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[420seriouscat69]

http://www.collegeranker.com/ranking/best-college-towns/

[Spracne]

http://www.collegeranker.com/ranking/best-college-towns/

Lists are dumb (also, in your faces, losers).

[Dr Rick Daris]

Q for townies:

Who do you dislike more when they come to KSU, bumpkins from the farm who think Manhattan is basically the other Manhattan, or too cool for school JOCO punks?

i don't even know what this means. what's a too cool for school JOCO punk? don't think i've ever met one.

[ednksu]

http://www.collegeranker.com/ranking/best-college-towns/

Lists are dumb (also, in your faces, losers).

You really have to question a list which has Ames in the top 5, Fort Collins ahead of Boulder, and no Tallahassee. 

[chum1]

Def Leppard was the first rock concert in Bramlage. There were quite a few other "arena rock" concerts, too, and all of them sold out. That was probably largely thanks to top 40 radio airplay, which just didn't exist for Metallica at the time.

[chum1]

Also Country Gift Shop is greatest MPRD sponsor ever.

I was on a CGS team one year. Talk about the elite of the elite. Yeesh.

[Dr Rick Daris]

Def Leppard was the first rock concert in Bramlage. There were quite a few other "arena rock" concerts, too, and all of them sold out. That was probably largely thanks to top 40 radio airplay, which just didn't exist for Metallica at the time.

def leppard was ridiculous because it was the height of their popularity. la guns opened for them.

metallica just wasn't that poplular yet. the concert was scheduled for jan 29 1989 which is the same month and year that the video for one hit mtv. if that concert would have been scheduled for like six months later then i bet it still happens. queensryche was opening for them and was actually probably more mainstream popular at the time. also a friend of my moms worked bramlage at the time and a pretty young rick daris and friend had fourth row center for that concert. also older townies didn't want the concert because it was devil music.

[Dugout DickStone]

Also Country Gift Shop is greatest MPRD sponsor ever.

I was on a CGS team one year. Talk about the elite of the elite. Yeesh.

undefeated champs, ol Stone rapped in the game winner walk off in the title game one year.   

[mocat]

Def Leppard was the first rock concert in Bramlage. There were quite a few other "arena rock" concerts, too, and all of them sold out. That was probably largely thanks to top 40 radio airplay, which just didn't exist for Metallica at the time.

metallica just wasn't that poplular yet. the concert was scheduled for jan 29 1989 which is the same month and year that the video for one hit mtv. if that concert would have been scheduled for like six months later then i bet it still happens.

i don't understand. did you see how many arenas they filled on that tour (which was over a full year long)? why did mhk get skipped?

[TownieCat]

Def Leppard was the first rock concert in Bramlage. There were quite a few other "arena rock" concerts, too, and all of them sold out. That was probably largely thanks to top 40 radio airplay, which just didn't exist for Metallica at the time.

def leppard was ridiculous because it was the height of their popularity. la guns opened for them.

metallica just wasn't that poplular yet. the concert was scheduled for jan 29 1989 which is the same month and year that the video for one hit mtv. if that concert would have been scheduled for like six months later then i bet it still happens. queensryche was opening for them and was actually probably more mainstream popular at the time. also a friend of my moms worked bramlage at the time and a pretty young rick daris and friend had fourth row center for that concert. also older townies didn't want the concert because it was devil music.

KRock wasn't around until like '91. Who was supposed to promote that show, 1350??

[star seed 7]

KSU had like a 10k enrollment too. Mhk has changed more since 88 than most cities (imho)

[chum1]

Def Leppard was the first rock concert in Bramlage. There were quite a few other "arena rock" concerts, too, and all of them sold out. That was probably largely thanks to top 40 radio airplay, which just didn't exist for Metallica at the time.

metallica just wasn't that poplular yet. the concert was scheduled for jan 29 1989 which is the same month and year that the video for one hit mtv. if that concert would have been scheduled for like six months later then i bet it still happens.

i don't understand. did you see how many arenas they filled on that tour (which was over a full year long)? why did mhk get skipped?

