how many gigs have you, well, you know...

You know, I dont think I can add uphow many shows Ive been to, even if I cut out small local band gigs and suchlike and only include "big" acts I couldnt say. Loads, but strangely, I never go to see bands anymore.

But off the top of me head I've seen: Lush, Adorable, Pavement, Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh, Smashing Pumpkins, Inspiral Carpets, Rollins, PWEI, Jesus Jones, Died Pretty, TISM (loads and loads), Mudhoney, Mogwai, Teenage Fanclub, the Fall, the Buzzcocks, Sonic Youth, endless bands on Big Day Out bills which is cheating really... blimey. *suprised face*. Lots.

.. and almost all of this was between '89 and '93-'94 (Mogwai excepted).

I saw a lot of early mogwai, magoo and arab strap gigs which may class as legendary. (also the delgados but they were shit).

But wait, I guess the most unique was Squarepusher's free jazz band at Love-Bytes and Senti-Ents in '98. The most bonkers mental gig I ever saw.

Do late gigs by milt jackson and celia cruz count?

That's my goofy fanboy story.

That's my goofy fanboy story.

I saw Fugazi once... I knew none of their songs, but they still blew me away. Incredible.

these shows left me with tickets, or distinct memories...
oh boy! skip if you didn't grow up in LA or can't take nerdy comprehensiveness....

rick springfield 83 - univ amph
duran duran, culture club 12/85 - cancelled :.(
echo + the bunnymen 4/88 - univ amph
the kinks 5/88 - univ. amph.
social distortion 88? - john anson ford
jesus and mary chain 10/88 - john anson ford
depeche mode/omd/wire/thomasdolby 6/88 - rose bowl
violent femmes 5/89? - greek
cure/pixies/love+rockets 9/89 - dodger stadium
jamc/nin 2/90 - univ amph
the the 3/90 - wiltern
peter murphy 3/90 - wiltern
the creatures 3/90 - wiltern
david bowie 5/90 - dodger stadium
inspiral carpets/adamski 6/90 - roxy
the stone roses 6/90 - hollywood h.s. cancelled :...(
happy mondays/guycalledgerald/adamski 7/90 - palladium
gathering of the tribes:
charlatans/iceT/iggy pop/etc 10/90 - pac amph
charlatans 2/91 - ucla
inspiral carpets 2/91 - palace
happy mondays 3/91 - palladium
ride/lush 4/91 - roxy
ride/lush 4/91 - roxy
morrissey 5/91 - pac amph
morrissey 6/91 - forum
morrissey 6/91 - santa barb. bowl
808 state 9/91 - lbc
primal scream 3/92 - palladium
james 3/92 - roxy
ride 5/92 - palace
beastie boys 6/92 - palladium
morrissey 9/92 - springfield, ma
sonic youth 10/92 - umass
digable planets 5/93 - pearl st.
guru jazzmatazz 10/93 - pearl st.
tribe called quest/delasoul 10/93 - pearl st.
george clinton 2/94 - umass
lollapalooza 7/94 - unlv
digable planets/spearhead 2/95 - hob
beastie boys 6/95 - csudh
the pharcyde 6/95 - hob
bjork 11/95 - palladium
beck 10/96 - sm civic
the cramps 11/96 - hob
beck 4/97 - univ. amph.
supergrass 7/97 - palace
maceo parker 9/97 - hob
the cramps 10/97 - palace
rev. horton heat 1/98 - hob
oasis 1/98 - univ. amph.
bjork 5/98 - palladium
charlatans 8/98 - john anson
brian jonestown massacre 8/98 - troub
bernard butler 9/98 - el rey
beastie boys 9/98 - forum
-start inserting 100's of local shows and bad indie judgement here-
the make-up 10/98 - moguls
air 10/98 - john anson
jon spencer 10/98 - palace
the cramps 10/98 - hob
saint etienne 12/98 - roxy
placebo 12/98 - whiskey
dub narcotic 5/99 - troub
beck 5/99 - wiltern
the make up 7/99 - troub
arling+cameron 8/99 - roxy
coachella
beck/spiritualized/morrissey/etc 10/99 - indio
5,6,7,8's 00? - spaceland
headcoats/headcoatees 00? - spaceland
beachwood sparks/warlocks 4/00 - hob
beck 5/00 - greek
primal scream 6/00 - hob
primal scream 6/00 - vinyl (?)
ian brown 6/00 - el rey (walked out)
beck 10/00 - wilshire theat.
wiskey biscuit 4/01 - knit fac
radio 4 bjm 5/01 - knit fac
peaches 8/01 - knit fac
momus - knit fac
spiritualized 11/01 - wiltern
weezer 8/02 - verizon (fmr. pacific) amph
white stripes 02 - el rey
beck 8/02 - wadsworth
primal scream 12/02 - manchester aca.
pulp/auto 12/02 - magna

