Brad Harvey said..
snip
The thrill of meeting The Jayhawks' Mark Olsen (he was a dishwasher), 
seeing
Dave Pirner drunk and knowing Prince peed in the same urinals was 
truly the
stuff dreams are made of for a little band from Moline--- 


Ha. There was this period post Purple Rain (naturally) where Prince 
would keep a "low profile" in the upstairs area (wearing typical 
Prince clothes and had a couple of thugs watching over him).  



In audities@yahoogroups.com, Donmand@a... wrote:
> Steve:
> 
> That makes two of us on this list that saw U2's 1st Concert in 
Minneapolis. 
> Actually First Avenue was still called Uncle Sam's at the time. U2 
had released 
> their 1st album: BOY. It's was April 1981 and a bunch of my friends 
went out 
> to the old Met Stadium to watch the last game of outdoor baseball 
for the 
> Minnesota Twins. 


Don,
That's cool. Since I sold beer at the Met Stadium I may have sold you 
your last beer at the park, too! No, actually I didn't work the day 
they shut down the Met. I did grow up about 6 blocks from the Met 
Stadium and spent a LOT of time at the park.  Anyway, I guess you saw 
the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the same day.
  One thing...are you sure it was still called Uncle Sam's in 1981?  
I thought it changed it's name to First Avenue before this, like in 
1978 or 1979.  I was at the University of MN post 1979 and my memory 
is that it was no longer Uncle Sams during that time.  But, then it 
could be my memories are just blurring together.  

Steve D