The Music Thread

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Thank you CBD for letting me sub for you tonight. It is a tough gig but someone has to do it.

As many of you know (And if you don't, you will soon find out) The Fabulous and I love going to concerts.

The first concert I attended was in December 1977. (Get off my lawn) It was at the almost world famous Brown County Arena in Green Bay, WI What stands out after all these years was the pungent aroma of pot smoke. Plus I learned that Heileman's Old Style beer would freeze in the trunk of 1973 Chrysler New Yorker. At least it had a nifty 8-Track player.

It was your typical arena, small in size. But a great venue for everything from Outdoor Sport & Camping shows to minor league hockey. It was there I got to see Mr. Robin Trower and his opening act, Star Castle.

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The first concert The Fabulous and I attended was Robin Trower at the Riverside Ballroom in Green Bay. I don't recall an opening act. And to be honest don't remember much about the venue.

Those were the days of Festival Seating. When you are young and arrive early you can run to the front and hopefully not get stomped to death.

I won't bore you with all of the concerts we have seen. And we have seen some great acts at some downright terrible venues.

One of the worst venues I have ever been at is Alpine Valley Music Theater outside of East Troy.

Had I owned Alpine Valley, it would have been a premier place to attend a concert. Similar to Red Rocks in Colorado.

I don't know what it is like now. They don't book too many shows anymore. And I haven't been there in years. Looking at their website, they may have paved and installed lighting in their ~~pasture of a~~ parking lot. The rest rooms were not as clean as most Waste Water Treatment Plants.

The worst indoor venue I ever witnessed was First Avenue in Minneapolis. It wasn't a bad neighborhood until the St. George of Drug Addiction riots. Now I really wouldn't feel comfortable walking there from a downtown hotel unless armed.

Want to stand up for an entire evening? Want to urinate in rain gutter? Love being stuck to the floor? Then First Avenue would be the place for you to visit.

The last time there we did get to see the Mott The Hoople 45th Anniversary tour. It was the 2nd night of their limited tour. (Tough to find a decent video of that tour.)

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We went to a new venue to us last month. The Stoughton (Stoughton, WI) Opera House. We were entertained by Chuck Prophet. A very unique venue. A former city hall built around a theater. It also had a nice bar area with a solo musician playing before the show. Just south of Madison, WI easy to find unlike Alpine Valley where you do need a GPS.

Now that The Fab & I are 29, we no longer go to concerts with festival seating. We really enjoy seeing bands at venues specifically built for live performances, such at The Orpehum Theater, State Theater in Minneapolis, Grand Theater, Wausau, WI and other such joints that fit up to 2,500 people or so.

Nope, I have no desire to see anyone or any band at places that feature festival seating or seat more than 2,500-3,000 patrons. So I guess I won't be going to any Rolling Stones or Taylor Swift concerts. And I'm perfectly OK with that.

So if you are a concert attendee, what are some of your best and worst venues. And just because your little brother puked on your shoes doesn't mean it was a bad venue. Just a bad little brother.

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So you don't attend concerts but enjoy music. Do you enjoy One Hit Wonders? Do you enjoy ear worms? Now I have this in my head, Eeeee Gadz. Sometimes one learns about these things listening to Mike Harvey's Super Gold.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 07:30 PM

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1 I'll put in a full-throated endorsement of Gregorian chants right here.

CHANGE MY MIND

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 22, 2025 07:31 PM (3P1PE)

2 A little Bluegrass to class up the place.

youtu.be/Fyj2AdlpJHw

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 22, 2025 07:33 PM (m5P/4)

3 I've been listening to the Sirius 70's channel which would be music from the I was 10-19. Was listening a lot to the 80's channel.

Which station I listen to depends if I want memories of a time of no responsibilities or a time of when reality hit me in the head.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 07:33 PM (VofaG)

4 I’ve been enjoying Beck recently. Didn’t like his initial songs, but he’s so creative with subsequent albums. Very cool.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2025 07:34 PM (UZ1co)

5 U2-I Will Follow

youtu.be/_kflKqGatQo

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 22, 2025 07:35 PM (m5P/4)

6 Fortuitous Music Thread.

Willowed from the hobby thread.

106 My hobby is Garage Banding to Iron Maiden with an RG550 and a Boss Katana on Sunday afternoons.
Posted by: jsg at March 22, 2025 07:28 PM (UJ+K5)

When the weather cooperates...

Also, there's beer.

Posted by: jsg at March 22, 2025 07:36 PM (UJ+K5)

7 Listening to a live version by Sly & The Family Stone "If you want me stay." What a groove

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 22, 2025 07:36 PM (Gqoy+)

8 I really really like the mini JBL speaker. I have it sitting on an end table next to my couch and when I bluetooth connect to my I phone it sounds like I have a full room speaker system in my house.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 07:37 PM (VofaG)

9 Listening to a live version by Sly & The Family Stone "If you want me stay." What a groove
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 22, 2025 07:36 PM (Gqoy+)

I down loaded Earth Wind and Fire's Greatest Hits. That's also a nice groove.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 07:38 PM (VofaG)

10 next Saturday my community is having a concert on the golf course with an Eagles tribute band. They have to spend my HOA money some way.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 07:43 PM (VofaG)

11 The first rock concert I attended was Joe Walsh, in Columbus OH. 1980? 1981? Who can remember...

I think the first big-name musician I saw in concert, NOT rock and roll, was Maynard Ferguson. Late seventies.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 22, 2025 07:43 PM (h7ZuX)

12 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2025 07:44 PM (fwDg9)

13 I always enjoyed outdoor music festivals. But my all time favorite venue was 'Stache and Little Brothers on High Street in Columbus Ohio, now long gone.

It probably seated around a hundred.

