Bong-Man Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 One of the few stubs I have from Detroit's old Olympia Stadium..... I saw Yes, The Moody Blues, and ELP there. It was torn down in 1986. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwizard03 Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 One of the few stubs I have from Detroit's old Olympia Stadium..... I saw Yes, The Moody Blues, and ELP there. It was torn down in 1986. Great Bands great shows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Found a couple cool sports stubs... Once upon a time, the worst team in professional sports not only hosted an NFL Playoff game, they actually won. Amazing how one simple ticket stub can reflect 50 years of effort....damn pussy cats. i saw Tommy "The Hit Man" Hearns fight several times at both Cobo and Joe Louis. Ever see a boxing match live ? No matter your opinion of the sport, seeing it live will blow your mind. I was quite a boxing fan until the second Hearns- Sugar Ray Leanard fight. Hearns was robbed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 The Who thru the years..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 w/Plant & the Lousy Sensations. Jimmy Page & The Crowes were the night before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Now and Zen Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Awesome with all the shit Ive lost in my life including women and a wife, somehow I managed to keep this for 31 yrs. Truly must be divine intervention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 First arena show I attended. Aerosmith, Foghat, Ted Nugent, and The Outlaws. The show was in one endzone, and I sat in the other. I might as well have sat in Montana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 The infamous crab show, and the death of ELO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 A local ticket. Adrenalin, The Look, Holy Smoke, Salem Witchcraft, Toby Redd, Bittersweet Alley, and a bunch of other bands I followed in my teens. Bittersweet Alley had a minor national hit with this cheezy song.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yegDy0JLf98 Told her that I came from Detroit City....and I played guitar in a long-haired rock and roll band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Great show....and the last one I attended at Cobo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Two months after Zeppelin, Bob Seger played the Silverdome. "In June 1976, he played in front 50 people in a Chicago bar. Three days later, he played in front of 76,000 devoted fans in the Pontiac Silverdome outside Detroit. A very strange show, but a good one. Todd Rundgren, Elvin Bishop, and Point Blank. Rundgren still talks about this....He had no idea what he was walking into. Heard all of "Night Moves" for the first time....It wouldn't come out until the Fall. Also remember people going absolutely ballistic because he played this local favorite for the last time ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles_Obscure Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 The infamous crab show, and the death of ELO. What is that story? Crab show and ELO's death?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 What is that story? Crab show and ELO's death?? This show is now a Detroit urban legend...Here's an example. Even though they put out great songs, it was rumored that their live shows weren't exactly "live". While attending CMU in the early 1980's, a friend of mine told me a story about the time he went to see ELO at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. I don't know the date of the concert but I know it was the late late 1970's. ELO had the spaceship on stage, which lifted up and ELO appeared on stage. I don't know when in the concert this happened but according to him, the drummer was holding his sticks in the air when there was a "rum-bum-bum" from the drums. He quickly covered but the audience was onto the the memorex moment and started booing. The spaceship abruptly lowered and the concert was over. Again, don't know if true or not. Throughout my college "career" though, when an ELO song was played on the radio or one of their videos played on MTV, someone would relate this story to me. Bottom line is don't mess around with Detroit rock crowd. TJ It wasn't as dramatic as the above description, but the tape problems happened more than the once described during the course of the show. It was especially revealing when the band was trying to fill in the orchestra parts on some of their tunes. The mix was terrible...and we were hearing things that weren't happening on stage. There were several Milli-Vanilli moments, and the band was way out of synch for most of the show. The crowd more than booed...they booed as they were leaving. The band was later sued by the promoter for using tapes during the show. This received a lot of publicity in the U.S., and pretty much ended ELO's live career, at least in the States. The bottom line is they had no business playing an arena that size, and paid the price for trying to cash in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valleygirl Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Loving the ticket stubs!!!!!!! particularly the Led zeppelin and of course Bad Company Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles_Obscure Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 (edited) This show is now a Detroit urban legend...Here's an example. Even though they put out great songs, it was rumored that their live shows