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How many times do you find yourself saying "dang, I wish I could've seen him/her/them LIVE! Fuck a bunch of death/breaking up!"? What about the ones you did get to see? Please tell us about it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

MBV twice. The real honest to god Jane's Addiction twice. Pulp twice. List goes on, but off the top of my head, those.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Marley...for real. My inner hippie so wants to be at a bob marley show with a phat squeef.

Damn it. after i typed this i realized it was bands i had gotten to see before it was too late. oh well, im leaving it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

mbv. (this is a fucking miracle of god considering my age at the time.) swans. los crudos.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Soul Coughing is really the only one I can think of. Oh and Sunny Day Real Estate three times.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Morphine, 1997. They were on the second stage at the HORDE Festival. It was hot as balls that day, the audience was sweating like klansmen at the Apollo, but just as they took to the stage, a huge storm cloud grew on the horizon directly behind the stage, making it seem as though they had summoned the storm ("Like Swimming" was the opening song). The winds blew, the air grew cold, yet it never once rained. Meanwhile Morphine put on probably the best show of the day; Sandman's smooth baritone voice digging into the "bueno bueno bueno GOOD GOOD GOOOD!" of "Buena", Colley's disgustingly powerful-yet-simple double-sax in "Super Sex", the bouncy snakey rhythms of Billy Conway's drumming, it was totally perfect. When they got done Mark Sandman was like "well, we were supposed to have already been done, but we've got time for another half-song...anybody like FRENCH FRIES WITH PEPPER?" and they do a little lead-the-audience-in-singalong to "French Fries With Pepper", everyone applauds as they leave the stage...and strangely the clouds disappear and it gets clear and hot again, as though the storm-clouds came in only for Morphine.

"I can tell you taste like the sky, cuz you look like rain..."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the organist Jack McDuff a few weeks before he died. He was playing with some local cats, and even though he seemed kinda spaced out sometimes he was doing his thing and it was good to see him.

I went out of my way to see Elvin Jones in Boston...even though he's still going STRONG, it's a constant reassurance to me that if something happens to him, I've seen him.

Big regrets:

Not going to see Stanley Turrentine a few weeks before he died.

Not going to see Tony Williams do a clinic a few weeks before he died.

Not going to NYC with my parents who saw Billy Higgins a few months before he died.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

jawbreaker, pavement

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I got to see Soul Coughing too! I didn't even realize there was a 4th guy in the band 'til the set was half-over...

"What's that guy doing behind all those computers and things?"
"Dude, I think that's where all those crazy sounds are coming from."

If I had gone to the HORDE Fest. at Deer Creek (2 days before the one mentioned ^), I would've seen Soul Coughing again, as well as Beck & Squirrel Nut Zippers, instead of Screamin Cheetah Wheelies, Cakelike, and Toad the Wet Sprocket. :(

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and Neds Atomic Dustbin in Providence.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay! Saw them...three times? Yes, three.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Embarassingly enough : MC Hammer!

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I've seen Toad the Wet Sprocket.....twice.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, MC Hammer, me too! My first concert.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I missed all of Toad the Wet Sprockets' set at that one cuz Les Claypool & Brain were having a third stage jam session with the keyboard player from Fiji Mariners and like 3 percussionists and it was fucking awesome. Claypool looked at his watch at about the 45 minute mark and smiled, possibly because he realized they had just played all the way through TtWS's set.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

My mom & grandma got to see Jimi Hendrix opening for the Monkees and I still cannot get over that.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Satchel also in Prov at Daddys. Great show.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Zwan

― Sam J. (samjeff), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The Ocean Blue, they're all coming back to me now. I had to sneak into this one though.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Sheesh, too many to remember but most definitely...
Thin White Rope
Come
Live Skull
The Chills
John Fahey
Ut
Rodan

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 31 October 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The Feelies come to mind. 4 times i think. once opening for REM. once opening for Lou Reed. and twice on their own. and Swans too! there are others i'm sure.

― scott seward, Friday, 31 October 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

NIRVANA - The Mayfair, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK 12/02/91

Just glad I saw it so i can tell everyone what a sloppy live show it's possible to do when you are so fucked on uppers/downers etc you can't play in time with your band.

Shite shite shite

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Friday, 31 October 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm really glad that i had a chance to see George Crumb, Lonnie Mack, Dizzy Gillespie, and Verbal Assault in my lifetime.

