Guns N’ Roses with Skid Row at Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USA

Review:

Guns N’ Roses might have been the biggest rock band on the planet at the time. The show would have been even better had Use Your Illusion been released before the tour so we knew the new songs, but it was still a great show. Too bad there was no encore due to a curfew and Skid Row playing an encore delaying the start of Guns N’ Roses’s set. I have a video of the show and it’s outstanding.

Ticket stub:

Ticket stub

Skid Row:

Setlist:

Skid Row Setlist Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USA 1991, Slave to the Grind

Guns N’ Roses:

Setlist:

Guns N' Roses Setlist Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USA 1991, Use Your Illusion

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Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ with Egypt at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA, USA

Review:

I can’t remember whether I volunteered or I was volunteered, but I ended up helping pack up after the show, and at some point I had a snare drum head and a stick from drummer. It sparked a lifelong fandom of Kevn Kinney, and a firm decision to never be a roadie again.

Egypt:

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The Pet Shop Boys at The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Burbank, CA, USA

Review:

In 1991 I was in LA with my family on Spring Break, and we got tickets to the Tonight Show, hoping to get Johnny, but we got Jay Leno. I remember the Pet Shop Boys covering U2, but I didn’t realize that one of them had walked off stage in the middle of the song, and I didn’t remember Jim Carrey being there until I saw the clip (and how awkward it was to watch what Shelley Winters was saying next to my mom). From Literaly (Pet Shop Boys Fan club magazine): “During the first song (“Where The Streets …”) Chris noticed -watching a monitor showing the broadcast -that he hadn’t appeared on camera once and, understandably miffed, walked off during the song. The people from the TV show refused to re-shoot the song and so the Pet Shop Boys refused to play their second song.”

The Pet Shop Boys:

Setlist:

Pet Shop Boys Setlist The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Burbank, CA, USA 1991

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Pet Shop Boys
Jim Carrey Jay Leno

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Rush with Mr. Big at Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA, USA

Review:

I was living at college nearby in Ashland, so Richmond made more sense than Landover. I know Bert (fraternity brother and friend) went. Mr. Big was my favorite band that opened for Rush (they didn’t have openers after the 1994 tour).
According to Rush: Wandering the Face of the Earth, Playboy bunnies served refreshments during the show (The Presto album and tour featured rabbits).

Ticket stub:

Ticket stub

Mr. Big:

Setlist:

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Rush:

Setlist:

Rush Setlist Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA, USA 1990, Presto

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Rush with McAuley-Schenker Group at Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USA

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I could drive by this point, and I think this was the show I remember standing in line at Hecht’s to buy tickets from the Ticket Center there. Not good seats, unimpressive opener.
According to Rush: Wandering the Face of the Earth, Geddy had been suffering from laryngitis and they’d canceled a show two days earlier.

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McAuley-Schenker Group:

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Rush:

Setlist:

Rush Setlist Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USA 1987, Hold Your Fire

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Rush at Baltimore Arena, Baltimore, MD, USA

Review:

My friend Tamer returned the favor, driving to Baltimore in a white van with a busted speedometer. I remember having to piss in an alley after we parked more than I remember the show.
According to Rush: Wandering the Face of the Earth, Marillion was supposed to open but canceled.

Ticket stub:

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Rush:

Setlist:

Rush Setlist Baltimore Arena, Baltimore, MD, USA 1986, Power Windows

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Rush with Steve Morse Band at Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USA

Review:

The third and last show my dad attended (well, except for Beach Boys shows much later). I’d talked up his ticket getting power, but now he wasn’t first in line and buying more tickets, so we were not in the third row. Besides me and my dad, the only friend and classmate I remember going with us was Tamer (later drummer in emmet swimming). I was unfamiliar with the Steve Morse Band, but impressed, especially with Rod.
According to Rush: Wandering the Face of the Earth, Geddy & Alex “hooked arms and swung each other around in circles.”

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Ticket stub

Steve Morse Band:

Setlist:

Steve Morse Band Setlist Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USA 1985

Rush:

Setlist:

Rush Setlist Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USA 1985, Power Windows

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Kenny Loggins at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, USA

Review:

I don’t remember too much about this show. I know my dad took me, and I think we were on the lawn. All I know is I loved “Footloose” to death (my cassette of the soundtrack had one of the spools get out of place) and I was so happy when he played it (I had written out the lyrics so I could sing along).

Kenny Loggins:

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