Frank Zappa in the Felt Forum on Halloween night - Them or Us tour Pat Metheny at Barymore's in Ottawa - Questions and Answer tour Boomtown Rats - Mondo Bongo tour Elton John at MSG The Tubes - Outside/Inside tour Martin Joseph last week at Kaos in Calgary I not a huge fan of all of these bands, these concerts were all amazing for one reason or another.
They rule! We saw the D (with the awesome Diamond Sumugglers) in New Orleans in October and had our lives changed. Other concerts in which various socks were rocked off: David Bowie, The Woodlands, 1990 David Bowie, Warfield Theater, San Francisco, 1997 David Bowie, The Phoenix Festival, Stratford, UK, 1996 (with the Prodigy and Frank Black and lots others) Nirvana, Breeders, Shonen Knife, The Astrohall, 1993 U2, The Pixies, Summit, 1992 U2, Popmart Tour, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans U2 current tour. Houston, Dallas, 2001 The Who, Astrodome, 1989 The Who, The Woodlands, 2000 The Rolling Stones, Astrodome, 1989, 1994 The Rolling Stones, Dallas, 1994 The Rolling Stones, The Summit, 1998 Elvis Costello (me?!) and the Attractions, The Woodlands, Dallas, 1994 Elvis Costello and the Attractions, London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Houston, Austin, Dallas, 1996 (it was a very good year...) Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve, Houston, Dallas, Austin, 1998 Chemical Brothers, Austin, 1999 Fatboy Slim, Dallas, 2001 Travis, Auckland, New Zealand, 2000 Neil Young (with Sonic Youth and Social Distortion), The Summit, 1990 Neil Young and Booker T & the MG's (with Dinasour, jr.), The Woodlands, 1993 Bob Dylan, The Summit, 1989 Bob Dylan, The Music Hall, 1995 Bob Dylan, New Orleans, The Woodlands, 1999 REM (with Robyn Hitchcock), the Summit, 1989 REM (with Belly), Paris, 1995 REM (with Radiohead), 2 shows, the Woodlands, 1995 REM (with Wilco and Mercury Rev), San Antonio, 1999 Radiohead (with Spiritualized), The Aerial, 1998 Radiohead (not with the Beta Band, damn it), The Woodlands, 2001 Beastie Boys, The Alamodome, 1998 Beck, Lollapolooza (with Hole, Pavement, Elastica, Cypress Hill) 1995 Beck, Dallas, 1999 Blur, Dallas, 1996 Blur, #'s, 1997 Blur, Dallas, 1997 Oasis, #'s, 1996 Oasis, Dallas, 1997 Oasis, (with Cornershop), The Aerial, 1997 The Ramones, Rockerfeller's, 1992 Smashing Pumpkins, Rockefeller's West, 1992 Smashing Pumpkins, (with Garbage), The Summit, 1996 Smashing Pumpkins, The Aerial, 1998 Pavement, Fitzgerald's, 1997 Pavement, Fitzgerald's, 1999 Peter Gabriel, The Summit, 1993 Guns n' Roses (with Metallica and Faith No More), The Astrodome, 1991 Issac Hayes, the Arena Theater, 1995 Portishead, Dallas, 1998 Paul McCartney, Dallas, 1990 Paul McCartney, The Astrodome, 1993 Tom ****ing Jones, Las Vegas, 2001 Dandy Warhols, Paris, 1998 Dandy Warhols (with Curve), #'s, 1998 Dandy Warhols, Fitzgerald's, 2000 Stereolab, Lollapalooza (with Smashing Pumpkins, George Clinton, Beastie Boys, L7, Nick Cave, Breeder's), Baytown (yikes!), 1994 Stereolab, Houston, 1996, 1997, 1999 DJ Shadow (with Meat Beat Manifesto, Josh Wink, Keoki), San Francisco, 1997 Tom Petty, The Summit, 1990 Tom Petty, the Woodlands, 2001 Rush many times...I'll stop now...
