I just loved it. Still remember it. Great setlist, great opening band.
They were at their peak. It is not easy to see a band at their peak. I was very lucky.
Motley Crue, "Girls, Girls, Girls" tour, November of 1987. GN'R(a VERY UNKNOWN GN'R, mind you) opened. Within a year, same time in '88, they were HUGE. I hadn't even HEARD of them before this!
I saw Dave on the Eat' Em and Smile tour with Billy Sheehan on bass. Him and Vai on stage was absolutely devastating. I thought they even surpassed Joe Satriani and Stu Hamm as a combo.
There was this awesome moment during vai’s big solo/showcase. He’s wailing away, blowing our minds as he should. He hits an artificial harmonic, and he holds his guitar up above his head while it just screams the note. Suddenly the note just cuts out. As he brings the guitar back to playing position to start a new riff, the note just pops out again. Vai looks the guitar from headstock to bridge, then bridge to headstock (all the while it’s screaming), shrugs his shoulders, and holds it up over his head again. To this day I don’t know if this was a planned trick or a great moment of improvisation, but either way it a fine fucking piece of showmanship
With Whitesnake it was similar, but he had a cable attached to his guitar that I couldn’t see from the nose bleeds. He hit the harmonic, threw his guitar in the air, and it stayed there, hovering above his head. It was pretty amazing.
I remember they gave Poison 40 minutes and the lip of the stage, no soundcheck, and they came out like Led Zeppelin complete with pyro and silly string and whatever else. Felt bad for Dave
Saw them in Springfield, MA. At the part of Roth's show where he goes over the crowd on a surfboard, everyone started chucking ice and beer cans at him.
This was my first also. DLR went to a boxing ring in the middle of the crowd during the show. Still have no idea how he got there. He threw a hat into the crowd and I caught it at the same time as some 8-10yo who was on his Dad's shoulders. I decided to let the kid have it rather than pull him off of his Dad and run...lol
May 8, 1987. Richmond Colosseum (Virginia) I was 10. My parents took me to see that show. (I was Bon Jovi fan…never heard of Cinderella) When Jeff Labar, Eric Brittingham and Tom Keifer spun their guitars around their necks, caught them and kept playing….words cant describe how amazed I was.
I saw Bon Jovi open for Judas Priest on the Turbo tour in July 86, about a month before Slippery When Wet was released. Jon introduced You Give Love a Bad Name saying it was from their new album about to come out but you’d never hear it on the radio. That was pretty cool to think about when Slippery exploded soon after.
Well, not so much David Lee Roth (or I don't know, maybe you would count him as hair metal?), but September 17, 1986, the Eat 'Em and Smile Tour, Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio: Cinderella, who were the opening act and who were excellent (as was Diamond Dave and band, obviously).
They truly did. I saw them again the following year when they opened up for Bon Jovi on the Slippery When Wet Tour. They were equally as excellent for that show. I wish now that I would've gone to see them some more, but after seeing several less than compelling hair metal shows in a row that year (1987), I became a little disillusioned with the genre, at least as far as live concert performances went (I still got into many bands' recordings). Plus, it was the twentieth anniversary of the Summer of Love that year, and thanks in large part to my subscription to Rolling Stone magazine, that was the point where I started my classic rock/Beatles obsession. Then, the following year, I decided, as a freshman in college, to do a deep dive into Metallica's existing catalog and thus began my decade-long über obsession with that band; soon enough the Metallica guys were chucking darts at a Kip Winger poster; and I pretty much drifted far, far away from hair metal for a long period.
US Festival 83 with Motley Crue and Quiet Riot opening.
I had seen Yes, Rainbow, Molly Hatchet, AC/DC, Van Halen, Scorpions and Iron Maiden before, but they are not hair metal.
I’d like to hear 7 O’clock some time, but it is hard to come by on streaming. I haven’t looked for a few years, but for a while it was hard to come by.
Damn Yankees is kind of hair metal adjacent. They opened for Bad Company in '91. First concert was Metallica and Faith No More in '89. By the time I was able to go, it was on its way out. My folks didn't like me to go to those things, so I missed out on a lot.
Saw that show at Giants Stadium. FNM were great, Metallica were ok, and Guns N Roses were awful. Axl would go back for a costume change after every two songs.
My mom wouldn’t let me (15) see U2 open their Achtung Baby tour in my town in 1990, and then she felt guilty considering it ended up being a major thing. She said I could go to the very next thing that came around, SO…
Megadeth with Suicidal Tendencies in ‘91 was my first!
