Review and Discuss Concerts, Bands, Venues, & More.

Commenter	Comment	Posted On	Date
Tom Kennedy	Joy Formidable played about 30 minutes before major storm wiped out show	Silversun Pickups / The Joy Formidable	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	My last Priest show, and memory blurs them all together now. I'm sure it was a great show, just can't recall any telling details now.	JUDAS PRIEST / Fastway	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	Went alone and drove all the hell way out in Mesa. Outdoor Amp where I saw MSG the year before, all grass. Was up front, Accept was ok, Biff and the Saxon boys put on a great show, decending eagle and all.	SAXON And ACCEPT	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	My second time of three seeing the Scorps. Great, great show in all ways. Girlschool were good.	THE SCORPIONS / Girlschool	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	Good show, was not a huge Maiden fan. Eddie made his apperance, half the size he would later become. Saxon was great.	IRON MAIDEN / Saxon	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	Very small club show. Went with friends as there was nothing going on. OK show	KROKUS / Surgical Steel	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	I think Commander Cody and His Lost Airmen opended. My memory is hazy but I wrote it on my ticket stubb as I did all opening acts, so.	Molly Hatchet / Henry Paul Band	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	Good show, my third time seeing them. Kinda bored actually.	Molly Hatchet / Henry Paul Band	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	Good show.	BLACKFOOT	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	My first of four Van Hales shows, and not just the best of the four but one of the best shows I ever attended period! I went with my brother Tony and his friends, who had seen Van Halen the year before at The Texas Jam at the Cotton Bowl where the up and coming Halen blew everybody away. This show at the Civic Plaza, with a sold out crowd of like 5000 was almost the night to the last date on their first headling tour, although not the big arenas most of the time but like our mid size Civic. Except for when I first saw AC/DC, I never experienced a crowd so hyped up full of anticipation for a show. When Van Halen opened with "Light Up The Skies" the place exploded! Seeing Eddie up close and playing his revolutionary style was mindblowing. I think alot of the crowd was guitar players just shaking their heads. David Lee Roth was the surperb frontman, at this point he was singing most of the lyrics, not like he was in later years. It was just a trancedent event, you knew you were witnessing something extraordinary. So yeah, it was great.	VAN HALEN / Screams	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	Paul Rodgers is one of my favorite all time singers and it was a thrill to see him live and in fine voice. I remembered the show opened with a single spot light on Rodgers as he sat at a piano, dressed all in denim, white t-shirt and vest, and played "Bad Company". The whole show was a classy English rock show, with Mick Ralphs playing his tasteful guitar solos with grace. The sound was superb. The one special effect they used was mindblowing. As Simon Kirke started his drum solo, smoke filled the stage and the stage went black. But has Kirke played his solo what seemed like hundreds of laser beams shot all over the arena and over our heads in time with his beats. It seemed the lasers came from his sticks but it was more likely just from his drum riser. Just a great show.	BAD COMPANY / Carillo	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	First time seeing one of my favorite bands, pre Hi Infidelity that is. Gary Richrath one of the more underated guitar slingers there ever was, just tore it up this show, the highlight, his epic solo during his penned classic "Golden Country". This was thr rockin version of REO before singer Kevin Cronin took them more in an AOR direction, and Gary finally left by the end of the 80's, along with the heart and soul of the band. A rockin "Ridin The Storm Out", another Richraft penned classic, brought the show to its end along with blinding flashpots on each side of the PAs. The foremention "Golden Country" brought a great show to a close. The up and coming Molly Hatchett put on a fine show, and impressed many with their Southern fried hard rock,	REO SPEEDWAGON / Molly Hatchett	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	Cheap Trick was riding high on the surprise success of "At Budokan" in the Summer of '79. Last saw them two years before opening for KSS, not much had changed, which was a good thing as they always put on a great high energy show. I think next to Angus Young, nobody worked a stage harder then Rick Neilsen, he was all over the place, never missing a note. Robin Zander is one of those rare singers who sound exactly like they do on record in a live setting. Bun E. and Tom brought as usual on this very hot summer night under the stars. The legendary Bad Finger, or what was left of ot afyer so much tragic events, did not get a warm reception, I think most of the crowd was just too young to know their music, which was a shame.	