felixcat67 said:

I remember these shows were announced on KSOL,the tickets went on sale that morning,and the show happened that same evening!! It was crazy! Fans had to scramble to get tickets,make arrangements,etc.I guess that's why he called it the "Hit and Run" tour,huh?

angel345 said:

No,the SOTT tour never made it to America,which is sad.I think it was one of Prince's best tours (based on the concert film).

felixcat67 said:

I didn't go to this show,but I remember my friend saying that she wanted a concert T-shirt from this tour.The reason? The shirt says "The Virgin Tour" on the back,and my friend was trying to make a statement....lol....she was a virgin at the time and wanted to show that it's a cool thing to be,lol.

Anyway....I wasn't really a big Madonna fan at that point.I became a huge fan later in the 80s.My first Madonna concert was the Blonde Ambition show at the Oakland Coliseum in May 1990.When I saw her,"Vogue" was the Number One song in America.I haven't missed a Bay Area Madonna concert since.

Does anyone remember how much fun it was to "camp out" for concert tickets? I have so many fond memories of doing this in the 80s and early 90s (before the Internet came along).

SoulAlive said:

I remember dialing over and over and over

and hearing horror stories about the first ones in line to camp out got assigned a number to a line up anyway!
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I don't have the stub, but the first concert I ever went to was America in 1974.

I saw Foreigner, too. I think that was in '75.

I keep forgetting to scan my stubs for this thread.

SoulAlive said:

It was brought to my attention, but I saw him in the flesh anyway. Maybe it was either Lovesexy or even Parade. Kinda wish I had the ticket. Thanks.

My first four shows:



Prince and The Revolution / Sheila E. - March 20th, 1985 - Uniondale, NY
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam / Full Force - July 16th, 1988 - Westbury, NY
Prince - October 28th, 1988 - Pittsburgh, PA
Janet Jackson - March 13th, 1990 - Pittsburgh, PA

I feel so uncool reading this thread
I think my oldest concert stub is from 1999

thekidsgirl said:

Wasn't that in 1983? That's fairly old.

thekidsgirl said:

What was it?

sextonseven said:

seeing TLC on their Fanmail tour when I was in eighth grade

Cloudbuster said:

In 1983, I wasn't listening to much music yet

sextonseven said:

Amazing.

MagnificentVoodoo said:

Of course I believe it... I saw them live 12 times... they are a kick ass live band... my oldest concert stub would be Europe in '89! LOL I might even scan it later on!

thekidsgirl said:

That's cool. You saw an artist that died way before her time.

Cinnie said:

The Prince and Janet stubs I initially kept in the programs I bought for those tours, but the Lisa Lisa one there wasn't any program for that show so I don't know how I held onto that stub the first few years. Now I keep all my stubs together in a huge stack.

noimageatall said:

Wow you saw Prince back then, that's very cool. My oldest one is Prince Frankfurt 1986 Parade tour.

sextonseven said:

Your Lovesexy ticket looks nothing like mine. Mine is the picture of the album cover and the ticket is pretty big for a ticket and has the shape of his body. It looks really cool.

Serious said:

I don't have any ticket stubs like that! They all look very generic.

sextonseven said:

I have quite some cool Prince tickets with pictures of him. I cannot find my Lovesexy ticket, but it looks like this:
http://images.google.at/i...n%26sa%3DN

Serious said:

American ticket stubs are cheap!

sextonseven said:

These days most tickets here don't look nice anymore either.

Serious said:

I hate when a show is will call only and I don't get a ticket stub.

sextonseven said:

I was so pissed when I had a nice ticket for a Prince show in Zürich and they took it away when we went in. If I would have known before I would have copied it to add it to my collection of all my Prince tickets/invitations. The only other ones I don't have anymore are to some aftershow gigs when there were no tickets.