― scott seward, Friday, 31 October 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm glad that I got to see Pavement, especially that one three-night-stand at Irving Plaza in 1999, because if I didn't, I'd feel awful since they are/were my favorite band.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 31 October 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, right, and Pulp. I'm extremely luck to have seen Pulp three times. I have a lot of friends who really loved them, and never got a chance to see them because they didn't tour in America for their last two albums.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 31 October 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Jane's Addiction five times before the end (i.e. with Eric still on bass). I saw the Wedding Present several times before they split (and Dave morphed into the yawnsome Cinerama). I saw Killing Joke's brief incarnation with Martin Atkins on drums in 1989. I saw Julian Cope on the Peggy Suicide tour (before he completely went off the deep end). I managed to see the Ramones three times before they shuffled off this mortal coil (twice with DeeDee still in the band), I saw Public Image Ltd. on the Album tour when Lu Edmonds was still in the band (before succumbing to crippling tinnitus, I believe). I saw the Sugarcubes, although I didn't think much of it at the time. I saw Guns'n'Roses at the New Ritz for their brief stop (for the filming of the "You Could Be Mine" video) and was almost deafened in the process. I went to the first four Lollapaloozas, I saw the Butthole Surfers in the two-drummer line-up and I was lucky enough to see Devo three times (the tours for New Traditionalists, Oh No!.. and Total Devo respectively).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 31 October 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

These come to mind right away (no particular order):

The Birthday Party
The Big Boys
Minor Threat
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Gang Of Four (however, not with Dave Allen)
Talking Heads
Three Johns
Crucifux
The Replacements
Shriekback
Tackhead
Jesus Lizard
The Chills

Biggest regret: Not driving to Toronto to see a Trouble Funk/Defunkt double bill, and never having the opportunity to see them ever again.

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 31 October 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been watching a lot of this Butthole Surfers DVD lately and the show it documents is of the two-drummer days. I wish I could've seen them in that era (the sousaphone! the trash & detritus onstage! Gibby's fucking hair! PAUL LEARY!!!).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 31 October 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I got to see a performance of Xenakis's "Kraanerg" at Princeton in 1996 that the man himself attended.

― hstencil, Friday, 31 October 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Hate to get heavy, but I am really glad I got to see Elliott Smith several months ago at the Echo in L.A., when he played a benefit show for a sick local promoter and was in fine form.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 31 October 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

MBV, The Cure (too late = they became awful), Ride (see Cure parentheses), Dinosaur Jr. (ibid), Lemonheads (ibid), NIN on first national tour (before they had a fanbase = hilarious)...

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 31 October 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Fear not Ben that is a wonderful example.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 31 October 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not entirely sure, but I think I saw Sonny Sharrock's last concert at the old Knitting Factory. A bit pro forma, I thought, but he seemed to be having a great time.

Pavement/Superchunk/My Bloody Valentine, June 19-20, 1992.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 31 October 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Sun Ra (three times; the last time I saw him, he touched me on the shoulder and smiled at me as he and the band paraded through the audience)

the late-'80s Ornette Coleman quartet reunion (Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell, two of whom are now gone)

Junior Kimbrough (albeit at Memphis in May, not at his place in Holly Springs)

The Pixies (although the show was kind of boring)

Pavement with Gary Young on drums (though it was too crowded and I wasn't feeling well so I left before the headliner: MBV)

Malathini and the Mahotella Queens

That's all I can think of right now.

― Lee G (Lee G), Friday, 31 October 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw the second to last "real" smashing pumpkins show ever... they played two dates in DC, the first of which i attended, before heading off to nyc, and the heroin tragedy that resulted.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw the second to last "real" smashing pumpkins show ever

You'd almost be right except Jimmy did rejoin the band for touring in 1999 -- D'arcy only left after that tour and recording for the Machina albums were completed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

ok ok ok ok but i bet on that 1999 tour they didnt do a 20 minute version of "silverfuck" with two drummers ;-)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

You can't have everything. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Junior Kimbrough at his place in Holly Springs.
The Grifters before they split for good.
White Stripes before the hoopla.

regrets: the Oblivians reunion TONIGHT! and I'm 1500 miles away.

― Will (will), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Nirvana and Jane's Addiction in 91, PWEI in 92, Living Colour in 93. Also got to see Shane Carter perform some DoubleHappys material solo around 93 - 94 and a solo Jeff Mangum show after NMH split.

