First ever concert was Ronnie Milsap at Worlds of Fun somewhere in the late 70s. First arena show was the BeeGees at Hilton in 1979 (mom took me for some reason). I've never been to a stadium concert.
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Sevendust, Gravity Kills, and Flaw at Val Air in early 2002. As a teen this show was a "gateway" show for me, in multiple ways. I liked it a lot to say the least. Any time one of the songs from this show comes up on my itunes, it takes me right back to that wild night. I'd do that one again if I could 
It doesn't help that Dave is still snorting coke like a 20 year-old. If they ever bring back Sammy, they'd put on a good show again. Love me some classic Van Halen, but Sammy has his $h1t together. Saw Sammy a couple years ago playing with "The Circle" down in Burlington. Great show.
1986 Sioux City Municipal Auditorium. KISS Asylum tour, opening act was King Kobra.
Motley Crue/Whitesnake. It's funny because I grew up on 80's metal and my favorite music now is 60's, 70's and 90's.
Probably around '98 @ Ankeny airport. Sister Hazel, Tonic, Soul Asylum, Joan Jett.
Looking back, pretty lame.
Looking back, pretty lame.
I went to a DotFest. Can't remember which one but The Urge was the closer. They were awesome.
Worst part of it was Marcy Playground. They were popular with their one song "Sex and Candy". Their set was, "Sex and Candy", a few other unrecognizable songs, and then "Sex and Candy" AGAIN!
Sammy and Michael Anthony are probably the only guys associated with that group who are worth seeing, in my opinion.
I love the DLR VH stuff, but Dave has a big ego. Same with Eddie. Those two destroyed that band.
I think that was '98. I remember hearing about the show but not being able to find someone with a car who wanted to go.
My first EVER concert was 311 in 1995 at The Love Shack downtown. It was out back behind the place which was good, because I was 16. I went with my older brother and some of his friends. The band hung out after the show and signed all of our CD cases. They were super chill and nice.
I remember moshing and crowd surfing and getting dropped and hurting myself.
It was pretty cool and 311 has been one of my favorite bands since I stole their album "MUSIC" from my older brother in 93 or 94.
I remember moshing and crowd surfing and getting dropped and hurting myself.
It was pretty cool and 311 has been one of my favorite bands since I stole their album "MUSIC" from my older brother in 93 or 94.
I went with my biyotch of an ex girlfriend. We only got to see the bands she wanted to see except The Urge who I demanded to stay for. They were the best act of the day for sure. I still have two of their CDs somewhere.
Please tell me they didn't play the same song twice. I refuse to believe it. That's lame as hell.
Mine was 3 Doors Down as an early high schooler. haha. I only knew their popular songs but my friend really wanted to go and since I had never been to a concert, I was excited to go no matter who it was. We ended up seeing them again the next year because we wanted to see Breaking Benjamin who opened for them. Can't exactly say I'm proud to have seen them twice as a headliner.
Round-about '82, some guys from my high school were getting tickets to a Kiss show in Sigh-Ox City, they asked if I wanted in ... That was at least 3 years after my big Kiss-fan phase, but I still wanted to go. My mom nixed the idea; she probably thought there would be Ruffians About.
Eddie's doing better nowadays. Finally kicked the booze, battled cancer, now loves performing with his son. The downside is how Michael Anthony was dismissed without a formal notice. He's done well for himself with Hagar though.
It's not the first time I've heard of a one hit wonder band pulling that stunt. I had a friend who went and saw Fastball right when their single The Way was all over the radio. He said they opened and closed with it.
