Memorable concerts
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ah yeah, that Suzy was impressive indeed.
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I've seen X so many times I lost count, Billy Zoom was always so nice and thanked us for coming to the gigs.
The Germs on the other hand were a different story…Pat Smear was a blast, Darby Crash was a train
wreck. No pun intended.just watching interview footage of darby crash is enough to believe you. it's pretty tragic….he really was onto something lyrically.
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any time ive seen chuck ragan has been AWESOME
be it in hot water music, solo or doing the revival tour
that man kills it
truly one of the hardest working dudes in musicalso that band converge puts on a deece show too
memorable moment at a show
motorhead, dio and iron maiden
motorhead was the opener (which was total bullshit) when they were almost done there set lemmy says "okay now pretend we left the stage and you cheered and now we're back on" then blasted into ace of spadesive seen motorhead a few times, always fun
seen a tour with them, dropkick murphy's and hatebreed. super weird scene that nightthanks buddy. i have a good hot water music story…
20 years ago i was doing my first tour with my first band, which funny enough was with Converge. Coincidentally Hot Water Music were doing their first tour at the same time. Anyways... the first show of the tour was in Atlanta at the Somber Reptile at a "fest". Copout played that day and they were amazing. HWM had just put out their first seven inch and a demo, we ended up hanging out with those guys in the parking lot all day and became fast friends. We hung out that night as well and then parted ways. A couple weeks later we were on the road driving from I think West Virginia into Ohio for another "fest"...this one was at the Agora Ballroom. Los Crudos played. We ended up getting stuck in this massive traffic jam in the middle of nowhere. A truck had overturned or something. We look a little ways up the highway and we see a van that's obviously a punk band pulled over on the side of the road and they're taking their gear out of the van and we recognize that it's HWM. So we pull into the break down lane and drive up to them to ask whats wrong. They were surprised to see us and they tell us that they were sick of sitting in traffic and they decided to just have a show on the side of the highway. GREAT FUCKING IDEA. so we immediately start unpacking our drums too. we set up two drum kits on the side of the highway make these shitty signs what say "POOR ROCK BANDS NEED GAS MONEY". We then proceeded to make the most awful fucking noise you could imagine for the people trapped in the cars for a good half hour before a state trooper showed up and told us to pack it up. The cop was stoked and told us that he met Johnny Cash the week before when he pulled his bus over. Anyways....we packed it up as traffic started moving and drove to cleveland to play the festival. i think there's video footage from that festival somewhere.
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^ Great story riff!
Yeah, Darby was a mess, off stage he was pretty low key. He'd go up to people, me
included, and want to give us Germ burns. This was by using a lit cigarette and burning the back of your hand,
if you turned him down ( I certainly did a number of times ) he'd explain in a low voice why you needed to have
one. It was like he was trying to brainwash you, very weird and it was hard to shake the guy.
On stage he was nuts, like someone flipped a switch and off he went, trying to be a poor mans Iggy Pop. -
^ Great story riff!
Yeah, Darby was a mess, off stage he was pretty low key. He'd go up to people, me
included, and want to give us Germ burns. This was by using a lit cigarette and burning the back of your hand,
if you turned him down ( I certainly did a number of times ) he'd explain in a low voice why you needed to have
one. It was like he was trying to brainwash you, very weird and it was hard to shake the guy.
On stage he was nuts, like someone flipped a switch and off he went, trying to be a poor mans Iggy Pop.yeah you could definitely see that he had problems in "decline of". it's crazy how people like that often write amazing lyrics.
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Oh yeah, even before Decline. His lyrics were interesting, he wanted to get under people's skin.
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thats a killer story nate and just so typical chuck
theres a bunch of videos on youtube of him, john gaunt, joe ginsberg and austin lucas just playing songs on the streets in some city in europei still think ih should sponsor him (remember that thread? people that should wear ih)
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if chuck get's sponsored by IH before me i'm outta here!
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Not to mention they are the reason we have enormous sound systems at concerts now. That shit was unheard of until 74 when owsley made it come true. These dudes were pioneers and the best of the best. They took live sound to a whole different realm. Anyone that disagrees better check their pulse.
Never got to see Jerry though. 96 furthur fest was my first show.
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The picture has gotten f'd up over the years, unfortunately. Wish I still had the negatives.
oh man so cool, keep it with pride and guard it well
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I don't give a fuck about how bad he looks now, or how mental he's clearly gone. That guy had a bigger dose of cool than anyone one of us could ever dream of, it's a shame he used it up so fast but at least he had it.
