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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: Stadler on August 08, 2017, 11:25:28 AM
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So I've begun to memorialize my concert history... and what an eye-opener. First, I'm amazed by the number of bands I've seen and didn't realize I saw them (I saw Radiohead as an opening act; I've seen Rusted Root four times despite not being able to name one song let alone sing it).
I'm also amazed both at how GOOD my memory is, and how BAD my memory is. GOOD: I can remember, if not entire setlists, then at least chunks of shows that stand out. I have remembered shows that aren't on any official registry (Billy Joel; he added a second night in New Haven back in the late '80's, and I was there, though it still doesn't register on the Setlist website or on the official Billy Joel tour lists). BAD: I have gotten some details WOEFULLY wrong. I do not like Tom Petty, but I remember seeing him at the Hartford Civic Center (I worked there as a security guard), but sumbitch if I didn't have a ticket for him at the New Haven Coliseum too. Must've been a chick, and must not've been memorable! I have had in my head for YEARS that I saw the Firm on their first tour and that they only played the first album and a cover or two; the ticket I have was later in the run of shows, and they played about half of the SECOND album as well. Don't remember much of that at all! I remember distinctly seeing Page and Plant in the Nassau Coliseum - "The Song Remains The Same" is my favorite moment ever in a concert - which would be the only time I've ever seen a show there, but I come to find it was in the Brendan Byrne Arena (a place I've seen countless shows, and alas I have NEVER seen a show at Nassau).
With that, I post this because I'm having some trouble with a couple of shows:
- I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd/.38 Special/Peter Frampton in Georgia, right after I moved to GA (I remember, because I had a Red Ford T-Bird with CT plates and I parked right next to a guy that had a dualie, and a huge Confederate flag on a pole erected in the bed of the truck). Can't find record of it anywhere.
- I saw Squeeze, UB40 and Katrina and the Waves at UConn (don't remember if it was the same show or not) but there is apparently no record of that show (or those shows) ever happening.
- I saw Ace Frehley at Tuxedo Junction in Danbury, CT, but I can't determine what year, so I have the choice of five different shows (he used to live about a half hour from there, and so played there often even when he wasn't actively touring. My brother bounced there while in college, and drank with him one night; he and one of Ace's "entourage" had to pull him out from under a table and take him home. My brother now likes to tell people he "drank Ace Frehley under the table".)
- There was a tour with Elton John - I think it was "The One" tour - with Eric Clapton opening. I also saw EC in Georgia in an arena. Finding it hard to determine those shows as well.
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I tried to do this a couple of years ago and it's a real bitch. I had a friend send me his spreadsheet, which helped a great deal, but there was probably 20% or so I couldn't figure out. Had similar surprises, as well. I saw Sepultura on the Chaos AD tour. That one surprised me. I'd also seen Megadeth far more times than I ever imagined, do in large part to them being a regular opener back in the day. I saw Gary Moore back when he was a metal guy, but he opened for a couple of other bands and I wasn't familiar with him enugh to pay much attention. That one still bugs me to this day. He almost certainly played "End of the World," and I don't remember it.
The last one might be of interest to you, as Gary Moore was opening up for Ace Frehly and Y&T in 1987. I'm pretty sure that tour got up your way, as Tim and I have compared many notes on such things.
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Have you tried checking setlist.fm? It can be very convenient to track shows and setlists you have seen. It's obvisouly not complete for older shows but some bands, like DT, have all (or almost all) of their shows and setlists there.
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I kept mine written up until 2013 or so and then I stopped, damn. I could still try and update the list, since I always take pics at gigs and keep the tickets so I could try and recreate it.
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Fortunately, I have my ticket stubs from all but about 5-6 shows. So, building a timeline wasn't been too hard. I actually have it as a link on my bootleg trading website for easy reference. Not that anyone cares, but here's a link - https://www.blackenedtrading.net/uploads/ConcertsAttended2.htm (https://www.blackenedtrading.net/uploads/ConcertsAttended2.htm) . I just need to add Metallica - Philly 2017 to the list.
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...Gary Moore was opening up for Ace Frehly and Y&T in 1987.
I remember that tour. :tup
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I used to keep all my tickets in a binder. We lost power in 2008 and at the time I had no generator like I do now and the whole basement flooded in 10 inches of water and we lost a lot and that included the ticket stubs.
I think I'm in the ball park of 200 concerts.
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I saw Gary Moore in 1983 opening for Def Lep/ Krokus. My first concert. Pretty sure he played EOTW He also toured parts of the country in 1984, opening for Rush among others.
In August of 1987, he played the Paradise in Boston, which was an FM broadcast, and at the Living Room in Providence. I saw that show. Hurricane opened.
Don't have the exact dates as I'm not home until tomorrow.
A month later I saw Y&T, Frehley's Comet, and White Lion at the Veteran's Memorial Auditorium in Providence.
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I also have a ticket stub binder. I found one on amazon and I used to always keep my stubs and was finally able to organize them by date. However, I'm not as old as some here so my memory hasn't yet gotten to the point where I've forgotten concerts. Some stand out in my memory better than others and some concerts for sure though.
Now though, my youtube page has sort of become my video memories of concerts and experiences. I really enjoy being able to watch clips of my past concerts attended. I also have so much more footage than what i've put on youtube from concerts long before youtube was a thing for me.
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In response to the OP, good luck Stadler trying to remember the Ace show. He came around quite a bit back in the day, when I get home I can send a list of dates I saw him. If you can remember the band/ parts of the set list, especially which KISS tracks he played, that would also be a clue. I have a shit ton of f'n awesome Ace pictures.
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Have you tried checking setlist.fm? It can be very convenient to track shows and setlists you have seen. It's obvisouly not complete for older shows but some bands, like DT, have all (or almost all) of their shows and setlists there.
That's actually where I'm archiving it. I have an account and a list of all the shows I've seen (that I've input so far). I also have an excel spreadsheet).
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Fortunately, I have my ticket stubs from all but about 5-6 shows. So, building a timeline wasn't been too hard. I actually have it as a link on my bootleg trading website for easy reference. Not that anyone cares, but here's a link - https://www.blackenedtrading.net/uploads/ConcertsAttended2.htm (https://www.blackenedtrading.net/uploads/ConcertsAttended2.htm) . I just need to add Metallica - Philly 2017 to the list.
As do I, but I find it interesting the tickets I'm missing... it's kind of random.
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In response to the OP, good luck Stadler trying to remember the Ace show. He came around quite a bit back in the day, when I get home I can send a list of dates I saw him. If you can remember the band/ parts of the set list, especially which KISS tracks he played, that would also be a clue. I have a shit ton of f'n awesome Ace pictures.
All I can remember is I think Richie Scarlett was in the band, and he played "Deuce", which I thought odd since it was a Gene song, and he was HAMMERED. WASTED. Still good, but out of his tits. I seem to think it was around the same time - 6 months plus or minus - that I saw Fish there on the Sunsets on Empire tour.
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...and he was HAMMERED. WASTED.
Well, okay, that could STILL be virtually ANY Ace show on ANY Ace tour. :lol
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All I can remember is I think Richie Scarlett was in the band, and he played "Deuce", which I thought odd since it was a Gene song, and he was HAMMERED. WASTED. Still good, but out of his tits. I seem to think it was around the same time - 6 months plus or minus - that I saw Fish there on the Sunsets on Empire tour.
Could've been Tuxedo Junction, 7/29/1993, Just For Fun Tour:
- Deuce was the final encore
- Richie was still in the band as they did 2 Young 2 Die
- Ace hadn't gone sober yet. So, he was probably hammered at this show.
Fish, Tuxedo Junction, 7/24/1997. Closest Ace dates - 11/09/1995, 3/10/1994, 7/29/1993
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I have a Concert Catalog file I update regularly. I think I have sufficiently remembered all the concerts I've seen at this point. I'm up to 128 since 1997.
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...and he was HAMMERED. WASTED.
Well, okay, that could STILL be virtually ANY Ace show on ANY Ace tour. :lol
...and most Kiss shows; I saw him at MSG on the first leg of the first reunion (when he and Peter were supposed to be "sober"), and he wasn't.
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F*** my old boots. I just input the U2 show I saw in Georgia; it was soon after 9/11 (November) and... Garbage opened. I don't remember a second of Garbage, I don't even remember them being an option to see live. I LOVE them and have a mad crush to this day on Shirley Manson (there's just something about her I find REALLY sexy).
Then again, I was married then, and went with the ex; she wasn't a big "opening act" person. Not by a long shot. So that prolly explains it.
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I saw Ace at Narcissus a club in Boston next to Fenway Park and he was an hour late. It was like they had to prop him up but damn if it wasn't an awesome show. I think it was in 1992.
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I saw Ace at Narcissus a club in Boston next to Fenway Park and he was an hour late. It was like they had to prop him up but damn if it wasn't an awesome show. I think it was in 1992.
I was there. Have great pics. I'll have to scan my Ace pics.
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I keep my ticket stubs for both concerts and sports events in scrap book binders, I had an older brother that kept all his stubs when I was younger and had even went to my first concert, so that taught me to save mine for display once I was old enough to start going to shows, I'm just over 300 concerts now and I have every stub except for a few that either got lost, ruined or was a bar show that just charged a door fee with no stub, for those I wrote the band/bands, date and venue on a small cutout piece of paper and added them into the books. One regret I do have, I most of time was conscientious to write down the opening acts, but there were some shows where I did not because they weren't bands that appealed to me at the time, so I am missing some opening act info.
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I saw Ace at Narcissus a club in Boston next to Fenway Park and he was an hour late. It was like they had to prop him up but damn if it wasn't an awesome show. I think it was in 1992.
I was there. Have great pics. I'll have to scan my Ace pics.
I forgot about you being there Tim. I was on the back wall next to the bar. It was a great setlist.
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I never kept any kind of record and my memory is shit. Back in the mid to late 80s I was at a gig once a week or so and I've pretty much seen everyone I wanted to, except for Queen with Freddie, and that ain't happening. Oh, and I want to see Vinnie Moore play but shit keeps getting in the way 😀
Gary Moore was an early gig for me, back when he was playing metal.
First gig was UFO at the local university. Everyone used to play there until they brought in fire regulations and the attendance was restricted and it wasn't financially viable.
Least "me" gigs I've been to? Beverley Knight, and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - girlfriends with shit musical taste!
