TixGirl's Kickin' Concerts & Live Music for the Masses

Yes, that's right! It's time to share your most cringe-inducing concert moments. You know, the ones that make you want to hang your head in shame, change your name, admit you don't got game. We bet you can beat the pants off our stories. Speaking of, that reminds me of this one outdoor show...

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• #71 Comment from rubyblondie 
  6/23/06 2:11 PM | Permalink

  In 1976 I went to the concert at Sun Devil stadium where the movie "A Star is Born" with Kris Kristofferson and Barbara Streisand was being filmed.  The line-up was very good -- Santana, Peter Frampton, Montrose... I forget who else.  We had to get there very early, about 5:30 a.m.  and we didn't eat any breakfast.  We proceeded to drink Southern Comfort out of the bottle on an empty stomach.  There was no food and the tuna salad sandwiches we brought were ruined because the oil soaked into the bread, so we had nothing to eat all day.  Plus, peope were passing out from the extreme heat and drugs they had done.  I remember the end of the concert, but the beginning is rather sketchy.  I was told later that I basically threw up on the guy sitting in front of me in the stands.  The highight of course was "Do You Feel Like I Do?" performed by Frampton since this was shortly after the "Frampton Comes Alive" album had been released.  
  
  Good times!
• #70 Comment from blueblueandblew 
  5/28/06 8:38 PM | Permalink

  I got so wasted before a Led Zeppelin coverband in Denver. My friend told me to pick up this purse and I did. The owner of the purse came and got it back, and threatend to kick my a$$. I passed out throughout the whole concert. After it was over the empolyees had to keep me inside until my friends dad came to pick us up, because the girl and all her friends were waiting for me outside to beat me up.
• #69 Comment from triciamv 
  5/27/06 1:22 PM | Permalink

  In the early 70's just before going to a Grateful Dead concert I dreamed I fell asleep at the concert and missed the entire concert.  When I went to the concert the next day I indeed fell asleep and missed the whole thing.
• #68 Comment from mstobedoc 
  5/6/06 10:40 AM | Permalink

  Shirley, one of our group of high school girls, was using a port-a-potty at a concert out in the hills of Montana (yearly benefit for the U of Montana Library) when some rowdies tipped the port-a-john over -- with her inside.  
  She found clean, dry clothes (nothing like the cute outfit she had been wearing) but her long blonde hair had to be rinsed in beer-- poor girl, we were embarrassed to be with her.  She got really drunk so she wouldn't mind so much.
• #67 Comment from goodtrouble06 
  5/6/06 2:32 AM | Permalink

  Fast forward to February 14, 1985 REO SPEEDWAGON is back on tour and here they are coming with yet again SURVIVOR at the same venue in Portland, Maine. I had to see them, after all I have been through. I was first in line to get tickets, I got them. At 12Noon that day they went on sale WBLM Radio in Portland was giving away 4 chances to sing backup on ROLL WITH THE CHANGES on stage with REO SPEEDWAGON. The grand prize winner gets a complete library of all of their albums on vinyl, $100 Band Merchandise Credit, seats on the sideline of the stage itself, backstage passes to meet them and watch them set up and do a sound check, dinner for 2 and a limo ride to and from the show.  The Grand Prize was being given away the day before the show at the MAINE MALL. Only one of the four winners could win. I was standing there fingers crossed, and, YES, they called MY NAME. I was SO EXCITED. I was getting the red carpet treatment by REO SPEEDWAGON. I was in disbelief. Well, the limo picks us up and I got to do all that was mentioned. I met them, got to go on stage with them, sat on the sidelines, and WOW, do they play loud. To this very day in concert 2006 they play very, very load and still sound just as good as they did 20 years ago. I told the them what happened and they said that whenever they come to New England, I get tickets and passes for all that I went through. I got the "Secret Code Name" to ask for at the venue whenever I go to see them. I have never had to wait in line anymore for tickets, and always get to see them. Now, on my 55th show and still counting, I am an REO SPEEDWAGON Fan that has been through thick and thin with them. I have even collected so much REO Memoribilia that REO and VH1 asked me for items to be included on REO'S BEHIND THE MUSIC SPECIAL that aired in 2001. Life is Good!  THANKS