Saw tons of acts at The Pier in Cameron Village Underground. Some I only have foggy recollection of. Partially due to time, traumatic brain injury, and maybe a little alcohol & substance abuse. Whatever doesn't kill us, makes us stronger. I should probably be able to bench press the house.
Saw Molly Hatchett and Blackfoot in Fayetteville (along with a couple thousand drunk Marines) on the way to Myrtle Beach where we saw Nantucket. Also saw them at the Wake Forest baseball field with Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels, & the Outlaws. I saw all those bands multiple many times lost count and haven't dug into the ticket stub box in a while. Same for the Allman Brothers. Around Raleigh, PKM was always a party. Saw them at the old racetrack at the fairgrounds behind Dorton Arena with a couple other bands that evade me right now. I went to the Switch & Longbranch some, but by then I was living in Pittsboro and didn't get to the big city much.
I was in Denver for about 18 months in 79/80. I saw The Who, Bob Seger, Rush, Heart, Sammy Hagar, REO, Styx, Chicago, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, and Santana at McNichols Arena where the Colorado Rockies played hockey (later became the N.J. Devils). Red Rocks is hard to beat for a music venue and I saw quite a few shows there too. Even made it up to Telluride for Bluegrass. I got to some Rockies games, though they weren't all that good and there's a good reason why they moved. Saw Gretzky hang a natural hat trick on them like he wasn't even trying. Don Cherry was the Rockies coach then and my Dad knew him from when he coached at Hershey, so I got in on free tix. Even got to a few Nuggets games when David Thompson played there. All that doesn't have anything to do with anything local, but it was fun and I guess it fits in the Whatever Grab Bag. So, there you go.
Jim