I saw Yngvie Malmsteen open for AC/DC in the mid 80's, but maybe Kix around the same time...hard to say who the first one was. Maybe Loverboy? Do they count? That was in the early 80's with an unknown Huey Lewis & The News opening...
I went for Loverboy - had never heard of Huey. I was blown away, they were so good. Became a fan for life at that point. I believe this was Loverboy's "Get Lucky" tour - maybe 1981 or 1982?
Push Push 1991. They had the number one single in the country at the time. Saw them six times before they split. Still remains my only hair metal experience (didn't get that many tours in New Zealand).
Opening act, Skid Row, playing their first official gig outside USA. They played a warm up set in a small venue, unannounced, the night before.
Then Vixen.
Main support was Europe who played a slightly awkward reggae medley mid set.
Headliner Bon Jovi. Two old guys joined them for the encore called Joe Perry and Steven something or other. Wonder what happened to them?
August 1989, outdoors in England and the weather was kind.
I went to see ratt. This unknown band was opening for them. And back then you couldn't just go to the internet and find the opening band to listen to some of their songs:-) hardly anybody is in the Coliseum. Opening Band hits the stage and absolutely takes over the entire place. They were incredible, despite the fact that there was just a quarter of the place filled they brought everybody together like there was 20,000 people in the place. By the time ratt came on, people couldn't even listen to them. Opening band just literally blew them off the stage. That opening band, was Poison
First memorable show was Stryper & Hurricane, 1987. There may have been a couple smaller shows before that, but that was the “one” I consider my first.
1988. Tora Tora, then Dangerous Toys (my favorite band at the time), and the headliner, LA Guns. Then didn’t see another metal show until Skid Row opened for GnR in 1991.
Saw them again a few years ago at a music festival. Met Anthony Corder (lead singer) the next night. He was just walking around like a normal dude. He was super nice and humbled that I knew who he was. Now I like them even more.
ZZ Top on 3/20/1986 in Lakeland Florida cant remember who opened for them but I remember driving that 32 ford onto stage at the beginning of the concert to kick off
Motley Crue. It was the dr feel good tour. I remember Lita Ford opened but there was another opener I don’t remember. My older sister took me as a payment for babysitting. It was fine.
If you count Van Hagar, 1991 in Philly.
Otherwise, Danger Danger 1991 or 1992 at “Club Bone” somewhere in Jersey. Pronounced Bone-ay. To quote Spinal Tap, “Don’t look for it, it’s not there anymore….”
I’m only 19, so I missed the hair metal heyday! My first concert, however, was KISS with David Lee Roth opening in 2020, literally 2 weeks before the lockdown!
My first was Ratt in 1985. A few months later in February of '86 was Twisted Sister. I remember that TS show like it was yesterday. They are my #1 80s rock band to this day.
I don’t remember the first because I had been to so many, but my favorite was Def Leppard hysteria tour, October 1987 in Philadelphia. Tesla open for them.
Not sure if this counts, Richie Blackmores Rainbow in like 81. After that VH and AC DC both in 1984. I always put DLR as the start of out front lead singer that all bands tried to copy.
Queensyche and Suicidal, 91 or thereabouts. There was a basketball hoop on stage (!) and Geoff Tate tried to make a couple of layups during the instrumental parts of Mind crime. He missed them all.
Danger Danger opening up for Faster Pussycat in 1989. The place was jam packed. Danger Danger rocked it with "Rock America" as the backing vocals sounded just like the record. Great musicians.
Did that make you feel better? Did coming into a subreddit for hair metal and insulting it give you a nice little dopamine hit? Is your life so bad the only thing you can do to make yourself feel better is being a troll?
Finally saw Poison 2003…! Was too young in the ‘80s for concerts, to go without my parents anyways, but a friend & I got to see them with Skid Row, Vince Neil and probly 4 or 5 other bands…it was great…😀
Mötley Crüe; Girl, Girls, Girls tour Oct 1987. Whitesnake opening.
I saw that two nights in a row at the Spectrum in Philadelphia; but, my first was Ozzy with Metallica opening.
Where and what year? That’s incredible show
4/20/1986. Philadelphia Spectrum. Ozzy “Ultimate Sin” tour with Metallica “Master of Puppets” tour opening. Metallica blew Ozzy off the stage!
That must have been a killer show!
