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Inspired by the cool "shows you inexpicably didn't go to" thread. Ever glimpsed musical history in the making on a fluke, by accident? Especially when it seemed like no big deal at the time? Like Ricky Martin's farewell appearance w/Menudo at Radio City Music Hall. There was a goodbye sequence, also welcoming his replacement. The little girls around me screamed "Fuck you! We still love Ricky!"

"I have seen the future of mindless pop music and his name is..."

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 5 March 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Massive Attack. Was dragged along by my wife. SO BORING. A friend and I spent most of the gig outside, smoking a ciggy. Unbeknownst to me, my future partener had also been dragged along to the gig and was outside, also smoking a ciggy! Lowpoints: each member of session band took a solo; someone other than Liz Frazer singing that song she sang.

― moley (moley), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Less mortifying example, also from the 80s. I went to see a local NYC band called The Bloods (w/ Adele Bertei)in 1981 and opening was a band from Georgia: REM, a while before their single came out and the press accolades began. They were impressive from what little I remember, Stipe's voice was strong and Peter Buck jumped around the stage a la Pete Townshend. But I had no inkling of what came next.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I love Massive Attack but those solo bits sound like something from a Hall & Oates concert.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I saw Sarah McLaughlin twice, supporting the baby steps of a sheltered friend while he was starting to get into music. I guess it's explicable, but still, ugh.

― Dexter St. Jock, Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Woodstock '94, last day. Saw lots of WOMAD acts get booed. Saw Gil Scot-Heron get ignored. Saw everyone go nuts and throw mud at Green Day. Got totally drenched in mud, ruining my Poster Children t-shirt forever. Got gouged by locals on the ride in the pickup truck across the Hudson.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

My girlfriend and I thought we'd try to do something "cultured" (whatever the hell that means anymore), so we took in the Canadian Opera Company's production of "The Handmaid's Tale". It was horrible - the music and vocals were (quite deliberately) discordant for the ENTIRE FUCKING SHOW. I sat there gritting my teeth, thinking "Just... one... major chord... PLEASE GOD...", but had no luck. We both left with splitting headaches.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Saw Eminem open for the Last Emperor about 7 or 8 years ago, or so, in front of about 250 people. He came out with some knuckleheads and did "I Just Don't Give a Fuck" and some other things. Everyone seemed to like it.

― San Carlos (San Carlos), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Jane's Addiction at the Warfield - first show of their recent reunion tour. I love Jane's, but they sounded fucking terrible. Plus they didn't come out on stage til midnight & we had to suffer through 3 hours of crappy house music while we waited.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

xxx post

we were driving south on the NYS Thruway that same day, and right around Kingston/Woodstock were all these little clumps of tie-dyed hippie kids littered along the roadside. An image I won't forget.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

My wife and I went to visit a friend in Ottawa, and she surprised us with Melissa Ethridge tickets for that night. I'm certain I don't need to say any more!

― peepee (peepee), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

I courteously accompanied a friend to see David Byrne a couple of years ago. Seethed quietly. I'd like to fart in that dude's mouth.

― Aaron A., Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

i went to a strokes show before they had a record out, but it was getting too crowded so i left before they came on and bumped into them smoking on the sidewalk

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Lisa Loeb. For whom my girlfriend-at-the-time and I waited far too long to show up. We knew better...and yet...

― nader (nader), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Liberace, when I was 10. He walked past my seat to get to the stage. I touched his mink coat. I haven't been the same since.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I saw some insufferably repressed woman with an acoustic guitar open for 10,000 Maniacs in `87 or so....who'd later turn into Tracy Chapman (we all thought her second album should've been titled Gosh, Bein' Rich Ain't So Bad!)

I saw Nine Inch Nails at a cheesy, cheesy club called Sonic's (that would later turn into the sadly short-lived NY Marquee) in 1989.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

I interned at SPIN in the summer of `89, and they had a party at then-very-hip club on 14th Street, Nell's. Part of the festivites included a performance by this hip hop act who came out wearing cloaks and rapping about leaving their wallet in El Seguno.....which they proceeded to perform no less than three times. "These guys suck are a completely going nowhere!" my friend Brent said. They were called A Tribe Called Quest.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

My Vitriol. And Idlewild. Entertainment was very scarce for a Northampton lad in the late 90s.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Symposium. Jeez.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

won tickets to a Travis Morrison show @ Knitting Factory LA. It was my first time there so I didn't know there was a main stage beyond the first room so I stayed in the first room for a kickass pre-halloween bash with Explogasm and Seksu Roba this Japanese noise disco outfit who used a theremin iirc!

