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kmk
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Username: Kmk
Post Number: 951
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 9:26 am: | 
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Hank,
There was an Antoine's! I didn't get there that often though (no car.) There was also "Club Foot" where I saw the Stray Cats in all their early glory.
Now, one of the BBQ joints -Stubbs - is a hot performer's club and I even heard a recording on WFUV of some artist recorded live from Stubbs.
I also must mention "Threadgills" where Janice Joplin got here start (and the best damned chicken fried steak you've ever had!) |
juju's petals
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Username: Jujus_petals
Post Number: 233
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 9:47 am: |
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doula -- Did you do your Natalie Merchant imitation? I always do when I see her in concert. Even at the Beacon a few years ago.
Any chance you saw REM again a few years later at "Grand Ole Opry" when it was in Opryland? Still remember that Michael Stipe spit on the bit of stage that was taken from the original Ryman before it was renovated. Had mixed feelings about that, but can't deny that keeping a bit of the stage while moving the Opry to, uh, Hendersonville? is pretty lame. The concert, however, was great.
Only after moving to NYC did I realize I was so lucky to see so many great performers in such small spaces, and for so little $$, all in Nashvegas. |
doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 894
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 9:53 am: |
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I saw some good bands on 6th Street in Austin too while visiting friends - circa 1989...had a great tshirt from some place ("Murphy's"?) that read "beer: it's not just for breakfast anymore" or something like that.
I once saw The Fabulous Thunderbirds in a Waffle House (but the W was burned out, so it was the Affle House) in Decatur, GA (greater Atlanta) at about 3 AM - we sat at the counter with them & chatted - they were very cool.
Am trying to remember the name of a great Atlanta club where I was seeing a local band, Drivin n Cryin after a U2 show & U2 came in & played a post-show show...it was a cool space with a big loft area over/around the stage...
Hay Hank Zona - card me if you must - not fudging my age/years...talk to me in 5 or 10 years though! |
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5666
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 9:53 am: |
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Doulamomma..
your post reminded me of another of the "Best" concerts.
Elvis Costello at the Brandeis Gym with the song wheel. Spike-ish tour. He had folks come up on stage and spin the Wheel of Fortune and he would play whatever it landed on. He had the whole jester/gameshow host thing going on. It was a blast.
"The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say."-- Tom Stoppard
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Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5203
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 9:54 am: |
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I was fortunate to see 10,000 Maniacs a bunch of times during their ascension right before and after "In My Tribe" was released...the first time was at a small club in Ithaca called The Haunt. The cover was $3...we stood right in front of the "stage" (a 6" high platform)...Natalie Merchant doesnt turn around to face the audience while singing for the first two or three songs...and Im thinking, who the hell does she think she is? Then she goes into the whirling dervish bit. By the end of the night, the music is so good and her singing is so impassioned, that when she wraps up the show solo on the piano singing "Verdi Cries", I dont want her to leave. |
doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 895
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 9:56 am: |
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Another great show/place: Loup Garou (zydeco) at Steven Talkhouse in Amagansett probably 16 years ago...I think I enjoy music best in small spaces, up close |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5204
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 10:01 am: |
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Loup Garou used to play at Tramps all the time in the city...and before the show, there was someone who offered cajun dance lessons (waltz and two-step). We saw them a bunch of times, even have a casette. They did some music for the John Sayles movie, Passion Fish, and I also saw them for the first time open at Radio City for Bryan Ferry (one of my faves, and another favorite concert).
I just remembered my real first concert...when the Up With People gang came to my Catholic grade school to perform.
and doula...I wont card you...you seem legit.  |
doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 896
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 10:16 am: |
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Duncan
I wanted to be one of those spinners SOOO much - no luck, but it was a great show.. Was Nick Lowe opening? That's what I recall. Also had the dancing folks in cages - that was cool. A bit embarassing, but I got some "nerd" glasses around then as an homage to EC!
