"I was there" - legendary gigs, clubs and events. - Page 3

SynthethicalY · 04.29.2007, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Pookie

Why were you at a Fergie gig?

Isn't it obvious he is a queer.

Pax Americana · 04.30.2007, 01:15 AM

Uh... I got to see a show at CBGBs before it closed.

I saw David Bowie play with the Arcade Fire in central park too. That was pretty cool, not legendary, but cool. It was like the first time Bowie had performed in like 2 years. He had had a heart attack I think.

atari 2600 · 04.30.2007, 01:20 AM

Oh yeah, I've seen lots of those reunion tours.

atari 2600 · 04.30.2007, 01:24 AM

Crash Worship doused us in wine, and we danced around a fire, until the place got filled with smoke. The club caught on fire, but it was put out, but still, the club (The Downstairs...now called D.T.'s Down Under (in Athens)) had to be shut down for a month to repair the damage.

The paramedics came in with a stretcher one time for a a victim of a stagedive-gone-wrong at a The Jesus Lizard show I was at.
I was tripping and I think everyone thought he was dead. You just got that feeling. Except for Yow, who just remarked, "Cool, somebody just died," and demanded that the lights go back down and the show go on.

Of course, I've witnessed lots of other craziness with that band too.

atari 2600 · 04.30.2007, 01:33 AM

I moved to Athens in October '89. My then-girlfriend moved up shortly after and the first show we went together in Athens was at the newly just-opened Georgia Theater. It was Valentine's Day (ah, how sweet!) 1990, and Camper Van Beethoven was playing with The Ordinaires from NYC opening.

I brought my dictaphone to the show because I didn't have a regular small cassette player. I would record on mini-cassettes (Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, Beggar Weeds, and Me'an Mills shows mostly...(I have none of these tapes now)) and then remove the magnetic tape and put it inside a regular cassette'a housing haha, but anyway, I dropped the recorder into my drink during maybe the second song of The Ordinaires. (I was still thinking about what had just happened). But that's not really what prompted me to write this rambling message.

Well, it's connected. Because right before that, I had went to the bar for my valentine and after turning away and getting my drink (or maybe it was the other way around) I collided right into Michael Stipe. I guess neither one of us was really looking where we were going or something. I just have always thought that was a little weird. Here I was...I had just moved to Athens and been there a few months and a few people told me Michael was around town sometimes, yet I had never sighted Stipe; I go to this show, and bam! the first time I ever see him in person, we run into each other like that. This is just one of many odd run-ins though...

CHOUT · 04.30.2007, 01:37 AM

I saw a Bauhaus show in Chicago where Billy Corgan was booed viciously by the throngs of black-clad goths when he came out for the encore to do Telegram Sam with the band...not legendary, but out of the ordinary.

Massenvernichtungswaffen · 04.30.2007, 02:42 AM

I was at the last 3 Eric's Trip shows. They were great. saw Elevator and the Peter Parkers as well. Decent times all around.

Bertrand · 04.30.2007, 04:28 AM

I'd like to turn Les Nuits Secrètes into a legend. This young festival takes place in a very small town, Aulnoye-Aymeries, 40 kms from the biggest town, Valenciennes, north of France, whose inhabitants do everything for the festival and groups.
I saw Liars there, play at midnight on a stage in a small garden, in front of 100 persons. That was great.
It's really close to the boarder, Belgian and Dutch folks.

Little places tend to turn a gig I've attended into a legend anyway (the Buff Medways in Brest).

I never saw Ascension, but I remember clearly a band whose supporters booed before leaving the place.
That was 2001, and the band was Sonic Youth, playing John Cage, Steve Reich (that's a shame all those youngsters booed Winant & Shelley on that piece) at Paris Olympia.
I thought sonic youth had an open-minded audience but that night it wasn't the case. People were there to hear Schizophrenia, they had not listened to SYR4, and they had hoped for something legendary : many people were dropping Brigitte Fontaine's name, hoping that she'd show up and play with the band.
The booing, and leaving turned Richard Edson's comeback with the band for one piece into something sour. I don't know how he felt.

Daddylikes · 04.30.2007, 03:42 PM

Perhaps they booed because they understood the pieces.

I actually think the boos would have energized the band.

Was this before or after September of 2001?

Either way, the booing was appropriate. If Sonic Youth wants to hear appropriate magic, they need to look no further than that song that goes "Moon me in every way"...or that song that goes... "I am a poet...and I will fuck you".

