Yes it's true, I heard that Def Leppard would be in town for a concert and I bought tickets the day they were available. I've been looking forward to this since I was 12 years old.
Actually, I would have been a little bit older, closer to 14 or 15. All I know is that I tortured my mom when I put this on to play. I like(d) to listen to music loud, really, really loud. The more she told me to turn it down, the more I turned up the volume. Of course I'm partially deaf now, but hey, what rebellious teenager gives a flip about that? Forty? I'll be dead by then! Hah. Sigh.
And as long as I'm trippin' down memory lane, pictures of my very first record album below. Movie soundtrack to One on One - because it had a picture of Robbi Benson on the back cover and I thought he was soooooo cute. The music is pretty ok too, if you like Seals & Crofts (probably a good thing I don't have a record player now that I think about it).
Anyway, looking forward to blowing my ears out some more tonight, Cheap Trick and Poison are playing too, that should be fun (?!). Last time I saw Poison they were playing with Jet Boy and Motley Crue at the Oakland Arena ~20 years ago. Our friend and rock and roll journalist Katherine tells me that Jet Boy is still actively playing, somewhere...I bet if I kept digging around I could find the ticket stub.
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Could have been louder...
When I first started going to concerts it was in 1979, the beginning of the "New Wave of British Heavy Metal". The very first band I saw was Samson with Bruce Dickenson on vocals, opening for Ian Gillan. Later on I saw Iron Maiden with Paul DiAnno, plus a whole heap of less famous bands from that era like A II Z, Angel Witch, Sledgehammer, Girl, Marseille, Saxon, Praying Mantis, Dark Star. Great days.
But I never got to see Def Leppard until 1987 - the Pyromania tour; Baltimore Arena I think. I was working in Washington DC at the time. It was a good night!
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