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To clarify. What was the first live concert you ever saw?

What was the best?

Best: Beastie Boys, State Theater, Detroit, 1992, with Tad and Firehose. The kind of show where the moshin' doesn't stop between bands.

My best show? [look the other way, music snobs]
U2 ZooTV tour, Dallas, 1992. Bono sang "Can't Help Falling in Love" and it made me hurt, like I couldn't help it either.

Runner up: GWAR, Scumdogs of the Universe tour, with the Almighty Lumberjacks of Death. Same venue, 1990.

As I said somewhere over there, The Cure was the first on the Kiss Me Tour.

The best live shows....hmm

Ramones Mania was good
Jesus & Mary Chain/Iggy Pop at the Greek in Berkeley was good, but I don't think I was old or smart enough to really appreciate it.
Tom Waits at the Wiltern in 99 was pretty damn close. I had front row center for that. Tom came bouncing down the aisle with his bullhorn at the beginning of the show shrieking "Ladies aaaand Gentlemen!", passing withing inches of my elbow. I haven't washed that elbow since and it's getting rather unsightly, to be frank (no pun intended).
But I think the numero uno show I've ever been to was probably The Pogues on the Fall From Grace Tour. It was a mix of skins and arty types in the crowd, a big friendly pit and everyone linked arms and swayed to Dirty Old Town.
Also, I've seen a couple of damn good Nick Cave shows, the best being the Henry's Dream Tour.
And Johnny Cash 3 times. The Cash shows would, of course, be better if he didn't insist on allowing his less talented offspring to warble a few ditties. But shit, he's the Man In Black. What can you do?
I'm planning a trip to Bakersfield soon (that's not a phrase you hear too much) to see Buck Owens beofre he kicks it.

First: Van Halen, Diver Down Tour, 1982 at Cobo Arena in Detroit.

Best: The Replacements, 1985 in Ann Arbor. They were great for the first half of the show and entertainingly drunk for the second half.

I was teargassed at a Jefferson Airplane concert in Akron, Ohio in 1972. Grace Slick got arrested and dragged off the stage. It wasn't the best concert I've ever seen, but it makes the best anecdote.

First, Springfield (as already mentioned).

Best? Probably Tesla, opening for Alice Cooper. Salt Palace, 1986, I think.

I didn't know who Tesla was, and when they came out to play their set you could tell they still had the bar band mentality. They stuck pretty close together on stage, guzzled beer all through the set, didn't pay a lot of attention to being flashy, but they were tight. They "blew the roof off the dump" that night, as Letterman would say. After their set, Alice was disappointing.

Ah. I forgot Iggy. He does put on a damn good show, that crazy man. Strangely enough, State Theater, Detroit, 1993. American Caeser tour.

First: The Untouchables at CSUN in 1986.
Best: The Pixies at the LA Palladium. A tear still comes to my eye when I think of that one. They did every song from Come on Pilgrim to Doolittle and every b-side from their singles. It was a three hour show and Black Francis was just a big puddle of sweat. I stood right under Kim.

Runner up: Bob Dylan in Fall 1993, Lafayett, LA. My lady bought me tickets for my birthday. He did a mostly acoustic set.

It was a turning point in our relationship because before this point, she hated Bob Dylan (okay, "hate" is a strong word, but she wasn't a fan). That changed when he played "Tangled Up in Blue." I looked over and she had tears running down her face.

She looked at me when the song was through and said, "Okay, I get it now." And my heart grew like the Grinch for her. Bob Dylan--for me--is the lifemate litmus test.

Other Great Shows I've Seen:

Bowie, 1987 (Glass Spider Tour)
U2's Joshua Tree tour (hey, i was 15. gimme a break.)
Lou Reed, 1996 (Set the Twilight Reeling)
Morphine, 1995

Oh, and the Verve records 50th Anniversary show at Carnegie Hall (1994) and James Carter at the Village Vanguard in 1995-ish. The guy played a 90 minute set and i swear he didn't stop to take a breath.

I was buggered by George Michael backstage in 1990.

OK, not really, but I was trying to beat tizzie's story.

First show: Scorpions,Hartford, 1985

Best: (tie)Ramones, Port Chester, NY, 1986 & Brian Wilson Orchestral Tour, Sunrise, FL 2001

First concert? I'm not saying. But they had their Grammys taken away. Please don't mock me.

