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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: Scarstruck on January 11, 2005, 05:18:00 PM
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Share your best concert experiences
Mine:
PanterA with special guests Morbid Angel, Soulfly,and Nothingface
Reliant Arena~ Houston Tx 2/2001
I was a moderate Pantera fan before this show..not a huge huge fan but I liked them and knew most of their songs..
I was blown away beyond my expectations...their sound guy is a master at his art.
The lights dimmed and I heard a farmiliar voice say matter of factly "we are the kings of fucking metal...we're fucking Pantera" followed by the flange ridden guitar intro to "Hellbound"
What followed could only be described as Sonic mayhem unlike anything Ive ever seen ...and Ive seen alot of fucking shows..
I remember Phil stopping midsong and pointing out a man in a wheelchair in the pit area (crazy bastard) so he stopped the song and told the crowd to surf the guy up to the barracade so they lifted him up in wheelchair ..passed him to the barracade
and Phil and 2 roadies pulled the guy up on the stage and Phil said "someone get this guy a fucking drink" and the wheelchair guy got to watch the rest of the show from the side of the stage with a tall alcoholic beverage in his hand..
Anyway was great show and I never have seen a band as sonically damaging live as Pantera
My ex wife and I sat up in the nosebleed section and smoked joints and drank $9.00 beers
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Saw NIRVANA on Nov. 29 1993. Was in the pit for opening act The Breeders.
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I've seen quite a few ragin' good shows, but one that comes to mind is a concert I saw in Atlanta in the summer of 2000:
REO Speeddealer, the Supersuckers, Nashville Pussy, and Motorhead. It was in a club called the Tabernacle, which used to be a huge Baptist church next to the Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta. The opening acts were good, especially Nashville Pussy, but Motorhead fucking ROCKED! They were touring a "Greatest Hits Live" album, so they played pretty much every goddamn Motorhead song I wanted to hear. It was loud as fuck (my ears rang for days afterward). I was high on some 100mg morphine tablets I had shot up before the show, smoked some of TBPITW, and drank a little vodka, too. The venue was great, the drugs were good, the crowd was cool, and Lemmy & Co. kicked serious ass. Lemmy shared his wisdom with the crowd, shouting (in his inimitable Lemmy voice) "Rock and Roll is one of your only escapes from the bullshit that surrounds you!". How true.
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I saw David Bowie
Glass Spider Tour 1984.
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On 2005-01-11 17:24:00, RTP2003 wrote:
"I've seen quite a few ragin' good shows, but one that comes to mind is a concert I saw in Atlanta in the summer of 2000:
REO Speeddealer, the Supersuckers, Nashville Pussy, and Motorhead. It was in a club called the Tabernacle, which used to be a huge Baptist church next to the Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta. The opening acts were good, especially Nashville Pussy, but Motorhead fucking ROCKED! They were touring a "Greatest Hits Live" album, so they played pretty much every goddamn Motorhead song I wanted to hear. It was loud as fuck (my ears rang for days afterward). I was high on some 100mg morphine tablets I had shot up before the show, smoked some of TBPITW, and drank a little vodka, too. The venue was great, the drugs were good, the crowd was cool, and Lemmy & Co. kicked serious ass. Lemmy shared his wisdom with the crowd, shouting (in his inimitable Lemmy voice) "Rock and Roll is one of your only escapes from the bullshit that surrounds you!". How true.
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RTP2003, I knew you were cool, but I didn't know you were that fucking cool. Nashville Pussy is one of my favorite bands. The first club show I played in my life was in Lubbock, TX 1991 (Gooey) opening up for Reo Speeddealer. The top of the flier says "shoot dope with Reo Speeddealer" and you did, that fucking rules. They came to Midland, TX in 1998 to play with me (Crapple)again and brought Snuka from New York with them.
You know they were sued by Reo Speedwagon (cocksuckers) and had to change their name to Speeddealer. We have speeddealer link on http://www.pornjunkyusa.com (http://www.pornjunkyusa.com) Our site is 4 months out dated. I've been telling the geek squad to update it and they say OK, but nothing happens.
I think their finally getting some pussy, and that's alright by me, but I do try to explain to my outfit that if the band goes, so does the dope and pussy.
