Today's t-shirts are from the time my friend Nerraw and I went to Spokane,Washington for the Monsters Of Rock tour in 1988 at Joe Albi Stadium holding about 30,000 people. We went on a tour package (Dash Tours I think), the package included transportation to and from the show,tickets and accomodations. There were 3 buses that left Edmonton early in the morning, little did we know that we were allowed to bring alchol on the bus. Well, we didn't have any, but once we made a pit stop in Calgary, that was at 10am by the time we got there, Nerraw and I belined it to a hotel and found a place selling off sales> we bought ourselves 2 flats each, that will keep us going. We thought we can't buy beer in the states as we were only 18 at the time, so this should do us good. By the time we got to Spokane, guess what, out of beer, ya we were lushes on this trip. We managed to find someone in Spokane to buy beer for us at the local convenience store. So off tot the races we were, lots of beer, but no smoke, that wasn't easy to find, so we just drank ourselves silly.
The show it self was awesome, the line up was Kingdome Come, Metallica, which was the main reason we went to this. This was before ...and Justice For All was released, Dokken,Scorpions and finally closing out the show was Van Halen, this was the first tour for them with new lead singer Sammy Hagar. And of course Metallica kicked ass, I think most of the crowd was there mainly for Metallica. It was a sweltering hot day with the temperature around plus 40 all day, it was an outdoors stadium, so trying to find shade was next to impossible. Saw more then a few people go down from the heat, it was a long hot day to say the least.
What a great trip this was and one I won't long forget. Good times!!!
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Thanks for the Blast from the Past. I went to this concert and had the same shirt as the top one. I was just telling my teenagers about how concerts used to be!
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