Iggy Pop's show at Metro on his 1987 Blah-Blah-Blah tour was “one of the wettest, sweatiest, bloodiest shows' photographer Gene Ambo has ever seen. 🤘
Joe Shanahan estimates he’s seen at least 8,000 concerts from the table on Metro’s balcony overlooking stage right.This month Metro — along with its adjoining dance club— celebrates 40 years in business. Metro opened its doors in 1982, spotlighting alternative rock, punk and metal. Since then the Chicago venue has remained an independent outlet for thousands of bands spanning just about every genre.
“I would come to shows with one roll of film, 12 exposures, and I had to count the exposures to know what I was doing if I wanted to shoot both bands,” Ambo says. “People wanted to find out new things, and Joe was the guy bringing stuff that we didn't know about,” Ambo says.One legendary show from those early years was“It was a pivotal show, a pivotal moment for Chicago. We realized that this band was going to be massive,” Shanahan says. “I mean, it was like a jumbo jet landing, and everybody was looking around at each other going, ‘Oh, my God.’ ”
A roadie wearing a muscle shirt that says “ROAD DOG” jumps into the crowd to retrieve Hammett’s Flying V guitar.
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