Thread: Fav. show and venue?

So, what are they?

mine:

show: Tool, 2001
venue: Red Rocks

me internet not go good.

The Roots
Avalon on Landsdowne st July of last year

OR

Steel Pulse

South Shore Music Circus, Cohassett 2 years ago July.
It was friggin 95 degrees with 85% humidity and the singer had to be taken to Mass General for severe dehydration after the show but damn they rocked!

Woodstock 1999 before they burned the place down. So many cool bands...

... but yet so many assholes.

Van Halen in the early 90s was a helluva show too.

phish, smallish club type venue, florence- spring '97
rusted root, point st. park open air stage, pittsburgh- last day of high school '95

Toss-up between:

Rheostatics @ Ted's Wrecking Yard, Toronto, Feb. 2000(?)

and

Rheostatics @ The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, Feb. 2002

Sick and ashamed and happy (and the Tragically Hip at Le Spectrum, Montreal, summer of '96 was pretty cool too),
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I grew up in a small town, so here's some of the bands and accompanying venues I saw them in.

16 yrs old George Thorogood, a dirt racing track in Farmington New Mexico. Nuff' said.

20yrs old Blues Traveler, Fort Lewis Feildhouse, feildhouse is right it's a gym, acoustics really sucked, show was ok.

21yrs old, G-love and the Special Sauce, went due to GF at teh time, hated their music before, reallly hated it after.

21 yrs old Biz Markie at the Fox in Boulder, that was some fun shit!

22yrs old Cypress hill at the Fox, so blunted I could barely stand, and it was good fun.

I really haven't seen much in ways of venues, Santana at Telluride, Los Lobos at Lo Do Music fest, etc. Hope to catch a lot more shows down here.


edit: No that I think about it, Seven Nations at the Abbey in Durango is probably my favorite, good beer on tap, a small venue and dancing your ass off.

Pearl Jam at Park west. (now the canyons). Maybe like '97? Perfect temp, had a lightning storm in the distance to set the mood.

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Originally posted by CaddyDaddy77
Los Lobos at Lo Do Music fest

Hey, I was at that show (in '02) - that was a good 'un. Totally casual-like. Warm summer night, $2 beers in each fist, hot women in sundresses, and a great band on fire.

Best shows/venues I've seen (really not all that many) were the impromptu ones, where the musician hadn't really planned on playing, but through circumstance and verve somehow just sort of spontaneously combusted.

One was an accidental two-hour set given by Kelly Joe Phelps in a church in rural Oregon (of all places). He'd been guest lecturing at a college class of mine, and he had all his instruments there so he could demonstrate his odd technique. There were maybe ten of us in the pews. A shy man in front of a non-crowd, he found himself getting bold. We found ourselves stunned. One of the purest things I've ever seen. It was well after dark when he stopped, and only then had we realized that nobody had turned on the lights and we were all sitting in a dark church, absolutely rapt.

He was as surprised as us, I think.

Another one: was shopping for used CDs at Twist 'n Shout in Denver. Taj Mahal was giving autographs at a table by the cash registers, promoting his new album. Somebody said to him, Hey, I've got a guitar out in the car. You mind playing a few licks?

He was game, and for twenty minutes our crowd tilted over him, happier 'n shit ,while Taj tore through a bunch of blues runs. He absolutely ripped that Takamine to shreds. Great guy.

P-Funk, 1994? at the Double Diamond in Aspen or was it the Ritz-Carlton?

The show was Insane, at the end after the lights turned back on some of the band came out on stage and threw marijuana at the crowd. Highly inebriated fancy girls where dragged back stage.

The white gloved towel guy in the restroom freaked me out though. I hate that shit, I can dry my own fucking hands sir.

I have to add

Denver Joe every Monday night at Cricket on the hill.

Secret chefs 3 & Estradasphere, Bluebird theater, 2001?

Mr. Bungle at the Fox in Boulder, 02 I think.

The second lollapalooza, Great Woods, 92?

Worst show that I had high expectations for was Pink Floyd at Mile High 93? and the last time Ween came to town.

Impossible to pick just one...so of course, I won't

1993:
Venue: ABC No Rio
Bands: Quicksand, Shelter, and Burn
Legendary hardcore bands in a legendary venue.

1998 Ska Against Rascism Tour
Venue: The Trocadero, Philadelpia
Bands: The Toasters, Less Than Jake, Blue Meanies, Mustard Plug
get your skank on...

1998
Venue: The Melody Bar, New Brunswick New Jersey
Band: Lifetime (last...show...ever)

2000:
Venue: The Chameleon Club, Lancaster Pennsylvania
Bands: Hot Water Music, Leatherface
Unbelievable hearing Stubbs bellow out "Springtime" with HWM backing.

2000:
Venue: illegal show in some abandoned warehouse in Lancaster w/only about 30 other people
Bands: Gameface, Rainer Maria, Braid
It was January. It was cold. There was no heat. Very little lighting. The bands played around a small fire pit.


...good times, good times....

Rolling Stones, Orpheum Theater (Boston), October 2002.

Un-be-lievable.

Lollapalooza 1994, Saratoga Raceway (Beasties, Pumpkins, Parliment/Funkadelic, Breeders, L7)

HORDE 1997, Saratoga Performing Arts Center (Primus, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Beck)

Pearl Jam, April 2003, Spectrum in Philly

Rollins Band, July 1997, Webster Hall, NYC

Dave Matthews in London in '95 in a tiny club, and...
Sevendust 2 weeks ago here in Lawrence at the Granada.

Pink Floyd - LA Coliseum

Metallica (Black tour) - LA Forum

Phish - Red Rocks

Leftover Salmon - Fort Collins Beer festival

Originally posted by FreakofSnow

Leftover Salmon - Fort Collins Beer festival

oooh, that's a good one too.

Allman's (w/ Dicky Betts and Warren Haynes) - Great Woods, MA 'early 90s.

Originally posted by Plakespear
Rollins Band, July 1997, Webster Hall, NYC

Fuck, I was the man before that and then I turned into a big fag on a spine.

King Crimson, Sept 1973. WhhhoooooooEEEEEEEEEE. Too high, had to leave for a bit.

Frank Zappa, Oct 1971. Head, Hands + Feet w/Rory Gallagher opened, then Fleetwood Mac, then Zappa. Zappa played the wildest, most fantastic rock guitar I've ever heard that night.

Dead, May|June 1980. They played "Fire on the Mountain" for an encore, I was blazed to the cosmos and walked out into ashfall from Mt. St. Helens (secondary explosion after the big one May 21 (?). Weirdest come down ever, snowing at 60 degrees.

Ornette Coleman and Prime Time, 1983 (?) Jamaladeen Tacuma was searing.

Miles Davis ...every time was fantastic. Had front row seats at Portland Paramount circa 1986 or so...earblowing show.

Originally posted by Buster Highmen
King Crimson, Sept 1973. WhhhoooooooEEEEEEEEEE. Too high, had to leave for a bit.

Saw King Crimson at Red Rocks 3 years ago. Not bad for a bunch of old farts . Good stuff nonetheless.

Mission of Burma at Florentine Gardens around 1981 or 82.

Originally posted by iskibc
Saw King Crimson at Red Rocks 3 years ago. Not bad for a bunch of old farts . Good stuff nonetheless.

Hey! Tool had to copy somebody!

Originally posted by Tyrone Shoelaces
1993:
Venue: ABC No Rio
Bands: Quicksand, Shelter, and Burn
Legendary hardcore bands in a legendary venue.

Shelter played in my campus pub one random weekday night. Think RIDICULOUSLY small venue (I want to a small DIII state school in NJ... not a Penn State by any means). All of their groupies (in the passionate fan sense, not the slutty hooker sense) were there in force... moshing it up, etc.

It was pretty funny because it was that controlled violence of people moshing and stage diving but at no moment did it ever get "out of control". I remember BS'ing with some of the bouncers who just stood back saying that it was the easiest show that they ever had to work and thinking about how ironic it was.

Great show to say the least. Almost forgot about it..

Originally posted by Buster Highmen
King Crimson, Sept 1973. WhhhoooooooEEEEEEEEEE. Too high, had to leave for a bit.

Frank Zappa, Oct 1971. Head, Hands + Feet w/Rory Gallagher opened, then Fleetwood Mac, then Zappa. Zappa played the wildest, most fantastic rock guitar I've ever heard that night.

Dead, May|June 1980. They played "Fire on the Mountain" for an encore, I was blazed to the cosmos and walked out into ashfall from Mt. St. Helens (secondary explosion after the big one May 21 (?). Weirdest come down ever, snowing at 60 degrees.

Ornette Coleman and Prime Time, 1983 (?) Jamaladeen Tacuma was searing.

Miles Davis ...every time was fantastic. Had front row seats at Portland Paramount circa 1986 or so...earblowing show.

okay, you definately win for going to the best shows.


I'd have to say the first time I saw Richie Havens at the old birchmere in alexandria,va.

Tool two years ago in Augusta Maine

Phish last March in NY(played a ridiculous Tweezer, Destiny Unbound, and Soul Shakedown Party. incredible)

The first time I saw Joe Satriani at the 930 club.


My folks took me to a benny goodman show when I was a wee little one, they said it was damn good

Best show / venue combo?
Radiohead
August 31, 2003
White River Amplitheater in Seattle

ok...maybe the venue sucked, but seeing Radiohead play outside was awesome.

U2
June 16, 1996 (I think)
Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton AB.

a huge thunder storm blew in, complete with an unbelievable light show, just as the concert was ending. very cool.

My favorite all time venue is the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver. Dark, dirty, tiny little place with great atmosphere and great acoustics.