TOP 3 most memorable 80's Arena Rock concerts you've been

[70strathead]

This outta be interesting...

here's mine...

1981 - Rainbow/Pat Travers ( My first concert, I thought Ritchie Blackmore was the devil! ; )
1984 - Van Halen ( need I say more!) mind blowing guitar solo!
1984 - Judas Priest ( i forget what album tour, but what a wall of heavy sound that was ..really tight!)

 

[Digital Jams]

1985 DLR with Vai......incredible tone and playing.

1986 VH in New Haven, the show filmed for Live Without a Net

1983 Rush Signals tour.....incredible sound

 

[PeteLaramee]

Roger Waters w/Clapton on guitar on the pros and cons tour.

Floyd - Momentary tour.

Marillion opened for Rush on 3/4/86 (my 18th birthday).

All these shows were at the old Montreal Forum.

 

[thiswaythatway]

84 or 85. Queensryche opening up for Iron Maiden at Radio City Music Hall in NYC.

85 or 86. Metallica opening up for Ozzy on the Ultimate Sin tour Meadowlands NJ. Metallica didn't suck back then.

88 or 89, Laugh all you want but Def Leppard on the Hysteria tour sounded incredible, plus Queensryche opened up.

 

[Tnjpekar]

priest screaming for vengance tour at madison square garden, thats the show where the garden got trashed and they were asked to never return
van halen 1984 tour, last one with dave and he really acted like he had something to prove, eddy was amazing
great white/motly crue/ozzy osborne, the tour randy died on, brad gillis was no randy, but the show kicked ass none the less

really, there were a ton more, but those come to mind right now

 

[MisterBulbous]

1983 - Diver Down. My first VH concert
1982 - Iron Maiden/Rainbow. My first concert
198? - Rush (Signals). Stage and sound blew me away.

 

[moronmountain]

This outta be interesting...

1984 - Judas Priest ( i forget what album tour, but what a wall of heavy sound that was ..really tight!)

Turbo tour?

My car broke down otw to the Ram it Down show, but I saw them on the Painkiller tour. It was great because they played a lot of their old stuff including Beyond the Realms of Death. That, Motley's Girls tour and Aerosmith's comeback tour and Journey's Raised on Radio tour were the only 80's type shows I've been to.

 

[The Big Snit]

I don't remember the years...

Van Halen (Live without a net tour) 1986?
Pink Floyd 1987?
Rush 1994?

 

[Greazygeo]

#1 AC/DC For Those About To Rock....it was my first concert.

#2 Ozzy Diary of A Madman with Randy Being right in front of Randy all nite was AWESOME!!

#3 Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time Best sounding show I've been to...crystal clear and pounding.

 

[The Big Snit]

Ozzy Diary of A Madman with Randy Being right in front of Randy all nite was AWESOME!!

Damn! Nothing could top that for me.

 

[lamppost]

#2 Ozzy Diary of A Madman with Randy Being right in front of Randy all nite was AWESOME!!

You lucky bastard! Thats too cool!

 

[SQUAREHEAD]

1) Van Halen 1981 Fair Warning tour

2) Ozzy 1984 Bark at the Moon (Jake), RATT opened!

3) Black Sabbath 1983 Mob Rules tour

Keith

 

[ttosh]

Metallica at Cains Ballroom in Tulsa OK 02/20/1985, there were a total of 200 people there and it was like a garage jam with Cliff on Bass. Truly an awesome concert.

Whitesnake with John Sykes in 85 for the Slide it in tour, he became one of my fav guitarists after I saw him.

 

[The Big Snit]

Whitesnake with John Sykes in 85 for the Slide it in tour, he became one of my fav guitarists after I saw him.

I saw Whitesnake when they toured the Whitesnake '87 CD...Sykes wasn't there...it was Vivian Campbell and Adrian Vandenberg....meh.

 

[Elric]

I would say AC/DC "Back In Black" tour is my entire top ten.

 

[Oblivion DC]

This outta be interesting...

1984 - Judas Priest ( i forget what album tour, but what a wall of heavy sound that was ..really tight!)

Nah not the Turbo tour - I'm thinking Defenders of the Faith!!
Which would be the last great classic Priest Album!!


My three most memorable would be
1983 Def Leppard/Krokus/Gary Moore - too young and stupid to make it on time for Gary Moore
1986 Ozzy/Metallica - the only time I got to see Cliff Burton
1988 Monsters of Rock - LA Colosseum :: Van Halen, Scorpions, Dokken, Metallica, Kingdom Come -- I was among the 3000+ people who rushed the floor when Metallica came on!!

Damn good times!!

 

[Echoes]

Ozzy Diary of A Madman with Randy Being right in front of Randy all nite was AWESOME!!

Damn! Nothing could top that for me.

I hate big hair bands...then and now...I did however know Randy Rhoads, my band in the late 70's (Arch Rival) shared the bill with QR a few times and I hung with him and a couple of other guys at the Starwood a few times..

 

[Anonymous]

1980 - VH World Invasion tour, LA Sports Arena 'nuff said...
1981 - VH Fair Warning Tour, LA Sports Arena 'nuff said...
1986 - Ozzy/Metallica, Long Beach Arena - Ultimate Sin Ozzy w/Jake (great!) and Metallica still blew them off the stage

Steve

 

[DannyM]

Way to many to list.......or chose from...but I'll try and name only 3

Metallica (saw cliff burton twice, once when they played with Ozzy/J.Lee and when they headlined a show at the Majestic Theater w/MOP....they AJFA tour was at the old convention center arena...that was bad ass too ! )

Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengence tour

Iron Maiden - Power Slave tour where they played on the Live After Death stage and set list

there are several others.....
the Fastway/Saxon/Maiden (Piece of Mind tour) was bad ass...at the old convention center arena

a year or so later I saw Accept/Saxon play at the arena

ACDC in the 80's always kick ass at the convention center arena

Van Halen Diver Down/1984 era was awesome

Maiden (Number of the Beast) with Scorpions (Black Out) was a great show at the arena

Man...I've been to too many bad ass concerts in the 80's to list them all here.

All I can say is that I loved spending my entire teens in the 80's!
I miss the 80's

 

[Juggernaut]

1. Black Sabbath/Pantera - Reunion Arena in Dallas
2. Pantera/Prong/Sepultura - Lubbuck Tex.
3. Slayer/Megadeth/Anthrax/Alice in Chains - Lubbock Tex.