This is mentalism - I couldn't even begin to count.

every year i think, "i shall make a list of all the bands i go to see this year, so i don't forget", and then i forget to make the list...

i don't go to enough gigs any more, i blame TOM EWING'S FRIENDS and the pub...

(i am going to see !J!U!S!T!I!N! !T!I!M!B!E!R!L!A!K!E! soon though)

I doubt I've been to more than 50 gigs in my life, even counting very small ones. When it's good it's really really good, but mostly live music is a bit shit.

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But only two were rock shows: Bardo Pond in canada and Boris and some other drone stuff in some shithole in camden. Both great.

The rest has been free jazz/improv: best was seeing Alan wilkinson playing his baritone saxophone with some electric guitar player whose name i've never heard (and can't remmeber), AMM with Taku sugimoto and Derek bailey with Milo fine. Also Mimeo last week which was part installation, part gig was unique experience.

Ones of special note:

Wings, 1976
Joan Jett, 1982
Beastie Boys opening for Madonna, 1985
Public Enemy opening for LL Cool J, 1987
Eminem, 1998

-my father's brother and mom's sister who went on one ill-fated date to a Sex Pistols show here in TX. My aunt was so horrified by the bleeding Sid Vicious playing his bass with a fish that they never went out again.

-my stepfather who saw the Runaways open for the Ramones in Ft. Worth. He tapes NASCAR races and enjoys cutting his lawn.

not fair .. . not fair. . .

But.

Reading '92 gave me two timeless moments:

1. Forsaking, after much umming and ahhing, Ride and EMF on the main stage in favour of Suede and The Sultans Of Ping in the tent - a decision, for what it's worth, which I do not regret one iota, since lalala I saw Suede in 1992 and that's quite rare in my experience (and the Sultans ROCKED).

2. Nirvana headlining the main stage - we were absolutely *miles* away from the front but managed to catch Everett True wheeling Kurt onto the stage in a wheelchair; we stayed for about two-and-a-half songs (not a clue what they were, even), then got bored and retired to my tent to neck like 17 year-olds are meant to. Little did we know, that was to be Nirvana's final UK performance...

The Cure at the Kilburn National in May '92 sticks out as especially special; Pulp at The Garage in, er, 2000 I think (yep it was that recently), was astounding, Blur at Leicester University in September/October 1993 (when they gave out the Modern Life train badges, and apparently the first ever appearance of "Girls & Boys" on a Blur setlist) was ace, and Spiritualized supported by Mercury Rev (still including the legendary David Baker) around the same time was incredible.

On average, I've been to 150-200 gigs a year since 1993 and I'm fucked if I'm trying to remember them all...but remembering the above was fun enough!

Ok, I haven't been to a lot of concerts. In fact, I've probably been to fewer concerts than your average seventeen-year-old. Let me try to list them all:

One:
Rolling Stones, Voodoo Lounge tour, 1994, Alamodome
Bryan Adams and the Ian Wright Band opened for the Stones, and I remember the Stones didn't play too many of their more recent works. They mainly concentrated on their '60s and early '70s material, which went down great for the crowd in general, but I was a bit disappointed they didn't do anything off Undercover of the Night or Steel Wheels. Ah well.

Two:
U2, PopMart tour, 1997, Alamodome
Third Eye Blind were the opening act, and I remember liking them for a few months after the concert because I thought they were so cute, so very fresh-faced and full of youthful excitement. U2 were amazing, IMHO. The concert was just shortly after Michael Hutchence's death, so there was a short bit of the concert that was dedicated to him. (Maybe three songs' worth.) I wasn't at all disappointed with this concert.

