Concerts You've Been To/Going To

Nugent was great, both times…think Double Live Gonzo album.
That 78 TX Jam was just several months after the release of Van Halen’s first album. I think they did every track…crushed it.

You lucky bastard. I’m a huuuuuuge VH fan and love me some terrible Ted too

Van Halen, not Van Hagar.

Exactly. I even mentioned the supremacy of Diamond Dave over Sammy during my best man speech.

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That actually reminds me of a funny clip I remember from an old VH1 show. Dialogue went something along the lines of “David Lee Roth is like Coke, a classic. Sammy Hagar is like Pepsi, just a bit sweeter. Gary Cherone, uhh, arsenic.”

The Heavy Metal thread inspired me to bump this with a funny experience at a festival show last summer.

So, I’ve been a huge fan of the ska punk band The Suicide Machines since I was a young teenager (I’ll be 38 tomorrow). I had never been able to see them live, but last summer I finally had the chance when they came to Cleveland with NOFX for Punk in Drublic, a punk music and beer festival.

Before their set, a friend of a friend and I made a pact to go skank in the pit together. Well, when the time came, they were nowhere to be found, but I went for it anyway. After all, I’d been waiting almost 25 years for this.

Had a blast. Actually, too much of a blast. I had a migraine by the time NOFX took the stage. We had to leave early, and I ended up puking in the parking lot several times. I just love the image of passersby thinking I had too much to drink at this beer festival when in reality the vomit leaving my mouth was due to the migraine.

Country boy and blues boy here

Alabama
Charlie Daniel’s
Leeann Rimes
Kenny G…took girlfriend
Waylon Jennings
BB King
Survivor

Been to couple gospel concerts

Ones i wanted see…i should have grown up in the 50s, :laughing:
Johnny Cash
Jerry Lee Lewis
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
Elvis…huge fan…been to Graceland, Beale Street and Sun Studios

Ones I’ve seen

AC/DC, Metallica, Megadeth, Meatloaf, Helloween, Wolfsbane, Anthrax, Aerosmith, Guns 'n Roses, Kiss, David Lee Roth, Iron Maiden, Danzig, Doro Pesch, Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts.

There will be a lot more that I can’t remember as well.

Saw him at the House of Blues in Hollywood in the 90s. Glad I got to see him.

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I saw my beautiful goddess Alanis on July 28th, 2022.
I’ll never forget :heart:

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Seen recently:

Some of my favorite bands from the 90’s on tour again: Pavement, Built to Spill, Archers of Loaf, Old 97s, The Mother Hips

Others: The Smile (members of Radiohead), Kikagaku Moyo (an awesome Japanese psych-rock band), Dehd, Jeff Rosenstock

I live in the Bay Area, so tons of shows all the time. I usually go to San Francisco, but also catch shows in Santa Cruz. Coming up: Wilco and Ryan Adams. I’m a big Wilco fan, but no so much with Ryan Adams. Still, he’s playing close by and a couple friends want to go.

Well, got to see Tool!

21 Pilots too, cuz my wife loves them. That was fun. Took the kiddo too, and he had a blast.

Apparently their primary demographic is angsty teens and hot moms.

That is a total “soccer mom” band.

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It totally is. I was kinda flabbergasted. Typical blue/pink/red hair kids were to be expected, but I really didn’t see the soccer mom thing coming.

And Tool- that was like a vast majority of 40+.

I tend to like the slightly “below the radar” bands from the 90’s: Pavement, Built to Spill, Guided by Voices, Yo La Tengo, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Sebadoh, etc… (I don’t know why I listed so many), and their concerts are an interesting crowd. Older dudes in their 40’s and 50’s but also some younger ones that are interested in the non-mainstream acts from that time (which would be RHCP, Foo Fighters and the like that are/were played on popular radio stations).

But one thing I’ll say, there are absolutely no “hot moms”. The women there are all younger who got into them more recently. This actually gels with what I’d expect, because I don’t know any girls that listened to that stuff back in college. Still to do this day, my wife and her friends have absolutely no interest in Pavement or Dinosaur Jr (two of my personal favorites).

