Okay, damnit... the BRAGGING Thread

[bobfrombob]

anyone here seen led zeppelin on stage?

I had tickets in 1977 but Robert Plant's son died and the rest of the tour was cancelled. Looking back, I regret sending my $9 ticket back for a refund.

[mountain bed]

I think he had a Mexican band with him or something, though I may be confusing that with a Jackson Browne show I once saw.

Yeah, I did see a Jackson show in '90 that fits that bill. Wonderful show. He did at least half of "Late For The Sky".

[embiggen]

my husband and I honked our car horn at Paulie Walnuts' limo because it was double parked on JFK Blvd in Jersey City. then we saw Paulie Walnuts get out of the car and I exclaimed, "hey look, it's Paulie Walnuts!" then we waved at him. he gave us a dirty look. true story!

[Dr. Steve Brule]

Minus 5/Wilco Abbey Pub 9/15/2001

 

Stolen Child benefit at the Metro, with Wilco; Jeff Tweedy; Autumn Defense; LeRoy Bach & Edward Burch; Eleventh Dream Day; Nicholas Tremulis; Steve & Liam of Frisbie; Edith Frost (band of Jim Becker, John Stirrat and Glenn Kotche) 11/18/2001

(first time Spiders was played, solo)

 

Loose Fur St Ann's Warehouse 12/6-7/2002

 

LeRoy Bach, Edward Burch & Glenn Kotche, Jeff Tweedy/Wilco Martyrs 4/6/2002

 

Decemberists Schubas 4/1/2004

 

Sufjan Stevens and the Michigan Militia Schubas 11/18/2004

 

Jason Molina w/ Andrew Bird, Andrew Bird, Healthy White Baby Schubas 2/27/2006

[Sir Stewart]

There's plenty of stuff in this thread I'm not jealous of at all.

[yankee]

There's plenty of stuff in this thread I'm not jealous of at all.

 

 

hmmmm. . . . my first concerts were . . . well there was some unknown punk band in a community center basement in south dakota when I was like 14 . . . followed by Fishbone, The B-52s, Primus, De La Soul and other stuff from that era in Chicago, mostly at the Aragon. So probably nothing to be jealous of. Yeah, those were strange days.

 

But have been to two living room shows with Tweedy and got to play a couple songs with him at both.

[cryptique]

Yeah, I did see a Jackson show in '90 that fits that bill. Wonderful show. He did at least half of "Late For The Sky".

Yeah, that's when I saw Browne ... Chicago Theatre.

[Calexico]

I'm pretty sure I saw Noel Redding drinking in a bar in Galway, Ireland 10 years ago.

 

 

That's nothing new. We used to meet him somewhere in a bar in Galway every time our ship docked. Him, Billy Bragg and Mike Scott. Pissheads the lot of them!

[Tenderloin]

On September 18, 1997, I saw The Rolling Stones at The Double Door for 7 bucks. Crikey, that was 10 years ago already?!?!

[PopTodd]

On September 18, 1997, I saw The Rolling Stones at The Double Door for 7 bucks. Crikey, that was 10 years ago already?!?!

 

 

I was on my honeymoon in Italy and saw that on the front page of USA Today. Both my wife and I cursed our luck -- from the south of Italy!!!

[PA stars]

I had tickets in 1977 but Robert Plant's son died and the rest of the tour was cancelled. Looking back, I regret sending my $9 ticket back for a refund.

 

Funny, I still have mine from Philly- I couldn't get a refund for some reason.

 

Want to buy one?

[theashtraysays]

A couple noteworthy from the wayback machine...

 

1979 Bad Company. First concert.

1980(?) Cheap Trick, with The Romantics as an opener. In their red leather suits. That was fun.

1981 Springsteen - The River tour. Incredible.

1984 Talking Heads - the one-person-comes-out-at-a-time tour that they recorded Stop Making Sense from. Also fun.

[Chendizzle]

I'm with you Kalle...numbers and all.

 

4 times front row for Wilco, got to be part of the North Hampton and Boston shows this year as the official song guesser.

 

Northampton is one word

 

 

The coolest show I've ever been to was Broken Social Scene with Feist opening at Pearl St In Northampton. J Mascis played with them, and I met a bunch of the band after the show. Feist talked with me and my friends for a while and signed something for me. Now I see her on Apple commercials.

[tellya]

The White Stripes 1997 My Friend's Basement in Ann Arbor, MI

 

 

Get Out!

[LouieB]

I guess I'd better get out the shoe box full of stubs. I'll get back to ya on this.

Yea, me too....

 

The only one that gets everyone freaked is Dylan and the Band in 1974.

 

I guess I could throw in Neil Young on the Time Fades Away tour.

George Harrison with Ravi Shakar

Bruce Springsteen when Born to Run came out

Emmylou Harris when Peices of the Sky came out.

 

I have seen a wide variety of jazz, blues and folk musicians that probably no one is too impressed with (although I freaked out a member of Bobby Bare Jr.'s band by telling him I had seen Hound Dog Taylor a couple times...)

 

LouieB

[tjr]

George Harrison with Ravi Shakar

 

LouieB

 

Seeing George in 1974... now that's cool!

[LouieB]

Seeing George in 1974... now that's cool!

And as some youngster here told me a year or so ago, it was the only time George EVER toured, something I never really thought about. (Was it 74??)

 

I also saw not the original line-up of Fairport Convention, but the group after Sandy Denny rejoined the group (post Richard Thompson), but they were absolutely fabulous.....rocked the place down.

 

LouieB

[tjr]

And as some youngster here told me a year or so ago, it was the only time George EVER toured, something I never really thought about. (Was it 74??)

 

I also saw not the original line-up of Fairport Convention, but the group after Sandy Denny rejoined the group (post Richard Thompson), but they were absolutely fabulous.....rocked the place down.

 

LouieB

 

 

Yeah, 1974 was the only time George toured America. I remembered reading all about it, but at 14, I was too young to go. He did tour in Japan with Clapton in 1991...

 

http://bekkoame.ne.jp/~garp/hari/live74.htm

 

So you were very lucky to have seen him perform live.

[stooka]

Bugs Henderson- Dallas 1979

Jeff Beck (3rd Row) - Dallas 1980

Bruce Springsteen - Dallas 1980

Frank Zappa - Dallas 1980 & 1981

The Blues Brothers - Dallas 1981

Van Halen - Dallas 1981

The Black Crowes - Amarillo 1993

White Stripes - Okla City 2003

Prince @ Empire Ballroom (1,500 capacity) - Las Vegas 2006

M Ward - Denton 2006 (full band - small venue)

Bon Dylan @ Stubb's (3000 capacity) Austin 2007

Wilco @ ACL Taping for Nov 3, 2007

 

 

I was too young to get into the Armadillo World Headquarters - Austin late 70s, so I sat outside and just listened.

[imsjry]

Yeah, that's when I saw Browne ... Chicago Theatre.

 

Since this is a BRAGGING thread, my Aunt played percussion and sang with Jackson on that tour.

 

Anyone remember the tons of weed smoking in the bathroom that night. I was shocked.

 

I also remember him playing for over 3 hours-great show!

[DueReflection]

ah jeez, where to start; i only have exact dates on a few of these...

 

3/26/85

Roger Waters

Radio City Music Hall (pros & cons of hitchhiking tour)

phenomenal... oh, and btw, which one's pink? definitely Rog... years later, i'd regret laying out righteous cash for Dry Floyd, which was horrible.

 

6/28/85

Grateful Dead

Hershey, PA

i believe the ticket for this show was 13.50

torrential downpour but i loved it.

Soundboard source!!

http://www.archive.org/details/gd85-06-28....5822.sbeok.shnf

 

3/31/86

Rush

Byrne Arena

this one is noteworthy [to me] because Mystic Rhythms and Witch Hunt from this show ended up on the official live release "A Show of Hands."

 

circa 1986/87

Allan Holdsworth

Rutgers University, some tiny lecture hall.

was literally 5 ft. away from the synth-axe the entire show.

 

1988

Frank Zappa

Jones Beach

not much more needs to be said

 

Dylan/Dead

Giants Stadium 1987 (underrated show)

http://www.archive.org/details/gd85-06-28....5822.sbeok.shnf

 

3/26-27-28/1988

Grateful Dead

Hampton

3 searing hot, very much overlooked shows...

the following spring gets all the props but [channeling Homer J. Simpson] "this is better."

http://www.archive.org/details/gd88-03-26....64.sbefail.shnf

http://www.archive.org/details/gd88-03-27

http://www.archive.org/details/gd88-03-28....9977.sbeok.shnf

 

july 1989

GD/balls of lightning roll along.

at one point during the torrential downpour, John Sher gets on the mic, imploring everyone to get off the field/tarp and go to their seats, warning us that we're "all going to get killed."

http://www.archive.org/details/gd89-07-10....6071.sbeok.shnf

 

4/25/90

Rush

Byrne Arena

dude who gave me tix for this one and who was supposed to squeeze me a drop of liquid joy had an itchy trigger finger and ended up leaving a puddle on my hand ["don't waste it!" he says as it's ready to pour down my arm]

i did what any civilized human being would do and slurped up the 5-6 doses.

it took me until recently seeing a dvd from that very show to realize that the giant dancing Presto bunnies were really there, dancing, during War Paint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2qVpifODnE...ted&search=

 

circa 1994

Ian MacKaye spoken word $5 show/the squeeze in Ft. Lauderdale, FL

he was in the parking lot beforehand picking up garbage.

 

circa 1994

Quazar (Beastie Boys unannounced all-hardcore show)

somewhere over on St. Marks Place NYC.. i forget, we were snorting bumps of blow and smack off one of the tables, it was a proud moment.

 

circa 1995 (sorry for all the circas, it's been a wild ride)

Yellowman

some tiny club in Deerfield Beach, FL, for $5 bucks.

 

circa 1990

Garden State Arts Center

Steel Pulse opened for Santana and blew their doors off.

 

1990

Bowie w/ Adrian Belew on guitar (Phi Spectrum)

 

David Byrne (i wanna say 1992?)

Count Basie Theater

played for free 3 consecutive nights.

 

spring 2004(?)

Neville Staple of The Specials

some shitty club in the Mission, SF

 

winter 2006 (jan/feb?)

saw JT acoustic at The Fillmore then walked across the street just as his encores ended and caught The English Beat at John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom Room.

 

8/1/07

Rush

Shoreline (kickass show, in the GD's backyard on Jerry's birthday)

Summertime Blues

 

8/3/07

Rush

Concord

(subbed Distant Early Warning for Summertime Blues)

 

8/24/07

Wilco

Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA

knew this one was special but didn't realize how much so until weeks later...

 

9/9/07

Rush

St. Paul, MN

4th row

the dinosaurs refuse to die...

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

First Concert: May 6, 1976

Municipal Auditorium, Shreveport, La

 

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

There were only about 300-400 people there. Bruce played like it was his last night on earth. Transcendent.

 

First Wilco Show: September 14, 2007

The Palladium, Dallas, Tx

 

I wrote in length about My and D-man's first Wilco Show.

 

Saw a lot of bands in the late 70's as they hit the mid-sized market stop of Shreveport

ELO

Bob Seger

Boston

Foreigner

Cheap Trick (loudest show I have EVER been to)

Hall and Oates (when the were touring behind Beauty of a Backstreet. They were really, REALLY good and had a harder rock edge than they later exhibited when they got big.

Heart

Aerosmith

BTO

The Eagles

ZZ Top

 

Hard to believe some of these acts rolled through Shreveport, but it was the 70's---things were different. Ken Shepard, the dad of Kenny Wayne Shepherd, was the program director of KROK and Shreveport was a Rockin' town. These days, the casinos get a lot of music traffic.

 

I was also at the first Texxas Jam on July 1, at the Cotton Bowl

 

1978 (July 1):

 

Aerosmith --- had seen them a couple of years earlier and they were terrible: stoned, out of tune and disinterested. But at the Jam they were VERY good

Eddie Money --- OK performance by a guy who should have been really big.

Ted Nugent --- Absolutely shredding. He fainted onstage from the heat. Loud and killer. Too bad he became the punchline to a series of self-indulgent rock star jokes

Atlanta Rhythm Section --- a rather bland performance by a rather bland band

Head East --- These guys were actually pretty good. Kind of forgotten these days, but they had a couple of songs that got good radio play in the area (Never Been Any Reason, Love me Tonight, Since You've been Gone). They were from Southern Illinois, so there may be a few of you who remember them.

Heart ---had seen them earlier on the Dog and Butterfly tour. Good outing from their last tour before they reinvented themselves for the first time.

Mahogany Rush --- Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush...a Hendrix disciple fronting a three piece band. I remember NOTHING of their set. Made big impression

Van Halen --- This was before the got big. Their first album had come out earlier that yeat, and they were on their first nationwide tour.They went onstage early in the day with borrowed gear (their equipment had been stolen). Eddie was a guitar god and DLR's stage antics had yet to become so irritating. They made am impressio...one could sense bigger things were at hand for them.

Walter Egan --- A protege of Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks who had a pretty big radio hit (Magnet and Steel).

Journey --- This was just before their mega-stardom days. Steve Perry had yet to fully exert his MOR sensibility onto the band. Wheel in the Sky, Lights, Feeling that way/anytime. These guys were pretty good...

Blackstone --- A Dallas band that had won some J-O battle of the bands and got the right to open the show for 30,000 disinterested people. It is charitable to say they were Non-descript.

[DueReflection]

Van Halen --- This was before the got big. Their first album had come out earlier that yeat, and they were on their first nationwide tour.They went onstage early in the day with borrowed gear (their equipment had been stolen). Eddie was a guitar god and DLR's stage antics had yet to become so irritating. They made am impressio...one could sense bigger things were at hand for them.

 

i'm thinking i'm a tad envious of this one...

[Lammycat]

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[Lammycat]

3/26-27-28/1988

Grateful Dead

Hampton

3 searing hot, very much overlooked shows...

the following spring gets all the props but [channeling Homer J. Simpson] "this is better."

http://www.archive.org/details/gd88-03-26....64.sbefail.shnf

http://www.archive.org/details/gd88-03-27

http://www.archive.org/details/gd88-03-28....9977.sbeok.shnf

 

july 1989

GD/balls of lightning roll along.

at one point during the torrential downpour, John Sher gets on the mic, imploring everyone to get off the field/tarp and go to their seats, warning us that we're "all going to get killed."

http://www.archive.org/details/gd89-07-10....6071.sbeok.shnf

 

 

 

I was at these shows as well and I'd say the Hampton run was decent (only "Stir It Up" and the Space->So What->Sugar Mags->Scarlet-Fire second set opener on night 2 was great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npYdfYbnL78) but the Giants Stadium gig is more notable for a lot of douchebags crashing the gates en masse than the tunes that night, unfortunately.