I don't do concerts anymore. Too loud.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 22, 2025 07:45 PM (h7ZuX)

14 Yes, I remember "Ring My Bell" and way too many numerous awful disco hits that they played WITHOUT END on the radio.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 22, 2025 07:46 PM (RIvkX)

15 10 next Saturday my community is having a concert on the golf course with an Eagles tribute band. They have to spend my HOA money some way.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 07:43 PM (VofaG)

You aren't paying enough if all you get is a cover band

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 22, 2025 07:47 PM (QXQ4l)

16 Two Morons are at the Dream Theater show tonight at Radio City Music Hall. Sadly, I am not.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 22, 2025 07:47 PM (Szews)

17 I think I posted before that my first concert was Elvis Presley in 1975 at the Lake Charles Civic Center.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 07:47 PM (VofaG)

18 Best Venue / Performance Suzy Boguss at the Venue, 2019 Braselton GA. 1000 people, good acoustics that showcased a fabulous performer.
Honorable mention Ithaca college gymnasium, 1976 Yes
Special shout out to stacks of loudspeakers in the tiny gym. We climbed the bleachers into the rafters to get a good look at the stage. Couldn't hear for two days after.
Worst Venue Wild Bill's Gwinett Ga 2014 A bar with a stage. Drunken idiots pushing and shoving. Paid extra for a table and waited until 11:30 for Tracy Lawrence to show up. Poor man did the best he could, which is still pretty good . House was against him until late.

Posted by: Harry Case at March 22, 2025 07:48 PM (I3R+4)

19 14 Yes, I remember "Ring My Bell" and way too many numerous awful disco hits that they played WITHOUT END on the radio.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 22, 2025 07:46 PM (RIvkX)

Gawd. Curses. That was awful.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 22, 2025 07:48 PM (h7ZuX)

20 mh none of your COB replacements have the proper appreciation for Frank Zappa.

What can be done about this shocking lapse in good taste?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 22, 2025 07:48 PM (RIvkX)

21 >>Which station I listen to depends if I want memories of a time of no responsibilities or a time of when reality hit me in the head.

Oh my, yes! We have the internet radio playing at work, and change the stations often. Man, when a song from the past hits you just right and evokes a specific memory or era, it's an experience!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2025 07:50 PM (Cki93)

22 The worst indoor venue I ever witnessed was First Avenue in Minneapolis.

Your description of the venue is accurate.

I also haven't been to a show there since well before the Saint Fentanyl days. I saw Dream Theater there before they got "big" and started playing The State Theater & The Orpheum.

Posted by: mikeski at March 22, 2025 07:50 PM (DgGvY)

23 I down loaded Earth Wind and Fire's Greatest Hits. That's also a nice groove.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 07:38 PM (VofaG)
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I've got "September" and "Shining Star" on my list.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 22, 2025 07:51 PM (RIvkX)

24 >>Listening to a live version by Sly & The Family Stone "If you want me stay." What a groove

Second concert I ever saw was Sly and the Family Stone at Princeton University. My friends older sister let us tag along for some reason.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2025 07:51 PM (LkLld)

25 Used to have a flyer from LAPD handed out at rock concerts (like The Olympic or Shrine Auditoriums downtown. " THIS IS NOT A SANCTUARY FOR POT SMOKING!"

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 22, 2025 07:52 PM (rnpfc)

26 Second concert I ever saw was Sly and the Family Stone at Princeton University. My friends older sister let us tag along for some reason.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2025 07:51 PM (LkLld)

She thought you had reefer?

Posted by: davidt at March 22, 2025 07:52 PM (i0F8b)

27 *sigh* the one night I'm actually watching a movie and it's a Music Thread.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 22, 2025 07:53 PM (cweKM)

28 I don't do concerts anymore. Too loud.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 22, 2025 07:45 PM (h7ZuX)

What? What?

Posted by: The guy standing 2 feet away from the left PA speaker at March 22, 2025 07:53 PM (PiwSw)

29 The venerable CBD has declared The Beach Boys the Greatest Band of All Time, and who are we to argue?

Posted by: Frank Zappa Month on the ONT at March 22, 2025 07:53 PM (a3Q+t)

30 Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 22, 2025 07:51 PM (RIvkX

Let's Groove and Boogie Wonderland if you like Caddyshack.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 07:53 PM (VofaG)

31 Told many times about Knebworth 79 x2 and many groups besides Led Zeppelin. And seeing The Wall was fantastic though have no time to bother with Roger Anti-Jewism Waters

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2025 07:53 PM (fwDg9)

32 "If you want me stay." What a groove

Just hearing that makes my nose numb.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 22, 2025 07:54 PM (rnpfc)

33 Huh.
Always thought Robin Trower handled the vocals himself, but I am comparatively new to the blues…
Thought the blues were Zeppelin’s first album, and then Cindarella’s Long Cold Winter.
I’ve advanced!
Stevie Ray Vaughn kicks ass, and I rented an album from iTunes from Alligator Records, with a ton of all sorts of blues artists. Went looking for “Ice Cream in Hell”, bought (rented) it, one got the whole thing for another 6 bucks or so.
Worth checking out.
But back before I was 29, it was all rock and roll. The 80s LA scene was the best! Before grunge chocked it out to death. Grrrr. Lots of great bands just had no oxygen to thrive in the ‘90s.
XYZ is probably the best example of this.

Posted by: Gunslinger at March 22, 2025 07:54 PM (65a8d)

34 Sing a Song is my favorite EW&F song.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 07:54 PM (VofaG)

35 Sly was ahead of his time.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 22, 2025 07:54 PM (Gqoy+)

36 Spent some time in Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) in my formative years. At the time, all the well known musicians were using a well known studio in Lititz, PA to record their albums. I'd heard about this, but just considered it a novelty until:

One night at a dive bar in Lancaster, PA that seated maybe about 40 people if they wanted to push the fire code I stopped in with a date for an after dinner libation. We had a table, minding our own business when the concert started. The bar had live local bands on weekends. That night they had Cindi Lauper, The Hooters, The Producers, and finished off by Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers.

Oh yeah, no cover. Just some known bands at the time trying out some new live music.

