5 Best boots - USA/Canada 1st leg 1981

[deportationblues]

I'm looking to trim down my boot collection. Which 5 shows do you guys think are the best of the 1st leg of the '81 USA/Canada tour?

Thanks
Dre

[deportationblues]

A longer list here:

22nd April 1981Towson
23rd June 1981 El Paso,TX
5/11/81 Cleveland, OH
7/28/81 Montreal, Canada
25th April 1981 Tower Theater Philadelphia
4th May 1981 Springfield
2nd May 1981 New York 2nd set
6/27/81 Long Beach,CA
27th July 1981Toronto
24th July 1981 London Canada
7/4/81 Oakland, CA
5/20/81 Milwaukee ,WI
29th April 1981 Rochester
4/26/81 Bethlehem, PA
28th June 1981 Tempe
2nd May 1981 New York 1st set
5/6/81 Buffalo,NY

The obvious ones are Cleveland, Montreal and London. Maybe Rochester, both New York shows and Day on the Green. Any suggestions?

[hansolo]

In Rochester, Ozzy chants over the Bass intro to Believer, "Suck my cock." Which is an off comment. Never to repeat it again. The sound is good and there is a 96WCMF interview (Janet Miriam) when Ozzy got to town before afterhours 4/28/81 and the Auditorium Theatre 4/29/81 in which he talks about both. He also mentions Bark at the moon (3) and Killer of giants (4), if memory serves me well. By the way, the Auditorium is down the street and After Hours was shot downtown at 365 (If memory serves) East ave Roch, NY.

[hansolo]

He also says we love you Rochester at the end, which being from here put the icing on the fucking cake!

[Trigger]

I love the Rochester show, toroto is good though I find it a little lacking in soul and sounds like a band going through the motions. Towson is good and is excelent quality very clear sounding and the first show that RR played in the USA with Ozzy!

[hansolo]

Ozzy probably was often the killjoy getting boozed up and "getting through" (Get's me through) shows and hurrying through shows. Whereas Randy lived for the show...

[hansolo]

God bless Randy Rhoads!

[Axeman1956]

I love the Kalamazoo and Cleveland shows.

[dannyahansen]

Are we talking what 5 boots have the best sound? Or what five boots have the best playing or a combination of the two?