U2 - Austin, 2001 New Order - North America, 2002 - I'll go ahead and put down the New Order Get Ready tour down although no dates are confirmed. Nothing New Order does is ever bad. I plan on seeing them twice.
Sorry, I went overboard a bit there. It is not by half every show I have ever seen, though..those just stick out in my memory. In any case, sorry it disturbed you so much there, Bob.
Mike Watt with a bunch of other famous people, 1995 Stones, 1997 Juliana Hatfied/Jeff Buckley, 1995 Steely Dan, 2000
turns out someone I know is in it. I just found out that T.R. Knight , a friend of a friend, plays the stagehand who understudies everyone's role. I am trying hard to get tickets to see it. I heard that it is the funniest play on Broadway, just like you said.
When I lived in L.A. in the '80s and early '90s, I used to see live music at least once or twice a week. Between the resulting blur of memories and the passage of time, I'm a little fuzzy on some of the exact dates and locales, but here goes: Iggy Pop -- Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (I think), November 1980 Not just cutthroat rock'n'roll, but gripping stream-of-consciousness theatre. Performed two awesome songs ("Hassle" and "Winter of Discontent," which included Iggy reciting the famous to-be-or-not-to-be monologue from Hamlet) that to the best of my knowledge, he has never released on an album. Laurie Anderson -- Roxy (Hollywood, CA), c. 1981 The only truly spontaneous standing ovation I've ever witnessed. No stragglers standing up out of obligation -- the instant the lights came up, the entire audience leaped to its feet simultaneously in sheer worship. Most had no idea who she was; the evening's main draw was William Burroughs reading from some novel ... and then this short woman with spiky hair came on and conjured spells in the dark for an hour, flawlessly combining music with visual/sound effects that no one had ever imagined. Probably the '80s-techno equivalent to seeing an unknown Bob Dylan in a Greenwich Village coffeehouse around 1960. Bo Diddley with the Bonedaddys -- Palomino (N. Hollywood, CA), c. 1985 OK, first of all, Bo Diddley was/is great anytime, anywhere ... but these shows were the most unforgettable. Bo's habit in the mid-'80s was to come to town by himself and use whoever was booked as the opening band as his backing group, turning a handful of his classic songs into extended blues or funk(!) jams and throwing in a couple of new tunes as well. One time this happened with the Bonedaddys, a local 8- or 9-member worldbeat group ... and Bo loved the resulting R&B/calypso/reggae/etc. mixture so much that he stayed in town for month or two, booking additional gigs for a quasi-residency at the Palomino. The grooves got deeper, short improvs turned into full-fledged songs (with hilarious lyrics by Bo) -- and if anyone on stage or in the audience ever had more fun, it didn't involve music.
Actually, there was no Rockefeller's West in 1992 - the Pumpkins played there in 1993 (I remember because I was a freshman in college). That was the show where Billy Corgan threw a temper tantrum after getting hit in the face by a flying shoe. Billy spent used the next 10 minutes telling the crowd that he'd keep playing if they pointed out the culprit and said that he'd kick the person's ass. You could tell the crowd was thinking "Yeah right Billy. You couldn't even kick your own ass." He ended up walking after one more song. What a egomaniacal prick.
PINK FLOYD - Rice Stadium CURE - Cynthia Woods Mithchell Pavillion Rage Against the Machine - Lollapalooza '93 Houston
DMB-Everytime I've seen them, now on #7. Neil Diamond, San Jose Arena, 1993. Garth Brooks (I know, I know), 1992 Reunion Arena (Colby, if I'm not mistaken, and I'm not, cause you can see me a couple of times on the tv special, that was the one they filmed for NBC). Rage, Sunken Gardens, 1996. Pat Green, Austin Music Hall, 2000.
Actually, the shoe more than likely accidentally flew off someone's foot while crowd surfing. There was a pretty brutal pit at that show. **** flies at concerts all the time - it wasn't like someone threw a beer bottle at him. If he felt that the flying footwear was too much to handle, he should have just left instead of standing at the mike b****ing at the audience.