I still have my own private op called Crapitol Records. I'm about to release a DVD called "The Texas 7" Seven Texas punk bands,
Reo Speeddealer (Dallas)
The Boozers (Dallas)
The Sillys (Denton)
The Mullins (Fort Worth)
Crapple (Midland)
Uncle Spooge (Midland)
Spunk (Houston)
All I have left to do is the box cover. I went to take a picture of the Holiday Inn on Garden of the Gods, but it has changed to Quality Inn or some bullshit. So I'm thinking.
For you RTP2003, I have a free copy. Just PM or e-mail me an address you want it mailed to.
Speeddealer can also be heard on Tony Hawk Pro Skater Video game.
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Heart 1978.
Van Halen 1979.
The Cars 1980.
The Psychedelic Furs (at a small venue in Baltimore, the Marble Bar) in 1981. This was cool, the Dead Boys opened.
Black Flag at an all ages club 1982.
Fear, Black Market Baby, The Necros, Faith, Void at the "Smoke-In" in a park in Washington, DC in 1982.
After straight:
Half Japanese at some club in DC.
Opened for Samhain in Balto. 1985.
Opened for Butthole Surfers and DKs in DC, and some other bands across the US. Saw Sonic Youth in Detroit on the Bad Moon Rising tour (1985)
The Grateful Dead like 5 times.
The Cramps on New Years Eve 1988.
Roadied for Lungfish on their American tours.
Ed Hall
Boss Hog
Will Oldham
The Upper Crust
I'll have to leave it at this for now...
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On 2005-01-11 20:51:00, froderik13 wrote:
"Half Japanese at some club in DC"
the 9:30 club? if that was in 1986 we might've been at the same show!
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I saw them in January or February of 1985, not at the 9:30...it might have been at the DC Space...
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My first concert was Rock Superbowl in 1983, in Orlando FL.
Bryan Adams
Sammy Hagar
Journey
Areosmith
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Damn I dont get around here enough../bump
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Another great show I attended was the Supersuckers at the Moto Lounge in beautiful downtown Jacksonville, Fl in the late 90s. They opened up with their country set (mostly songs from "Must've Been High") and smoked some of TBPITW with me and a couple of friends between sets, then they came out to play a two-hour set of hellbound Rock-N-Roll. All that plus a cool opening act (Jesse Dayton and the Western Flyers) for a paltry $5. Damn that was fun! I bought them all drinks, and they reciprocated by playing "Coattail Rider" and "Creepy Jackalope Eye" for encores. See ya in Hell !
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Saw the Sabs three times in my life--- twice with that little elfin twit, RJ Dio, and once with the Ozzman.
The first time was on the "Heaven and Hell" tour, it was the first roncert I ever attended. The opening acts were very lame, Riot and the Johnny Van Zant Band. They blew.
There was a large, black cross hanging from the ceiling of the Jacksonville Coloseum which became more obscured by smoke as the evening went on-- it was clearly visible before the show, a little hazy after Riot, slightly more hidden after JVZ, and completely covered with weed-smoke clouds after Sabbath. From the opening number, "War Pigs", to the encore, "Children of the Grave", Sabbath kicked ass. I recall my friend and I (we were 14 at the time) trying to get some longhair-type to smoke weed with us (he had been sreaming at the top of his resin-caked lungs "Who wants to smoke marijuana??!!!" all fucking night). Eventually, he passed us a joint. It was fun, fun, fun losing my rock show virginity to Black Sabbath that night!
The second time I saw them was on the "Mob Rules" tour. It was lame, so I won't go into it.
The last time I saw them was in 2001 in St. Petersburg (Ozzfest). I thought, "Well, this could be a cheesy, 'remember-when-we-were-cool' nostalgia act, or it could be pretty good". My fuckbuddy/druggie girl pal and I checked into the Ponce de Leon hotel to fuck and shoot up some smack, then complained about the room and got our $$ back (the room really did suck, but we just wanted a place to do our thing--having done it, we had no more use for the room) and went to the show. It fucking ROCKED! Even devilfruit Marilyn Manson (one of the opening acts) was entertaining (he had a flashing sign behind him that spelled 'D-R-U-G-S'---how cute!), but the Sabs ruled the night. Heard lotsa cool tunes, saw some serious violence during Slipknot's set, partied on weed and liquor with not a cop in sight, and had one hell of a good time. Plus, I picked up tickets from some dude for half price. What a wonderful night.
