Fav. show and venue?

[non grata]

agreed re: radiohead. i was really looking forward to seein em outdoors during field day 2003 but the sumbitch was rained out.

i'm really lookin forward to seeing the pixies in seattle if i can make it.

[The AD]

Originally posted by non grata
i'm really lookin forward to seeing the pixies in seattle if i can make it.

I was just looking at the Pixies tour schedule. Funniest venue: Les Schwab Amphiteater in Bend, OR. I wonder if you get a free side of beef if you attend the concert there? [warning: this reference will be lost on many]

[yogachik]

Led Zeppelin at the Forum - my dad drove us and picked us up. I was about 12 or 13.

U2 in Tempe, AZ - the show that was filmed for Rattle and Hum (a friend directed it and invited a group - that was a wild weekend). Like Canuck's, it rained with some lightning and was beautiful.

B52s at the Greek around 1980.

Every Elvis Costello show.

Springsteen at the Sports Arena, in the early 80s.

Liz Phair at McCabes guitar shop, an unknown Beck opened.

I've been to so many concerts in my life, and they've all been great, but those shows stand out.

[warthog]

YogaChick- careful, you're dating yourself. I am beginning to think that may not be your ass.

[Pinner]

Geez... so many great ones.

Charlie Hunter Trio- Bowery Ballroom, 2001
Phish- Cutler Quad, Colorado College, 1989
Phish- Armstrong Auditorium, Colorado College, Halloween 1990
Phish- Club West, Santa Fe, 1991
Ben Harper- out in front of the Univ of Oregon student center, 1993
Neil Young- late night show, Oregon Country Faire, 199?
Oysterhead- House of Blues, Las Vegas, 2001
Funky Meters- Orpheum Theatre, New Orleans, 2002
Allmans Brothers- Red Rocks, 1989-2003
Hot Tuna- Mishawaka Amphitheatre, 1989
David Grisman- Mishawaka, 1990-2002
Jurassic Five- Double Diamond, Aspen, 2003
Anything at Telluride Town Park.

...and the list goes on. I'm pretty certain that I haven't yet experienced the show of my life.

[bagtagley]

Tenacious D - 2 years ago in Columbus, OH.

[non grata]

franz ferdinand last night at roseland... great show, 2 new songs and 'this fire' is unreal live. check em out this month if you can.

[CantDog]

I'm going to add Zero 7 at Axis in Boston. Fantastic show. Also Derek Trucks up at the community center by Unity College in Maine. Probably 15 people in the audience.

[Tap]

Lenny Kravitz - Cabaret Metro, Chicago 1988
- Let Love Rule tour, when Lenny was real

Nine Inch Nails - Mustards, Columbus Ohio 1990
- Pretty Hate Machine tour, crazy show

Janes Addiction - Aragon Ballroom, Chicago 1990
- Ritual tour, the beginning of the end

Smashing Pumpkins - Cabaret Metro 1991
- Gish record release party, still have the poster i tore off the door

Soundgarden - The Riviera, Chicago 1993
- Badmotorfinger tour, skipped finals to come to this - worth it

Burning Spear - Snowmass 1994
- One World Festival, first time seeing Winston Rodney

Old and In The Way Reunion - Telluride Bluegrass 1995
- everyone except for "Spud"

Pixies - Bend, OR 2004
- hey, that was last week!

[Artie Fufkin]

Jane's Addiction-Agora(Cleveland) 11/90 The Agora and the Ballroom are great venues also saw Porno for Pyros there in 1996.

Grateful Dead-Buckeye Lake(Hebron, OH) 90-94, alot of people on a hillside outside of Columbus, always seemed to be a hands off venue from a security standpoint, so it was always a free for all

Phish-Nautica Stage(Cleveland) 93-94 Great small outdoor venue on the Cuyahoga, downtown, also saw the Allman Bros there a few times

Phish-Pan Am Center(Las Cruces, NM) 9/99 - This is a small arena, due to 2500 tickets sold they cut the venue in half, it felt like I was seeing them in a high school gym, I scored a floor ticket the day before. The 2001 that night was incredible.

Jerry Garcia Band(War Memorial Buffalo) 11/93 - The venue was alright, but I scored 2nd row center a few days before, amazing show, better than most of the Dead shows I saw(but all the Dead shows I saw were 1990-95, not their prime)

Parliament/Funkadelic Return of the Mothership (Playhouse Square Cleveland) 5/96 - The venue is usually for plays, etc, so it was pretty nice, Bootsy, George et al funkified the joint, it looked like there were 30 people on stage at one point.