JuJu,
Gotta love Natalie Merchant - her voice is one of the several that immediately transports me to college days - doing the dancing was mandatory. Didn't see the REM show you mention at Opryland (but did see some great shows there - Tom Petty/Romantics come to mind, as does loosing a tooth while sitting onstage/backstage watching some country music friends-of-parents perform on The Grand Ole Opry!) Calling it Nashvegas also is a walk down memory lane - when I was so over it & wanting out...but it was a pretty great place to grow up, I think - and you're right about being lucky in terms of seeing music in Nashville.
Lots of good memories from Municipal Auditorium too!
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doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 897
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 10:19 am: |
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Hank,
Thanks ;-) I have a CD of Loup Garou - we got it from them because we considered having them play our wedding (10.5 yrs ago) - they were actually pretty reasonable priced...but we decided it might turn into a concert rather than our wedding.
My kids have a music set that has a wash board - no way is it as cool as the breastplate one the woman from LG has/had... |
Kibbegirl
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Username: Kibbegirl
Post Number: 351
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 10:27 am: |
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My first real concert was with my mom and her boyfriend in Houston, TX to see the Commodores! It was so cool and so overwhelming! We had the best seats in the best row and I thought that, all 14 years of me, Lionel Ritchie was singing to me...ahhh...I was his "Brick House"! |
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5668
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 12:24 pm: |
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Yea..Nick Lowe opened and had one of the funnier between songs banter with the simple..
"Thank you all, I am retiring on this song"
then going into Cruel to be Kind.
But the more I check in with this thread, the more "Bests" I can think of....
Preservation Hall Jazz Band in the Preservation Hall with a Hurricane in hand.
The Messiah at Symphony Hall in Boston.
The English Beat at the now defunct Channel in Boston on the water. Saw the B-52's there as well and John Entwistle and the Rat Race Choir.
seems to me I went to a lot of concerts in the 80's.
U2 at the Orpheum in support of War.
"The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say."-- Tom Stoppard
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Arnomation
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Username: Arnomation
Post Number: 477
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 1:13 pm: |
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This is the best thread ever for getting people to divulge their ages.
I'll never forget the first time I saw Beethoven...Now that was a concert... |
Alexmania
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Username: Alexmania
Post Number: 7
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 1:41 pm: |
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I can be 46 and still be vital and have an edge, really I can, really...
First concert: Frampton comes alive in the Garden. Also one of the best, and mind blowing as a 16 year old newbie. I suspect the contact with something in the 'atmosphere' may have had somethign to do with it, but I didn't inhale...
Best Concerts: Linton Kwasi Johnson (what is now Irving Place), The Butthole Surfers (Tin Pan Alley), Rockpile and the Cars (Central Park), The Who with the Clash (Shea Stadium), Prince at the Continental Arena (just last year)....actually, the list goes on, but I digress.
Worse Concert: Todd Rundgren in some surreal "I'm the fifth Beatle nightmare",U2 - Love you Bono, but Baby, chill out..., Most weddings and events... |
juju's petals
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Username: Jujus_petals
Post Number: 234
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 2:01 pm: |
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doula, I call it "Nashvegas" with affection now. Even went "back home" to get married there after living here for several years. I agree, it was a good place to grow up. |
Andrea Weisbard
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Username: Njnetsfan
Post Number: 415
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 2:10 pm: |
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Hmmmmmmmmmmm,
The first concert I went to was the JACKSON'S VICTORY TOUR.
The worst concerts I went to was the above concert and Brittnay Spears(had to go with a group of 13 yr old girls).
BEST CONCERTS: U2(sorry to disagree with you Alexmania), Bon Jovi's HAVE A NICE DAY TOUR(SAW IT 4X), Billy Joel(any place any time will see him this year ), The Rolling Stones, The Manhattan Transfer, Bob Dylan, Garth Brooks in Central Park in '97. Tim McGraw/Faith Hill. Sheryl Crow, Melissa Ethrige.
The very best concert I went to was last weekend, when my friend's band did a benifit concert for Habitat for Humanity.
