyndi Lauper '99
Wild Orchid '99
The Devlins '98
Poe '01
Bill Miller '94

Okay, let's see if I can remember all of them:

Dexy's Midnight Runners '83
Men At Work '83
Adam Ant '84 & '95
Stray Cats '83 & '94
Oingo Boingo '84
Charlie Sexton '85 (and too many more to name)
Joe "King" Carrasco & The Crowns '84
Whitesnake '88
Bon Jovi '88
Poison '90
Guns N' Roses '92
The Cure '96
Siouxsie And The Banshees '95
AC/DC '96
Ronnie James Dio '01
The Fixx '01
A Flock Of Seagulls '01
The Outfield '01
John Cafferty And The Beaver Brown Band '85
David Bowie '95
The Powerstation '85
Information Society '90
Miami Sound Machine '85?
(and probably some more that I'm not thinking of at the moment)

Hmmmmmm I saw...

KISS with Ted Nugent: Farewell tour '00

Neil Young: '00

Eric Clapton: '01

Not bad for only being 15. :p and I'm seeing Judas Priest this Febuary, on Valentines day. :D

Sadly not many...

Sting
Billy Joel
Guns and Roses
Kenny Rogers
Willie Nelson

Then tons of country stuff in college but that was just an excuse to drink beer and pick up chics! :D

I don't know if I can remember them all but here goes:

Ozzy Osbourne/Metallica 1986
Milli Vanilli/ Young MC/ Seduction 1990
Ozzy/Prong 90something
Air Supply 1990
Jefferson Airplane
Dan Fogelberg
Ozzy/Deftones/Korn
George Strait tour two years in a row
Alan Jackson/Deana Carter (mmm...Deana)
Alan Jackson/Brad Paisley
Tim McGraw/Martina Mcbride/Sons of the Desert
Kiss/Winger/Slaughter
Kiss (Buffalo for their reunion tour)
Phil Collins (in Miami)
Phil Collins (in Cleveland)
Garth Brooks
La Bouche/Quad City DJ's/Jocelyn Enriquez/Crush/Robin S
Chely Wright
Lorrie Morgan
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (free at We love Erie days)
Nelson/Enuff Z Nuff
Donnie Iris (many times)
The Vogues (no original members)
Doug Stone
Colin Raye (twice)
Alabama
Dan Seals

I'm sure there are more, I just can't think off hand.

Here we go:
Night Ranger '84
Dio & Dokken '84
Bon Jovi & Ratt '85
KISS & W.A.S.P. '86
Motely Crue & Y&T '86
Megadeth & Lizzy Borden '86
Metallica '86
Dio & Accept '86
Tesla, Great White & Kix '87
Iron Maiden & Vinnie Vincent Invasion '87
Cinderella, White Lion, & Tangier '87
Anthrax, Metal Church, & D.R.I. '87
L.A. Guns '88
Cheap Trick '88
Poison & Brittany Fox '88
Texxas Jam/Monsters of Rock '88 - Van Halen, Scorpions, Dokken, Meatllica & Kingdom Come
Metallica & Queensryche '89
L.A. Guns & Shark Island '90
Judas Priest, Megadeth, & Testament '91
Scorpions & Trixter '91
Queensryche & Suicidal Tendencies '91
Clash of the Titans '91 - Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, & Alice In Chains
Quiet Riot '91
Warrant, Firehouse, & Trixter '91
Rush & Primus '92
Foghat '92
Tesla & Firehouse '92
Guns N Roses, Metallica, & Faith No More '92
Megadeth & Stone Temple Pilots '93
Def Leppard '93
Van Halen & Vince Neil Band '93
Rush & Candlebox '94
Tori Amos '94
Stevie Nicks '94
Reverend Horton Heat '95
OZZY, Type O Negative, & Sepultura '96
Megadeth, COC, Misfits, & Machinehead '97
Quiet Riot, Warrant, Slaughter, & L.A. Guns '98

I might need to pull out my scrapbook to remember these...

Simple Minds -1985
Oingo Boingo -1986
David Lee Roth -1986 or 87
Manilli Vanilli -1989
Camper Van Beetoven -1987???
The 90s are a blur to me so I wont remember these years:
Elton John
George Strait -Many many times
Alan Jackson
Vince Gill
Patti Loveless
Garth Brooks
and a ton more I just can't remember right now.

