Memorable concerts
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@riffblaster:
Memorable ones…
Bad brains, coc, leeway I think in 90?
Danzig with sound garden opening. 89?
Ramones with dd a few times before he got the boot
Skinny puppy with godflesh can't remember
Lungfish. Every time. Always amazing.
Moz. Many times but the your arsenal tour was my favorite
Agnostic front and the vandals... 87?
Sonic youth on the goo tour
Rollins band on the lifetime tour was unstoppable
Low with Ida. Things we lost in the fire tour.I could go on all night so I am gonna stop.
Strong. Love me some lungfish. Low is rad too. They are local here.
I've seen Low many many times and they never fail to dissapoint.
Neurosis is always amazing, but the Through Silver In Blood tour was probably my favorite, although the first time I saw them was on Souls At Zero.
Buzzoven was always a spectacle, but my favorite time was when they incited an actual riot at the bait shack in norfolk virginia and kept playing as the place erupted into complete chaos.
Lifetime's last show at the melody bar was great.
I've seen Fugazi on almost every record, going back to the demo and they never dissapointed.
Shudder To Think and Jawbox on the Funeral At The Movies/Grippe tour was absolutely amazing.
I broke my nose once at a Cro Mags show during World Peace/We Gotta Know and Craig Setari set it back in place for me after the show. That was pretty cool.
OH…and Nation Of Ulysses....fuuuuuuuuckkkkkk. What an absolute beautiful trainwreck they were.
I didn't really start going to "big" concerts until I was older because I couldn't afford them, so most of mine are punk/hc related.
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Yeah, Nation of Ulysses was a formative band for me but unfortunately I never saw them live. I did see the Make-Up and they shredded. Ian licked my buddy's face… Ha.
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Stand out besides my top 3
Seen Fugazi prob 50 times i used to cut class in high school to drive to dc to see Fugazi. In 1994 I saw Drive Like Jehu. Another favorite is Rocket From The Crypt I have seen them countless times love everything John Reis does. Seeing Leatherface in New Brunswick, NJ play in a basement because the venue burnt down. Seeing Converge play last year in Philly with Urb. The intensity and emotion was mind blowing. Also got to hang with Riff always a plus.
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Can't be too specific on dates as it's a bit of a mosh mosh but here's some standouts:
David Bowie, Changes tour 1990
Pavement reunion tour in 2009/10 (wasn't cool enough to catch em first time round)
The Roots in 2004 ish. Expected little but had my mind blown
Beastie Boys in 2005. Incredible. RIP MCA
Arcade Fire followed by Kraftwerk, Electric Picnic 2005. Thought AF couldn't be topped. They were.
The National in Whelans 2006. They tore the 150 person venue to the ground.
The Shins in Whelans 2004. Just mesmeric.
White Stripes in Coney Island 2007. Mind blowing. Jack White is a legend.Jeez, lots of other great gigs coming back to me now. Time to stare open mouthed out the window as the memories come flooding back.
Worst gig coincidentally was Bob Dylan. Just saw him once,he sat at the keys at the back of the stage and growled for an hour and a half. That said I'd give him another shot.
Oh btw Blackheart, that's a dream list of gigs you laid out there. Incredible super cool stuff!
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Dystopia 1998. It's the first one that springs to mind.
saw them right around then on tour with grief!
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Stand out besides my top 3
Seen Fugazi prob 50 times i used to cut class in high school to drive to dc to see Fugazi. In 1994 I saw Drive Like Jehu. Another favorite is Rocket From The Crypt I have seen them countless times love everything John Reis does. Seeing Leatherface in New Brunswick, NJ play in a basement because the venue burnt down. Seeing Converge play last year in Philly with Urb. The intensity and emotion was mind blowing. Also got to hang with Riff always a plus.
jehu was so good live. i saw them in dc once…i think the show was with heroin and jawbreaker and jawbox but my memory is foggy on this one.
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speaking of foggy memories, start a thread of concerts where i don't remember shit(alot of those :P)
hahaha yep
i agree there
conversation between me and a buddy a few days after the last lucero show
me "damn that was a short set ah?"
my buddy "really? dude they played for over an hour and half"
me "fuck off really?"
my buddy "dude you sang every song, you dont remember any of it?"
me "thats awesome" -
speaking of foggy memories, start a thread of concerts where i don't remember shit(alot of those :P)
hahaha yep
i agree there
conversation between me and a buddy a few days after the last lucero show
me "damn that was a short set ah?"
my buddy "really? dude they played for over an hour and half"
me "fuck off really?"
my buddy "dude you sang every song, you dont remember any of it?"
me "thats awesome"
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RocknRoll : Yeah, I was obsessed by Blackmore too…Cal Jam was classic Blackmore arsehole behaviour!
I actually have a bootleg album of that gig along with ELP's gig from that night. In Rock is a great album,
I still listen to it.Riff: I'd love to transport us back to those gigs, all were classics.