*ow!*
*ow!*
quittit! Those stones hurt!
awright. I'm leavin'.

ani difranco, highland high school auditorium, 1997.
i'd heard of her but didn't really know any songs but my roommate wanted to go and it was only $15. i don't normally like concerts where i don't know the songs but this one was amazing and beautiful. ani difranco live is probably nothing like what people imagine it is (except for the annoying lesbians yelling "fuck you and your untouchable face," which annoys her as well).

first concert (as i mentioned in the other thread) was billy joel, 1989, madison square garden. say what you like about his music, he is a wonderful & giving performer. i think he's the reason i expect so much from concerts. i felt like i was sitting in his living room even though i was in MSG.

First Concert: Leon Russell. (I'd won free tickets, and my boyfriend and I were surrounded by pot smokers-I'd never been around it before and was expecting the entire police force to surround us any minute. Naive, I was.)

Best Concert-Jean-Luc Ponty, electronic violinist, when he performed at N.C. State years ago...no pot this time, but i was high on the music.

coldchef, if it makes you feel any better, i dislocated my left kneecap in high school making fun of milli vanilli (i was doing, well trying to do, one of their trademark kicks).

Johnny Cash put me over his knee and spanked like a little bitch. Does that count?

Man, wish I'd seen Morphine before Sandman died, JP. Wish I'd seen Dead Can Dance too.

Oh I forgot The Creatures a couple of years ago at the Galaxy. That Siouxsie is sexy as hell.

*pouncing* aha! see, i knew you had a siousxie fetish! and you claimed it was just annie lennox.

I saw Dead Can Dance at the Wiltern. The funny thing about DCD is that I used to put them on to fall asleep. I love them, but Lisa Gerrard's voice just makes me drift off. So I drifted off about halfway through the show. When everybody got up to leave, I awoke, poked my friend in the ribs, he gave up to slumber as well, and left more relaxed than I'd felt in my life.

Best concerts, hmmm:

The Who, late 70's, Sex Pistols, if only because I can say I saw them live...(actually, they sucked pretty much, really...) The Stones before they looked like grandparents in spandex.

Nirvana, MotherLoveBone and Pearl Jam in clubs before grunge became popular...there were maybe 50 of us there for each show...that was so great.

Black Flag, Metallica (80's version), Santana...any version, Gwar was always funny as long as I was at the back of the room, Ramones were always great, Butthole Surfers, King Crimson, Alice in Chains, Dead Kennedy's, Ministry...always Ministry.

The Toadies always gave a really great show...but they were best in small hometown clubs.

I'm not sure if the Blue Man Group counts as a show or a concert...but if you ever get a chance, it's so worth the money to see them perform.

Do they try to sell you old P3s in the intermission?

First concert: Kenny Rogers (with special guest Dolly Parton!) early 80's

Best Concert: They Might be Giants with Frank Black opening 'roundabout 96

Y'all just be thankful that I didn't participate in the CD swap.

Oh, and worst concert ever: Rush.

My God, are they bad.

First: Thin Lizzy, Hammersmith Odeon, London, 1975 (my neighbor worked the door).

Best: Pogues, Slade Art School christmas party, 1981
Parliament, Central Park, NYC 1996 (ended up - ahem - partying with the band back at their hotel)
Tom Waits (1981, 85, 87, 99 all great)
The Beastie Boys on the edge of the Columbia River Gorge, WA. 1994

Nat: I lurve They Might Be Giants!

i just saw they might be giants on friday night. it was my tenth tmbg show. i am a Nerd.

first concert: collective soul with rusty. Very Sad.

best concert(s): radiohead with the beta band at the washington gorge. paul simon and bob dylan, also at the gorge. the horde festival back in the day, with morphine, ben folds five, squirrel nut zippers, etc. also, all of the tmbg shows.

pikachu lolita, you think you're a nerd, try explaining to someone sometime where the black Monkees 20th anniversary t-shirt that you're wearing came from.

Go ahead, try it.

Then, for fun, try explaining why Mike isn't on it.

You're right about Ben Folds Five though. They put on a good show.

Gotta go, must get back to my D&D game.

You saw DK? *turns green*

I saw Ministry with the Revolting Cocks and KMFDM in Detroit, St. Andrew's Hall, 1990. They put up a big fence across the stage and basically invited us to tear it down.

