When you’ve seen The Rolling Stones as many times as Max has, picking one favorite show is almost impossible.

Every one is different. Different stage. Different songs. Different city. Different people with you. Some shows hit because of the performance. Some hit because of the moment around it.

But if you had to narrow it down?

Paris or the desert.

Paris was unforgettable. Eiffel Tower in the rain. The whole atmosphere. David Browne and Annabel Brandt there with Max, helping make it one of those once-in-a-lifetime trips.

And then there’s the story that pushes Paris over the top.

Lizzy Jagger.

Mick Jagger’s daughter.

Dancing. Paris. The Stones. Max in the moment, letting it all go.

That’s the kind of memory you don’t manufacture.

You only get to see the Stones in Paris once.

And when you’re there, knowing every word, living every second, the whole room can feel that energy.

Some concerts are shows.

Some become part of your life story.

#HeresTheDealPodcast #RollingStones #MickJagger #LizzyJagger #ParisConcert #TheRollingStones #MaxBakerJr #JeffBrownen #oklahomacity

Like, share, and follow so these stories keep getting told.

Follow & Connect:
Max Baker Jr. Instagram @bmaddmaxx | Facebook @bmaddmaxx
Jeff Brownen Facebook @jeff.brownen

Here’s The Deal YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@heresthedealok

Here’s The Deal Podcast Website
https://heresthedealok.com

Buy Here’s The Deal Vintage & Collectables
https://heresthedealvintagecollectables.com

Get an Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Card
https://medcardsmadeeasy.net

Concert & Event Production Services
https://bakerboyspro.com

Buy Roadie CBD Balm & Oil
https://bakersremedycbd.com

June 14, 2000.

Disturbed was still in that early Sickness era, and the package came through twice.

The Other Side in Tulsa.
The Diamond Ballroom in Oklahoma City.

The lineup was stacked for that moment:

Disturbed.
Deadlights.
Apartment 26.
Workhorse Movement.
Underside in Tulsa.
Element in Oklahoma City.

Looking back, that bill should have been a monster.

The Diamond show had 258 people. Not terrible, but not what it should have been for what Disturbed was about to become. The Other Side probably felt stronger, and the Tulsa crowd may have turned out harder that night.

That was the thing about those early 2000s shows. Sometimes you were watching a band right before the explosion, and nobody fully knew it yet.

Disturbed would go on to become one of the biggest hard rock bands of that era, but in 2000, they were still grinding through rooms like The Other Side and the Diamond.

Some shows look small on paper years later.

But when you know what came next, they become history.

#HeresTheDealPodcast #Disturbed #TheSickness #DiamondBallroom #TheOtherSide #ConcertStories #MaxBakerJr #JeffBrownen #oklahomacity

Like, share, and follow so these stories keep getting told.

Follow & Connect:
Max Baker Jr. Instagram @bmaddmaxx | Facebook @bmaddmaxx
Jeff Brownen Facebook @jeff.brownen

Here’s The Deal YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@heresthedealok

Here’s The Deal Podcast Website
https://heresthedealok.com

Buy Here’s The Deal Vintage & Collectables
https://heresthedealvintagecollectables.com

Get an Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Card
https://medcardsmadeeasy.net

Concert & Event Production Services
https://bakerboyspro.com

Buy Roadie CBD Balm & Oil
https://bakersremedycbd.com

Max drove a wrecker. If he made a little money, he put it right back into the next show, the next ticket buy, the next opportunity. That was the cycle.

It started young. At 14, he bought his own motorcycle and turned it into his motocross bike. He learned early how to work, how to build credit, and how to walk into a bank with a plan.

If Fleetwood Mac was coming through on the Tusk tour, he’d go to the banker and say, “I need to borrow money for 90 days.”

And for a long time, he didn’t get turned down.

That’s how serious it was.

Not just being a fan. Not just chasing shows. Treating tickets like an investment. Work the job. Borrow smart. Buy the tickets. Flip what you could. Put it back into the next one.