Three:
Duran Duran, Let It Flow tour, 1999, Dallas Starplex Amphitheater
My very first Duran Duran concert. Wow. Some turboslut opened for them. Ugh. But wow, my very first Duran Duran concert, and I thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever experienced. You see, I had been a fan for eight years at the time and I finally managed to save enough money for me to be able to afford to pay for not only the concert ticket but also the trip expenses. I wasn't disappointed at all, especially since they performed so much from Medazzaland, and especially since I got to meet Simon, Nick, and Warren afterward (I actually got a hug from Simon *laughs*).

Four:
Duran Duran, Pop Trash tour, 2000, Dallas Starplex Amphitheater
Same location, different feel, especially since I was meeting some people I'd chatted with for a little bit online. Tsar opened up for the band, which was... interesting, mainly because I thought the lead singer must've been on something. Anyway, this was my very first Duran concert that was concentrating on actually promoting an album. I. Loved. It. The spirit, the energy, the -- wow. I didn't even think about how hot & humid it was at the time. I met Nick and Warren again. *laughs*

Five, Six:
Duran Duran, same tour, same year, House of Blues - Las Vegas
Traveled all the way over to Vegas to see Duran perform live, mostly because I wanted more of the band, but also because I wanted to meet more of the people I'd been chatting with for a short bit online. It was also my first time in Vegas, which makes the fact that I spent most of my time there waiting in line inside Mandalay Bay (& slowly developing an aversion to the place) even sadder and more pathetic than it would be otherwise.

Seven, Eight:
Duran Duran, Up Close & Personal tour, 2001, House of Blues - Las Vegas
Ok, so I'm an uberfan. Call me Fangirl if you'd like. But I just had to go and see Duran again. These concerts introduced me to the whole concept of the "evil clown music", i.e. the Goldfrapp CD the band would play from shortly prior to the concert's beginning. (Just in case you're curious, I've looked it up and it's the Felt Mountain CD.) The phrase "Can't sleep, clowns will eat me," was well-used throughout the beginning, by the concert-going audience. The highlight for me for the two concerts was the fact that I was ACTUALLY IN THE FRONT ROW FOR BOTH OF THEM (*laughs* -- well, you would be if you spent about 6 1/2 hours waiting in line each day). By the beginning of the second day, however, I just COULD NOT STAND TO LOOK AT THE MANDALAY BAY HOTEL ONE MORE FRICKIN' TIME. Grrrr.

Nine:
Depeche Mode, Exciter tour, 2001, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - Selma, TX
Yet another one of those moments I truly treasure -- my first Depeche Mode concert, after being a fan of theirs for nine years, and only my second concert ever experienced by an artist ACTUALLY SUPPORTING A NEW ALBUM (*ahem stupidoldRollingStonesgits ahem*). They played a heck of a lot from Exciter, which I wholly approved of, and didn't focus any attention on their earlier works, which I also approved of. This concert also produced the only opening act I've experienced that I actually still like, i.e. Poe. (Ok, so I can be a sucker for Lillith Fair-style artists. So SUE me.) Dave Gahan moved around the stage like a god, and Martin L. Gore was still amazingly cool. Still one of my most treasured concert experiences.

Ok, so I've been to more concerts than I thought. Still, it's not a heck of a lot, especially considering how old I am, how many of them involved one singular artist, and how much time (a.) elapsed between a lot of these concerts and (b.) has elapsed since the last time I went to a concert.

