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Aerosmith (5/19/1986)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page


Artist(s): Aerosmith w/ Ted Nugent
Date: 19 May 1986
Tickets: $16.00 (reserved seating and general admission)
Attendance: 7,200 (sellout)
Notes: The fourth Wings Stadium appearance for Aerosmith, the ninth for Ted Nugent.

Setlist (Aerosmith*): Rats in the Cellar, Mama Kin, Big Ten Inch Record, My Fist Your Face, Last Child, She’s on Fire, Walking the Dog, Sweet Emotion, Red House, Shela, Walk This Way, Let the Music Do the Talking, Toys in the Attic, Darkness, Dream On, Train Kept A-Rollin’.

Setlist (Ted Nugent*): Take Me Away, Just What the Doctor Ordered, Free-for-All, Hey Baby, Painkiller, Angry Young Man, Stormtroopin’, Snakeskin Cowboys, Weekend Warriors, Tied Up in Love, The Great White Buffalo, Savage Dancer, High Heels in Motion, Crazy Ladies, Little Miss Dangerous, Motor City Madhouse, Baby, Please Don’t Go. Encore: Stranglehold, Cat Scratch Fever, Wang Dang Sweet Poontang.

*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on reviewer’s comments and other performances around the same time (e.g., Saginaw, MI)

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 16 April 1986, (center) 15 May 1986, (right) 19 May 1986. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 May 1986. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 19 May 1986. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 20 May 1986. Kalamazoo Public Library

Sources

Articles

“Concert coming”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 16 April 1986, page 29

“Southern Michigan’s Ted Nugent…”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 15 May 1986, page 64

“Aerosmith between a rock and a hard place”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 May 1986, page 90

“Coming events”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 19 May 1986, page 1

“Michigan’s Ted Nugent has rocked for 20 years”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 19 May 1986, page 30

“Headliner Aerosmith overmatched by a still-energetic Ted Nugent”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 20 May 1986, page 25