Before I go to much farther, I need to tell you about a show that I was NOT in attendance. This had ripple effects for the next few years of concert attendance. In the summer of 1985, Bruce Springsteen announced that he was doing a summer stadium leg of the Born in the USA tour. My friends (Dave and Bobby Brown) and I chose the Ticket Tron at Macy's in the Annapolis Mall. We arrived about 8:00pm the evening before and got on the list. This was a bit of a cluster, but we didn't know better. This would be the first concert that we would all go to. This was the summer between Jr. and Sr. year in high school and should always be considered the best summer of your life.
We were around 150 or so on the list, and planned to stay the night in the parking lot. It was a lot of fun to be out all night with people of similar age trying for Bruce tickets. Around 7AM the next day my friend’s girlfriend, Cindy Navarre, stopped by to visit us on her way to work. She was a summer intern for a government agency which had a ticket center for employees only. She offered to try to get us tickets there.
After being up all night and essentially committed to getting tickets here, I told her we were good.
I should have let her get the tickets as we ended up being shut out. It's a sad story, but we didn't go to the show. My first concert was the following summer at RFK Dead/Dylan/Petty.
This taught me the lesson to let her get tickets when possible at a ticket outlet that is behind a government fence that only government employees can purchase tickets.
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