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In 1984, I was 17 when my parents allowed me to attend my first concert. It was Motley Crue opening for Ozzy Osbourne at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon. The Crue was it with the red hot ‘Shout at the Devil’ fueling their rise that year and stealing some of the thunder from…
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