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Their Bob Marley tribute of all Marley songs

Only been to one, the glow in the dark tour, but it was pretty good imo.

Kanye, Lupe, N.E.R.D., and Rihanna

I got the most pure joy out of The Pixies reunion concert at freeborn hall.

Honorable Mentions: John Hiatt, Ben Harper, Neko Case.

Radiohead at Shoreline, 2001

Flaming Lips at Bimbo’s a few years ago. That’s a great place to see a show, and the Flaming Lips are awesome… it’s a rare treat to see them play at such a small venue.

Kihncert 2005

Greg Kihn Band
George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Steve Miller Band

1. Arcade Fire, Greek Theater, Berkeley, June 2007
2. Bruce Springsteen, Emirates Stadium, London, June 2008
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Hammersmith Apollo, London, May 2008

I don’t know what I’d pick as the best I’ve ever been to. One recent-ish concert that stands out was The New Pornographers at the Warfield in 2007.

ATP New York last year: Shellac, My Bloody Valentine, Built to Spill, Dino Jr. with Lou Barlow, Bob Mould doing almost all Husker Du songs, plus more and more and more and more. Of course, it was a three day festival.

Second place utter cop-out… ATP Long Beach 2003. The Stooges, Spoon, Har Mar Superstar, Lou Barlow (again) fronting the tribute to Elliott Smith…

Best single-day concert ever is a toughie, but the Murder City Devils, Rocket from the Crypt, and Botch at the El Rey was a pretty keen night, as was the MCDs and At the Drive-In at Bottom of the Hill.

Rolling Stones “Some Girls”

The people that I went with told me I had a very good time.

Metallica twice and Tool, all in Fresno.

And don’t feel bad, I listen to the same “unenlightened” music you do :)

1) Tom Waits, San Jose Civic Center NYE 1990
2) beck w/ flaming lips – Paramount Oakland – few years back. WoW
3) david sylvian w/ david torn, mark isham et al, – Zellarbach, Berkeley – 1988
4) son volt – Fox Theater – boulder, CO 1996?

1. The Crooked Road Music Festival Tour. Appalachian music at the PAC in SLO. If you ever get a chance to see something there, it’s wonderful.

2. Built to Spill. Doug Martsch touched my beard and we were in the first row while they played all of Perfect From Now On at the 9:30 club. sooooo good.

3. Wolf Parade at the Henry Fonda theatre in LA.

4. Man Man in Santa barbra.

5. The Aquabats at SLO Brew.

6. Monterey Jazz Festival 60th anniversary tour at the PAC.

I’m going to see Born Ruffians and Tokyo Police Club in a month or so at the Black Cat. that may shift things around.

R.E.M. at the Greek Theater last year. They played more new stuff than I would’ve chosen, but still, good show. Modest Mouse and The National were the openers.

Hard to say but right now I’m leaning towards the most recent Boredoms show at the Fillmore. I will always have a special place in my heart for my first show, though. Primus at the Greek in ’95.

I went to see MU330 at a bowling alley in Soledad CA in 1999. Alkaline Trio opened for them, I bought all their stuff afterwards and am still a huge fan. There was about 15-20 other people there. MU330 never actually played, a fight broke out in the bar and the show was cancelled halfway through their first song.

Islands and a few other bands at Slim’s in ’06
Relient K at Great America in ’03 (I think)

1. Ben Folds and his Piano. Best show I’d ever been to.
2. Barenaked Ladies. I’ve never liked their music, but they put on a fantastic show.

Anything at Great American Music Hall

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, in Oakland, 2007

Saw them a few years ago at A D on the Green.

He has Giants colored hair

The Mentors with Dr. Know , at the On Broadway, 1986-ish.
My job was to be onstage tossing every wanker who tried to get near the strippers back into the crowd. Good times.

Gosh, so many to choose from, so here’s a few that have stuck in my mind

PInk Floyd – the Wall
Pretenders – first tour, first album – festival seating – my boyfriend, at the time, and I were in the front center getting squished into the fence in front of Chrissie Hynde. She fanned us with her towel.
Tom Petty with Bob Dylan – I think I was the only one there to see Petty
The Clash
REM
Rolling Stones
Greenday at Gilman
Queen – my very first concert ever, I was in high school and my parents made me take my cousin (male)or I couldn’t go.

Best band performance: The Who (four different times + Townshend solo once) 1982 – 2006
Best individual performnce: Smokey Robinson (three different times, plus again in 11 days!) 1986 – 2009
Best lineup: The Police, Madness & Oingo Boingo 1983
Most disaapointing: Van Halen (seemed to want to show off skills as opposed to play music) 2008, Gladys Knight (didn’t sing much) and Bryan Ferry (crooner trying to rock out with screaming guitars)
Most fun: English Beat 2008 & Violent Remmes 1988
Band I never saw live, but wish I had: Queen
Ban I’d most like to see: Squeeze

 in 2000 at the Sleep Train Amphitheater in Marysville.

Prince & The Time, The Oakland Coliseum ’04.

The Chili Peppers, Nirvana, & Pearl Jam, Cow Palace, New Year’s Eve ’92.

Huey Lewis & The News, Shoreline ’97.

1: Nirvana, Butthole Surfers, Chokebore @ Oakland Colliseum, 12/31/93
Little did I know how lucky I was to be there as a 15 year old kid. Truly a surreal memory. Chokebore ended up being one of my favorite bands too.