How does Manhattan's size compare to the sizes of the other cities? For an act to draw such a large chunk of a city's population, they have to be pretty mainstream. Metallica wasn't yet.

[Brock Landers]

Maybe it's because Kansans were scared of Metallica back then?  True story alert -  one summer evening in 1989 I called up T-95 in Wichita and requested something from the And Justice for All album and the DJamer told me he would have to wait until after 9 to play them.  Yes, apparently they wanted to wait until little kids had gone to bed presumably to protect young innocent ears from devil music.

[TownieCat]

Q for townies:

Who do you dislike more when they come to KSU, bumpkins from the farm who think Manhattan is basically the other Manhattan, or too cool for school JOCO punks?

JoCo punks seem less able to navigate a roundabout, so them. I have no idea why this is, but my scientific study of this phenomenon revealed that drivers with a JO Kansas license plate are 3x more likely to eff up a roundabout than non-JO Kansas license plates.

Note: Out of state drivers were not taken into account in this study.

[chum1]

KSU had like a 10k enrollment too. Mhk has changed more since 88 than most cities (imho)

Nah, it hasn't changed that much. If anything, it has slower than average growth.

http://www.k-state.edu/registrar/statistics/resnon.html

[star seed 7]

Well I'm not a townie so I'm just talking out of my ass

[mocat]

how many rock bands have played bramlage ever? isnt that a pretty rare thing even now? i remember ben folds and that's it in my entire 5 years in mhk

[Dr Rick Daris]

Def Leppard was the first rock concert in Bramlage. There were quite a few other "arena rock" concerts, too, and all of them sold out. That was probably largely thanks to top 40 radio airplay, which just didn't exist for Metallica at the time.

metallica just wasn't that poplular yet. the concert was scheduled for jan 29 1989 which is the same month and year that the video for one hit mtv. if that concert would have been scheduled for like six months later then i bet it still happens.

i don't understand. did you see how many arenas they filled on that tour (which was over a full year long)? why did mhk get skipped?

look dork, i just freaking told you. metallica did not get popular until one showed up on mtv a week or two before, but by then the concert had already been cancelled. out of the places metallica was scheduled to play that month, i believe bramlage was the biggest and the town was the smallest. do the math on your own to figure this out. oh wait, you're mocat. maybe call a friend or pm someone and have them do it for you and quit mucking up my thread.

[mocat]

Def Leppard was the first rock concert in Bramlage. There were quite a few other "arena rock" concerts, too, and all of them sold out. That was probably largely thanks to top 40 radio airplay, which just didn't exist for Metallica at the time.

metallica just wasn't that poplular yet. the concert was scheduled for jan 29 1989 which is the same month and year that the video for one hit mtv. if that concert would have been scheduled for like six months later then i bet it still happens.

i don't understand. did you see how many arenas they filled on that tour (which was over a full year long)? why did mhk get skipped?

look dork, i just freaking told you. metallica did not get popular until one showed up on mtv a week or two before, but by then the concert had already been cancelled. out of the places metallica was scheduled to play that month, i believe bramlage was the biggest and the town was the smallest. do the math on your own to figure this out. oh wait, you're mocat. maybe call a friend or pm someone and have them do it for you and quit mucking up my thread.

i don't understand why it was scheduled in the first place is what i'm getting at. 50% of the entire population of a pre-LHC Bill Snyder western kansas town getting a metallica show? weird.

[SkinnyBenny]

That first Def Leppard concert would've been amazing. God I wish SB older bro had given 5 year-old SB that Hysteria tape sooner. Still, the Adrenalize concert was a pretty great way to lose my concert virginity too, even if the arena really was only half full.


And mocat, Soul Asylum and Ben Folds both lost tons of money. UPC brought in rock concerts a fair amount and tried with Soul Asylum but only like 1,500 people showed up (including SB). So they swore it off for a long time and broke their own rules for Folds years and years later and I think they prolly regretted it.

