WED 21st May 1980: Warnors Theatre, Fresno, CA, USA. USA.
[SETLIST]
WTWCTD Intro,
When The Walls Came Tumbling Down,
It Could Be You,
Hello America,
Satellite,
Lady Strange (unreleased at the time),
Rock Brigade,
Answer To The Master,
It Don't Matter,
Rocks Off,
Wasted,
Ride Into The Sun.
[Show Notes] - Great early show. The band get a good response. The intro tape was the spoken (and cheesy) intro from the album. Interestingly they played Lady Strange - which must've been left off the debut album or written before this tour started.
Tour Story - by Joe Elliott (2000)
"Pat Travers was going through a bad cocaine period at the time and a little difficult to get to know. After the tour finished - you know, we had the usual pie fights on the last night of the tour and all - Pat was good to us. We always got a soundcheck, he didn't f*** with us, he didn't pull the power on us if we went down well, so he was alright. I had gotten on really well with Mars [Cowling], the bass player, a really nice guy, and with Tommy Aldridge. I got on really well with Mars and, when we got back to Florida in 1983, after we had gone ballistic with "Pyromania," we were headlining some arena, Travers came down with his girlfriend to say "Hello." He walked down to the dressing room and said, "Hi guys. I just wanted to come down and say Hi. This is my girlfriend. Introduce yourselves. I don't remember your names." Fair enough. I'm sure that I've done a similar thing where I've forgotten everyone's names, but I would at least have the sense to check a CD sleeve before I went to a gig. I wouldn't say something as throw-away as he did. But Mars came down to the hotel and, "Do you want to go out on my boat?" and off we went. It was a totally different kind of thing. And I like Pat Travers, I'm not knocking him."
[Recording] - "Fresno" - 1CD
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