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jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 1556
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 3:03 pm: |
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Walked out of a Bruce concert at Giant Stadium. Got the tickets because we ran into someone in a restaurant who had extras. Went for about an hour and split. Now who can say that? |
buzzsaw
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Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 3709
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 3:19 pm: |
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I would like to give props the the pixies reunion show I saw. Lived up to what I was hoping it was going to be.
I fell asleep in a bruce unplugged show - but LOVED the stadium show I saw for the rising tour. |
kmk
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Username: Kmk
Post Number: 952
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 3:38 pm: |
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I forgot!
Clint Black at Radio City Music Hall 1989? Swoooonn........ |
ess
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Username: Ess
Post Number: 970
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 11:48 pm: |
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Jeffl, I walked out of the Springsteen concert in Syracuse. But Giants Stadium? Never!
I forgot another "best":
Freedy Johnston in Central Park. It was free. It was a very warm spring day, and I was about 15 feet away from him, and he was just great.
I'm sure there were more bests and worsts, but way back when in the days when I used to go to concerts all the time, I did other stuff all the time as well. |
Ukealalio
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Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 2535
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 12:13 am: |
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Another best would have been NRBQ at Queens College Student Union. This is when they had 2 guitarist's Al Anderson and Steve Ferguson.They had the place jumpin.
And then there was NRBQ, Buddy Guy, Rhinocerous, Spooky Tooth and Procol Harum at the Pavillion.
Oh yea forgot about Weather Report at the Cafe Au Go Go. |
Mummite
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Username: Mummite
Post Number: 214
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 6:44 pm: |
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Knebworth '90 - oh yes at Knebworth, UK in 1990 - a whole lineup of performers. Unfortunately I remember Cliff Richard in a pink suit (- not the hightlight !) Paul MCCartney's Hey Jude was amazing!
Tom Jones at Wembley - he performs the best show on earth!Well for an oldie ....!
U2 in Prague - they rocked! |
Arnomation
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Username: Arnomation
Post Number: 478
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 9:27 pm: |
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LOL! I saw Tom Jones a few years ago at the Westbury Music Theater and it was awesome :-) |
buzzsaw
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Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 3738
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 10:41 am: |
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http://www.heartofgoldmovie.com/ |
dave23
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Username: Dave23
Post Number: 1304
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 11:37 am: |
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Buzzsaw, I love Neil, but his ticket prices are criminal. |
JazzMe
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Username: Jazzme
Post Number: 171
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 2:54 pm: |
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Two really best memories:
- Sonny Rollins in 1995 for an outside free concert in New York city (outside lincoln center and Fordham law school).
He was in fantastic form, obviously digging the public's enthusiasm, and the nicest guy you can Imagine. Some friends and i got the chance to talk to him for a while after the concert; he was wonderful, funny, and very hip. He kept (gently) rebuffing the security guards who were trying to pull him away from us: c'mon man, don't you see I'm talking to these guys, we're sharing music here, relax, give us a break... What a gentleman. A GREAT memory.
- I don't know whether this qualifies as the best "concert", but my second favorite "live" experience was the June 15th 1990 surpise reunion of the 4 members of the original Velvet Underground for a rendition of a single tune, Heroin.
The setting was an Andy Warhol exhibit at the Cartier Art Foundation outside Paris, and Lou Reed and John Cale were performing some tunes out of their Wrahol tribute album, Songs for Drella. After a few songs, Moe Tucker and Sterling Morrison joined them for one song... what a treat! The VU hadn't played together for more than 20 years and no one expected the reunion tour that was to follow a few years later. A truly great memory.