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Read it and weep, peeps. :)
*all shows in St Louis unless otherwise indicated
04/10/90 - Michael Penn
02/09/91 - "1964" as The Beatles
06/29/91 - Styx
11/07/91 - Rush
06/12/92 - Rush
08/15/92 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
07/28/93 - Van Halen
10/09/93 - April Wine, Loverboy and Nazareth
04/04/94 - Rush
06/04/94 - The Moody Blues
06/20/94 - Pink Floyd (Kansas City)
06/29/94 - Yes
11/10/94 - Dream Theater
04/30/95 - Queensryche
05/20/95 - Boston
07/22/95 - Van Halen
07/27/96 - Styx and Kansas
07/13/96 Jethro Tull and Emerson, Lake & Palmer
10/31/96 - Rush
03/15/97 - The Wallflowers
06/08/97 - Rush
06/13/97 - Styx
08/01/97 - Sammy Hagar
09/21/97 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
07/19/98 - Van Halen
07/28/98 - Metallica
10/08/98 - Blue Oyster Cult
02/12/99 - Walter Trout
05/01/99 - Rik Emmett
07/16/99 - Walter Trout
12/10/99 - Billy Joel
02/14/00 - Dream Theater
03/03/00 - Dream Theater
(Orlando)
07/27/00 - Blue Oyster Cult
09/18/00 - Dave Matthews Band
09/19/00 - Dave Matthews Band
10/29/00 - Dennis DeYoung
05/24/01 - Walter Trout
03/16/02 - Dream Theater (Chicago)
08/02/02 - Rush
08/17/02 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
08/26/02 - Dave Matthews Band
08/27/02 - Dave Matthews Band
08/16/03 - Blue Oyster Cult
12/26/03 - "Wish You Were Here" - a tribute to Pink Floyd
03/17/04 - Dream Theater
06/12/04 - Rush
06/17/04 - Dave Matthews Band
11/27/04 - The Australian Pink Floyd Show
05/27/05 - Porcupine Tree (Chicago)
11/25/05 - Opeth
02/21/06 - Sigur Ros
04/01/06 - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
05/09/06 - King's X
07/22/06 - Sammy Hagar
08/26/06 - The Flaming Lips
09/14/06 Muse
10/20/06 - The Flower Kings (Chicago)
08/24/07 - Rush
05/14/08 - Radiohead
05/16/08 Wilco
06/09/08 Zappa Plays Zappa
06/28/08 Rush
07/01/08 Modest Mouse
07/20/08 Foo Fighters
10/18/08 David Byrne
07/01/09 Judas Priest and Whitesnake
04/29/10 Jeff Beck
08/22/10 - Rush
08/23/10 - Porcupine Tree
09/17/10 - The Flaming Lips
04/21/11 - Arcade Fire
04/27/11 - The Decemberists
05/13/11 - dredg
07/17/11 - U2
07/19/11 - Fleet Foxes
07/24/11 - Styx and Yes
09/17/11 - Foo Fighters
10/02/11 - Death Cab for Cutie
03/09/12 - Radiohead
06/05/12 - Queen Extravaganza
09/22/12 - Rush
03/08/13 - Muse
05/03/13 - Steven Wilson (Chicago)
05/16/13 - Opeth
04/05/14 - Dream Theater (Chicago)
04/09/14 - Dream Theater (Kansas City)
06/10/14 - The Flaming Lips
05/13/15 - Death Cab for Cutie
05/14/15 - Rush
05/30/15 - The Decemberists
11/06/16 - Dream Theater
01/26/17 - Neal Morse Band
05/02/17 - Devin Townsend Project
05/16/17 - Tears for Fears / Hall & Oates
06/13/17 - Muse
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It's easy when you've seen so little concerts Kev. :lol
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...and he was HAMMERED. WASTED.
Well, okay, that could STILL be virtually ANY Ace show on ANY Ace tour. :lol
...and most Kiss shows; I saw him at MSG on the first leg of the first reunion (when he and Peter were supposed to be "sober"), and he wasn't.
I've always wondered if some of that was a put-on. The stumbling etc. etc... as part of his persona. I wouldn't be surprised either way.
I think that he was sober the times that I've seen him, but it's hard to tell.
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There's a new website called concertarchives.org that works with setlist.fm to compile your concert history. I've been working on mine for months now and I think I've almost got everything.
https://www.concertarchives.org/jammindude/concerts
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Thanks for sharing, that looks cool. I may have to spend some time to do that myself
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There's a new website called concertarchives.org that works with setlist.fm to compile your concert history. I've been working on mine for months now and I think I've almost got everything.
https://www.concertarchives.org/jammindude/concerts
It doesn't seem to offer any help. You're still required to know all the details. I was expecting it to help fill in dates, or better still, make recommendations. When I entered Roger Waters at American Airlines Center, I expected it to show me the only two times he's played that venue so I could select which show. It just filled in August, 9. What would really be helpful is if you told it you saw ACDC, Ozzy, and Iron maiden in 1985, it offered up Priest as a possible suggestion.
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I posted 1 a few years ago, but it does need an update from the last couple of years.
I estimate I've seen 500+ shows and over 1000 artists/bands perform.
https://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2015/11/my-concert-attendance-history.html
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Cool thread, Stadler. I have a spreadsheet with all 210 shows I have attended, listing the headliner, date, venue, location, and opener(s).
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You guys make me want to reupdate my list.
My main problem is that I've been attending so many free and local concerts so tickets stubs aside it's gonna be hard to remember every single free folk metal / irish rock gig I've attended in the past years.
