I came across a crystal box that looks like cut ice. Yes, it’s Tiffany. Hadn’t opened it in several years. So I did. I’d forgotten than I literally have EVERY concert ticket from every show I’ve ever seen going all the way back to the first one in 1979. Some of these shows I’m proud to say I went, others, well, not so much. Peer pressure can be a bitch sometimes, especially if it’s on someone else’s dime. 🙂
So here it is, the unabridged history of me not being able to find the car until everyone else has left. I’m sorry, but whoever designed the Forum in L.A. was an asshole. You don’t put a circular building with multiple entrances on a square property so everyone leaving ends up going out a different door, with no idea if they’re on the right side or not.
OK, that’s not all entirely true. There is a hypothetical scenario involving me deliberately losing a ticket stub to The Spice Girls…
1979
Kenny Loggins – courtesy of my brothers, when the Universal Amphitheater didn’t have a roof
1982
Olivia Newton-John – “The Physical Tour,” courtesy of KIIS-FM
1983
The Moody Blues
The Tubes
Robert Plant
1984
Duran Duran – All I remember was screaming
The Scorpions
The Moody Blues – More than I ever wanted to 🙂
1985
The Firm – 2X – Jimmy Page/Paul Rogers band
Roger Waters – The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking Tour
The Grateful Dead – Chula Vista
1986
Robin Williams
Roger Whittaker
Steven Wright
1987
Roger Waters – Radio KAOS Tour
U2 – Before Bono though he was all that
Boston – Moved a flight to Hawaii forward 1 day to see this
Beastie Boys / Run DMC – NOT my idea
Pink Floyd – The Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour
1988
Robert Plant
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Julie Andrews
1990
David Bowie – 2x – The First Retirement Tour
Depeche Mode – The Violator Tour
Peter Murphy
1992
The Cult
Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Superstition Tour
Soupdragons
Sex Gang Children
Peter Murphy
1993
Bette Midler
1994
Pink Floyd – Rose Bowl – The Division Bell Tour
Jimmy Page / Robert Plant
1997
Liza Minnelli – Pantages Theater – After throat surgery, bitch shoulda stayed home
The Rolling Stones – Dodger Stadium
1998
Lilith Fair – Rose Bowl
Rod Stewart – Hollywood Bowl
Alanis Morissette – Hollywood Palladium
1999
Santana
Sarah Brightman
2002
Paula Poundstone – If you ever get the chance, you MUST
2003
Duran Duran
2004
An Evening with Siouxsie
George Lopez
2005
Erasure
Peter Murphy
Donna Summer – Last minute Front Row Center at Viejas
Bauhaus
Depeche Mode
Echo & the Bunnymen
2006
Michael Buble
Madonna – Opening night of The Confessions Tour
Il Divo
2007
Christina Aguilera
Gwen Stefani
No Doubt
Harry Connick, Jr.
Go Go’s
Diana Krall – Hollywood Bowl
Tori Amos
2008
George Michael – 25 Alive Tour