Marshall Of Rock

Another legendary concert I was lucky enough to attend was the 1985 Day On The Green concert at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California. Day On The Green concerts had been happening for many years in the Bay Area, and this one was the hardest rocking yet. The concert morphed into the stop for the "Monsters of Rock" tour in subsequent years, but we haven't had a true Day On The Green festival concert in California for many a year now---too bad.

The concert took place  Saturday August 31, 1985 and featured headliners The Scorpions, Ratt, Y&T, Metallica, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force and german rockers Victory. I went to the show with a bunch of high school buddies, as I had just graduated in 1984. We saw many more friends and fellow rockers who made the trek up to Oakland as well, as this way the concert of the summer!! The party was on!

I always wish I would have taken more pictures of my experience at these shows, but I found some footage on youtube (although none of Y&T, Scorpions or Ratt).
Victory

Although all the bands had exceptional sets (can't really remember Victory's set though), Metallica stole the show. With the legendary Cliff Burton on bass, the band was on top of their game, as it was all starting to come together for them. The crowd went fucking crazy for them, and they blew doors! They were already on their way, but after this show, Metallica took it to another level in their illustrious career! 

The 7th season of "That Metal Show" debuts tonight on VH1 Classic. Eddie Trunk, Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson host the only talk show about all things hard rock and heavy metal. Guests and premiere dates include the below, at 11 p.m. ET/PT:

March 19
-Kirk Hammett (Metallica)
-Uli Jon Roth (Scorpions)

March 26
-Ace Frehley (KISS, Frehley's Comet))
-Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big, David Lee Roth, Talas)

April 2
-David Coverdale (Whitesnake, Coverdael/Page, Deep Purple)
-Lita Ford (The Runaways)

April 9
-Chris Jericho (Fozzy, WWE wrestling champion)

-Yngwie Malmsteen (Alcatrazz, Steeler, Rising Force)

April 16
-Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, Duff McKagen's Loaded)
-Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Black Country Communion)

April 23
-Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses, The Cult)
-Cherie Currie (The Runaways)
-Jim Norton (comedian on "Opie And Anthony" and "The Howard Stern Show")

April 30
-Sebastian Bach (Skid Row)
-Anvil

May 7
-Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Ozzy Osbourne, King Kobra,  Beck Bogert Appice, Rod Stewart)
-Dave Meniketti (Y&T)

Distilling decades of your favorite hard rock and heavy metal into sixty minutes of mayhem; "That Metal Show" will deliver the ever-popular "Stump The Trunk" as well as the triumphant return of "TMS Top 5" to your TV every Saturday night at 11 p.m., only on VH1 Classic. Fans can also catch the complete season six and bonus clips at ThatMetalShow.VH1.com. New episodes of season seven will launch online every Monday morning following the show's on-air premiere.

"Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock And Heavy Metal", a new 240-page book from Eddie Trunk, the host of VH1 Classic's "That Metal Show" will be released April 1st.

Featuring a foreword by Judas Priest singer Rob Halford, the book covers Trunk's favorite bands with a brief overview of their career highlights, the albums and songs that Eddie considers important and why, and many personal recollections of his experiences with these bands over the course of his career.

Included in the book are Trunk's accounts of the following:

-The night Guns N' Roses frontman, Axl Rose, walked onto Eddie's radio show for his first public interview in 13 years
-What happened when Judas Priest played a private show for Eddie at his 25th anniversary in radio at the Hard Rock Café in Times Square
-How Eddie convinced Twisted Sister to get back together in 2001
-What it was like to get on stage with Ozzy Osbourne during his infamous tour with Motley Crue in 1984
-Eddie's longtime relationship with his close friend the late, great Ronnie James Dio
-Sharing cucumber sandwiches with Robert Plant in England
-Being one of the very first to play Metallica on the radio in 1983 and being flown by the band to their induction ceremony at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
-Drunken nights and Mongolian barbeque with Cheap Trick
-Interviewing famous recluse drummer Neil Peart from Rush
-Mediating a fight between Bret Michaels and his band Poison on air for VH1 Classic
-Joyriding in New Jersey with the guys from Skid Row and helping to choose the band's first single, "Youth Gone Wild"

The book also includes more of Eddie's audience-favorite "Stump the Trunk" anecdotes and trivia, as well as his favorite playlists.