Why Didn’t Those Of Us From The 80s Didn’t Go To Concerts

[BunnysBastatrds 2,414]

 I can’t believe how many oy you passed up on them. It was so cheap back then. Music, horny chicks, drugs/drinking, and great memories.  I had two jobs so don’t use that crpola as a.n excuse. 

[BeenHereBefore 1,506]

Wasn't many in my area and I didn't drive till 21, Seen Ratt/BonJovi .Faster Pussycat/David Lee Roth in the 80's.

[BeenHereBefore 1,506]

Crazy I'm the only one that has those memories, two friends I went with both died two years ago.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,414]

23 minutes ago, BeenHereBefore said:

Crazy I'm the only one that has those memories, two friends I went with both died two years ago.

 Sorry man.Music trigger’s great memories of them. 

[avoiding injuries 1,569]

I grew up in the 90s and I attended Lollapalooza and HFStival probably more than I should have. I moved to Baltimore and Preakness was usually the same day as HFStival so I stopped then. 

[TommyGavin 790]

Back then I went to a ton of shows- I saw Metallica in a small arena (Felt Forum) on the Kill ‘em all tour. Seen them in the double digits. Seen Allman Brothers over 20 times easily. 
 

Now - no interest. Took younger son to see Green Day twice few years ago. Last live shows I’ve been at.  

[Voltaire 5,286]

Certainly would have wanted to go but they were too expensive.

[Thornton Melon 618]

20 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Certainly would have wanted to go but they were too expensive.

Not in the 80s...concerts were like 12- 15 bucks. Every seat cost the same, too, whether it was first 10 rows on the floor, or nosebleeds.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,290]

I went to an Amnesty International concert in Philadelphia.  Can you imagine ? Sting was surprisingly great.  

[MDC 7,310]

The chicks were much hornier back when I was young and fit.  

[avoiding injuries 1,569]

2 hours ago, TommyGavin said:

 

Now - no interest. Took younger son to see Green Day twice few years ago. Last live shows I’ve been at.  

I saw Green Day at the 930 Club in DC in 1994 right before Dookie blew up world wide. That was my first concert without my parents. 

[seafoam1 2,948]

Only concerts I've ever been to:

Tom Petty

The Clash

Jethro Tull

The Go-Gos

James Taylor

 

[Herbivore 1,123]

27 minutes ago, avoiding injuries said:

I saw Green Day at the 930 Club in DC in 1994 right before Dookie blew up world wide. That was my first concert without my parents. 

I went to a free Green Day show at the Hatchshell in Boston in 94. It turned into a riot. 

Saw tons of shows in the 80s, Bowie, Tsister, Dokken, Y&T, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Exodus, Leppard, Qryche, Kiss, Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Ozzy, The Cult, The Who

[Tree of Knowledge 1,815]

Standing in line at the local Ticketmaster outlet regardless of weather for hours was a drag.  Tickets seemed to always go on sale at 10AM Friday or Saturday. 

[Bier Meister 1,687]

early 80's I went to a lot of concerts:

 

Metallica when they were an opening band

VH

Scorpions

Judas Priest

Def Leppard

Rush

Triumph

Dio

Ozzy

Whitesnake

Y&T

Iron Maiden

Sammy Hagar

 

[TommyGavin 790]

1 hour ago, Herbivore said:

I went to a free Green Day show at the Hatchshell in Boston in 94. It turned into a riot. 

Saw tons of shows in the 80s, Bowie, Tsister, Dokken, Y&T, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Exodus, Leppard, Qryche, Kiss, Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Ozzy, The Cult, The Who

Saw all these except Y&T and The Cult

Saw The Who at Shea Stadium on their first “farewell tour”.

[Horseman 2,438]

No fokinig way I could remember them all, let alone list them all.

Iron Maiden

Queensryche

Dio

Kiss

Grateful Dead x 5      $16.25 LOL

Lynyrd Skynyrd

UB40

Ziggy Marley

Van Halen

Sammy Hagar

Metallica

In living Color

Primus

Fishbone

Stone Temple Pilots

The Cult

Danzig

Lords of the New Church

Nine Inch Nails

Tom Petty

Crosby Stills and Nash

Santana

Candlebox

Suicidal Tendencies

Guns and Roses

Motely Crew

Ozzy

Korn

Def Leppard

Jimmy Cliff

Jane's Addiction

Violent Fems

Sound Garden

Temple of the Dog

Alice in Chains

Way too many small name bar concerts to name.

Biggest regret was passing up the roundtrip my buddies took to see Ministry. 

[TheNewGirl 1,474]

4 hours ago, Voltaire said:

Certainly would have wanted to go but they were too expensive.

This. I just didn't have the money to go to concerts like some kids do these days. 

My parents certainly wouldn't shell out hundreds for me to go. Many of the shows I saw were like if they were performing at the state fair or something like that. 

