Concerts nobody else here has seen

I kept all my ticket stubs from my concerts in Germany. They were like works of art. I probably have that one somewhere. I’ll go look and see where the show was.

I also kept almost all the ticket stubs for every concert I’ve been too, but I keep them unsorted in a drawer. But I will look up when the concert in Birkelbach was.

I was in Mainz at the time. I know we traveled far to see the show but I’m not sure if it was that far.

About 180 km, not that far.

He was in the first Road House film in the house band.

Oh yes, I remember that now! I tried to watch the movie much, much later, but I passed, it was unwatchable and even non-redeemable by Jeff Healey’s presence.

Say, “Amen,” brother, not even the platinum blond striptease sequence was worth anyone’s time.

I don’t even remember that scene, probably I had already changed the channel when it came up.

You are wise beyond your years. :wink:

I saw Rush at the Tucson Convention Center (1977 or 1978?). I think it was the first concert I saw with a video screen. During one of the songs, I believe, they showed a man falling through space.

I saw Lonnie Mack a few times in the late 80s/early 90s, after his “comeback” album Strike Like Lightning was released (produced by Stevie Ray Vaughan).

Doh! Yes.

Saw the late, great Abbey Lincoln. She did “Devil’s Got Your Tongue”.

Saw Buffy Sainte-Marie at Carnegie Hall in 1967.

Kiss is another one I saw at the Tucson Convention Center, late 70s.

I saw him once, I think in 1987, as the opening act for Stevie Ray Vaughan.

I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan at one of the best venues ever, The Majestic Theater in Downtown San Antonio. Third row.

I can’t count it as a Stevie Ray sighting, but I saw Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and Stevie Wonder sing at his funeral.

In 1998 I saw Michael Johnson (“Bluer than blue… sadder than sad… you’re the only light this empty room has ever had”) at a tiny, shortly to close venue in Grand Island, NE. He was unexpectedly terrific and that yawner of a hit song was quite good performed live.

I met and shook Annie’s hand when I was a stagehand in Philadelphia back in the 70s, and Renaissance played at Penn’s Landing. I also met Chubby Checker and Elvis Presley* at that venue. I met David Bowie during his Diamond Dogs tour, when I worked the Tower Theater.

For someone more obscure, Leon Redbone played at my undergrad school, but unfortunately, he got booed off the stage. That really pissed me off because I thought he was cool.

(*) Ok, it was an Elvis impersonator (The Big El Show), not the real Pelvis. The impersonator was a real ass; I’m sure real Elvis was not.

I mentioned a whole bunch of international artists in my post, none of which were captured by that AI.

In fact I saw one last night that I bet nobody else in this group ever saw: The Korean superstar IU on her first ever US tour.