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i'v seen the guy's six times. the first time during the allied forces tour at the santa monica civic. saw them at the dust festival.(dam fools riding around in those mopeds)the rose bowl with journey great show. a day on the green again with journey in oaktown were i met my wife ,and the thunder seven tour la sports arena  and sport of kings tour long beach arena .got to meet the guy's at the long beach areana before and after the the show. all three were very cool. we got are programs and back stage passes signed at hung out with the band and there people for aboot 45 min. we got are passes from there sound guy harry wicks.i even got in a group picture standing next to gil,right before they snapped the picture i stood next to gil he looked  at me smiled with this look like who are you and we took the picture.also met rik when he played in reseda ca  5 years ago i asked him if he wanted to go down the street and get some tacos off the taco truck and he said no thanks i got to get up early tommarrow id like to go to the angels game.(they were playing the twins in the playoffs in anahiem)

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GO VIKES

I've seen TRIUMPH twice........1st time was Thunder Seven tour (2nd row middle front floor seats), incredible, I almost caught one of Rik's picks! 2nd was of course Sport Of Kings tour. Great experience both times. Hoping the 3rd will be in 2009!!

FIGHTER

Sad to say 0.

I became a fan a little to late when I was 13 and Sport of Kings came out. Simply, never had the opportunity to see them.

I saw Rik many, many times over the years and got a chance to meet him and get picture with him. Class guy!

Once...Sport of Kings tour (Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX).

Rik solo...twice (both at Poor David's Pub, Dallas, TX).

Twice.  1985 & 1987.  Both in the Cleveland, Ohio area (the now vacant Richfield Coliseum).  The '85 show was great - the big TRIUMPH lights!  I took a picture when those suckers lit up!  Seats were OK; about half way back, on the side, lower level.  It was a New Year's Eve show which made it kinda special.  I remember Rik played a little bit of "Auld Lang Syne" towards the end of the show.

I had fairly close floor seats at the '87 show but was blindsided by seeing Santers on stage when the show started.  (I had no idea!)   I must say, I'm a little disappointed hearing that they will probably bring an extra guitarist with them on these upcoming shows & possible 2009 tour.  I prefer Triumph as a raw 3-piece.

But if that's the way it's gonna be, then so be it.  I'll take a 4-piece reunited Triumph over no Triumph anyday.

- SCHRADE

 

11 times for me. I grew up in the Riverside area of Southern California, so plenty of opportunities as they played at least 2-3 venues that were pretty close to home for me and my crew:

--Just a Game tour at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
--Progressions of Power tour at Santa Monica Civic
--Allied Forces tour at Santa Monica Civic
--Allied Forces tour at Rose Bowl (w/Journey, BOC and Aldo Nova)
--Never Surrender tour in Tucson, AZ (local shows in LA area got cancelled because of contractual agreements with US Festival; I remember camping out for tickets at the box office the night before they went on sale at Long Beach Arena and a sign went up saying show had been cancelled. Bummer! But we road tripped to Tucson because that was closest city they could play in before US Festival as per the agreement)
--Never Surrender tour at US Festival
--Thunder Seven tour at LA Sports Arena (the night they were "live from LA" on radio nationwide; Gil was sick as a dog but gutted it out)
--Thunder Seven tour at Orange Pavillion in San Bernardino, CA...definitely not a great place to see a concert--just a big warehouse and the roof is really low, which kept the Triumph sign from being hoisted, but still they rocked
--Sport of Kings tour at Long Beach Arena
--Sport of Kings tour at San Diego Sports Arena
--Sport of Kings tour at Orange Pavillion

Looking forward to making it an even dozen at Rocklahoma and then hopefully more!

RnRMachine, I think you win the prize!  I got to see them once, on 'The Sport Of Kings' tour at the Philly Spectrum, which I recently heard, will soon be a thing of the past.  I've seen Rik three times.  Twice with Dave Dunlop, in AC and Philly.  And once, with a full band, in NYC.

Wow!......hard to top 11, but here goes....

