Whitesnake / Kix

Kwyjibo2112 Oct 03, 2019

This was my very first rock concert. It was a freezing Saturday night in Rochester but as soon as we walked in and staked out our spot about 15 feet from the stage on stage left, we noticed that there were scores of girls (and women) walking around in just their bras or bikini tops. This was definitely going to be a chick show.
It was supposed to start at 8 pm, but around 8:30, they announced that one of the equipment trucks was late for some reason and it should start around 9ish.
Kix was ok but everyone wanted to see Whitesnake. Steve Vai was filling in for Adrian Van Den Berg, who broke his wrist skate boarding or something like that. We were 15 away from Steve Vai. What a show he put on. The other guys were good, too. LOL.
About half way thru the show, people all around the arena started flicking their cigarettes down on the people below. After I got hit by one, I turned around to see what it was and there were little red dots raining down from the upper seats. It looked kinda cool, but it hurt. And if one landed in some chicks big, hair-sprayed hair, it would have gone up in flames.
After almost 30 years, it all seems so clear in my mind like it was last week. Great show, even tho the girl I went with turned out to be a, well, you get the point.