So I couldn't stop... This time left to right from the top.
1989?- hollyfaith at Marist High School. I'm pretty sure Brant Rackley is the only person I know that had a hollyfaith t-shirt. It was probably mine until he took it.
4/29/97- Pavement at First Ave Minneapolis, MN. I was traveling around with the show producer gig in Greenville, SC and went to Minneapolis two days early to see this show. One many many solo shows in a foreign town. The Apples in Stereo opened and Pavement was great! First Ave is the 40 Watt of Minneapolis.
5/4/96- GBV in Portland, OR. I was living there at this point, but only lasted another 5 months. Call me crazy but I like the sun and its warming rays. A little known band from Austin, TX on their first west coast tour opened, I had never heard of Spoon. I stalked Stephen Malkmus all night, but he was too stoned to notice.
12/1/92- Smashing Pumpkins at the Point. The stub says $5.00 but I'm pretty sure I paid $50 from a scalper. They were in Atlanta recording Siamese Dream and this was a practice show full of new songs. They blew the place away. The Point used to hold roughly 200 people. Just awesome.
4/22/94-ish?- Mike Watt at the 40 Watt. I can honestly say this was the best show I have ever seen. Bull-hog or Tugboat is an amazing record full of guest appearances from the likes of Sonic Youth, Dinasour Jr, Frank Blank, Evan Dando, etc. all playing Watt's songs, he on bass and vocals. Check it out. Watt's band for the night was Dave Grohl on drums, Eddie Vedder on guitar, and on Watt bass. Super-fucking amazing. Who's this Foo Fighter's you might ask? The first FF record had not even come out yet! Hoovercraft was a instrumental group consisting on Eddie Veddar, his wife, and some other guy. Kinda noisy but cool to see Eddie Vedder. Mike Mills of R.E.M. stood right behind me the entire night. He was in this phase of wearing these sequenced suit outfits, ala Elvis & David Bryne.
6/2/97- Ben Folds Five at Bogart's Cinncianti, OH. This was another trip paid for by the marketing company. I was kinda out of my mind during this phase of my life and my actions this night proved it. I ended up with the reps from Baldwin pianos, what Ben plays, they fed me beers all night after realizing I was a superfan and alone and took a crazy cab ride through the projects on the way back to my hotel. I'll leave it at that.
2/14/97- Pavement at the Point on my birthday!! I hope I wasn't driving that night. Have no idea of the details of this show. Next.
7/28/98?- Pavement at the Cat's Cradle Chapel Hill, NC. They were recording Terror Twilight at Mitch Easter's Drive-In studio and played this show as practice. And I remeber it being just that, a practice. Very loose and trying new songs, stopping and starting, Still a classic.
9/25/92- U2 at the Georgia Dome. I was working at Turtle's Records when these tickets went on sale. This was back in the day of lining up outside the store in the wee hours of the morning with some Dunkin Doughnuts and waiting to rush the ticket counter. I was working the sale that morning and as soon as the computers came on line, the manager printed out 10 tickets and stuffed them into the drawer ,and then after wards divided them up. I took Todd Gallardo and we sat in the 12th row. This was a tour with cars attached to cranes and the phone call to the president's office. I had been a U2 fan for a long time and this was the first spectacle type show I had been to. Man those guys have made some money.
7/25/90- The Bob mould Band at the Georgia Theater Athens, Ga. This was within the first 2-3 weeks of moving to the dorm for the start of a college career. Looking back I should have probably been studying, but hey its Bob Mould! and I'm in college damn it!
12/29/88- 1988 what the hell am I doing out on a Thursday night? I don't have the stub I was looking for but previous to this night, John Sabol and I had sat on the floor of the Cotton Club (gross) and seen the Indigo Girls for the first time. I can remember thinking, "man there are a lot of chick here". Hey we were from Roswell, GA, never seen a lesbian before.
Well congratulations if you've stayed with me on this Rock'N'Roll of yester-year trip. The memories are all good. No arrests and no crashed cars took place during the living of these days. I'd say I was lucky. I'm curious to get feed back from anyone who was in attendance at these shows. Or hear of your concert past.
Keep on Rocking.
8 comments:
Sensational stuff, thanks for posting.
I remember thinking that the Watt/Foo/Vedder show was one for the ages, that I'd talk about it forever. Somehow I havent, though I do remember the seeing the largest crowd I'd ever seen spill out onto Washington after that show. Was that the night Fraz got his 3rd DUI literally seconds after starting his car for moving about a block without his lights on?
I clearly remember the Pumpkins at the Point show, however. Tickets were $5 and completely sold out. You, me, and Dave drove to Atlanta and scalped tickets - $20 each. And we almost didnt buy them because we couldnt really afford it. We were pulled over on the way back to Athens and I had to complete a full field sobriety test even though I'd not had a drop of alcohol. Thats what you get for driving back to Athens at 3 AM or so.