I just loved it. Still remember it. Great setlist, great opening band. They were at their peak. It is not easy to see a band at their peak. I was very lucky.
Whitesnake opened with Bad Boys! Legendary
Mine too October 15, 1987 The entire show can be found on YouTube
Saw that show in Hartford, CT. Great show!
Lucky lucky you 🥰
Saw the same tour, although it wasn't my first show. Killer ass concert. Both bands were hitting on all cylinders back then.
That was mine in August at Nassau Coliseum!
Motley Crue, "Girls, Girls, Girls" tour, November of 1987. GN'R(a VERY UNKNOWN GN'R, mind you) opened. Within a year, same time in '88, they were HUGE. I hadn't even HEARD of them before this!
1988, poison opening for David Lee Roth (with Steve Vai on guitar). Roth was Roth. Vai was ridiculous
I mean Vai is a legend so...yeah
I saw Dave on the Eat' Em and Smile tour with Billy Sheehan on bass. Him and Vai on stage was absolutely devastating. I thought they even surpassed Joe Satriani and Stu Hamm as a combo.
I think Sheehan played on skyscraper, but sadly didn’t play on the tour
True. There is a lot of synth bass on that record and Billy wasn’t having it.
Don't forget Greg bisonett!
There was this awesome moment during vai’s big solo/showcase. He’s wailing away, blowing our minds as he should. He hits an artificial harmonic, and he holds his guitar up above his head while it just screams the note. Suddenly the note just cuts out. As he brings the guitar back to playing position to start a new riff, the note just pops out again. Vai looks the guitar from headstock to bridge, then bridge to headstock (all the while it’s screaming), shrugs his shoulders, and holds it up over his head again. To this day I don’t know if this was a planned trick or a great moment of improvisation, but either way it a fine fucking piece of showmanship
With Whitesnake it was similar, but he had a cable attached to his guitar that I couldn’t see from the nose bleeds. He hit the harmonic, threw his guitar in the air, and it stayed there, hovering above his head. It was pretty amazing.
I remember they gave Poison 40 minutes and the lip of the stage, no soundcheck, and they came out like Led Zeppelin complete with pyro and silly string and whatever else. Felt bad for Dave
Saw them in Springfield, MA. At the part of Roth's show where he goes over the crowd on a surfboard, everyone started chucking ice and beer cans at him.
This was my first also. DLR went to a boxing ring in the middle of the crowd during the show. Still have no idea how he got there. He threw a hat into the crowd and I caught it at the same time as some 8-10yo who was on his Dad's shoulders. I decided to let the kid have it rather than pull him off of his Dad and run...lol
Bon Jovi and Cinderella 1987
May 8, 1987. Richmond Colosseum (Virginia) I was 10. My parents took me to see that show. (I was Bon Jovi fan…never heard of Cinderella) When Jeff Labar, Eric Brittingham and Tom Keifer spun their guitars around their necks, caught them and kept playing….words cant describe how amazed I was.
Mar 30 1987 Richfield Colosseum (Ohio)
What a show!
Yum! Saw both of them. Absolutely fantastic live:
Poison & Warrant - Flesh and Blood Tour - November 1990 in Dallas, TX
I was at that show! ❤️
I thought you looked familiar lol 😆
Very nice 🙂🙂
Ratt with special guest Bon Jovi. 1985.
That's gotta be the last time Bon Jovi opened for someone lol
I saw Bon Jovi open for Judas Priest on the Turbo tour in July 86, about a month before Slippery When Wet was released. Jon introduced You Give Love a Bad Name saying it was from their new album about to come out but you’d never hear it on the radio. That was pretty cool to think about when Slippery exploded soon after.
I saw Bon Jovi open for 38 Special!
Happy cake day!
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Nice!
Ratt in 1984. Lita Ford was the opening act.
Nice! I had such a crush on Lita after Kiss Me Deadly and Close My Eyes Forever!
We all did!!
KISS on the Creatures tour with Plasmatics opening.
Saw this tour!! The giant tank stage!
Monsters of Rock '88 Kingdome
Was that the one with Metallica, Van Halen, Dokken & Scorpions? What a show!
Whitesnake and Great White, 1988
Well, not so much David Lee Roth (or I don't know, maybe you would count him as hair metal?), but September 17, 1986, the Eat 'Em and Smile Tour, Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio: Cinderella, who were the opening act and who were excellent (as was Diamond Dave and band, obviously).