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Slayer~ Canyon ampitheatre Lubbock Texas (approximately april of 2002)
February ~ 2002 3 friends and myself piled in my car at about 2 pm after spending about an hour rolling joints..go go team rolling effort (Mike Belt cannot roll joints to save his fucking life...faggot)~ Reagan is the only one thatll get that
I got paid that day and blew the wad on Ecstacy hits..packed it up in a balloon and off we went on the 2 hour trek from Midland to Lubbock
Aftewr spending the entire 2 hours saying " Goddammit will you two shut the fuck up back there?! Hold your fucking beer down Ive got a bunch of drugs" To mike and Shauna in the back seat we finally arrive at ticket pick up location...only to find Slayer cancelled..
I remade the treck 2 months later Minus the ecstacy and Minus Mike and SHauna
Me and my buddy sat in the parking lot and listened to Soilent Green whilst drinking cheap whiskey and when they opened the gates we were good and fucked up..
Opening acts sucked (Hatebreed and Chaimara)
Then slayer came on ..Opening with Disciple..
They played alot of reign in blood .."postmortem" was personal highlight for me ..
All in all it was great show I missed seeing slayer for 10 years so was big deal for me ..
I do remember people throwing ice at Kerry King while he played and I saw the ice actually pinging from his guitar( had great spot in front of barracade ) but it didnt fuck him up at all
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I flew out to LA to do a drug deal with some associates of mine and happened to read in a local entertainment magazine that BOC was playing at the Whiskey (on the fabulous Sunset Strip). I fucking freaked--they were my favorite band before I got incarcerated at Virgil's Fun Time Camp for Teens, and I had no idea that they were still together at that point, and had not seen them since the "Revolution By Night" tour in 1980 or '81. They played extremely well, mostly songs from the first three records, which in my opinion, are the best work they have done. They played two sets of over an hour each, opening up with "Stairway To The Stars", and including "ME-262" (a beautiful metal ode to a WWII German fighter plane that includes the hilarious black humored lines 'Goering's on the phone from Frieburg / Says Willie's done quite a job / Hitler's on the phone from Berlin / Says I'm gonna make you a star'), "Dominance and Submission", "Then Came the Last Days of May" (about some friends of Buck Dharma's who went to Mexico to do a drug deal and got murdered), "Flaming Telepaths", "The Red and The Black", "Veteran of the Psychic Wars", "Harvester of Eyes", "Astronomy" (during which my associates and I filled the room with clouds of TBPITW smoke), "Before The Kiss, A Redcap", and lots of other favorites for the faithful. I was so overjoyed with the show that I caught them a couple of nights later in San Diego, where I bribed a roadie with a few buds to let me backstage. I was amped on crystal meth, talking to some hot chick when the band came offstage before the encore. I was being an ultimately geeky fanboy and talking a mile and a half a minute to the band, when Eric Bloom (pissed that I had been hitting on his girlfriend) said to me "Why don't you get the hell out of here?" and I was escorted out by the same roadie I had bribed earlier. I didn't really mind; hell, I still think it's kind of funny, and I have seen them several times since then.
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Saw this shoe in Orlando, Fl in 1992 or '93 (there's a period of about eight years in my life that are all kind of blurry--do you think it was the drugs? :lol: )
Social D opened and were pretty cool, and even the crunchy Neil Young fans seemed to like them. They played for about half an hour to 45 minutes, with the highlights being "Bad Luck" and "Mommy's Little Monster".
Sonic Youth was next, and I have never seen a crowd so divided--lots of people were in a state of transcendent bliss during their set, which peaked with "Theresa's Sound World", "Eric's Trip", "Catholic Block", "Cotton Crown", and "Expressway To Your Skull"---and the other half of the crowd was boooing and yelling to pull the plug. Personally, I thought they were great-- I wish I had seen them on a tour of their own where they could have played longer. I haven't listened to any of the stuff they've put out recently, but I'd see them if they came around again.
Neil and Crazy Horse were cool, but I've seen better shows by him. He played "Cowgirl In The Sand" and "Hurricane", so I was cool with it, but his encore of the Dylan song "Blowin' In The Wind" was lame, and kind of anti-climactic.
I was pretty fucked up and tired, so I asked my girlfriend to drive home. We got stopped by cops in Marion county (Ocala, Fl) on the way home because the tag light--not even the tail light-- on my car was burned out. I was doing my best to keep it cool (I had several vials of liquid LSD on me), and my girlfriend kept it together (thanks, Jenn, wherever you are) and didn't freak when they went rooting around in my car. The fucking pigs kept asking me why she was driving, as if that was some terrible situation. I told them that I was tired and had drank a little bit, and after keeping us on the side of the road for about about 45 minutes, they let us go. God, I hate fucking cops.
