Earliest/Favorite Musical Memories?

Brian in Mesa · June 19th, 2003, 08:17 AM

At the request of schutd, what's a favorite memory of yours involving music? A favorite teacher, musician, etc... A great concert you saw (I think Ed B was at Woodstock...) or an interesting thing that happened to you at band camp...

Fire away!

schutd · June 19th, 2003, 08:25 AM

Heh, this could take a LOOOOOONG time for me. Ill throw in a few here and there. I played in a band and toured the Western US for a couple summers, so they come and go.

Pre band memories:

-Interviewing the Dead Milkmen for KAMP student radio.
-Smoking a TON of weed with Mudhoney outside MudBuggs.
-Seeing Nirvana at After the Gold Rush, pre-Nevermind.
-Seeing Smashing Pumpkins at a 75 person capacity club in San Diego, about 1991.
-Seeing No Doubt in a VFW hall off I-10 in 1987.
-SO many great punk rock shows I dont know where to start

Band memories:

-Opening for The Exploited in 1987 at PRISMS in Chandler in the punk band I was in in Highschool named. The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (We should sure the famoud band now!)
-Playing the Punk vs. Ska festival in Phoenix in 1996 or something. 1200 people there, playing at 5pm outside in 117 degree heat. I almost passed out. Kids were dropping like flies. Awesome day.
- Headlining shows for opening acts like Blink 182 and Unwritten Law.
-500 person show in Seattle at a club called Sit and Spin that landed us on "the Travelers" show on Discovery Chnnel.
-Releasing three Cds

There. Brain has assuaged my ego. And let me get nostalgic. Thanks dude.

Chaplin · June 19th, 2003, 08:27 AM

I have nothing as extensive as Dave, but I had a blast seeing Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers at Boulder Station in Las Vegas about 3 years ago--they had 1.50 margharitas all night. Awesome show--it was the first I'd seen of them, and have seen them 3 more times since. This marked the only time I've had to take a taxi home and get my car the next day...

schutd · June 19th, 2003, 08:33 AM

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I have nothing as extensive as Dave, but I had a blast seeing Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers at Boulder Station in Las Vegas about 3 years ago--they had 1.50 margharitas all night. Awesome show--it was the first I'd seen of them, and have seen them 3 more times since. This marked the only time I've had to take a taxi home and get my car the next day...

I LOVE nights like that. We got so hammered at that Smashing Pumpkins show. Their drummer Jimmy (the lame-o junkie) gave me a STACK of drink tickets right beofre they went on stage. My buddy and I had freebies from the radio station, it was our last night in SD and we had 8 bucks to our name, and my moms new Maxima. Figurede we'd have 1 beer each and watch the show. My buddy ended up puking all over the rear quarterpanel of my moms car, and we had to sit in the parking lot forever before I could drive home, and even then it probably wasnt a good idea. Had to stop at a carwash and wash the car and then tell my mom we washed it as a THANK YOU for lettig us take it out. Wahta lame excuse.

"Yeah Mom, I wanted to say thanks for letting me use your car, so I washed it.... THE NIGHT BEFORE WE DRIVE IT 350 MILES ON THE INTERSTATE BACK TO PHOENIX." IM suuuuure she bought that one.

Cardinals.Ken · June 19th, 2003, 08:35 AM

Seeing Rush in concert back in '85 during their "Power Windows" tour...I've never seen such an awesome concert before or since.

Assface · June 19th, 2003, 09:15 AM

A few years ago we went on tour with some friends from Maryland. Our first show was Pensacola FL in some collective ran by a bunch of kids. The guy who ran the place just packed up and left town a few days before we got there and no one there knew what was going on. They had no ac, no lights in the room we played in (they had a couple of christmas light strings going around the room) and the "PA" was just a speaker that they plugged two mics into. Know one was there when we started so they weren't charging the few people there (a bunch of people ended up coming but we still didn't get paid after driving 8 hours to get there) so people were just wandering in and this nasty crack whore was dancing to us and kept saying "y'all good."