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There's a new website called concertarchives.org that works with setlist.fm to compile your concert history. I've been working on mine for months now and I think I've almost got everything.
https://www.concertarchives.org/jammindude/concerts
It doesn't seem to offer any help. You're still required to know all the details. I was expecting it to help fill in dates, or better still, make recommendations. When I entered Roger Waters at American Airlines Center, I expected it to show me the only two times he's played that venue so I could select which show. It just filled in August, 9. What would really be helpful is if you told it you saw ACDC, Ozzy, and Iron maiden in 1985, it offered up Priest as a possible suggestion.
That's why setlist.fm is so fine. If'n I know AC/DC played the Hartford Civic Center at some point during my college years, I can click on the band, click on the "Concert Map", click on the State of Connecticut (I suppose you have to know what your state looks like) and it will list all the appearance it has in it's database for that state.
Though it has gaps. I've had to enter a number of setlists myself.
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Its kind of worthless here in my state. But I have noticed a lot more people posting Setlists on the site.
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There's a new website called concertarchives.org that works with setlist.fm to compile your concert history. I've been working on mine for months now and I think I've almost got everything.
https://www.concertarchives.org/jammindude/concerts
Yeah, that's awesome. I've already started importing my concert data. Thanks for the heads up on this website.
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I wish I had kept my stubs or at least a record of who I saw when.
Can probably find out most by going through memory and cross referencing with setlist.fm and google but that would be a lot of work....
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There's a new website called concertarchives.org that works with setlist.fm to compile your concert history. I've been working on mine for months now and I think I've almost got everything.
https://www.concertarchives.org/jammindude/concerts
It doesn't seem to offer any help. You're still required to know all the details. I was expecting it to help fill in dates, or better still, make recommendations. When I entered Roger Waters at American Airlines Center, I expected it to show me the only two times he's played that venue so I could select which show. It just filled in August, 9. What would really be helpful is if you told it you saw ACDC, Ozzy, and Iron maiden in 1985, it offered up Priest as a possible suggestion.
You have to look up dates in setlist FM....BUT, if you enter that date into concertarchives, the setlist (provided it is listed) fills in automatically. That's what I really liked about it.
And it gathers ALL the things you've seen from setlist FM into one single page/list.
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Yea, I'm with Barto that it's not really smart enough to make this easy, however, I've spent a decent amount of time working on mine anyway because it is still kind of cool to have all this info in one spot even if it's very time consuming to enter the info.
https://www.concertarchives.org/cramx3/concerts (https://www.concertarchives.org/cramx3/concerts)
Got 80 concerts in today from my memory today, I'm going to need to pull out the scrap book to get the rest in there although I definitely don't have all my stubs so it's a bit hard to find a lot of the concerts I went to when I was young for smaller bands that don't even have the shows listed in setlist.fm to find the dates.
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I saw Ace at Narcissus a club in Boston next to Fenway Park and he was an hour late. It was like they had to prop him up but damn if it wasn't an awesome show. I think it was in 1992.
Saw Ace at a hole in the wall rock venue in Cincinnati called Annies in 95. He was wasted and bloated, sounded like shit, and told more Henny Youngman type old vaudeville one-liner jokes than played songs. People started booing, which caused a fight between the hecklers, and some KISS Army OGs who thought it sacrilegious to hiss at Ace because despite the train wreck of the evening , he'd been in KISS Goddamnit!! Ace grabbed the microphone laughed at the kerfuffle and said "Fuck it, this shits funny! "
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So damn Ace.
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I have all of my ticket stubs as well as a spreadsheet of all the shows I have seen. Good job that I have a written list, as almost all of my stubs from the 90s / early 2000s have faded so badly that they are completely illegible. Yet all my stubs from the 80's are in good shape. Ticketmaster must have switched to some low quality ink for a while there. :sad:
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I saw Ace at Narcissus a club in Boston next to Fenway Park and he was an hour late. It was like they had to prop him up but damn if it wasn't an awesome show. I think it was in 1992.
Saw Ace at a hole in the wall rock venue in Cincinnati called Annies in 95. He was wasted and bloated, sounded like shit, and told more Henny Youngman type old vaudeville one-liner jokes than played songs. People started booing, which caused a fight between the hecklers, and some KISS Army OGs who thought it sacrilegious to hiss at Ace because despite the train wreck of the evening , he'd been in KISS Goddamnit!! Ace grabbed the microphone laughed at the kerfuffle and said "Fuck it, this shits funny! "
That's pretty much the Ace I saw, more or less.
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I gave up.
My ticket stubs are all in a box organized chronologically (Rush, Dream Theater, Marillion separated out) although over the last 15 years or so it has been less complete to to will call reservations. (NJ proghouse is one venue that does this) or printed tickets (I really don't consider those tickets but I kept some anyway.) I have a paper receipt for Jelly Jam which doesn't exactly thrill me, but it's just another hit on the concert experience.
I'll just enjoy the show and try to remember it by getting a something signed.
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I have fond memories staying up all night to get a number to get tickets. I could never do that now but in my youth, I loved it.
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I have fond memories staying up all night to get a number to get tickets. I could never do that now but in my youth, I loved it.
I'd still do it if there were a reason and it was worth it, but those days have long passed sadly. Made the concert experience that much better.
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I have fond memories staying up all night to get a number to get tickets. I could never do that now but in my youth, I loved it.
It was such a great experience. Total party! Also met some of the dumbest people ever!
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I miss the days of line tickets, when a group of us would strategically go to Streetside Records at different times of the day the 3-4 days prior to tickets going on sale, that way no matter what was picked, we'd be one of the first. We would get there with numbers (out of 56 given out) 7, 12, 19, 22, 30, 39 and 47, so no matter what was picked, we'd be one of the first people in line. :biggrin:
That strategy got us 7th row for Rush, 3rd row for Queensryche, 10th row for Yes, etc.