But the story has another side too.

The bar game. Mad Maxx’s. Drugs. Acting wild. Losing everything.

That’s part of it.

You can build something with hustle, but you can lose it just as fast if you stop respecting the game.

Before the concerts, before the clubs, before the wild stories, there was a wrecker, a work ethic, and a kid trying to figure out how to get to the next show.

#HeresTheDealPodcast #GeorgeStrait #ConcertStories #TicketBuying #MusicBusiness #WorkEthic #PromoterLife #MadMaxx #OklahomaMusicHistory #MaxBakerJr #JeffBrownen #oklahoma #oklahomacity

Like, share, and follow so these stories keep getting told.

Follow & Connect:
Max Baker Jr. Instagram @bmaddmaxx | Facebook @bmaddmaxx
Jeff Brownen Facebook @jeff.brownen

Here’s The Deal YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@heresthedealok

Here’s The Deal Podcast Website
https://heresthedealok.com

Buy Here’s The Deal Vintage & Collectables
https://heresthedealvintagecollectables.com

Get an Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Card
https://medcardsmadeeasy.net

Concert & Event Production Services
https://bakerboyspro.com

Buy Roadie CBD Balm & Oil
https://bakersremedycbd.com

After the original Rocklahoma in 1980 with Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, and The Doobie Brothers, the University of Oklahoma didn’t host another stadium concert until 1997.

That’s a long gap.

And according to the conversation, they left a lot of money on the table. Pink Floyd. The Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge tour. Major stadium acts that could have brought huge crowds, big production, and serious revenue to Norman.

By 1997, the concert industry was in a strange place. Lollapalooza was struggling in some markets. HORDE wasn’t doing what people expected. Even U2’s PopMart tour was having trouble selling out certain stadium dates.

So OU finally stepping back into the concert business came at a weird but important time.

The stadium had already proven it could work. The 1980 show helped pay for the field. But instead of building on that momentum, the door stayed closed for almost two decades.

Seventeen years.

No stadium shows.

No Pink Floyd.

No Stones Voodoo Lounge.

No major concert revenue.

Sometimes the biggest loss in show business isn’t the show that fails.

It’s the show you never book.

#HeresTheDealPodcast #Rocklahoma1980 #VanHalen #SammyHagar #DoobieBrothers #PinkFloyd #RollingStones #MaxBakerJr #JeffBrownen #oklahomacity

Like, share, and follow so these stories keep getting told.

Follow & Connect:
Max Baker Jr. Instagram @bmaddmaxx | Facebook @bmaddmaxx
Jeff Brownen Facebook @jeff.brownen

Here’s The Deal YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@heresthedealok

Here’s The Deal Podcast Website
https://heresthedealok.com

Buy Here’s The Deal Vintage & Collectables
https://heresthedealvintagecollectables.com

Get an Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Card
https://medcardsmadeeasy.net

Concert & Event Production Services
https://bakerboyspro.com

Buy Roadie CBD Balm & Oil
https://bakersremedycbd.com

Max quitting Red Bull was not a small thing.

For years, it was part of the routine. Before recording, before work, before getting on the road, somebody was usually making a 7-Eleven or OnCue run for sugar-free Red Bulls. Then one day, the heart doctor asked what he drank, Max said Red Bull, and the answer came back simple: “No good for you. Cut it out.”

So he did.

No big announcement. No long speech. Just stopped.

And that wasn’t the only change.

Max also gave up Mexican food, which might be even harder to believe. That is a major sacrifice when you know how much he loves it. The tortillas, the chips, the spice, the whole thing. But when your health puts you in a corner, you either keep doing what you’ve always done or you make the change.

Max was on a mission.

No Red Bull. No Mexican food. Less road time. More time at home. Different choices.

Sometimes getting better starts with giving up the things you never thought you’d quit.

Like, share, and follow so these stories keep getting told.