[Herbivore 1,123]

15 minutes ago, TommyGavin said:

Saw all these except Y&T and The Cult

Saw The Who at Shea Stadium on their first “farewell tour”.

yep, The Who farewell tour at Sullivan Stadium(Pats) in 89

[BunnysBastatrds 2,414]

2 hours ago, Herbivore said:

I went to a free Green Day show at the Hatchshell in Boston in 94. It turned into a riot. 

Saw tons of shows in the 80s, Bowie, Tsister, Dokken, Y&T, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Exodus, Leppard, Qryche, Kiss, Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Ozzy, The Cult, The Who

 I’ve seen all of the bands you mentioned live with the exception of Bowie. I was on crutches and my whole family said no. Mad beyond belief. I had the first stages of mono in in 85 when Ozzy played in Baton Rouge with  Blue Oyster Cult during his speak of the devil tour. My friend Michelle brought me. She saw how sick I was. Wanted to bring me home and I said’ no fawking way I’m missing Ozzy. And don’t want you to either.” 
 

 They got me a blanket, a fat doobie, a lude, and a hit of cid. Good times, spent four months going through the recovery from it. I missed Dio, AC/DC, Judas Priest, whilst I laid in bed as to not infect anyone else. 

[paulinstl 296]

I saw Led Zeppelin in 1977, row four Center Floor. $9.50.

[Herbivore 1,123]

2 hours ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

 I’ve seen all of the bands you mentioned live with the exception of Bowie. I was on crutches and my whole family said no. Mad beyond belief. I had the first stages of mono in in 85 when Ozzy played in Baton Rouge with  Blue Oyster Cult during his speak of the devil tour. My friend Michelle brought me. She saw how sick I was. Wanted to bring me home and I said’ no fawking way I’m missing Ozzy. And don’t want you to either.” 
 

 They got me a blanket, a fat doobie, a lude, and a hit of cid. Good times, spent four months going through the recovery from it. I missed Dio, AC/DC, Judas Priest, whilst I laid in bed as to not infect anyone else. 

I was sick as a dog at my 2nd Anthrax show. Orpheum Theater in Boston, 88 I think. I tried to power thru, had a beer on the way in, but was cooked. Sat slumped over thru all but Celric Frost. The staff kept checking on me. Thought I was on drugs at first.

[TommyGavin 790]

Second time seeing Metallica was them opening for Ozzy (MOP/Ultimate Sin tour)

Metallica was awesome and Ozzy was doing jumping jacks. That’s when Ozzy starting going downhill. 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,414]

6 hours ago, TommyGavin said:

Saw all these except Y&T and The Cult

Saw The Who at Shea Stadium on their first “farewell tour”.

 I saw all the bands he saw. The Cult and Guns & Roses finished that tour here Nawlins. Top five shows on my list of over three hundred good bands I ever saw at one show.

[TommyGavin 790]

8 minutes ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

 I saw all the bands he saw. The Cult and Guns & Roses finished that tour here Nawlins. Top five shows on my list of over three hundred good bands I ever saw at one show.

I might of saw The Cult as an opening band and don’t remember- I was thinking headliners. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,290]

In the 80’s : Queen/ Billy Squier

The Who/ The Clash

Springsteen 

Loverboy

Rolling Stones

Jackson Browne 

Genesis 

Judas Priest

The Ramones

The Smithereens 

Bon Jovi

 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,414]

38 minutes ago, TommyGavin said:

I might of saw The Cult as an opening band and don’t remember- I was thinking headliners. 

 The Cult headlined that tour. GNR became a headliner for a long time after as we all know. 
 I was playing golf on a Sunday afternoon in City Park west. By myself and drinking  a few. Course practically empty. I got to the tenth hole and hear my favorite band at that time. It was in the distance but recognize it was The Cult. Shot the back nine enjoying it. 
 

 The Voodoo Fest was having it that weekend and I forgot. Great day. When I was teeing off on eleven they played…

 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,414]

2 hours ago, TommyGavin said:

Second time seeing Metallica was them opening for Ozzy (MOP/Ultimate Sin tour)

Metallica was awesome and Ozzy was doing jumping jacks. That’s when Ozzy starting going downhill. 

 You got me thinking about Ozzy. I went to the Monster Jam in Houston at the Astrodome. I was a young headbanger. Strange lineup. Bryan Adams, 38 Special, Ozzy, and Rush. I was so beyond out of it that my cousin Mike got us to the upper level and got us seats. I fell asleep and needed a Hicks Dow-Dow. Woke up forty five minutes later and my cousin is gone. He eventually came back but I was in Fawk it mode. Guy next to me says here, great hash. I did. And that’s all I needed. I pas out and was in lala world. I wake up and I could hear Rush playing that song about Bangkok. I look down at my legs and there’s this huge green dot in the middle of my chest. My cousin showed up and said “what’s up? Great laser show dude!” I threw up. Hash man hippy Greatful Dead loser gets up and moves. Good. After I get my bearings straightened I made my way to the parking lot to get picked up. An evangelical doosh was passing out flyers for his ministry that said Ozzy has given up drugs and sin and so should we all!  Ozzy was so fawked up that they had too had to chase him up the stairs behind the stairs where the empty seats are, He had his mic in hand and screamed he loves the fawking kids. 
 