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This show was fucking nuts---I brought a bunch of ketamine to it and turned lotsa people on to it, which made it even weirder.
The Hardback was a small dive in downtown Gainesville that held at most, 300 people. There were easily 500 there that night, if you include people hanging out in front of the club.
I wasn't too familiar with them before the show, but I enjoyed the hell out of it. David Yow was insane, screaming and crowd surfing (he banged his head on the low ceiling more than twice). When they played the intro to "Glamorous", it was like a simultaneous orgasm from the whole crowd.
I never thought I'd say this, but I wish I hadn't done as many drugs as I did that night; maybe my memory of the show would be a little clearer.
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OK, I'll admit it.....I saw the Grateful Dead more than a few times.
In truth the Dead threw some really good parties--which they then proceeded to ruin by playing.
Nah, that's not really fair, but some of the worst concerts I have ever seen have been Dead shows--overpriced tickets, sleepwalking musicians playing shitty songs, and 20,000 screaming zombies cheering them on whenever they would fuck up a note or Garcia would blow a lyric. Garcia could have come onstage and taken a shit and half those idiots would have sworn it was a goddamn epiphany or something.
Having said that, I saw them play an amazing show in Hampton, VA in 1988. This was one of those shows where they built their reputation as a great live act, and I was truly impressed (I swear it wasn't the drugs I did, honest...).
They opened up their second set with a little riff on Miles Davis' "So What" and segued into "Scarlet Begonias/Fire On The Mountain" and kept playing for an hour or so after that, with no breaks between songs, except for their annoying drum solo. Gotta give 'em credit, they did pretty well that night.
A little joke or two:
Q)What did the guy at the Dead show say when he came down off the acid?
A)"Wow, this band really sucks"
Q)How many Deadheads does it take to change a lightbulb?
A)None--they just stand around and watch it burn out, then they all worship it.
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A girl I knew in the late 80s turned me on to a lot of jazz---John Coltrane remains one of my favorites. I also got into a little fusion stuff like Sonny Sharrock (you can hear him playing the outro music during the credits on Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast). I never did like the stuff by Spyro Gyra or any of the dorky 'lite jazz' crap.
So anyway, I'll tell you about a couple of really cool jazz shows I saw--Miles Davis at the New Orleans City Center and Sun Ra & his Arkestra at the Palomino in Los Angeles.
Miles was playing during the weeek of Jazzfest, I think it was a Saturday night. I was staying with some friends -of-friends and enjoyed amazing hospitality. The female half of the couple and her mother made lots of delicious Creole dishes for us, and the male half could get us into, and more often than not, free drinks at, bars for free (no small feat during Jazzfest). They both knew the best local bars so we were able to avoid the bars that were overrun with tourists and inflated drink prices.
Miles played a set of tuns that bordered on being pop-jazz; not really the stuff of his I've always liked (Milestones, 'Round Midnight, Kinda Blue, also Sketches of Spain and Bitches Brew). One thing that was really cool was him segue from "Some Day My Prince Will Come" into the Cyndi Lauper tune "Time After Time". In the hands of anyone else, that would have been cheesy, saccharine-coated smarm, but Miles pulled it off with style. All in all, an enjoyable experience, if not necessarily my cup of tea.
A few months later, Miles Davis died, so I am fortunate to have seen him when I did.
Sun Ra and his Arkestra was more my thing, they were talented in an old school, jazz ensemble tradition, with the occasional vocal number, and they were damn weird.....if you have ever heard this guy, you know what I mean. The guy was either a genius, really deranged, or both. They did some jazz standards, including "Autumn Leaves", and "Let's Go Fly A Kite", but they were subtley-----bent. Weird. Sort of like orchestral jazz for people who huff solvents and sniff glue. I liked it.
I must curse jazz legends if I see them live---Sun Ra passed away a few months after I saw him, and again, I count myself lucky to have attended the show.
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Damn! You've been to a lot of concerts!
Anybody remember something like "...and when I die [sniff] I don't want to look back on my life and say I went to a lot of concerts!"
Ok, well I'm going to be 40 years old in a few days. I damned sure wish I'd gone to a lot more concerts! Not the Dead ones, though. Too creepy. But it would have been a hell of a way to hide out for a couple of years till I turned 18!
