Ultimate 80s Hard Rock Festival: Our Dream Lineup

Hey y'all, welcome to another episode of Past Times at 80s High. Another great one for you today. We are gonna do our ultimate seven band festival lineup. So uh there's some pretty good rules in this one, too, because this is at any time and dead or alive, so it can be you know posthumously, but anyway, uh I got the boys here, of course. Brother Mark, how are you? I'm doing pretty well today. How are you? I'm lovely, thank you. Donald? Hey, what's happening? Hello, I soul, and Kevin, of course. Doing all right, good, you bastards. All right, yes, well, like we do here on the show, we always get started right out of the gate, but Kevin always loves to give some shout-outs first.

So many people out there, 1,050 different cities that we're in, uh, including uh St. Michael Bridgetown, Lancashire, San Ramon, California, and La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Awesome, yeah, awesome, and I welcome to our new friends. Yes, thank you all. Welcome. Welcome aboard. I did want to give one other shout out to uh we got an email uh from Chris White, who really had some great, great things to say about the show. No relation, no relation, but no relation at all, which is ironic because I uh I worked with a Chris White, but I wanted to give him a shout out because he had some great things to say about the show. So we really appreciate it, Chris. Thank you. Thanks, Chris. Thank you. With that being said, Brother Mark, you have the on hairs being your pick. All right.

Well, first thing I want to say is uh how can there be a pair of pants but not a pair of shirts? Why why is there no pair of shirts? Think about that! Go on, all right, so yeah, so on this one, I I have seven bands, you know, I've when I think that they're they're in their prime. My favorite iteration of said band, we're kind of in my thing, they're all going on the same stage. You know, it's it's gonna be tough to keep putting a whole stage set up. I I mean I if you want to do that in your fantasy, go ahead. But so yeah, I'm gonna name the band, a couple of the songs they played on the tour. There's no need to go over their members, these are gonna be original members for the most part. Um the first band and one other thing, these are not necessarily in my favorite band order, but I'm going with the thing that the energy. I don't want some a band coming out to exhaust everybody and and they're tired for the they they'll still have six bands. So I'm starting with Aerosmith 1977. They were in support of draw the line. At this point, I think they were probably in their most drug-induced phase. I believe they had some issues with that, but some of the songs. I mean, they opened up with um back in the saddle, and Steve Steve Tyler had his chops. He was hitting all the high notes at the time. And they that this was at the top of the game. You know, they did Adam's Apple, Toys in the Attic, just a lot of great songs. Aerosmith 1970s is just the only Aerosmith that I I like. So, really, to be honest with you.

I agree. I agree, I concur.

They were rocking at that time.

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So, yeah, I mean, if you look at the Houston, Texas concert that they did in 1977, I think you really enjoy it. They were at the top of the game at that point. So that's where I'm going with number seven. And they're not they're not exactly high energy, other than Steven Tyler and a little bit of Joe Perry. So that's why I'm starting off with Aerosmith, because it's just I don't want everyone to be exhausted, and I'll explain why my next band is going second after this, too.

So it was obviously like you said, the height of their drug use because they called the album Draw the Line. Yeah, that's a good point. I would think they'd be higher energy with with all that Peruvian marching population.

I mean they were high energy, but opposed to done with mirrors sounded high energy, but right.

And that was what that was what year, Mark?

1977. 77? Okay.

Awesome. Cool.

I'd go.

Awesome pick, Mark. Yeah. I I'm glad you explained how you're doing it because I thought sure Aerosmith was gonna be way higher for you. Awesome.

Well, no, I I originally had them that way, but again, energy. You'll you'll see that as I continue to go on with it.

Awesome. So my band, and everyone's gonna be shocked this is on my list and think I'm crazy, but I don't care because I did my list off the top of my head and brought myself back in time and just had thoughts of things that popped in. I'm like, you know what? I really wish I saw that. So my first band um is gonna be Twisted Sister. Nice. All right. Now, this is a band that I absolutely despised when they first came out because it once again, uh, this I'm going back to '84 with this one, like the Stay Hungry era, which is the only time that they headlined it all because them and Quiet Riot and a few other bands, like you know, kind of had that one album wonder that just fell off a cliff after that. But the energy they had, they they were just so crazy and so much fun. But the fact that I hated them, you know, was because once again, I I could only like kiss, but yeah, then all of a sudden, nowadays I think they're friggin' awesome. So to hear them stay hungry, don't explode.

Stay hungry. Stay hungry, stay hungry.

That they were just so ballsy and kick ass, and I would I would love to see them. And I also thought that most of my bands are not in any order, uh, you know, because they're gonna fight over, you know, the egos are gonna say, I'm not opening this, but I felt yeah, no, that's definitely AJ.

That was my consideration too.

But I felt like Twisted Sister had to open my set, so that's that. And to you, Donald.

Cool, man. Um, yeah, I'm mine. I'm doing you know, seven bands that I believe would kind of meld together for a fan base, um, which is a little difficult. That it's kind of broken up into two, like there's there's a group of three and another group of three, and then there's one opener. Because yeah, you wouldn't want like a John Denver fan group mixing with uh like a Snoop Dogg fan back, they just wouldn't right and while maybe smoking a little bit of the devil's letters, yeah. While saying that who knows, they might be like, This is great, we're coming together, you know.

Yeah, you just made me think of something, Donald, that I forgot to mention at the beginning because I don't think I did say hard rock, and I meant to, so I apologize. So, yes, this is hard rock, everyone.

Yes, and this is gonna be the Dungo Fest Live, the Guildford Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion. And and we went to high school with uh with a young lady who manages that facility, and if she ever listens, these are some of the ones I want you to reach out to and see if you can make these happen. Uh some of them they can't because they're posthum, like you said, aged a whatever that posthumously that's a big word. So for my start, and I'm also gonna tie in a couple memories from festivals that we attended. And I think three of us attended one festival that we'll talk about that had some good memories and bad memories. Indeed, but for my opening band, this is kind of a uh kind of a curveball. So for my opening band is cherry pie from Warrant. Uh the the album Cherry Pie, which was the the 1991 era of Warrant. I think they're an underrated band, and I think that album was awesome. There's a lot of great cuts on that, like I saw Red, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Great. Um yeah, this there's some blind faith. I mean, that was a great album. So they're just a good rock and roll band that are gonna kick it off and get everybody warmed up. So that's who I'm starting with.

You are correct, Donald. I agree that they are very underrated. So, Donald, uh, said owner that you were talking about. We used to frequent parties in high school at her place. One time that I'll never forget was I was about to have a great memory, and then the police showed up, and then we all had to bail into the woods, which is another old school memory from back in the day because kids just don't do that anymore. That never happened to me.

Uh, but with that being said, that's to you, Kev. All right, so a couple things with my lineup is I took a view of it like the promoter would. I looked at what their album sales are, their ticket sales. I didn't really, but you know, you're the promoter on this one, Kevin. Exactly, exactly. So couldn't get Frank Joe J. Russo, so I had to go with uh Bill Graham, the king. Um so they're they're playing where I tell them they're playing, and and that's all there is to it. Yeah, right. Yeah, um, and the other thing is, I mean, I thought about I always loved the idea of the outdoor festivals, but the bands that I've picked here, most of them would never be able to do their show in an outdoor atmosphere. And then I realized that I really loved for what it was, the Cumberland County Civic Center where we were growing up, was such a great place to see a show.