Posted by: Orson at March 22, 2025 07:55 PM (dIske)

37 Great concerts:

Ozark Mountain Daredevils at the Brown County Arena
David Bromberg and his band at Headliners in Madison

Lousy concerts:

ZZ Top at Greenville Catfish Races
Hall & Oates (wife's choice) at Summerfest

Posted by: The Neon Madman at March 22, 2025 07:56 PM (yNfcm)

38 https://youtu.be/tyMbJI5SrlI?si=2HadUvAmbT3rEvOb

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 22, 2025 07:56 PM (rnpfc)

39 The last Jerry Garcia Band show I saw was at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco. Great venue, great show. Place only held around 2000 people and they served drinks. Expensive drinks but it was still a great place.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2025 07:57 PM (LkLld)

40 Mash-up makers do weird things. Why does The Spinners x Queensrÿche work?

https://youtu.be/Xt59gvjjJu4

Posted by: mikeski at March 22, 2025 07:57 PM (DgGvY)

41 The Beach Boys at Knebworth in 1980:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY0ezWv3a6A

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 22, 2025 07:57 PM (a3Q+t)

42 Hmmm, favorite venues. . . really hard to separate them from the particular band or company!

I liked the Black Cat in DC, because there was an upstairs balcony. No seating, and the last concert I saw there I was 6 mos. pregnant. Still, but I'd likely hate it now. Coolest venue was a small Sunday concert at the Phillips museum.

Honestly enjoyed every venue in Boston and burbs - The Middle East, Paradise, Orpheum, or even just an Irish band at a pub. All good.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2025 07:58 PM (Cki93)

43 Anyone else think Journey and Survivor sound exactly alike?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 07:59 PM (VofaG)

44 @32 Good one!

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 22, 2025 07:59 PM (Gqoy+)

45 This is like the 4th or 5th time Robin Trower has crossed my musical path this week. It's popped up in my Spotify feed, X feed and Youtube. Which also prompted me to dig out my Too Rolling Stoned album that I hadn't listed to in years. And now, he pops up here.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at March 22, 2025 07:59 PM (t/lcw)

46 You guys don't seem to be aware enough about Lovebites. They've just released two live videos. Here's one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=winJfaaWwlg

Posted by: Jim S. at March 22, 2025 07:59 PM (NOve5)

47 Tonight's Music Thread has been brought to you by Rulz.

No smoking alcohol? That's an odd rule. But, OK, no smoked old-fashioneds tonight.

Posted by: mikeski at March 22, 2025 08:00 PM (DgGvY)

48 Speaking of music and TRex, back in the day they made a promo film (nowadays called a music video) for "Get It On (Bang a Gong)" which is on YouTube. If you watch very carefully, you can catch a glimpse or two of a young Elton John playing the piano. (He didn't actually play on the recording.)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 22, 2025 08:00 PM (CHHv1)

49 #40
That was pretty awesome.

Posted by: Gunslinger at March 22, 2025 08:01 PM (65a8d)

50 @32 Good one!
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 22, 2025 07:59 PM (Gqoy+)

what other song sounds like it? there are a few parts that sound just like another hit but I can't place it. Actually I think the other song sounds like it.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 08:02 PM (VofaG)

51 28 What? What?

I heard this in Mike Stoklasa's voice.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 22, 2025 08:02 PM (CHHv1)

52 You guys don't seem to be aware enough about Lovebites. Posted by: Jim S.

It's true. They have 4 albums out, and I only own one of them.

Posted by: mikeski at March 22, 2025 08:02 PM (DgGvY)

53 Listening to Ten Years After "I'd love to change the world" thinking great as Alvin Lee plays it, SRV would have done it better.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 22, 2025 08:02 PM (Gqoy+)

54 46 You guys don't seem to be aware enough about Lovebites. They've just released two live videos. Here's one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=winJfaaWwlg
Posted by: Jim S. at March 22, 2025 07:59 PM (NOve5)

You're right--I had no awareness. They need a ribbon, and a month-long awareness campaign.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 22, 2025 08:03 PM (h7ZuX)

55 Don't think it's from a storm but it got very windy here

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2025 08:04 PM (fwDg9)

56 Cowbell?
Mountain's Mississippi Queen !

Posted by: kactus at March 22, 2025 08:05 PM (twS2i)

57 Saw Robin Trower at the Capital Theater in Passaic. Opening act was Roy Buchanan, who blew the roof off the place. Robin was great, I but I preferred Roy's set..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 22, 2025 08:05 PM (bA75n)

58 I lived in the Beach Cities part of LA (Hermosa, Redondo, Manhattan) during my early 20's, working at a record store that was a Ticketmaster outlet. I managed to score tix to a lot of concerts back then - mostly hair metal stuff, since that was what I was listening to (KISS, Motley Crue, Alice Cooper, the Metallica/GnR Rose Bowl concert, and so forth).

Oddly enough, I've got tinnitus now...

The concert from back then that really stuck with me was Ofra Haza playing at a venue at UCLA. I had fallen in love with her voice. Seeing her live was transcendent. I miss her.

Posted by: CSinKS at March 22, 2025 08:05 PM (VBzjB)

59 Happy Saturday night everyone, thx MisHum.
I now have an ear worm from the sign at the end. It reminds me of Pat Travers "Snortin Whiskey, Drinking Cocaine"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 22, 2025 08:05 PM (1vqcm)

60 Never heard of Lovebites. And I can't find them on I-tunes.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 08:05 PM (VofaG)

61 39 The last Jerry Garcia Band show I saw was at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco. Great venue, great show. Place only held around 2000 people and they served drinks. Expensive drinks but it was still a great place.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2025 07:57 PM (LkLld)

I saw Johnny Marr at the Warfield a few months ago, with James opening. It's still a great place, still with expensive drinks.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at March 22, 2025 08:06 PM (lg881)

62 It was there I got to see Mr. Robin Trower

That little Ewok sure played a mean axe.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 22, 2025 08:07 PM (mH6SG)

63 Evenin’, All.

For all the ‘Rons: Creature of the Black Lagoon is on Svengoolie. With Julia Adams…mmmmmm…including in her white onepiece. Mmmmmmm…

Posted by: Bulg at March 22, 2025 08:08 PM (77rzZ)

64 You guys don't seem to be aware enough about Lovebites. They've just released two live videos. Here's one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=winJfaaWwlg
Posted by: Jim S.

Midori's "Ming the Gyaru" look is frightening.

Posted by: mikeski at March 22, 2025 08:09 PM (DgGvY)

65 I started seeing concerts in78. First three months I saw Allman Brothers at Mid Hudson Civic center, Kiss at MSG , Blue Oyster Cult at Glen Falls Civic Center and Orleans at the Chance. All over the map in genres

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 22, 2025 08:09 PM (1vqcm)

66 one thing I never got was the conventional wisdom that all of AC/DC songs sound the same. Even the band has accepted that with humor.