Afterwards we put the 7 of us in a 2 person hotel room since we had no money. It was a dumpy little place called the dolphin inn. It had bars on the windows and absolutely no water pressure. When I took a shower in the morning there was just a trickle of water coming out. It felt like the shower was drooling on me.

What made it all worth it was when we went to breakfast in the morning. We went to McDonalds and at the time they were doing that Brittney Spears promotion. Our singer is infatuated with her so we decided to take the cardboard cutout they had. The other band pulled up the side in their rental van and I drive up behind them. Walter (the singer) came running out with Brittney tucked under his arm and jumped in the van. They took off while he was crawling into the passenger seat. All we could see from behind were two feet sticking up in the air. So we pulled up the road and ...............waited for traffic. It wasn't that long but felt like forever. For the rest of the tour we had her on stage as our backup singer.

schutd · June 19th, 2003, 09:21 AM

Awesome. That sounds like MANY shows we had. PLayed for 3 poeple in Hailey Idaho, the bar across the street had about 200 people there, so I went over during break and tried to talk some poeple into coming over for our 2nd set. They all told me no one would go to that bar, casue the owner was a dickhead. Awesome.

We played in a crackden in Corpus Christi, TX for nothing. The kids did a pass the hat and got us 35 bucks, and the headliner, Lets Go Bowling split their take with us. FUn night. Cept 18 of us ate at a Mexiacn restaurant named "Case de Roy" and all got the runs like a mother f*cker. I miss going broke on the road.

Assface · June 19th, 2003, 09:29 AM

Don't you love how you can play for 200 people one night and 2 the next? When my brother went on tour in December they played 2 shows in Virginia. The first one no one got up for them and they didn't really make any money. Overall very disapointing show. The next one they pulled up to the place and immediately all the kids came up to the van and started unloading all of their equipment for them. They got paid for playing, sold a bunch of merch and on top of that at the end one of the kids stood up and said "hey everyone pitch in some money for these guys" and they took up a collection.

Strong Bad · June 20th, 2003, 07:40 PM

I played Maria in an all boys school production of West Side Story. I didn't even go to the school, but being in that dress felt disturbingly comfortable.

jw7 · June 21st, 2003, 09:08 AM

Probably the first concert I ever went to. Judas Priest in the mid to late 80s.

I just remember some guy walking around in a T-shirt that said "Hard Drugs".

Looked like he practiced what he preached, too.

Renz · June 21st, 2003, 09:23 AM

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Seeing Rush in concert back in '85 during their "Power Windows" tour...I've never seen such an awesome concert before or since.

KingofCards · June 21st, 2003, 09:56 AM

I saw Korn at the Nile when there were like 15 peope there. I saw Rage and Tool at the Roxy and Live at Grahm's Central Station.

tommcnabb · June 23rd, 2003, 01:20 PM

Metallica at the old Palace West Theatre in Phx. Cliff Burton, beer, tiny venue, Ride the Lightning Tour.

Motorhead at a place called Struts with about 25 other sweaty people. Loud as hell. About 45 years ago.

A bad called the Dogs (with Jason Newsted pre-Flotsam and Jetsam and pre-Metallica) at the Mason Jar.

Bad is

Black Sabbath with a sick Ian Gillan.

Bob Chebat · June 23rd, 2003, 01:46 PM

The Rolling Stones at Sun Devil Stadium in 1981. We sat in line from noon on Saturday until they opened the gate Sunday morning at 7:00am. We had to rush the length of the football field and back to get to the front of the stage. We ended up in about the fourth row.

13 months later, the movie "Let's Spend the Night Together" came out. Lo and behold, as they pan the audience, for a brief moment during the song 'Black Limousine', there we are, in our long-haired, stoned and exhausted glory.

As far as best concerts go, I'd say Hell Freezes Over by the Eagles in 1996 (I think) at SDS is amongst my favorites. I cannot wait to see them again in August. If you have a chance to see them, don't miss it. AWA-Tuesday, August 5. Still good seats remaining.

Cardinals.Ken · June 23rd, 2003, 01:58 PM

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Sweeeeet!