aw hell, what can i even remember any more?


The Bodeans. Twice. Second time, Mike Mills from REM was there next to us.
Oh yeah REM Fables of the Reconstruction.
and REM producer Mitch Easter's band, Let's Active
and REM producer Don Dixon, along with his wife Marti Jones
and REM "5th member" Peter Holsapple's band, the dBs
Julian Cope, at the height of his game from the second row. Goosebumps
The The, with Johnny Marr
DEVO ~ so goddamn brilliant
The Church, four times
Modern English
Shriekback
Book of Love wow, right in the student center! that never happens!
The Bears, and also, their little-known guitarist Adrian Belew, solo. But yeah The Bears
Yes of course I've seen Yes. 90ICU812 tour blew me away
...but I was even more blown away by Bill Bruford's Earthworks
...and horrified by Asia (ugh) who were okay on the first tour, but degraded to bad on the second. I think Mr Howe did not want to be there any more
Cars - sadly the worst live band I have ever seen
Thomas Dolby
They Might Be Giants (early on, as a two-piece)
Simple Minds
The Smithereens ~ ha and I shopped at guitarist Jim Babjak's record store. And I met the parents of the original bass player once at the Trump Marina casino. Mr and Mrs Mesaros were very nice.
Rush
Blue Oyster Cult. positively did not have enough cowbell!
Lloyd Cole a few times, once with Jill Sobule
Amos Lee
David Gray
Ben Folds
Poco
Three Dog Night (first concert ever)
Squeeze
Bryan Ferry
10,000 Maniacs
Mighty Lemon Drops
Yo La Tengo
Dire Straits
Chris Isaak (three times, once before big fame; brilliant)
fellow central PA homies Innocence Mission (like 15 times) and The Ocean Blue
China Crisis
NRBQ
General Public
Robyn Hitchcock (& the Egpytians)

i'm sure i have forgotten other important times

I'm amazed that you guys remember... I've been to 100's of concerts, but couldn't begin to list them. I do have a lot of old tickets lying around somewhere. Maybe that would be a good start.

Not many bands came to Maine. I've seen maybe a dozen concerts? Maybe 20? How can you remember them all?

Jazz bassist Gerald Veasely
Jerry Harrison (of Talking Heads fame)
Chris deBurgh ("Don't Pay the Ferryman")
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band

Frank Zappa
Ringo Starr
Willie Nelson
John Lennon
The Who
Kiss
Elvis
Merv Griffin
Johnny Carson
James Brown
Dan Blocker
Bill Clinton
Stevie Wonder
Clint Eastwood
Yul Bryner
Michael Landon
Paul Newman ( filming the Sting)
Mike MacIntyre
Reagan
Big E
The Isley Brothers
Bernie Mac
Phyllis Diller
Glen Fagen
The last name is only famous to me.


tarheel

If we're including comedy, only larger rooms (400+ seats):

Dave Chappelle
Jeff Foxworthy
B*ll C*sby
Emo Philips
Jim Gaffigan
Kathleen Madigan

I'm 100% sure there are others I've forgotten.

~ also ~

Philip Glass
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Paul Winter Consort

1st - Ratt w/The Outlaws, & The Mama's Boys (in Bowling Green, KY)

No particular order:

Ozzy, w/Metallica (w/Cliff Burton on bass, in an arm cast), Nashville

Queensrÿche w/Suicidal Tendencies (ST damn near tore the roof off the Municipal Auditorium) Nashville

Dio w/I don't remember (although rocktourdatabase.com says it was Rough Cutt) Nashville

Marshall Tucker Band, The Outlaws (and some other Southern Rock band, Black Oak Arkansas maybe) If ya brought a Pepsi can ya got in for $5 a carload, late 80's - Nashville, in the early years of Starwood Amphitheater

AC/DC, Fly On The Wall tour, w/Yngwie Malmsteen

Saw Randy Travis, then he was Randy Ray, The Singing Waiter at (I think it was) The Nashville Palace (I was pretty young)

I know my first was Kiss Dynasty tour at the Spectrum. Judah Priest opened for them.

Aerosmith with Ted Nugent was the first one I drove myself to. Had to be 86 or 87.

