1995-14th Annual Bob Marley Day Festival-Long Beach Arena

Went with Cathy. 

That's Ice T's autograph.  I met him in the lobby between acts.

Inner Circle, Steel Pulse, Ini Kamoze.  This was the night of Toasters and Dance Hall reggae.

My favourite!  I went to these shows for a number of reasons.  Probably not what you think.  I wanted to eat jerk chicken and fried plantains, buy some souvenirs and remember Bob.

These were my big purchase at the market place.  I had heard Jamaica had issued a stamp in Bob's honor and I really wanted to have one.  Luckily someone there had them! 

searching...

i may have mentioned that i can not locate my ticket stubs for the cure.  which is causing me considerable heartache.  so, i am going through boxes searching. 
i found a box today that held a treasure trove of ticket stubs!
i think i have mentioned that i was a big fan of the door's when i was a kid.  they were my first band.  but, when i tell someone that my first concert was for the doors, i am often met with a look of, "sure i believe you saw the doors." when they don't believe me at all.  so i opened a cigar box and found within ticket stubs for some amazing points in my young life.
there it is!  a stub from the doors playing the long beach arena on february 7, 1970.  a little googling will confirm if you still don't believe me.

 i found a ticket stub for a show i can't find any additional info on.  but, what was awesome was that led zepplin played the night before this show and jethro tull the day after!  so who knows who played this show!

this one is for elton john at the hollywood bowl 1973.  this was before tommy and a huge year for him.
daniel, goodbye yellow brick road.  this was an amazing show.  $4.50 for elton john at the hollywood bowl!

now some one off odd shows, three dog night and earth, wind and fire.  i remember steppenwolf and eric burdon and the animals at the three dog night show.  i do remember the performance of house of the rising sun by eric burdon.

now some sports tickets.  i loved the lakers from early on.  the stubs here are when the lakers had jerry west and wilt chamberlin playing for them.  i also remember that one of the games i went to was against the milwaukee bucks and they had just acquired a ucla grad named lew alcindor who we know later became kareem abdul-jabbar!  i saw some great players from those days, pistol pete maravich being one of my favourites!  i am adding one of my most prized give away treasures, the der wienerschnitzel tribute to the longest winning streak. classy!

the scan cut off the some of the names.  if you want to know who they are email me!!

my parents were gamblers.  not anything big and we never lost our possessions or anything but they spent a lot of time at the race track betting on horses and going to las vegas.   i sat in many las vegas casino lobbies watching the interesting people walk through.  the sands, the dunes, the stardust.  i remember them all.  it was a very glamorous time for las vegas.  i knew that drive from long beach to las vegas like the back of my hand!  i could pick a winning horse, daily double and trifecta by the time i was ten.  i knew jockeys and kept a recipe box with horse stats on index cards.  i knew the paddocks at hollywood park, los alamitos and santa anita.  i could read track conditions and won more than a few dollars for my parents!  i also loved the roller derby.  the los angeles t-birds played the long beach arena usually on friday's.  i always pulled for the opposing team.  never the t-birds.  i felt sorry for them.  no hometown fans there to pull for them.  only boos from the t-bird fans.  my little contribution to the sport!!

check out the prices for these laker games!

and some roller derby stubs...

now if only i could find my bob marley ticket stubs, i have the terrible photos i took though..
and the search continues for the cure...
 

1993 - Bob Marley Day - Long Beach Arena

Went to a few of these.  Loved the music, the food and shopping.

I felt like I was reconnecting spiritually a these shows.  They brought back a time in my life.

Don't remember who played or who I went with.  I know that they have different types of 

music on different days so this day had to be something I really wanted to see.  Maybe dancehall!   

1991 - 10th Annual Bob Marley Day – L.B. Arena

Don’t remember who was the headliner at this show, I think it was Maxi Priest.  I went to these festivals because I missed the Bahamas.  I lived there for a while and I missed the food and the music and the culture.  This festival brought a little of that back to me.  I also liked the presentations that Roger Steffens did to keep Bob’s memory alive.  Roger Steffens is a treasure.  I wish I still had all the tapes I got from the fund raising drives they had during the radio show he did called Reggae Beat.  It was one of the best showcases for reggae music ever.  I always felt these shows grounded me in a way, like a religious retreat. 

1989 - The Cult - Long Beach Arena

As the comments state below my memories are

from the show they did in 1987.  I do not have the

ticket stub from this show so I will leave the 

comments as is.  Thanks for the info anon!

New Year's Eve at Long Beach Arena.

Opening bands, Bonham, Dangerous Toys

and Guns and Roses.

Can you believe that? 

Guns and Roses opening for The Cult?

And what an odd set of opening bands for The Cult.

Is this a metal show?  Are The Cult a metal band?

I didn't think so.  They were a KROQ band.

It was an amazing show. 

Not necessarily for the music but for the

antics of the crowd and the bands.

Guns and Roses were really starting to take off and they

were playing to a metal crowd. 

Everyone has been watching their videos on MTV

and they are gonna be huge. 

Guess I don't have to tell you the crowd didn't

really want to see The Cult.

But they were in for a treat and they didn't even know it!

The Cult did their hits and Ian Astbury was

out there with his beautiful hair.

It was great till he decided to crowd surf

and someone stole his boots.

The Arena lights came on.  Police were called. 

And no one was leaving till he got his boots back!

One was thrown at him fairly quickly. 

The other took awhile to get back.

Ian strutted around the stage demanding that he get

his boots back and that he wouldn't

let anyone go till he did! 

It was epic!!!

Eventually it was found and given back. 

The band left the stage.

I don't remember if they came back or not. 

We eventually left to the usual Arena issue of

a rowdy crowd stirred up by the band

and a huge police presence. 

So the windows in the glass stairwells started being broken. 

(This happened a lot at shows.) 

The Arena has since learned to board up the windows

for concerts so this doesn't happen as much anymore.

Great memorable show.

Couldn't find any info on it online.  Shame really.

Hopefully one of you reading will have more to add!!