Good times.

 

 

 

 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,414]

On 8/24/2023 at 10:31 AM, Horseman said:

No fokinig way I could remember them all, let alone list them all.

Iron Maiden

Queensryche

Dio

Kiss

Grateful Dead x 5      $16.25 LOL

Lynyrd Skynyrd

UB40

Ziggy Marley

Van Halen

Sammy Hagar

Metallica

In living Color

Primus

Fishbone

Stone Temple Pilots

The Cult

Danzig

Lords of the New Church

Nine Inch Nails

Tom Petty

Crosby Stills and Nash

Santana

Candlebox

Suicidal Tendencies

Guns and Roses

Motely Crew

Ozzy

Korn

Def Leppard

Jimmy Cliff

Jane's Addiction

Violent Fems

Sound Garden

Temple of the Dog

Alice in Chains

Way too many small name bar concerts to name.

Biggest regret was passing up the roundtrip my buddies took to see Ministry. 

Wow! I’ve seen all but five on your list. I got trashed one night with a legal pad and memory lane\loss.  I filled out three pages of just bands that at least sold golden albums. I loved going to concerts and bringing girlfriends. I loved that era

[BunnysBastatrds 2,414]

 I saw Janes Addiction at a dive on PCH and threw bottle rockets into the crowd and Ferrell and Navarro French kissed at the closing.

Where and wydid you see Temple Of The Dog? That’s a rarity as Pearl Jam and Sound Garden only did that gig a handful of times. I saw the one in Houston as a tuneup show for their future tour that year. Top ten ever.

[JustinCharge 2,397]

Horny girls are everywhere.  They are still everywhere leering at me.  Why pay $15 for what you get for free?

[peenie 1,915]

Didn’t have a car to drive to the venue which was usually far from Newark, NJ. Couldn’t afford the price of the ticket. 

[Pimpadeaux 2,405]

On 8/24/2023 at 9:06 AM, seafoam1 said:

Only concerts I've ever been to:

Tom Petty

The Clash

Jethro Tull

The Go-Gos

James Taylor

 

You've only  been to five concerts in your life?

[Pimpadeaux 2,405]

I saw a crap ton of concerts in the 1980s: The Police, Jefferson Starship, Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Nazareth, Judas Priest, Jeff Beck, AC/DC, Joe Walsh, The Kinks, Aerosmith, Asia, The Who, Billy Squier, Dire Straits, R.E.M., Z.Z. Top, Robert Plant, Grateful Dead, David Bowie, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Ramones, Head East, Eric Clapton, Ratt and U2, to name a few.

I saved the ticket stubs and recently mounted and framed them. It's hanging on my office wall.

As what is now known as classic rock died in the 1980s, I turned to bands playing at smaller venues: The Replacements, Husker Du, The Dead Kennedys, Meat Puppets, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Alvin Lee, Bow Wow Wow, The Reivers, etc.

[seafoam1 2,948]

5 minutes ago, Pimpadeaux said:

You've only  been to five concerts in your life?

Yeah and I really didn't want to go to 3 of those all that much. 

What's your obsession with being in massive crowds of drunk and drugged up loud degenerates?

I guess you felt at home. 

You have been divorced 20 times and live with 30 cats because your NOT a loser?  

This shlt never gets old. 

[Pimpadeaux 2,405]

4 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

Yeah and I really didn't want to go to 3 of those all that much. 

What's your obsession with being in massive crowds of drunk and drugged up loud degenerates?

I guess you felt at home. 

You have been divorced 20 times and live with 30 cats because your NOT a loser?  

This shlt never gets old. 

You've only been to five concerts your whole life, and one of them was the Go-Go's.

[seafoam1 2,948]

16 minutes ago, Pimpadeaux said:

You've only been to five concerts your whole life, and one of them was the Go-Go's.

My girlfriend at the time won free tickets and she wanted to go. So I didn't act like you would by telling her to fock off.

No wonder why you have been divorced so many times and now have 30 cats for your sole source of companionship. 

 

[Pimpadeaux 2,405]

3 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

My girlfriend at the time won free tickets and she wanted to go. So I didn't act like you would by telling her to fock off.

No wonder why you have been divorced so many times and now have 30 cats for your sole source of companionship. 

 

Divorce and cats is all you've got in your sad Rolodex of lame insult attempts.

I've been happily married for more than a decade, and I'm proud of our volunteer work regarding cats. 

Why you think this is some kind of sick burn just makes me laugh at your lame five-concert ass.

[seafoam1 2,948]

3 minutes ago, Pimpadeaux said:

Divorce and cats is all you've got .

 

No, it's all you have ever had. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,290]

14 minutes ago, Pimpadeaux said:

Divorce and cats is all you've got in your sad Rolodex of lame insult attempts.

I've been happily married for more than a decade, and I'm proud of our volunteer work regarding cats. 

Why you think this is some kind of sick burn just makes me laugh at your lame five-concert ass.

Migrants need a home. You stepping up?