The Sunshine Theater(Albuquerque, NM) - Old 20s style theater, I've seen Fugazi, Built to Spill, Lords of Acid there.

Paolo Soleri - Sante Fe, NM The best outdoor venue I've been to(I've been to Red Rocks just as good, but different), it looks like an adobe spaceship, Widespread, Blues Traveler, String Cheese

There's too many more to list...

[Woodsy]

Wow
Best shows:
Hard to remember all of em

Stand outs in my pee brain:

Crosby Stills & Nash in the 80’s @ Park West
in the middle of “wooden Ships” Stills went off on a guitar solo that I got full blown lost in, dead sober, I was still in High School & this prolly sucked me into the Jam band thing forever, rarely got that feeling again,
Like a first drug experience, I spent countless hours & cash chasing that dragon…..

Ramones @ Park West in the early 90s.
loud & proud & awesome. 1,2,3,4…….


Last Dead show I attended was on a Sunday 95 in Vegas: they played a great assortment of some of my favs West LA fadeaway, Jack Straw, I was singing Sampson & Delilah between sets & it opened the 2nd set.followed by unbroken chain & eyes. Yow
Finished with Sugar Mag
Glad I went


Ben Harper
12/29/99 - Wheeler Opera House: Aspen, CO seen him a lot, a lot a lot, but this show stands head and shoulders above the rest ( even the Lightining storm @ deer Valley when I got to meet the man) 2 night stint @ solo just 2 guitars & him. Saw both nights but this night was magical from the instrumental “Silent Night “ opening to the last of the encore:
Shall Not Walk Alone, Give a Man a Home, Like a King/I'll Rise
he quit playing guitar at the end of like a King & stood for the first time all night, raised his arm & sang the end & all of “I’ll rise” a cappella
got goose bumps typing that

U2 in Dodger Stadium October 30 1992 all over the place material wise, great show, dirty old town was cool and Bono alone singing all I want is you accappella slow & quiet then all the TV s & pyros explode with a burning cross as Bullet in the Blue sky searing guitar starts. Them boys is entertainers

Widespread Panic 01/25/96 Wheeler Opera House, Aspen
Also a band I have seen a lot a lot, but this show,wowzer yee ha
First of 2 nights. both were good, when the boys were at their best IMHO
this one just hit home
Opened with Let's Get The Show On The Road > Hatfield rocked the place until mb to safety Jerry Joeseph, who I used to love in SLC w/ little women, just peaked it. Encored with [Low spark, the old Traffic tune, that was eeirie acoustic in the Opera house. Sonny knows how to work the background percussion, damn


more are flooding back now but I think those are the highlights

[milkman]

1992- Beastie Boys w/Sonic Youth at the PNE Concert Bowl. It was a last minute gig so there were only about 200 people there.
2000- Nine Inch Nails at GM Place
2002- Thievery Corporation at The Commodore Ballroom
2003- Derrik Carter at The Rage
2003- Thievery Corporation DJ Set at Sonar (small club)
2004- Sonic Youth at the Commodore

[tuffy109]

ty, that abc no rio show must've been amazing. i remember quiksand coming to miami in 90 or so and just being blown away. agnostic front came down a few weeks later.

saw shelter in tampa in '91. weird. my friends had inside out (w/o zach) play their house in '93 or something. so much fun. i bought Ray's copy of the first Specials record from their show in miami a few years later. i traded it away though.

ahhhh, the gold ole' days.

edit: i got a kick out of seeing this again.

[homerjay]

Originally posted by acostiga
rusted root, point st. park open air stage, pittsburgh- last day of high school '95

ha! I was there!

Mine:
Phish, The Gorge, WA Aug. 1997 Both nights - phish never equaled that in my mind, and don't listen to them anymore
Phish, Philly Spectrum, Dec. 1996 - kick ass show 'Champagne Supernova' cover was hiliarious
Blind Melon/Lenny Kravitz, Palombo Ctr. Pittsburgh, PA 1992 - first 'real' concert
Grateful Dead, Summer 1995, Pittsburgh, PA - my only one.
Panic, Larkspur, CO Summer 2001 Second Night - ouch, that was a bender
Panic, Red Rocks, Summer 2002 - another bender. I see a theme developing.
Galactic/Ben Harper, Roseland NYC Summer 2000 - solid.
Martin Sexton, TLA Phila., Chautauqua, Boulder, CO 1999, 2003, respectively.

[Artie Fufkin]

Originally posted by homerjay
Grateful Dead, Summer 1995, Pittsburgh, PA - my only one.