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

ok ok ok ok but i bet on that 1999 tour they didnt do a 20 minute version of "silverfuck" with two drummers ;-)

Who was the other drummer?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it was Melvoin actually. he stepped off from the keyboards.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Elliott Smith twice (at Tramp's and at the Knitting Factory). In the days of early 90's Shoegazery, I saw Ride, Chapterhouse, Curve, Lush (four times), Swervedriver, Blur (on the Leisure tour, no less), the House of Love and My Bloody Valentine. I saw PWEI, Ned's Atomic Dustbin (a few times), the Wonder Stuff (about five times). Also saw the Fatima Mansinos and Birdland, oddly enough.

Was blessed enough to see Mr.Bungle twice on the tour to promote their first major lable record. QUITE an experience.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahah! DB and I have our eternally fresh story about seeing Mr. Bungle with the Melvins opening in early 1992. Heh heh heh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

John Lee Hooker in '99 (I think that was one of his last full tours)

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I a young House of Love supporting the Mighty Lemon Drops. That was just after Shine On came out the first time round, and a good few months before they released Christine. Caught the Wonderstuff early on too, but there is simply no way in hell I'm going to say who they were supporting!

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah fuck you Ned! ;-)

(translation good lord I would've loved to have seen that Bungle/Melvins show.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

OH YEAH! . . . and the Grifters

― Lee G (Lee G), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Fushitsusha at Tonic in NYC, while they were still a trio.

I saw Junior Kimbrough open for Iggy Pop at Roseland in 1996.

I saw Jane's Addiction twice. Once on Lollapalooza, and once before that, at the Hollywood Palladium during one of the two nights that were taped for the Gift movie. The Pixies were also on that bill, added at the last minute.

I saw GG Allin at one of the shows that was filmed for Hated.

I saw the Revolting Cocks on the Beers, Steers & Queers tour.

I saw John Zorn, Fred Frith, Bill Laswell and Dave Lombardo, with Eye Yamatsuka on vocals, at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival in 1999 or 2000.

I saw Zorn and Keiji Haino do a sax/guitar duo at CBGBs, with UFO Or Die also on the bill.

That's about it, I think.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 31 October 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I'm glad I got to see Sonny Rollins, even though he's doing fine still and it was a pretty ragged show (that kind of added to the appeal though).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 31 October 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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Unrest were the biggest letdown of my teenage years. Horrible attitudes.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Saturday, 1 November 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, I saw Exploding Hearts at their only East Coast performance in the upstairs of some secret Harvard society in Cambridge only two months before they were killed.

― Michael Patrick Brady (Michael Patrick Brady), Saturday, 1 November 2003 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Paul McCartney and Wings L.A. Forum 1976
Devo Santa Monica Civic 1979
Pretenders Santa Monica Civic 1979
Clash Santa Monica Civic 1980
Gang of Four / Iggy Pop Santa Monica Civic 1980
Throbbing Gristle Veteran's Auditorium Culver City 1981
Captain Beefheart Country Club Reseda 1981

+too many more to recall at the moment, but those are the key bragging rights shows

still getting over 'em all : )

― brad laner, Saturday, 1 November 2003 06:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Gang of Four / Iggy Pop Santa Monica Civic 1980

Good lord, what a double bill!!!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 November 2003 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

indeed ! here's a few more, sorry

Pink Floyd L.A. sports arena 1979
Birthday Party Roxy 1983
The Cars/ Styx ! l.a. forum 1978
XTC / Wall of Voodoo hollywood palladium 1981

― brad laner, Saturday, 1 November 2003 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Guns N Roses, Jesus Lizard, I really enjoyed seeing Black Grape for what it's worth.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 November 2003 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the reformed Velvet Underground at Glastonbury. Awful.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 November 2003 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

XTC / Wall of Voodoo hollywood palladium 1981

Oh you FUCKER! I am so goddamn jealous!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 November 2003 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

If I could be any more envious of some of you fuckers (one of which I saw in the flesh earlier tonight "earlnash"!) I would spontaneously combust with envyfire!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Saturday, 1 November 2003 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The Germs / The Go-Gos (when Margo was still in the band) 1979
Wall Of Voodoo (last gig with Stan) / The Clash & others, 1983 US Festival
The Dream Syndicate (Karl P and Kendra Smith line up), 1983 Anti-club
The Replacements ("stink bomb" show at the Roxy when Bob Stinson was still there)
The Ramones (w/Dee Dee!), Black Flag, The Minutemen at the Hollywood Palladium

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 November 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Miles Davis, 1989, Midtfyn Festival, Denmark.
Nirvana, 1992, Roskilde Festival, Denmark (although it was on the night of the Danish Euro 1992 victory, and they could have put Wet Wet Wet up there and everybody would have gone apeshit none the less).
Guns'n'Roses, 1993, Gentofte Stadium, Denmark.
... and four years back, in 1999, I saw Tom Waits at an old circus building in Stockholm, Sweden. Blew my fucking head off. Not technically too late to see him again, but I doubt if he will ever come to Europe again, and if he will ever be able to pull of an equally perfect performance.
Run DMC, 1988, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Public Enemy).