The Mother Hips, though, still get the sexy “older” ladies but they had a lot of female fans when I was in college. I love going to shows to see both the band and the makeup of the crowd.

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I hate to break it to you, but those band weren’t “below the radar” if I was listening to them in 1990’s rural Indiana. I suppose I had the advantage of going to science camp at Purdue University during my early 1990’s summers. Good old Von’s in West Lafayette turned me on to some really great stuff in the 90’s. I hope they stick around for at least a few more generations.

I still remember stopping there on a road trip in 2000 and buying the CD they were playing. It is still great music to train BJJ to in 2023.

I love living in Maine, but we don’t get a ton of great acts coming through. Tool in Bangor was the last really outstanding concert I’ve seen in this state.

I like a few of their studio albums, but I saw them 20 years ago and they were one of the least energetic bands I’ve ever seen live. I’m pretty sure drugs may have contributed to that.

Les Claypool can play with anyone. He went on stage with The Dead at Bonnarroo in 2003 after a gnarly downpour and massive lightning storm. It was pretty cool to hear them warming up behind a backdrop of distant lightning around 11pm after we had wandered back to our campsites, assuming that the evening’s music was done. The mushrooms were hitting hard, so we had no choice but to sludge back there through the mud and enjoy the great set.

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I don’t disagree. I was in Cali from 91-96 as an undergrad, and these bands were listened to plenty but certainly weren’t the bands pumping out from the frat houses. Most people you’ll run into, and I suspect on these boards, have no idea who they are, though. But, I agree, if you’re into that stuff they’re among the more popular. I tried to capture that with the “below the radar” quotes.

When I told friends I was catching Pavement, Built to Spill, and later Archers of Loaf last year almost all were like “who?”. Pavement and Archers were fantastic, and BTS was a bit of a dud due to Doug Marsch’s weirdness.

No, they’re still pretty dull even clean. Jeff Tweedy is a cool dude and I love their vibe, but agree they’re a bit stuck in mid-tempo.

I do like him. I rarely listen to his albums, though enjoy Jimmy was a Race Car Driver, but I’d go see him for sure next time he comes by.

I saw the same show in 1994, maybe 95? At Buckeye lake in ohio, but it was the Dead with Steve Winwood & Traffic. Big downpour, lots of lightning, and I personally ate about an oz. of shrooms. :rofl: among other things.

He’s too wierd for my wife, but my son Loves Primus. We put it on in the kitchen when we make pizza and he goes bonkers!

Saw Jane’s Addiction and Smashing Pumpkins in November. Mostly went along because some family were going, they weren’t bands that I was a huge fan of. Jane’s Addiction had near-naked ladies dancing on stage the entire time and what looked like carefully-censored porn playing on the screen behind them. It did NOT seem to suit them. Have they always been like that? If it was Guns N’ Roses or something, that might seem better suited, but these guys didn’t seem edgy enough to have all that going on.

Saw RHCP over Easter. They had extended the tour they began last summer, when I saw them for the first time, and they were so good I wanted to go back. Since they’re all around 60, I figured I didn’t know how many more tours they’d go on. The Stones are about 80 and still going strong though, so who knows. The second performance wasn’t quite as electrifying as the first one, maybe due to singing the same songs every night for almost a year while traveling the world, but still really good. They’re some really great musicians and Anthony Kiedis is a pretty good performer. I grew up hearing my parents play them so I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for them.

That was one of the first concerts I went to. Saw them in 1990 when they released Ritual De Lo Habitual. It was awesome, but obviously that was ~33 years ago. Some acts age well, while others don’t. Never seen Smashing Pumpkins, but was a fan in the early 90s.

This is an example, IMO, of a band that didn’t age well. They are trying look and sound like they are still 24, which just seems so silly to me as they are 60 year olds. Kiedis’ non-sensical lyrics worked well with the energy and funk of young dude, but is embarrassing for a senior citizen. Just my thoughts.

Saw them a few years back, and I had also seen them in the 90s. They still exude rock-n-roll, heck they nearly invented it.

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