Classic Concert of the Day: Skid Row at Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, 1992

You’re all cooped up. We’re all cooped up. Everyone’s friggin’ cooped up! You’re scrolling through our social feeds, texting with friends, eating, drinking coffee, watching TV, scrolling through our social feeds again, eating again, playing that dumb mobile game you downloaded from an Instagram ad and can’t stop playing, eating again, chatting with friends on a Zoom call, scrolling through our social feeds again, all while worrying about where your next paycheck is gonna come from. These are tough times, people.

To help pass the time, we’ll be sharing a classic metal concert every day (and by “every day,” we mean “as it occurs to us”). Watch some of it, watch all of it, watch only one song… we don’t care! As it long as it provides you with a bit of entertainment.

Sebastian Bach was supposed to be in the middle of a solo tour right now, but that was postponed due to THE VIRUS THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED. It’s been rescheduled for October, but with health experts predicting there will be no touring before the fall of 2021, it seems like a safe bet that it will have to be rescheduled again.

Meanwhile, Skid Row are set to kick off a big summer tour with Ratt, Cinderella’s Tom Kiefer, and Slaughter on June 3, but that will almost DEFINITELY be either postponed or cancelled altogether.

This being the case, today seemed like a fine day to revisit Skid Row’s classic performance filmed on October 8, 1992 at Nippon Budokan, the world famous Tokyo arena. Although it won’t feature Uncle Baz’s Nostalgia Slideshow the way Bach’s solo tour does, it also doesn’t feature any former members of Dragonforce the way modern Skid Row shows do. Seems like a fair trade, no?

Enjoy: