Date
Band
Tour
Venue Sept. 24, 1980 AC/DC w/ Gamma Back in Black Market Square Arena, Indianapolis featuring Ronnie Montrose March, 1981 Triumph with Allied Forces Market Square Arena, Inianapolis Point Plank Nov. 11, 1981 Foreigner Four Market Square Arena, Indianapolis with Billy Squire Don't Say No Nov. 28, 1981 AC/DC For Those About to Rock Market Square Arean, Indianapolis Midnight Flyer May 19, 1982 Journey with Escape Market Square Arena, Indianapolis Greg Kihn Band Nov. 1, 1982 Rush Signals Market Square Arena, Inianapolis Rory Gallager Dec. 4, 1982 Aerosmith Rock & a Hard Place Market Square Arena, Inianapolis Pat Travers & Rose Tatoo Dec. 14, 1982 Judas Priest Screaming for vengance Market Square Arena, Indianapolis with Uriah Heep April, 2 1983 Billy Squire with Emotions in Motion Market Square Arena, Indianapolis Def Leopard Pyromania June 1, 1983 Journey Frontiers Market Square Arena, Indianapolis Bryan Adams July 5, 1984 Van Halen 1984 Market Square Arena, Indianapolis July 14, 1983 Foghat, Krokus Headhunter (Krokus) Market Square Arena, Indianapolis and Gary Moore In the mood for some- thing rude (Foghat) July 25, 1983 The Police with Sychronicity Market Square Arena, Indianapolis Joan Jett Aug. 7, 1983 Iron Maiden Piece of Mind Market Square Arena, Indianapolis Whitesnake and Fastway Nov. 3, 1983 AC/DC Flick of the Switch Market Square Arena, Indianapolis Nov. 13, 1983 Quiet Riot Metal Health Market Square Arena, Indianapolis w/Nazareth Dec. 16, 1983 Blue Oyster Cult Revolution by night Indianapolis Convention Center Aldo Nova and Subject Dokken Breaking the Chains Feb. 4, 1984 Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the moon Market Square Arena, Inianapolis & Motley Crue Shout @ the Devil March 31, 1984 Petra Not of this world Market Square Arena, Indianapolis April 12, 1984 YES 90125 Market Square Arena, Indianapolis April 22, 1984 Ted Nugent Penetrator Market Square Arena, Indianapolis June 22, 1984 Scorpians & Love @ First Sting Market Square Areana, Indianapolis Bon Jovi July 10, 1984 Judas Priest Defenders of the faith Market Square Arena, Indianapolis w/Kick Axe Oct. 17, 1984 Sammy Hagar VOA Market Square Arena, Indianapolis Feb. 16, 1984 Kiss Lick it up Market Square Arena, Indianapolis with Queensryche Dec. 2, 1984 Kiss with Guffria Animalize Market Square Arena, Inianapolis and Vandenburg Jan. 22, 1985 Ronnie James Dio Holy Diver Market Square Arena, Indianapolis with Rough Cutt Jan. 30, 1985 Armored Saint 1st Wasp Album Sherwood Country Club, Indianapolis WASP & Metalica Ride the Lightening March 13, 1985 Deep Purple Perfect Strangers Market Square Arena, Indianapolis with Guffria May 1, 1985 George Thorogood ??? Indianapolis Convention Center May 24, 1985 Triumph Spellbound Market Square Arena, Indianapolis July 19, 1985 Ratt Invasion of your privacy Market Square Arena, Indianapolis w/ Bon Jovi Sept. 6, 1985 Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA Hoosier (RCA) Dome, Indianapolis Sept. 22, 1985 Motley Crue Theatre of Pain Market Square Arena, Indianapolis with Y&T Sept. 27, 1985 AC/DC Fly on the wall Market Square Arena, Indianapolis w/ Yngwie Malmsteen Oct. 24, 1985 Ronnie James Dio The last in line Market Square Arena, Indianapolis Dokken Tooth & Nail Dec. 15, 1985 John Cougar Mellencamp Scarecrow Market Square Arena, Indianapolis Jan. 16, 1986 Kiss Asylum Market Square Arena, Indianapolis with WASP Feb. 10, 1986 Heart HEART Market Square Arena, Indianapolis w/ Autograph March 23, 1986 Kiss Asylum Indiana State