wierd concert pairings

[Duds]

Live with Jimmy's Chicken Shack was a weird pairing

[jamison]

I went to see the scorpions who were one of my fav bands in the eighties... a new band called Bon Jovi Opened for them and Bon Jovi Kicked the Scorpions butts pretty bad.. they only had the first album out but they played really tight. I remember Klaus Meine from the scorps was trying to show off and fell and seriously injured himself.. he had to sit in a chair for the rest of the performance.. you could tell he was hurting and not into it.
I just wish i could have seen a good scorpions performance, I have their World Wide Live Cd and its a great performance although it is so polished it makes you wonder if they did a lot of editing to it..

Also saw Survivor with Bryan Adams. funny cause my friend i went with his name was Brian Adams. I remember survivor had only one decent song (Eye of the Tiger) and they sucked.
Saw AC/DC at Joe lois area and man did they put on a show.. unfortunatly for me AC/DC is very generous in lettting new bands open for them. they had a band called Loudness open for them and they were godawful and overamped.

[3-LockBox]

AC/DC is very generous in lettting new bands open for them. they had a band called Loudness open for them and they were godawful and overamped.

You know, that describes most of those '80s hairy metal bands. The music industry knew once these mediocre acts started touring their album sales would plummet, so they started pumping them out one after another. Loudness, a metal act from Japan, was a prime example. I saw the Vinny Vincent Invasion with Iron Maiden on the Somewhere In Time Tour, (not really an odd pairing) and they were so bad. They were booed unmercifully. (Vinny Vincent was Kiss' second guitarist after Ace Frehley left)

[3-LockBox]

I saw the monsters of rock tour ('89 ?) which was suppossed to showcase a wide variety of the hottest metal acts. This included Scorpions, Van Halen, Metallica, and Kingdom Come. I read that Metallica hated that tour, and if that's true, it showed that night, cuz I was under-impressed. I wasn't thrilled with their fans either, who seemed hell-bent on telling everyone else how bad the rest of the bands sucked. In fact, all the bands expressed dismay, like the idea of the concert was way better on paper than it actually was in reallity. I remember Sammy Hagar referred to Kingdom Come on TV as 'Kingdom Kong', saying they needed to "find their own sound, instead of doing immitations". (No Sammy, they just needed to learn to play, period) They sucked hard! Metallica's set was kinda short, their fans (16-18 yr old scumbags) chanted and booed because they didn't do an encore, and when the Scorps were into about their third or fourth song, a shoe hit Klaus Mein in the throat. He stopped, some dude came out and tried to chew people out, a couple of guys were removed from the 'front row' while a lot of fans booed the security guys (why? I didn't understand that crowd, my friends and I were pissed about the shoe incident and there were people all around us who thought it was funny) Mein came back out and performed two more songs, then the Scorps were done for the night. This put me off going to anymore 'festival' type concerts. I drew the conclusion that only people who 'leech' off someone else or steal for a living would spend that kinda money on a concert with the sole intent of trying to 'out a$$hole' the next guy.

[-Jar-]

I saw the monsters of rock tour ('89 ?) which was suppossed to showcase a wide variety of the hottest metal acts. This included Scorpions, Van Halen, Metallica, and Kingdom Come.

I was going to post about this show, but I didn't.. now that you brought it up.. the weirdest thing about this one was that Metallica played before Dokken. My how their paths diverged after this event. Even the Scorpions now are hardly relevant. Some might argue that Metallica isn't relevant either, but at least they're able to pay their new bass player $1,000,000 up front.. hardly seems justifiable that they're worried about downloading..

ANYWAY...

it was the summer of '88 and it was VERY hot. I *still to this day* have freckles on my left arm where I got seriously bad blistering sunburn (yes, I rolled up my sleeves like those hessier dork Metallica fans, BIG MISTAKE). We used to call Kingdom Come Kingdom CLONE, and from my vantage point, it was difficult to tell their lead singer from Robert Plant, yes he even had his shirt unbuttoned.. ugh. Yes, they sucked hippo balls.