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Shubert theatre 8/75
Frank Zappa, Robertson gym UCSB, '75
Bruce Springsteen, Rob gym, '75
Fleetwood Mac, Rob gym '75
Jeff Beck, Jan Hammer, Starlight amphitheatre, '76
Return to Forever, Arlington theatre 4/77
Weather Report, Al Dimeola, Arlington theatre, '77
Elvis Costello, Mink DeVille, Rob gym, 6/78
Talking Heads, Campbell Hall, UCSB, 11/78
Keith Jarrett, Campbell Hall, late '70s
Jefferson Starship (they opened the gates about 3/4 of the way through), UCSB stadium, late '70s
X, Wall of Voodoo, the Bags, Monitor, Middle Class, Black Flag,
Johanna Went, + many other punk bands at the Hong Kong cafe,
'79-early '80s, it's all a blur
UXA, the Mentors, Helen's, early '80s
Dream Syndicate, 1313 Mockingbird Lane, '80 or so
Gene loves Jezebel, the Minutemen, Horace Tapscott, Fishbone,
and lots more at various LA's Street Scene Festivals over a
few years in the early '80s
Suzanne Vega, Wiltern, 8/87
REM, Universal amphitheatre, 11/87
Replacements Palladium, 12/87
Sugarcubes, Hugo Largo, Elk's Lodge, '88 (probably)
10000 Maniacs, Wiltern, 7/88
Lou Reed, the Feelies, Universal, 4/89
Replacements, Palladium, 5/89
Fetchin Bones, Roxy, 10/89
Sugarcubes, Palladium, 2/90
Tom Verlaine (solo accoustic), McCabe's, 6/90
SOnic Youth, Palladium, 8/90
Elvis Costello, Wiltern, 5/91
Indigo Girls (I won the tickets on a radio show, I swear!),
Greek theatre, 6/91
Oingo Boingo, Irvine Meadows, 10/91
KROQ's 1st annual Weenie Roast, X, The The, Bettie Serveert,
Suede, + more, 6/93
X, the Palace, 9/93
Catherine Wheel, Belly, Jewel, Mayan theatre, 11/95
KROQ almost accoustic Xmas - Bush, Sonic Youth, Alanis Morissette,
Wesley Willis, Foo Fighters, Porno for Pyros, Adam Sandler, +
more, 12/95
Live (a friend dragged me), Morcheeba, Wiltern, 3/97
Yo La Tengo, Barbara Manning, Troubador, 6/97
John Fogarty, Greek, 8/98
Garbage, Palladium, 9/98
Gong, Brand X, House of Blues, 6/99
Alex Chilton, HoB, 7/99
Luna, Beulah, Troubador, 11/99
Gong, Kevin Ayers, the Knitting Factory, '00
Fred Frith/Chris Cutler, Epsilon Acrux, Knitting Factory, 11/00
Nickelback (free ticket!), Key Club, 10/01
Coachella Music & Arts Fest - Foo Fighters, Bjork, Souixsie,
Blonde Redhead, Mars Volta, Belle & Sebastian, Cornershop,
Paul Oakenfold + many more (2 days), 4/02
Tori Amos (see Live, but I liked it well enough), Universal, 12/02
They Might Be Giants (vs McSweeney's), Royce Hall UCLA, 4/03

Undated shows:
Tanya Tucker (my brother's band also played), Santa Barbara
county fairgrounds
Firehose, Cal Poly
Social Distortion, Cal Poly
Throwing Muses, Club Lingerie
Galaxie 500, Club Lingerie
Dream Syndicate, + lots more LA Press Club (or something, 3 stages
on separate floors)
Violent Femmes, Mary's Danish, Untouchables, USC quad
Yo La Tengo, 28th Dye, the Alligator Lounge
Beck, the Alligator
Charlie Haden and many more at MOCA's free summer jazz shows
The Fall, Blurt, the Flesheaters, Myron's Ballroom (mid '80s)
Eleventh Dream Day, the Chills, (and the headliners, whom I can't
remember), Bogart's Long Beach
Steve Wynn, the Mint
Liz Phair, Mayan theater, late '90s

So looking at the CD shelf next to my computer (which goes Sw-Z), here are the artists in that range I've seen live:
Swirlies (x2), Sylvesterboy, Nobukazu Takemura, Tall Dwarfs (inc. a memorable show at Under Acme w/ VPN, Utensil & Airlines), Tarnation, Team Dresch, Teenage Fanclub (their first American show, at a rented-out rehearsal space in 1990 or '91), Television Personalities, They Might Be Giants, Thingy, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 (half a dozen times), Third Eye Foundation, David Thomas, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments (at a tiny bar that had free White Castles that day), Richard Thompson (awesome show at Joe's Pub), the 3Ds (at the Mercury Lounge--I regretted not buying a T-shirt until Gail O'Hara gave me hers this year), Tiger Trap, Sally Timms, Tizzy, Tortoise, the Tower Recordings, Trans Am, True Love Always, Trumans Water, Tsunami, 2 Foot Flame, Ui, Uncle Wiggly (about 20 times, & wish it'd been more), Unrest (about a dozen times, & wish it'd been more), the Upper Crust, U2, Varttina, the Verlaines, Vershki Da Koreshki, Versus, Very Pleasant Neighbor a.k.a. VPN (20 times or so), Viva Satellite, Vomit Launch (at CBGB's--memorable!), Voodoo Glow Skulls, David S. Ware, Waterson:Carthy, WCKR SPGT (backed up by Nothing Painted Blue at Brownies), the Wedding Present, Weird Paul, Marva Whitney (briefly, at Brownies), Wild Carnation, Wingtip Sloat (inc. once at the Marquee when they opened with "Trigger Cut"), Wire (thrice now), Xerobot, Xiu Xiu, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo (maybe 10 times), You Are My Flower, Tom Zé, John Zorn. If I went and looked at the vinyl, too, there'd probably be a lot more, but that should give you some idea...

