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Local History

Boston (3/27/1979)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): Boston w/ Sammy Hagar
Date: 27 March 1979
Tour: “Don’t Look Back”
Tickets: $8.50 (general admission)
Attendance: 7,200
Notes: Sellout. Reviewer called it a “packed-like-sardines capacity crowd.” Second Wings Stadium appearance for Boston, the first of several for Sammy Hagar.
Setlist (Boston*): Rock & Roll Band, Shattered Images, Peace of Mind, Feelin’ Satisfied, Don’t Look Back, The Journey, More Than a Feeling, A Man I’ll Never Be, Smokin’, This Time, Foreplay/Long Time, Something About You, Party
Setlist (Sammy Hagar*): Turn Up the Music, Trans Am (Highway Wonderland), I Got the Fire, Rock Candy, Red, I’ve Done Everything for You, Young Girl Blues, Rock ‘n’ Roll Weekend, Rock the Nation, Bad Motor Scooter

*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on performances around the same time (Milwaukee, WI; Albuquerque, NM).

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 11 March 1979, (right) 18 March 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 25 March 1979, (center) 24 March 1979, (right) 25 March 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 28 March 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

 

Sources

Articles

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 11 March 1979, page 62

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 March 1979, page 47

“Sellout likely”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 24 March 1979, page 19

“Pop, folk, rock and jazz”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 March 1979, page 41

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 March 1979, page 47

“Boston here Tuesday”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 March 1979, page 47

“‘Hottest crowd on the tour’”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 28 March 1979, page 38 (C-11)

“Man arrested after concert at stadium”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 28 March 1979, page 19