This is a great place to see a show. A favorite was air, yeah, okay.

Journey what when I went to other venues, like I remember going to uh the Worcester Centrum a couple times, and it's like if you squinted really hard, you can see the band on stage. I mean, it was just not it was there was no intimacy to it. Yeah, so I'm gonna shove some of the biggest productions into the Cumberland County Civic Center, maybe just have them bleach the floors before we go in and try to get rid of that smell that it had.

Um wasn't uh Portland general admission typically, you know. Thank you was assigned seating.

Yes, exactly. That's my favorite, and another bonus, right? Which leads to my other point is not only am I picking bands from the point when I'd like to see them, I'm also going to said festival from the age I'd like to be. Because, as they say, if it's too loud, you're too old. Yes, yes, I am. I don't think I could sit through these seven bands right now. But back in the day, mine would have opened with the cult from the 1987 tour for Electric, where they kind of wandered from a post-punk goth band into a hard driving rock show. Yeah, they rock. Yeah, they tried to they tried to work with uh Steve Brown, who did the first album. They had a little success with She Sells Sanctuary three times fast. Uh, I doubt that, but possibly I don't see there was any I didn't see any connection. But anyway, they had just come off some success with She Sells Sanctuary, and Steve Brown had done, I think, a couple albums with them. This was their actual second studio album as the cult. They were um the death cult before that, or the southern death cult. Uh, but they brought in Rick Rubin, who was white hot at that time, and they just scrapped everything they did with Brown and left everything behind, and he just said, do some straightforward shit. And they did, and it rocks, and I still love it today. I mean, that tour opened with wildflower, of course, peace dog. I mean, I can listen to that album anytime. So that would be my opening act because I think they will probably pale in comparison to the rest of my lineup as far as ticket sales and album sales.

Nice. Awesome pick, an awesome, awesome venue. Uh, Mark, I noticed you shrugged when we were talking about general admission. And something I wanted to tell you about said general admission that as I got older, I still appreciated it greatly because I was not getting myself crammed against the wall like I did when I was younger, but I'd run in and I'd get that first row in the lows just to the left of the stage. So you could still get incredible seats with general admission, and you didn't have to get crunched.

Right.

You know, or you go you go in the in the fray for a little while and then you come out and chill for a little while. You can kind of you can do whatever you wish. Yeah, move around.

Nowadays, I I want to be seated and I want the dumbass in front of me to remain seated and keeping it.

I like the um what would it be like a cocktail seating?

Yeah, yeah.

Where I went I could have table service and and watch a show.

Yeah, you know, um the Hampton Beach Casino used to be like, but now they're talking about tearing that down and putting in something that we won't be able to afford to go to.

Exactly. One thing I want to say is about sitting and standing. That I would like to do an episode on that down the road, boys, because there is such an argument over that because I agree to disagree. Because if I'm at a friggin' concert and I'm into that band, I'm standing up. Down in front, and I can't tell you how many times the fucker behind me asked me to sit down. Hey, down in front, and you know what? I switched I switched with them. I'm like, you can have the front row, you know, I'll sit behind you, but you're at a fucking concert. Get your ass up. I'm sorry.

It's like going to a Patriots playoff game or something, and everyone's standing the entire game except for some idiot sitting behind you who doesn't understand how big the game is, you know.

So very cool that you would trade seats with them, AJ, but my theory on that, and we've gone over it, is I paid a hundred and something bucks for this seat. I want to see the band, not your ass.

Hey, buddy, down in front.

As did I, as did I, and I want to roll it.

My sitting down is not blocking your complete view of the show. And again, I leave the caveat that I'm not going to these concerts anymore. I'm going to see. I went and saw Lyle Lovett and John Hyatt on Tuesday night, and they were excellent. And although nobody stood in front of me, they couldn't keep their mouths shut.

Shh.

Something wrong with your lips, motherfucker.

Something gonna be wrong with it if you keep making that noise.

Right, right. All right. Well, that's back to you, Mark, for number six.

All right, so it was Texas Jam that Aerosmith played at with Nugent and all those guys. So, anyway, the venue, I I guess I never really thought about it. Um, I don't know. You could do the river in Manchester, you could do my backyard, we could cut the trees down, you know, just have a blast. They're playing, we're billionaires at this point, they're all playing for us. So, anyway, this band, I mentioned original members. This band did not play with the original members, it's 1981 moving pictures, the tour they're supporting, and that would be Rush.

Monday warrior, mean mean stride. Today's stomach saw your mean mean stride.

So and the reason why they're going on second, I thought of them as the opener, and I absolutely adore this band, is so there will be some women there to watch them. You know, because they don't tend to have a lot of girls there for some reason. They don't like Getty Lee's voice.

Yeah. I think they don't like Getty Lee or the band's look is the issue.

They had a lot of.

Oh, geez, but they're incredibly dance to it either at all.

No, I mean, even metal, some metal, you either love Russia or you hate Russia. They weren't handsome men, is my point.

So I mean, look at some of these songs. I mean, they did closer to the heart, free will, um, red barchetta, working man. John Rutzi was the actual drummer when that song was written. Limelight, the spirit of radio. Oh, yeah. Incredible catalog. It was a little overplayed, but just an incredible, incredible concert. I mean David saw it then back in 1994. I believe it was Worcester. Fancy. I saw them in Worcester.

I think it was that '94 show, probably. Yeah.

Awesome. They're going on second. Did I say closer to the heart? I don't know if I did. You did. That's one of my favorite songs. Um, the Green Bastard played on a it was actually Bubbles. But uh anyway. Awesome. So yeah, they're going on second, and they're fairly high energy. I mean, Katie Lee is such an incredible bass player. Neil Peart. Did I say it right? You did. No, thank you. And uh, I mean, just would you have to see the size of his drum set? My God. Look at the size of his drum set. Yeah, and an underrated guitar, Alex Lifeson. Yeah. And I think they're plenty high energy. We're gonna get this thing rolling, boys.

Nice.

And so I started with Aerosmith, now I have Rush. I mean, if you're not having a good time now, you need to get your motor checked.

Thank you. That's right. All right. Well, that's to me then. Great pick, Mark. So, my number six. This band, you know, would probably be higher on some others' lists, but for me, at the time that I'm picking, which is 1986 ish, all right, in support it's the damage inktour supporting Master of Pi. Puppets, and that would be Metallica. And this is before Cliff Burton's death. And just something that I wish I saw because I felt to I you know, he gets talked a lot be about a lot because of his death, but I think people never really talk about what a virtuoso bass player he was, man. He was just well trained and incredible. Uh, we did see him at a festival that I won't bring up because I believe you shelled, Donald, but I saw Metallica, but this is after Cliff's death in 1988. I just wish I had gotten to see them, you know, before he died in that tragic bus accident. That was September 26th, I believe. The concert that I'm speaking of, and he passed away the next day. Uh the accident was on the 27th. But Metallica fucking rocks. I uh I don't love a lot of their later stuff. So this is when I would have appreciated really seeing them back when they were really hungry. I don't even know if Master had really taken off yet, because that's where they shot into the stratosphere really and you know, started to anyway. But prior to that, they were just a band that people were like, What the fuck is this? We're hearing, you know what I mean? And but incredible energy, and they're they're playing second at my show. So do you, Dongo?