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

we were driving south on the NYS Thruway that same day, and right around Kingston/Woodstock were all these little clumps of tie-dyed hippie kids littered along the roadside. An image I won't forget.

yeah, I was wearing a mud-smeared Poster Children "Flower Plower" t-shirt. You could hear the festival ACROSS THE FUCKING HUDSON at Bard, something like 15 miles or so away. Serious, that Friday I sat in this one garden by the river and listened to Primus. I wouldn't have gone that Sunday but I stayed up all the night before partying with some other freshmen (of COURSE) and they talked me into it (plus one of the girls I had a crush on). Yeesh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I called up a radio station and won tickets to an Indigo Girls show, so I went.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Ugh, maybe my dislike of live music in general has to do with some of the horrible concerts I've been to. A friend of mine conned me into buying her spare Counting Crows ticket, with Live and The Negro Problem opening. Worst concert ever.

Also I saw both Jurassic 5 and Deltron 3030 because apparently real rappers don't come to San Francisco (maybe some do shows in the depths of Oakland or something I don't know). Those probably have to do more with me being foolish many years ago than anything.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

That counting crows thing was also a long long time ago, understand? I'm too smart to fall for that shit these days.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

I used to do a lot of concert reviews between '87 and '96. A few real atrocities: Indigo Girls (twice), Kiss (1990), Miracle Legion.

I've seen about a half dozen really blinding R.E.M. shows and two real horrors -- 1985, when Stipe was in the throes of his apparent post-'Fables' meltdown (though the Minutemen opened -- this was, I wanna say, December 6), and 1987, which was redeemed not by the opening act (10,000 Maniacs) but by an encore cover of "Midnight Blue." That one made an appearance in a Rolling Stone story on the band; it was the show where someone threw something (a drink? rolled-up socks?) at Buck, hitting his guitar and infuriating him.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

I have seen Radiohead in a weeny venue (King Tuts in Glasgow) round about the time Creep came out the first time. They weren't very good, as I recall. To my eternal shame, I only went because the headlining act were The Frank & Walters.

I just realised a few weeks ago that I've seen Alex from Franz Ferdinand's previous band a couple of times.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Saw X in St. Louis. The opening act was some skinny guys from Minneapolis. My friends and I thought they were pretty good, but the place was still filling up and most everyone was indifferent. Once X took the stage Exene chewed us all out for not supporting what she called the "best band in the country," the Replacements.

― Taylor, Sunday, 6 March 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

I have seen the Bouncing Souls three times BY ACCIDENT.

I saw Sha Na Na once, and Flock of Seagulls fairly recently (also by accident)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 6 March 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

Twice, through no fault of my own, I endured Nirvana live, before they became a household name. What doesn't kill you will make you stronger.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 6 March 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

obviously too hot for ilm bimble, damn!

― ach (JenaP), Sunday, 6 March 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

...my boss dragged me to a Hot Tuna concert in the middle of work a month or two ago (night shift). This resulted in a few things:

(a) I had to see Hot Tuna (who didn't *suck*, but still...not my thing)
(b) I had to stay late at work. Like, really hard.
(c) I had to drink beers with my boss and listen to him get drunk and bitch about his lady problems. Ew.

The whole thing had a weird...Japanese vibe to it. If that makes sense to anyone.

