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[ForeverAutumn]

90125 tour?

Man some of you guys must be a bit older than me...back in 1985 my favorite songs were the themes to Thundercats and Transformers. Yes and Rush (though my Dad was a big fan) didn't come until later...

Your Dad??? Ouch. That hurt. By 1985 I'd already seen the following live concerts (opening acts in brackets)...

Styx
REO Speedwagon (The Rockets)
Alice Cooper (Goddo)
Triumph (Harlequin, Teenage Head)
Journey (The Greg Kihn Band)
Ozzy Osbourne (Rick Santers)
Elton John (Quarterflash)
Queen (Billy Squire)
Black Sabbath (Johnny Van Gelt)
Ted Nugent, Cheap Trick (Coney Hatch)
The Who (Joe Jackson)
Van Halen (The Powder Blues Band)
Rush (The Payolas) - my first Rush concert in 1982
Aerosmith (Nazareth, Rose Tattoo)
Chicago (apparently I stopped keeping track of opening bands from this show forward -- bummer)
Simon and Garfunkel
David Bowie
Steppenwolf
Chris DeBurgh
Yes (the aforementioned 90125 tour)
Elton John (again)
Jethro Tull
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Burton Cummings
Rick Wakeman
Squeeze
Patrick Moraz and Bill Bruford

[Dusty Chalk]

Patrick Moraz and Bill Bruford

Very cool list. This and Rick Wakeman stand out particularly. I, unfortunately, wasn't into seeing Yes at the time (they were huge in the DC area, very hard to get tickets).

The ones I remember:

Heart
Styx (Angel)
Triumph
Blue Oyster Cult
Black Sabbath
Rick Wakeman (might've been a year or two later than 1985)
Echolyn (I think)
Moraz/Bruford (again, might've been later)
Shriekback
Depeche Mode
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Madonna (not even girlfriend -- but a potential girlfriend that never worked out)
Tangerine Dream
Scorpions/Ted Nugent/Def Leppard (first tour of theirs, they were younger than I)
Genesis? Trying to remember what year that was...
Al Di Meola (although we may be getting later into the 80's by then)
Crack the Sky

...how do you remember all your concerts?!?!?

[ForeverAutumn]

...how do you remember all your concerts?!?!?

That's a nice list too!

I have to admit that the Rick Wakeman and the Bruford/Moraz shows had more to do with the gang that I was spending time with than it did my own musical tastes at the time. I was hanging out with a bunch of prog musician wannabes. They were actually the ones who turned me on to Gabriel era Genesis and some of the older Pink Floyd stuff. I was really more of a metalhead at the time.

As for remembering all of the concerts, I have most of my ticket stubs from 1981 to 1992. I wrote the opening act on the back of the stub for 1981-1982. I really wish that I hadn't stopped saving them. Man, I've been to hundred's of concerts in the last 25 years and there is no way that I could recollect them all. In fact, I look at some of the stubs that I have and I can't remember being at the show at all. Others I remember like they were yesterday. Those were great years for live shows. Lots of great venues in the city that have since disappeared...makes me kinda sad in a sentimental way.

The good old days...

Sh!t. I'm getting old!

[kexodusc]

Sh!t. I'm getting old!

Nah, lots of 3 year olds were going to Van Halen and Jethro Tull shows back then.
Old is when you turn in your Rush CD's for Celine Dion.

[GMichael]

Nah, lots of 3 year olds were going to Van Halen and Jethro Tull shows back then.
Old is when you turn in your Rush CD's for Celine Dion.

What about all my 8-tracks and 45's?

[kexodusc]

What about all my 8-tracks and 45's?

What about'em? Celine Dion's on 8-track?

[GMichael]

What about'em? Celine Dion's on 8-track?

I don't know. But I know there are/were Boston, Rush, Ledzep, ELP, Yes, PF, Black Sab, Ted Nugent, etc. I don't know about VH. They were a new band. Maybe after 8-track?

[ForeverAutumn]

Old is when you turn in your Rush CD's for Celine Dion.

That's not old, that's just CRAZY!!! If you ever catch me listening to Celine Dion by choice, well, that's obviously an imposter. Kill it and then go find and rescue the real me.