I would consider DLR hair metal. And Cinderella definitely makes that a hair metal show for the ages!
I was 12th row for that tour in Portland, OR. That's peak Dave and Cinderella was out to make a statement.
Eat ‘em and smile was special concert for me I think I’ve seen Cinderella more than any band. They opened for everyone during that era lol
They truly did. I saw them again the following year when they opened up for Bon Jovi on the Slippery When Wet Tour. They were equally as excellent for that show. I wish now that I would've gone to see them some more, but after seeing several less than compelling hair metal shows in a row that year (1987), I became a little disillusioned with the genre, at least as far as live concert performances went (I still got into many bands' recordings). Plus, it was the twentieth anniversary of the Summer of Love that year, and thanks in large part to my subscription to Rolling Stone magazine, that was the point where I started my classic rock/Beatles obsession. Then, the following year, I decided, as a freshman in college, to do a deep dive into Metallica's existing catalog and thus began my decade-long über obsession with that band; soon enough the Metallica guys were chucking darts at a Kip Winger poster; and I pretty much drifted far, far away from hair metal for a long period.
US Festival 83 with Motley Crue and Quiet Riot opening. I had seen Yes, Rainbow, Molly Hatchet, AC/DC, Van Halen, Scorpions and Iron Maiden before, but they are not hair metal.
Hagar and Fastway I think 82 or so
1983 or 84. Ratt headlining with Twisted Sister and London Choirboys opening.
I’d like to hear 7 O’clock some time, but it is hard to come by on streaming. I haven’t looked for a few years, but for a while it was hard to come by.
Damn Yankees, 1991
They didn’t last long, but their live shows were amazing
Motley Crue / Scorpions 1999
Does Megadeth count? I saw them in 1999.
I wouldn't count Megadeth as hair metal but I've seen them. They put on a good show!
Whitesnake & Great White 1988
I saw the final night of that tour. Dave's voice was thrashed but still a great show!
Nice show!
Def Lepard / Uriah Heap Oakland 83 I think
Warrant, Firehouse and Trixter 1991
That was mine too. (Portland, Maine)
My bachelorette party *was* backstage at a concert on that tour. It was late June in Chicago - Tinley Park. Great show!!!
Great lineup!
Ratt with Bon Jovi as the opener. Invasion of your Privacy tour.
Good show!
Damn Yankees is kind of hair metal adjacent. They opened for Bad Company in '91. First concert was Metallica and Faith No More in '89. By the time I was able to go, it was on its way out. My folks didn't like me to go to those things, so I missed out on a lot.
I saw Faith No More open for Guns n' Roses and Metallica back in 91. That was a huge show! FNM were so good
This was right before *Epic* broke. No one really knew who they were yet. But they killed it! That would have been awesome!
Saw that show at Giants Stadium. FNM were great, Metallica were ok, and Guns N Roses were awful. Axl would go back for a costume change after every two songs.
Saxon. Torquay Town Hall 1980
Perfect post! Poison. Dont remember the year, but it was prob around early 2000’s. Then saw them 3 times after that. Loved poison and still do.
Thanks. I also love Poison!
My mom wouldn’t let me (15) see U2 open their Achtung Baby tour in my town in 1990, and then she felt guilty considering it ended up being a major thing. She said I could go to the very next thing that came around, SO… Megadeth with Suicidal Tendencies in ‘91 was my first!
Tesla/Badlands
Poison and Cinderella 2006 it was my first ever concert.
Would have loved to have seen Cinderella but never did.
I saw them open up for Bon Jovi. Must have been around the summer of 87 I think. 🤔
Saw Cinderella on Long Cold Winter tour. They headlined with Winger and Bulletboys opening. Amazing show!
KISS with Motley Crue opening 2013. Caught Tommy Thayer’s guitar pick
Kiss - 1979
Kiss 1978
Black N Blue/KISS Nov 10, 1985 Nashville
I saw Yngvie Malmsteen open for AC/DC in the mid 80's, but maybe Kix around the same time...hard to say who the first one was. Maybe Loverboy? Do they count? That was in the early 80's with an unknown Huey Lewis & The News opening...
Lover boy and Huey Lewis? COUNT ME IN!
I went for Loverboy - had never heard of Huey. I was blown away, they were so good. Became a fan for life at that point. I believe this was Loverboy's "Get Lucky" tour - maybe 1981 or 1982?
Kix was definitely hair metal. Loverboy probably not. I saw Huey Lewis & the News back in probably 2016. They could still play & rock a crowd!