Nice. All right, so just as just an interlude to kind of go along with what you were saying about the festival. So the Monsters of Rock tour was June 25th, 1988, at the Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine. Correct. Were you at that show too, Kevin?

Did you oh this is his drive for a minute? I was stuck in traffic for eight hours, saw the scorpions do three songs and then started raining. They said, We must leave the stage, we are getting electrocuted, and I walked home like this. Oh no, it was it was miserable.

Would you guys be upset if I listed the lineup? Which is so the lineup of that concert was Van Halen, the Scorpions, Dawkins, Metallica, and Kingdom come. Yep. And it's often uh described by fans who went to that show as awesome, but also very challenging because of the downpouring rain. Oh, yeah. And I was it was cold, it was in June, but it was kind of cold. And I remember being adamant, like I'm not spending, I can't remember it was five dollars. It was only five bucks. Yeah, that's probably the best five dollar purchase I've ever made in my entire life. For the trash bag, yeah, it was a trash bag. But uh, you know, I went from being wet and miserable to like warm and moist and happy.

That was the best purchase I've ever made, as well. Yeah, just in my life, and we stuck we stuck it out, Kevin. We we watched the whole thing. Yeah, was this you didn't want to be a few years?

88 was June 25th, 1988. And you were invited, Mark.

I didn't know. I know guys, I don't know. I back then that was a time in my life I went through this, I don't know how to explain it, but I was having anger issues for a couple weeks. Thank God you did not fight me. I mean, thank god I said no. No, I I it was so weird. I just for some reason I it felt like being on six steroid shots in your freaking lumbar region. Which I am right now. So, but anywho.

But anyway, that that was just an example of the kind of the festivals that we're all putting together today. I just like to bring that one up because that was one we kind of all went to, and it was the lineup was incredible, which is the festival I said you would bring up. The rain, the rain sucked. That's one of the best times I've ever had. Misery. All right, so but now I'm gonna go back into Dongo Fest, and this is the this is gonna start a three-band kind of group of this show, and they're all kind of interrelated slightly. Um, and my first one's gonna be Damn Yankees, um from the 1989 album, uh, with the song Come Again is a good thing. You know, Tommy Shaw, I love Tommy Shaw, Jack Blades, Ted Nugent, Marco Cataline Catalone, Cartalone. I don't know if I'm saying that right, but they they just rocked. That album rocked. Um, they did have a second album, Don't Tread, which was not as good, but that first album was just awesome. Incredible. Yeah, you know, coming of age, uh high enough, great songs off that album.

But harmonies on that yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you put blades and shaw together singing, yeah, and they did uh form a band which I haven't checked out, but I'm going to after looking into this. They started a band called uh Shaw Blades, you know, kind of a pun name, but I want to check that out.

Nice, yeah incredible band. Yeah, I'll talk about it later because I have a perfect show in that scenario that I've spoken of in the past. And of course the noge. Yes. Awesome.

All right, Kev. All right, AJ. Um, my second act is also going to be Metallica. And I definitely fretted over with Cliff, or what I ended up going with was their farewell tour, um, Damaged Justice, that went from September 11, 88 until October of 89. That was supporting the Injustice for All, their last album that they ever made.

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And the only thing that I would include in that as the promoter is don't you dare play fucking one.

I hate that, huh?

Everything else, do not play the song one. So a little bit of that set list from that era. They were opening with Blackened, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Sanitarium, Harvester of Sorrow, The Four Horsemen. I mean, just so much great music. And I just love Anjustice so much. Nothing against, of course, Masters and Ride the Lightning, and all of that is fantastic. But there's so many songs that I love off Anjustice, and I had to keep that in the fold. So I did go ahead and went with their farewell tour. Even though I wonder if because I didn't get to see him, maybe you guys remember because Newstead was with them right at at um the Oxford Plains debacle. Could you hear Newstead in the concert, or was it like the album where they just turned him almost off?

I honestly couldn't remember that for sure, but I get we're get we're going for certain in that.

I just laugh so hard at those stories about you know, they made him go in at like three o'clock in the morning and then he'd record his parts, and then in the the next day, um Ulrich would come in and and crank up the drums in the mix, and poor guy.

Unbelievable.

And then Hetfield would come in later in the day, and well, the guitars are too low. So you got you got the bass like just disappearing in the mix, gone.

Exactly.

So anyway, I would have loved to see that. They did have a number of openers on that tour. Uh, Royal Air Force, Anthrax, Danzig, Queen's Reich, Mortal Sin. But I would have chose to see them with the cult, who was my first pick. Nice. If I was gonna go on that tour. But obviously, they would have been, cult would have been the opener for Metallica again.

Correct. Okay, well, nice. Awesome. I I was laughing, I'm trying to think. Did they ever do a farewell and come back? And then when you said injustice, I knew it. That was a farewell for me. Yes. Awesome. All right, Mark, that's number five to you.

Okay, well, my festival, it's gonna be partly to mostly sunny, with winds light, and variable, 77 degrees, stable all day, may drop to 76, it may go up to 78.

Weather out there today is hot and shitty with continued hot and shitty in the afternoon. Tomorrow, a chance of continued crappy with a pissy weather front coming down from the north.

So, have a great time. Come to the show. I'm telling you, you're gonna have a great time. We are going with 1973. I don't know if you've heard of this band. They have they nobody knows them. They're called Led Zeppelin.

Ah, yes.

And um, obviously the original members, because that's all they ever had. You know, the the only thing I don't like about Zeppelin Live is the fact that Robert Plant doesn't seem to hit the high notes very often. Really? I mean, like my my favorite song, one of my favorite songs of all time, but my favorite Zeppelin song is Misty Mountain Hop.

And he just he sings it all falsetto and it's a good one.

But just an incredible band, obviously. You have John Bonham, an incredible drummer, who, like Anton Fig, plays a little bit behind the beat. I mean, Ace really said that in his book, but just a little behind the beat, which gives it a really great flow. And, you know, they played uh a whole lot of love, gazed and confused. That's a couple songs I really like. And uh I would have loved to have seen them in concert. I mean, they were I was what 15 when they they had to disband because of Bonham's death. So, you know, they they're pretty high energy, and we're we're just moving down the list. Zeppelin normally would be probably a headliner. But one thing, this festival is going on for like seven weeks. So they're all gonna, you know, Aerosmith will get to this is one day, I figure. Oh, you're they're ready. I understand that, but this is my day. But there are six other days. Oh they're gonna they're going to uh you know all kinds of houses with super rich people like myself, and uh that's what they're doing. But I'm just trying to be nice to every band here. Led Zeppelin normally would be a headliner.

Of course.

But uh John Paul Jones, great bass player, Jimmy Page. I mean, fantastic guitar player.

It was a little strange in the beginning there with all his occult stuff, but the influence is unbelievable from that band.

Yeah, he was a uh Les Paul guy like yours truly is. So that's my number uh five. Nice third band on the tour, on the bill.