1) 2/11/82 Civic Center - Lansing, MI warmup: Flyte

2) 5/27/84 American Rock Festival - Gobles, MI warmups: Ozzy, Night Ranger, Motley Crue, Ratt, Quiet Riot, Accept

3) 12/27/84 Civic Center - Lansing, MI warmup: Molly Hatchet

4) 10/8/86 Civic Center - Lansing, MI warmup: Bad Co (W/O Rik Emmett)

Hopefully number 5 will be Rocklahoma!!

Once: Never Surrender in Shreveport, La.

Well RNR Machine

I can't do 11 (yet).

Allied Forces 1982 Rose Bowl

Never Surrender 1983 Orange Pavillion San Berdoo (yes front row, crushed as GA pushed forward thought I was gonna die)

Never Surrender 1983 US Festival (I didn't know the reason was contractual the cancellation of the Long Beach arena show)

Thunder Seven Tour 1985 Orange Pav, San Diego, LA sports Arena.

Sport of Kings Tour 1987 San Diego, Long Beach Arena, Orange Pav.

Edge of Excess 1993 Balloon Fest El Paso TX

Rocklahoma ( I hope 2008)

Hank 

 

 

 

 

 

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Twelve times.

Allied Forces: Buffalo, NY (Aud), Rochester NY( Auditorium Theatre), Syracuse NY (Landmark Theatre)

Never Surrender: Buffalo Aud, Rochester War Memorial, Syracuse, Onondaga County War Memorial

Thunder Seven: Buffalo Aud, Rochester War Memorial, Syracuse Onondaga County War Memorial

Sport of Kings: Buffalo Aud, Syracuse, Onondaga County War Memorial, Binghamton NY, Broome County War Memorial. In Binghamton they couldn't use Pyro.

 

Once: April 14, 1985 in Halifax. Had pretty good seats (blue line at the "stage" end, about 7-10 rows up off the floor). Very memorable evening.  

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The time has come to face the music again...Back them up against the wall and bring the hammer down...

thunderdawg:

Once: April 14, 1985 in Halifax. Had pretty good seats (blue line at the "stage" end, about 7-10 rows up off the floor). Very memorable evening.  

we were at the same show...it was beyond fantastic, as a young fan seeing 'their band' for the 1st time was all i could ever imagine and more. i was 3rd row, 2nd seat in from centre, staring straight at mid-neck of rik's guitar...got a pick, and rode the wave for weeks

seen them on the sok tour the following year at the metro centre (when the 'night of triumph' concert was filmed) and although very good, not quite at the same level as the t7 show  

 

 

11 Times:

1980:

May 11th, 1980 - Mansfield, MA - Great Woods Performing Arts Center(Tweeter Center)

1981:

September 30 - Cleveland, OH  -  Richfield Coliseum

1982

July 10 - Orlando, FL - Tangerine Bowl

1983

April 20 - Worcester, MA - Worcester Centrum
May 07 - Worcester, MA - Worcester Centrum
May 28 - Orlando, FL - Tangerine Bowl

1985

January 17 - Lakeland, FL - Lakeland Civic Center Arena
March 29 - Worcester, MA - Worcester Centrum
April   20 - Worcester, MA - Worcester Centrum

1986

November  1 - Worcester, MA - Worcester Centrum
December  7 - Lakeland, FL - Lakeland Civic Center Arena


Rik:

June 27, 1996 - Cleveland, Ohio - The Odeon
April 26, 1998 - Cleveland, Ohio - The Odeon
April 29, 1999 - Cleveland, Ohio - The Odeon
May 15, 1999 - Worcester MA - Worcester Polytecnic Institute
Aug 10, 2002 - Fall River, MA


Italic show was: Had a chance but fell ill so did not go.

Hi Ashley

Why did they play Wooster multiple times on the same tours but not back to back dates ?
 I have seen some other cities/tours that they did that.

Do you know ? 

Back to the Never Surrender Tour, they played in San Berdoo in Feb and planned to come back in Mar/Apl(cancelled Long Beach because of US fest contract ? Does anybody know more about that, I was really bummed because that would have been the first big arena show wFoghat)

??????????????

 It seems like it would cost less to play the cities in the same area all at once.

Hank

 

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