Saw The Firm, Robert Plant with that Black Velvet chick opening.

And again with Stevie Ray Vaughn

The Stones, Pink Floyd in 88?

Then about 35 Dead Shows. Crosby Stills Nash....

I've seen Dave Matthews 10+ times...

My 30s are a blur...


Jane's Addiction twice recently.

I've come to prefer small venue shows immensely.

Small venue for the win

Tower Theater is great!

yes, yes & yes. I am LOVING the smaller venues.

I think I'm gonna have to retract that statement. That might not have been me. I mean that that might not be my memory, maybe someone's story got misfiled under "My Memories". Or something. Maybe. FIDK.

At any rate, I almost had to be with Mom & Popdigr (I remember it as some event in a dinner club type situation) and they don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

And I'm not sure I do either.:neutral:

Maybe you dreamed it.

Undertoad, you might be the only person I've met since Y2K who knows Jerry Harrison was EVER a solo act!

My roomie at the time was trying to reconstruct her favorite driving mix tape. She was 3 songs short, and having trouble remembering some of the details.
Song #1 was easy--"Fly Me Courageous" by Drivin 'N' Cryin.
Song #2: "Umm, it's not about driving. It's this South American girl with the most amazing voice and she was like fifteen at the time." Me: "Oh, you mean "Twist In My Sobriety" by Tanita Tikaram?" Her: "Holy crap, you know that one?" Me: "Lemme go get the cassette single."
Song #3: "Well, it was by one of the dudes in Talking Heads, but not the singer and it's not a Talking Heads song." Me: "Would that be "Rev It Up" by Jerry Harrison?" Her: "Did you make a deal with Satan when I wasn't looking?" Me: "I have the album, 'Casual Gods.' Lemme go get that for you."

Gravedigr, one of the great disappointments of my earlier concert days was that huge multi-band tour that had Cinderella, Ratt, LA Guns, and a bunch of other hair metal bands, including a splinter group called Arcade (biggest hit was "Cry No More") composed of members of the main groups. I had tickets and TWO STOPS before my town the whole rabble melted down and cancelled the rest of the tour.

I blame Stephen Pearcy. He's a jerk and thus an excellent blame target.

lumberjim, you said:

Saw The Firm, Robert Plant with that Black Velvet chick opening.

Do you mean you saw Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in the same place? If so--wowzers, sorry I missed that one! I have seen Robert Plant, tho. Scared the (unladylike word here) outta most of my few high school friends. Went back for senior year and everyone's talking about their awesome summers. They ask me what I did, and I told them most of the summer sucked because my mom made me get a job, but Father's Day was awesome. That got some strange looks--most of my friends didn't get along with their parents, especially dads. So they ask what we did, and I tell them the truth.

"I took my dad to a concert."

"Who'd ya go see, Englebert Humperdinck? Slim Whitman maybe?"

"Nah, we went to see Robert Plant."

"You took your father WHERE???"

He was touring Now and Zen. I also saw him on the next tour, for Manic Nirvana. Way up in the nosebleeds at the amphitheater on the Oregon State Fairgrounds, there's this chick next to us with opera glasses getting all excited about an open door to one side of the stage. Sure enough, there's a HUGE dude with a mop of curly blonde hair standing there, and she lets out this unbelievable war whoop: "Hey Bobby baby!!!" at the top of her lungs. He comes whipping around like he was goosed, she freaks out, my best friend freaks out, I just wave.

He waves back, then mule-kicks the door shut. It was a good show :D.

Oh, lumberjim, that "Black Velvet" chick is Alannah Myles. Want me to go get the cassette single? Pretty sure I still have the damn thing. Does anyone collect cassette singles any more?

No, I saw the Firm at one show, and Robert Plant a couple of other times

We, Lori, SonofV, and I, just got done watching and rocking out to Robert Cray at the triple door. It was very nice, sold out!

