The 80's , The Greatest Decade Ever !!!

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Loyal said:
Naw man, that was 36 years ago for me. If the little dude was there, I didn't see him....or, we avoided each other somehow or my memory is for shyte!

I do remember how freakin' hot it was!
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I don't remember the year but I think it was the year or two after the one you went to. It was nuts. We got there the night before intending to sleep in our car. There were thousands of people partying. We couldn't sleep so we stayed up and drank with them. By the time the concert started I was already lit up. It was a blast though.

I remember the Knight Rider guy mentioning several times how hot it was. I'm from the central valley only a couple hours from Angels Camp so I was kinda used to the heat. But those spray bottles really did help. They also had these make shift showers people would soak themselves in to keep cool.

Back then funds were limited for a guy like me. My wife was with me. We were walking to the beer booth about to spend our last bucks and she looked down and there was these 3 twenty dollar bills folded. I was like "Its a sign from above! Beer for the rest of the day! Hallelujah!" Needless to say by the time ZZ Top showed up everything was a blur for me.
 
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I don't remember the year but I think it was the year or two after the one you went to. It was nuts. We got there the night before intending to sleep in our car. There were thousands of people partying. We couldn't sleep so we stayed up and drank with them. By the time the concert started I was already lit up. It was a blast though.

I remember the Knight Rider guy mentioning several times how hot it was. I'm from the central valley only a couple hours from Angels Camp so I was kinda used to the heat. But those spray bottles really did help. They also had these make shift showers people would soak themselves in to keep cool.

Back then funds were limited for a guy like me. My wife was with me. We were walking to the beer booth about to spend our last bucks and she looked down and there was these 3 twenty dollar bills folded. I was like "Its a sign from above! Beer for the rest of the day! Hallelujah!" Needless to say by the time ZZ Top showed up everything was a blur for me.
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i love ZZ Top, but I was down in San Diego in the Navy at the time. I managed to be at Mountain Aire in 1984 when I was between commands and on leave. I had never seen the The Cars before and knew little about them, and the same with Terri Nunn with Berlin. I was a Cars fanatic after that and I thought Terri Nunn stole the show when performing "Sex." She was such a little live wire, that she passed out doing her act with Berlin. Huey Lewis and the News was good, but not as good as the previous acts. I don't remember RATT back then and must not have been that impressed with them at the time.
 
Another 80s moment to remember...

I was in London on a family vacation in the Summer of 1986, when I saw an ad announcing that Queen (with opening acts Status Quo and Big Country) was playing an open air concert at Knebworth Park. I couldn't convince my siblings to go, so I went it alone.

Years later, I was watching a Behind the Music special and realized something I didn't know at the time... that was Freddy Mercury's last performance.

He was amazing.
 
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Loyal said:
i love ZZ Top, but I was down in San Diego in the Navy at the time. I managed to be at Mountain Aire in 1984 when I was between commands and on leave. I had never seen the The Cars before and knew little about them, and the same with Terri Nunn with Berlin. I was a Cars fanatic after that and I thought Terri Nunn stole the show when performing "Sex." She was such a little live wire, that she passed out doing her act with Berlin. Huey Lewis and the News was good, but not as good as the previous acts. I don't remember RATT back then and must not have been that impressed with them at the time.
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I'm thinking it was 1986 when I went. I remember the lead singer of Missing Persons was Dale Bozzio. She was a hottie back then. She wore an all leather outfit on stage. She had to be struggling with the heat in that outfit.
 
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snackdaddy said:
I'm thinking it was 1986 when I went. I remember the lead singer of Missing Persons was Dale Bozzio. She was a hottie back then. She wore an all leather outfit on stage. She had to be struggling with the heat in that outfit.
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Did the acts fly in from hotel-casinos in Reno? They did in 1984, which I found incredible at the time.
 
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Loyal said:
Did the acts fly in from hotel-casinos in Reno? They did in 1984, which I found incredible at the time.
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I don't really remember. I don't recall that place having anything that looks like a backstage area for them. And I didn't notice any RV's there. So it makes sense they would fly in. I wasn't really paying attention. By the time ZZ Top came on I was pretty buzzed.
 
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I got an 80's story.

Back then my mom used to enter "2nd chance contests" by writing her name and address on index cards and mailing them out to wherever. She used to get a newsletter listing all the unclaimed prizes. My brother, sister and I would fill them out every once and awhile during"family time".
To make a long story short, My index card was drawn for the "Fly the friendly skies" contest by United airlines. Won a round trip flight to Hawaii plus hotel for 4 people.

When we got there, sister and mother were jetlagged, but brother and I were ready to go, so we headed down to the beach. Half an hour later we're smoking some Maui wowie on the beach with a group of locals. A Twisted Sister song comes on the boom box, and my brother asked how long they have been around, One guy says, oh, we're just starting to listen to them here.

Ended up going to see them in concert at an outdoor venue 2 nights later. Met a Canadian chick there, and spent the whole rest of my vacation drinking mai tais and whiskey sours on her old mans hotel tab. He was there on a business conference for Ford, some big wig in advertising for them.
 
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RhodyRams said:
I got an 80's story.

Back then my mom used to enter "2nd chance contests" by writing her name and address on index cards and mailing them out to wherever. She used to get a newsletter listing all the unclaimed prizes. My brother, sister and I would fill them out every once and awhile during"family time".
To make a long story short, My index card was drawn for the "Fly the friendly skies" contest by United airlines. Won a round trip flight to Hawaii plus hotel for 4 people.

When we got there, sister and mother were jetlagged, but brother and I were ready to go, so we headed down to the beach. Half an hour later we're smoking some Maui wowie on the beach with a group of locals. A Twisted Sister song comes on the boom box, and my brother asked how long they have been around, One guy says, oh, we're just starting to listen to them here.

Ended up going to see them in concert at an outdoor venue 2 nights later. Met a Canadian chick there, and spent the whole rest of my vacation drinking mai tais and whiskey sours on her old mans hotel tab. He was there on a business conference for Ford, some big wig in advertising for them.
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Cool story.

Did you guys win any other of those contests over the years?
 
CGI_Ram said:
Cool story.

Did you guys win any other of those contests over the years?
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She won a few other little things, then moved to Naples, Fla in 88 and stopped
 
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Partied with this bitch every weekend in the eighties!

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Loyal said:
i love ZZ Top, but I was down in San Diego in the Navy at the time. I managed to be at Mountain Aire in 1984 when I was between commands and on leave. I had never seen the The Cars before and knew little about them, and the same with Terri Nunn with Berlin. I was a Cars fanatic after that and I thought Terri Nunn stole the show when performing "Sex." She was such a little live wire, that she passed out doing her act with Berlin. Huey Lewis and the News was good, but not as good as the previous acts. I don't remember RATT back then and must not have been that impressed with them at the time.
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I went to a Day on the Green at the Oakland Coliseum in the 80's.
Victory
Yngwie Malmsteen
Metallica
Y&T
Ratt
Scorpions
That was the line up, first band listed to the headliner being the Scorpions.
Right after Ride the Lightening came out....funny to see Metallica playing before Y&T and Ratt.
Enjoyed everyone....but....fell asleep during Ratt.
 
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