It was at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena - home of the NHL Red Wings from 1979-2017; demolished in 2019-20 and a hotel built on the site - and Hall & Oates opened. I'm sure I was overwhelmed by the novelty of a first concert and my favorite band to boot, but recall it was a good show.

They had a robot come out with a blinking mouth to blink sync the Prologue from Time in the darkness and then the lights came up and the band was revealed and they did "Twilight." It was the original band minus the two cellists. (Lynne, Bevan, Groucutt, Randy, Kaminski) My friend's dad took us to the show and we were all spazzing out about it. We were HS freshmen. (You know those buttons Gen Xers have that say, "I may be old, but I saw all the cool bands"? That's me somewhat.)

I debated going to the farewell show and looked on StubHub for tix and they never really got cheap enough and someone had mentioned Lynne was lipsyncing and not really playing much and since it was basically him fronting a tribute band I skipped it. Also, the set list was too heavy on earlier stuff and I wanted more New World Record thru Time stuff. A friend saw him a couple years earlier and liked it.