It was in the winter of 1987 that David Lee Roth brought his first solo act through Columbus.\u00a0 We missed seeing Van Halen in their\u00a0final tour \u2013 being unable to afford the million dollars for tickets to their smash hit tour for 1984<\/em>.\u00a0 The solo concert\u00a0wasn\u2019t the same, but it was something.\u00a0 We camped outside the old Buzzard\u2019s Nest music store waiting for tickets to go on sale the next morning,\u00a0complete with board games and plenty vittles for passing time until the doors opened.\u00a0 Folks even had a list all made up so we could all keep our place in line while staying warm and snug in our cars.\u00a0 <\/p>\n That is, until the family from Deliverance<\/em> came by and insisted they got there first.\u00a0 No amount of pleading with them would work \u2013 there was no list, it was first come first serve.\u00a0 We would have let them have the tickets and gone back to our cars just\u00a0to stay warm, but they refused to help by directing future patrons to our list.\u00a0 Eventually, everyone had to get out of their cars and hold their place.\u00a0 One of my best friends and I took turns.\u00a0 All thanks to folks who could only repeat, time after time when pressed, that they were \u2018here to see David Lee Roth!\u2019\u00a0 It reminded me of Woodcock\u2019s stubborn persistence in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; <\/em>though I felt he had more going for him than they did.\u00a0 Anyhow, here\u2019s a bit from the band in their heyday, when all was right with the world; a nice summer rock song for a cold, snowy day:<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was in the winter of 1987 that David Lee Roth brought his first solo act through Columbus.\u00a0 We missed seeing Van Halen in their\u00a0final tour \u2013 being unable to afford the million dollars for tickets to their smash hit tour for 1984.\u00a0 The solo concert\u00a0wasn\u2019t the same, but it was something.\u00a0 We camped outside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n