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.