A Sea Of Red

Hmmmm...Larry Norman came to EC Glass (didn't go...didn't have a car) in 78 or 79 and word got around that if you were caught there...automatic weekend campus. Saw Pat Terry at Heritage HS (during his Mark Heard produced days), a bunch of us went to Va Beach to see Danial Amos and Randy Stonehill in April of 82. Great show...and also saw Petra play on the 2nd floor of Randymac. Not bad for that sort of dinosaur rock...speaking of great shows...I was home in Richmond during a weekend in 1983 (my senior year) when I heard that a band that I had first learned of during the year I was out of school (80-81) was coming to Chrysler Hall in Norfolk, VA. U2 was on the War tour. I've seen them many times since and most likely my favorite band of all time and an argument can be made that U2 is the first praise / worship band to ever make it to the Rock n Roll hall of fame.

bbrothers224 wrote:automatic weekend campus.

ha, what is this? It's the first time I've ever heard of it.

a weekend campus was what was handed down for going against the Liberty Way. movies, concerts, pre-marital dating...all were worthy of a weekend campus.

bbrothers224 wrote:a weekend campus was what was handed down for going against the Liberty Way. movies, concerts, pre-marital dating...all were worthy of a weekend campus.

hahahahahahaha premarital dating! that's funny. let's not forget holding hands....

Did they just make you stay on campus all weekend? That's so funny. Like campus is so horrible having to stay there is like getting a spanking.

Went to Van Halen in Roanoke. Im quite sure there were some Young Champions there. Someone made a sign that said something like "Van Halen rocks LU". The sign actually made it up on stage and when Sammy Hagar held it up we were thinking anyone that's here would be in as much trouble as us.

it wasn't that simple. you were confined to your room and couldn't go to anything but church. there were no tvs in the rooms back then...not sure if there are any now...and your RAs would check in on you to make sure you were in your room.

man, that's horrible.

bbrothers224 wrote:it wasn't that simple. you were confined to your room and couldn't go to anything but church. there were no tvs in the rooms back then...not sure if there are any now...and your RAs would check in on you to make sure you were in your room.

Yikes!

bucksweepjax wrote:Went to Van Halen in Roanoke. Im quite sure there were some Young Champions there. Someone made a sign that said something like "Van Halen rocks LU". The sign actually made it up on stage and when Sammy Hagar held it up we were thinking anyone that's here would be in as much trouble as us.

wow. impressive... i think. i think i would have been dying laughin if that would have happened to me. you go and do something like that, and then something crazy happens! haha

I was at the Van Hagar show in Greensboro on the same tour one night after Diamond Dave played the same venue. It was fun to contrat the two playing much of the same songs.

Working radio in Lynchburg I attended too many concerts to remember.

And yes those weekend campusing punichsments weren't much fun. But they disappeared when the fine system came into play.

I ran into an old friend of mine from my Liberty days a few weeks back...Don Doebler. He and his wife, Laura came over to Richmond to catch the Lost Dogs. Don just so happened to go to the same Daniel Amos / Randy Stonehill show in VA Beach back in April of 82. He and Laura also came over to Richmond to catch Daniel Amos and the Choir at the great Floodzone (may she rest in peace) back when I was involved in concert promotion back in 87....they even crashed at my apartment. Speaking of the Floodzone...I've seen many a memorible show there. Used to pay $5 on Wednesday nights to catch the Dave Matthews band in the early 90s. I ended up working security for the very last show there: Sixpence None the Richer in 98. Now it's some lame dance club called have a nice day cafe. It's awful. I haven't gone back in there since.

Top 2 would be Whitesnake at the Spectrum in Philly, and Robert Plant- believe I saw him in Holmdel (Jersey)

both in the late 80's, of course.

Honorable mention to Stevie Nicks, (Camden of all places) and CSN&Y at the Mann in Fairmount Park (West Philly)

van halen in 1984 and def leppard in 1988 both at the roanoke civic center. i did see U2 in hampton my freshman year at LU and that was my favorite ever.

Doug Oldham

Stryper at EC Glass

I was at the Def Leppard show, smoothie. Like I said, Z100 had me at a ton of shows.

yeah i got in trouble for going to that show. a big christian high school no no.

what year was your freshman year? I may have been at that U2 show as well. I've seen them everytime they've been to the Tidewater area. War tour in 83, Unforgettable Fire in 84, Joshua Tree in 87 (both nights) and Achtung Baby in 90. They have not been back to the Tidewater area since.

I would say that my all time favorites would be the Oak Ridge Boys and Johnny Cash. Both were well past there prime but a lot of classic stuff. That tenor on the Oaks was exceptional. I think his name was Bonsil. He could really sing as well as the bass (Sturgis). He gets way down.

Stevev wrote:I would say that my all time favorites would be the Oak Ridge Boys and Johnny Cash. Both were well past there prime but a lot of classic stuff. That tenor on the Oaks was exceptional. I think his name was Bonsil. He could really sing as well as the bass (Sturgis). He gets way down.

cancel the offer for the ride down to the 'burg.

none of that crap in my ride.

I here ya PA Medic. It's either that or Death Metal. My music preferences are a little unusual to say the least.

Stevev wrote:...and Johnny Cash. Both were well past there prime...

I call . There's no way Cash was past his prime in the 80's when he recorded the best work of his life in the 90's. You must have REALLY missed out. Johnny was just down. He certainly wasn't past anything.

I believe Cash's NEXT album WILL be a death metal compilation

PAmedic wrote:I believe Cash's NEXT album WILL be a death metal compilation

You got a problem with Cash or with death metal? Either one's going to cause a problem for you, bub.