105.5 Triple M - KidFest: April 19 & 20 at Keva Sports Center

Favorite Madison Memories
Gary Wensing: My favorite concerts were some of the ones I saw at Camp Randall -- Genesis, U2 and Pink Floyd. That last one, we sat in last row of the lower deck. The air didn't circulate well there, so the smoke from those nearby fans kind of lingered all night -- and it wasn't cigarettes!! But my favorite MMM memory only started in Madison. You bused a bunch of us to Chicago on the Miller Lite Blind Date where we ended up seeing David Bowie. Free beer all day and night and a great show -- what more is there to life.

Joel Trempe: re:the Boss yes it's true. Days after releasing The River and being the first to grace the covers of Time and Newsweek in the same week this college boy get's tickets labeled "Obstructed View" to see the Boss @ DCC. Yes, we stopped the show with chants of "Bruce" - even got B and the Big man to strut saying " uh ha,we bad" (from Silver Streak) and the Boss got body passed from stage and through the crowd. We stood up and swayed with arms in air like an Elton John fantasy shot and lost our voices early. The memory indellibly stamped: Obstructed View = seats directly behind the stage. The second song of the show the band turned around and played Tenth Avenue Freeze Out to us with all spot lights blinding us. No way that 70 year old security gaurd was going to get me off the railing. BRUCE BRUCE

Mike Collins: Seeing The Doors at the Coliseum in the spring of 1968. Even tho the venue wasn't that great (although the Colisuem was only a few years old at that time), the show was awesome. Jim Morrison drank about 20 cans of the old 8 oz Malt Liquor and by the end of the show I thought he was going to take somebody's head off in the front row the way he was whipping the mike stand around!

Greg Morrison: Am enjoying "Madison Day". Did anyone contact Marsh Shapiro? Jefferson Airplane played at the Colisieum and Grace Slick, Paul Kanter showed up at the Gritty and jammed into the late morning. 1969?? I also remember a local band called Tayles that was a lot of fun in the early 70's. Great idea, keep up the good work.

Don Keller: All the great shows at Merlin's especially The Stray Cats in August when it was 90 degrees outside and 120 upstairs in "the cave". My friend and I met two girls and we danced so much that we were wringing wet!

Favorite Madison Non-Music Memory:
One of the first Halloween's on State street in 78 or 79. The crowds were huge but peaceful, and everyone had a good time without rioting and wrecking stuff.

Lenore Lambert: Rod Stewart at the Factory; the Tayles and Luther Allison at the Nitty Gritty; Bob and Genes; Mifflin Street (in general); in the late 60's and early 70's you felt that the city was everyone's; not the select upper income group and the Outdoor Movie theater.

Nick Matthews: Frampton comes alive tour at the Coliseum in 1976.During Do You Feel Like we do when the talk box solo climaxes and Frampton screams,YYEEEAAAHHH they turned all the houselights on exposing several thousand baked fans melted in their seats!! DUDE!!!

Favorite Madison Non-Music Memory: Getting arrested at the Michael Moore rally at the Union oct 04 for throwing lake Mendota water on obnoxious Bush backers.Then going to the Harmony and having people give me money for my legal defense.

Terry Chaudoir: All the concerts we saw at the Churchkey/Headliner complex in the early 80's and especially Merlyn's club on state st.

Favorite Madison Non-Music Memory: The Hotel Washington with it's combination of restaurants and music venues. My wife and I were the first couple to have a wedding reception in the Barbers closet in 1981. The staff was wonderful to us and it was a sad day when we could no longer go back to the bar on our anniversary each year.

Amy Wencel: "Cool at the Union" by Bill O'Brien is a perfect slice of life when I was an undergrad, wearin Cecil's sandals and everything

Favorite Madison Non-Music Memory: For me it was the first (and only) year I raced iceboats with the Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club (images at iceboat.org). I also enjoyed the lakes one year when the water on Mendota was so high huge chunks of bog broke off from the swamp near Skipper Bud's and terrorized various docks and beaches before breaking up.

Toni Sumner-Beebe: trying out for the UW marching band (and not making it, but I survived the whole week of tryouts!)

Favorite Madison Non-Music Memory: Ben Masel running for Gov. as a Republican in 1988 - seeing his poster on the construction wall of the Vet's museum on the square - the poster had a picture of him getting arrested and it said to vote for him as Gov. - He has nothing to hide...and he was butt naked in the picture!

Jeff Brikowski: It was the wizenhiemers 2nd show at o'cayz corral in 1992, we played first and it went very well. Cover charge was 3 bucks and at the end of the nite they said we made 4 bucks, and Scott said why don't you buy us a pack of smokes,(or beer)-hence The "Wizenhiemers play for Beer."

Favorite Madison Non-Music Memory: Kites on Ice when they had it on lake Monona.

Leslie Stephany: An enormous toga party at lot 60 (1978?). This was back when huge outrageous fun spontaneous things just seemed to happen. Madison was less civilized then. The creative bohemian antics of the UW Pail and Shovel party cemented Madison's reputation as one of the coolest places to be back then.

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