A small note on Springsteen: I was working in a record store when he released Born in the USA, it was a
chain store so the store that sold the most copies on the day it was released won tickets to the show for
that tour. We sold the most so I got to see him for free. Same thing for Prince's Purple Rain album, saw
him for free on that tour.Bands I saw for free when they were first starting:
Motley Crue
Guns N' Roses
Metallica
Megadeath
Poison
LA Guns
Warrant ( I was their manager )
Quiet RiotJust to name a few.
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Oh God, the list is endless!
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I saw LA Guns last year in Nottingham on Traci's birthday….it was not a pretty sight
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I saw Tracii about a month ago, a bit worse for wear I hate to report.
Just a footnote on the Mott the Hoople gig I saw in 1974, Aerosmith opened on their first American tour
that night. My friend Paul leaned over and said to me " They're going to be huge. " Was he ever right. -
Aerosmith were so good, Steve Tyler has basically the perfect rock voice. I hate it when younger fans think of them as a soundtrack band
Sad news on Tracii, when I saw them the power went out in Rock City and he kept the crown entertained by telling jokes, natural showman
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Aerosmith are one of my favorite bands, I'm so glad to have seen them early on. Even back in '74 they were
tight, we knew it wouldn't be long before they were head lining. I vaguely remember Ian Hunter saying some-
thing about how good they were and surprised everyone stayed to see Mott after Aerosmith!Yeah, Tracii is hanging in there. He's always funny though and appreciates his fans…I run into a lot of those
Sunset hair bands since I live in the area, they're always fun to chat with about the old days. -
Motorhead - Orgasmatron tour - hammersmith odeon
Iron maiden, the one after live after death tour - hammersmith odeon
Faith no more- first uk gig Chuck was best- original Marquee club?
Suicidal Tendences - Klub Foot - Join the Army Tour - skater crew
Fugazi - Hammersmith Palais - Repeater Tour
Anthrax - Hammersmith Odeon - after they put the roskop deck on the front of Kerrang
Megadeth, think seond album tour - Hammersmith odeon… quite enjoyed Peter Gabriel around about the same time at hte Albert Hall
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Great list Red, I saw Iron Maiden open for UFO on the Killers tour with Paul Di'Anno and every time they played
here after that until Power Slave.
I was lucky enough to meet and chat with Clive Burr on the Killers tour, I was very saddened by his passing. -
Blackheart, what's up with Tracii, is he having health issues? I met him a few times back in the day and he was always cool.
I have seen hundreds upon hundreds of shows in my life, so I'm sure I'll post a few stories in here, but here's two of my most memorable shows to start:
Radiohead at a small (less than 500 capacity) club here in St. Louis at the very beginning of the OK Computer tour. Religious experience.
Guns n' Roses opening for Alice Cooper in 1987 in a small Missouri town called Cape Girardeau. This is a pretty cool story. I was 16 years old, and I'd just recently gotten my drivers license. The local arena announced Alice Cooper with LA Guns and Faster Pussycat opening, so I thought that sounded pretty kick ass and I camped out at the arena the night before tix went on sale, and scored front row center seats. The show was still a few months away, and right around that time Appetite for Destruction was released, and it quickly became my favorite album even though no one but me and a few friends had heard it at the time. Next thing I knew, LA Guns and Faster Pussycat were off the tour and were being replaced by Guns n' Roses, so I was even more stoked. Two days before the show, me, a friend, and my little brother who was 7 at the time took my car to the local shopping mall. We were walking around, and suddenly two guys walked past us who were clearly not from Missouri. It was Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin. After overcoming our shock and disbelief, we ran after them and asked if they were indeed who they obviously were, and they were shocked anyone in the mall recognized them. They invited us to hang out and walk around shopping with them for a while and were telling us a bunch of crazy stories about playing to a warehouse full of Mexicans that knew every word to every song, and filming the video to Welcome to the Jungle on a Sunday at a club called Scream. After a while, Axl said they were heading back to their hotel. I asked where they were staying, and it was a hotel almost a mile away, so since they had walked to the mall, I offered to give them a ride, and they accepted. We got into my car, and Izzy asks if he could play a cassette that he had bought, and puts it into my stereo. The first song was Rock and Roll Radio, which Axl cranked and started singing along to at the top of his lungs. In. My. Car. So away we go, me, my 7 year old little brother, my friend, Axl Rose, and Izzy Stradlin, in my 1974 Chevy Nova, rocking out to the Ramones. When we got to the hotel, Axl invited us up to his room, and proceeded to bring in the rest of the band minus Slash, who was in the next room down with his "girlfriend". We hung around for about an hour in Axl's room before I had to leave to pick up my sister. I told Axl that I had front row center seats, and he said "well I guess I'll see you at the show then". Two days later, I'm front row center and GnR are playing still the best show I've seen or heard them play, when in between songs, Axl says "hey everyone, I just want to introduce you to my buddy Chuck" and directs the guy manning the spotlight to shine it on me. "Chuck's a kickass dude, everybody give it up for Chuck." Shit you not. I was an instant legend at my high school, especially a few months later when their popularity exploded and they turned into the biggest band in the world. So, yeah, that's a pretty memorable show for me. :o