I don't see that.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 08:10 PM (VofaG)

67 I started seeing concerts in78. First three months I saw Allman Brothers at Mid Hudson Civic center, Kiss at MSG , Blue Oyster Cult at Glen Falls Civic Center and Orleans at the Chance. All over the map in genres
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 22, 2025 08:09 PM (1vqcm)

The Duchess County fair used to have decent concerts.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 08:12 PM (VofaG)

68 I’m a Pink Floyd super fan. Have loved them since I was 13.
Saw The Wall. Incredible…
Saw a Roger Waters solo show. Great, and faithful to the Pink Floyd sound, but the constantTrump bashing made me leave early. The dude is mental…
Saw a PF tribute band last year. Absolutely incredible! They are coming back in June and I snatched up 4 front-row seats immediately at a great venue. Center for the Arts in Grass Valley.
Can’t wait, notwithstanding the comment about not spending enough Money to see the real thing.
The Floyed, they’re named, and I think they are out of Reno. The female vocalist did such an incredible job on Great Gig in the Sky. As good as it could ever get, besides the original. Even better than on the Pulse live recordings.

Posted by: Gunslinger at March 22, 2025 08:12 PM (65a8d)

69 I think it's Brian Regan doing a comedy bit about AC/DC doing the Hockey Pokey . Funny stuff .
Brian Johnston "You put your right foot in , aaargh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 22, 2025 08:14 PM (1vqcm)

70 Last summer I went down to the Keys to visit my friends and a bunch of their friends and I went to see Stick Figure at the Coffee Butler Amphitheater in Key West. It's in the Truman Annex right on the Gulf of America.

Now that's a cool place for a concert.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2025 08:15 PM (LkLld)

71 66 one thing I never got was the conventional wisdom that all of AC/DC songs sound the same. Even the band has accepted that with humor.

I don't see that.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 08:10 PM (VofaG)

Reason enough to post my favorite Angus Young quote (and one of my favorite "rock band" quotes, could be Spinal Tap):

"I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same."

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at March 22, 2025 08:15 PM (lg881)

72 Just read that the Starlight Theater in Latham NY was torn down. It was a theater in the round but was abandoned for years. Caught The Marshall Tucker Band there. Great show , but weird seeing the stage spin slowly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 22, 2025 08:16 PM (1vqcm)

73 First concert was Van Halen 1984 in Las Vegas at the Thomas and Mack. Uncle and older cousins snuck me in. It was as incredible as you imagine.

Posted by: Thesokorus at March 22, 2025 08:17 PM (z6Ybz)

74 @72 the Spinal Tap sequel is supposed to come out in September. Can't imagine it will be as good as the original, but my fear is "woke"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 22, 2025 08:17 PM (1vqcm)

75 “ I lived in the Beach Cities part of LA (Hermosa, Redondo, Manhattan)”
Dude! California Beach Rock and Roll Sushi often?
We did. Fun!

Oddly enough, I've got tinnitus now..and, What?

Yeah, me too. Concerts and lots of time at OCIR. Without ear protection, because in my late teens and early 20s, I was invincible!

Posted by: Gunslinger at March 22, 2025 08:18 PM (65a8d)

76 Spinal Tap seems to be a Horde favorite. Just didn't resonate with me.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 22, 2025 08:19 PM (mH6SG)

77 Saw a lot of great shows at the Meadowlands Arena, which at the time was named after a former NJ governor, whose name I wish I could forget.

Anyway: Tom Petty and Bob Dylan on a double bill, Billy Joel, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd at least twice, Dire Straits, Steely Dan, Roger Waters, ELO, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 22, 2025 08:20 PM (bA75n)

78 76 Spinal Tap seems to be a Horde favorite. Just didn't resonate with me.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 22, 2025 08:19 PM (mH6SG)

I love Tap, but I get what you're saying. It's not everyone's cup. It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at March 22, 2025 08:22 PM (lg881)

79 Spinal Tap seems to be a Horde favorite. Just didn't resonate with me.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Favorite to watch, or favorite to quote? The second, for sure.....

Posted by: mikeski at March 22, 2025 08:23 PM (DgGvY)

80 Spinal Tap seems to be a Horde favorite. Just didn't resonate with me.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 22, 2025 08:19 PM (mH6SG)

Me either. I don't hate it but just okay to me. That and The Big Lebowski.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 08:25 PM (VofaG)

81 One of the best concerts I've been to was EW&F in Springfield MA. What a show. During one song, the bass player got into what looked like a guard shack that raised up off the floor, and then blew up into a cloud of smoke. Then here comes the bass player from the other side of the stage. Never missing a beat. My UConn buddies and I were about the only white boys there and everybody had a great time.

Posted by: kactus at March 22, 2025 08:25 PM (twS2i)

82 Most recent concert was Jeff Lynn at the LA Forum. He actually had a string section which faithfully reproduced Living Thing, which I greatly appreciated..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 22, 2025 08:26 PM (bA75n)

83 Another great venue that no longer exists was the Cape Cod Coliseum. Only held about 5000 but back in the 70s a lot of great bands played it.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2025 08:26 PM (LkLld)

84 In olden days, there were primitive video games entitled East Front, West Front, and Pacific Front. The music to Pacific Front was Japanese koto music. I loved it and started to listen to it. My daughter thought that was proof positive that I should be confined for my own good. Here is Hotel California on koto. (Actually on the closely related instrument the guzheng (which is actually Chinese but whatever.))

https://shorturl.at/j7hP9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 22, 2025 08:26 PM (L/fGl)

85 Rock Star with Mark Wahlburg and Jennifer Anniston is my favorite comedy rock parody.

though its not a comedy or parody.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 08:26 PM (VofaG)

86 Have a great evening everyone, Chinese Grand Prix is on at 3am, trying to decide to set alarm or just see if I get up anyway.

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2025 08:27 PM (fwDg9)

87 Best venue for a concert IMHO is Blossom Music Center in Richfield, OH. An amazing outdoor venue with perfect acoustics. Saw many a great show there, including Pink Floyd on their Dark Side of the Moon tour.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 22, 2025 08:28 PM (mH6SG)

88
Chinese fire alarm??

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 22, 2025 08:28 PM (p1D45)

89 Mis Hum is doing a fantastic Atlas replication by holding the blog up on his most able shoulders.

Thank you

Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2025 08:35 PM (j6NlC)

90 Sept 1971 was my first concert to go to as a concert. It was free. Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids. A bit hinky but a lot of fun.

A year before I saw Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen at a rock festival. We just walk thru it. The band was awesome but the festival was nasty.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 22, 2025 08:35 PM (IB5Zy)

91 My late friend and neighbor Dorothy had what I consider the best concert story. She was at a Duke Ellington show in St Petersburg, FL . As the show starts and Duke comes strutting down the aisle toward the stage he recognizes her from a show she attended at the Blue Note in Chicago. That's a whole nother story, but he stops and points to her. "You're the jazz enthusiast from Sweden!"

He gets to the stage and has a word with someone. Next thing you know, an usher approaches Dorothy and says, "Mr. Ellington would like you up front", and proceeds to escort her from the back to the edge of the stage. Once he was satisfied she was comfortably seated, he started the show.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 22, 2025 08:35 PM (bA75n)

92 I down loaded Earth Wind and Fire's Greatest Hits. That's also a nice groove.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

When I learn #4 son loved Earth, Wind and Fire's 'September' and could sing all the words, I knew I was a successful father.

He even got the "Bah de Bah" parts right.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2025 08:36 PM (cYBz/)

93 Mis Hum is doing a fantastic Atlas replication by holding the blog up on his most able shoulders.
Posted by: Ben Had

https://youtu.be/Z6qfAXuxeAA

Posted by: mikeski at March 22, 2025 08:37 PM (DgGvY)

94 I saw the Dead at Alpine ('86 or '87) maybe. Saw 2 shows of a 3 night stand. First night was great, nice weather - slept in my tent on a golf course.
Next night, asshole bikers came in trying to charge everyone $30 to camp on the golf course. Nearly everyone just vacated to an adjacent parking lot. I slept on gravel in a thin sleeping bag the second night. Fucking asshole bikers

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 22, 2025 08:39 PM (sJHOI)

95 I'm still trying to get my head around Ministry. The band - well, the Cuban refugee frontman - who gained artistic integrity, at the cost of his political integrity.
"Republicans are bad" is integrity of a sort, I guess, but it's hard to square an anthem like "NWO" in one Administration with shilling for global action on The Climate in another Administration.
Also trying to figure out if they'd have been better off sticking with synth pop.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 22, 2025 08:41 PM (gKWVE)

96 Lovebites--Chinese or Japanese?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 22, 2025 08:41 PM (XMwZJ)

97 Led Zeppelin. Dallas. 1973 (get off my lawn). I may have seen G_d that night.

Posted by: RI Red at March 22, 2025 08:42 PM (MMlKO)

98 Not the movie thread but I saw Critical Drinker's review of Snow White. No surprise but he thought it was a horrible mess

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 22, 2025 08:43 PM (1vqcm)

99 Heileman's Old Style beer

Ah, the beer I was weaned on. It's an acquired taste, I'm told, for those of you that don't know.

In fact, just the other night my ex was telling our daughter "you know how much I loved your dad? I drank an Old Style for him"

Posted by: haffhowershower at March 22, 2025 08:44 PM (NMT5x)

100 Really do appreciate the music threads. I realize that here at the HQ the movie stuff is far and away the most popular but personally, I'll take music every single time. Thanks muchly, MisHum.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 22, 2025 08:45 PM (mH6SG)

101 Spent many a night at Stache's in the late '80s and '90s. I remember when the Royal Crescent Mob was practically the house band there. Saw Son Volt, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, fIrehose, Violent Femmes, Leon Redbone, Yo La Tengo, New Bomb Turks, many many more. Nirvana played there before hitting it big.

Truly a great venue at a great moment in time for live music in Columbus

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 22, 2025 08:46 PM (sJHOI)

102 Hollywood need to understand that anyone about 50 or younger knows how to sail the high seas. So they have to convince people, not to watch their crap, but to pay for it.
Same goes double for music.
If they produce some movie with an unlikeable slate of actors and an asshole director, increasingly the money isn't going to come.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 22, 2025 08:48 PM (gKWVE)

103 Lovebites--Chinese or Japanese?
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

They're Japanese.

If you'd prefer a Chinese metal band, this is OU:

https://youtu.be/hURqTXGG9cY

Posted by: mikeski at March 22, 2025 08:48 PM (DgGvY)

104 the money isn't going to come.

STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 22, 2025 08:50 PM (+4hLU)

105 Here's something I've been digging lately. Richard Thompson's fantastic cover of 'Season of the Witch'.
Sadly not available on vinyl. Worth a listen if you're so inclined.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQwUnJ_B9fc

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 22, 2025 08:50 PM (sJHOI)

106 The Shaboo Inn just outside UConn was a great small venue. Saw many big names and up and comers. Late 70s. $2-10 admission depending. I'm guessing 3-500 people and 5 separate bars. They used to catch all the acts traveling between NY, Boston, Springfield & Hartford. NRBQ, James Cotton, David Bromberg, aztec two step, Bonnie Raitt, PPL, NRPS ……… more than I can remember seeing IYKWIM

Posted by: kactus at March 22, 2025 08:51 PM (twS2i)

107 101 Spent many a night at Stache's in the late '80s and '90s.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 22, 2025 08:46 PM (sJHOI)

Wasn't it the greatest? You must be a smidge younger than me--do you remember when it was 'Stache and Little Brothers north of Lane Avenue, then around mid to late 80's moved down to south campus, and shortened the name to just 'Stache's? Both were great venues. Saw Julie and Buddy Miller at the south location. Saw David Thomas and the Pedestrians (from Pere Ubu) twice! at the north location. Great memories.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 22, 2025 08:51 PM (h7ZuX)

108 Trower is fantastic. My first concert was opening night Wings Over America, 2nd was Rolling Thunder Review.
Me best friend and I were 13 and rode the Trailways bus to Ft Worth.

I still do to concerts but like you, no more fest6.