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chrisd
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Username: Chrisd
Post Number: 131
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 3:19 pm: |
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John Cale has consistently put on some of the best shows I've ever seen, including one a couple of months ago in Brooklyn. Sure he's got next to no profile here, but his recent records have been amazing.
and..
first: Yes, roosevelt stadium, 1976
worst: Bowie, giant's stadium, 1987
best: Bowie, st. anns warehouse, 2002 |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 8526
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 5:23 pm: |
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Best: A tie: B.B. King / Miles Davis @ Lincoln Center and Michael Hedges @ Bottom Line
Worst: Philip Glass, Music in 12 Parts @ Lincoln Center |
Lou
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Username: Flf
Post Number: 50
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 4, 2006 - 10:55 pm: |
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the best concert for me was seeing Nirvana in Lisbon - i was about 17/18 and was absolutely in love with kurt cobain. i was right in the front, only few meters from him. i still remember his pink t-shirt from that day. |
doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 930
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, February 5, 2006 - 1:48 pm: |
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Dave,
you couldn't see that coming just by knowing it was a Philip Glass concert?! lol
ps
I know I'm showing my lack of musical sophistication with this comment |
Grrrrrrrrrrr
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Username: Oldsctls67
Post Number: 241
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 6, 2006 - 12:46 pm: |
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Just thought of another good one this morning...
Doug Clark & the Hot Nuts in the basement of my frat house circa 1987... |
Lydia
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Username: Lydial
Post Number: 1651
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 6, 2006 - 5:38 pm: |
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I think my first "real" concert was the Plasmatics in Worcester, MA. Had a good fake ID, a cute boyfriend and it was everything a first concert should be.
GG Allin in the '80's - I lived next to a punk club and stopped in for a drink after work and peeked in back to see who was playing - I could sort of see what was happening on stage (blood and broken bottles) when THE SMELL hit me -- followed by a mass of people splashed with the source of the smell lurching and vomiting out the door.
My most surreal/grossest concert.
Best concert? Anyone playing outdoors w/ me lying on a picnic blanket on a summer night.
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Charles De Mar
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Username: Charles_demar
Post Number: 198
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 6, 2006 - 7:42 pm: |
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Lydia - amazing. Was it @ the Gas Station? |
dave23
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Username: Dave23
Post Number: 1320
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 9:19 am: |
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Plasmatics fact: Richie Stotts is now a technical writer in Manhattan. |
Carrie Avery
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Username: Carrie33
Post Number: 1327
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| | Posted on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 6:26 pm: |
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The First & Worst: 'Loverboy'
The Best: Tied: 'Eagles'/ 'Moody Blues' |
Czele
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Username: Czele
Post Number: 81
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 9:07 pm: |
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Worst! Billy Idol concert in Philly with my best friend and her preppy boyfriend who wore a spiked dog collar and spraypainted his hair green and tried to spike it in a mohawk. Billy passed out after two songs and the concert was over.
Best! Pink Floyd at Versailles. Now THAT was a good concert. |
Lydia
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Username: Lydial
Post Number: 1654
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 6:16 pm: |
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Charles De Mar -
It was pre-Garage - GG Allin in Chicago at the "Exit" on North Wells St.
Didn't GG Allin die after one of his Garage gigs?
I didn't fit in with the serious punk crowd, or even the dabbling punk crowd. The Exit was cool because I was sort of invisible.
Usually what's going on stage seems seperate from the house - even in a small room it's still a show, but that show was so visceral and base - the audience was as much part of the show as the act.
They thought they wanted a real punk show, but it veered into something else. The people who came to watch became the victims covered in everything Allin was throwing off the stage - I was glad to be in the waaaay back.
Back on topic - a really nice concert was Lyle Lovett at the Beacon about 12 years ago. |
Charles De Mar
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Username: Charles_demar
Post Number: 199
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 9:58 pm: |
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Yes, GG died from a heroin overdose after a 2 minute gig @ the gas Station back in '93 (I believe). Not a fan, but was always intrigued. I've seen the GG documentary too. That's probably why I know way too much about him...... cool story. |
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5694
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 9:15 am: |
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Real punk...SS Decontrol, Dead Kennedy's, Bad Brains, kid of died in the 80's. I am not sure I would characterize GG Allin as punk. At least not as I knew it back in the early 80's. But hell, The Clash were punk once and now sell cars. So go figure. |
Charles De Mar
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Username: Charles_demar
Post Number: 200
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 11:22 am: |
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"We're not a punk rock band, we're a new wave band"
-Jello Biafra
GG had the punk rock ethic, but all songs are audio diarrhea. |
dave23
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Username: Dave23
Post Number: 1330
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 11:32 am: |
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"Rick Wakeman, eat your heart out." |
oots
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Username: Oots
Post Number: 363
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 11:35 am: |
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Can't really say which was best-but best venue has to be the old capital theatre in passaic-saw about 20 concerts there including the Eagles as my very 1st concert -after they released their "desperado" album. also saw many shows at the old roosevelt stadium.