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Hah, I remember wearing the bracelets to school. :lol
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In the early days a friend's mom ran the ticket machine at a Sears so she'd just pull six or eight before they went on sale. He rarely had money for tickets but she'd help us out. Always within the first eight rows. When that came to an end we'd camp out from time to time, but at that point it never made much difference. Tickets were coming out randomized, or the band released them out of order, or the promoters kept them or something. If you weren't first or second you weren't getting floor seats. We had fun but it was never very successful. I met some pretty cool chicks at a couple of those, though.
My cousin was also a somewhat successful groupie, so she made some great connections and would occasionally help me out. Still does, in fact. Back in those days she got me front row for Ozzy (BatM) and backstage passes for Maiden (WS). In retrospect, my first 4 or 5 years of concert attendance were something of a golden age.
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My cousin was also a somewhat successful groupie,
That just screams "STORY!".
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I guess I come from the ticketmaster age where I can't recall ever waiting outside a venue to grab tickets. If I were younger during the summer, I can see it being fun. Sort of like waiting in line to get into a concert, you're surrounded by people with the same love for the band as you so it's usually a good time, but at the same time, I'm glad I am not just sitting around and waiting. I am impatient and get bored easily.
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It's fun in the winter as well. Full tank of gas, cranking tunes, jugging Jack Daniels talking with your buds all night.
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I can remember waiting in a huge line outside a local mall for hours to get tix for Genesis at Giants Stadium on the Invisible Touch tour. Before we even got inside (or even close to the store, for that matter), word got out that the show was sold out. This was followed by a few minutes of depression. Then, it was announced that a 2nd show was added. We quickly got to the store, ordered our tickets and enjoyed a great show a few months later.
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My cousin was also a somewhat successful groupie,
That just screams "STORY!".
Seriously Bart, you just don't drop that and walk away!
I met a girl who fucked Vivian Campbell and Dave Mustaine. She was a friend of one of my college roommate's sister.
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I saw Ace at Narcissus a club in Boston next to Fenway Park and he was an hour late. It was like they had to prop him up but damn if it wasn't an awesome show. I think it was in 1992.
As promised, Joe, here are some shots from Narcissus. November 2, 1992.
I've drank at plenty of shows. A lot. But I can probably count on one hand how many I was literally drunk at. This would be one of them. When I got home, I realized I apparently grabbed a microphone off the stage. :facepalm:
Anyway...
(https://i.imgur.com/8SUX4SQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/691CtGA.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/TliHoEG.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/AXclOxn.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/ZrWhCL6.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/vlI4DF2.jpg)
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Yup. I remember the Ren & Stimpy shirt! :metal
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My cousin was also a somewhat successful groupie,
That just screams "STORY!".
Seriously Bart, you just don't drop that and walk away!
To be honest, my cousin's 10 years older than me and we've always been pretty tight. I want to know about her sexlife about as much as anybody with an older sister would want to know about her's. I only know of one conquest, and all I'll say about that is he's a high ranking member of the rock god pantheon. Maybe Zeus, I don't know.
Truth be told, groupie might not have been the best way to put it. With at least one notable exception she wasn't necessarily out to bang rockstars. She was more interested in getting in tight with producers, mangers, promoters, that sort of thing. Definitely the way to go. Being able to say you banged Gene Simmons means very little nowadays. Still having friendships with industry legends thirty years later means a great deal.
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Gotcha!
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I miss the days of line tickets, when a group of us would strategically go to Streetside Records at different times of the day the 3-4 days prior to tickets going on sale, that way no matter what was picked, we'd be one of the first. We would get there with numbers (out of 56 given out) 7, 12, 19, 22, 30, 39 and 47, so no matter what was picked, we'd be one of the first people in line. :biggrin:
That strategy got us 7th row for Rush, 3rd row for Queensryche, 10th row for Yes, etc.
I'd call it luck unless you went to a place that nobody knew about.
I stopped waiting in line during that band period because waiting overnight in line guaranteed nothing if you just show up the day before with a wristband. Once the playing field was leveled I didn't see the point going out to find tickets if I couldn't get good ones.
By then I was calling out of state because the local lines were always jammed and I got through that way. Can't remember who told me about that, but I was in his debt for a few years until the Internet.
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By then I was calling out of state because the local lines were always jammed and I got through that way.
Completely forgot about that until you just said it. I totally did that as well.
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I still stayed out until the dawn of the internet. Once I could buy tickets online I never stayed out anymore.
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I wish I had kept my stubs or at least a record of who I saw when.
Can probably find out most by going through memory and cross referencing with setlist.fm and google but that would be a lot of work....
Not that much work..... thanks for the tip on:
https://www.concertarchives.org/swedishgoose
Still searcing info on a few.... probably forgot a few too
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I have most of the ticket stubs for shows I attended, and games in a photo album. It got too big over time, and I got lazy and anything after filling that has gone into a large pint glass from one of the Hard Rock Cafes. I need to get another album and file them away.
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Concertarchives.org is down due to not renewing the domainname.... so glad I put in all the work to register concerts there as long as hours before they went down :mehlin :mehlin
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Concertarchives.org is down due to not renewing the domainname.... so glad I put in all the work to register concerts there as long as hours before they went down :mehlin :mehlin
lol wow yea, wtf I just spent all that time last week doing that.