AC/DC at Downsview Park
Sonic Youth Montreal 2002
Voivod Montreal 2002
Bernard Parmegiani Montreal 2002
Sunny Murray/Sabir Mateem/Alan Silva Montreal 2002
Annette Krebs/Andrea Neumann Toronto 2003
some Rake and Mark Molnar moments over the years
Head Phone Over Tone and Building Castles Out of Matchsticks in Hamilton 2003
Jean Derome/Joane Hetu Montreal 2002
Shotmaker Ottawa 1996
Dismemberment Plan Ottawa 2000
Camera Obscura Ottawa 2000
Okara Ottawa 1995
Buried Inside's first show in Ottawa -> 97?
Death Squad Ottawa 1996
Nagamani Srinath Ottawa 2000
Dr N Ramani & son Ottawa 2000
Lungbutter Toronto 2002
Oneida Toronto 2002
Matthew Boughner/Matthew Didesmus in Hamilton 2003 (partly just the whole experience of deciding at the last minute to make the trip with a friend to see people we'd never heard of play prepared guitar and laptop stuff for free on the roof of a shopping mall and just going. And they were really good too.)
Fransisco Lopez Montreal 2002

Also, Link Wray, HoB, 7/97
Richard Thompson, Balboa Park, 4/02

Spinanes, Rhino records Claremont in-store
Slim Dunlop, Virgin records in-store

Some more:
G. Love - smoked weed and drank beer with him before and after the show. He played a spring weekend at my wifes college.
Iron and Wine
Beck
Sigur Ros
numerous local bands.

Also, how did I forget to mention the Fall???

*laughs* I'm 23, remember? To turn 24 in December... ? (Hey, that inadvertently rhymed.) I just stated I had attended fewer concerts than your average 17-year-old because I have, not because I'm actually 17. Ergo, there are people who are actually close to my age who have posted huge numbers on this thread.

Shows on tap for the upcoming months
Iron and Wine
The Black Keys
Ween(again)

Best gig: My Bloody Valentine, London Town and Country Club, 15th December 1991. Runners-up - Le Tigre, London Astoria, June 2002. Honourable mentions to Belle and Sebastian, Supper Club, NYC, 1st & 2nd November 1998.

same gig i mentioned above. cool.

wonder whether mark C was at the too pure christmas party at raw that one year - faith healers, seefeel, voodoo queens, cornershop(?)

another couple i rememberd too
pale saints / edsel auctioneer in leicester, broken hearted, instruments broken, clock going backwards
pram / comet gain / broadcast at dingwalls

seem to have stopped going to gigs about two years ago. too many people there just to talk to friends and drink and smoke rather than to watch the band. also, who would i go and see, coldplay? where have all the good bands gone?

andy

i've seen both at the same venue here in melbourne and they were among the best shows i've ever seen, especially GbV who were on seriously good form..

I'm not sure they've EVER played a gig in the uk :(

Andy, I have a feeling I couldn't go to that Too Pure show and was totally gutted. Old wounds :(

I've heard from Denver people that Apples in Stereo are pretty terrible live. They've played in the UK a couple of times Mark H.

Very, very true.

first concert ever - Paul Simon, Central Park, August 15, 1991

real first concert ever - Indigo Girls, Beacon Theatre, May or June 92 (and at least 5x since, in Central Park, at MSG, Wolf Trap, etc., including my most recent show)

the rest, as far as I can remember (I'm definitely missing lots of stuff), in iterative/alpha order...