I knew they'd come up for certain. Alright. So that's five to me then. And if you want to talk about tiring people out, I didn't think with the same mindset as you, Mark. Let me guess. More ahead, I know. No, but this is gonna be 7778 era with Ted Nugent. And this is the double live gonzo area, just a madman. I mean, a stadium act, and so underrated, and I think so many people don't understand that out there. Just a fucking madman with so much energy who probably has a lot of energy. Oh my god. And you listen to Double Live Gonzo, he is just insane.

You bet your ass! You bet your ass, baby. We're here to do it to you one time tonight, it's not tonight, it's not tonight, it's not to do it nice for Tennessee. I do just fine, fine, some, fine, double time. Oh my, little bit of rock and roll, the here, the bit of there, little tomorrow, another one, another. We're gonna do it too. We gotta do it too. We got to have it ever now. We got to do it to you. I think I know what you like, but I'm not gonna be able to do it. I say I think. I think I say I know that ain't nobody out there came to be mellow tonight, now did you? I say I say there I say there ain't nobody. I say there ain't nobody now there that even wants to be a little bit mellow now, is there? Everybody wants to get mellow, you can turn around and get the fuck out of here! It's a good boy. It's a good thing, it's a good thing. This is a love song. Like a dedicated dog and dance a little pussy.

Like I said, a stadium act. You know, he was selling out stadiums. He was friggin' huge and massive, just vastly underrated. So he's coming on at number five, and now everyone's gonna have to have an intermission and take a nap for a bit.

Yeah. So that'll go to you, Dongo.

Okay, so um a concert history nugget that I'll include was my wife and I went to um Mountain Jam, which is in Hunter, New York. Um and it was June 5th, 2015. And the headliner was Robert Plant, and the sensational spaceshifters, just uh tie into to Mark's. Um this was a three-day festival, and we were not prepared for a three-day festival. Like there's camper sites, there's um car camping sites, and then there was like tent sites, and we were in the tent sites, and the tent sites were on the side of a ski slope. So when we got there, like a Friday afternoon, we um set up our tent, and then when we woke up in the middle of the night, like Friday night into Saturday, there were tents all surrounding us, like it was like a like a refugee camp. Uh in New York was just and they were playing 24-7, so like government mule was playing at like 2 a.m. in the morning.

I saw them at the Capitol.

Yeah, so it was an amazing experience, but just not something it was more for the younger folks. You know, I'm uh like a hotel bed kind of guy now, and sleeping on a side of a ski slope where you know you either try to sleep sideways and you'll just roll down, or you sleep with your feet downhill, or you sleep with your head downhill. But I did meet an interesting fellow in uh when in the 2015 he opens up his briefcase and it's like, oh, you take this indigo for sleep and you take this one for depression. He was like the connoisseur of uh cannabis.

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I think the most important thing in Chris's life is weed, and then his family, and then make Indikers Tiva.

Um, Indica?

Hybrid. There's currently only seven cannabis somaliers in the whole world. And as of last week, two of us work here.

You know, and we always wondered like, how did he smuggle that in there? Like, like smuggled in like a joint, and she was paranoid. Oh boy. Like she was gonna get and this guy brings in like a friggin' you know, display case dessert card. And one of those trench coats, and uh, but that was that was just a little history nugget of a festival, kind of like what we got going on here. So for my number five is tied into my number six with the bass player and Jack Blades. So Jack Blades was in Damn Yankees, but I'm also gonna use him with Night Ranger, yeah. So I'm gonna have Night Ranger as my band at number five with their 1982 album. You can still rock in America is the song I want them to jam. Yeah, I I love Night Ranger, and I think they tie in nicely with uh with the damn Yankees. So yeah.

Great, great live band.

Yeah, I love uh Brad Gillis, um Kelly Keege, Eric Levy on keyboards. So just a great band. It's just a Christian when you close your eyes. Oh yeah, just a good rocking band.

And they still sound great.

That's one of those bands like Carr The Cars that you don't realize that it was not the guy that was the front guy that sang some of the best songs. Kurt T sang some of Night Rangers' best songs, just like um, and I can't think of his name right now, the bass player from the Cars sang some of their best tunes.

Yeah, incredible. It is hard to figure out who sang what and what song. Most of the songs that I like did have Jack Blades as the lead singer. But yeah.

Awesome. Awesome pick on right, Kev?

All right, I don't think this one's gonna surprise anybody because I mean we're already at the Cumberland County Civic Center, and so this actually happened there. So I know this stage show fits in there. Probably not all of the stage show that they added at some of the other places, but uh the third position is the world slavery tour from Iron Maiden, which was one of the greatest that I ever saw.

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender.

I mean everything from everybody for everything from Eddie running around and and then the big head coming out over the drum kit and just like I've talked about before them doing Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner and the creaking noises and the light sets all moving around and it was just it was fantastic it it was the never-ending tour it went on for 331 days 189 shows out of 197 scheduled um they landed in Portland by way of Australia. Uh some of those cancelled shows were in New Zealand. I don't know exactly why they were canceled. Um but just I mean one of the greatest hard rock, heavy metal live performances that I ever witnessed. I saw them with Except, uh, but they also had Wasted Molly Crew on a couple of them, Twisted Sister for You, AJ, Queens Reich, Wasp, Warrior, Rat were also openers on those tours, and just phenomenal. The way it started with the the Winston Churchill speech and then going into Aces High in two minutes to midnight. It just you talk about you know, Mark's show is building a crescendo, and this whole show was just like ratcheting it up as it went, and it just so memorable, so fantastic. So they're in the third seat.

Incredible show, Kev. Great pick, man. I wish I saw that one. One of the best. Don't know why I wasn't there because I was always there for almost any show. That even if we didn't like the band we went, you know. Right? Awesome. All right, so we're up to number four to you, Mark.

Okay. Uh one of the things I I do is I'm going with these bands in their prime, or at least their highest energy. I'm going with Fair Warning Van Halen 1981 tour.

The biggest show of the year, Van Halen, this Saturday night. Live in the Mississippi Coast Coliseum this Saturday night. Last bit of Bad Hailer tickets at Stears and Biloxi Immobile, beautiful noise in North Biloxi, Overleas in Gulf Sport, Merchants Bank in Long Beach, beautiful day in Hattersburg, and birds music in Pascagoula. WQID welcomes Van Halen Saturday night with special guests the Granati Brothers, produced and presented by the John Bauer Concert Company.

That is one of my favorite albums, and these guys are extremely high energy, and you can just sit there and watch or stand there and watch Eddie Van Halen all day and just focus on him, and it would just be a treat. And um the the set list was incredible. Um, you know, they did mean street, which I love, and just I'll dance the night away. Everybody wants some. Ain't talking about love. Just great, great songs, and I mean I always wanted to see them at the time, and I I guess I'm gonna have to settle for uh the holograms or whatever. How else are we gonna get these guys together? But uh band I always wanted to see, and the only way you can watch them is on YouTube or whatever. But uh, you know, David David Lee Roth is extremely high energy. He's probably kicking things all over the place. You know, but uh yeah, so that's my number four pick.