And Black Flag too? Grr...

First? Er, Laurie Anderson? No, maybe Eurythmics. I'm not sure.

Best? Fishbone, Primus, small punk rock gigs when I wasn't afraid of getting pummeled by guys twice my size, and thought all the hormones and sweat were cooooooool--all in all though, I'm jaded about music and don't like people enough to go to shows any more without some major cajoling.

Posted by: readymade on July 24, 2002 07:37 PM

Wow, no one said the monkees.
First, Beach Boys, opening act, Last game of California Surf, before folding. Even went back stage, yet too young to do anything, except watch the crowd in Aniheim Stadium, smoke out.
Plus back then no seating on the field, so you did get to see an extra treat. Fans running 50yards to be pummeled by the big bad security, with yellow jackets & at the time a new flash light, named MAG. Then everyone rushed and you know the rest.....floor seating.
Best experience from a man's view, Garbage....

Wow, no one said the monkees.

I was talking about myself of course. I realize no one else would have such bad fashion taste.

Might notta made that clear.

Anyway, they were my second concert, but I think we should just try to keep that our little secret.

Yes! Yes!
Ben Folds Five and Squirrel Nut Zippers are among my favorite live shows.
Sadly, I have never had the pleasure of seeing They Might Be Giants live.
John Mayer puts on a damn good show too.

My first concert was Stryper. God help me. (no pun intended, of course)
I was young and stupid back then. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

best taken live:
Richard Thompson.. any time, any place - a first row seat, and you will still swear the man has six fingers on each hand.
Jane Siberry. The Voice.
REM.. I know, I know.. but they are still so.. gentle with a crowd... and Stipe is immmensley watchable.
too many more to mention...

Stryper rawks! Praise Jesus!

(I still have two Stryper cassettes, so I know this for certain.)

YES YES YES, i can't believe i forgot about REM. i saw them right after up came out. Totally Amazing.

michael stipe has some bizarre animal magnetism that i totally wasn't expecting. it was like mind control.

First concert - an NC A&T "Aggie Pride" event with the Fugees, Busta Rhymes, Tribe Called Quest and Method Man.

I gave in to peer pressure and left our third level, row X seats to make our way down to the first level where we proceeded to hop two gates while security wasn't looking and settle in on the second row, floor level.

Highlights of the event - a fight broke out on floor level, and all the seats on the second row began to collapse from the weight of the crowd, so I ended up having to walk across standing people to get to safety. Lots of, "I saw someone walking OVER the crowd," "Yeah, fucker walked on my head." "That was me." "That was YOU!?" anecdotes.

Best concert - 8 months pregnant, Dave Matthews band, fifth row center stage. The wee one kicked in time to the bass, and I danced my fat pregnant ass off.

Oh, and Southern Culture on the Skids puts on an amazing live show too.

They throw fried chicken at the audience. :)

I really enjoyed Radiohead tonight. They're playing three concerts in Lisbon and three in Oporto to present the new album. Thom Yorke said he wasn't allowed to say the song titles but he ended up giving away two or three.

So we got the whole new album - very dark and melodic, full of sleepers and growers - and then all the best songs and the hits - magnificent!

My first concert (boy do I love these threads) was Oscar Peterson at the Wonder Bar in Estoril (I was seven or eight). The first concert I paid to get into was the Cascais Jazz Festival in 1971: Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Dizzy Gillespie... And I got to photograph them all as I was posing as a photographer. Pity I was too young and raw to enjoy it properly. Miles Davis played for seven minutes ("Bye Bye Blackbird") in an atrociously coloured shell suit, back turned to the audience, and then left - but what seven minutes!

My favourite concert of all time was Leonard Cohen at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, in 1977.

But the best was Aztec Camera in Lisbon, 1982.

And Felt, Jesus and Mary Chain, Don Cherry...oh, it goes on and on.

The time I most loved was Carmen Macrae at the Blue Note in NYC in 1991(?) because there were only about seven people in the joint. My girlfriend at the time fell asleep and she sang a lullaby and then suddenly woke her up with "The Lady Is A Tramp".

*sorry for the length!*

Talking of live concerts, all monkey-lovin' Billy Bragg fans (all two or three) will like this little clip against the silly UK laws about live music in pubs, village halls etc....[Quicktime required]

Do we have to do this "QT req" thing here? ;)

No, because I have no idea how a Q-Tip enhances my movie-viewing.

