Super Duper Badass Concert Thread

[RTP2003]

This show was pretty damn fun---I was a big fan of CVB back in the late 80s/early 90s, and have been a fan of Cracker since their first release.

It was basically David Lowery (CVB, Cracker) and Johnny Hickman (Cracker) playing guitar, billed as "unplugged", although Hickman was playing electric, with the Hackensaw Boys playing the role of backing band on a few songs.

The show was held at Higher Ground, a small-to-medium sized venue, and was attended by a crowd of maybe a hundred people.  I got there a little late and missed a couple of songs, but what I saw was damn good.  They played a lot of CVB songs from Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and Key Lime Pie, two of my favorite CVB albums, including "Sad Lover's Waltz", "All Her Favorite Fruit", "Sweethearts", "Pictures of Matchstick Men", and a few songs from the CVB reunion album (CD, whatever), New Roman Times.  They did a lot of cool Cracker tunes as well, including "Euro Trash Girl", "Low", "Duty Free", "Mr. Wrong", and "That's the Kind of Friend You've Got".  They encored with "Oh Death" (from ...Revolutionary Sweetheart, but probably better known from the film O Brother where Art Thou?) and "Take The Skinheads Bowling" from the CVB debut, Telephone Free Landslide Victory.  A damn good show, lotsa fun, just wish I had caught their entire set.  Would've loved to have heard "Eye of Fatima" or "St. Cajatan" unplugged, I'll just have to catch them next time around.

[Anonymous]

On 2005-07-24 10:41:00, starry-eyed pirate wrote:

"Last weekend i went down to W.VA, to Masontown, in fact, to a place called Marvins' Mountaintop for the 9th annual "All Good Music Festival".  The ticket for 3 days of music and camping cost me $120.oo. Bands appearing at the venue included:Les Claypool, The Flaming Lips, Particle, Ozomatli, Yonder Mountain String Band, Keller Williams, Michael Franti and Spearhead, The String Cheese Incident and Dark Star Orchestra among others.  My favorite band performance was by Yonder Mountain. String Cheese was good but seemed to lack energy.

i have been serving a d.u.i. lisence suspension for the last year or so and when i first ordered my ticket i thought my lisence would be re-instated by the time of the festival,so i thought i would be able to drive legally, but as it turned out i was wrong and the commonwealth of PA continues to try to exploit me. The commonwealth  requires that i rent and install an ignition interlock system on any vehicle i drive, whether registered in my name or not in order to have my lisence re-instated. Well i don't feel like giving them any more money, which i don't even have anyway. Anyway to cut to the chase here i almost didn't go to the festival because i was paranoid of going through checkpoints and such with no lisence.  The day that the festival opened i was still wrestling with whether to go or not. Sometime around 2:30pm i decided i just couldn't eat the $120.oo ticket and that if i just played everything cool i would be alright.  All my stickers and stuff are all current and legal. So i just threw my drum and all my campin' gear in the back of my truck and did the speed limit all the way to Marvins' Mountaintop.  i got to Masontown after about a 2 and a half hour drive from where i live in New Castle, PA. It was about 5:30 when i arrived in Masontown. There was a huge traffic jam though, waiting to get into the venue.  During the 5 hour traffic jam i made friends with my neighbors in line and drank beer and ate macadamia nut-ganja cookies, which were tastey and potent. i finally was able to set up my tent in the darkness about 10:30pm.

Having secured my campsite and met my neighbors for the weekend the next order of business was scoring the proper chemicals.  i took a walk down to shakedown st. and found what i was looking for without any effort.  i paid $20.oo for a roll and $10.oo for L.S.D.(which is more than twice what i used to pay for L.S.D., but it's been a while since i bought acid). i saved the drugs for the next day when i knew that Yonder Mountain and String Cheese would be playin'. In the meantime i just smoked up the ganja(which was also quite easy to come by) and drank beer.

The next day around 4pm or so as Yonder Mountain took the stage i ate the ecstacy, then about an hour later, after i found my acid layin' on the ground(in plastic),which i spent about 45 minutes looking for, i ate the L.S.D.(candyflippin').  It was cool but i thought both drugs could have been stronger. i am kinda at a loss to describe the exact effects of the chemicals on me. Next time i'm not even goin' to mess with the ecstacy, i'm just gonna get hold of the pure molly and flip that with the acid.  In fact i've got some right now that i'm saving for another sort of a festival this weekend. The Grove Party, Rock Falls(Slippery Rock)PA.  All together it was a real good time. i met lots o' cool people,ate all kind o' good food, listened to great music, and was surrounded the entire time by beautiful hippie girls. All is not lost, there is hope. Peace ::rainbow:: "

[Anonymous]

On 2005-01-11 17:56:00, Anonymous wrote:

"I saw David Bowie

Glass Spider Tour 1984."

