Hey, I was at that show too! December 8, 1971 at the Sports Arena; still have my ticket stub ($5.00).
I did most of my Big Show Going back before the days of named tours. I saw Jimi Hendrix on his first US tour.
This was a memorable show, but the Catacombs was hardly a “concert hall.” Somehow I ended up on the first row. (Yes, I’ve got a touch of tinnitis!)
At the Mann Music Center in Philly (circa 1982 I believe).
I saw those as well! Palace of Auburn Hills, MI; the tour T-shirt will say Detroit but it’s an hour and a county away.
I know I’ll get a ton of ‘Me, too!’ from this one - Amy Grant, Young Messiah tour.
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Oh, and at Pine Knob in Clarkston, MI - Des’Ree, I Ain’t Movin’ tour where she opened for Seal on his Seal tour; she wore a gold lame bikini under a see-through black caftan and nothing else. :eek:
More shows:
David Bowie on the “China Girl” tour
Styx on the “Grand Illusion” tour
Foreigner on the “Jukebox Hero” tour
Morrissey on the “Viva Hate” tour
Soundgarden on the “Badmotorfinger” tour
Red Hot Chili Peppers on the “BloodSugarSexMagic” tour
Adrien Belew on the “Twang Bar King” tour
U2 “Unforgettable Fire” tour. A few others but that’s the most memorable.
groups that didn’t tour much named their tours.
Elton John - Back in the USSA Tour (I was at the show where he passed out on stage)
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk Tour
Eagles - The Long Run Tour
Genesis (with Gabriel still with them, obviously) on their Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour
Yes - Relayer (iirc - the one with the little light-up volcanoes at the front of the stage and a giant spider abouve the drums! )
The Residents on their Moleshow tour!
Michelle Shocked - Arkansas Traveller
Probably heaps of others - Van der Graaf on their comeback Godbluff tour…
U2 on the Joshua Tree Tour
John Cougar Mellencamp on the Scarecrow Tour
The Honeydrippers on…was there more than one tour?
The Rolling Stones on the Steel Wheels Tour
Meatloaf at a show in a bar around 1987, before his big comeback.
Metallica on the Wherever We May Roam Tour
Jimmy Buffett on several tours, unless you consider them all one continuous tour
Sting on the Mercury Falling Tour
Jewel on…I don’t know, you’d have to ask my wife.
That’s all I can think of right now.
The only ones I’m sure were named were both Bob Dylan – the Rolling Thunder Revue (1975) and the Neverending Tour (1995). I’ve seen numerous other bands who were touring behind their latest album, so (as with a lot of the other examples in this thread) the tours may have been named after the album… such as:
Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick
Jethro Tull, A Passion Play
King Crimson, Starless and Bible Black
Rolling Stones, Bridges to Babylon
OK, I saw Dylan’s Rolling Thunder tour, too. In the Astrodome!
From up in the far seats, the only performer who impressed me was Roger McGuin, with “Chestnut Mare.”
That makes three of us, because I forgot to mention that all of the concerts I listed were in San Diego.
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Cool, then we were at a couple of other shows together as well. You saw Zappa at the “Sports Aroma” in 1973? With the nine-piece band plus Don Preston sitting in? That was one of the greatest shows of my life.
I was given a free pair of tickets to that show.
During the late 1970s to the early 1980s, I was working selling Sno-Cones, t-shirts and concert programs in Kansas City at concerts with my mother and brother. We had a booth that my mom and brother manned, and I’d be walking up and down stairs hawking whatever. This left me with two things - memories of nearly every major concert and calves the size of tree trunks.
Saw the Who, the Stones, the Dead, Rush, whatever. If they played in Kansas City and they were big enough to fill an arena, I saw it. I worked the Summer Jams at Arrowhead and saw Jethro Tull’s “Thick As a Brick” (I think) show but was much more fascinated with the huge Eidophor projector.
Saw Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces tour. And of course I have seen nearly every tour by Todd Rundgren and Utopia including Ra.
Oh, forgot - I saw Yes in the round. Don’t know what the name of the album, but it was with Anderson and the whole stage rotated. But I was more into the sound system (Clair Brothers! W bins!) than the set list.
If it was Yes’s first “in the round” tour in 1978, the current album was Tormato and the tour name was “Tourmato”!
Probably. It was one of the very first “flown” sound systems. I was hanging around the arena for hours before the show. Anderson’s microphone was hung from the center of the rig, and the lighting system had to cross-fade scenes from one segment to the other to track the movement of the players as the stage rotated. I remember that the stage rotated in one direction for the first half of the show, then the other direction the second half. The reason they did this was because every microphone was wired, wireless mics weren’t reliable for several more years. So there was some poor schmoe under the stage unreeling the microphone snake from a pile on the floor and letting it wind around the stage, then pulling it back and reeling it back up. All. Night. Long. Every night.
I saw the first Lollapalooza which was pretty awesome. It was great to hear Jane’s Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Ice T, Living Color, Rollins Band, and Suisie and the Banshees except all their sets seemed so fast. they only played about an hour each. It was a great show though and it was pretty invovative at the time. Concert festivals have been done before, obviously, but there wasn’t anything quite like this at the time.
A Ha! (not the band).
This was one of my reasons for opening this thread…to see if we could actually find two people who attended the exact same concert on the same tour. 
Me, I’ve yet to go to my first concert.
I’m surprised to say I don’t remember Don one way or the other. I think I remember Jean Luc Ponty during 50-50, and the one and only Ian Underwood (my favorite Zappa musician of all time). At the time, “Woo!” was THE big vocal sound of young-adult joie de vivre, and Frank incorporated it into one of the pieces by having whoever he pointed at go “woo woo woo woo…”; so Woo Woo Woo Woo Woo traveled all around the audience, up onto one end of the stage and off the other, and back into the audience. Not exactly great music, but a wonderfully silly bit of audience participation fun. And yes, it was a GREAT show.
But… Now I’m afraid I might be blending memories of two shows into one.
“The San Diego Sports Aroma.” I swear that structure was decrepit almost as soon as it was built.
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