In on that. Thx. Yep. Right on the home screen.
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Not soon after a kid who lived down the street and was light years ahead of our time introduced me to the good stuff the next year.
I still like Van Halen but they aren’t one I play to often. Mostly because they got so much fuckin air play growing up I just got sick of hard rock.
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Anyone of note open these shows?
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I was at both Kemper Arena shows in 1984 and both show there in 1986.

There was a band that opened in 1984 that Van Halen paid only $400 dollars a night to perform because why pay $10 Grand a night when the people were only there to see Van Halen? The crowd boo'd and threw bottles and cans at them the entire time.

I don't even recall an opening band in 1986.

The lights went down, the band came onstage and immediately ripped through Sammy Hagar's There's Only One Way To Rock.
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Ten bucks...what are you, made of cash?
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I remember hearing "No One Like You" when it came out...and thinking who the **** is this?

It's still one of the best pure metal guitar solos of all time IMO...like Gary Moore on steroids. It's just rips your face off...
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I honestly don't remember any of them, but that 5/31/86 show was opened by Bachman Turner Overdrive and the 7/27/93 show was opened by Vince Neil,
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Really, BTO opened for Van Halen in 1986? Man, I don't remember that, at all.

Maybe it's because I did know that at the time and chose to arrive when Van Halen hit the stage.

The Velcros! That was the name of the band that Van Halen paid $400 a night to open for them.
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I don't remember it either. But being stoned out of my gourd probably has something to do with that. :-)

I got my info from the '86 show from here:

https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/5150-tour--3

Not sure how reliable that site is.

One of the earlier shows from my stubs showed After The Fire ("Der Kommissar") opened for them. I sure as hell don't remember that.
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Yeah, I certainly didn't see Autograph open for them because I was into Steve Lynch, their guitarist who also taught at G.I.T. (Now MIT).

But man, I seriously do not remember Bachman Turner Overdrive opening for Van Halen in KC. I mean, I can remember the car ride down to Kemper and the chick I took to the concert, backstage - just about everything but not BTO.

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Funny thing. I got into the Scorpions with that album but as I got older, I actually started disliking their new stuff and gravitating towards their older stuff.

The first album they released after LAFS was World Wide Live, which contained a bunch of their older material. I was immediately captivated by songs like Blackout and by the time Savage Amusement came out and they had bought into being balladeers, I was listening to Uli Roth-era Scorpions.
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Went to G.I.T. in late 80s...haha...used to drink at Bordners and Cat-n-Fiddle.
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My roots were in early 80s metal...but I really never listen to that genre anymore. Mathias Jabs had bad-ass vibrato and phrasing...he and Vivian Campbell were both Gary Moore fan boys.

It was funny...Campbell was asked what solo he wished he had played...he said "no one like you"....I chuckled.

I hadn't listened to VH in like 15 years...think I watched an old "unchained" video on YouTube once....their newer music, which I heard for the first time from this thread...is ...umm...not so good. :-)
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I listen to it pretty much every day. I'm a huge Dio/Sabbath and Judas Priest fan.
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