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All right, so that's number four to me, and just uh your festival chat, Dongo, about the last couple you mentioned and what you said about the one you guys went to made me really think about one I was at, and that was, I believe, '94. I went with my buddy VJ and Tim to Woodstock. Such the opposite, because, like you guys, I we were paranoid to hell. We had a marine cooler that was about six feet long with about seven or eight thirty packs in it, food, more hard booze. Um, I'm sure we had plenty of pot with us, and we were paranoid because they were talking it up so much about you know not bringing that stuff. This is not a joke, this is dead serious. We walked in to where they were taking the tickets, and they the guy said that took our tickets welcome to Woodstock. Mushrooms and we bought a quarter bag of mushrooms off the guy. The guy that took the tickets? Yes.

Oh my god.

And then same thing as you, we found the tent site, and I was 94, so 22, 23.

So stock 94 you were at, yes, correct. Better one than 99 suck from what I heard.

94 was 94 was amazing. I was there, and it was we were setting the tent up, and you hear all of a sudden you see one of my buddies running, and he comes back with six balloons, and it was just it was game on from there. But like you said, that is not something I could do now or 15 years ago, even. But as a kid, it was one of the greatest times of my life. All right. Anyway, my number four is gonna be around the end of 1981. And this is gonna be Ozzy Osborne Solo with Randy Rhodes, and this is just after uh Lee Kurzlake and Bob Daisley were fired, who were such incredible contributors, and you know, Sharon Osborne can fuck off for all that, how bad they screwed them. But uh Rudy Sarzo and Tommy Aldridge came in to see Randy Rhodes live is something that I had to put on this list because it was like the end of Blizzard and start of Diary Tour right then. How incredible would it have been? Ozzy's energy is great, you know. God love him, God rest his soul, but to see Randy with him is something that I always had wanted to see or wished I had. Yeah, so that's my pick. So that's off to you, Dungo.

Cool. So this is gonna complete my first three band trio. So I had Damn Yankees Night Ranger, which had the um Jack Blades tie-in. And then this is a band that I would love to see Jack Blades, Tommy Shaw, and Rick Emmett together on stage. And this band is Triumph. I always go with Triumph. So I'd have Damn Yankees, Night Ranger, and then Triumph, and I'd love Triumphs from their 1975. Um, with the song Fight the Good Fight, playing it live with Rick Emmett kicking ass. Um, they're actually touring this summer, which is cool. Um, but I love I love Rick Emmett, he's awesome. Um, Gail Moore, drums and vocals, and Mike Glemane on on bass. But uh I would love my dream band to be, you know, Rick Emmett, Tommy Shaw, Brad Gillis, Jack Blades, and then like Neil Purt, which ties into your rush. That would be like my dream band on stage. I would love to hear those guys sing together, just the harmonies would be incredible. Love me triumph, and that would be my three two band kind of grouping.

Nice your middle your mid-card. So uh one thing about Triumph that is pretty well known is how they were huge in like the Midwest region. Like and then they'd play like the East Coast and the West Coast, I do remember, and they really didn't have a following, and then they'd go back to that middle part of the states and just sell everything out. I don't know what that had to do with, but pretty interesting anyway. You know, awesome, great pick, Don. And to you, Kevin, to wrap up number four. Judas Priest will take the stage next.

We go in the old vengeance tour from 82, uh, the classic lineup, uh with all all the cool kids, the metal god. No one, no one can touch him. He is just absolutely amazing. Um, they did have a number of opening acts on this tour, uh, Crocus most prominently, I believe. Um Maiden did go on that tour. The funny thing I came across is uh the 1980 British Steel Tour um had Maiden as the opener on that, and you know, Steve Harris was it was his band, and he was trying to make it. He basically said, We're gonna we're gonna blow Priest off the stage every night. And I think they ended up getting kicked off the tour at some point, but they did come back for this one in in in 82. But such a great era for them, you know, you had the starting off with the Hellion being recorded, you know, because they didn't play it live, but they had a recording of it, and then going into Electricaye. Uh riding the wind, head out on the highway. And of course, uh, you got another thing coming was like the big hit off that. So that would have been a high point in that show. Just talk about energy. Man, those guys were unbelievable. And one of the odd things that I'm looking at this, and some of these like I never got to see them. I did see Halford on his own when he was doing like the industrial techno thing or whatever it was, which was yeah, cool but kind of weird. Um, but the reason I'm looking at where these shows played, and the reason I didn't see them because the closest they got to us was like Connecticut or something, they didn't even come to Massachusetts, so it's no wonder I didn't get to see those tours. Yeah, you know, so I don't I hated it when they ever saw them either. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they forget us. Yeah, they forget us out here. Yeah, we got we got 1350 for our tickets and maybe even 795 for a t-shirt. Exactly, dude.

Unbelievable. Oh, what a great band to see, though. I I don't think I did either. I don't think I ever got to see Priest.

And you ever hear Motorhead's version of uh breaking the law?

No, but I bet it's fantastic.

It is, it's terrific. Another band that I love that I used to hate. All right, Mark. Really? So we're at number three to you, yes?

Yes, number three to me, 1971. The Who. Yes. And yeah. I I had written down John Bonham as the drummer. I must have been hurry, and obviously Keith Moon was a friggin' crazy ass drummer. Kate Townsend was high energy with all the things. He had John Entwistle and Roger Daltrey was a great singer. I mean, I I don't know about a great vocalist, but a great front man.

I think he's an incredible vocalist.

Yeah, I mean, he's he's there are better, but he's he's very good. When I look at this set list, I mean, it is unfriggin' believable. You have Barbara Riley. Barbara O'Reilly. I said Barbara that was planned. I mean, behind blue eyes, won't get fooled again. Magic Bus. I absolutely adore that song. My generation. Just so friggin' fun. I love them. Unfortunately, you know, we were talking about uh general admission. I don't mean to put a damper on things, but back in 1979, everyone knows what happened in Cincinnati. And I think that's one of the things or the main reason why general admission started to wane a lot at that point.

Police and rescue workers discovered the first bodies outside the Riverfront Coliseum doors, just as the concert by the British rock group The Who began performing on December 3rd, 1979.

When they opened the doors tonight, everybody just went crazy. There was a girl in front of me, she fell down, and people were stamping on top of her and everything, and I was trying to help her up, and they were just hitting everybody and just trying to kill to get into the concert. So I I don't know exactly.

Well, I I guess I would know how it happened because I got caught in a stampede once. And of course, D AJ decides to stack throwing up or pretending he's throwing up, got right in the front row.

Brilliant. No, that's how I get brilliant. That's how I get out.

Oh, okay.

Right. If you're a girl, you just faint. You just pretend to faint and then they drag you over the wall. They get handy when they do it.

They drag you over the wall. What else they gotta do with you? When they when you get over the wall.

They do get handy. Yeah. And they they just boot you out.

But uh but I mean the the set list is just there is no filler, there's nothing but happiness.

They were you know I don't think they get a lot of credit from the group that we're talking about today, but I mean they they they were smashing the instruments and blowing things up and and just being out of control.

Incredible.

Long live rock. We were the first band to vomit in the bar and find the distance to the stage too far. I mean, that's a little confessional right there. Definitely Mooney breaking up the hotel rooms, driving his car into pools, uh passing out on stage from taking horse tranquilizers, and they had to get somebody out of the audience to come up and that literally happened. And you know what happened audience to play drums.