SYR 4 should have been the black cover.

cryptowonderdruginvogue · 04.30.2007, 04:16 PM

coachella 2007
rage against the machine reunion
first live set by Justice
Jesus & Mary Chain reunion

Bonnaroo 2007
Radioheads longest set... ever (3 hours)

etc.etc.etc.

sonicl · 04.30.2007, 04:21 PM

I was at Cranes' first EVER live show. There were better bands on the bill.

Savage Clone · 04.30.2007, 04:27 PM

I once saw Foetus play with a backing band made up of all early-era Swans; I think it was 1990 or 91. All his songs were slowed down and played in brutal Swans noise dirge-style, and they really hit hard when played in that way.
The audience for this show was less than 10 people; the show took place the day after a record-setting Halloween blizzard, when Minneapolis got about three feet of snow in 24 hours.

jagger · 04.30.2007, 04:40 PM

Justice have played many a time in America already. Do the D-A-N-C-E.

MellySingsDoom · 04.30.2007, 06:20 PM

I was at the Cranberries first ever UK show. They were atrocious.

!@#$%! · 04.30.2007, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

I was at the Cranberries first ever UK show. They were atrocious.

ha ha ha ha.

best post in this thread? i think so...

jennthebenn · 04.30.2007, 06:46 PM

the first American ATP in 2002. there's only been two since.

cryptowonderdruginvogue · 04.30.2007, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by jagger

Justice have played many a time in America already. Do the D-A-N-C-E.

not LIVE PA

demonrail666 · 04.30.2007, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

I was at the Cranberries first ever UK show. They were atrocious.

Fuck. I was at that too!!! they supported Gallon Drunk I think.

k-krack · 04.30.2007, 08:14 PM

* Pixies reunion!!!
* Death From Above, before they broke up!!!
* Sonic Youth (...well, not legendary or anything... just... best show of my life).
* Varge! Must Lunge release show! Shut down by fucking teletech! Singer got up on the PA and started up a chant, and everyone screamed with him. Amazing show.

HaydenAsche · 04.30.2007, 08:18 PM

I've been to several legendary 'willmar' shows but nothing that legendary.

Oh, at Sonshine this past summer the entire main stage was destroyed by the weather.

