I remember the beginning of this tour with REO Speedwagon. SOTE wasn’t released yet, but they were playing the title track off it. Kevin Cronin told everyone to keep Bun E.’s brother in our prayers.
I was at this show, and standing on the floor near the stage - loved this venue and saw them there every time I could. This show I'm 99% sure I was standing next to Karen W Z, standing there all alone just watching. Would love it if anyone could confirm she was there! If so, she saw me as a major fan girl for sure!
LOVE IT! I have enjoyed SOTE since it's release in 1985. My first Trick show was KISS/CT at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1979 (at 9 years of age, I unfortunately don't remember much of it at all), my second was at Cobo Arena in 1983 on the NPP tour with Aldo Nova opening and the third time was in 1985 at Pine Knob opening for REO. I didn't know Trick was opening for REO, we got got there a little late and I only saw like 5 songs. SSSOOO PISSED at that!! I love these opening sets from that year as I imagine what the full show must have been like. Thanks as always for kicking my week off on a positive note; can't wait to enjoy this show!
SOTE is without a doubt the most criminally neglected album in the entire CT canon! Wonderful tunes and peerless production by Jack Douglas. Gee, even Phil Spector himself would have been jealous of Douglas' own "wall of sound" that dominated "Tonight It's You," the greatest "lost" CT single ever. Unfortunately, the A&R folks at Epic were still on a Michael Jackson and Culture Club high and this LP never got a modicum of the promotion it deserved.
@@DashRiprock-su7nn EXACTLY, my friend! So glad Bun and Steve have not discounted this era. I wish they had done Cover Girl and This Time Around on this tour, but we all have tunes we wish bands would have performed live that they didn’t or weren’t able to, time-wise. More than happy to have the record to go back to time and time again, though!
Saw this show at Irvine Meadows in California. CT rocked. Can't tell you how many people walked out on Night Ranger. That 7 Wishes tour was some serious jump-the-shark poseur stuff!
I was at that show! Somewhere on You Tube is a recording of that show! What a great set from CT that night. They came through Southern CA later in the year and did a full headlining set at the Hollywood Palladium. I was at that one as well!
I didn't get to see this tour, there were a lot of good things happening on this album. Thanks for continuing to showcase the excellence Bun and Steve!
What a great show! I saw them on this tour in Pomona, California and it was awesome! Standing on the edge was such a great album. Thanks for this killer show!!!!!
@ 42:14--- 10/5/1985 Texans at the Ector County Coliseum head to the bar or contemplate heading for the exits... in 2024, Thank you for another great show to start our week! Loved and preferred the Standing on the Edge tour headlining show I saw Nov 27, 1985 (Hollywood, CA) over the CT Night Ranger show I saw Sept 25, 1985 (Irvine, CA)! More Cheap Trick, who always delivered. is obviously preferrable.
Never heard that half time feel at the end of the last verse of Surrender before. Another interesting period for the band. They always managed to bring it live....even when opening for whoever they were on the road with at the time.
Actually, Mark Radice, Magic Christian and Steve Walsh all played with them in 1985. I don’t know who played which leg; I can’t seem to find tour specifics detailing this on the interwebs.