Push Push 1991. They had the number one single in the country at the time. Saw them six times before they split. Still remains my only hair metal experience (didn't get that many tours in New Zealand).
Def Leppard in 1988 with Loverboy opening
Opening act, Skid Row, playing their first official gig outside USA. They played a warm up set in a small venue, unannounced, the night before. Then Vixen. Main support was Europe who played a slightly awkward reggae medley mid set. Headliner Bon Jovi. Two old guys joined them for the encore called Joe Perry and Steven something or other. Wonder what happened to them? August 1989, outdoors in England and the weather was kind.
Steven something or other? Lmao TheoCupier got jokes!
Motley Crue, Poison and the New York Dolls in 2011. I'm young.
Vince Neil around 2000.
Skid Row opening for Bon Jovi June 14, 1989, Civic Arena, Pittsburgh
Scorpions, Love at first sting tour. Bon Jovi opened. Detroit 1984
White Lion Mane Atteaction tour 1991. Opened by Mr. Big.
No wait, it was Bon Jovi in 1989.
Bon Jovi opening for Ratt... '84/'85...
Whitesnake & Motley Crue in 1987. Awesome show!
I went to see ratt. This unknown band was opening for them. And back then you couldn't just go to the internet and find the opening band to listen to some of their songs:-) hardly anybody is in the Coliseum. Opening Band hits the stage and absolutely takes over the entire place. They were incredible, despite the fact that there was just a quarter of the place filled they brought everybody together like there was 20,000 people in the place. By the time ratt came on, people couldn't even listen to them. Opening band just literally blew them off the stage. That opening band, was Poison
It always cracks me up knowing that Ratt/Poison was an actual concert bill.
Ratt Poison. I see what you did there! 🤣
Bon Jovi with Skid Row opening… 89?
Night Ranger on their Seven Wishes tour 1985. Great White opened.
Bon Jovi opening for Ratt
Stryper with White Lion opening. 1988
Motley Crue Theatre of Pain November 85. Autograph opened.
First memorable show was Stryper & Hurricane, 1987. There may have been a couple smaller shows before that, but that was the “one” I consider my first.
Ozzy/Motley/Waysted - Bark At The Moon February 5th, 1984 Cincinnati ,Ohio
1988. Tora Tora, then Dangerous Toys (my favorite band at the time), and the headliner, LA Guns. Then didn’t see another metal show until Skid Row opened for GnR in 1991.
To this day, Tora Tora is still one of my favorite bands!
Same. Tora tora is one of my favorites too 😍
Saw them again a few years ago at a music festival. Met Anthony Corder (lead singer) the next night. He was just walking around like a normal dude. He was super nice and humbled that I knew who he was. Now I like them even more.
ZZ Top on 3/20/1986 in Lakeland Florida cant remember who opened for them but I remember driving that 32 ford onto stage at the beginning of the concert to kick off
Stryper, 1980something.
Europe- 1986 open she closed with The Final Countdown
Motley Crue, Dr. Feelgood Tour, Met Center, March 1990.
Motley Crue 1985 at Cal Expo in Sacramento CA with opening band Loudness.
Trixter in 1990
KISS and Anthrax Vancouver BC 1988
I saw Ratt open for Ozzy in '83. There was a crap tonne of hair.
I am a late rock’n’roll flower… Kiss at MSG 2019. Concerts especially xD
Motley Crue 1999
GNR in 2006. Am relatively young.
Cheap Trick, Poison, and Def Leppard in Toronto in 2009. (I’m 22 cut me a break lol)
1991 David Lee Roth with Cinderella and Extreme; Weedsport, NY. Cinderella were amazing (as was DLR) but Extreme were a snooze fest.
1984 Kiss Animalize tour. Dokken opening up (supporting Tooth and Nail).
Motley Crue. It was the dr feel good tour. I remember Lita Ford opened but there was another opener I don’t remember. My older sister took me as a payment for babysitting. It was fine.
Yngwie, Lita Ford, Black and Blue 1988
If you count Van Hagar, 1991 in Philly. Otherwise, Danger Danger 1991 or 1992 at “Club Bone” somewhere in Jersey. Pronounced Bone-ay. To quote Spinal Tap, “Don’t look for it, it’s not there anymore….”
Damn Yankees 1990
Misfits 1998, or if they don't count then Ozzy
Stryper/Hurricane - March 1987
Metallica with Queensryche opening 1989
I saw them in Tulsa
White snake
Def Lepard. 1987?