I was thrilled to see Metallica and they seemed in a pretty good mood that day. It was kind of a short set, but they did play "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "Fade to Black" and "Master of Puppets" from what I remember. They played a "new" song called "Harvester of Sorrow" which was everyone's first taste of the ..AND JUSTICE album that was coming out later that year...

Dokken played next..I always kind of liked Dokken, but they were always 2nd rate to me. They had bad sound problems, that's about all I remembered.. I'm sure they played "Just Got Lucky" and "In My Dreams" - yawn. George Lynch was always somewhat of a hot-shot but I was never part of the whole Guitar player scene. To me it was the songs that mattered and Dokken never had very good songs.

Scorps were next.. they were GREAT. Defiantely the highlight for me, at the time in 1988 they were one of my top 5 favorite bands, so it was great to finally see them live. They did "The Zoo" which pretty much made my day right there. Great set, nothing to complain about there.

I was also very impressed by Van Hagar. They looked like they were having a great time and I had no complaints about them either. Sure, Sammy is not DLR, but I had a great time anyways, they were pros at the top of their game, maybe not as reckless as they used to be, but still enjoyable. We were all very impressed.

Overall though, it was hot as hell, everyone was pretty miserable, they were spraying the crowd with hoses all day. No shade anywhere, big outdoor football arena (the Rubber Bowl in Akron, OH). And as I said, I have freckles on my left arm to prove it!

Hard to believe that was 18 years ago!

-jar

[bjornb17]

I went to Dallas in October to see U2, and Damian Marley opened for them. That was pretty odd.

[3-LockBox]

I was going to post about this show, but I didn't.. now that you brought it up.. the weirdest thing about this one was that Metallica played before Dokken. My how their paths diverged after this event. Even the Scorpions now are hardly relevant. Some might argue that Metallica isn't relevant either, but at least they're able to pay their new bass player $1,000,000 up front.. hardly seems justifiable that they're worried about downloading...Hard to believe that was 18 years ago!

I forgot about Dokken! For some reason, I don't have a clear memory of when they played. I saw Dokken w/ Judas Priest in '86 (Turbo Tour); then I saw them w/ Aerosmith (Permanent Vacation Tour) several months later. They actually toured with a lot of groups in and around Seattle and the west coast back in the '80s, always the warm-up act. But yeah, they were the proto-typical '80s metal band. I really liked them when they first came out, but made the mistake of watching a behind-the-scenes fanboy documentary about 'the band', and they all came acrossed as 16 yr old airheads. I could never listen to 'em the same way after that.

[unleasHell]

I saw all these back in the 70's

Donovan opening for YES

Or how about a triple bill os Kiss (opening act), Camel and Wishbone Ash?

Or how about Slade opening for Ten years After?

I went to see Mahogany Rush and Triumvirat was supposed to open, but they canceled

[-Jar-]

You know, that describes most of those '80s hairy metal bands. The music industry knew once these mediocre acts started touring their album sales would plummet, so they started pumping them out one after another. Loudness, a metal act from Japan, was a prime example. I saw the Vinny Vincent Invasion with Iron Maiden on the Somewhere In Time Tour, (not really an odd pairing) and they were so bad. They were booed unmercifully. (Vinny Vincent was Kiss' second guitarist after Ace Frehley left)

ha ha! WOK AND WOLL KWAZY NIGHTS!!

My awful Iron Maiden opening band was WAYSTED. This was band was started by Pete Way (ex UFO) after he left Fastway (yes, he was the "Way" in Fastway, along with "Fast" Eddie Clark, ex-Motorhead). He was basically in Fastway long enough to form the band, from what I remember.

Anyway, they sucked hippo balls. I'm glad I didn't buy their album, because I bought a LOT of bad albums back then!

I really wanted to see Queensryche open.. that would have been the ultimate concert for me when I was 17...

-jar

[Dusty Chalk]

You know, that describes most of those '80s hairy metal bands.

I'm going to start referring to this genre as "hairy metal".