2: Fugazi @ Tejon Theatre, Bakersfield, 1995
Could have been any number of Fugazi shows that I’ve been to as they pretty much will rock any band I’ve ever seen off the fucking stage. But I chose the first time I saw ’em.

3: Mogwai @ Bimbo’s, 2003
Damn near perfect sound and set list. Got myself a nice seat at a table thinking it would be a sitdown kind of shoegaze show. Not the case. Half way through the set, had to grab my lady and fight my way into the crowd.

Honorable mention to a couple of Weezer shows, not because I like them all that much, but the first was before they released their first record, and it was at this little shithole dive in fornt of about 30 people in Visalia. The second time I saw them after they were huge, a couple friends and I were able to make friends with Gene Simmons (using the “my friends band opened for them before they were big” routine) and got backstage, which consisted of free beer, Chris Hardwick, Shannon Tweed and 15 year old girls.

Best show this year: 31 Knots @ Rickshaw Stop. These guys just blow my mind live.

No, I wasn’t there. But watching them on my 25-inch TV beats out any concert in person.

why would we sign him on Dec. 23rd of 2009 when we could wait until Jan. 8th of 2010?

I was going to make a joke about syphillis causing madness, but I’m pretty sure our friend here is a virgin.

A tranny on the street.

It’s starting to show its age, but Left 4 Dead still looks pretty decent.

Yeah, he writes with such self-import

I love that.

he’ll probably want $25M per season and that would eat nearly all of the money coming off the 2009 books. Nice idea if we could get him for much cheaper, but he’ll likely get Teixeira money. Then again, he won’t have those Coors field numbers anymore and could come at a bit of a discount (though, I doubt it.)

If I didn’t already have a fake account to worry about, I might consider TakeAGiantStepNPostStupidCrap.

I think I saw U2 in ’87. Was that when they were touring in support of Joshua tree?

Coolist opening I ever saw. The lights are down and just the organ opening “Where The streets Have No Name” plays, then there’s a red back light on The Edge while he plays the opening guitar lick, then the lights come up as Clayton and Mullen kick in, then appears on a riser above the drums and Bono and brings everybody to their feet with the opening lyrics “I want to run…I want to hide…I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside”

sweet

They played Oakland Stadium in 87 on Joshua Tree.
Unforgettable Fire tour was at the Cow Palace.

Soundgarden/Voivod was at the Stone, not I-Beam

Since you mention The Stone and the I-Beam, I’ll mention …

Life, Sex, & Death @ One Step Beyond in ’92.

Was always a great place to spend a Monday night (live music)—or any night if you dug drug-fueled dance music.

Two shows that I shoulda had on my list:

Big Black—Your basic power trio: guitar, bass, drum machine (Steve Albini wearing a tee that said: That Boy Needs a Good Killin).

Butthole Surfers—Saturday afternoon matinee show complete with medical operation films (think humans being nuetered), naked dancing girls, and inverted cymbals filled with lighter fluid, set aflame then struck. It wasnt weird to dose at a BS show in the mid/late eighties, but to walk out onto the Haight when it was over and still have it be daylight was otherworldy. I’ve been recalling this show a bunch as we checked them out on NYE 08 at the Fillmore. Gibby and co. still have it.

How was the Earthless/Orchid show last night WTF? We skipped it due a rare lapse of fiscal responsibility—the G’s wanting mucho-$$$$$$$ from us today.

All-time favorite/nothing else comes close: The Who, 1975 at Winterland; stood about 20 feet from the stage.

Other notables:

 - First ever: Robin Trower, with a couple local bands I’d never heard of opening: Pablo Cruise (not warmly received) and a band calledJourney. This was the pre-Steve Perry Journey that played long, spacey, Neal Schon-driven prog-rock songs with names like “Topaz” and “Kohoutek”. I have to say it: Journey was pretty awesome. I went out and bought their first two LP’s.

 - Sweetest billing: The Who and Grateful Dead at one of the “Day on the Green” concerts (1976).

 - What might have been: Led Zeppelin, 1976. Canceled when Robert Plant broke his leg.

 - Backstage: Eddie Money, “The Backdoor”, San Diego State,1978. OK, so I’m walking back to my dorm at SDSU one night after a business class and I happen to stroll past “The Backdoor” concert hall. The side door is open and there’s this dude standing there keeping watch. I give a friendly “How’s it going?” kind of greeting. He says, “Cool”. I go, “So you got a concert going on tonight?” He goes, “Yeah—Eddie Money”. I go, “Sweet—he’s from the Bay Area, where I’m from (I didn’t know he was actually from New York and that he’d actually just gotten his career going in SF, with help from Bill Graham)”. So after chatting it up for a couple minutes, he goes, “Hey, you wanna watch from backstage?”. I say, “Sure”, and watched the whole concert from backstage (or sidestage). Lots of fun. Nice band—they sounded good. This was after he’d released his first LP and “Baby Hold On” and “Two Tickets to Paradise” were on the radio a little bit. The thing I remember the most: Eddie Money comes stumbling down the hallway from the dressing room a few minutes before they were going to go onstage. As he’s walking past, he turns and asks me, “You got any cocaine or whiskey?” I was fairly dumbstruck, and just shook my head and gurgled out a “no”.

Preemptive strike against the Holliday madness next offseason.

Dont want Dunn. As you said “you still need pitching…”, you still need D.