DJJasonp thought this might be a good topic for a thread. I listed these in the First Concert thread. Figured it might be easier to break them out of the other thread. I'm sure there are more that I will come up with later.
In no order:
Van Halen with David Lee Roth
Journey
Motley Crue
Guns N' Roses
Kid Rock
Ozzy
White Zombie
Bengals [Reply]
Originally Posted by eDave:
Gotta add My Morning Jacket at Red Rocks. While I was physically there, I didn't account for the altitude and got way wasted and don't remember anything past the 1st song. Still exceedingly upset with myself over that one. The videos look incredible. :/
I collect live concert videos on youtube, I've got about 8,000 saved in folders on their website. What I believe to be one of the best live fan made videos of a band I've ever seen is Cheap Trick performing "Gonna Raise Hell" live at Red Rocks during a thunderstorm in 2016. They were so good, even with rain and lightning the people stayed and band kept playing. The guy's camera had fantastic microphones.
I remember a Van Halen concert in Vegas he regrets missing I'm sure.
I'll tell the story a bit later if he doesn't show up.
Doesn't look like he's going to show to tell the story, so I will. :-)
A few years ago, Mrs. Dartgod won a radio contest for a free trip to Las Vegas to see Heart at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay. Airfare, two nights at MB and tickets were included.
KC Dan decided he would meet us out there for a weekend of drinking and gambling. He found out that Van Halen was playing at the Mandalay Bay Events Center the same night as Heart, so he grabbed a ticket to see them. We met up after the Heart show and asked him how the VH concert was and he informed us that he had bought a ticket for the previous night's show. So he was out the money for a ticket and missed the show. [Reply]
I don't necessarily regret this because I was only five when Kurt died so I couldn't have really gone to a concert on my own, but obviously I wish I could have seen Nirvana. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KurtCobain:
I don't necessarily regret this because I was only five when Kurt died so I couldn't have really gone to a concert on my own, but obviously I wish I could have seen Nirvana.
I actually regret not seeing them, although I did see a lot of Seattle bands in their prime. I saw Soundgarden twice, once in 90 with Danzig and another time in 92 opening up for Skid Row. I saw Pearl Jam play for free in Lawrence in 92 and saw AIC open up for Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth around 91 or 92. Also saw STP and Faith No More around that same time, and some other metal bands of that era like Pantera and White Zombie and went to one of the first Lollapaloozas (not sure if it was the first or second one). [Reply]
Originally Posted by Spott:
I actually regret not seeing them, although I did see a lot of Seattle bands in their prime. I saw Soundgarden twice, once in 90 with Danzig and another time in 92 opening up for Skid Row...
You've seen Glen Danzig, he's a body builder. Here's something you probably didn't expect to see. Danzig with the long hair and back towards the camera arguing with another guy and pushes the guy and Danzig gets knocked out cold with one punch!!
Originally Posted by DeepPurple:
You've seen Glen Danzig, he's a body builder. Here's something you probably didn't expect to see. Danzig with the long hair and back towards the camera arguing with another guy and pushes the guy and Danzig gets knocked out cold with one punch!!
I actually met him at Tower Records in Phoenix the day of the concert and he seemed a little douchey. Guessing all that working out didn’t do much for his ability to take a punch. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DeepPurple:
You've seen Glen Danzig, he's a body builder. Here's something you probably didn't expect to see. Danzig with the long hair and back towards the camera arguing with another guy and pushes the guy and Danzig gets knocked out cold with one punch!!
Originally Posted by DeepPurple:
You've seen Glen Danzig, he's a body builder. Here's something you probably didn't expect to see. Danzig with the long hair and back towards the camera arguing with another guy and pushes the guy and Danzig gets knocked out cold with one punch!!
Originally Posted by Dartgod:
Doesn't look like he's going to show to tell the story, so I will. :-)
A few years ago, Mrs. Dartgod won a radio contest for a free trip to Las Vegas to see Heart at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay. Airfare, two nights at MB and tickets were included.
KC Dan decided he would meet us out there for a weekend of drinking and gambling. He found out that Van Halen was playing at the Mandalay Bay Events Center the same night as Heart, so he grabbed a ticket to see them. We met up after the Heart show and asked him how the VH concert was and he informed us that he had bought a ticket for the previous night's show. So he was out the money for a ticket and missed the show.
I’ve been in a similar situation. Garth Brooks was in Des Moines ~4 years ago. He was going to play on a Saturday night. I got a hotel room and we blocked out the hour that the tickets went on sale the next morning. I purchased them for my group. We later hear that there was such a demand that Brooks announced he was going to play on Friday and Sunday nights too.
On Saturday we get to the arena, go to scan our tickets, and the lady is like “oh these are last nights tickets.” I was so confused, but sure enough the ticket said it was Friday night. The additional nights had automatically moved our seats to a new night.
So my group heads back to the lobby entrance we came from. There’s like three dozen people we see in this situation. People are talking about suing and calling up their relative-lawyers. A local newstation is interviewing people about it! A lot of people left. But we stuck around and about 40 minutes later, the arena found us seats, all together, and I think they were better then what we would have had originally. We only missed a couple of songs.
Originally Posted by Jenson71:
I’ve been in a similar situation. Garth Brooks was in Des Moines ~4 years ago. He was going to play on a Saturday night. I got a hotel room and we blocked out the hour that the tickets went on sale the next morning. I purchased them for my group. We later hear that there was such a demand that Brooks announced he was going to play on Friday and Sunday nights too.
On Saturday we get to the arena, go to scan our tickets, and the lady is like “oh these are last nights tickets.” I was so confused, but sure enough the ticket said it was Friday night. The additional nights had automatically moved our seats to a new night.
So my group heads back to the lobby entrance we came from. There’s like three dozen people we see in this situation. People are talking about suing and calling up their relative-lawyers. A local newstation is interviewing people about it! A lot of people left. But we stuck around and about 40 minutes later, the arena found us seats, all together, and I think they were better then what we would have had originally. We only missed a couple of songs.
But serious lesson learned that night.
I did that once with Les Miserables tickets. I thought we had tickets to an evening show, and realized to my horror that they were for the matinee, when we were 35 miles away from the theater in downtown Chicago at the time the show was starting. The worst part - I had also gotten a ticket for my then-teenage Goddaughter, and it would have been her first theater experience. We had really good, expensive seats as well. So I was out hundreds of dollars, the wife was furious, and my Goddaughter was massively disappointed (although she was kind enough not to go off on me like the wife did). And it was 100% my fault. Fuck. I wanted to crawl off into a corner and die. [Reply]
