1981-11-07 The Rolling Stones

Brendan Byrne Arena, The Meadowlands

This was an incredible Saturday night show. There are some familiar clips of video online from this big show. We were a little puzzled, at the time, by "20 flight rock" and another song we had not heard before. The following month the Stones played the famous show in Virginia that was broadcast and documented in a video. A cassette of that show recorded off the radio was soon obtained by a buddy in Ithaca and was circulated - that one is a classic and provided many great listens.

1995-10-06 R.E.M.

Meadowlands Arena

This was part of the Monster album tour, although the album had been out for awhile. Concerts given by R.E.M. in the mid 1990s were incredible and legendary. Friends of mine saw them more times than I did and I got the raves from them about some of the shows. At this show I remember Mike Mills wearing a "Nudie" suit (a rhinestone-studded bodysuit designed by Nudie Cohen, similar to those worn by Elvis Presley and which were also at times worn on stage by Jerry Garcia and by Keith Richards).