- Phish (ahem, ~25x since 2/6/93) including Roseland Ballroom, NY, first five rows for every MSG show 95-96, Nissan Pavilion, VA w/ Dave Matthews encore, Great Woods, MA, Sugarbush, VT, Limestone, ME
- Grateful Dead (8.5x), RFK, MSG, Nassau Coliseum with openers including Dylan and (most embarrasing on this list) Sting
- ani difranco (at least 4-5x), Beacon Theatre, Carnegie Hall, Central Park
- Widespread Panic (at least 4x), Irving Plaza, NY and 930 Club, DC
- Medeski, Martin and Wood (at least 3x), NYC and DC
- Ominous Seapods (at least 3x), sub-jam band; once drove back from LI with one of the guitar players. One of the shows I set up and ran at my college in not particularly responsible fashion.
- Shawn Colvin (3x?), Beacon Theatre, Wolf Trap w/ Mary Chapin-Carpenter appearance and Subdudes opener
- Leftover Salmon (at least 2x), Irving Plaza (after one of the shows I hung out w/ their banjo player who died a few years ago)
- The Samples (at least 2x), Irving Plaza
- Groove Collective (at least 2x since ~93), NYC clubs that don't exist anymore
- Dave Matthews Band (2x) Roseland and MSG
- Hootie & the Blowfish (2x) The Bayou, DC and Wetlands, NY
- Sleater-Kinney (2x), clubs in Brooklyn
- Spin Doctors (2x) Beacon Theatre NYE 92 and on the Screaming Trees/Soul Asylum tour, Greek Theatre, LA
- Masada, Castle Clinton, NY (I've seen random other Zorn at least once)
- Vertical Horizon (at least 1x). Years before they were on the radio. Summer 93 or 94 before I liked them I popped my head in to a cafeteria at Georgetown where they were playing for like one person and then popped out.
- A Tribe Called Quest, steps of Low Library, Columbia U.
- Allman Brothers Band, Beacon Theatre
- Beck, steps of Low Library
- Black Crowes, Irving Plaza
- Blues Traveler, Roseland
- Buena Vista Social Club, Lisner Auditorium, DC
- R.L. Burnside, Central Park
- Busta Rhymes, steps of Low Library
- Anthony Braxton, Knitting Factory, NY
- Shirley Caesar, Washington Monument, DC
- James Carter, Bryant Park, NY
- Mary Chapin-Carpenter (I think? Wolf Trap?)
- From Good Homes, Irving Plaza
- David Grisman Quartet/Bela Fleck & the Flecktones (with Tony Trischka appearance), Town Hall, NY
- Deborah Harry and the Jazz Passengers, steps of Low Library, Columbia U.
- Deee-Lite, Columbia U.
- The Del McCoury Band, Central Park
- Aretha Franklin (with Ray Charles via satellite), The Mall, DC
- Fugazi, Fort Reno, DC
- Hot Pursuit, The Black Cat, DC
- Jazz Mandolin Project, Knitting Factory NY
- King Sunny Ade, World Financial Center plaza, NY
- The Kronos Quartet w/ Foday Musa Suso, Central Park
- The Libertines, The Black Cat
- Lilith Fair w/ Indigo Girls, Liz Phair, Sarah M., Morcheeba, etc.
- Los Lobos, Irving Plaza
- Luscious Jackson, steps of Low Library
- Majek Fashek, Tramps, NY
- "Male Slut" (Sonic Youth minus Kim), Irving Plaza (opening for the Black Crowes?!)
- Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers, Washington Monument during World Cup 94 (which I also attended, at RFK, courtesy Dan Rostenkowski)
- some form of Nevilles/Meters band, Tramps, NY
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, steps of Low Library
- Mingus Big Band, Fez, NY
- Morcheeba, 930 Club, DC
- Randy Newman, World Financial Center plaza
- Maceo Parker, Irving Plaza
- P-Funk w/ Bootsy, Capitol Ballroom, DC
- The Queers, The Black Cat
- random unknown juju band, The Mall, DC
- Rebirth Brass Band, Knitting Factory
- Tim Reynolds, Fez, NY (Dave Matthews Band in the club)
- Sonic Youth, steps of Low Library
- Ralph Stanley, Washington Monument (don't remember whether I was there or not)
- Sun Ra Arkestra, small club in NYC
- "Surrender to the Air" (Marshall Allen and Michael Ray of the Arkestra, Ribot, Medeski, Trey and Jon of Phish, etc.), The Academy, NY (either last or second-to-last show ever at the venue)
- Trans Am, Art-O-Matic, DC (I'm not sure if it was them or not)
- "Wasabi" (John Popper of Blues Traveler, Eric Schenkman and Aaron Comess of Spin Doctors, Rene from The Authority, Arnie Lawrence), Wetlands, NY
- Dar Williams, Birchmere, VA
- Victoria Williams, Central Park (I could be imagining this)
- Vue/The Faint, The Black Cat
- W.I.T., Luxx, Brooklyn
- Shannon Worrell, Fez, NY (with unannounced appearance by Jeff Buckley)
- Yo La Tengo, steps of Low Library (before I liked them - boo)