weren't exactly "live". While attending CMU in the early 1980's, a friend of mine told me a story about the time he went to see ELO at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. I don't know the date of the concert but I know it was the late late 1970's. ELO had the spaceship on stage, which lifted up and ELO appeared on stage. I don't know when in the concert this happened but according to him, the drummer was holding his sticks in the air when there was a "rum-bum-bum" from the drums. He quickly covered but the audience was onto the the memorex moment and started booing. The spaceship abruptly lowered and the concert was over. Again, don't know if true or not. Throughout my college "career" though, when an ELO song was played on the radio or one of their videos played on MTV, someone would relate this story to me. Bottom line is don't mess around with Detroit rock crowd. TJ It wasn't as dramatic as the above description, but the tape problems happened more than the once described during the course of the show. It was especially revealing when the band was trying to fill in the orchestra parts on some of their tunes. The mix was terrible...and we were hearing things that weren't happening on stage. There were several Milli-Vanilli moments, and the band was way out of synch for most of the show. The crowd more than booed...they booed as they were leaving. The band was later sued by the promoter for using tapes during the show. This received a lot of publicity in the U.S., and pretty much ended ELO's live career, at least in the States. The bottom line is they had no business playing an arena that size, and paid the price for trying to cash in. Oh! now I see! I'm quite surprised that ELO managed to play in such a large venue as the Silverdome... But I think they received what they deserved. I really have no respect for "artists" trying to steal their fans by having a tape playing in the back. At first I thought someone might have thrown a live crab on stage and it snapped someone in the face!! hehehe! Edited June 4, 2008 by Charles_Obscure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 At first I thought someone might have thrown a live crab on stage and it snapped someone in the face!! hehehe! Well, that's my little personal twist on the show. It was supposed to be a spaceship like the one on the "Out of the Blue" album cover, but it sure looked like a giant crab to me....right out of one of those cheap Japanese sci-fi flicks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwizard03 Posted June 4, 2008 Author Share Posted June 4, 2008 (edited) Great show....and the last one I attended at Cobo. Never got to see Stevie Ray bet it was great Edited June 4, 2008 by alwizard03 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwizard03 Posted June 4, 2008 Author Share Posted June 4, 2008 My last Rod Stewart Show 2001 New Orleans.I know I am wierd but I am a big Rod Stewart fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwizard03 Posted June 4, 2008 Author Share Posted June 4, 2008 AC/DC and Cinderella Atlanta 88 awesome show love both bands live it is a hell of a combination Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwizard03 Posted June 5, 2008 Author Share Posted June 5, 2008 Jeff Beck , Poco , Argent 72 Tampa He actually showed up and played his ass off Argent really suprised Me I did know anything about them but knew most of thier songs Poco was brillant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwizard03 Posted June 5, 2008 Author Share Posted June 5, 2008 Rush, UFO , Max Webster Warehouse New Orleans 77 What a show Rush at thier best UFO always great and the opening act was pretty good had never heard or seen them before this show and never saw them again but was given a remminder in the party bands thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwizard03 Posted June 5, 2008 Author Share Posted June 5, 2008 Faces 1972 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwizard03 Posted June 5, 2008 Author Share Posted June 5, 2008 (edited) Hey Al, Where you stationed in NYC when tickets for these shows went on sale? I attended the first night on Friday. My friend went to the Garden and bought 4 tickets. Tickets must have sold out in minutes. How on earth did you attend so many out of state shows? Thanks, JT Here is the third one also posted on the site along with a review Edited June 5, 2008 by alwizard03 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwizard03 Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 John Kay and Steppenwolf and Afterclass at the Boathouse Norfolk VA 90 the Outlaws were suposed to open but cancelled due to illness big bummer for Me but John Kay and his band were still good.He was the only original member left .I believe he fired them many years ago. saw Him in 76 at Jungleland with Streetnoise and a few other La Cal based bands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwizard03 Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 Originally scheduled for the Boat House in Norfolk the Ticket sales demanded a bigger venue so the show was moved to Hampton Coliseum Cinderella (The Long Cold Winter Tour) Winger,The Bullet Boys Winger was pretty good really like Reb Beach the Bullet Boys suck their singer so badly wants to be David Lee Roth and He not even that good sorry Charlie only the best well you know. Cinderella was spectacular awesome well worth the price of the ticket.Great show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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