University, Terre Haute King Cobra March 25, 1986 Kiss Asylum Roberts Stadium, Evansville April, 1986 Ozzy Osboune The Ultimate Sin Market Square Arena, Indianapolis with Metalica Master of Pupets May 30, 1986 Stevie Nicks Wild Heart Indy Sports/Music Center & Peter Frampton Sept. 5, 1986 AC/DC w/ Queensryche Who Made Who Market Square Arena, Indianapolis and Rage for Order Sept. 26, 1986 Journey & Raised on radio Market Square Arena, Indianapolis Glass Tiger Dec. 7, 1989 Degarmo & Key ??? Ritz Music Hall, Indianapolis w/ DC Talk Sept. 21, 1990 Mylon & Broken Heart ??? Taylor University, Taylor, IN with The Newsboys April 25, 1992 Charlie Peacock with ??? Some Church in Indy Out of the Grey Sept. 13, 1994 Steven Curtis Chapman Dancing with the Dinosaur Knoxville Civic Coliseum & The News Boys Shine March 20, 1995 Twila Paris with Beyond a Dream Memorial Auditorium, Chattanooga Phil Keaggy Summer, 1999 Geoff Moore and Farewell Tour Russell Christian Church, Russell, KY The Distance June 19, 2003 Journey, REO & Styx "Arena Rock Tour" Conseco Field House, Indianapolis Oct. 21, 2003 Stryper Reunion House of Blues, Chicago March 1, 2007 Newsboys with GO Jaffa Shrine, Altoona, PA Stellar Cart & Kutless April 9, 2007 Flyleaf with Flyleaf Chambersburg High School, Chambersburg, PA Dropping Daylight Fare to Midland and Skillet July 3 &4, 2009 Inner-Seige, Bloodline Severed CORNERSTONE FESTIVAL 2009, Bushnell, IL Faith Factor, and a several other great bands! Aug. 14, 2009 Night Ranger Hole in the Sun Altoona Railroader's Memorial, Altoona, PA Flight 19 Aug. 29, 2009 38 Special Altoona Railroader's Memorial, Altoona, PA Half Tempted Oct. 1, 2009 Stryper Murder by Pride Palace Theatre, Greensburg, PA Manic Drive Other Bands/Shows I remember attending, but don't have a ticket stub for... Bloodgood at a theater in Indianapolis King Kobra warmed up for Kiss... Market Square Arena, Indy Triumph TWICE--on the "Never Surrender" & "Spellbound" @ Market Square Arena, Indy Mountain warmed up for Triumph one year Kiss 1982, Creatures of the night tour, Market Square Arena, Indy--Ace was supposed to be there, but he was in a car accident and Vinnie Vincent replaced him... we were all kind of freaked out and bummed by it... at first we thought it might be Ace... but the makeup was different... and it became obvious as the show went on that it was not Ace... still a cool show... we were in the front row for this one... on Gene's side. Coney Hatch warmed up for ???, Market Square Arena, Indy AWESOME BAND! if you have ANY OF THEIR STUFF LET ME KNOW!!!!! You can't find it anywhere... I would love to buy it or get a copy of it! REZ Band Muncie South High School, Muncie, IN mid 80s w/ Steve Taylor and "some band" opening. Joe English (ex--wings drummer) Ball State University, mid 80s 2nd Chpater Ball State University, mid 80s of Acts Michael Card East Side Church of God, Anderson, IN, early 90s Whitecross At a church in Indy, in the early 90s David Lee Roth On the "Eat em and smile" tour with Billy Sheehan & Steve Vai, mid 80's Market Square, Indy Fireworks Warner Auditorium, Anderson, Indiana (Marty McCall's old band... before FIRST CALL) Michael W. Smith Secret Ambition tour, early 1990s, Reardon Auditorium, Anderson University Petra Early 90s, Reardon Auditorium, Anderson University Petra I was blessed to see Petra numerous times--On the "Not of this world tour" with Greg X Volks (or however he spells his name) on volcals... And and then a couple times with John Schlit... Once at Andersone University and at the