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The 80s
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Blackfoot with Def Leppard: Notice the opening act...and what ever happened to the headliner?! |
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April 14, 1981: U2 @ Merlyn's in Downtown Madison. Merlyn's was on the upper end of state street, south side, above the record store. The setlist was:
- The Ocean
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- Touch
- An Cat Dubh
- Into the Heart
- Another Time
- Another Place
- The Cry
- The Electric Co.
- Things to Make And Do
- Stories for Boys
- Boy-Girl
- Out Of Control
- Twilight
- I Will Follow
- A Day Without Me
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Van Halen show in 1981 |
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April 24, 1982: R.E.M. @ Merlyn's. The setlist was:
- Gardening at Night
- 9-9
- Ages of You
- Shaking Through
- Laughing
- Romance
- Sitting Still
- Pretty Persuasion
- That Beat
- Catapult
- Radio Free Europe
- Wolves, Lower
- Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)
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1984: After Van Halen destroyed the entire top floor of the Sheraton Inn on their tour stop to Madison...the band paid the hotel and returned to Madtown on every tour until David Lee Roth left. They even credited the hotel in their "Thank Yous"! |
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1983: Quiet Riot...for $6 bucks... |
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1989: Soundgarden performed @ the ever-so-tiny O'Cayz Corral when they came to town. |
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1982: Ted Nugent @ the Dane County Coliseum |
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