Wow, this takes me back:

Prince & the Revolution 1986
Madonna (Who's That Girl? tour) 1987
Elton John 1987
Expose/Company B 1987
U2 1988
George Michael 1988
Guns'n Roses/Skid Row 1991
AC/DC 1990
ZZ Top 1991
Rod Stewart 1992
U2 1992
Duran Duran 1993
Bon Jovi 1995
Lilith Fair 1996
Alanis Morrisette 1996
Tina Turner/opening act Cyndi Lauper 1997
Andrea Bocelli 1999
Elton John 1999

I believe that's it; I haven't been to a concert in a while, however...

:(

So few so few! We don't get that many big acts down here in NZ :(

Dire Straits 1985
Clannad 1990???
Split Enz 1990??
Cliff Richard (Dragged along by wife in early 90s)
Beegees 1998

Not that many of the 'bigger' ones...but many unknown artists, since their concerts were either for free or cheap enough.

Depeche Mode (´84, ´86, ´87, ´90, ´93)
Eurythmics (can´t remember anymore)
B.V.S.M.P. (late 80´s, by accident)
Karat (German rock band from the former GDR, 1987)
Fury In The Slaughterhouse (one of their first live appearances, around the mid-80s)
Slade, if I´m not mistaking it right now (for free, early 90s)
Super Bang Festival with Sisters Of Mercy (´93?)
Slayer (mid 90s)
Runrig (98, 99, 2001)
New Model Army (2001)
M´Era Luna Festival (2001)

Hi..not too many concerts here either I am afraid. You always had to drive a couple of hours and wasn't that easy finding someone who didn't have a full car already.

SAMMY HAGAR.....RED TOUR 1983 (?) This one was taped for MTV!!

NIGHT RANGER.....1983 Great!

JOURNEY...(FRONTIERS ?) 1983 Very excellent.

BRYAN ADAMS......1983 I could have listened to him all night!

I don't have a very big list....my brother atteneded more concerts in one week that I could have. He's seen KISS several times, AEROSMITH about 10 times, OZZFEST a few times, ALICE COOPER, etc....he was more into the rock.

Nice topic by the way. :cool:

Boy, I can't believe you can all remember the years. I can't sort out the 90s let alone the 80s. LOL.

In no particular order:
Simple Minds (80s)
The Smiths (80s)
The Who/Heart/J.Geils Band (80s)
David Bowie (Serious Moonlight Tour)
Motorhead (80s)
Iron Maiden (with D'ianno)
Black Sabbath (80s)
Adam Ant (80s)
Big Country (80s)
Billy Idol (80s)
The Pogues/Shane McGowan solo (several times)
Nick Cave (90s)
Waterboys (80s & 90s)
Fishbone - kinda (80s)
James (90s)
54-40 (80s)
Spirit of the West (80s)
Buzzcocks (90s)
Sisters of Mercy (90s)
Echo & The Bunnymen (90s)
The English Beat (90s)

That's all I remember at the moment.

Like Bogie I can't remember the years but here you go

April Wine (several times)
Trooper (several times)
Rush (several Times)
these are Canadian Bands who would play every year in my city

Ted Nugent
Van Halen
Iron Maiden/ Twisted Sister
Tom Petty
Brian Adams
Def Leppard
Alice Cooper
Metallica/Guns N Roses in Montreal for the riot. :)

I think I'm going to win the prize for the most pitiful concert history:

Donny & Marie - 1976
Journey - 1986 (the Outfield opened)
Squeeze - 1988
B52's - 1990

Pretty sad list 'huh?

Damn ya'll! I'll just go find a hole in the ground and stick my head in it! We have some serious concert junkies here! :D

naah. Some of us have just been around too long Gman. LOL. :D

Here's my routine:

1. Hear or read about concert.
2. Plan to buy tickets.
3. Forget to buy tickets.
4. Concert comes and goes.
5. Repeat.

I know, slacker! :D

Actually My concert going days are pretty much over also, I don't think i've been to a real concert since 92, i will go to a local bar to see old groups though once in a while.

I noticed that some posts about concerts were current so I would like to add another to my list:
LONESTAR in 2000.....they really put on a class act show. If you enjoy country music, try to see these guys. They are good. :cool:

I atually met the guys from Lonestar at the radio station I worked at. I saw them perform "Amazed" live in the studio does that count?