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It's back up and running just fine.
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It's back up and running just fine.
Great... might be time to upload some photos
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Well, good a place as any... keep in mind I don't list bands I didn't like, so plenty not listed, especially local openers. Also used to list who I met and what I might have gotten, but stopped that at some point.
1994-06-04 Pink Floyd @ Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia
2003-08-26 Def Leppard @ The Allentown Fairgrounds in Allentown
2004-05-24 Fuel @ The Crocodile Rock Caf้ in Allentown (Caught drum stick and guitar pick)
2004-08-04 Rush @ The Tweeter Center in Camden
2004-08-07 Rush @ Montage Mountain in Scranton
2004-09-01 McBrain Damage @ The Crocodile Rock Caf้ in Allentown (Met band)
2004-09-02 ZZ Top @ The Allentown Fairgrounds in Allentown
2004-09-20 Tesla @ The Crocodile Rock Caf้ in Allentown (Met band, caught several picks)
2004-10-04 - UFO and Seven Witches @ The Roxy Theater in Northampton
2005-02-05 Queensryche @ The Electric Factory in Philadelphia
2005-06-10 Queensryche and Judas Priest @ PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel
2005-08-27 Gigantour (Dream Theater, Symphony X, Megadeth) @ The Sovereign Center in Reading (Met SX)
2005-08-28 Momos Dance Party, Erotomania, and Queen of the Reich at BB Kings in NYC (Met all bands)
2005-09-20 Stratovarius @ The Trocadero Theater in Philadelphia
2005-11-30 George Lynch @ The Crocodile Rock Caf้ in Allentown (Necromance Opened)
2006-03-01 Overkill @ The Crocodile Rock Caf้ in Allentown (Necromance Opened)
2006-04-01 Dream Theater @ Radio City Music Hall in NYC (Score recorded)
2006-04-05 Loudness @ The Crocodile Rock Caf้ in Allentown
2006-04-19 Steve Howe @ The Crocodile Rock Caf้ in Allentown
2006-05-10 Yngwie Malmsteen @ The Crocodile Rock Caf้ in Allentown (Met MP and DS, caught 6 picks)
2006-08-10 Styx and Kansas @ Musikfest in Bethlehem
2006-10-07 Iron Maiden @ The Tweeter Center in Camden
2006-11-03 Queensryche @ The Electric Factory in Philadelphia (Met Michael Wilton and Scott Rockenfield)
2006-12-01 Brain Damage @ The Sellersville Theater in Sellersville (Met band)
2007-03-13 Blackfield and Jordan Rudess @ World Caf้ Live in Philadelphia (Met one BF member)
2007-05-23 Porcupine Tree @ The Electric Factory in Philadelphia (Met PT and MP)
2007-05-25 Symphony X @ BB Kings in NYC
2007-06-04 - Doro, Chris Caffery, and Necromance @ The Crocodile Rock Cafe in Allentown
2007-06-29 - Rush @ Montage Mountain in Scranton
2007-08-10 - Symphony X @ The Trocadero in Philadelphia
2007-08-24 - Dream Theater and Redemption @ PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel
2007-08-25 - Dream Theater and Redemption @ Jones Beach in Wantagh
2007-08-26 - Dream Theater and Redemption @ Tower Theater in Upper Darby (Met MP, JM, and the bass and guitarist for Redemption)
2007-09-22 - Rush @ Air Canada Centre in Toronto
2007-10-02 - Sonata Arctica and Firewind @ The Trocadero in Philadelphia (Got Firewind pick)
2007-10-13 - Porcupine Tree @ The Beacon Theater in New York City (Met PT)
2007-11-02 - Live After Death @ Penn's Peak in Jim Thorpe
2008-02-07 - Queensryche and Don Dokken @ The Starland Ballroom in Sayreville
2008-03-28 - Big Noize @ The Crocodile Rock Cafe in Allentown (Met Band)
2008-04-04 - Asia @ The Wilkes Theater in Wilkes Barre
2008-04-06 - Symphony X @ The Trocadero in Philadelphia (Met Mike Lepond and Mike Portnoy)
2008-04-19 - Brain Damage @ The Phoenixville Theater in Phoenixville (Met Band)
2008-05-21 - Dream Theater, Three, and Opeth @ Terminal 5 in New York City
2008-05-22 - Dream Theater, Three, and Opeth @ Terminal 5 in New York City
2008-06-14 - Rush @ The Wachovia Center in Philadelphia
2008-06-17 - Iron Maiden @ Susquehanna Bank Centre in Camden
2008-06-20 - Fish and Synergy @ Zohlner Arts Center in Bethlehem
2008-06-21 - Liquid Tension Experiment, Peter Hammill, Discipline, and Koenji Hyakkei @ Zohlner Arts Center in Bethlehem
2008-06-22 - Echolyn @ Zohlner Arts Center in Bethlehem
2008-07-12 - Rush @ PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel
2008-08-02 - Odin's Court, Suspyre, Dark Empire, and Cypher Seer @ The Crocodile Rock Cafe in Allentown
2008-09-12 - Riversde and Pinnacle @ The NJ ProgHouse in Highland Park
2008-10-08 - Circle II Circle, Jon Oliva's Pain, and Necromance @ The Sterling Hotel in Allentown (Met Zak Stevens and Andy Lee)
2008-11-20 - Symphony X and Lazarus @ Mulcahy's in Wantagh