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
--H. L. Mencken, American publisher
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On 2005-01-27 16:55:00, Antigen wrote:
"Damn! You've been to a lot of concerts!
Anybody remember something like "...and when I die [sniff] I don't want to look back on my life and say I went to a lot of concerts!"
Oh, yeah. I remember the "Rock Music and Satan" rap that Kevin low and Virgil did one Sunday evening in the carpet room.
I have a feeling that on my deathbed, I'll wish I had seen even more shows. I like all kinds of music, and Rock and Roll IS part of my Holy Trinity, the others being Sex and Drugs. I think I'll add guns and make it a Holy Quadrinity....
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Oh, yeah. I remember the "Rock Music and Satan" rap that Kevin low and Virgil did one Sunday evening in the carpet room.
I remember that!! Dave Crock did one too at some point. Had tapes from the Peters brothers..some xtian group that thought all rock was satanic. :roll:
Lighthouses are more helpful then churches.
--Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father, author, and inventor
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Went down to this show almost two years ago---damn but time flies. Drove a friend's 5.0 Mustang at three digit speeds while she and her boy-toy were passed out in back. Actually fixed up and shot some coke while I was driving--I'm talented like that. Boy-Toy (also known as Bobby Hate, singer for notorious 80s FL punk band Roach Motel) claimed he couldn't get any sleep because of his nervousness about my high-speed driving, but I know he was lying 'cause he would've freaked shit if he saw me mainlining the white shite while I was driving.
Anyway, the show opened with a couple of local bands, Livid Kitten and the Fags, who were both pretty forgettable. X, however, was pretty damn good. They opened with "Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not", and played a pretty solid set from their first four records, which was fine with me. They came back out for encores three times (Exene Cervenka is from Lauderdale, so she had family and friends at the show). "Los Angeles", "Nausea", "Unheard Music", "The New World"---all the songs were done really well, and Billy Zoom had a smile on his face the whole time. Exene ain't quite as trim as she used to be, and John Doe has put on a few pounds, but hell, they're pushing 50, so what do you expect?
Glad I finally got to see these American punk legends. See 'em if they come around again.[ This Message was edited by: RTP2003 on 2005-01-28 20:34 ]
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On 2005-01-28 13:48:00, Cayo Hueso wrote:
"Oh, yeah. I remember the "Rock Music and Satan" rap that Kevin low and Virgil did one Sunday evening in the carpet room.
I remember that!! Dave Crock did one too at some point. Had tapes from the Peters brothers..some xtian group that thought all rock was satanic. :roll:
Lighthouses are more helpful then churches.
--Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father, author, and inventor
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The best part of those raps was getting turned on to new 'druggie' groups to listen to when I got out of Straight....who knew John Denver had occult connections?
It was also the only time we got to mention specific names of rock bands. I remember yelling "Black Sabbath" or "Pink Floyd" to get a rise out of the Straightlings. It was like shooting fish in a barrel. I remember Kurt Jones taking me out of group for a 'one-on-one' and he asked me what groups I wanted to listen to, after I complained about their stupid rules against it. I mentioned Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult, among others, and he replied "How long has it been since you listened to those groups? I bet it would be really scary for you to hear them now, after being Straight!" Puh-Leaze! What a fucking dork.
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Saw this show, and although it was not the original line-up, it did have DaveVanian and Capt. Sensible. Hell, they never kept the same line-up for more than an album side anyway.
They were a lot of fun. Got flashed by some girl with really nice tits at our table, when she decided to show off her pierced nipples, and did some pretty good smack that evening before the show. They played most of the stuff I wanted to hear, from "Wait 'til the Blackout" to "New Rose" to "Smash It Up" (Parts 1 and 2), "Neat Neat Neat", "I Feel Alright" (actually the Stooges song '1970'), "Plan 9 Channel 7", etc. Talked w/ the good Captain after the show, and he was cool as shit. We discussed the virtues of Spiritualized (band started by J. Spaceman, ex- of Spaceman 3) and other bands. The bass player was Patricia Morrison, who I think was in an incarnation of Souxsie and the Banshees and Sisters of Mercy, not sure though. Cool show.
