In 1983, I was a high school sophomore who spent many a weekend traveling to Oklahoma colleges for interscholastic speech tournaments. I was usually in vans full of neurotic drama geek girls, the only kind of girls to whom I knew how to talk. And if there is one song I associate with that histrionic time in my life, it was a 1983 fixture on pizzeria jukeboxes across the country: "Making Love Out of Nothing at All." That ballad, warbled by Russell Hitchcock of Australian soft-rock stalwarts Air Supply, was written by songwriting powerhouse Jim Steinman and actually features two members of the E Street Band. It remained at #2 for three weeks, boxed out of the top spot by another Steinman opus, "Total Eclipse of the Heart." It was a freaking epic time on the radio. And if none of this means anything to you, then you, my friend, are not in your mid-40s. But for some of us, the sound of Air Supply is the sound of first love. So here we are, Air Supply, the ones that you love, just when we thought we were over you. Sniff! Single tear.

AIR SUPPLY, 8:30 p.m. Emerald Queen Casino, 2024 E. 29th St., Tacoma, $30-$65 at Ticketmaster, 888.831.7655