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Saturday, 1 November 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I was at that Ornette show at Carnegie, too, but the acoustics of where I was seating (kind of midway up, towards the middle) were so weird and murky I couldn't make heads or tails of what I was hearing.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 1 November 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, and I saw the free Sun Ra/Sonic Youth show in Central Park, July 4, 1992, very shortly before Ra died.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 1 November 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i forgot jehu, which was maybe the best show i've ever seen. crudos second. i don't have much time for that kind of straight-up 80s hardcore revival stuff these days (read: any) but crudos were the single most exciting live band i've ever seen.

i've seen fugazi probably 6 or 7 times. best was the lungfish/ex/fugazi show in philly circa late 99 (?...i'm so shit with dates, maybe early 00). only got to see about five lungfish songs which still tears me up, but the ex were fucking incendiary (even surviving my companion leaning over to me and saying "they sound a bit like big country, don't they?").

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 1 November 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh you FUCKER! I am so goddamn jealous!

Brad knows his stuff and takes advantage of the time! Can't blame him!

i forgot jehu, which was maybe the best show i've ever seen.

Yeah, caught a Yank Crime show with DB back in 1994. Awe-inspiring.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 November 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Loads, but the only one that springs really to mind is Jeff Buckley. Saw him twice, once in Glasgow and once at Glastonbury.

Regrets? That I never went to Glastonbury the year Johnny Cash was playing.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 1 November 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

who am I jealus of? hstencil for seeing 'Kraanerg' live, and all the ppl who have seen ornette coleman.

I am really glad to have seen AMM (twice), lol coxhill, derek bailey, evan parker, leo smith, john zorn (though he is only 50), peter brotzmann and sonny murray earlier this year was a blast!

maybe the only regret would be when i missed joe mcphee. i completely missed that.

Quite like to see ornette if he would play a show here. also love to see cecil taylor, han bennink...any number of first generations european improvisors as well as anthony braxton, milford graves if they could ever travel for once.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 November 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah...I saw Cecil Taylor perform live on a street in Soho back in the mid-nineties.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 1 November 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

bah.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah and love to see charlamaigne palestine but i know you seen him too mike.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 November 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Flag, Dog Faced Hermans, Corrupted, Killdozer, Brutal Truth, Fugazi, Max Roach, even Boss Hog with Charlie Ondras was great.

Seen too late: Head of David, Bow Wow Wow, Thin Lizzy

Muncie!
That club down the steps was called No Bar & Grill, I think. At the Rapeman show, Albini was yakking about something too long between songs, giving the crowd a hard time, so Bob Wagner went up and yanked the little guy's pants down. Shut him up, it did.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 1 November 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, Sun Ra and Pussy Galore, and Harry Pussy many times. That was a short but sweet run. Kataklysm with Sylvian singing. Scorn.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 1 November 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

>>>Oh you FUCKER! I am so goddamn jealous!

ha, you should be : )

guess it pays to have grown up in the big city with hip/permissive parents. I was age 12-14 for all of those shows. Had tinnitus before I ever started my own band !

― brad laner, Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Afghan Whigs

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoa .. Ian, have Corrupted toured the US? I must have missed that..

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Pussy Galore on their final tour, in 1989.

I almost got to see New Kingdom, but they blew off the gig. Nosaj showed up, but Sebastian didn't, and neither did the rest of the band.

I've seen Cecil Taylor three times: once at the Village Vanguard in a trio, once at Avery Fisher hall (first half solo, second half trio), and once with an improvising big band at the Knitting Factory.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, and I saw the free Sun Ra/Sonic Youth show in Central Park, July 4, 1992, very shortly before Ra died.

