Best Of

Every concert I went to (I can remember)….

-Chicago

-James Gang

-Beach Boys

-Eagles

-Neil Diamond

-The Runaways (w/Joan Jett)

-Brian Auger and Oblivion Express

-Maynard Ferguson

-Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young)

-Santana

-The Band

-Jesse Colin Young

-Fleetwood Mac

-Jimmy Buffet

-Moody Blues

-Roy Buchanan

-John Sebastian

-Chuck Mangione

-Return to Forever

-John Mellencamp

-Elton John

-Modern Jazz Quartet

-Rickie Lee Jones

-Bob Dylan

-Nickelback

-Bread

-Jethro Tull

-Lisa Loeb

-Humble Pie

-Peter Frampton

-Sony Terry and Brownie McGee

-Rare Earth

-Joe Cocker

-David Bromberg

-Three Dog Night

-Dave Mason

-Bruce Springsteen

-Dave Mathews Band

-Ramblin’ Jack Elliott

-Seals and Crofts

-War

-Alexis Kohrner and Snape

I've been to eight of those..

I was pretty poor during what would have been my main concert years. I had acquaintances that went to every single arena show, no matter what.. So, not as many for me, though the list is probably close to that long. Of course, as an adult, taking my son, we pay outrageous sums to see concerts (because we can).

Our new fancy hockey arena with 10,000 seats plus maybe another 1,000 (?) on the ice surface itself opened in 1978 and that meant a few more acts thought it was worthwhile making the trek to the Atlantic coast. I was early 20s back then so I caught a few shows. I remember some of them. Neil Young played here during his country phase, opened by The Judds. Not what anyone expected and most people were very disappointed that he played virtually none of his more popular stuff. Loverboy came at the peak of their early ‘80s popularity, but were overshadowed by their opening act, a young Bryan Adams, who was great. A couple of years later Tina Turner was here and really gave a great show. I saw the Beach Boys there, which was about what I expected, but got to see Brian Wilson wander on and off the stage to take part occasionally. The best by far was the last one I went to in the early ‘90s when Dire Straits gave a tremendous performance. I always liked Knopfler and he did not disappoint.

Recently I was digging through a box of old papers and found this:




No idea why I held onto that ticket. I tried finding out more about that Chicago tour. It is odd because they were on a very long concert tour at the time and were in Atlantic Canada about 6 weeks earlier but this one at the end of March was not listed anywhere. It was as if it never happened. I remember having floor seats fairly close to the stage and despite having Peter Cetera leave the group not long before they put on a great show. Jimmy Pankow (the trombone player) was a great showman.

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If I had something like that I could prove to my sons that I was at the Steelers Immaculate Reception Game in 1972.

At the time, Three Rivers Stadium held 50,350 people. If you stood on a downtown Pittsburgh street corner and ask folks my age if they went to that game, 200,000 people would say, “yeah, I was at that game”. It’s because of folks like that my sons say, “if you don’t have your ticket stub, you can’t prove you were there or even bought a ticket stub from someone who was”.

jmonroe

@jmonroe1 said:

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Of course EVs aren’t for everyone and I’m not one of them, yet. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “when I get in my car I don’t want to plan for any stops to charge. Not even one minute. When you can trip over charging stations like gas stations, that might be the day i buy an EV”. Plus, hiring an electrician to install a charger, could be very expensive by the time I get an EV.

jmonroe

Mr Bob Vila himself is gonna hire someone?!?!?

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That’s just it. By the time I get an EV, I probably will have forgotten how to do that kind of work.

jmonroe