#HeresTheDealPodcast #MaxBakerJr #HealthJourney #RedBull #MexicanFood #JeffBrownen

Like, share, and follow so these stories keep getting told.

Follow & Connect:
Max Baker Jr. Instagram @bmaddmaxx | Facebook @bmaddmaxx
Jeff Brownen Facebook @jeff.brownen

Here’s The Deal YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@heresthedealok

Here’s The Deal Podcast Website
https://heresthedealok.com

Buy Here’s The Deal Vintage & Collectables
https://heresthedealvintagecollectables.com

Get an Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Card
https://medcardsmadeeasy.net

Concert & Event Production Services
https://bakerboyspro.com

Buy Roadie CBD Balm & Oil
https://bakersremedycbd.com

September 27th at the Bricktown Event Center.

Alice Cooper on the Brutal Planet tour.

That was one of those shows where everybody made it through the day, even if not everybody loved being there. Jeff may not have been thrilled, but the night itself turned into a real one.

Backstage was tight. One way in, one way out. Kitchen area. Side access. Everybody packed into the same working space, trying to keep the show moving.

And somewhere in the middle of it, there’s a photo with Alice Cooper, Carrie, and Max.

That’s the kind of proof you keep.

The show itself was strong. Alice brought the full theatrical rock energy, and his daughter Calico was part of the performance too. That made it feel even more like a production than just a concert.

Some people remember this as one of the early Bricktown Event Center shows. Maybe not the first, but definitely one that stuck.

Alice Cooper doesn’t just play songs.

He brings a whole world with him.

#HeresTheDealPodcast #AliceCooper #BrutalPlanetTour #BricktownEventCenter #MaxBakerJr #JeffBrownen #oklahomacity

Like, share, and follow so these stories keep getting told.

Follow & Connect:
Max Baker Jr. Instagram @bmaddmaxx | Facebook @bmaddmaxx
Jeff Brownen Facebook @jeff.brownen

Here’s The Deal YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@heresthedealok

Here’s The Deal Podcast Website
https://heresthedealok.com

Buy Here’s The Deal Vintage & Collectables
https://heresthedealvintagecollectables.com

Get an Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Card
https://medcardsmadeeasy.net

Concert & Event Production Services
https://bakerboyspro.com

Buy Roadie CBD Balm & Oil
https://bakersremedycbd.com

ZZ Top with Jackyl on the bill — the Antenna era. That mid-90s stretch when ZZ Top was still rolling hard, still evolving the sound, and still drawing real crowds.

But the part that sticks isn’t just the show.

It’s the meet.

A signed Antenna lithograph from the record company. Meet-and-greet passes. Winning the kind of poster you keep for life. “Cry Love” opening the Tulsa date, and then meeting them again in Oklahoma City with Kerry Staton in the mix.

And backstage, Ichiro (“Chero”) is there too — getting the Jackyl flat signed by ZZ Top like it’s a trophy.

That’s how those nights worked.

You went for the concert.
You left with history in your hands.

Some people remember setlists.

Some people still have the signed poster.

#HeresTheDealPodcast #ZZTop #Jackyl #AntennaTour #Myriad #OKCMusicHistory #ConcertMemories #SignedPoster #RockAndRollStories #MaxBakerJr #JeffBrownen #oklahoma #oklahomacity

Like, share, and follow so these stories keep getting told.

Follow & Connect:
Max Baker Jr. Instagram @bmaddmaxx | Facebook @bmaddmaxx
Jeff Brownen Facebook @jeff.brownen

Here’s The Deal YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@heresthedealok

Here’s The Deal Podcast Website
https://heresthedealok.com

Buy Here’s The Deal Vintage & Collectables
https://heresthedealvintagecollectables.com

Get an Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Card
https://medcardsmadeeasy.net

Concert & Event Production Services
https://bakerboyspro.com

Buy Roadie CBD Balm & Oil
https://bakersremedycbd.com