Here is what I can remember, and I promise they're not in order. Some may actually have opened for others. LOL

1. Go Go's and A Flock of Seagulls
2. Adam Ant and INXS
3. Journey (Twice - 84 and 87)
4. Quiet Riot and Kick Axe
5. Had tix to Ozzy(84), but got grounded.
6. Judas Priest (can't remember who opened)
7. Eddie Murphy (RAW) with The Weather Girls
8. Heart and The Fabulous Thunderbirds (GAG) 1985
9. Crosby, Stills, and Nash
10.Robert Palmer (86)
11.Alanis Morissette(95 or 96 can't remember which)
12.The Romantics 1991
13.The Ramones 1989

I'm sure there are more, I just can't think of them at the moment. I'll post them later.

Oops...forgot to mention a concert of an widely unknown band which was generally underrated...Metallica. ;)

DJDAFFY....
You met Lonestar? That's great! I have met several celebs myself. I think you'd be able to slip that one in (them singing in the studio..it was a live performance.. :D right?????
I just wanted to tell everyone hello. I haven't been on here this long and am just getting the hang of it. I just love this site and am continuously logging on. I think I've died and gone to heaven! This is the best 80's site that I have stumbled onto. Everything is current and ya'll are great! <CHEERS!!> :cool:

LOSTNTHE80's,
Glad you enjoy your stay here. Keep up the posting and you too may become a member of the round table. I have to admit meeting George Strait in Pittsburgh was the highlight of my radio career (that is still going) but that topic has already been covered :)

I haven't been to that many concerts.One in the 80's wich was to New Kids On The Block and one in the 90's wich was Salt N Peppa.My parents were over protective.I had to sneak and go see NKOTB.

Even though I can't do anything about it now..I would like to list a couple of concerts I would have given anything to have attended.
PAT BENATAR
REO SPEEDWAGON
CHICAGO



Even today, I would like to see them. They are all very talented and have contributed alot to the music archives. :cool:

Glad you asked, now if only I can remember them all. Let me see if I can find my photo albums with my ticket stubs and start in the beginning.

1983 Iron Maiden, Fastway, and Saxon
1985 Bon Jovi and Ratt
1985 Kiss & Wasp
198? Menudo (had to take my sister, she was the fan not me)
198? Timex Social Club, NuShooz, Stacy Q (little sister again)
198? Miami Sound Machine (okay, little sister once again. hey, I love my little sister)

Okay, here's where I can't remember dates nor can I find the photo album with the appropriate information...DAMNIT!!

198? Dokken & Dio
1985 Iron Maiden and Vinnie Vincent Invasion
198? or 199? Warrant and Firehouse
198? or 199? Metallica & Guns N Roses
198? MCHammer and Rob Base (sister again)
199? Judas Priest, Megadeth, & Testament
199? Tesla
1988 Monsters of Rock - Van Halen, Scorpions, Dokken, Meatllica & Kingdom Come
1991 Queensryche & Suicidal Tendencies
199? Rush & Primus
199? An evening with Rush
199? Def Leppard
199? Rush & Candlebox
1997 The Artist formerly known as Prince
2001 Stevie Nicks
2000 Tina Turner
2001 Aerosmith
1996 KISS Reunion Tour

There's a few others that I'm sure I've forgotten but hey I'm getting old. :D

Violet and Sav, y'alls concert lists read almost identical to mine. I was supposed to see Dio/Dokken in 1984, even had tickets, but I was in a car wreck. I was in a freakin wheelchair at the time! I have a question for both of you, I saw Monsters of Rock in 1988, but Dokken and Kngdom Come weren't at the one I saw. Where did y'all see this concert?

Red-- I saw Monsters of Rock in Dallas. If memory serves, Sav saw the Houston show. I think that's right because I'm remembering a discussion we had about how Dokken didn't play well in Houston but rocked in Dallas. Where did you see the show?

I might as well start over on my post. :D I will confess, I saw the Osmonds in 1976 (?) not exactly sure of date. I thought of two more artists that I meant to put on my list of who I would love to see...ELTON JOHN & ROD STEWART. There are probably more but we can't go on forever.

Lemme think, I saw the last two Texxas Jams in 1986 and 1987 in Dallas. Then I saw the Monsters of Rock in 1988 in Houston. Maybe my memory is so bad that I don't remember seeing them, or I'm getting the years wrong. I remember Van Halen being the headliner in 86 and 88, Boston was the headliner in 87. I no longer have my ticket stubs or concert shirts. Damn, I only remember bits and pieces of these shows...

