27th anniversary
Apr 13, 2010 15:04:32 GMT -5
Post by icubud on Apr 13, 2010 15:04:32 GMT -5
Today is the 27th anniversary of my first rock concert. I don’t think people forget such a thing – do they?
I went to school late and spent the rest of time in school just thinking about the concert.
Arrived at the Riverfront Coliseum 2 hours early and excitedly waited for the show.
Bryan Adams on his first US show was promoting his first album with such hits “Cuts Like a Knife” and “Straight from the heart”. They were good but not why I had spent the $12 dollars.
Lights down and the video screens come to life and here comes the band running through the backstage corridors to the stage. The place went crazy! The first buzz saw chords of Chain Reaction rip through the coliseum as Journey hits the stage. It was the Frontiers tour and they – of course – put a heck of a show. The last song of the set was “Separate Ways” (if my memory is correct) and the last song of the second encore was “Faithfully”. With Separate Ways when Steve hits the closing high notes and the band is pounding out the exclamation marks – fireworks all around the coliseum explode above the crowd as the arena lit up under the bright white fireworks.
Wow oh wow. I get goose bumps just thinking about the show.
They played every song from the new album plus the big hits from Infinity – Captured and THE rock classics of Escape: Don’t Stop Believing, Stone in Love, Escape, Keep on Running, Open Arms, Still They Ride, and Who’s Crying Now.
They performed for three hours and I still wanted more
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That show set the bar that all future concert experiences would be judged.
I had to go to work after the show; I was a janitor at school. So late with just one other janitor in the building I had my tape deck on blaring Journey down the hallways. When I finally made it to bed around 1 a.m. the truth of Bob Seger’s words were confirmed “with the echo of the amplifiers ringing in your head” I drifted off to another show.
I went to school late and spent the rest of time in school just thinking about the concert.
Arrived at the Riverfront Coliseum 2 hours early and excitedly waited for the show.
Bryan Adams on his first US show was promoting his first album with such hits “Cuts Like a Knife” and “Straight from the heart”. They were good but not why I had spent the $12 dollars.
Lights down and the video screens come to life and here comes the band running through the backstage corridors to the stage. The place went crazy! The first buzz saw chords of Chain Reaction rip through the coliseum as Journey hits the stage. It was the Frontiers tour and they – of course – put a heck of a show. The last song of the set was “Separate Ways” (if my memory is correct) and the last song of the second encore was “Faithfully”. With Separate Ways when Steve hits the closing high notes and the band is pounding out the exclamation marks – fireworks all around the coliseum explode above the crowd as the arena lit up under the bright white fireworks.
Wow oh wow. I get goose bumps just thinking about the show.
They played every song from the new album plus the big hits from Infinity – Captured and THE rock classics of Escape: Don’t Stop Believing, Stone in Love, Escape, Keep on Running, Open Arms, Still They Ride, and Who’s Crying Now.
They performed for three hours and I still wanted more
)That show set the bar that all future concert experiences would be judged.
I had to go to work after the show; I was a janitor at school. So late with just one other janitor in the building I had my tape deck on blaring Journey down the hallways. When I finally made it to bed around 1 a.m. the truth of Bob Seger’s words were confirmed “with the echo of the amplifiers ringing in your head” I drifted off to another show.