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 6 March 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

i started to think about it, and realized i've seen a depressing amount of inexplicable shows. but hey i've just seen a lot of shows i guess.
maybe among the most ridiculous, and NOT depressing, was that elvis thing at radio city circa 97/98, where his vocal performance video was played and the original band (incl. godlike guitarist james burton) did it live in flawless sync. and the screen was in a distinct 'cross' shape at one point. i think that might have been one of my favorite things ever actually, in retrospect. a roommate at the time hooked it up out of basically nowhere too

― noizem duke (noize duke), Sunday, 6 March 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

around 96-97 i was recording a lot of shows on DAT and some internet guy got in touch with me and said he'd pay for me as long as i recorded the band. Rush. i stood by the water (amphitheater, san diego) and smoked a joint and tried to block out the music. i left before the encore and he was pissed i didn't tape it.

― jergins (jergins), Sunday, 6 March 2005 07:30 (twenty years ago)

a friend was a local dancer who was employed not to dance at a debbie reynolds show (local employment required for touring acts)

my gf and i got the freebies and attended on acid.

best show i have ever been to.

BEST.

sitting in an beautiful olde time theatre next to middle aged dressed up folk tripping offa me skull.

my enthusiasm was not fake but may have been surprising to the other attenddes.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 6 March 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

tori amos w/ alanis morrisette; like many above me, accompanied a friend cuz she was paying

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Sunday, 6 March 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

I also saw Tori because a friend payed once, but it wasn't that bad.

Back when Los Angeles did its annual Street Scene fest (about 9 blocks closed to traffic with multiple stages) I saw Donny and Marie on the main stage. There were thousands of people watching them, and from where I was (toward the back) about half were thrilled and the other half were there to mock it.

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 6 March 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Ditto, at Oxford venue, where of course Radiohead were up-and-coming local heroes. My then g/f, who I'd been dragged along by to see F&W, thought they were 'hopeless'. I didn't argue.

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Sunday, 6 March 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

haha I totally missed the point of this thread. Serves me right for not reading the first post close enough.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 6 March 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Working at First Avenue for two and a half years meant I saw more bad (and sometimes great!) live music than any normal person would encounter in a lifetime (to say nothing of the many folks who've worked there waaaay longer than I ever did). However, the standout in re: this topic has to be Limp Bizkit, whom I encountered thrice over a 12-month period, prior to them becoming successful. Each time--each single time--at least one of my coworkers and I would ask each other two questions: "Weren't they just here a month ago?" (answer: yes, probably--they were the opening act du jour for all-ages thrashy/metally stuff at that point, '98 or so) and "Is it me, or are these guys really bad even for that kind of music?" (which mean something considering how many AmRep fans I worked with)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Sunday, 6 March 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Tool. I don't when masturbation nearly bursts my ear drums.

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Sunday, 6 March 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

I don't LIKE IT when...

obv.

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Sunday, 6 March 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

On the live album "Live at the Target", Twelfth Night , I was in the audience for side one. (The album's supposed to be worth a few bob now to prog fans). They took an interval, but me and the friends I went with decided to leg it as we were bored silly.

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 6 March 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

I've had the misfortune of seeing Kittie and Chevelle in concert. I win. Lock thread. *kills himself*

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 6 March 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Anti-Pop Consortium. I had never heard of APC before but I decided to give it a try. Some guy tried to pick me up with the line:"I like a lot of different music, Tupac and Tori Amos." and "Aren't you having fun? Why are you not dancing?!?"

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Sunday, 6 March 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Uh, I really did/do like APC so delete my post. ;-) Trail of Dead however. *barf*

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Sunday, 6 March 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Ray Charles-Danbury CT..i was more interested in flirting w Cicely Tyson
Chubby Checker-where he mistook me for a girl and brought me up on stage to Twist with him and when he realized i was a drunken hippie,had me led off stage.
Diana Ross in Central Park-It started massive lighning displays about 10 mins in and we had nohwere to run nowhere to hide
Eagles/Heart at Yale Bowl-My teen molester had tickets,you cant say no to that.

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Sunday, 6 March 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

1) Thompson Twins at Radio City, NYC, 1986. With a robot. Onstage. Horrible.

2) NIN at Dj Freak's, Newark, NJ, 1989. Great little dive bar with a stage but NIN were wretched.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Man! We need a group hug or something.

― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

The Vines supported by the Libertines.

I can't even remember why I bothered to go.