You know what happens to him eventually? Very early in his life, same thing that happened with Bonham. I mean, I don't think they died the same way, but uh yeah, he died early, as we know.

That's a lifestyle. And an original Hollywood vampire. Yes, right? Yes. True story. True story. All right, so that's number three to me. I won't go too into depth on this one, but Kevin, you brought up how nobody can touch your guy, Rob. This is gonna be around 8182 again, and around the mob rules tour, it's gonna be Black Sabbath with my guy, Ronnie James Dio. The one singer that I would say can touch him and maybe surpass. Not even close. Fucking just not even such a great vocalist, and to see you know, Sabbath, I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Ozzy, and what he did with Sabbath was such a huge, huge statement, and you know, I wouldn't change any of that, but then to have a vocalist like Diota come in and listen to that Heaven and Hell album and and Mob Rules, it's just it would have been incredible to see. And I would have to have him throw some Aussie tunes into the mix and sing some of them as well. But this is my effing show. So that's right, he can do that. And you know, God love him. Um, it's sad that he has passed as well, but yeah, just one of the best out there. Okay, he he is equal with Rob Halford, Kevin.

So when when I say that, I mean it's not that it it's we've talked about Hagar versus Roth and whatever else. It's not about it's different. That yeah, he's a I I love Dio, he's amazing, but The notes that Halford hit, the sustain that he had, the range that he had, nobody can touch that. It's just it's not. But I was curious, AJ, because I don't know. Did he ever sing the Aussie songs? Yeah, I I never he did.

Yeah, I don't know how much of that. I don't know how much they did back then, but then they did um when they called the band Heaven and Hell. Right. You know, they they definitely did. Yeah, there's actually a lot. You can listen to it on YouTube all over the place where he does. And it's not the same. I mean, I'd rather hear Ozzy sing those songs, to be honest.

Oh yeah.

But he did it, which he probably did.

Did Hellford sing in the um Aussie tribute? He did. Didn't he? They but they did it. I think he did, right? I'm sorry, I didn't hear the question. Did Rob Helford sing in the Ozzy um like Ozzy's last concert that Ozzy tribute? I missed it if he did. I don't think he did, but maybe he didn't.

He did. Yeah.

I think it was in absentia though.

I think it was like um oh they did they did it in a different venue. They done yeah, exactly. Yeah, so it wasn't at the the show in Birmingham, but they did do a tribute to him at another venue, so that's what you're you're thinking of. Yep. So awesome. Cool. All right, so that's number three to you, dongo. Yes, sir. And this this that made me think of I'm Ron Burgundy? That's what it was. Like it was kind of a question. Number three to you, Dongo.

That's gonna do it for all of us here at Channel 4 News. You stay classy, San Diego. I'm Ron Burgundy. Damn it! Who type a question mark on the teleprompter? For the last time, anything you put on that prompter, Burgundy will read.

That was the biggest question mark I've ever heard and not seen.

All right, so yes, that is number three. Do you don't go?

Number three, on July 29th, 1988. I was in a traffic jam heading up to Old Orchard Beach. And I was with Liam, one of our friends. And I think VJ was going to that show. I don't know if he was in our car. I don't know if you went to this show, but this is gonna be for Def Leopard, is gonna be this band. So I knew Def was coming. We were going to see Def Leopard at uh Old Orchard Beach. And uh it was a it was a great concert. It just took us like 15 hours to get there because the traffic was horrendous for some reason. I don't know if there were accidents or something, but um, yeah, that's what I recall from that concert is that we got stuck in a traffic jam forever. But anyways, Def Leopard. I love all their albums, uh, but definitely Pyromania is kind of the error that I want to focus in on in my um deep cut is coming under fire, would be the song that I want from them. Nice.

So you experienced on the OOB concert, and I can't remember, I was supposed to go to that, but I don't know if we couldn't get tickets or what. But you experienced what I experienced at the Oxford Plains Speedway. Oh, yeah, debacle monsters of rock debacle uh that took forever. But now it makes me wonder how how did what time did you guys leave to go to Monsters of Rock? How did you get there? Because I remember it was like I think we left at like nine or ten in the morning and still hit seven hours of traffic.

How we got there?

We just teleport.

What time of year was it?

That's yeah, so okay. Well, there you go. Before summer, though. That's before summer, so you're not getting the beach traffic. I don't know. The end of June is when schools get out.

So the Def Leopard concert was July. So yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Well, that's why you got stuck in traffic at 95.

Right, right. I I think the biggest problem with both of them is that there's pretty much one way in and one way out, and they're not roads designed for eight lanes of traffic. So bottlenecked. I remember we, you know, the highway was fine going up to Monsters of Rock. It was from that Burger King to the exit that went into Oxford Plains. Right. You went from four lanes of traffic down to a dirt road, I think.

Oh, yeah, it was pretty brutile. Bottlenecked for 48 miles.

Right. Oh, awesome. Yeah, and you have like two people parking, you know, 40,000 cars in all the two people.

Too funny. Awesome pick Don. All right, Kevin, you're wrapping up number three.

Ending number three with the vintage lineup of AC DC. This is the Bond Scott AC DC 79 Highway to Hell tour. Started in Belgium, ended in Southampton, and Def Leopard, to tie into you, Donnie, was one of the opening acts from that place. So they're kind of uh in the middle uh of my my set, my concert, and um I think that you know they they really hadn't quite hit at this point. I mean, they were big, but they weren't like they were after a year later uh with Back in Black and after the loss of Bon Scott. Uh but still a a uh a formidable force. And I've seen them I don't know how many times, and it's always fantastic. It's the same show every time you see them. Yeah, it is, and that's what's great. 1980, whatever, to you know, probably today. It's the same show, same, same exact kind of. I think the only difference is the first time I saw them, um, Angus came out into the crowd on Brian's shoulders, uh, and they stopped doing that immediately after that because people were too touchy-feely and whatever else. So it was then they were in a corralled area instead of just walking out in the crowd. So it you it was like I was there, it was palpable when it went from they were a good popular band to being massive and no, you can't get near the people anymore.

Yeah, awesome. Great show so far, boys. Meaning concert. Awesome pick. All right, that's to you then, Mark, for number two.

Anyone wants to get mellow, you can turn around and get the fuck out of here. All right. I'll say that I nobody, not out the other that even wants to be a little bit mellow now, is there?

Anybody wants to get mellow, you can turn around and get the fuck out of here. All right.

Ted Nugent, 1977. Um, also, I'm gonna um introduce his band. You have Rob Grange on bass, Cliff Davies on drums, and Derek St. Holmes on rhythm and lead voc lead guitar and lead vocals, obviously. He sings a lot more songs than Ted Nugent does. But um you want to talk about high energy? It's well documented how crazy he is on stage. Stone Cold Sober. So I mean he was playing all of his uh songs about girls with which Ted sings most of those. He was playing Hibernation and Great White Buffalo, which is a very emotional song about Native Americans and the white man. Just absolutely crazy. This man just had a blast out there, and what I wanted to say is he had to be at least this high in the show because nobody's gonna be able to follow him up except for the one band that I have and the era that they're gonna be in. But Derek St. Holmes played a lot of lead uh guitar back then, and even Cliff, well, Cliff Davies actually did a vocal for uh The Way You Make Me. Wait, the way you make me feel you make me feel right at home. But they they were just they were a well-oiled machine, and it was just fantastic, and he was the one that got me into rock and roll. This is in support of Cat Scratch Fever, which is the song that got me into rock and roll. Thank you, Mr. Fred Presley. And I mean, I don't know what else to say about it. I I just wish I could have gone to him. Oh, what I was gonna say is he was so friggin' loud. I mean, he's gonna be I think he's deaf in one ear. I wonder why. They could hear him three counties away, for God's sakes. That's what I was trying to say. Just loud, proud, crazy, but crazy in a stable, sober way. He's the madman, right? He's the most madman. Exactly.