Count me in the Bragg fans, Don Miguelito. I've seen him a couple of times.

'scuse me while I whip this thing out.

* ooh, musty smells *

Well, here's a few I saved:

Led Zeppelin, 3/3/77
Doobie Brothers, 7/4/77
Alice Cooper, ?/?/77
Yes, 10/3/77
Aerosmith, 11/16/77
(1977 was a good year)

The Who, 7/2/80
The Who again, 12/4/82
Police, 11/20/83
Frank Zappa, 12/6/84
Joe Jackson, 9/28/89

The first, though, was *cringe* America - sometime in 1976.

The best, however, will always be the Proclaimers on 3/1/89. Not only did they put on a kick-ass show (before "1,000 Miles" became a big hit), it was the second date with the woman who would become my wife and we sucked face all throughout the second half.

most hilarious concert: rammstein, when they opened up for KMFDM, musta been about 1997 or 98. they had the cheesiest pyrotechnics i've ever seen. also, they didn't move, except in a side to side motion, during the entire set--and then suddenly the keyboardist put on a muzzle, hopped up on a gurney, and the singer ejaculated out of a dildo all over him and the crowd. i could not stop laughing.

Wow, Zepplin and the Dooby Bros. Rock on. :)

The rammstein show sounds hysterical. I'm sorry I missed them and therefore the climax, as it were.

I totally forgot REM too. Stipes is an alien with that charisma thing. Kinda spooky, in a cool, well tempo'ed kinda way. :) I didn't think about Pink Floyd either...but those were unfreaking believable shows...or the drugs were really, really good...I'm not sure which.

And I know, people will laugh at me for this, but I've gone to see Rush at least 8 times...and on purpose every time. :) I mean, not in the last 10 years or so...but yeah, I saw them at least once on every tour during the 80's, plus all the festivals from that decade. Yes, I still play the CD's. Loud...and sing along. It's an ugly thing, but hey, you're my poop flinging buddies, and you deserve to know the truth. I am a Rush junkie.

Hey, I dig Rush too. My first exposure to true high-fidelity "audiophile-quality" sound was via a junior-high friend whose father had a multi-thousand-dollar bang&olufsen system and was not averse to letting his teenage son play 2112 and Moving Pictures at semi-earthshattering volumes on occasion.

I still crank up Tom Sawyer and Limelight when the "classic rock" station is on in the car.

Man, wish I'd seen Morphine before Sandman died, JP.

I saw them at Avalon in Boston, a small club right outside Fenway Park. We were late getting there and, as you can imagine, with that sax blaring and the bass booming, the whole outside of the building rumbled. It created this weird ambient roar, punctuated by those brief moments when the sax climbed out of the baritone range. The result was a sort of background music to the scene of us waiting to get inside. We felt like we were living in a movie.

This may be a thread of its own, but -

Bands I Never Saw but Wished I Had

Rush (they came around every year, never went)
Jethro Tull (ditto)
Devo
The Clash

I'm sure there's more ...

On preview, although there's no Morphine on 'em I think you may like my CDs, JP. They (yes, TWO. I was weak, damnit!) went out in the mail this morning.

After a particularly fine show at Mama Kin's in Boston, Ben Folds of Ben Folds Five fame scrawled "I love you" on my forehead when I asked for an autograph.

One of the friends I went with tried to convince me he was just pleased with the show rather than coming on to me, but I just think he's jealous.

For being such a big music fan I've seen reamrkably few shows. Maybe 30 or so in my whole life. I just don't like crowds, I guess.

I've also never been in a dance club. My first week of my abortive college career the people in my dorm were given flyers for a club party. When I showed up dressed in my usual outfit, I was told I couldn't come in by a guy in a spiked leather codpiece. When I hung around most other 'scenes' I was always written of for not being this or that enough.

I also havent seen a movie in a theatre in about 3 years. I'm really out of it, come to think of it.

And here's the commemorative resin monkey to prove it.

That's..........

