Super Phil

Despite Motley Crue on the Dr. Feelgood tour being one of the best concerts I've ever been to, I have to go with Ratt on this one. Love me some Ratt n Roll!

Charlie Daniels is a really nice guy. (His whole band and crew are awesome also) Jammed with Darrel McDaniels (aka DMC from Run DMC). He was a nice guy. Jimmy Chalfant from Kix is cool as is Jules Radino from Blue Oyster Cult. Lol...Nick Cannon, Howard Stern, and Heidi Klum were all pretty nice. I met many NHL players when I worked for a hockey stick company, and most of those guys were nice...never had a problem with anyone.

Ha....Nobody's Hero and Half The World are beautiful songs. I like Superconductor too. There are plenty of Rush songs out there there never really grabbed my attention....so I don't listen to them and don't know their titles. Tai Shan and Dog Years are pretty lame, though.

I've seen Rush many times at indoor and outdoor venues. I always prefer indoor. It's supposed to be dark when the show starts, lol

A bunch of shirts from the last 12 years worth of tours, a bandana from the Roll The Bones tour (lost the shirts i got from the Presto and Roll The Bones tours) Got a Rush drum transcription booked autographed by Geddy and Alex. A pick from Vapor Trails (or TFE...can't quite remember.) Not sure if it's exactly Rush memorabilia, but I've got 8 Signature guitars like the ones Alex used in the late 80's. One is pretty much exactly like the white Aurora he used on A Show Of Hands...even with the panther patch.

Alex rocking the Signature guitars in A Show Of Hands...love it! I was maybe 13 when it came out. I would walk home from my job washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant and watch the VHS version, lol

I got those boxers they were selling on the Snakes and Arrows tour....hardly ever wear them, though, lol

I don't care where it is on which album...it's just a damn good song.

QUOTE (Tombstone Mountain @ Aug 5 2012, 10:00 AM) Beneath, Between, Behind.....T'would be heaven. Hell yeah

I'd rather hear Fly By Night than Working Man live.

Appetite For Destruction is one of the greatest rock records ever. But it took them so damn long to put out Illusion that I really lost interest in the band...eventually bought it used, and still haven't listened to the whole thing. I did see them last December, though, and the show rocked.

I have been wanting to see Roger Hodgson for years....and of course he'll be in Utah the same day we leave for Sturgis. Damn!

QUOTE (Powderfinger @ Jul 25 2012, 02:38 PM) September 30, 1990, Dubuque, Iowa, Five Flags Center: KISS Winger Slaughter I was fourteen years old, and attended with two friends. The experience completely blew me away. I had pored over MTV and my cassette collection of hair bands since second grade. But this was my first concert! When I was five years old my parents bought me a plastic KISS guitar. I used my father's belt for a guitar strap and a nickel for a pick, while trying to strum along with my Quiet Riot Cum On Feel the Noize 45 that I played on a Fisher Price record player. I also regularly listened to KISS's Double Platinum on said player. Point is, KISS was entirely appropriate for my first real concert. And I had been digging Hot in the Shade. But my two friends were more excited to see Slaughter and Winger. Slaughter, in particular, was really blowing up at the time. Up all Night had already stormed the airwaves and Fly to the Angels was making its climb. And one of my friends, a burgeoning guitarist, was also a huge fan of Reb Beach, lead guitarist for Winger. It all went by so fast. But a few things stuck out to me. I remember how exciting it was when they began cranking AC/DC's Back in Black to season our ears for concert-level volume. House lights were still on, but everyone was rocking out and I was mesmerized by the rocker chicks and the party atmosphere. Before long Slaughter took the stage and ran through their debut album material. All I remember is that Blas Elias performed a drum solo with glow-in-the-dark sticks, and that Dana Strum's vocal harmonies were terribly off key. But still, I thought they ruled. I wasn't so excited about Winger. I wasn't a big fan of their album, although my friends were. The crowd ate up Seventeen, of course. But I was amped for KISS. So finally the house lights go down and the giant Hot in the Shade Sphinx is unveiled, to roaring applause and cheering. I remember laser lights shooting out of the Sphinx as the mouth opened and KISS clamored out. I'm a little confused because before composing this post I checked the KISS setlist database and it claims they opened with I Stole Your Love the entire tour. But I've always remembered them opening with Detroit Rock City. I don't know, must have been all the second-hand weed smoke in the air. So I'm totally digging KISS and hoping to hear all my favorite cuts. But after the opening song, my friends tell me they want to leave, that they don't even like KISS, and that they want to go outside to try to meet members of either Slaughter or Winger. You have to be f&*$ing kidding me, I pleaded! Outvoted, I had no recourse. They were my ride, and I was honestly a little overwhelmed by the whole experience and didn't want to stay in the arena alone. So we left... I eventually managed to catch KISS a few times on subsequent tours. Notwithstanding my disappointment, the three of us ventured to the back alley where the tour buses were parked. And sure enough, Kip Winger and Rod Morgenstein ambled out of the back door. Rod had a beautiful blonde on his arm, but Kip one-upped him with a girl on each arm!!! At that moment, I forgot everything I had expressed about not caring for Winger. To my fourteen-year-old self these were now the two coolest dudes on the planet, because they were right there in front of me! I was taken aback by how short Kip Winger was. But I thought he was cool because of the girls and the fact that he was sporting aviator shades at like 10:30 at night in a dark Dubuque, Iowa alley. We quickly mustered the courage to approach them. Rod was really nice. I had been playing drums for two years by that point and I remember asking him for advice. He told me to practice my ass off, and he autographed my ticket stub for me, which I still keep to this day. I think I shook Kip Winger's hand. And my friend Phil asked him if he gets a lot of girls, and I'll never forget his response, verbatim: "Girls? Pffssshhh, I had three at the same time last night." The two girls currently on his arm didn't bat an eyelash. These dudes were officially my new idols. So I essentially missed KISS, but I met real life rock stars! I was sold! And never looked back. I don't care for any of those bands today, but my first concert experience is forever etched on my mind. My appetite only grew as I caught tons of shows going forward, and eventually became an accomplished musician myself. And I did indeed heed Rod Morgenstein's advice: I practiced my ass off, every day... Ha...I saw this tour too. I missed Slaughter because we showed up a bit late. But I saw Winger and Kiss. I remember that Sphinx head with the lasers and the band walking out. It was awesome! Haven't seen Kiss again since then. Seen (and opened for) Slaughter a few times, and have seen Winger a few times since. I am much more of a Winger fan now than I was back then. They are all amazing musicians and Kip still sounds great vocally. Good story!

QUOTE (Xanadu93 @ Jul 25 2012, 06:22 PM) My first concert of any kind was seeing The Marshall Tucker Band in a park in my hometown in 2005. I don't remember much of it, just that my dad and I left early because I was getting bored. My first true concert experience (i.e. thousands of people, loud music, etc.) was Rush in Atlanta on June 13, 2007. It went pretty well for an opening night show, too - there was only one major issue I remember, Alex's guitar not being on at the beginning of "Between the Wheels". I remember going nuts at seeing Geddy with the Rickenbacker bass during "Bangkok" after a lengthy absence. Yeah, it was a pretty great show Ahhh...I had tickets for that Atlanta show in 2007...wasn't able to make it out there, though. Damn.

That would be a cool song to hear live.