Fucking incredible, awesome, man.

I've seen him many times in concert. Even he still rocks, he still is incredible. But this was in 1977. I've always talked about the Germany show. It's a great listen. And uh so yeah, that's my number two. Let's see what I have for number one to top it. It's gonna be tough.

Nice, awesome pick, Mark. I knew you you were gonna have him. I I think I saw it in your eyes when I picked him. Oh, well, I mean, you knew I was gonna have him in. All right. My number two, and you already picked it, Mark. 8182-ish, like the the uh Fair Warning era. Just Van Halen. Always wanted to see them with Roth. I mean, I saw them with Sammy and I saw Roth on his own, and they were both great shows, but never did I see the combination, and I want to see them in the California beach party days. You know what I mean?

What's up, Cigama?

When buses like you used to say, Kev, coming to you know, cop buses coming to arrest people, and helicopters dropping people off in the backyard, and just you know, that's where they started, right? Backyard parties, and then exactly, and the energy they had and the difference they made in rock and roll sound, and I mean especially Eddie, of course, but so many people uh overlook Michael Anthony and his harmonies were just fucking amazing in that band, and just Roth is I mean, we've said it a million times, he's a singer, not a vocalist, you know, gee, he's a front man, and just but that energy and fun that they brought in, you know, he got a little cocky, a little too cocky later on. So I would have liked to see them on my show back in the day like that, and they're at number two for me, and that's that until you don't go.

Awesome. Uh, so I I don't have a um memory for this pick, but I will did you say memory memory, a memory because I've been giving my little concert memories, for the memories, but I've been researching these concerts. Uh, I'm just gonna throw a little shout out to an app called Concert Archives. Um, we don't have any agreements with the pastimes at 80s high with concert archives, but I'm just giving them a uh a shout out because it's a really cool app that just you look up the band, you look up the venue, and it will show you all the bands and the set list for the show, and it's a really cool app. So nice, really neat.

I thought it was cool, and it is also a set list FM website, too. It's got a lot of that great info as well.

And set list.com too is good. Nice. So, um, in this spot, it's a repeat, but I gotta do it. I gotta reach here real quick for my Iron Maiden, Iron Maiden Number of the Beast. That's the album that I want to highlight the 1982 uh maiden number of the beast with them rocking hallowed be nine name and run to the hills.

Is it five o'clock? They take me to the gallows. The sands of time for me are running low.

Love them live. They gotta be in my I gotta promote them and have them play in my concert.

Damn right.

Yeah, yeah. Just the fan particip participation. Participation, yeah. Um they they know how to to work a crowd. So and you still go dongo. Yeah, awesome. Oh, I didn't know that the that the high pitch gets you. Sorry.

No, I don't I don't know where that started. There's I mean, there's when somebody's talking, it's it's a repetitive thing. Like, why do people on mobility scooters in the store always have to back up? Like I walked past this woman, she was literally checking everything in the aisle out at her level in reverse. She was like going through every shelf, everything on the shelf for the whole aisle in the reverse. And I'm like, You could do that forward, and I wouldn't want to punch you in the face. Turn that fucking thing around. Just turn the other way for Pete's sake.

But the best walkout music ever in World Wrestling Federation was Duke the Dumpster Drojie. He came out to a garbage truck backing up.

All his song was I was wondering where you were going with that. Oh, that was a cartoon boy.

Oh, dear Lord.

That's my wrestling reference for the day.

All right, Kev. All right, so I think we're all kind of on the same page here. So I'm going with the Van Halen, the noise boys from the eighty-four era, um, in support of, believe it or not, nineteen eighty-four. I did see the ensuing tour with um Sammy, which was, I really still say the only good album they did with Sammy, in my opinion, was 5150. I don't think this tour actually would have made it into um Cumberland County Civic Center. They said they had it was one of the largest ever. They called the stage Metropolis. They had a hundred and seventy-five tons of equipment. 175 tons. That's massive. They had all these motors that put stuff into place. So that's another problem with our, and I think Mark mentioned it in the beginning. I think we'd have to do like a rotating stage to do the show because some of these setups, the setups and the breakdowns would be like three, four-hour intermission. So that's right, that's right. At least a two-sided rotating stage or something like that. Or yeah, or maybe they could get your Def Leopard uh in the round stage that they did on the next tour after the hysteria tour, and they were um all these like blankets over everything, you know what I mean?

Like over Iron Maiden, there'd be blankets over everything.

Yeah, you just have four stage playing around all these like they peel it back and peel it back and peel it back till you get to your headliner. Which was always fun when you're you know, because when you went to those concerts, you're like, Oh, I wonder what's under that. Yeah, you know, you'd see that that yeah, the black curtain cloth or whatever it was laying over something, and you'd be like, Oh, that's gonna be cool when they look at what it is.

And the opener couldn't take a baby step or they'd fall off the stage.

I write the right on the right, and then the and then if there was a curtain, you'd hear you know, the drum tech would be back there, and everybody would start clapping, and I'm like, it's a drum tech, dude.

Right, they're just checking their gates, yeah.

Just checking. That's that's all it's unreal. So, anyway, yeah, so I would have loved to have the chance at that era to see I mean Van Halen just before it it imploded and went all to hell.

I think it already was starting. Damn right.

Oh, yeah, oh, that was long, long time coming. And it went back to like even Diver Down. They were talking about he wanted to do cover songs and play it safe, and Eddie wanted to play keyboards, and so you know, sometimes all that pressure just makes great albums.

Yeah, absolutely massively huge egos.

No, no, no, and huge. Awesome, Kev. All right, we're the number one boys, and that's T Umar.

Who knows? All right, well, I'm you guys are gonna be absolutely shocked with this one. I mean, I you better not pick the same fucking years as me. AJ, I'll let you I'll segue right into you because you know exactly what I'm picking, and I'm not gonna do different stages, but I had to go. This is probably one of the few bands that could keep the energy level, and only perhaps this iteration would be 1975 Kiss.

Gotta tie it to KISS.

I know AJ, I know, I know. Go on, but this is this is before all the cherries lined up and they became massive and ego started to get in the way, all that stuff. And it is 19, well, yeah, 1975, and they are just so hungry, so starving. They're all on the top of their games, in my humble opinion. Peter Chris is up there drumming very strongly, very, very strongly. Ace Freely just nailing it every time. Paul Stanley singing his heart out, and Gene Simmons. They just they had so much energy, it's unbelievable. Out on the street falling. Well, that the songs that they were using in this concert are just some of their biggest hits, you know, 100,000 years, she, black diamond, strutter, all over the place, just fantastic songs. And th this is one of the few bands that could hold a candle to the energy of Ted Nugent. Now, could they have done it in nineteen seventy-seven? I don't think so. I don't think they would have had the same energy. But I mean that that's just my favorite era of KISS is around this time, even though I was not a KISS fan because I didn't know what music was really when I was 11 years old. I was out fishing. So AJ, I'll gotta segue to you.

Gotta tie it to KISS.

Yes, that is my number one pick as well. And it's kiss what? Nah, I know you're shocked. No. But it's 1975, and Mark, you used half the words I was gonna as well. This is hungry kiss.

I've never this is my cast, this is my topic. You have to come up with different words.

Now I'm doing something here, however, boys. And like you said, there might have to be an intermission for them to set the stage up. Shut up.

You don't tell talk to your brother like that.

Shut up when someone dies.

I'm your elder.

Shut up. Shut up. Shut up, rabbit.

All right.

I better edit all that.

So this is 1975 kiss, which is the midnight special kiss. All right. This is hunger. This is attitude. This is them trying to take and make a name for themselves. This is dress to kill and then into alive. And alive is what broke them out of this world. And just the the the attitude they had and the moves they were doing, and they were just so into everything. I mean, dual vocals, triple vocals. They were just a team at this point. There was camaraderie. Their uh connection just made the sound that was perfect for their music. And I just cannot not put this at my number one, but you go back, people, and you watch the midnight special from 75, and it's fucking amazing. Watch she. I love that that's a triple vocal. That gets me pumped every time, but the point is they're coming in and bringing in the nineteen seventy-eight stage because their time travelers. So that's what's wrapping my show up, boys. To you, Dungo.

Nice. I I almost put a kiss in there. They were a scratch on my list, but I knew you guys were gonna have them. But they're the hottest band on the, you know, they can they can play some good shit live, man. It's cool, they were cool, and I would have picked like Love Gun Air. Um, you know, yeah, so all right. So in let's see, September 20th, 1986, I went to Summer Jam in Kingston, New Hampshire. And on that bill was Ozzy Osbourne, and that's gonna be my pick. It's gonna be the Ozzy, the error I would do, and A. G already mentioned it. It's the same one. It's the Ozzy Osbourne Randy Rhodes tribute album error. I wish I could have seen him live. Uh unfortunately wasn't able to, but when I saw Ozzy in 1986, he had Jakey Lee, and Jakey Lee kicked ass too. So, but the lineup at that show was Aussie, Queensrike, Raven, and Gangrene. And it was a really cool, cool show.

Gangrene, baby.

Yeah, yeah.

Is that as bad as Agent Orange?

Aussie Dongo.

Yeah, great, and I remember ordering concert tickets for that show, um, like we used to do at uh at the payphone at the high school. Yeah, as soon as they went on sale at 9 a.m., I was at the payphone at the Guilford High School dialing 1800 ticket master, whatever it was. And it sucked on a payphone because when you get the busy signal, you gotta hang up, throw those quarters back in there, dialogue. I used my mother's discover card to order the tickets. When we arrived at the show, I didn't have the discover card on me, so I couldn't get the tickets. The guy at the booth was like, You gotta have the card to get the tickets. I'm like, shut the front door, you know. Come on, that sucks. And we ended up scalping and still getting in.

Oh, geez.

The AJ's point is you can always you can always get tickets, you know, to the show. Yeah, I didn't have to wait online for the phone and dial and all that. But I could have just gone to the show and got a scalp ticket and it was general admission, it didn't matter, right? Oh all that work for nothing. And I think she ate the money of the tickets too, which sucked. Uh but, anyways, it was a great show. Ozzy was awesome. Uh Ozzy Live was awesome. Uh so that's he's he's closing it out.

Nice.

All right, to you, Kev. So I'm trying to think, didn't Aerosmith play that same venue around that time? I I remember not making it to a show, and it was it was kind of not a festival, but there was a lot of a lot of bands, and I remember we made it as far as Kingston and ended up partying at some chick's house and never made it to the concert or whatever. Oh my god, really? Might have might have been that one. I I don't know. I remember it was in Kingston, New Hampshire, and so I don't know how many shows they did. I think again, same problem as um Oxford and and OOB is is once these bands got big and these shows got big, we just don't have the infrastructure to to handle all that. But so anyway, cool that I just had a flashback to that missed opportunity there.

Did you at least have a happy ending that night? You said you were at a chick's house.

I mean, uh, I say more likely yes than no.

I was gonna say there must have been a reason you didn't make the concert. And I was just gonna say tickets. One other thing before you wrap it up, Kevin. Is I did wrap it up if I didn't hook up with her yet. But maybe you and your friends have an issue with either vehicles or whatever it was that prevented you because this is like the fourth or fifth concert that you didn't make it to.

We we lost, I think we lost tickets to one show. Uh my parents, it was it was David Lee Roth and I think Twisted Sister or something like that. The day after I got my license, and my parents wouldn't give me their brand new car to drive to Worcester Mass. And you slapped by a tree. And I passed out under a tree. Yeah, absolutely. Um, yeah, and that one was kind of like I don't we we couldn't get tickets. We got as we got close to the venue, but you know, we we couldn't get inside. Uh we didn't have uh we we would po we were po when I was a kid. Oh my gosh. We weren't rich. Oh, you hear that. Yeah, we didn't we didn't go to the same movie eight times in a row, like some people. Oh it was 75 cents.

Yeah, well poor, dude.

We were poor as dirt growing up. Go on.

Uh so I I had to put this band at the as the headliner of this gig because they were one of the hugest, hugest bands ever. And I went with the 79 US tour, I'm sorry, 77 U.S. tour, Led Zeppelin, uh, just because they they were, I mean, they were the biggest at their time. And this was they had taken two and a half years off because Robert Plant had been in a car accident and was really messed up. Um, so they came back and and reconquered America. I don't think this was the Mud Shark tour, but possibly. Um just again, just such a huge band. They they were really a super group that was kind of not put together like the monkeys, but they all had, you know, a lot of and when Paige started putting it together, he had the connection to take whoever he wanted and and build the band. So he he got the most talented folks out there. One of the interesting things is I would be I would be hard pressed to pick one of the openers because on that tour it was uh bad company for a stage. Um Jay Giles, one of my absolute favorites, which seems like an odd pairing, but I would have loved to see them. And then the new barbarians, which was a odd mixture of like Ron Wood, Keith Richards, and a whole bunch of others from that era that just kind of like got together and did shows out of nowhere, which would have been very interesting. But um, you know, Zeppelin was just I think one of the biggest bands ever. And they would have to be they would have to be the they they would be the only band that the as promoter would be like, no, we're we're the headline.

Yeah. Awesome pick, Kev. Well, that was a lot of fun, boys. I mean, these are our concerts, that's what we like. Hopefully, you people out there will share your insight on it, and maybe even comment on your favorite top seven shows festival, and we'd love to hear that. And boys, thank you, brother Mark.

Well, that was a lot of fun, and it was a fun exercise, and uh great, great times.

Yes, indeed.

Kevin?

Hey, great times, thank you, guys. Mindede Dungo. Awesome time. Thanks for letting me share my memories. Yes, indeed.

That was fun, man. Awesome, everyone, and we are out of the way.