Taking over for Lonestar, who did a great job with his presentation of his Top 25 shows. I love how he included footage wherever possible, and I will be doing the same. Even if I wasn't a fan of some of his bands, I enjoyed the writeups and checking out the vids. I hope you all will do the same here.
I'll start the countdown in earnest tomorrow, but I'll list three Honorable Mentions tonight to kick things off.
Van Halen
AutographMarch 18, 1984
Providence Civic Center
Setlist:Unchained
Hot for Teacher
Drum Solo
On Fire
Runnin' With the Devil
Little Guitars
Cathedral
House of Pain
Bass Solo
Jamie's Cryin'
I'll Wait
Everybody Wants Some!!
Girl Gone Bad
1984
Jump
Guitar Solo
Oh, Pretty Woman
Panama
You Really Got Me
Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love
This was my third concert. I was 15. So a funny story about this, is that they played two nights in Providence. The 17th and the 18th. Turns out the future Lovely Mrs TAC, who was 20 at the time, went with her then boyfriend to the show on the 17th, while I attended the show on the 18th.
This was a great show. Here is the footage from Montreal a month later..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-90SPx6XfwoOperation Rock And Roll
Judas Priest
Alice Cooper
Motorhead
Dangerous Toys
Metal ChurchAugust 14, 1991
Great Woods, Mansfield, Ma
Setlists:Judas PriestHell Bent for Leather
Heading Out to the Highway
The Hellion
Electric Eye
All Guns Blazing
Metal Gods
Some Heads Are Gonna Roll
The Ripper
Night Crawler
A Touch of Evil
Painkiller
The Green Manalishi
Breaking the Law
Living After Midnight
You've Got Another Thing Comin'
Alice CooperUnder My Wheels
Trash
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Billion Dollar Babies
Love's a Loaded Gun
Bed of Nails
Play Video
I'm Eighteen
I Love the Dead / Devil's Food / Steven / Black Widow Jam
Sick Things
Feed My Frankenstein
Cold Ethyl
Only Women Bleed
Poison
Go to Hell
School's Out
Hey Stoopid
Elected
MotorheadI'll Be Your Sister
Traitor
I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care)
The One to Sing the Blues
Going to Brazil
Angel City
Love Me Forever
Killed by Death
Ace of Spades
Dangerous ToysSport'n a Woody
Sticks & Stones
Sugar, Leather & the Nail
Line 'em Up
Gimme No Lip
Scared
Teas'n, Pleas'n
Metal ChurchThe Human Factor
In Mourning
In Harm's Way
Fake Healer
Badlands
Start the Fire
Date With Poverty
I took a couple of pics of Motorhead, as these shows were the only times I saw Motorhead. This was the 1916 tour so I also got to see Phil Taylor, along with Wurzel and Phil Campbell.
I took a bunch of shots of Alice, but sadly none of his band. He had a great band with him on this tour..
Vinnie Moore
Stef Burns
Derek Sherinian
Greg Smith
Eric Singer
No idea why I didn't get any shots of Metal Church, but there weren't a ton of people in there yet for their set, and I didn't want to get busted.
I saw a JP headline show a few months before (possible in the countdown), but this was a more condensed setlist from them, and um...Alice blew them off the stage.
Oh, and I got a Dangerous Toys guitar pick...
I also saw this tour 5 days earlier at the Brendan Bryne Arena in New Jersey.
Perhaps some of you remember that ABC resurrected their In Concert series that summer, and included this tour for one of their shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyh82mIwT6UFlotsam & JetsamJuly 16, 1990
The Living Room, Providence
Setlist:Deviation
Hard on You
The Master Sleeps
6, Six, VI
She Took an Axe
Greed
E.M.T.E.K.
The Jones
Burned Device
No More Fun
No Place for Disgrace
October Thorns
Suffer the Masses
Dreams of Death
Scars
I saw a bunch of old F&J club shows back in the day. This show was in support of When The Storm Comes Down which is a Top 50 album for me. This show was a couple of months after I graduated college, and is responsible to my first hungover workday of my new full time job. Troy Gregory was still the bassist at this point before he jumped to Prong, but the two albums he made with F&J are still my two faves.
Here is a clip of Suffer The Masses from Toad's Place in New Haven a couple of months later..
https://youtu.be/UHy2As50OqY?t=103No Place For Disgrace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYncALRX8CU