Posted by: Happy at March 22, 2025 08:54 PM (WpgbT)

109 Circa 68? El Monte Legion Stadium, the Dead incl Pigpen.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 22, 2025 08:54 PM (+4hLU)

110 One of the best birthday gifts my ex got for me was a show at place in NYC called Sound of Brazil, aka SOB. We were lining up to go in and I see that Hugh Masakela was scheduled to play later that week. A minute later I stop and ask her what day it was (yeah, I always was slow on the uptake). She had no idea who he was, she just wanted to take me to club in New York. Small venue. Great show. Easy access to the bar..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 22, 2025 08:55 PM (bA75n)

111 I let them shave my head for entry into the Ministry show in Ball-tee-more in 1992. Also saw the Butthole Surfers show the year before at Hammerjacks. They were told to never return. I remember some hillbilly bringing a deer head into the show and two movie screens one showing bruce lee and one a knee resection surgery. Also two drummers and free shrooms. Lots of things got lit on fire.

Posted by: Thesokorus at March 22, 2025 08:56 PM (z6Ybz)

112 My best concert: Dire Straits on the Money for Nothing tour at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. Acoustics were spectacular - not overpowered, but tuned to the venue. Fourth row center, and it was sublime. Could it be anything else with Dire Straits? My first concert was late in my youth as I grew up outside of the USA in the 70s and early 80s - Yes on the 90125 tour at the Omni Coliseum. Great show.

Posted by: ChuckinTX at March 22, 2025 08:57 PM (WefwP)

113 Jack Straw, if you’re here. There were two clubs in Providence in the ‘70s. “Januarys”? was one, and there was another across the street. Ring a bell?

Posted by: RI Red at March 22, 2025 08:57 PM (MMlKO)

114 Trower's best: Lady Love

Posted by: NATHAN SWEETDICK WADE at March 22, 2025 08:58 PM (W2EWw)

115 I'm in a curmudgeonly mood so...

Ya know what I hate about live concerts? That we the audience are expected to clap like we're saving Tinkerbell for the curtain call just to get the rest of the show that was already planned. It just feels so fake.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 22, 2025 09:00 PM (63sh5)

116 Wasn't it the greatest? You must be a smidge younger than me--do you remember when it was 'Stache and Little Brothers north of Lane Avenue, then around mid to late 80's moved down to south campus, and shortened the name to just 'Stache's? . . . Great memories.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

And then, a late dinner at "The 'Dube" (The Blue Danube). At least, that what we did in the 70's.

I understand it recently closed.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2025 09:00 PM (cYBz/)

117

Primer mi carucha (chevy '39)
Going to el monte legion stadium
Pick up on my weesa (she is so divine)
Helps me stealing hub caps
Wasted all the time

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 22, 2025 09:00 PM (63Dwl)

118 1982 just called, and would like to remind us the drugs were pretty good then, too.

https://youtu.be/Zg4o54XxZns

Posted by: mikeski at March 22, 2025 09:01 PM (DgGvY)

119 ...including in her white onepiece...

They wanted dads to buy a ticket to the matinee too.

Posted by: haffhowershower at March 22, 2025 09:02 PM (NMT5x)

120 Ya know what I hate about live concerts? That we the audience are expected to clap like we're saving Tinkerbell for the curtain call just to get the rest of the show that was already planned. It just feels so fake.
Posted by: Oddbob

You would have loved X Japan, then. They'd take their encore break in the middle of "Endless Rain," while the audience sang the chorus over and over for 5 minutes.

Posted by: mikeski at March 22, 2025 09:02 PM (DgGvY)

121 >>Jack Straw, if you’re here. There were two clubs in Providence in the ‘70s. “Januarys”? was one, and there was another across the street. Ring a bell?

It doesn't Red but in the 70s I was pretty much Boston focused for music. Didn't really venture to Providence.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2025 09:03 PM (LkLld)

122 Cowboy Mouth put on great shows in clubs that didn't translate to big venues as well.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 22, 2025 09:05 PM (KAi1n)

123 And then, a late dinner at "The 'Dube" (The Blue Danube). At least, that what we did in the 70's. I understand it recently closed.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2025 09:00 PM (cYBz/)

Hell, yes! I think it is closed, now.

I didn't get a chance to have the $100 Mac and Cheese.

*It was mac and cheese with a bottle of Dom Perignon

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 22, 2025 09:05 PM (h7ZuX)

124 Holey moley. Saw Trower in Louisville at City Lights on Main Street in roughly 80-81. Just incredible. I've seen a TON of music, but what cought me then, he was...smooth...

Posted by: Jeff james at March 22, 2025 09:09 PM (ZPSXB)

125 The first place I remember seeing concerts was in a place called the 'Colosseum', an antiquated quonset hut building known more for basketball and wrestling. It was so old it still had 'whites only' water fountains. The acoustics were horrid and TBH in 1969 I think it was Edgar Winter who played and it was loud.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 22, 2025 09:10 PM (qZdIZ)

126 I get the impression that the drugs were getting intense by the mid/late 1980s.
Early 80s dance music was still moderately chill. Late 80s, we're getting "Boom Boom Boom Let's Go Back To My Room" and "You Spin Me Round".

Posted by: gKWVE at March 22, 2025 09:11 PM (gKWVE)

127 ... and then in 1990s or so, the clubs discovered MDMA
youtu.be/SnkjvECEQr4

Posted by: Manchester at March 22, 2025 09:12 PM (gKWVE)

128 My best concert: Dire Straits on the Money for Nothing tour at the Fox Theater in Atlanta.
-----

Saw a number of groups at the Fox. There were several small venues around town that had what were to become big names, playing early on. The Great Southeast Music Hall was one such.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 22, 2025 09:12 PM (XeU6L)

129 My first concert was the Ramones opening for Blue Oyster Cult at the Nassau Colliseum, February 1977. Wasn’t a huge Ramones fan back then

Posted by: Jerry Ssved at March 22, 2025 09:14 PM (teaP5)

130 126 I get the impression that the drugs were getting intense by the mid/late 1980s.
Early 80s dance music was still moderately chill. Late 80s, we're getting "Boom Boom Boom Let's Go Back To My Room" and "You Spin Me Round".
Posted by: gKWVE at March 22, 2025 09:11 PM

I lived in Washington DC throughout the 80s. Cocaine was everywhere. Much more so than pot.