2009-02-14 - The Machine @ The Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City
2009-04-17 - Dredg @ The Cameleon Club in Lancaster
2009-04-25 - Brain Damage @ The Colonial Theater in Phoenixville (Met Band)
2009-05-14 - Queensryche @ The Starland Ballroom in Sayreville
2009-06-21 - Beardfish @ The Zoehllner Arts Center in Bethlehem
2009-07-10 - Lazarus and Over the Rainbow @ The Crocodile Rock Cafe in Allentown
2009-07-31 - Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa, Bigelf & Scale the Summit @ The Tower Theater in Upper Darby (Met Bigelf & Scale the Summit)
2009-08-01 - Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa, Queensryche, Bigelf & Scale the Summit @ Merriweather Post in Baltimore (Met Scale the Summit)
2009-08-02 - Yes and Asia @ Musikfest in Bethlehem
2009-08-07 - Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa, Bigelf & Scale the Summit @ The Convention Hall in Asbury Park (Met Jordan Rudess, Bigelf, & Scale the Summit)
2009-09-26 - Porcupine Tree and King's X @ The Electric Factory in Philadelphia
2009-10-18 - Agents of Mercy and Karmakanic @ The Crossroads Theater in New Brunswick (Met Bands)
2009-10-30 - Tesla @ Penn's Peak in Jim Thorpe (Caught Brian Wheat Pick)
2009-12-27 - Twelve Twenty-Four @ Zohlner Arts Center in Bethlehem (Met Band)
2010-02-21 - Kansas and Native Window @ Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg
2010-03-02 - Muse @ Wachovia Center in Philly
2010-03-26 - Pinnacle @ Dave Phillips in Allentown
2010-04-23 - Transatlantic @ Blender Theater in NYC
2010-04-24 - Transatlantic @ TLA in Philly (Met Pete Trewavas, Neal Morse and Daniel Gildenlow)
2010-04-30 - Pendragon and Mystery @ The Majestic Theater in Gettysburg (Met Both Bands)
2010-07-11 - Dream Theater and Iron Maiden @ The PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel
2010-07-12 - Dream Theater and Iron Maiden @ Madison Square Garden in NYC
2010-07-21 - Rush @ Susquehanna Bank Arts Center in Camden
2010-08-05 - Y&T @ The Sterling Hotel in Allentown
2010-08-31 - Rush @ The Allentown Fair in Allentown
2010-09-03 - Rush @ PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel
2010-09-05 - Shadow Gallery and Suspyre @ Barley Creek in Tannersville (Met Band)
2010-09-24 - Porcupine Tree @ Radio City Music Hall in NYC
2011-04-15 - Rush @ Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH
2011-05-19 - Dredg and The Dear Hunter @ Highline Ballroom in NYC
2011-05-20 - Blackfield and Anathema @ Irving Plaza in NYC
2011-05-23 - Neal Morse @ Gramercy Theater in NYC
2011-06-24 - Adrenaline Mob @ The Hiro Ballroom in NYC
2011-08-02 - Queensryche @ The Crocodile Rock Cafe in Allentown
2011-09-18 - Evergrey and Powerglove @ The Trocadero Theater in Philadelphia
2011-10-11 - Dream Theater and Trivium @ The MAYO Center in Morristown
2011-10-16 - Dream Theater and Periphany @ The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia
2011-11-25 - Enter the Haggis @ SteelStacks in Bethlehem
2012-05-04 - Karmakanic and Deexpus @ The Majestic Theater in Gettysburg
2012-05-15 - Beardfish @ Roxy & Dukes in Dunellen
2012-06-29 - Iron Maiden and Alice Cooper at Susquehana Bank Arts Center in Camden
2012-07-14 - Dream Theater and King Crimson Projekt at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel
2012-09-06 - Flying Colors and Jolly at Best Buy Theater in NYC
2012-09-07 - Rush at Verizon Wireless in Manchester
2012-10-12 - Rush at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia
2013-03-09 - Queensryche at Penn's Peak in Jim Thorpe
2013-04-28 - Shadow Gallery at Riverside in Easton
2013-05-03 - The Flower Kings at The Majestic Theater in Gettysburg
2013-05-04 - Jolly, Pain of Salvation, Believe and Riverside at the Majestic Theater in Gettysburg
2013-05-05 - Dream the Electric Sheep and Shadow Gallery at the Majestic Theater in Gettysburg
2013-05-07 - Rush at 1st Mariner Pavillion in Baltimore
2013-06-21 - Rush at the Giant Center in Hershey
2013-10-20 - Coheed & Cambria at the Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg
2013-11-27 - Fates Warning at Reverb in Reading
2014-02-08 - Transatlantic at Keswick Theater in Glenside
2014-02-18 - Transatlantic, Anathema, Devin Townsend Project, and The Dear Hunter on Progressive Nation at Sea
2014-02-19 - Eumeria, Haken, Beardfish, Bad Salad, Riverside, Anneke van Giersbergen, Spock's Beard, and The Flower Kings on Progressive Nation at Sea
2014-02-20 - Animals as Leaders, Anneke van Giersbergen, Beardfish and The Dear Hunter on Progressive Nation at Sea
2014-02-21 - PSMS, Haken, Thank You Scientist, Riverside and Transatlantic on Progressive Nation at Sea