Pavement at the Point - if thats the show I'm thinking of, it was Ben Lee opening and no, you werent driving. We had just met Gretchen a few weeks back at the Sebadoh show and I promise you, you had a good time. At the expense of Leigh's acoustic guitar.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Thanks Reece. Its not not I've blocked out the good times, I simply don't remember the cast of characters and the mayhem that followed us around. I guess too much living in the moment, ...or maybe too much beer. I don't know.
You are killing me! i have to go to bed! Can't stop commenting!!! Or using exclamation points!
"1989?- hollyfaith at Marist High School." Dear god, had forgotten about them.
"4/29/97- Pavement at First Ave Minneapolis, MN. I was traveling around with the show producer gig in Greenville, SC" Had forgotten that you did this. Forgot you lived in Greenvegas. But remember you yelling like a child about the bear dream when we camped in Joyce Kilmer. hahahaha.
"12/1/92- Smashing Pumpkins at the Point." I miss the point.
"4/22/94-ish?- Mike Watt at the 40 Watt." Great show.
"6/2/97- Ben Folds Five at Bogart's Cinncianti, OH. This was another trip paid for by the marketing company. I was kinda out of my mind during this phase of my life and my actions this night proved it. I ended up with the reps from Baldwin pianos, what Ben plays, they fed me beers all night after realizing I was a superfan and alone and took a crazy cab ride through the projects on the way back to my hotel. I'll leave it at that."
This made me laugh as I read it, but you will have to give me full story over beers. I think i know full story, but not sure if i have you confused with someone else.
"2/14/97- Pavement at the Point on my birthday!! I hope I wasn't driving that night. Have no idea of the details of this show. Next." Duh. That was a great show! Again, miss the point.
"7/28/98?- Pavement at the Cat's Cradle Chapel Hill, NC. They were recording Terror Twilight at Mitch Easter's Drive-In studio and played this show as practice. And I remeber it being just that, a practice. Very loose and trying new songs, stopping and starting, Still a classic."
Ugh, did I go to this with you? Because I am sure that you, me, zach, and Opel went to a show up there, and i think the timing is right that this was it. Unfortunately, I remember nothing about that night, except that someone took a silly picture of me and Opel in the elevator, and I would love to see that picture again. I also remember a lot of farting in the car on the way up. Were we in my Acura??? Aw, yeah!
"7/25/90- The Bob mould Band at the Georgia Theater Athens, Ga."
I am jealous.
"12/29/88- 1988 what the hell am I doing out on a Thursday night?" Um, well, it was Christmas Break.
I am so going to have to dig through the chests for more stubs. Off the top of my head, shows that i remember going to with you include (I think) the one at Cat's Cradle that you mentioned, can't recall the ones in athens, because they all kind of run together, and for some reason, seeing Verbena in Denver together. I bet more will come to me as I look through old stuff, though.
Also just thought of time that Honey and I left Roadhouse (random memory) to go over and swim or hot tub with you at those apartments you lived in, and i think we drove on the wrong side of the road.
Oops. Hope your mom isn't reading this. :-)
Keep on Rocking.
Holy cow! Reese comes out swinging! "Was that the night Fraz got his 3rd DUI literally seconds after starting his car for moving about a block without his lights on?" Phenomenal memory.
Also? This: "I promise you, you had a good time. At the expense of Leigh's acoustic guitar" made me laugh so hard I spewed beer. That is a classic memory. Not pretty. At all. But you did have a good time.
For the record, I also had a Hollyfaith t-shirt. The only reason I remember that is that I threw up (kool-aid and golden grain) on it on the way to the fabled REM show in Macon and couldn't wear it anymore after that.
Anne - hard to forget that night WRT Fraz. In the pre-cell phone days, I recall that we had him languishing in jail for almost the entire next day because we were too preoccupied/hungover to listen to our answering machine.
Awesome. I don't have a lot of ticket stubs any more but I member some pretty great shows in this era as well. 89 Casey took me to Athens to see the Indigo girls play some outdoor festival and we did see MStipe live -overwhelming when you are 17. Nirvana at the new 40Watt, Fugazi at same, five eight and mercyland at the old- 5-8 at the downstairs. 92 or 3 Briam Cayce took me to see Nation of Ulysses in SF when I visited him there. Very jelous of early Pavement never saw them till they were almost done with it. Cheers.
For the record, I only have TWO dooeys, thank you very much.
And, no it was not that night. The second came after the last Emerson Quiet Kool show (featuring the whole band, they played once more with out their bass player - thanks Sloan), in the early morning of January 4th, 1997.
I won't mention all the accolades here - but I do appreciate that everyone made it to Sharon's party. Who would have thought Kevin Bouyette would be my ticket out of the tank?
As for the Watt/Vedder/Foo show, I did fall asleep at the 40 Watt that night. Passed out, fall asleep, essentially the same thing.
And, didn't Pavement play a few times at the Point? I know I made one of them, and it was fantastic. Of course, the best Point show of all time had to have been Chunk, when Opel shouted at Jim asking if he "had AIDS" since he'd lost some weight.
When is Merge 20 year?
Fräz
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