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9.16.2006
Concert Lifetime Review (Idea Admittedly Stolen)
1. Boston. (1976). I was 15 years old and went at the last minute with my high school buddies to see the band at the Tarrant County Convention Center. We bought tickets from a scalper and paid below face value: $8.00. (I am not making this up.)
2. Journey (3X). I was obsessed by them. Each appearance was at Reunion Arena and Loverboy opened up for them once. Greatness.
3. The Jacksons. (1981). Reunion Arena. This was, in essence, the Jackson 5 with Michael doing both the old stuff and new stuff. In retrospect, the show was outstanding.
3. Kansas. (1982). Reunion Arena. The band's lead singer was long gone but they didn't mention that in the advertisement. The arena was 1/2 way closed.
4. ZZ Top. (1986). Reunion Arena. My girlfriend got sick on the pot smoke and started crying when some guy groped her in a crowd.
4A. Amy Grant (1982). The concert was at some outdoor complex in north Dallas near LBJ and Coit. Nice venue. Nice show. I loved the girl I was with but she hated me.
4B. Kenny Loggins. (1987). Same outdoor complex. This was some organized event by my high tone Dallas law firm, but it was most memorable because of my girlfriend drinking one wine cooler and becoming drunker than Cooter Brown. It was the closest to the Bruce Willis "Blind Date" movie that I ever experienced.
5. Paul McCartney (1989 - I think.) Texas Stadium. I love the guy but my seats sucked so bad that I never got to enjoy the show.
6. Rolling Stones. (1990). Cotton Bowl. I was never much of a Stones fan but the show was good. The biggest memory was of how they only had one entrance open on both sides of the stadium which led to a very scary crush of people. Guys were putting their girlfriends on their shoulders to keep them from being crushed.
7. Garth Brooks. (1992). Reunion Arena. You know, not bad.
8. New Order. (1991). Smirnoff Music Center. My girlfriend suggested it about three hours before the show - I knew nothing about them. But I have never seen a concert morph into a dance floor like this experience. Top notch.
9. Restless Heart (1992). Billy Bob's. Maybe the only country concert I would ever dream of going to. It was great.
And I'm stunned I haven't gone to a concert in over a decade.
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16 comments:
yay for new order!
Soo jealous of the Journey
Gosh...I have no idea how many concerts I've been to. My first one was when I was eight years old...Neil Diamond. The last one I went to was Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's concert this last July. My favorites of all the ones I've been to are absolutely the two U2 concerts I went to.
Sometimes you forget all the details that make life special:
The concerts in the park became legendary as the 60's ended, The Jefferson Airplane when Grace was still a babe. The Grateful Dead before they had a cult following.
The time my high school girlfriend convinced me to go to a little club in the Mission District to hear this phenom guitarist. I am glad that her dad went with us as neither of us looked Hispanic and the Mission could get nasty. But seeing Carlos Santana play that red metalic Gibson hollow body was an experience to remember.
Tied with that was a concert I saw in 1975 at Winterland when Peter Frampton came alive. I always have had a tape/CD of that concert (#12 at last count), the audience was a lot louder than you can hear but his guitar was louder.
San Francisco was a good place to grow up.
As to not going to concerts in over a decade--Barry, you're getting old!!
I went to Cowboy Stadium for Buffett, Jackson, and Strait last year. Had $90 floor seats and they were lousy. Couldn't see anything but the big screens. Audio was inaudible. Overflowing port-a-potties, $10 margaritas and $8 beer. A total waste of time and money. I'll never go near that place again - ever!
12:51. I went to the same concert. I had to wait in line for over an hour to get a beer. There was only ONE place in the whole stadium to buy a beer. It sucked.
One time at band camp....
We were at that 90's Stones concert but we went on the second day, and it rained like the devil and we thought a tornado was coming - it blew a bunch of stage props down on us. Yep, it was incredibly crowded - I couldn't walk in the crowd, my feet couldn't touch the floor because of all the people, so I just floated along. Many people came out to flooded cars when the concert was over. It was a scary thing, and the last BIG concert I ever went to, or will go to again. I'd just rather get the LP. LP - HA!
Saw Journey & Def Leppard this summer at Smirnoff Center. Journey rocked! I never sat down during the entire Journey concert. Steve Perry was not the lead singer, but the backup singer still rocked it.
Where was Tom Jones on your list ? And you can't forget that once in a life time Wayne Newton show!
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ahh come on barry my mom didn't HATE u
The outdoor concert place was called Starfest. A while back my brother asked me "remember when we saw SRV at Starfest?" I couldn't remember and didn't believe him. Then recently I found the ticket stub. Darned if he wasn't right.
You just never know who might be reading this...Amy Grant '92--it was fun...I didn't hate you!
Up with People, Texas Stadium 1976. The best Barry, the best.
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