No Fucking WAY!!! I was there in Tampa I used to live down there when he went on his Glass Spider Tour. I guess that's really when I got into David Bowie although I was into him during Labyrinth and his Let's Dance times.

I've also seen Morphine in concert twice, right before the lead died of some overdose or something. Green Day. Marilyn Manson before they went big.  Chuck Mangione (jazz trumpetist), 'Journey to a Rainbow'. GWAR. Tenacious D. Your mother; just kidding. Haven't seen her yet. But yeah, I liked David Bowie, still kinda do although I wonder how old he really is and when he will die. He's been in alot of movies and done alot of shit for other bands.

[Anonymous]

What an amazing show.....QOTSA opened up, I was familiar with them from their first record a friend had loaned me.  They rocked out, playing stuff off of that one, really like "Regular John".  They kinda pussied out and cut their set short 'cause of rain, this sucked.  They were covered onstage.

Ween opened up with "Take Me Away", played lotsa stuff off "The Pod", "Chocolate and Cheese", and "The Mollusk", including "The Golden Eel", "Dr. Rock", "Sketches of Winkle", and "A Tear for Eddie".  Lotsa drug use by the crowd, the band kept playing "LMLYP" until the ey got shut down by the club for playing on past what the noise ordinance would allow.  Ween is definately a band to use psychedelics to, if that's your thing, but they mix well with all other drugs, too.

[Anonymous]

well it's not a concert really, but i saw the harlem globetrotters maybe at the caps center in DC, wherever they would've had it, when i was like 7. they were for sure entertaining and fun. one kid barfed in the car on the way home.

damn i saw pele too, at RFK! we had this one kid in school, he was real small like 5'4" or something but the boy could kick it and own it all over the gymnasium floor. i'm talking about soccer, in case you don't know pele.

[starry-eyed pirate]

Yah mon, i would have loved to have seen Pele do his thing. What a brilliant athlete. i played soccer all my youth, except for the time i did in str8. Even after str8 i was still able to play for 2 more seasons.

i am still into watchin' the world cup games on t.v. whenever they come around. It's not like other sports, like when some M.L.B team wins the "world" series or some N.F.L. team wins the Superbowl and becomes "world" champions. If you win the world cup you really are the "world champions". i will even set my alarm and wake up in the middle of the night, like whatever, 3:51a.m. to watch the games. i love to see the underdogs triumph. Peace.

oh and lest i forget, yeah, brothers and sisters, Fuck str8, Fuck all authority. God is in you. Feel it.

[Anonymous]

On 2005-07-26 18:26:00, Anonymous wrote:

"well it's not a concert really, but i saw the harlem globetrotters maybe at the caps center in DC, wherever they would've had it, when i was like 7. they were for sure entertaining and fun. one kid barfed in the car on the way home.


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I partied with one of the Globetrotters once.  I was in Hampton, VA in 1986 to see a couple of Dead shows and was staying at the same hotel as the Globetrotters.  We invited him in to party, offered him a beer, to which he replied "I don't drink beer.....BUT I SMOKE POT THOUGH!!! after smelling the wafting clouds of TBPITW smoke that filled the room.  We hung out and burned a bit, he posed for a picture or two, and get this--his name was "Deadrick".  That cracked us up....

[Anonymous]

Saw this tour three times--Orlando, St. Petersburg, and Jacksonville.  Awesome stuff, really.  His band kicked ass, Tony Levin on bass and Adrian Belew on guitar.  He played a "greatest hits" type show, but he varied it a bit from night to night.  Played "Queen Bitch" in St. Petersburg.  Opened up the second set with "Sound and Vision" with the house lights still on, then did "Station to Station" (except in Jax) which took my brain out of my head and stomped on it.  "Panic In Detroit", "Life On Mars", "Ashes to Ashes", "Jean Genie", "TVC 15" (also a brain stomper), these shows were cool.  In Jacksonville, he brought up a couple who had just been married that day (bride still in her wedding gown) and sang "Modern Love" to them for the encore.  Cool video stuff and neat looking tribal carvings in a frame around the stage.  Jacksonville was general admission, had pretty good seats for the other two shows.  Met a girl in St. Pete that I ended up living in sin with for a couple of years.  Pretty fun time, all in all.

[Anonymous]

Saw this band a couple of times, and enjoyed both shows immensely.  The first time was in the late 80s in Orlando, with Suicidal Tendencies opening up the show.  Great fun.  One of the coolest things about Jane's Addiction's crowd was the eclectic mix--they seemed to bridge the gulf between scenes, there were punks, hippies, etc., freaks of all stripes out for the show.  They played a lot of stuff off of Ritual de lo Habitual, "Three Days", "Then She Did", "Classic Girl", all great stoner anthems.  The backdrop on stage was a replica of the album cover.  Perry Farrell had his hair bleached and cut short, and was convulsing and twitching in time with the band as he sang.  Met some cool girls at the showe who invited my friend and I to a party, but we had to leave after smoking a couple of joints so we could get back home.

The second time I saw them was at the first Lollapalooza tour, again in Orlando.  I thouroughly enjoyed the psychedelic weirdness that went on all day, the Butthole Surfers doing their freakout schtick, Nine Inch Nails playing, Body Count singing about killing cops (always a good time), and Souxsie and the Banshees.  Saw lots of drugs for sale, kids tripping their brains out on acid, plus some cool exhibits and such.  This one local artist had painted a statue of a leopard in wild psychedelic patterns, it was kinda cool.  Jane's Addiction closed the show, they had videos of surf movies and other stuff behind them as they played.  We had a chickenfight tournament, my girlfriend and I taking out three other couples before being brought down by the tournament winners.  Jane's played more stuff from Nothing's Shocking, augmented by two really hot chicks in leather bikinis simulating lesbian S&M antics onstage.  "Mountain Song", "Summertime Rolls", "Jane Says", and "Nothing's Shocking" were all extremely memorable, and made for a great cap of a fun day of drinking and drugging with a wide spectrum of young weirdos.

[Anonymous]

This was as much, or more, of a performance art piece as it was a concert.  Laurie didn't do any songs, pretty much a series of monologues that flowed seamlessly from one into the other, augmented by a variety of voice filtering effects that gave her voice different qualities, one in particular, a generic newsman's voice, was very effective with the monologue.  She had many targets, from corporate thievery and injustice to child abuse and violence against women, and was as enlightening as she was entertaining.  Of particular interest was her assertion, during a piece about the marketing of children's toys, that in America, "we don't love kids---we HATE kids", citing stats on child abuse and the transformation of children into commodities.  I wonder if she knows about teen TCs.......

[Anonymous]

so at least one person around here gets my laurie anderson references  :smile:

don't i know you?

[Anonymous]

yeah, I came to your house, smoked all your pot, and drank all your beer. :wave:

[Anonymous]

I used to listen to Big Science and one of the Sharkey albums back in the 80s. i got Big Science again, some of it is really good. but i will never understand why she included the annoying songs on that one. well, maybe if she explained it i would. one of the songs is supposed to be overlaid on a drum track that is played backwards.

[Anonymous]

United States is pretty good, as is Mr. Heartbreak.  I had another one called Strange Angels that was OK, but not great.

[Anonymous]

This was a fucking awesome indie-rock show.  At the time, I was all about the indie rock.  The show was general admission, with about five hundred people in attendance. The crowd was mostly college kids, with a pretty healthy out-of-town contingent there, too. Lou Barlow, Jay Lowenstein and whoever took the stage looking like the nerds they are, and played an amazing set that went on for about two hours.  The theater had recently been renovated, with black and white checkerboard tiles on the floors and faux marble columns framing the stage, it was definitely in better shape than when I saw some earlier shows there.     The liquor bar was open, but the security was being uncool about TBPITW, as usual, so my friends and I got stoned before going in. I'd always found Sebadoh was a little more interesting and varied than Lou Barlow's previous band, Dinosaur, Jr., who I liked, but had grown kind of bored with by the time he left them.  They did a bunch of songs off of my favorite Sebadoh album, Smash Your Head On the Punk Rock:  "Nostur Dnuora Selcric", "Vampire", "Everybody's Been Burned" (actually a cover of Stepcraft-practicing fat slob David Crosby), "Brand New Love", "Cecelia Chime in Melee", "Freed Pig", "As the World Dies, the Eyes of God Grow Wider", "Mind Meld", and a bunch of others.  Damn good show.