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Got into this show for free (guest list). Blind Marky Felchtone is a pretty cool dude, and he plays guitar like a motherfucker. Was able to smoke TBPITW at an alcove in the club. Nice place for a show. Played a lotta stuff off of "Kicked In The Teeth". They played "Relapse" and a few others I recognized, too. These guys are fast, loud, and snotty, and play a wicked live show. Hung out and sang the praises of Blue Oyster Cult with Blind Marky after the show. Fun fun fun :smokin: [ This Message was edited by: RTP2003 on 2005-01-28 20:33 ]
ZEKE LYRICS
"Relapse"
just got back from fayettevile, i used to call it home. my back is broke, my head is hurt. i'm feeling so alone. yeah, man, just like the last time my brain is in a sling. man, just like the last time i need a fuckin' sting. relapse. first it's down to caitlin's. she opens up the door. give her 50 dollars man. so i can finally score. than it's down to donny's. he's waiting there for me. shootin' up in the bathroom in my mopar super bee. alright now. relapse. hope another eighth will get me right.
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Really cool show. Took a couple of hits of acid and smoked before the show, drank booze inside. They had cool backdrops that looked like they came from the same photo shoot as the "Dead Man's Party" album. Played lotsa stuff off of "Nothing to Fear" and "Good For Your Soul", also a couple from"Only A Lad". This show had a really eclectic crowd----surfers, stoners, punks, a couple of rednecks, a few new wavers. Also a few older types (what I look like to the kids nowadays). Venue is kind of a watered down, shopping mall version of a nice early 20th century theater, like a shopping mall version of the Fox in Atlanta. Where the Fox would have crystal chandaliers, the Florida theater has glass ones, where the Fox has a Ladies and a Gentlemen smoking lounge, the Florida Theater has a small bar in the balcony. Most telling, though, is that the Fox is in Atlanta, and the Florida is in Jacksonville.
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This was not one of the better performances I have seen, but it was cool to see the legend.
That was about it---seeing the legend. He was really old, had lost a lot of his timing, and was reading lyrics to songs he had done thousands of times from a Teleprompter. Kinda sad, really.
The unfunny humor of Louis Anderson started the evening, and it was torture. Why do fat comedians always do jokes about food or being fat? "Next time I go to a sushi bar, I'll bring a seal" Ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha---Good one, Louis. Christ, he sucked.
Next up was Shirley MacLaine, and she was actually somewhat entertaining, which I did not expect in the slightest. She didn't channel any Babylonian sex goddesses or Celtic priests, but she was very professional, and did her set to a pretty good response.
Shirley and Frank both had the same orchestra, which was conducted by Frank Sinatra, Jr. Frank was, after all, a "Family" man.....
Sinatra's set was alright, I guess, and I did enjoy some of it, it just seemed really uninspired and kind of lackluster. He was getting on in years, and the Teleprompter thing kind of bothered me, but his voice was still intact on "New York, New York" and "My Way". He didn't do "I've Got You Under My Skin", which disappointed me, or "Old Black Magic". Oh, well. At least I can say I saw him before he died, if not in his prime.
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This show happened on my birthday in 1999. It was also the last day I saw my mom alive. I went to visit her in hospice, said my goodbyes, and drove back home 'cause I really couldn't stand to see her like she was. I had tix for the show, but didn't really want to go, figured I would just sit home and wait for the phone call. My girlfriend convinced me to go, she said it would be a good idea to take my mind off of things, and I'm glad I listened to her. For about three hours I was able to forget about all the shit that was going on in my life at the time, and that alone was worth the price of admission.
New Bomb Turks were pretty cool, enjoyed their punk rock, but wasn't too familiar with them. Still, they rocked out and were a great opening act for Iggy.
Iggy played a wicked cool set, lotsa Stooges stuff, including "Sick of You" and "Johanna", which I've heard are pretty rare for him to play. He also did some of his later stuff, with "Cold Metal" being my particular fave that night. He's getting old, but man, he can still play the stupid rock and roll. That's what I wanted that night, that's what I got. I was able to 'avoid myself' through drugs, alcohol, and Iggy Pop's great show. It damn sure helped.
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Anyone seen TooL?
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On 2005-02-03 11:04:00, Scarstruck wrote:
"Anyone seen TooL?
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Sort of. I attended their show in Portland, OR in 2001 (October or November, not sure....it's pretty blurry.) Like the genius I am, I decided to go to Portland and stay with some friends and kick dope. Real smart. Kind of like going to Miami to get off of coke or San Diego to quit doing crystal meth.