[SkinnyBenny]

Def Leppard was the first rock concert in Bramlage. There were quite a few other "arena rock" concerts, too, and all of them sold out. That was probably largely thanks to top 40 radio airplay, which just didn't exist for Metallica at the time.

metallica just wasn't that poplular yet. the concert was scheduled for jan 29 1989 which is the same month and year that the video for one hit mtv. if that concert would have been scheduled for like six months later then i bet it still happens.

i don't understand. did you see how many arenas they filled on that tour (which was over a full year long)? why did mhk get skipped?

look dork, i just freaking told you. metallica did not get popular until one showed up on mtv a week or two before, but by then the concert had already been cancelled. out of the places metallica was scheduled to play that month, i believe bramlage was the biggest and the town was the smallest. do the math on your own to figure this out. oh wait, you're mocat. maybe call a friend or pm someone and have them do it for you and quit mucking up my thread.

i don't understand why it was scheduled in the first place is what i'm getting at. 50% of the entire population of a pre-LHC Bill Snyder western kansas town getting a metallica show? weird.

What, are they gonna play in Allen Fieldhouse?

[Dr Rick Daris]

Def Leppard was the first rock concert in Bramlage. There were quite a few other "arena rock" concerts, too, and all of them sold out. That was probably largely thanks to top 40 radio airplay, which just didn't exist for Metallica at the time.

metallica just wasn't that poplular yet. the concert was scheduled for jan 29 1989 which is the same month and year that the video for one hit mtv. if that concert would have been scheduled for like six months later then i bet it still happens.

i don't understand. did you see how many arenas they filled on that tour (which was over a full year long)? why did mhk get skipped?

look dork, i just freaking told you. metallica did not get popular until one showed up on mtv a week or two before, but by then the concert had already been cancelled. out of the places metallica was scheduled to play that month, i believe bramlage was the biggest and the town was the smallest. do the math on your own to figure this out. oh wait, you're mocat. maybe call a friend or pm someone and have them do it for you and quit mucking up my thread.

i don't understand why it was scheduled in the first place is what i'm getting at. 50% of the entire population of a pre-LHC LHC Bill Snyder western kansas town getting a metallica show? weird.

def leppard played there three/four months earlier and pretty much sold the entire 13,500 seat place out. 

[Dr Rick Daris]

That first Def Leppard concert would've been amazing. God I wish SB older bro had given 5 year-old SB that Hysteria tape sooner.

you know who else feels bad that you didn't get to go to that first def leppard concert?

[mocat]

Def Leppard was the first rock concert in Bramlage. There were quite a few other "arena rock" concerts, too, and all of them sold out. That was probably largely thanks to top 40 radio airplay, which just didn't exist for Metallica at the time.

metallica just wasn't that poplular yet. the concert was scheduled for jan 29 1989 which is the same month and year that the video for one hit mtv. if that concert would have been scheduled for like six months later then i bet it still happens.

i don't understand. did you see how many arenas they filled on that tour (which was over a full year long)? why did mhk get skipped?

look dork, i just freaking told you. metallica did not get popular until one showed up on mtv a week or two before, but by then the concert had already been cancelled. out of the places metallica was scheduled to play that month, i believe bramlage was the biggest and the town was the smallest. do the math on your own to figure this out. oh wait, you're mocat. maybe call a friend or pm someone and have them do it for you and quit mucking up my thread.

i don't understand why it was scheduled in the first place is what i'm getting at. 50% of the entire population of a pre-LHC LHC Bill Snyder western kansas town getting a metallica show? weird.

def leppard played there three/four months earlier and pretty much sold the entire 13,500 seat place out. 

oh i guess i get "mainstream" and "strip club" confused too.

"Hey honey me and the boys are going fishing down at the main stream this weekend, see you sunday night" - rick daris

[Dr Rick Daris]

That first Def Leppard concert would've been amazing. God I wish SB older bro had given 5 year-old SB that Hysteria tape sooner.

you know who else feels bad that you didn't get to go to that first def leppard concert?

wait for it...