Judas Priest (5/27/1986)
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Artist(s): Judas Priest w/ Armored SaintDate: 27 May 1986Tickets: $15.00 (reserved seating and general admission)Attendance: 6,700Notes: The fourth Wings Stadium appearance for Judas Priest, and the second Kalamazoo appearance for Armored Saint (the band’s first at Wings Stadium). The event was marred by a series of accidents after the concert. A pedestrian was killed by a hit-and-run driver on Sprinkle Road, while another concertgoer died and two were injured in a post-concert car crash near Colon. Three others from Grand Rapids were injured after the show in a car crash on US-131.
Setlist (Judas Priest*): Out in the Cold, Locked In, Heading Out to the Highway, Metal Gods, Breaking the Law, Love Bites, Some Heads Are Gonna Roll, The Sentinel, Private Property, Desert Plains, Rock You All Around the World, The Hellion, Electric Eye, Turbo Lover, Freewheel Burning, Victim of Changes, The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown). Encore: Living After Midnight, You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’, Hell Bent for Leather.
Setlist (Armored Saint*): Intro, Long Before I Die, Mutiny on the World, You’re Never Alone, Can U Deliver, Aftermath, Nervous Man, March of the Saint, Mad House.
*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on reviewer’s comments and other performances around the same time (e.g., Detroit, MI; Chicago, IL)
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Sources
Articles
“On sale” Kalamazoo Gazette , 30 April 1986, page 29
“Pop/rock/jazz/country” Kalamazoo Gazette , 25 May 1986, page 65
“High-riding Judas Priest takes a gamble with ‘Turbo’” Kalamazoo Gazette , 25 May 1986, page 70
“Hit-and-run driver sought in death of concertgoer’” Kalamazoo Gazette , 28 May 1986, page 1, 2
“Judas Priest rocks hard and heavy in sweaty Wings Stadium show” Kalamazoo Gazette , 28 May 1986, page 29
“Police cautious in hit-run investigation” Kalamazoo Gazette , 29 May 1986, page 13, 14 (B-1, B-2)
“Post-concert crash claims star athlete” Kalamazoo Gazette , 30 May 1986, page 9, 10 (B-1, B-2)
“Police find suspect in hit-run death” Kalamazoo Gazette , 31 May 1986, page 1
“A shameful waste” (letter to the editor) Kalamazoo Gazette , 8 June 1986, page 23
“Man accused of fatal hit-and-run” Kalamazoo Gazette , 12 June 1986, page 15, 16 (B-1, B-2)
“Hearing set June 25 in traffic death after concert” Kalamazoo Gazette , 17 June 1986, page 10
“Driver bound over for rock concert hit/run” Kalamazoo Gazette , 26 June 1986, page 11
“Prosecutor links alcohol to crash that killed Colon teen athlete” Kalamazoo Gazette , 27 June 1986, page 9
“Graduate to face circuit court trial in May traffic death” Kalamazoo Gazette , 25 July 1986, page 11