Stubs: Bryan Adams 1985

I’ve been to a lot of concerts, and I saved most of my ticket stubs.  If you’re thinking that I missed out on some serious deals at Hardee’s and Wendy’s by hanging on to these things, you’d be right.  For this stub alone I could’ve had a Hamburger , Reg. Fries and a Coke for only $1.99 (after 8 pm) at Wendy’s.  Who knew?

Anyway, this is the first stub I still have.  As you can see, it is in pretty bad shape…but not too bad considering it is 24 years later!

This stub is from Bryan’s September 12, 1985 show at the good ol’ Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland on his Reckless tour.  Reckless was tremendously successful — hitting number one and spawning 6 top 20 hits: Run to You, Somebody, Heaven, Summer of ’69, One Night Love Affair, and It’s Only Love.  It also earned him 2 Grammy nominations.  Man, I STILL enjoy these songs!  Well, except Heaven.  My college band used to have a parody of that one called Cleveland (“I’m finding it hard to believe, we’re in Cleveland”).

So, in 1985 I was a wee teenager, and this was my second concert.  I don’t remember much about this show, except that Bryan came out for 4 encores!  He kept thanking us because DC was one of the first markets where his single Cuts Like A Knife took off.  At the last encore, they literally had run out of material to play!  He and the band huddled for a bit and then launched into Hound Dog. It was a fantastic show.

1985 was the year that music really became a pursuit for me.  Looking back, I think Live Aid (the Bob Geldof mega relief concert from earlier that year) was a major catalyst.  I videotaped it and watched it over and over again.  Bryan opened the Philadelphia Live Aid show.  Check out the Live Aid DVD for a trip down memory lane (but Led Zeppelin’s performance is conspicuously absent, and that’s probably not a bad thing — their performance was pretty sloppy).

Bryan was recently in town playing a solo show at the Warner Theatre.

One more note:  Take a look at that price!  $14.50 for FLOOR SEATS!?!?  Ah, the good ol’ days.

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