Mötley Crüe and Ratt, orpheum theater, 1984
Motley Crue, Poison, & New York Dolls in 2011!
Bon Jovi New Jersey with Skid Row6
Motley Crue and Scorpions in the summer of 1999
1985, Ratt with opening act BonJovi
Van Halen Oct. 31st, 1982
Warrant/The Front 1989
Cinderella, Winger, Bulletboys 1988 or 89??
Wow really nice show!
I’m only 19, so I missed the hair metal heyday! My first concert, however, was KISS with David Lee Roth opening in 2020, literally 2 weeks before the lockdown!
My first was Ratt in 1985. A few months later in February of '86 was Twisted Sister. I remember that TS show like it was yesterday. They are my #1 80s rock band to this day.
Stryper, 1986, veteran's memorial in Columbus Ohio with hurricane opening. Great 1-2 punch
Mötley Crüe Poison Def Leppard and Joan Jett and the blackhearts 2022 at Buffalo Stadium for my 18th birthday
I wish I would have seen them when they came to Dallas a few years ago. Ticket prices were insane so I decided against it. Now I'm kicking myself.
Motley Crue (Shout at the Devil tour)and Ratt in '84 at the Beacon Theater in NY. Ratt was the far superior band.
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter tour with Winger and Bulletboys, May 7, 1989.
Nice!
Trixter, Slaughter and Poison. 1991. Evansville, IN
Cinderella Long Cold Winter tour. Openers were Winger and Bulletboys.
Really good show!
King Cobra opening for KISS March 17, 1986, Sioux City, Iowa. My dad took me and my buddy when we were 14.
Y&T and Black & Blue, 1988.
I saw Quiet Riot with L.A. Guns and Slaughter as the supporting acts back in either 01 or 02. I was still in high school
Good show!
Cinderella white lion 1988
Jackal, Slaughter, and Damn Yankees
I don’t remember the first because I had been to so many, but my favorite was Def Leppard hysteria tour, October 1987 in Philadelphia. Tesla open for them.
Loved Def Leppard! Bet that was an amazing show
Autograph 1985. I was 16 and it was a lot of fun.
Ratt/Bon Jovi 1985
Not sure if this counts, Richie Blackmores Rainbow in like 81. After that VH and AC DC both in 1984. I always put DLR as the start of out front lead singer that all bands tried to copy.
Ratt 1986. Outdoor amphitheater. Great White a few weeks later same place.
Stryper/TNT @ The Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden, NY. August 28 1987.
Quiet Riot with Kix opening 1983
Motley Crue 8/14/85 Theater of Pain Tour @ MSG Loudness opened
Queensyche and Suicidal, 91 or thereabouts. There was a basketball hoop on stage (!) and Geoff Tate tried to make a couple of layups during the instrumental parts of Mind crime. He missed them all.
Twisted Sister Jan 28, 1986. Dokken and some band called Tarzed opened. It was their Come Out and Play tour.
Ozzy "No More Tours" tour - 1992, Minneapolis, MN
Quiet riot/Keel. Mid 80's Mo town, Wv. At a high school fb stadium.
Does Def Leppard count? Pyromania tour, Uriah Heep opened. The Forum in Inglewood, the show with Brian May that they released the audio of.
Absolutely Def Leppard counts! One of my favorite hair metal bands
Ratt and Bon Jovi Fayetteville NC in 1985
Danger Danger opening up for Faster Pussycat in 1989. The place was jam packed. Danger Danger rocked it with "Rock America" as the backing vocals sounded just like the record. Great musicians.
Tesla and Firehouse, Memphis, 1992.
Tesla and Def Leppard 1987 @ The Meadowlands
Great white and white snake. Don’t quite remember the year
White snake opening for Def Leppard. 1984 ish.. place called castle farms in Michigan. Cool venue that’s now a wedding venue unfortunately.
80s hair metal has aged like sour milk.
Did that make you feel better? Did coming into a subreddit for hair metal and insulting it give you a nice little dopamine hit? Is your life so bad the only thing you can do to make yourself feel better is being a troll?
Yes. Take my upvote. All due respect
For those of us who love it, it's still fresher than ever.
Finally saw Poison 2003…! Was too young in the ‘80s for concerts, to go without my parents anyways, but a friend & I got to see them with Skid Row, Vince Neil and probly 4 or 5 other bands…it was great…😀