2014-03-25 - Dream Theater at Boston Opera House in Boston
2014-03-27 - Dream Theater at Tower Theater in Upper Darby
2014-04-18 - Outside the Wall at Fearless Fire Co in Allentown
2014-04-25 - Tesla at SBEC in Bethlehem
2015-04-18 - Outside the Wall at Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg
2015-04-19 - Izz and Lo-Fi Resistance at Roxy & Duke's in Dunellen
2015-04-30 - Haken and Next to None at Webster Hall in NYC
2015-05-01 - Spock's Beard and Heliopolis at Majestic Theater in Gettysburg
2015-05-02 - Haken, Abel Ganz, Sonus Umbra, and Strattman at Majestic Theater in Gettysburg
2015-05-03 - Enchant, Glass Hammer, Synaesthesa, and Lo-Fi Resistance at Majestic Theater in Gettysburg
2015-05-05 - Enchant and Odin's Court at Roxy & Duke's in Dunellen
2015-05-06 - Enchant, Odin's Court, and MindMaze at Fish Head Cantina in Halethorpe
2015-05-28 - Steven Wilson at Keswick Theater in Glenside
2015-06-25 - Rush at Wells-Fargo Center in Philadelphia
2015-06-27 - Rush at Prudential Center in Newark
2015-07-25 - Rush at MGM Grand in Las Vegas
2015-07-27 - Rush at US Airways Center in Phoenix
2015-07-05 - Evergrey, Voyager, and Borealis at Baltimore Soundstage in Baltimore
2015-07-16 - Riverside and The Sixxis at Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick
2015-11-15 - Lifesigns and Martin Barre at Magic Casino in Miami
2015-11-16 - Moon Safari, Neal Morse Band, Enchant, Barracuda Triangle, and Spock's Beard on Cruise to the Edge
2015-11-17 - Enchant, Airbag, Steve Rothery, Jolly, and Haken on Cruise to the Edge
2015-11-18 - Anglagard, Dave Kerzner, Spock's Beard, Marillion, Jolly, Saga, and IO Earth on Cruise to the Edge
2015-11-19 - Thank You Scientist, Nektar, Bad Dreams, Haken, and Anathema
2016-01-17 - Sonus Umbra and Might Could @ Roxy and Duke's in Dunellen
2016-03-05 - Steven Wilson @ Beacon Theater in New York City
2016-04-15 - Avantasia @ PlayStation Theater in New York City
2016-04-22 - Dream Theater @ Tower Theater in New York City
2016-05-19 - Tiles, IZZ, 3rDegree, and District 97 at Drom in New York City
2016-07-16 - Outside the Wall at Community Center in Tamaqua
2016-08-30 - Haken and Thank You Scientist at Iron Works in Buffalo
2016-08-31 - Haken, Thank You Scientist, and Astral Bell at Mod Club in Toronto
2016-09-01 - Haken and Thank You Scientist at Club Soda in Montreal
2016-09-02 - Haken and Thank You Scientist at Le Cercle in Quebec City
2016-09-03 - Haken and The Tea Club at Brighton Music Hall in Boston
2016-09-07 - Lord, Stream of Passion, and Spock's Beard at Center Stage in Atlanta
2016-09-08 - Ghost Ship Octavius, Pyramaze, Circus Maximus, and Blind Guardian at Center Stage in Atlanta
2016-09-09 - Ascendia, Vanishing Point, Freedom Call, The Gentle Storm, and Fates Warning at Center Stage in Atlanta
2016-09-10 - Savage Messiah, Serious Black, Green Carnation, Haken, and Devin Townsend at Center Stage in Atlanta
2016-10-05 - Dream Theater at Sands Event Center in Bethlehem
2016-11-19 Jolly and No More Pain at Venice Island in Philadelphia
2016-12-03 Thank You Scientist, The Tea Club, and In the Presence of Wolves at The Underground in Philadelphia
2017-02-06 - John Wesley, and John Lodge & the 10,000 Light Years Band at Ferg's Live in Tampa
2017-02-07 - Mike Portnoy's Shattered Fortress, Pain of Salvation, and Haken on Cruise to the Edge
2017-02-08 - District 97, The Neal Morse Band, Bad Dreams, and Yes on Cruise to the Edge
2017-02-09 - Spock's Beard, Frost*, The Neal Morse Band, Haken, and Anglagard on Cruise to the Edge
2017-02-10 - Spock's Beard, Steve Hackett, Frost*, Pain of Salvation, and Mike Portnoy's Shattered Fortress on Cruise to the Edge
2017-02-26 Pain of Salvation and Edensong at Webster Hall in NYC
2017-04-06 MindMaze at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville
2017-04-29 MindMaze at the Funhouse in Bethlehem
2017-05-05 - Kyros and Moon Safari at The Majestic Theater in Gettysburg
2017-05-06 - The Aaron Clift Experiment, Unified Past, and The Neal Morse Band at The Majestic Theater in Gettysburg
2017-05-07 The Fierce & the Dead, Evership, Edensong, and Anglagard at The Majestic Theater in Gettysburg
2017-05-10 Coheed and Cambria and The Dear Hunter at the Fillmore in Philadelphia
2017-05-11 Edge of Reality and Kyros at Maxicali Live in Teaneck
2017-06-02 3rDegree, Advent Horizon, and No More Pain at Pub Webb in Philadelphia
2017-06-04 Iron Maiden and Ghost at the Wells-Fargo Center in Philadelphia
2017-06-18 - Fates Warning and Infinite Spectrum at Mexicali Live in Teaneck
2017-06-28 Fates Warning and Infinite Spectrum at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville