The astrodome

by houston oilers on Nov 2, 2009 8:42 AM CST Comment 11 comments

Hi guys im a long time houston oiler/tennessee titans fan from rochester, ny, im coming down for the monday night game for the first time in houston, to the city where my franchise started, jw if anbody knew if they did tours or anything in the astrodome, id love to be able to go in it when i come down there there.......anyways should be a fun one, ill be rockin my earl campbell in the 130 sections cya there

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Pretty sure they don’t do Astrodome tours anymore. I wouldn’t go in there, it might fall in on you or you might get attacked by a giant cockroach.

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by bullpen116 on Nov 2, 2009 1:07 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

true

The Dome had a horrible rat problem in the 80s. I can’t imagine how bad it is now.

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by bigfatdrunk on Nov 2, 2009 1:22 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't know

I mean, surely nobody left any nachos around on the floor when they turned off the lights……right?

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by Shake on Nov 2, 2009 4:18 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

The Astrodome is currently used to train our military for "Post-Apocalyptic Scenarios"...giant mutant bugs, "Mad Max" evil bikers and other assorted end of the world baddies.

I would avoid it like the plague.

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by TexansForever on Nov 2, 2009 4:20 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

They are going to film a movie

next one in the mad max series
“Mad Max in the Atrodome: When Katrina came to town”
the third one in the installment after the poorly reviewed
“Mad Max in the Superdome: After Katrina Blows”

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by Texans-Brocos on Nov 4, 2009 3:57 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

True fact:

I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan play in the Astrodome.

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by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 3, 2009 1:07 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

also true...

I hate you with intense jealousy right now.

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by Shake on Nov 3, 2009 1:35 PM CST via mobile up reply actions 0 recs

Think it was 1986 in the Dome

Fabulous Thunderbirds, SRV and the Who. I was in a skybox party for the show. Never saw a baseball game from that high, but the altitude was appropriate for a concert; Puff, puff, give. Went to scores of concerts, mostly in my college daze in So Cal. Hard to rate guitar players from different rock bands; it’s so subjective, but Stevie was incredible and his moves playing behind his back were hard for me to fathom. I feel truly blessed that I was able to see him that one time before he passed away. He may be the greatest rock guitar player that ever lived.

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by oiler-texan diehard on Nov 3, 2009 3:32 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

You and I were in the same place

Here’s what I remember:

The Thunderbirds were ok (I never got why people thought Jimmy Vaughan was any good). Then Stevie showed up, and even though the place was only about 2/3 full, he absolutely blew the motherfucking roof off of the place. My recollection is that the crowd got as loud – if not louder – for Stevie than they did for the Who, and the Who had all the pyro, etc (plus a full crowd) going for them.

Stevie did an encore of Voodoo Chile. I get goosebumps just typing this out. He fucking ripped the ever living motherfucking shit out of that song. I read the next day in the Chronicle that the encore was unplanned but his manager, after hearing the response he was getting, made him go out and play it.

This was after he had hit the skids and cleaned up. It was kind of like a coronation for him.

Holy fuck, what an awesome memory that was. Honestly, I have goosebumps thinking about it.

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by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 4, 2009 1:28 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I wish I had recall of as many details of that night as you do

Spending many of my formative years in So Cal, I was not automatically a fan of SRV, as I suspect most Texans of my age/demograph would be. I went there primarily to see the Who, having never seen them before Keith Moon drowned.

I do remember that the T-Birds were mediocre, but most concerts I’ve been to had one opening act that was typically unentertaining. For an opening act Jimmy V and the Fab TBirds were OK, but certainly nothing special. Stevie definitely got the lion’s share of the talent in that family tree. They sounded better on the radio to me. In fact that’s one criteria I always use to rate whether a band is any good. If they sound better live than on an album, then they are phenomenal. Sound roughly the same, then they are good. Sound worse live, then they aren’t any good.

By the time SRV came on, I was definitely at cruising altitude, and I 100% agree. He was lights out phefreakingnomenal. He was so much better than the Who that it was actually kind of a letdown to see the Who. It is rare when a preliminary act can upstage the headliner, but it was no contest that night. Wish I could get a video of that concert. I would really like to relive that experience. Truly one of the best shows I have ever seen, & I’ve seen hundreds.

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by oiler-texan diehard on Nov 4, 2009 3:46 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

If they sound better live than on an album, then they are phenomenal. Sound roughly the same, then they are good. Sound worse live, then they aren’t any good.

Absolutely agree.

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by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 5, 2009 4:46 AM CST reply actions 0 recs