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Stumpage Reports
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Wednesday, February 04, 2004 :::
My Ticket Stub Collection
Sometime in the early 1980's I started putting all my rock and roll concert ticket stubs in a scrapbook. I found the scrapbook the other day and here is a list of the stubs in it. This is not a comprehensive list of all the concerts I've been to, just the ones I saved the ticket stubs from. Names of warm-up bands are not on the ticket stubs, but pulled up from the depths of my brain.
April 15, 1979. George Carlin at the Royal Oak Music Theater, Royal Oak, Michigan.
November 19, 1979. Ritchie Blackmore and Rainbow at the Royal Oak Music Theater. Can you believe they did not do a single Deep Purple song?
December 7, 1979. The Who at The Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan. We smoked way too much pot, if that is possible. On this tour bands like the Clash, Santana, and Jethro Tull were warming up for them. We got to see Blackfoot.
February 17, 1980. Rush at Cobo Arena, Detroit, Michigan. Blackfoot was the warm up band.
March 20, 1980. Iggy Pop at the Motor City Roller Rock, Warren, Michigan.
April 23, 1980. The Joe Perry Project at the Royal Oak Music Theater. Why did I go to this concert?
May 24, 1980. Nazareth at Cobo Arena. Whitesnake was the opening band.
June 3, 1980. Greg Kihn at the Royal Oak Music Theater. This was before he got popular with all that "Jeopardy" shit. There were a couple other big names in town that night like Elton John and the Kinks. There were only about 30 people at this show, and he played like his life depended on it. Definitely in my top 10 rock and roll shows. One of those magic nights.
July 19, 1980. The Rockets at the Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, Michigan. They were a glorified bar band. The Kingbees warmed up.
August 20, 1980. ZZ Top at Pine Knob. The Outlaws were the warm up band. The same girl went with me to this as went to the Nazareth concert. I don't know which was worse: her taste in music or her taste in boys.
August 27, 1980. The Grateful Dead at the Pine Knob Music Theatre. The place was only about 1/3 full. This was before they got popular again. I don't remember much of the music but it was a fun crowd.
October 22, 1980. Jethro Tull at Cobo Arena.
March 13, 1981. Rush at Cobo. The first time I did acid.
March 15, 1981. Rush again two nights later. I liked them a lot.
June 3, 1981. Santana at Pine Knob. They put on a great 3 hour show. I went to see them the summer before and never made it out of the parking lot.
June 5, 1981. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Cobo Arena.
July 10, 1981. Alice Cooper at Cobo Arena, Detroit, Michigan. Again, Blackfoot was the warm up band. Tequila and cocaine were on the menu that night.
August 13, 1981. Iggy Pop at the Royal Oak Music Theater, Royal Oak, Michigan.
August 6, 1982. King Crimson at the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, Michigan. One of the best concerts I ever have seen or ever will see.
August 15, 1982. The Talking Heads at the Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, Michigan. Another good one, a mere week after the King Crimson concert.
November 7, 1982. Rush at the Joe Louis Arena. Goddamn Blackfoot again. (I shit you not.)
November 8, 1982. Rush. Fucking Blackfoot.
February 12, 1983. Missing Persons at the Royal Oak Music Theater, Royal Oak, Michigan. They were actually pretty good. Mostly because the band featured a couple of Zappa alums.
May 15, 1983. Roxy Music at Cobo Arena.
July 30, 1983. David Bowie at the Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan.
August 11, 1983. The Talking Heads at the Pine Knob Music Theatre. Another one of the best concerts ever. This was the tour they made the Stop Making Sense movie from.
November 25, 1983. The Animals at the Royal Oak Music Theater. I think this actually featured most of the original lineup. I moved to North Carolina a week or two later.
Other shows I don't have stubs for: Three Emmylou Harris shows: the Arts Center in Carrboro, Spirit Square in Charlotte, and the State Fair in Raleigh. At least three Richard Thompson shows, Raleigh and Charlotte. Three Bob Dylan concerts: Chapel Hill, Durham, and in Los Angeles with Tom Petty, 1984. Ted Nugent, 1979, Cobo, first time I saw Blackfoot. Summer 1981, 1982, and 1983: Foreigner, Kansas, REO Speedwagon, Humble Pie, Blue Oyster Cult, The J. Geils Band, all at Pine Knob. At least three other Rush concerts. One more Iggy concert. Springsteen on the River tour. 1980 or 1981: Jeff Beck and Heart within a week of each other. Fuck! Where's my Jeff Beck ticket stub? Damn it. Beach Boys at Pine Knob '77 or '78. Bob Seger at Cobo Arena, 1981 I think. You could not grow up in Detroit without seeing Bob Seger live at least once. Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe, at Duke, ca.1987. Neil Young at some shed in Charlotte, circa 1997. Forgettable stadium shows: Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd. Oh my god, I just remembered, a Billy Joel concert. My then-future-ex-wife wanted to see him. Probably more, but you know, parts of 1978 to 1994 are just are just a big fucking blur ...
::: posted by tom at 9:28 AM
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