I was at that show.....and can't remember a time when I've been as bored.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Jehu and MBV, obv, but above those two, Disco Inferno @ Leeds Uni Harvey Milk Bar in 94. The latter was the single most surprising gig I've ever seen. Having only read about them in Melody Maker, I went in expecting something like The Young Gods and what I got was, well, Disco Inferno is full on sample-pop mode. Each time a new track started my jaw hit the floor. Nothing's really matched up to it since.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

sigh.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Birthday Party, Clash, Miles Davis, Delta 5, Joy Division, Nirvana, Only Ones, Pixies, Sex Pistols, Siouxsie & The Banshees with Morris & McKay, Slits, Smiths, Specials, Johnny Thunders, X-Ray Spex, XTC....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 1 November 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I was at that show.....and can't remember a time when I've been as bored.

SY as a whole seemed anti-involved and bored, but I was determined to have a blast and a blast was what I had.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 1 November 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Peter Brötzmann März Combo
Faith No More
P.I.L.
Tom Cora
Sugarcubes
World Domination Enterprises
The Ganelin Trio

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 1 November 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I also saw Sun Ra and the Arkestra in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama in 1990. Don't remember much about it except they showed the procession on the evening news later that night, which was kinda cool.

When I saw Killdozer it was great, even though it was the tour without the original guitarist, still was a lot of fun.

Dog Faced Hermans played my college (along with Luna, weirdly enough) when I was a freshman, and they were amazing. To make it even better, the bass player (forget his name) gave me a t-shirt after the show (don't know if I can find it, though). Similarly enough, John Brannon of Laughing Hyenas gave me a t-shirt after one of their shows in Louisville way back when.

Also freshman year Charles Gayle played with (I think, but don't quote me on it) No Neck Blues Band opening (if it wasn't No Neck, it was something very very similar). That really opened my ears to more free music (although I liked some jazz stuff at the time).

― hstencil, Sunday, 2 November 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

By Virtue of Living in Providence:
Arab on Radar about a dozen times. Lightning Bolt before they became
famous, and the same with Six Finger Satellite. FORCEFIELD. Anton Bordman.Landed (who play super rarely still, but are never very good).

Orchid.
Flying Luttenbachers when it was still a band.
Butthole Surfers pre-suckitude.
Q And Not U as a quartet.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 2 November 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

Sun Ra
Elvin Jones
Sonny Sharrock
Tony Williams

All of 'em at Toronto's now-defunct Bermuda Onion in 1991-92.
Oh, and I made a promise (to myself) that I would quit trying to get attention by mentioning my handshake with Sun Ra, so I won't mention it.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

A Tribe Called Quest
prime-era GbV
pre-reunion Pixies
Geraldine Fibbers
Schlong

I've seen a lot of bands that are broken up now but most of them I wouldn't really care either way: Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Primus etc.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

oh I'm glad I've seen Dinosaur Jr., Shonen Knife and Shudder to Think as well.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ramones in Sydney 1991. It was my second show ever and the first was U2. What a difference.

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow my first show ever was U2/Pixies in Sacramento 1992. Wish I'd gotten to see the fuckin Ramones next, lucky.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Twas an eyeopener. Was actually more blown away by the Hardons supporting. Ray breathed fire and everything.

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Steely Dan. Summer 2000. Ricky Lawson was drumming, and at the end of the show I thought, "I will NEVER be that good."

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The Kinks, apparently.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

MJ and Run DMC. Oh, and Phoebe One (hahahahaha)

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Nirvana
Beat Happening
My Bloody Valentine
Crash Worship
Swans

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The Go Team
World of Pooh
Devo circa New Traditionalists
Bis (their early shows were unbelievably great)
Raincoats during their short reunion period
Heavens to Betsy
much more.

― mike a, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, the Go Team ... how come no box set?

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Celila Cruz.
Sun Ra (post-stroke). I had seen him several times before that, but after his stroke, there wasn't much time to see him again, and I'm glad I did. This might be entirely my own projection, but he seemed angry about his illness. (Maybe I was interpreting the usual intense keyboard playing with anger, when I would have otherwise just heard it as Sun Ra doing what he usually does.)

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Beefheart--did a show in Nashville, and before the performance saw him being led by his wife? down Elliston Place...

Del Shannon, perhaps the most old-tyme rock 'n' roll thing I ever saw.

Gene Clark at the Bluebird Cafe...no one was in danger of being thrown out for "whispering" during the performance

Earl King in Memphis, drunk off his ass but so what.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

stevie ray vaughan
jawbox
fugazi
seam
polvo

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Sugarcubes, Replacements, Throwing Muses in their early years, Elvis Costello and Talking Heads in the 70s, Horace Tapscott (wandered into an outdoor performance at a street festival).

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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