.... not resin, my friend.

miguel, you suck so much for getting to see radiohead. however, missing it is my fault. if i were stalking you more carefully, i wouldn't have lost your car beh -- i mean, i could have flown over to go see them.

bands i wish i'd seen:
flaming lips
neutral milk hotel
wilco (tried to see 'em but only caught the last 15 minutes of their set because the axle on my car about fell off on the way to portland)
the lemonheads
blur

i'm sure there are more, but i'm going to spend the rest of my brain power envying miguel.

P Lo: The new songs I remember were "Myxomatosis", "There There" and "A Punch up at a Wedding". I find it's better to hear favourite bands in small countries because they're more at ease, play a lot of new stuff to try it out and, as compensation, play all the hits. In the U.K. and U.S. bands are more keen to make an impression and seem cool, go against the grain, keep up appearances, etc.

Here in Portugal Radiohead chose two comfortable concert halls - rather than a stadium - and, instead of one ginormous gig, preferred to play three successive concerts in Lisbon and another three in Oporto.

It was intimate and thrilling and their drunken, melancholy bent is perfectly attuned to our wistful, sad-eyed culture.

A big downer. about a hundred empty VIP (i.e. free) seats, when all concerts have been sold out for ages and thousands couldn't get in...

Speaking of melancholy, have you heard Nina Nastasia? I'm just raving mad about her. :)

I just realized I haven't actually been to a concert since Def Leppard's Hysteria tour. That's, uh, fifteen years?

I suck.

But I bet Neale's reluctant admission that 9622 is the longest thread on MetaFilter will cheer you up, Crash! Although it has to be said they've been posting quite a lot to the damn thing, possibly trying to overtake us before Matt's Big Freeze. So we should be warned. ;)

There's no way 1142 will ever be as cool as 9622, and do you know why?

They require registration.

Bunch'o'pansies.

Ahhh. Now, I feel as if I actually belong here. (warning, this links the 1720th comment on the thread from which we all take sustenance. Dialup users may wish to pass.)

Not surprisingly, it seems that most of my simian compatriots here have similar musical tastes to my own. Or it could just be that I like pretty much everything.

I have a sudden thirst for icy cold beer.

Excuse me.

I got Devo tickets twice, and twice they canceled, perhaps after hearing that I got tickets. Of shows that didn't cancel, I remember two Elvis Costello shows with (in some combination I can't remember now) opening acts Mink Deville, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Dave Edmunds, and Nick Lowe. Talking Heads in Toronto, probably about 1983. Bowie's Glass Spider tour. Peter Gabriel somewhere in the mists of memory. The The in a smoky little place somewhere. All of these were good, and all were the best at the time.

My first, though, was Elton fucking John, maybe in 1976, whenever Don't Go Breaking My Heart was a hit, with Boz Skaggs opening. Yeesh. But I won't lie: at the time, I enjoyed it. For a Christmas present not long before that, I got my first record player, and the records I got from Santa included Elton John's Greatest Hits, which must have been enough to brainwash me for a year or two, at least until, I think, I heard Bowie.

But Elton wasn't the worst. I was convinced by my mother to chaperone my little brother and his friend to a Kiss concert, Love Gun tour. In a very hot, sweaty auditorium in Buffalo, NY, we sat way up in the rafters among thousands of stoners wearing Kiss t-shirts and watched the more flamboyant fans painted and dressed like Gene Simmons trying very hard to breathe fire without setting alight their own and one another's mullets. It was great fun, but only because the whole thing was so damned funny.

And now I just go to the philharmonic. I like listening to them play their philharmonicas.

Phil Harmon and His Dancing Monicas!

The best shows I have seen may just have been some of Arcade Fire's, this past year in Montreal. When they finish their album, they are going to be indie huge.

Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Centre Orchestra (Summer 2000) was pretty awesome too.

Miguel: I am rather jealous of your Radiohead experience. My first reaction to seeing you were from Lisboa, yesterday, was to think "Aw man - Radiohead's playing there. I should ask him if he's going..." But I didn't, I suppose because I presumed you'd be far too busy writing and MeFi'ing to listen to Radiohead at their near-peak. :) Bootlegs from the first show are already online, here and there. The stuff sounds in the vein of "Pyramid Song" and "Idioteque" (my favourite songs, so hurrah!).