Indy Convention Center. Carman In Pittsburgh, PA, mid 90s Sandi Patty A few times in various places around Anderson. Billy Squire This was Ratt's "Out of the Cellar" tour in the early 80s, Market Square Arena with Ratt Amy Grant with Lead Me On tour, late 80s, Market Square Arena, Indy Michael W. Smith Nouvehux & were a warm up bands for Michael Sweet... but Michael had a sore throat--so they just jammed Imagine This for a couple of hours with the house lights on... they just sort of hung out... it was a very cool night. Knoxville, TN, 1994 First Call Anderson University, late 80s... Feedback A local Anderson Band... caught 'em out at the Roll Arena in Anderson--mid 80s... Man, Marty Wilson sure could play guitar! Blue Oyster Cult Early 80s... the Witford St. James band was some band Brad Witford (Aerosmith) put with Witford St. James together while he was separated from Aerosmith... Market Square Arena, Indianapolis Nazareth warmed up for ???, mid 80s, Market Square Arena, Indy... Rich Mullins Rich was close friends with some of my family... I was blessed to see him perform and to hang with him somewhere around 20-25 times. Awesome guy. A-180 This was Audio Adrenaline BEFORE they were signed. They play in some big room in the Indy conventions center at the Indiana State Youth Convention in the early 90s... and they were horrible! When they go signed... somebody must have worked with tme big time... I saw them later as Audio Adrenaline... they were worlds better!!! AC/DC On the "Flick of the Switch" tour... forget the date? At Market Square in Indy. Super Trooper Opened, I think for Ted Nugent at Market Square Areana in the mid 80s Charlie Peacock This was a very cool show! Charlie, of course, was great. But Out of the Grey really impressed w/ Out of the Grey me! They were brand new at the time... and it was just the two of them. I forget their names. Anyway, it was just "him" on his accoustic and "her" on vocals... one of the coolest and most intimate shows I ever saw. Bands I remeber seeing at an outdoor Christian Music Fest. in Knoxville, TN. Phillips, Craig and Dean Out of the Grey David and the giants Bands/Artists I remember seeing at CREATION FESTIVAL in 1996 & 1997 in Union, PA Newsboys Steve Taylor Steven Curtis Chapman Audio Adrenaline Rich Mullins DC Talk Jars of Clay Point of Grace Out of Eden Carolyn Arends Rebecca St. James Five Iron Frenzy Geoff More and the Distance Carman Michael W. Smith Six Pence none the richer Gardian And a bunch more that I just can't remember... CREATION is a very cool, 4 day, outdoor music and preaching festival... I was really blessed by it both years that I was able to go... I also got to hear some awesome speakers like Tony Campolo, Josh McDowell, Lori Silarno, and others... very cool! |
Bands I've Seen Live Home Music/Downloads Book Pastor Brad Guitar Lessons Contact "Dude, I've seen so many great bands! Most of my concert experiences are from the 1980s. Back when metal was king. That's the music I fell in love with. Of course, today, as a follower of Jesus--I have mixed emotions about these concerts... but, over all, I know God works in everything for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose (Rom. 8:28). So, I share these experiences with joy... remembering the good times!" As I have time, I'll pop in here add shows and additional info... I can't remember all of the "warn up" bands... If you have any info about any of these shows, I.e. if remember who warmed up for AC/DC on the 1986 "Who Made Who" tour... Email me. |