Loudest concert-the Ramones at the Capital around 1979!! 3rd row seats!!
oots
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breal
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Username: Breal
Post Number: 721
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 12:27 pm: |
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I saw U2 in San Francisco in 1980 or 1981. I went with my friend Lani, who worked at Tower Records with me and was always playing "Boy" on the store stereo when she was on the register and therefore could pick the play. The gay guys who worked the disco aisle used to find excuses to go to the back room and shrink wrap things rather than listen to "I Will Follow" one more time.
I worked the Country Western aisle, but I did kinda like "Boy" and understood how when you love an album you have to play it over and over and over "till the grooves wore out," to use an anchronistic expression. No grooves no more. But I digress.
It was a small venue (was the Cow Palace still open?), and Bono would blather on the way he stil does some times. They were brilliant but beginners. They didn't seem to have enough songs, even. For the encores, they performed "I Will Follow" a second time. That was fine with Lani, natch. And then, swear to God, Bono came out and sang a Frank Sinatra song. I think it was "My Way." I guess that wasn't that weird back then, because the Sex Pistols version was still in the air.
That was a great concert, a long time ago. |
ED LEVINE
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Post Number: 91
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G.G Allin's body was a Rock n Roll temple and any of his bodily fluids is a communion to the people.
'You don't get what you want- you get what you deserve.' - GG Allin |
Lydia
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Post Number: 1660
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| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 7:30 pm: |
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Charles -
I LOVE Jello Biafra!
More a prankster and performance artist than a musician, but the best punk was more performance than music anyhow - yes?
Jello Biafra said the Dead Kennedys started as a big fat prank - and it worked on so many levels.
Did you know he ran for Mayor of San Francisco?
His platform included banning cars from city limits, making police officers run for re-election in the neighborhoods they patrolled and hiring back laid-off city workers as panhandlers on a 50% commission and sending them into rich neighborhoods and private school entrances.
Genius.
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Charles De Mar
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Post Number: 202
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| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 9:04 pm: |
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Thanks for info Lydia. I was aware of his run for Mayor, but was not aware of his platform, thanks for the info!
Give me a toot and i'll sell you my soul
Pull my Strings, and i'll go far.
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Grrrrrrrrrrr
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Username: Oldsctls67
Post Number: 259
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 9:39 pm: |
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Don't you worry it's only a shower,
for your clothes here's a pretty flower! |
dave23
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Post Number: 1331
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| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 9:54 am: |
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Jello would have also mandated corporate executives wear clown suits to work. |
Lydia
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Post Number: 1663
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| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 9:45 pm: |
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Dave23 -
Kind of redundant - yes?
As well as being a Jello fan, I was a huge Jerry Casale fan back in the day - last decade I mean - this thread is bringing back all sorts of memories and happy associations.
Sorry if I'm veering off topic - I'm psyched that there are people in Maplewood that saw the fringe bands way back when.
I drove hours to see the Clash at CBGB's only to be turned away with my fake ID - wah.
Remember Danceteria? The cool room was on (I think) the 5th floor with Howie what's his name?
The '80's had so many fun NYC underground rooms - did anyone go to JP's? |
Ukealalio
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Post Number: 2538
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| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 10:21 pm: |
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The Mud Club was my favorite back then. I had a band called Get Wet that used to play there all the time. One night after a gig there we were hangin out upstairs and Allan Ginsburg, John Cale and an annoying girl named Madonna came up and told us that they liked the band.