I saw Radiohead on their five-date 2001 tour, and then last year in Barrie as part of the big summer arena thing. The first show was nice - because it was smallish, really - but I rather disliked the megashow in the park. Crowdsurfing during "Street Spirit". Limp Bizkit t-shirts. Too much rock and not enough, um, soul? I hear you, jon - big concerts often suck. And even the little indies disappoint me, fairly often. I guess I'm an album guy, not a live guy.

re: Nina Nastasia. She's absolutely fab. People on my MefiSwap list will get a taste of her ("Ocean", FYI). I got her album for free (hooray for promos), and it's reviewed here.

If you like her, sample the lovely alt.folk of Hem.

New Model Army, to both.

Although perversely, Doug E. Fresh is the best stage performer I have yet witnessed in person.

First Concert was: Ronny James Dio when I was in 7th grade.

Best concert: Ned's Atomic Dustbin when they opened up for Jesus Jones at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor. jesus jones was OK too.

Worst concert, Music-wise: Poison, Cinderella and someone else back in 89 or 90

Worst concert, crowd-wise: Sugarcubes, PiL, and New Order, most of the people were there to hear Bizarre Love Triangle and left after New Order played it (and the crowd ignored the Sugarcubes)

Most Recent: I saw Roxy Music last year, it rained-- that's about all I remember of it

Next concert: Paul Westerberg

Concert that I got free tix to and couldn't give away: Men At Work.

I had random sex with a Love-Hungry Rock Chick at a Billy Idol show in '83. Guess that'd have to top my list, taking everything into account.

But speaking of Men at Work, I saw a Coliseum show that same year with the oddball triple bill of AC/DC, Men At WOrk, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, who was at that point unheard-of, at least in Vancouver.

That was cool too. I still like Men At Work (and worship the other two, 'natch).

I'm coming out of lurking mode (if you'll have me) to say this:

My first concert was the Monkees. Incredibly lame. Weird Al opened for them.

If I hadn't slept through the Willie Nelson concert my father took me to when I was 5, I would claim that as my first instead.

Best concert? I spent my adolescence seeing all-ages shows every weekend, so it all blurs together in an unremarkable way. Fishbone, sometime in 1991, was a righteous show. The first Mekons show I ever went to was pretty great as well. I had a minor nervous breakdown when I realized a few years ago that I didn't enjoy live shows anymore. I found myself with a lot of free time on my hands.

Bands I'd have liked to see: The Clash, The Minutemen, The Wedding Present, and my hero, Buddy Holly.

Men at Work and free tickets! I was working at a record store back when they had their one hit, so when they played a local club I went with another guy from the store to drink beer and listen.

I entirely forgot about that. Which means, of course, that the show was entirely forgettable.

Welcome to the monkeyparty cowboy_sally.

eeksy peeksy, i don't want to start a fight here but--they had two hits: land down under and who can it be now. :)

And 'Down By The Sea' always made me feel swell when I was heavily medicated.

I preferred 'Under the Sea'.

Hey now, can I get a "It's a Mistake"?

*shudder*

Fine, fine '80's pop tunes. I am unapologetic in my unpopular love for Men At Work, as my other most exacting musical discernments redeem me as a man of wealth and taste.

How about this:

LL Cool J at an MTV Spring Break show, Daytona Beach, 1990 or '91. "Mama Said Knock You Out"!

I'm going to see the Tragically Hip tomorrow night. If you've never seen them, please do. They put on a great show....for Canadians.

I also have tix for the Area 2 show in August (Bowie, Moby, Busta Rhymes, Carl Cox, Ash, the Avalanches). I currently have no one to go with, as my friends are all tapped out, having seen Tre Friggin' Anastasio 42 times this summer. (John hates jam bands.) Who wants to come with me?

I worship the Hip, and having been expatriate for most of the last decade, have never seen them play live.

*sob*

The Hip's "Fireworks" (along with a cut from Gordon Downie's solo album) is coming down the pipe on that self-same mix cd I mentioned earlier. To the lucky ones, that is. :) I'm on a roll, today. Now someone mention the Reindeer Section and Mirah.

let's have a 9622 party in boston for area 2!

"You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey and I never saw someone sayin' that before."

YES!

(I'm drunk!)