REO Speedwagon 1988
Great White and Tesla 1989
Taylor Dayne 1990
Van Halen 1991
ZZ Top 1990
Amy Grant 1991
Rush 1994
Paul McCartney 1993
Ringo Starr and all star band 1992
Pink Floyd 1994
Poison, Ratt, Great White, LA Guns 1999
Poison, Great White, Vince Neil, Warrant 2001
Bryan Adams 1991
Beach Boys 1991
Chubby Checker 1989

all I can think of at the moment.

Ac/DC w/ Cinderella--1988

Montley Crue w/ Tesla- 1990

Def Leppard w/?? -1993

Aerosmith w/ Guns and Roses--year??

Guns and Roses /Metallica w/ Faith No More-1992

Lollaplooza (sp?) w/ too many to name!-1993 I went mostely to see Alice In Chains. I think I seen Tool??--lol :rolleyes:

Ted Nugent-W/?? - I think 1991?? Acutally, the people we went with got sick, so we had to leave early. I seen him for like 5 min. -LOL

Godsmack w/ Puddle of Mudd, From Zero and some other bands?--2001

Ugh, you are such a teenager, TC. LOL :p :D

Originally posted by Red
Lemme think, I saw the last two Texxas Jams in 1986 and 1987 in Dallas. Then I saw the Monsters of Rock in 1988 in Houston. Maybe my memory is so bad that I don't remember seeing them, or I'm getting the years wrong. I remember Van Halen being the headliner in 86 and 88, Boston was the headliner in 87. I no longer have my ticket stubs or concert shirts. Damn, I only remember bits and pieces of these shows...

I think we talked this one out in chat. Something about pre show parking lot activities? :lol:

Oh nooo... I have too many to name!! I'm sure I will miss a bunch as well.. I might as well just duplicate Foxx's list and add KISS and Slayer it to it a few more times, and I think we'll have it! LOL

The pre-concert activities were very important. If I remember correctly, the venue had changed their rules recently. They no longer allowed coolers or bottles inside. This guy in front of us had a coolerful of beer. When they told him he couldn't bring in the cooler, he decided that he didn't want to lose his place in line. So, he started handing out the beer to everybody so it didn't go to waste (he didn't care about the cooler). The gates had just opened so we had to slam 'em down because they wouldn't let you in with a bottle. I think I drank about 4 beers in 10 minutes. That was the setup for the day. And what a day!! I was near the stage nearly all day!!!

I went to a Poison/Warrant concert back in 1991. The show was pretty good.

WHOA! Kix and Great White in concert together! Those are my two favorites, VioletFoxx. I've always wanted to see Kix and Great White in concert but have never been able to. Did they put on a good show?

I haven't seen many concerts, because the tickets haven't been in my price range. But here's my list of the concerts I've seen.

The Who 1989
The Kinks 1991
Davy Jones (yes, The Monkees, Davy Jones)
Weezer and Live (they had a concert together)
Blues Traveller 1994
Squeeze 1998
Great Big Sea 2001 (I saw them twice, once at a free show at Lafayette Square, and another time in St. Catharine's, Ont. Now I'm going to see them in March here in Buffalo.) :eek:

My list probably starts before a lot of you were born:

The Monkees, 65
Hermans Hermits, 66
Johnny Cash
Whitewitch
Blue Oyster Cult
Led Zep
Mason Proffit
The Band
Joe Cocker
Procol Harum
BLACK OAK ARKANSAS (7 times. most recently last Oct.)
Marshal Tucker Band
Bette Midler
Allman Bros.
Steve Winwood Tour
Traffic Tour
Sonja Dada

Randall Bramblett Band (excellent music, give him a try. Most recent cd titled NO MORE MR. LUCKY)

ZZ Top
Jimi Hendrix
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Fleetwood Mac
Dr. John
Moody Blues
Steppinwolf
Willie Nelson
Waylon Jennings
Wynonna Judd (not impressed)
Sawyer Brown (very impressed)
Rolling Stones
George Harrison
The Shangrilas (Leader of the Pack)


and many others that my burned out brain cells can't remember.

