1. First concert with friends only (no parents!); I was 15
2. Friend smuggled his bong into the Capital Center
3. Could not find our car after show and circled the ENTIRE ARENA PARKING LOT

P.S. Last month I dug out my 1991 Kix shirt for a reunion show, and it still fits!

1. I learned that getting high, sucking some nitrous, and drinking copious amounts of beer in the sweltering sun of Soldier Field is NOT a good idea

2. The only song I remember from the entire concert is Shakedown Street

3. I was my 7th Dead show that spring/summer

@Joyce: It will be a cold day in hell when I accept an “I’m too old” answer from you.

@Xtopher: I lost my judas priest t’s in a fire, so most of the 80′s t’s are just a memory. That was the only one I had left.

@Sarge: NOOOOOooooo… 1978?? That’s 30 years! I hope you still have it.

The oldest concert t-shirt I currently own is an Iron Maiden “Somewhere In Time” shirt from 1985. You can practically read a newspaper through the thin black fabric. I did not actually attend that concert, however, and therefore cannot remember it.

I don’t believe I still have any shirts left from the time when I bought shirts at concerts (the 1980′s). Most everything I owned from that time is long gone.

I did buy a Motorhead Hammered Tour shirt about 5 (?) years ago when they opened up for Dio & Maiden. It may well be the only t-shirt I own that I personally bought at a Rock And Roll Concert. I screamed along to every Motorhead song, was amazed at the length of the drum solo they inserted into their tragically brief 35 minute time-slot, and went to the bar for the whole of Ronnie James’s set. I watched a bit of Maiden, but with the lights and motorcycles and smoke and giant demon puppets and Eddie and all the stagecraft thy throw into a show, it really mostly made me wish Lemmy had had a longer set. Maiden were good, sure, but I’m just not into all the “showmanship” stuff I guess.

Not to suck out on the participation, but I pretty much left behind everything I owned when I moved to Canada (minus my CD collection, guitars, and uh, personal items). Disqualified…there goes my tall drink of Metamucil!

@K: But you still have it?

@Pablo: In the 80′s I can guarantee that I was a pimply faced kid in the 80′s. I thin you met the results of being a pimply faced, four eyed kid.

@Sarah: I totally forgot about the face in the beans. What’s the oldest one you still have?

What I remember:

1. I totally did my hair all Flock of Seagulls style (they were also on the bill) and thought I was just sooo cool.

2. I remember the video for “Mexican Radio” being played between bands. Now every time I hear that song I think of sitting in the stands, watching the guy’s face popping out of a bowl of Spanish rice on the TV monitors. Sweet.

3. Leaving early after the Police did “Roxanne.” My dad was a bigger fan of not getting stuck in the parking lot than he was of Sting, I guess.

I think mine is 1988 as well. It was the Pink Floyd “Learning to Fly” tour. Giant stadium with one of my druggie friends. (Mine is a bootleg as well).

1) I intentionally bought drugs before the concert with the explicit intention of using them all at the concert.

2) My druggie buddy was buying every drug in site and smoking them or downing them immediately (reminded me of a article on Jim Morrison).

3) During the break a guy broke into the floor section of the concert. Security was chasing him, but one guy in the crowd caught him first and started beating the crap out of him.

4) Another one of the guys I was with starting pissing on the radiators of all the surrounding cars after the concert.

1) it was my first and only show at the Worcester Centrum

2) first time seeing someone smoking pot

3) I realized that Twisted Sister wasn’t very metal