Anyway, I shot up a couple of bags of tar, went to the show, shot up a few more bags of tar in the bathroom before it started, and proceeded to nod out for the entire show. I kind of vaguely remember some of it, but it's hard to recollect anything more than fuzzy memories.
It only mildly bothered me at the time, but it kind of ticks me off now. Goddamnit!
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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.
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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:: "
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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....
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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.
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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.
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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.......
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so at least one person around here gets my laurie anderson references :smile:
don't i know you?
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yeah, I came to your house, smoked all your pot, and drank all your beer. :wave:
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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.
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United States is pretty good, as is Mr. Heartbreak. I had another one called Strange Angels that was OK, but not great.
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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.
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Saw this show in the Aztec Ballroom high as fuck on ketamine and TBPITW. Alien Sex Fiend was always kinda fun to listen to on acid, they would make wild sounds and psychedelic music with a sense of humor not found in many of the goth/industrial type groups. Kinda like a horror/sci-fi B-movie with hallucinations and and an audience of deviants. They had a rotating band, some members going on and offstage with each song or two, though Nic Fiend was onstage the whole show. They played some of the older stuff, like "New Christian Music", "Wild Women", "I Walk the Line", "Smells Like Shit", "The Impossible Mission" and tossed a hundred or so plastic Halloween skulls into the crowd during "Now I'm Feeling Zombified". The crowd was a good mix mainly of the goth and punk persuasion, with a few hippies and others thrown in the mix, all of whom seemed to be using drugs, which is not surprising considering the inherent vibe of substance use that permeates Alien Sex Fiend.
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Saw this show at the Milk Bar, a dive in the basement of a building in lovely downtown Jacksonville, Fl. I was kinda pissed that one of the opening bands, Kyuss, did not show up as scheduled. However, Monster Magnet played a great show, doing songs primarily from Spine of God and 25.....Tab, staying away from their new (at the time) album, Dopes to Infinity, which was OK by me. The show was sparsely attended, but they kicked down the RAWK for the fans, playing such excellent drug rock anthems as "Pill Shovel", "Sin's A Good Man's Brother", "Zodiac Lung", "Spine of God", "Tab...25", "Lord 13", "Black Mastermind", and others, leaving brains in a druggie haze of enlightenment through reverb. Heavy on the guitar effects, they played loud and long, encoring with their later-to-be-an-MTV-hit, "Negasonic Teenage Warhead". I'm glad I caught this tour, since later they became too big an act to play small clubs, mainly doing arena-sized venues. The Milk Bar is a complete dive, but has surprisingly played host to a number of diverse and eclectic bands in its history, despite its limitations.
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I went to see the B-52's a couple of nights ago. It was at this nice lil venue down on Market Place. A friend of mine had some free tickets and gave me one of them. This was my first visit to this group of stripmall-like bars that had cropped up in recent years. Some old friends of mine were there out in front of Ram's Head Live (the venue) and it turned out that they were to be the opening band. Small town. So I stood talked for a bit and used Snackie's cell to call my friend with the tickets who hadn't shown yet. They were on their way. Snackie & co., The Swingin' Swamis, went inside to get ready to go on... I waited outside and watched the girls go by for a half an hour until Jonathan got there w/ the tickets...
So the B-52's were pretty fuckin' cool. At the outset I was a little skeptical about the drummer (some kid) bcuz he didn't seem like the right drummer for them at first...he sucked during the opening song which was Planet Claire. I was thinking to myself, "Ah, they got some damned second-rate metal drummer" or something. But his playing improved a great deal as the set progressed. No, it wasn't me getting progressively drunk that made him seem to get better, bcuz I wasn't drinking, not much..
The nucleus of the band is still there -- Fred S., Kate P. & Cindy W. -- and they delivered their brand of "psycho-delic" music very nicely. They played all of the good stuff from the first album like Dance This Mess Around, 52 Girls, Rock Lobster, and of course Planet Claire. They also played some songs that I liked from later albums like Strobe Light and Private Idaho, and some other not-so-great songs that were unknown to me. They pretty much played all the hits...Roam was a nice one that I recall them playing. Fred was still pulling out the toy piano and props like that, dancing his ass off at appropriate times during the set, and hamming it up perfectly. The ladies, though older, still had the same look with the hair-dos...and sang all of those harmonized parts flawlessly. A very entertaining band, go see them if you get the chance to.