Quite simple...me and a group of fellow rockers are hanging out sometime in 1978 at Sid's West Records, and the promo disc of (I think) "Eruption/Ya Really Got Me" got played. (Do not trust my memory on this, since I've pretty muck lost a least a third of it by now).

So, we get tickets (Yep, you could buy tickets for a gig at what were once called record stores, back then) to see these knuckleheads, but everybody with a brain in their head wanted to see Ronnie Montrose.

Well, these fire-pissers Van Halen burnt the stage within 30-40 minutes, Montrose flattened it (touring on his instrumental album Open Fire a bit later, leaving these losers called Journey to play to a quickly leaving audience.

Apr. 21, 1978 Sportatorium. Miami, FL Montrose, Van Halen... (and fucking Journey. )

Anyway, here is why we went to see Ronnie Montrose, and discovered Van Halen as well...



VH killed, Montrose was stunning...yet to this day, I have yet to run in to anyone claiming to have stuck around for Journey...