If there's a goal that everyone remembers it was back in ol' 72
We all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger
And all I remember was sitting beside you
You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey
And I never saw someone say that before
You held my hand and we walked home the long way
You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr
Isn't it amazing anything's accomplished
When the little sensation gets in your way
Not one ambition whisperin' over your shoulder
Isn't it amazing you can do anything
We hung out together every single moment
Cause that's what we though married people do
Complete with the grip of artificial chaos
And believing in the country of me and you
Crisis of faith and crisis in the Kremlin
And yea we'd heard all of that before
It's wintertime, the house is solitude with options
And loosening the grip on a fake cold war
Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish
When you don't let the nation get in your way
No ambition whisperin' over your shoulder
Isn't it amazing you can do anything

Next to your comrades in the national fitness program
Caught in some eternal flexed-arm hang
Droppin' to the mat in a fit of laughter
Showed no patience, tollerence or restraint

Fireworks exploding in the distance
Temporary towers soar
Fireworks emulating heaven
Til there are no stars anymore
Fireworks aiming straight at heaven
Temporary towers soar
Til there are no stars shining up in heaven
Til there are no stars anymore
Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish
When the little sensation gets in your way
No ambition whisperin' over your shoulder
Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish, eh
This one thing probably never goes away
I think this one thing is always supposed to stay
This one thing doesn't have to go away

I saw the Reindeer Section on the bus the other day. They were sitting right by Mirah which I thought was a little strange. When I turned around to look for them again, they were gone, and with them the egg salad sandwich I had brought for lunch.

They stole my egg salad!

My first concert was "The Marvelettes" with my dad. My second was Buddy Guy, with my dad. My third was, "The Rolling Stones: Steel Wheels" with my dad, the following article from my town's weekly newspaper sums it up well:

Vet Rocking, Shocking?
Some people might not be able to imagine local veterinarian Michael O'Neill at a rock and roll concert, much less a Rolling Stones concert, but Dr. O'Neill doesn't think it is strange. "I think a lot of the people in the audience will be my age."

His daughter, Grainne, 11, is more excited. "We are very excited about the concert," she said.

After years in therapy I can listen to music now. Thankfully

* note to self: Grainne has "daddy" issues *

jpoulos, I was lucky to see Tragically Hip, in Dallas around '96. My buddy is Canadian, he kept saying before the show how they sell out arenas in his home area, yea big deal so I thouhgt. Well I will say for a band that, I had never even heard of, and then played 20 feet in front of me, I did feel lucky. They rocked, and as I left the place, Trees in Dallas,I kept hearing, "wow I can't believe this place, it was packed yet the back door is only 150 to 200 feet from the stage, my friends in Manatoba, won't ever believe me when I tell them this." My buddy kept passing out space cakes, too. And since then a do hear their buzz from time to time. Do you have an extra ticket???????

I can't believe I forgot about this one!

I drove down to Atlanta from Detroit on a Friday to see R.E.M. play a 1500 seat (or so) venue in Buckhead two or three years ago. It was frickin' amazing.

Also, I took TJ to the concert he said was the best he ever saw. That's pretty swell.

Bjork. Barefoot in the swan dress. Radio City Music Hall.

I win.

brittney, you win, when you have Bjork barefoot at my place..........

brittney, you win when thom yorke and bjork have a baby that hatches out of an egg.

it's a recurring dream of mine.

Actually, my brother just backed out of the Hip tomorrow night, so I have no one to go with.

Davis Square, Somerville, MA. 7:30 tomorrow.

Who wants to go?

...

*desperately breaks out phone book*

bring him.

Spot me the California to MA airfare and you're on.

Click this paypal page to buy Kafkaesque airfare to Boston so he can go to the concert.

Davis Square? I think I used to live there. I'll go check a map...

Nope. One stop earlier, at Porter Square. Beech Street. The mind gets mushy over the years.

I wish I were there now. Someone send me ticket money, too, please.

*sigh*

you can't *all* go, jeesh.

I knew this would happen...

I could sleep on the floor, if that helps. I'm low-maintenance. (Other than needing ticket money.)

I have been in need of a roadtrip to top the Mongo, Indiana experience...

seriously - where is somerville MA?

I thought you were talking about Maryland - but I could make it to Massachusettes...

are you up for it?

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I just sold them to a guy at work.

Besides, Somerville is north of boston. I doubt you could make it here on time.

Dammit, missed a date with grainne by *that* much.

i'll bet you were shitting yourself until you came up with that convenient excuse.

You *so* don't scare me, grainne. What are you doing tomorrow? Meet halfway?

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