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

cattle decapitation, which was the last show i saw at the trocadero before it became booked by house of blues. my friend dan was the house manager and i stopped over one day to visit him at work. the funniest part about the show was not the band but the audience -- all these hardcore / goth / punk kids standing there with their arms crossed and a non-plussed expression on their face. kind of not any different than a typical indie rock show...

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

oh god, where to start.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Sting, 1989. well, I liked him at the time I guess.
Sarah McLachlan at some point. I guess I liked her too but kind of like the above, this was a date with a younger female friend who was a big fan.
Tori Amos, Boys for Pele tour. This was actually rather good but I only went because my mother bought tickets for me as a gift. I remember we went and saw some k records band afterward somewhere else (can't remember their name right now).
the Cranberries/Suede, 1991 or 2. A date. Obv. Suede wiped the floor with the Cranberries.
NIN, Downward Spiral tour. Another date! This was way more fun than I expected it to be. But I was really stoned. Then I made out with the girl I went with, regretted it when I sobered up, and pretended to pass out in the car so she would leave me alone. She was so mad she slapped me in the face. hahaha. in retrospect this was a GREAT night!

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

mc hammer + vanilla ice + en vogue

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

milli vanilli (admittedly this was not by choice, but i'll cop to being totally thrilled that young mc was the surprise opener)

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

the vines TWICE

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

cliff richard + laura branigan

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

(at the age of three)

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

corey hart

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

I saw the Hudson Brothers and Eddie Rabbit when I was a kid. I guess those were my first concerts!

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

moody blues, atlantic city, 1995 or 1996.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 6 March 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

The big legends are always the worst. New Order, John Cale and David Bowie are three concerts I went to that stand out as being the most boring, pointless and disappointing.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 6 March 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

could you list the years that these offenses occured, please...

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 6 March 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Man! We need a group hug or something.

hahahaha

I can't believe someone saw Corey Hart here. Corey Hart!

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 6 March 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

good lord, the Corey Hart mention reminded me that I also saw a-Ha.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 6 March 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

a-ha is better than corey hart! although, to be fair, i was eight.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 March 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

xpost... the shows I mentioned all occurred in the mid '90s

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 6 March 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

AHA! (haha). Witnessing one of Bowie's countless farewell/comeback tours during that period must've been esp. gruesome.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 6 March 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Oooh, I just remembered a really painful Kevin Ayers show from around that period as well. Crap performances by artists I actually admire end up seeming much more inexplicable (as in "why the hell did I go to that show") in retrospect than some of the more conventionally "embarassing" shows I've been to (Milli Vanilli, Paula Abdul, New Kids on the Block, Neil Diamond, REO Speedwagon, etc.)

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 6 March 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Thousand Yard Stare at Wetlands

― Russell (Russell), Monday, 7 March 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

CBGB's, 1975, Ramones - they fought about what they were going to play after like every song, so I just left, fuck that

Seattle, 1992, Nirvana - they sucked. this guy I knew that knew this guy let me get backstage, but I was like, whatever, I'm going home.

Sometime in the 60s, Liverpool, Beatles - fell asleep three times.

― D.I., Monday, 7 March 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

Thousand Yard Stare at Wetlands

Aaah! I saw them too! SO NICE TO HEAR THEM MENTIONED HERE!

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 7 March 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

Sometime in the 60s, Liverpool, Beatles - fell asleep three times.

Wow. You're kidding right?

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 7 March 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

he's losing his edge and it's still going over your head.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 March 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

what is?

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 7 March 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

never mind.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 March 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

Well that other thread sure did remind me of Losing My Edge for awhile there but I wasn't going to say anything. So it's interesting you mention it.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 7 March 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

why why why did i go see the faint?!?!?

― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 7 March 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

Mogwai supporting the Make-Up in Edinburgh in 1996. Stuart did a lot of falling over and playing the guitar reallyreallyfast on his back.

Idlewild at Planet Pop in Edinburgh in 1996. They were wearing yellow and really horrid nylon retro green football tops with stuff like Satan 666 written on them. They were supporting someone else and were fucking appalling.

Franz Ferdinand on the new bands stage at T in the park 2004. I went because they had an interesting name. They were quite good.