Originally posted by VioletFoxx
Here we go:
Night Ranger '84
Dio & Dokken '84
Bon Jovi & Ratt '85
KISS & W.A.S.P. '86
Motely Crue & Y&T '86
Megadeth & Lizzy Borden '86
Metallica '86
Dio & Accept '86
Tesla, Great White & Kix '87
Iron Maiden & Vinnie Vincent Invasion '87
Cinderella, White Lion, & Tangier '87
Anthrax, Metal Church, & D.R.I. '87
L.A. Guns '88
Cheap Trick '88
Poison & Brittany Fox '88
Texxas Jam/Monsters of Rock '88 - Van Halen, Scorpions, Dokken, Meatllica & Kingdom Come
Metallica & Queensryche '89
L.A. Guns & Shark Island '90
Judas Priest, Megadeth, & Testament '91
Scorpions & Trixter '91
Queensryche & Suicidal Tendencies '91
Clash of the Titans '91 - Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, & Alice In Chains
Quiet Riot '91
Warrant, Firehouse, & Trixter '91
Rush & Primus '92
Foghat '92
Tesla & Firehouse '92
Guns N Roses, Metallica, & Faith No More '92
Megadeth & Stone Temple Pilots '93
Def Leppard '93
Van Halen & Vince Neil Band '93
Rush & Candlebox '94
Tori Amos '94
Stevie Nicks '94
Reverend Horton Heat '95
OZZY, Type O Negative, & Sepultura '96
Megadeth, COC, Misfits, & Machinehead '97
Quiet Riot, Warrant, Slaughter, & L.A. Guns '98

Whoa! Kix and Great White together in concert! Those are my two favorites. I've always wanted to see them in concert but have never been able to attend them. Did they put on a great show?

Originally posted by BlueMolly2001
Great Big Sea 2001 (I saw them twice, once at a free show at Lafayette Square, and another time in St. Catharine's, Ont. Now I'm going to see them in March here in Buffalo.) :eek:

Great Big Sea - saw them opening for Runrig here on their last tour, and they were truly great.
During their performance, the PA failed with a loud bang. Was no problem for them - they just picked on the song, continuing it acoustically. The audience fell in silence, so even me (balcony, at the bar ;)) was able to understand everything.
But, before you might want to ask me more...my g/f is the true Celtic music freak. I only happen to know her...and I like the music, but I´m not that involved like her. :D

Wow...you guys have seen tons of concerts *sigh* Here's my list:

a-ha '87
Depeche Mode '88
Herbert Grönemeyer '88 (German singer)
TV2 '88 (Danish group :D)
Bros '88
Prince '89 (I think)
Peter Gabriel '89 or '90
Billy Joel '89 or '90
The Cure '90
David Bowie '90
NKOTB '90 *cringe* Don't ask.....
Sting '91
Simple Minds '91
Johnny Gill '91
Bell Biv Devoe '91
INXS '91
Public Enemy '92
Guns'N'Roses '92
Elton John '92
Bryan Adams '92
Depeche Mode '01

Hmm..that's all I think :) Man...I can't believe I didn't go to any concerts between '92 and '01!!! :(

My list of who I can remember:

1982 Depeche Mode, Duran Duran
1983 Depeche Mode, Echo & The Bunnymen
1984 Depeche Mode, New Order
1985 Paul Young, Style Council
1986 Depeche Mode (April), Depeche Mode (August), Big Country, New Order, Talk Talk, Feargal Sharkey, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, Madness
1987 A-Ha, Duran Duran, Echo & The Bunnymen, Camouflage, The Mission
1988 Duran Duran, Depeche Mode x 3 (Twice in Copenhagen and once in Oslo), 10.000 Maniacs, INXS
1989 Duran Duran
1990 Depeche Mode x 2 (Both in Copenhagen), Deacon Blue, The Cure
1991 Simple Minds, 808 State, Billy Idol, Sisters Of Mercy
1992 Alison Moyet, Blur, Crowded House, EMF, Texas
1993 Depeche Mode, Aztec Camera, Jamiroquai, Moby, New Order
1994 Radiohead
1995 Duran Duran, Blur, Leftfield, Oasis, Sheryl Crow, Suede, The Cure, Prodigy
1996 Alanis Morissette, Björk, Front Line Assembly, Massive Attack, Cradigans
1997 Jamiroquai, Prodigy, Aphex Twin, Echo & The Bunnymen, Beck, Erasure, Daft Punk, Lighning Seeds, Pet Shop Boys, Suede
1998 Morrissey, Depeche Mode, Beastie Boys, Catatonia, Kraftwerk, Garbage, Portishead, Tori Amos
1999 Basement Jaxx, Faithless, Robbie Williams

I think that's it for now.

Ooops....forgot two.....

Michael Jackson '88
Naughty By Nature '92