I was at that show! It rained alot, the crowd was amped up for the opener Rusted Root, the hometown band. That was close to the end for Jerry. Still a fun show. If I remember the opener was West LA? They also did three "rain" songs in a row, Rain, Samba in the Rain, Looks Like Rain, though I could be wrong.

Another great Shittsburgh show I was at was Phish in the fall of 95, That show was at the Civic Arena, I started up in the nosebleed, but was able to make my way to the floor by the end of the night.

[Benny Profane]

Hendrix, New Year's Eve, '69 at the Fillmore. The one they made the "album" from. When I first heard that record, my first reaction was "oh, that's what the bass and drums were supposed to sound like" - god, he was loud.

Close second was the Ramones at the Fast Lane in Asbury Park. Saw them there twice, both incredible.

[homerjay]

Originally posted by Artie Fufkin
Another great Shittsburgh show I was at was Phish in the fall of 95, That show was at the Civic Arena, I started up in the nosebleed, but was able to make my way to the floor by the end of the night.

I was there, too. sweet.

[PlayHarder]

My favorite all time venue is the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver. Dark, dirty, tiny little place with great atmosphere and great acoustics.

Very vague memories of a few great shows in that place.

Best show in spite of the band - rave on a beach along a river in Squamish headlined by Deee-lite

Lollapalooza 1 @ UBC T-Bird Stadium

Collective Soul @ the Town Pump in Van.

Floyd from row 3 middle @ bc place Fri and from the bleachers to catch the lights on Sat

lots of great shows in mediocre venues not worth mentioning

[gorms]

Here are some of the highlights

The Palace, Albany NY
Queen Latifah, Digital Underground 3rd Base

Somwhere in Mass.
Fishbone/Primus

RPI field house 93ish
Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, RHCP

Lollapoloza I and II @ SPAC

A bunch of Phish including Halloween 94 in Glens Falls NY, Sugarbush (94-95) NewYears 94/95 in the old boston Garden (the Hotdog year), Joyous Lake in woodstock NY (~250 people) '96, Hamburgh Germany, Clifford Ball, Lemon wheel, and Coventry

Panic in a record store in albany w/ John Popper before the Horde @ SPAC
Panic @ Keystone

Red Rocks runs the past few years Phil and friends, Panic and the Dead

[freshies]

hmmm, so many....

HS (Chicago area)

the Replacements, fall of...ummm...85? at the Riviera (small joint)
U2: winter of 85, @ the Aragon Ball (Brawl) Room
the Ramones, numerous times 84-88, the Metro (great place to see shows)
REM, numerous times, 84-88, the Metro

College

Uncle Tupelo, numerous time 89-92, the Blue Note
Pixies, 91? 92?, Blue Note

SF

Neil Young & Crazy Horse, fall 98 or 99, some small danl club in SF, was a "secret" show my buddy tipped me off to....

[freshies]

[QUOTE=Tap Smashing Pumpkins - Cabaret Metro 1991
- Gish record release party, still have the poster i tore off the door

[/QUOTE]

dude, i was there too- crazy! came home from college for the w/e and went to this w/2 buddies who were living downtown and were raving "about this amazing new local band"....blew me away. That's when SP rocked! Small world, huh?

[powderhound]

Pearl Jam at Park west. (now the canyons). Maybe like '97? Perfect temp, had a lightning storm in the distance to set the mood.

i think that was the Yield tour(maybe '98), caught it in Missoula and Seattle, good times

edit: also agree radiohead is one show not to miss, SLC venue not the best but they make up for it.
Always like shows at the Gorge in George, even more so if those shows contain Tool.

[Crinkle]

man oh man, good thread;

Memorable: Gun's, Metallica, Faith no more (Meadowlands summer 91)

Phish: Darien Lakes, NY July 97

Radiohead: both times I saw them (Redrocks was sweet, so was Liberty Park, NJ)

Audioslave: Filmore '03

VanHalen: Sept '91 Spectrum For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge tour (also nominated as best Album title ever)

[Xover]

I'm pretty certain that I haven't yet experienced the show of my life.

haven't been laid at a show yet, heh pinn

[iskibc]

Good stuff.....A few more remembered:

'92 HORDE Festival Portland, ME w/ Widespread, Phish, Blues Traveler, and Bela Fleck

'96 HORDE Festival @ Old Orchard Beach w/ Blues Traveler, Rusted Root, Lenny Kravitz, King Crimson, Leftover Salmon, and G Love

'92-'95 Allmans @ Great Woods

'96 Godsmack in a small bar at Sugarloaf Mtn., ME (not really a godsmack fan, but it was pretty sweet to see a big name band before they got to the mainstream)

'95 Strangefolk Burlington, VT at Nectar's