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Bakersfield Vampires.. July 9 2025!

Bands I’ve seen B Town!
Ozzy retirement tour mid 90s
Scorpions 90s
Both before Bakersfield arena was built.. was like small theatre around 4000

Bakersfield arena
Kiss- Nugent - Fakerow
Journey
Iron Maiden- Brave New World
Judas Priest- BLS -Thin Lizzy

Now
LA Guns ..2025!!
Bakersfield Vampires !!!!!!!

*Austin vs Booker T ..supermarket legendary match was filmed in Bakersfield day before soldout Raw next night in Bakersfield(I was at that!)

Bands I’ve seen B Town!

Bakersfield arena
Kiss- Nugent - Fakerow (did we sit next to each other?!)
Ozzy- Rob Zombie
Ghost
Jon Pardi- Larry Fleet- Priscilla Block

Get your Amtrak tickets now!

I hope it's an indoor show and not too hot for Tracii. Bakersfield July sun and Tracii will not end well.

I might go Thursday and see LA Guns in the metropolis that is Menlo Park California.

Going be 78* at midnight after the show! HOT!
Better have tour bus set at 63* after the show. A short run to bus! Plan ahead!

Good news! Bakersfield still has
Arby’s
and
Long John Silvers!!

One More Reason Arby’s!!
Never Enough Long John Silvers!!!

Bakersfield has a surprising amount of great antique/used stuff stores.

I almost bought a 100 year old 78 record player last time I was there...and also a 1950's Decca record player...and some midcentury modern end-tables that were also stereo speakers...unfortunately, couldn't get either record player to work consistently.

Really wanted that portable full-mechanical (not electric) Victrola.

Poison f*cks every groupie in Bakersfield at 1986 stop

Others went antique shopping#iwantNOaction

“ hey Bret I almost bought 100 year old record player! What did you do last night?”

CC “ Bakersfield has 2 strip clubs just off the freeway and Arby’s, who are you again?”

Fresno by far > Bakersfield

Bakersfield is an actual sh*t hole
Imagine having life in BakersHell..LA dream life only 120 miles away but you stay in BakersHell

At least FresNO is 4 hours away. You can almost pretend dream life …is in galaxy far far away. Almost like Girls Girls Girls video doesn’t exist
Plus you can still get 35000 to show up for college football game

Bakersfield = Green Bay- why the f*ck would you want to have a life in those hell holes

If wasn’t for LA music scene growing up I could have easily moved to home of 1990 Runnin Rebels ..the coach looking like George The Animal Steele uncle -feeding on wet towels

Could have had Plan B in life :become Baywatch lifeguard at Vegas pools last 28 years