04.30.2007, 01:15 AM	#42
Pax Americana expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 1,187	Uh... I got to see a show at CBGBs before it closed. I saw David Bowie play with the Arcade Fire in central park too. That was pretty cool, not legendary, but cool. It was like the first time Bowie had performed in like 2 years. He had had a heart attack I think.
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04.30.2007, 01:20 AM	#43
atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,212	Oh yeah, I've seen lots of those reunion tours.
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04.30.2007, 01:24 AM	#44
atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,212	Crash Worship doused us in wine, and we danced around a fire, until the place got filled with smoke. The club caught on fire, but it was put out, but still, the club (The Downstairs...now called D.T.'s Down Under (in Athens)) had to be shut down for a month to repair the damage. The paramedics came in with a stretcher one time for a a victim of a stagedive-gone-wrong at a The Jesus Lizard show I was at. I was tripping and I think everyone thought he was dead. You just got that feeling. Except for Yow, who just remarked, "Cool, somebody just died," and demanded that the lights go back down and the show go on. Of course, I've witnessed lots of other craziness with that band too.
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04.30.2007, 01:33 AM	#45
atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,212	I moved to Athens in October '89. My then-girlfriend moved up shortly after and the first show we went together in Athens was at the newly just-opened Georgia Theater. It was Valentine's Day (ah, how sweet!) 1990, and Camper Van Beethoven was playing with The Ordinaires from NYC opening. I brought my dictaphone to the show because I didn't have a regular small cassette player. I would record on mini-cassettes (Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, Beggar Weeds, and Me'an Mills shows mostly...(I have none of these tapes now)) and then remove the magnetic tape and put it inside a regular cassette'a housing haha, but anyway, I dropped the recorder into my drink during maybe the second song of The Ordinaires. (I was still thinking about what had just happened). But that's not really what prompted me to write this rambling message. Well, it's connected. Because right before that, I had went to the bar for my valentine and after turning away and getting my drink (or maybe it was the other way around) I collided right into Michael Stipe. I guess neither one of us was really looking where we were going or something. I just have always thought that was a little weird. Here I was...I had just moved to Athens and been there a few months and a few people told me Michael was around town sometimes, yet I had never sighted Stipe; I go to this show, and bam! the first time I ever see him in person, we run into each other like that. This is just one of many odd run-ins though... __________________ Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1959. Combine on canvas 81 3/4 x 70 x 24 inches.
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04.30.2007, 01:37 AM	#46
CHOUT invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Minneapolis MN Posts: 3,128	I saw a Bauhaus show in Chicago where Billy Corgan was booed viciously by the throngs of black-clad goths when he came out for the encore to do Telegram Sam with the band...not legendary, but out of the ordinary. __________________ Chout's rare Sonic Youth vids: http://youtube.com/SONICchout
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04.30.2007, 02:42 AM	#47
Massenvernichtungswaffen stalker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: On a large piece of rock in the Ocean Posts: 403	I was at the last 3 Eric's Trip shows. They were great. saw Elevator and the Peter Parkers as well. Decent times all around. __________________ Jeg kysser katastrofer.
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04.30.2007, 04:28 AM	#48
Bertrand expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Rennes, France Posts: 1,255	I'd like to turn Les Nuits Secrètes into a legend. This young festival takes place in a very small town, Aulnoye-Aymeries, 40 kms from the biggest town, Valenciennes, north of France, whose inhabitants do everything for the festival and groups. I saw Liars there, play at midnight on a stage in a small garden, in front of 100 persons. That was great. It's really close to the boarder, Belgian and Dutch folks. Little places tend to turn a gig I've attended into a legend anyway (the Buff Medways in Brest). I never saw Ascension, but I remember clearly a band whose supporters booed before leaving the place. That was 2001, and the band was Sonic Youth, playing John Cage, Steve Reich (that's a shame all those youngsters booed Winant & Shelley on that piece) at Paris Olympia. I thought sonic youth had an open-minded audience but that night it wasn't the case. People were there to hear Schizophrenia, they had not listened to SYR4, and they had hoped for something legendary : many people were dropping Brigitte Fontaine's name, hoping that she'd show up and play with the band. The booing, and leaving turned Richard Edson's comeback with the band for one piece into something sour. I don't know how he felt.
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04.30.2007, 03:42 PM	#49
Daddylikes the end of the ugly Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Gnome, Alaska Posts: 929	Perhaps they booed because they understood the pieces. I actually think the boos would have energized the band. Was this before or after September of 2001? Either way, the booing was appropriate. If Sonic Youth wants to hear appropriate magic, they need to look no further than that song that goes "Moon me in every way"...or that song that goes... "I am a poet...and I will fuck you". SYR 4 should have been the black cover.
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04.30.2007, 04:16 PM	#50
cryptowonderdruginvogue invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the party Posts: 10,281	coachella 2007 rage against the machine reunion first live set by Justice Jesus & Mary Chain reunion Bonnaroo 2007 Radioheads longest set... ever (3 hours) etc.etc.etc.
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04.30.2007, 04:21 PM	#51
sonicl invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 9,527	I was at Cranes' first EVER live show. There were better bands on the bill.
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04.30.2007, 04:27 PM	#52
Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,286	I once saw Foetus play with a backing band made up of all early-era Swans; I think it was 1990 or 91. All his songs were slowed down and played in brutal Swans noise dirge-style, and they really hit hard when played in that way. The audience for this show was less than 10 people; the show took place the day after a record-setting Halloween blizzard, when Minneapolis got about three feet of snow in 24 hours.
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04.30.2007, 04:40 PM	#53
jagger empty page Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 17	Justice have played many a time in America already. Do the D-A-N-C-E.
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04.30.2007, 06:20 PM	#54
MellySingsDoom invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,662	I was at the Cranberries first ever UK show. They were atrocious. __________________ Snow on Easter Sunday - Jesus Christ in reverse.
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04.30.2007, 06:46 PM	#56
jennthebenn expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,259	the first American ATP in 2002. there's only been two since. __________________ http://jennthebenn.tumblr.com/
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04.30.2007, 08:14 PM	#59
k-krack invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: On Posts: 7,380	* Pixies reunion!!! * Death From Above, before they broke up!!! * Sonic Youth (...well, not legendary or anything... just... best show of my life). * Varge! Must Lunge release show! Shut down by fucking teletech! Singer got up on the PA and started up a chant, and everyone screamed with him. Amazing show. __________________ sandwich klub 4 men. Danny is a C.H.U.D.
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04.30.2007, 08:18 PM	#60
HaydenAsche invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10,755	I've been to several legendary 'willmar' shows but nothing that legendary. Oh, at Sonshine this past summer the entire main stage was destroyed by the weather. __________________ rip
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