CHEAP TRICK / Bad Finger	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	Great show, Styx opened with "The Grand Illusion" as flashpots light up the stage front. Very rockin show, with great guitar workouts from Tommy Shaw and J.Y. Young, and Dennis DeYoung was a great frontman and his vocals were spot on. Angel opened, who at one time people thought would rival KISS but it never happened for them, All in white, including the stage amps, they went over good, had some good tunes but they never made it big.	STYX / ANGEL	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	Kansas were solid, put on a good show. Sniff N The Tears who opended were met for thetr whole set with boos,ect. Then they finished off with their hit "Drivers Seat" I think it was called, and the crowd loved them for just those few minutes. Ha!	KANSAS / Sniff N The Tears	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	My first BOC show and they delivered. This was their first tour without their famous lazer lightshow which they gave up for many reasons but it was not missed as they always had a killer lighting rig and pyro and other stage effects that enhanced the music. Let me say that Eric Bloom was a very underrated singer and frontman and was always cool wearing hs shades. The musical hightlight was "Astronomy" were Buck Dharma soared with his extended guitar solo, as a huge mirror ball swirled in the middle of the arenas ceiling. The finale was infroduced as massive flashpots eurupted in front of the stage and smoke billowed out as Bloom rode his Harley to center stage. As the song concluded fireworks burst off on each side of the stage as roman rockets shot skyward and on stage towers of sparks lit the stage up. Of course as the smoke cleared the expect "Reaper" closed the show out. Great feast for the eyes and ears. BOC never failed to have a killer show. Ronnie Montrose 's Gama opened, got a good reception, I can't remember ir Ronnie played any classic Montose or not.	BLUE OYSTER CULT / Ronnie Montrose and Gamma	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	My first of four Rush shows I would see. They opened with the whole 2012 suite for the last time this tour, playing less parts of it on future tours. Blinding filashpots introduced "The Temples Of Syrinx" and gave everyone a jump. This was the first concert where a band used background films projected behind the stage on a huge screen, and it was quite effective. Rush always had a great light show too, But it was the three members outstanding muscianship that was always the highlight at their shows. Rush was the only band where people looked forward to the drum solo as it was the Professor Neil Peart. A great, memorable show.	RUSH	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	First time seeing one of my favorite all time bands. Their was some grumbling about it not being the same without the recently parted Michael Schenker but Paul "Tonka" Chapman was a great,great guitarist in his own right, and while replacing a legend like Schenker was daunting for anyone, Chapman blew everybody away putting his own stamp on the band. Got to say that Phil Mogg is/was one of the most underated singers and lyricists, besides being a great frontman. A little aside, for some reason my brother and his friend picked up a bottle of Peppermint Schwapps and we drank it before the show. A little sick was I from such a strange choice of booze.	UFO / Off Broadway	Jul 01, 2022
Capo	Without doubt, the loudest show I ever attended. I was nowhere near the stage but Nugent saw to it that my ears were ringing for days after, This was a hell of a triple bill. Def Leppard had their first album out and went down a storm. The Scorps high energy set took the crowd by the throat and never let go. Both bands got encores as I recall. Uncle Ted made his entrace wearing nothing but a lion cloth and swinging on a rope from one side of the stage to the other, screaming like a banshee. Then he picked up his guitar and rocked the whole place with a blinding set. Those were the days of seeing three bands for just a few bucks.	TED NUGENT / DEF LEPPARD / THE SCORPIONS	Jul 01, 2022
Paul Dayfoot	Lighthouse played: Sweet Lullaby 1849 What Gives You the Right? Love of a Woman Eight Miles High (one hour long) One Fine Morning	Lighthouse / Christopher Kearney	Jul 01, 2022