I've got my eye on a few geezers by way of a quiet little Twitter account. Alice Cooper is touring, but went straight from scheduling California dates to the Midwest. Jeff Beck is touring Europe and at least twice a month I pop him a tweet begging for US dates to follow because I'm still totally in love with his album 'Loud Hailer' from last year. LOUD is right! Robin Trower is touring, but nowhere in my neighborhood. Ditto Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and The Reverend Horton Heat and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Of that list, Beck is the only one I haven't seen live, and I better take any chance I get because he's 72! I got to meet Trower, dance on stage with Ladysmith, and after a show in a 140-seat high school drama theater, I told the dudes from BBVD that they were one of the best Christmas presents I'd ever gotten. Judging by the look the trumpet player (the one that looks like Harry Dean Anderson from Night Court) gave me, that was a new one.

My next hot entertainment date is with a movie...but I've got my eye on some concert schedules.

St. Paul and the Broken Bones last night with J.

That dude can sing a little bit.

Dead & Co. rocked in NJ this week...

If you ever get a chance to see Dean & Co., local Dead trib, they are all my family.

Most excellent! Hi to the family!

Good looking crew!

Where do they play? Would def like to take a shot at seeing them.

Just sent in my down payment for Jam in the Sand. Dannyboy and I are going in January. Whoa!!!! This will be EPIC!

This makes me happy.

https://www.facebook.com/deanandcompanyband/

The gal up front is Shabbey Road's singer and she is leaving us... graduating to the triple-A club.

The big guy next to her was my previous lead singer in D-Train and the Membranes. He owns a pawn shop... that I didn't work at, but he's the brother of the guy who owns the shop I worked at, and how the whole pawn connection happened in the first place (via music)

Of the 20 Dead Tributes in the area I imagine they are one of the best, apparently their guitar player is Jerry reincarnate. (But I've never seen them.)

Eh hem ... sounds like an opportunity for us both.

Sir we should do that actually, I regret not meeting up before I am a turrible person and socially inept.

Would really like that. Maybe a little CTG ... Bruce, Jim ... ?

Saw Queen with Adam Lambert here in KC a couple of weeks ago. It was excellent. If rock and roll subtlety is your thing, you'd not have enjoyed it. I didn't' get a lot of pics, and most of them sucked because the venue was heavily fogged to maximize the laser effects, so here's a shot of the laser effects. The little silhouetto of a man there on stage is Adam Lambert.

Maybe you can Catch Ronnie James Dio on his upcoming tour. Yes, that's what I said. ;)

I see what you did there.;)

Concerts vary in price by city even before the scalpers get them...

Shabbey Road @ Wagon Wheel, Quakertown 11/11 9pm, admission $0.

$0 is what Quakertown can afford

But seriously, these are the prices for arena shows. All the artists in those arenas, at one time, played small clubs where you could go see them for $10-$20, and see them up close. They might graduate or fall back to 1000 seat theaters for $40. Or even 400-seat theaters for $25. Where the sound is 100% better and the experience is 100% better. In some cases you could even meet the band, if you hung around.

But go ahead, pay $100 to see Stevie Nicks from two football fields away. (It's really the only way she'll look and sound like she did in 1977.)

Also, Uncasville, CT? They mean Mohegan Sun, CT; there is no good place name to describe where the massive CT indian casinos are. Middle of nowhere, CT.

Right, Mohegan Sun would ring more bells than Uncasville.
The Tower theater in Upper Darby, PA (Philly suburb) was a great place to see groups before and after they hit the big venues.

And they seem to have placed Delaware in the western part of Maryland. Or created a new state. Or something. WTF?

What? There are no venues/cities listed in DE or MD. :confused:
DE is hidden under the DC bubble, and the only thing near western MD is the Pittsburgh bubble.

I was talking about the borders of the states. MD seems to be split up into two states. And the shape of western MD reminds me of DEL

Oh, I see what you mean. A lot of the national maps, especially crude illustrations like this one, have trouble with that area. The smaller area maps usually do better, but it is a fucked up arrangement with the width of MD between PA ans WV is only one mile at one point. And WV has that flag like it's a long load. Hard to capture on a big map.

Don't worry glatt, when the designers take over they'll fix that shit. ;)

I hadn't seen that XKCD.

I always forget about XKCD and then when I remember it, I am happy that I have a dozen or so new comics to go off and read.

I'm having a Pity Party tonight.

Me and Puddles.

:cry:

Edited

How is Puddles?