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April Wine (10/3/1982)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page


Artist(s): April Wine w/ The Rockets
Date: 3 October 1982
Tickets: $9.75 (general admission and reserved seating) + 25¢ surcharge per ticket for parking
Attendance: 6,000
Notes: Originally scheduled for 17 August 1982. Group canceled nearly 30 dates on its tour to accommodate a schedule conflict. Original opening act Eddie Money canceled due to illness, replaced by The Rockets.
Setlist (April Wine*): Anything You Want, You Got It, Future Tense, Crash and Burn, Before the Dawn, Enough Is Enough, I Like to Rock, If You See Kay, Weeping Widow, All Over Town, Just Between You and Me, Rock N’ Roll Is a Vicious Game, Sign of the Gypsy Queen, 21st Century Schizoid Man, You Could’ve Been a Lady, Like a Lover, Like a Song, Roller, Oowatanite.

*based on reviewer’s comments and other shows around the same time (e.g., Milwaukee, WI)

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 16 July 1982, (right) 31 July 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top left) 25 September 1982, (bottom left) 3 October 1982, (right) 27 September 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 26 September 1982, (right) 3 October 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 4 October 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library

 

 

 

Sources

Articles

“Rock at Wings”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 16 July 1982, page 17

“Ted Nugent returning”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 31 July 1982, page 8

“Cancellations and more cancellations”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 September 1982, page 8

Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 26 September 1982, page 25

“Kalamazoo samples its first taste of April Wine Sunday at Wings”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 27 September 1982, page 30

“Pop, rock, folk and jazz
Kalamazoo Gazette, 3 October 1982, page 25

Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 3 October 1982, page 26

“April Wine puts out ‘vintage’ Wings show
Kalamazoo Gazette, 4 October 1982, page 29 (C-7)