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 22, 2025 09:16 PM (rbKZ6)

131 There was this one time, Stevie Ray Vaughn toured with Jeff Beck.

Mind melting. 🤘

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 22, 2025 09:18 PM (Q4IgG)

132 Wasn't it the greatest? You must be a smidge younger than me--do you remember when it was 'Stache and Little Brothers north of Lane Avenue, then around mid to late 80's moved down to south campus, and shortened the name to just 'Stache's? Both were great venues. Saw Julie and Buddy Miller at the south location. Saw David Thomas and the Pedestrians (from Pere Ubu) twice! at the north location. Great memories.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 22, 2025 08:51 PM (h7ZuX)

I think the one I'm remembering most was the north loc, although I don't recall it being north of Lane. It was called 'Stache and Little Bros, but we all called it 'Stache's'. Had a low ceiling with a low stage, maybe 4 -6in. higher than the floor. The later location was kinda between south campus and Short North and the building kinda seemed like it was once a bank. That loc had a higher stage and higher ceiling. I saw Gillian Welch and Drive-By Truckers at that one. Both were great, but I preferred the earlier (original) location and saw more shows there. The original owner, Dan Dougan, was a big Pittsburgh Pirates fan and had a band for a while named after Roberto Clemente, his sports hero.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 22, 2025 09:18 PM (sJHOI)

133 Thanks for stepping up today, MisHum!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 22, 2025 09:20 PM (l3YAf)

134 Yeah The Blue Danube aka The Dube aka The Blue Dube (Blew Doob) closed some years back, maybe 5 or so?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 22, 2025 09:21 PM (sJHOI)

135 The Boston raves had better music.

The NYC raves had hotter chicks.

That’s how I remember it.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 22, 2025 09:22 PM (l3YAf)

136 Steven Wilson just released a new album. Or an "EP," I guess, since it's not that long.

It sounds like Porcupine Tree doing a pastiche of Yes. I approve.

https://youtu.be/5P3Ukihr7iQ

Posted by: mikeski at March 22, 2025 09:23 PM (DgGvY)

137 Huevos Rancheros, 1990's

youtu.be/Ptxmno4UxvE

Posted by: Kindltot - Emotive Conjugations-R-Us at March 22, 2025 09:26 PM (D7oie)

138 There are only 4 states that do not have a city or town named 'Riverside.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 22, 2025 09:29 PM (mlg/3)

139 There are only 4 states that do not have a city or town named 'Riverside.'
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 22, 2025 09:29 PM (mlg/3)

Hawaii and Alaska are two, I’d imagine.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 22, 2025 09:29 PM (l3YAf)

140 Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 22, 2025 09:18 PM (sJHOI)

I wonder if we knew each other?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 22, 2025 09:30 PM (h7ZuX)

141 First concert was probably Ricky Nelson or perhaps Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. Last was Plant and Page No Quarter.

Posted by: Javems at March 22, 2025 09:31 PM (8I4hW)

142 Louisiana and New Mexico?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 22, 2025 09:31 PM (l3YAf)

143 I heard this at the grocery store and at first thought it was Gin Wigmore.

https://youtu.be/q0hyYWKXF0Q?si=BqNzG96B2B0e5Hbm

The chubby girl made to look like George Lucas has lost a lot of weight EG Adele.

Gin Wigmore, I'd hit it like a ~~screen door in a hurricane~~ ~~Posiden's trident~~ orbital tungsten rod.

https://youtu.be/_mGVr4uCMCQ?si=NzkDJcn6MhMNdPMT

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 22, 2025 09:32 PM (lhenN)

144 Jackstraw, just came up with it. The Edge. I have no idea where it was, but probably east of Brown down toward the water.

Posted by: RI Red at March 22, 2025 09:32 PM (MMlKO)

145 Fox Point, maybe.

Posted by: RI Red at March 22, 2025 09:32 PM (MMlKO)

146 Hawaii and Alaska are two, I’d imagine.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

142 Louisiana and New Mexico?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

HI, AK, LA, and ....

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 22, 2025 09:34 PM (mlg/3)

147 There are only 4 states that do not have a city or town named 'Riverside.'
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 22, 2025 09:29 PM (mlg/3)

It is supposedly an unincorporated town in Malheur county and supposedly "northeast of Crane and south of Juntura" which is pretty much the middle of nowhere and seems to be the sort of place that makes people from New Princeton think it is pretty small.

Posted by: Kindltot - Emotive Conjugations-R-Us at March 22, 2025 09:34 PM (D7oie)

148 > Louisiana and ~~New Mexico~~?
----
Oklahoma

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 22, 2025 09:35 PM (Q4IgG)

149 HI, AK, LA, and ....
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 22, 2025 09:34 PM (mlg/3)

Greenland?

Panama? (Although maybe they have a Canalside?)

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 22, 2025 09:35 PM (l3YAf)

150 Oklahoma
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Bingo.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 22, 2025 09:35 PM (mlg/3)

151 I keep nodding off. Might as well go to bed. Good night, horde!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 22, 2025 09:36 PM (h7ZuX)

152 87 Best venue for a concert IMHO is Blossom Music Center in Richfield, OH. An amazing outdoor venue with perfect acoustics. Saw many a great show there, including Pink Floyd on their Dark Side of the Moon tour.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 22, 2025 08:28 PM (mH6SG)

Completely agree ... though getting to and out of is a nightmare.

We have a "want to be" venue up her in WNY called Art Park ( Lewiston, NY - right on the Niagara gorge). Pales in comparison to Blossom.

Posted by: browndog runs from the room at March 22, 2025 09:37 PM (TTAGa)

153 Robin Trower's Winterland concert, which several of the live cuts on YouTube come from... was 50 fucking years ago.

A half century. 💀

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 22, 2025 09:38 PM (Q4IgG)

154 I saw Orbital Tungsten Rod open for Dirt Poor Robins at Rockville '07.

https://youtu.be/Vg5163AJkwk?si=6Wb41qUppn1YYBeL

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 22, 2025 09:38 PM (lhenN)

155 Steven Wilson just released a new album. Or an "EP," I guess, since it's not that long.

It sounds like Porcupine Tree doing a pastiche of Yes. I approve.

https://youtu.be/5P3Ukihr7iQ
Posted by: mikeski
---
He has a show in Dallas the Saturday before the MoMe. I might go and then just hang out in TX til the MoMe.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 22, 2025 09:39 PM (Szews)

156 >>Jackstraw, just came up with it. The Edge. I have no idea where it was, but probably east of Brown down toward the water.