The Stereophonics supporting Kenickie in 1996 (I think). Wrote them off as hapless plodders destined for fuck all. How I wish I was right.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

I saw Rodan, in Princeton, NJ. I get the impression that few people did. I could be wrong tho. Great show, Codeine showed up to do a surprise set at the very end of the night.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Wow, that would've been great! Saw Rodan with Tsunami and Eggs on their one UK tour, superb live band. Saw Codeine on their trip here too, they played with Main. Nice memories.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I was at one of those Rodan gigs. Was one of the best things I've ever seen. I would kill someone if it meant I got to see codeine.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Yeah the Rodan show was incredible. I didn't know who they were at the time, and had gone to see my friends' band open the show. All in all it was a pretty great bill. I think in addition to Rodan and the surprise set by Codeine, Pitcheblende, Hurl and Haywood were on the bill. Can't rightly remember now, I'll have to go back and check if I have a flyer from the show in a box somewhere.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

1) Thompson Twins at Radio City, NYC, 1986. With a robot. Onstage. Horrible.

Hahahaha.....the robot part actually sounds pretty entertaining.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

I saw MC Hammer too, only with Paula Abdul and Al B Sure!

Chicago, three times (my dad made me go)
Moody Blues (twice, same deal as above)
Barenaked LAdies ( 4 fucking times)

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm one of the few ILMers who have ever been to see Chris De Burgh live. I'm perversely proud of this! The fact that the mighty Supertramp were also on the bill on serves to swell my ego further still.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

my friend at school went backstage at a chris de burgh show. her mum's his cousin. or something

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

I saw Twisted Sister (with opening act, Dokken) at Radio City Music Hall on the Come Out & Play tour in `85. My friend Rob won tix from radio station. We got to goto the aftershow party and hang out with J.J. French's Mom. Huzzah.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

x-post -- I had to take my mom to see Yanni. My dad owes me big for that.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

BlastsOfStatic - I was at that Rodan, Codeine show as well. It was at a Princeton Univ. student's parent's house in their living room. Truly great show.

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, great show. Jon actually went to Northwestern, but was (and is) a dj on Princeton's WPRB. I wish I could see that one again, every band was a revelation. I puttered around online for a second and it looks like the Swirlies were suppose to have been on that bill too, but I think they cancelled. I don't remember seeing them.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

xxpost
....which reminds me I saw Kitaro -- hands down the dullest gig evah -- and (upthread) the Thompson Twins sans robot. AND Howard Jones sans mime (opening for Eurythmics, so there was a point). So much for repressed memories...

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Junior Boys. I went never having heard them before - I had heard so much hype about them i figured it had to be decent. I apologized to my friends for wasting their time, the show was free at least and we went to a great exhibit at the gallery next door so I guess it could have been worse. That was the day I realized I could no longer trust ILM.

I also snuck into an Iron Madden concert last summer. Not that I regret doing it - it's just the last thing I'd ever expect to find myself at.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

I saw Soul Asylum and Screaming Trees open up for SPIN DOCTORS in St. Louis. It isn't inexplicable why we had tickets (they were free), but why we drove halfway across the damn state to see 'em, I haven't a clue.

I also saw Fugazi, which isn't so inexplicable except that I was balls-out trippin' on LSD at the time.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

BlastsOfStatic - Huh, I knew that Jon went to school out in Illinois but he's so connected to Princeton that I just assumed that he spent some time there as a student. Thanks for clearing that up... I'm not sure if the Swirlies were to play that Rodan show but I have a pretty distinct memory of seeing them at Jon's house on another occasion. Damned if I can remember who else played with them though... Maybe we should ask Jon?

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 7 March 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I saw a mention of the Swirlies being on that bill in an old indie list digest that I found via GIS. Perhaps I will tug on Jon's coatsleeve about it, I've got some other questions for him anyway.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Monday, 7 March 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

i saw alan parsons open up for yes in 2001!

― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 7 March 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

I believe I was at the first ever Spoon show, which was somewhere on Guadalupe one floor above street level (Quackenbushes)? Sadly I lost track of their career after that.

(BTW lovebug, I think I just came across a website for a famous band where you are credited with writing the first-ever review of one of their shows. )

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

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