Danceteria was a cool club, I however was not too fond of their, "famous" doorman Howe Montague. His only talent seemed to be, being really obnoxious. I remember seeing an unknown group there called 10,00 Maniacs (it was free that nite) and a GREAT performance by the Golden Palominos. |
steel
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Username: Steel
Post Number: 954
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 11:36 am: |
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I'll play.
Steel's (partial) list with (minor) commentary:
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First and Best:
-Steppenwolf, (with "Genya Raven & Ten Wheel Drive" to open -great brass). We were pressed against the stage. They were "Born to be Wild". Big brother took me to this one, (I really miss that guy).
Worst:
Tull, (Hard bleacher seats, crappy acoustics and never really liked them but what the hell).
Others:
Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the old Fillmore East. I think I was the youngest guy in there. I only remember that is was very dark and very loud keyboards.
Steve Miller (He's a smoker)
Stones, (Ah, how well I remember my date "Jackie LaMond" who looked wonderfully like her name sounds).
"Todd is God" Rundgren. (I still hear from Maureen)
Floyd, -that was some good stuff and I don't mean the band. (Sorry Martha that I was temporarily unable to move to get out of my seat to get you that ice cream.) -I don't hear from Martha.
George Thorogood. Love the Destroyer. We got pressed down into the seats from the sound. Absolutely bludgeoned with that guitar. (I wonder what ever happened to what-was-her-name who played the piano and performed herself and really didn't seem to "get it" and thought that it was a little "too much"?)
Chris Issack. "Wild Love". Back in my home town of Red Bank in the now named, "Count Basie Theater" which used to be a movie theater that I remember seeing Clint Eastwood movies in.
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Other "non-rock" notables:
James Brown at the Garden, 2nd row. I got the feelin' uh huh huh huh.
"Little" Jimmy Scott at the Iridium Times Sq. Love-love that guy. Had a Martini. Very very cool and reverent scene. Sang "All the Way" with a very smooth quartet. Got to talk with him back stage. (HAD to get an autographed CD and shake his hand with a big "thank you"). "When the song stops with Jimmy's last note we're back in the world as it was." -Lou Reed
My sentimental favorite concert ever of any kind; - Morgana King, -I've always had a soft-spot for her since I was in my twenties. The lovely wife and I got to see her at Maxim's Dinner Club in New York. I remember everything. Had a rack of lamb and a Dewers straight-up sitting at a little table at her feet. She sang "Lilac Wine" at MY request. (which for some reason prompted her to exclaim, - "I'm gonna kill you", -so I had the thrill of having had Morgana threaten my life). My wife and I got to chat with her for quite a bit after. (she never did give me a clear answer about the death threat). HAD to get the autographed CD, (she turned me around and signed it on my back), which hangs framed in my studio, "To Wayne, Peace and Love, Morgana King".
PS: Also saw "Screamin" Jay Hawkins right here in Maplewood at the Burgdorff. R.I.P. Jay we thank ye. |
steel
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I forgot to mention Tom Waitts who I saw perform twice and who was at the time dating a VERY large-breasted woman, (I always remember such details), who attended my college and one time he sat on the floor of the hallway with us outside our Art history class until it started. Another time I spotted him in the cafeteria alone looking very classically Tom Waitts-hungover. I boldly asked "Hey Tom, how ya doin?" He glumly nodded. I glumly got in line for lunch. |
Shanabana
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| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 11:12 pm: |
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Ranking among the best: Definately Fishbone in a tiny place in Eugene Oregon; a couple of REALLY LONG P-Funk shows (one at the Apollo--2nd row seats!!), and the Pogues at Irving Plaza, when Shane was in fine form.
One of worst: Fugazi--very very boring. |
The Soulful Mr T
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| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 2:48 pm: |
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steel, what college was that? |
steel
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| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 8:19 pm: |
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Mr T,
Watkins "visited" at Tyler College of Art, (part of Temple)
in Elkins Park, PA |
Fabulouswalls
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| | Posted on Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 10:58 pm: |
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First Concert - Kiss - 2/18/77 Price $7.50 |
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