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The Family Values Tour featued Limp Bizkit, Staind, the Crystal Method, Run-DMC, Mobb Deep and Filter.
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Phish plays a pair of sold-out shows. The entire performances were recorded and, a year later, released as a six-disc boxed set called “Hampton Comes Alive.”
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A three-night stand by a man who was, at the time, country’s favorite troubadour. All three shows are sellouts.
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Golden State Warriors vs. New Jersey Nets exhibition basketball game
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While the Charlottesville-based jam band wasn’t yet at the stadium-packing stage in 1995, it was on it’s way. This show is also notable because it represents the Coliseum’s first full-scale experiment with beer sales.
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Phish plays its first of 15 shows at the Coliseum. Every Phish show at Hampton since has sold out.
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Angry crowds demand refunds after bedroom soul singer falls sick just before showtime. Coliseum director Joe Tsao — only 4 months into his job — finds himself knee-deep in a crisis. A small portion of the crowd sticks around long enough to hear another act on the bill, Ray Charles.
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Tsao, who currently holds the post of director, later tells a reporter that the Coliseum will have to shift its focus away from big rock concerts in order to survive. “There are not as many AC/DCs and Whitesnakes out there,” Tsao says. “The rock ’n’ roll heydays of the 1980s are over.” On the other hand, he hesitates to cede concert business to trendy new amphitheaters. “There is some trendiness to the current desire of artists to play amphitheaters. We know what happens to trends, they change. Bell-bottoms go out, but they come back.”
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“My philosophy is to offer something for everyone,” he later told a reporter. “We’ve covered everything from Lawrence Welk to Nine Inch Nails.”
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The American Hockey League’s six-day flirtation with the Hampton Coliseum comes to an end when Coliseum director Andy Greenwell rejects an offer to bring an AHL expansion franchise to Hampton.
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The alternative rock band from Athens, Ga., doesn’t quite sell out Hampton Coliseum on this Wednesday night. Still, the band offers a night of tuneful, uncompromising music. The setlist includes hits such as “Stand” and “The One I Love” as well as more obscure album tracks such as “Feeling Gravity’s Pull.”
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Eight inches of snow and 50 mph winds force Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to cancel two performances.
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These days, if U2 plays in Virginia, it’s in a football stadium. But twenty-some years ago, Bono, The Edge and friends were still rocking relatively small halls like the Coliseum. On this tour, they play tunes from “The Joshua Tree” album, including the breakthrough hits “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”
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Having pulled off an amazing career resurrection, Turner powers her way through nearly two hours of hits at the Coliseum. Her set spans soul, funk, rock and gospel. During her encore, she wails on a hard-rock song that could have been written for her — ZZ Top’s hit “Legs.”
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The Boss storms into Hampton at the peak of his popularity. His album “Born in the U.S.A.” is a smash hit and this concert, according to accounts, takes on the tone of a victory lap.
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David Byrne and friends come to town on their “Speaking In Tongues” tour.
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This masterful crooner has no trouble seducing the crowd at Hampton Coliseum – even though he’s feeling under the weather. Despite illness, he caresses fans with “Let’s Get it On” and dazzles them with “What’s Going On.” Then, he moves in for the kill. Decked out in satin pajamas and matching robe he gives the crowd a potent dose of “Sexual Healing.” Gaye would be killed by his father less than a year later.
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Daryl Hall and John Oates play the Coliseum at the top of the duo’s chart-topping game. “Kiss On My List,” “Private Eyes,” and “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” had all reached No. 1 the year before. “Did It In a Minute” had peaked at No. 9 just three weeks before and “Maneater” would rule the charts
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Keith and Mick played the Coliseum in 1975, 1978 in 1981, when they made a two-night stand. The band’s performance of “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” recorded at one of the 1981 shows, would later be included on the Stones’ live album “Still Life.” The Dec. 18 show is televised live via cable to some 750,000 fans. Local Stones lovers listen to the rock on WNOR-FM (98.7)
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Michael Jackson wasn’t yet the King of Pop when he appeared at Hampton Coliseum in 1979. On this night, he sings and dances with his brothers in The Jacksons.
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Jam bands adore Hampton Coliseum. That love affair begins with The Dead. This was the first of 21 free-form rock spectacles Jerry Garcia and company brought to the building. On this night, highlights include a 20-minute version of the Rascals’ “Good Lovin’” and a walloping “Estimated Prophet.”
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More than 64,000 people attend concerts by Shaun Cassidy, Dave Mason and Bob Welch, a CIAA basketball tournament and an ODU basketball game. At the Cassidy show, vendors sell $18,342 in merchandise.
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The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll pays his third and final visit to Hampton Coliseum, a little more than a year before his death Aug. 16, 1977.
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After a six-year run, the Squires’ professional basketball journey comes to an end. Plagued by a sputtering economy and lawsuits over unpaid contracts, the team plays its final game before a crowd of some 2,250. On the bright side, the Squires beat St. Louis 120-116.
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Pete Townshend and friends play Hampton around the time the album “Who By Numbers” was released. A little more than a month after the local show, the song “Squeeze Box” peaks at No. 16 on the Billboard singles chart.
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The famously freaky Mr. Zappa came through town on the same tour that produced tracks on the partially live album “Bongo Fury.”
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Slowhand’s set includes “I Shot the Sherriff” — which had been a No. 1 pop hit just the month before — as well as “Willie and the Hand Jive,” “Badge” and “Blues Power.”
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The building’s name is officially changed from Hampton Roads Coliseum to Hampton Coliseum. Hampton officials say the shift is needed because other localities aren’t chipping in with operating costs.
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The Los Angeles band’s fourth visit to the Coliseum comes a year after the band’s song “Black & White” became the group’s final No. 1 hit.
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The influential California funk-soul band played Hampton Coliseum twice in 1973. The second date came Sept. 9 of that year.
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