most memorable - first Dead and Phish shows, Phish 10/31/94 (the first Halloween show, 10PM - 3:30 AM) and 12/31/95, Maceo, P-Funk, seemingly incendiary MMW set at Knitting Factory w/ Marc Ribot, Masada, Tribe (my first hiphop show; I really haven't seen very many have I?), Sleater-Kinney at 100-degree-interior Southpaw this summer, Hootie at the Bayou - half the crowd from the Univ. of So. Carolina, band drunker than crowd, Ziggy - huge international crowd, rasta guys kicking around soccer balls, everyone cheers when a helicopter flies overhead and lands on the White House lawn

yes!! well i mean, its not as tight sounding as their album obviously, but they put a lot of energy into the shows, and robert schneider is so absolutely adorable that you can forgive them for fucking up some of the songs. "oops, hee-hee, sorry about that guys, um, hee-hee, giggle, the next song is Seems So, gigglegiggle".

Best ones? Alex Chilton and Teenage Fanclub downstairs in the old 13th Note pub in Glasgow, also Big Star at the Glasgow QMU, the two Belle and Sebastian gigs that Andy mentioned above in Glasgow (I'm assuming he meant the ones in Maryhill Community Centre though if he meant the ones in Glasgow and Edinburgh I was at them too), Pulp at Glastonbury '95, Nick Cave duetting with Kylie at T in the Park, the last three Manics gigs at the Astoria before Richey went AWOL, Suede at King Tuts, Radiohead at King Tuts, Blur supported by Radiohead c. Modern Life is Rubbish (Radio 1 thing at the Barrowlands), Bowlie (honorable mention even though I hardly saw any bands), Jeff Buckley, Edwyn Collins & Roddy Frame joint gig in Edinburgh ...

I have no idea how you all did this, you know. I could go on interminably (oh, I already have)

(last gig I went to was the Rolling Stones)

(and eeeeee! Lucksmiths! coming to the UK! am so, so, so excited.)

From 1985-present too many to list, too many to remember, i didn't keep stubs or anything. All the Sp* bands, Tool, Imperial Butt Wizards, Cindy Lee Berryhill, Possum Dixon, PopDefect, Tav Falco, Wayne Kramer, John Sinclair/Blues Scholars, US Bombs, all the BOMP/Alive bands I guess now that I think about it, all the bands we played with....I am senile I will *never* remember them all! (until something jogs my memory)

Classic, Sammy! Get the stub, you can always lie and say you went.

That reminds me, I did see the Sex Pistols. Banging, but a bit disappointing: was like seeing granddad and his mates on stage, trying to be oh-so-hip.

Then, I saw Lamb
Basement Jaxx
Donnas
Kosheen
Beverley Knight
Starsailor*
UNKLE....

at V2002

*Saw them twice in NYC as well

and Radiohead
Coldplay
And You Will Know Them by The Trail of Dead

most unlikely show: new kids on the block. I had to take my sister. Egads.

but I should go to more in London..

but I should go to more in London

careful, Jill, that way lies madness! Sleeping on the Oxford Tube, standing around at chilly bus stops for hours on end, that kinda thing.

Cantonese pop, which I gather is the Hong Kong style among other things.