I never went. We were so spoiled with great live music clubs in Boston back then it never really occurred to us to go anywhere. The Rat, The Channel, The Paradise and on and on.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2025 09:41 PM (LkLld)

157 First concert was Sesame Street on Ice. I was 5. I did not like it. The stadium was way too big and stimulating. The man in the Grover costume was far too big. Grover’s not supposed to be nearly the size of Big Bird!

The only concert I’ve been to by a band more than 100 people have heard of was The Cure. I don’t remember the year. Probably ‘09?

They were good. Their music held up well in-concert.

Most of the other stuff I’ve been to was esoteric crap I got dragged to, like underground D&B raves or punk revues or 5 day hippie jamfests or a Ska-off. Good drugs, except at the Ska-offs. Straight-edge killed that scene, man.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 22, 2025 09:42 PM (l3YAf)

158 Completely agree ... though getting to and out of is a nightmare.

It was, for sure.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 22, 2025 09:44 PM (mH6SG)

159 Actually, all the drugs I bought at those things sucked. I’m pretty sure I got Pizza Lung from smoke a baggie of Italian seasonings that was sold as weed once.

I sold drugs, though, and they were excellent quality. And the money I got was good stuff, no counterfeits.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 22, 2025 09:45 PM (l3YAf)

160 I sold drugs, though, and they were excellent quality.

To this day, you certainly must be so proud of that.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 22, 2025 09:47 PM (mH6SG)

161 There is a club in Cincinnati named Bogarts. It is still there. Back in my youth, it held about 300 people max. You could stand right up next to the stage. I saw some great shows there. A few stand outs were Ambrosia, when they were still prog rock, Warren Zevon on the Stand In The Fire tour, and my beloved Beat Farmers! Good times and great memories!

Posted by: SuperMayorSuperRonNirenberg -Buff, Commie, Power Hungry at March 22, 2025 09:50 PM (+BkC2)

162 Best small venue I have gone to is The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC. Intimate, BIG fan over the crowd and a balcony that overlooks Wicked Weed Brewing Co. Get outside for some fresh air and cool off.
Bonnaroo is my favorite big multiday setting. You might see someone multiple times so less likely to be a douche, unlike Lollapalooza where single day people don't give a crap about being nice, they are gone at 11.
Worst? Have never had a bad experience with live music. It is like it resonates with my soul and all it good with the world. Even without any chemical enhancements.
Recommend trying the multiday camping experience for those young enough to not die in the effort. It is a pretty great experience, despite or maybe because of some of the physical suffering.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at March 22, 2025 09:51 PM (vvIbr)

163 Thanks MisHum. Love live music but only in small venues. Any local saloon will do.

Posted by: scampydog at March 22, 2025 09:52 PM (LVaYG)

164 I sold drugs, though, and they were excellent quality.

To this day, you certainly must be so proud of that.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 22, 2025 09:47 PM (mH6SG)

I am. Nobody takes pride in their work anymore. The work ethic amongst young club kids is lacking.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 22, 2025 09:52 PM (l3YAf)

165 I saw Orbital Tungsten Rod open for Dirt Poor Robins at Rockville '07.

https://youtu.be/Vg5163AJkwk?si=6Wb41qUppn1YYBeL
Posted by: BourbonChicken

Was so disappointed it wasn't actual Orbital.

youtube.com/watch?v=hI5IUv0arB4

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 22, 2025 09:54 PM (mlg/3)

166 I am. Nobody takes pride in their work anymore. The work ethic amongst young club kids is lacking.

Ah, a life well lived...

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 22, 2025 09:56 PM (mH6SG)

167 Nood, mes amigos

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 22, 2025 09:57 PM (mlg/3)

168 Hawaii demo part II

https://youtu.be/6kClVNuC-68?si=ED14lGo23aSkk_Yj

As long as we are posting weird stuff ... as I alway do.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 22, 2025 09:59 PM (lhenN)

169 Astoria Oregon: the Performing Arts Center and the Columbia Theater (mostly movies) rank highly as small venues of superior quality. Beating the Vivian Beaumont Theater and FIllmore East;

Posted by: epador at March 22, 2025 11:24 PM (W2MFb)

170 South Park Meadows Austin TX. Big field, festival seating. Joe King Carrasco and the Crowns, UB40 and The Police 1983. Sponsored by Stroh's Beer. It's a shopping complex now. Saw Willie Nelson Picnic one year at a venue west of Austin. Big giant hillside, crappy parking, traffic backed up for miles on the highway trying to get in. Porta potties overflowing by the second hour. Deadheads wandering around the "parking lot" asking "Spare ticket dude?" Grateful Dead went a couple of hours too long, ruined the whole event. Pat Green didn't even make it because he was stuck in traffic

Posted by: Stacy0311 at March 22, 2025 11:46 PM (iCijS)

171 Glad to see Ian Hunter front and center. First concert was Mott The Hoople in Fall 1973. They were awesome and remain legendary. Backup band was supposed to be Queen, but they got sick and were replaced by Kansas - who were great as well.

Posted by: TarzanTurk at March 23, 2025 12:00 AM (/c9Dk)

172 Posted by: jimmymcnulty

DUDE!!!

Fyre was AWESOME

Posted by: best stoned dude bro at March 23, 2025 12:31 AM (zRebN)

173 To Osprey and AOP

And to Pogo, like the Marines (note to Osprey) say about Chesty Puller

Good night Pogo, wherever you are!

Posted by: Ye Olde Mikolos of Yore at March 23, 2025 12:36 AM (zRebN)

174 To Osprey and AOP

And to Pogo, like the Marines (note to Osprey) say about Chesty Puller

Good night Pogo, wherever you are!

Posted by: Ye Olde Mikolos of Yore at March 23, 2025 12:36 AM (zRebN)

175 Duplication only means a combination of Sincerity and Bourbon.

Posted by: Ye Olde Mikolos of Yore at March 23, 2025 12:38 AM (zRebN)

176 Hi! I know this is kinda off topic but I was wondering if you knew where I could
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I'm using the same blog platform as yours and I'm having difficulty finding one?
Thanks a lot!

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