Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 10:07:31 GMT -5
Favorites off the top of my head
Naked Raygun (3/91 at the Antenna Club, Memphis)
Gang of Four (circa fall of 1982, Devil House, Tempe ... obscure U.S. band called REM opened)
Mekons (12/89, Tipitina's, New Orleans ... the other 4 times I've seen them, in Little Rock, Memphis twice & Atlanta, didn't suck, either)
Wall of Voodoo (spring of m'82, I think ... Grand Central Station, Phoenix)
Chumbawamba (10/92 I think, Antenna Club)
Wire (summer of 2000 I think, The Metro, Chicago)
The Cure (9/17/89, a/k/a my 30th birthday, UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans)
Buzzcocks (12/93, Deep Ellum Live, Dallas)
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (spring of '91 I think, Omni New Daisy, Memphis)
Tons of others, of course --
Bob Dylan (twice)
Rolling Stones
Pegboy
Bad Brains
Shudder to Think
Minor Threat
Prince
Devo
Social Distortion (twice ... maybe thrice)
Channel 3
Agent Orange (twice)
Crucifix
Sluts
Social Unrest
Dan Bern
Graham Parker
Old 97s (twice)
Dandy Warhols
Robert Earl Keene (twice)
Hot Hot Heat
Swans
Amy Rigby
Circle Jerks (twice)
Man ... or Astroman
Ting Tings
Ramones
Bruce Springsteen
John Fogerty
MNDR
Balzac
Richard Buckner
Silos
Skull Kontrol
Skabs
Bella Morte (twice)
Bile
Das Ich
Red Rockers
TSOL (twice, sort of ... first time I was late & caught only the encore)
Alleycats (twice)
Stray Cats
Fugazi
Strange Boutique
Tiny Lights
Misfits (three times ... Michael Graves version, at least the first 2 times)
Dickies
Damned
Jesus Chrysler
Screeching Weasel
Bowling for Soup
Urge Overkill
Elvis Costello
Vapors
OMD
Nine Inch Nails
Modern English
Missing Persons
Sex Pistols ('97 tour)
SPK
Dead Kennedys (three times)
Gear Daddies
Alex Chilton (twice)
Tav Falco & Panther Burns (twice)
Dicks
MDC
7 Seconds
Replacements
Circle One
Doughboys
Swingin' Utters
NOFX
Blasters
Romeo Void
Shattered Faith
Black Flag (three times)
Cramps
Cruxshadows (twice)
White Stripes (eve of 9/11, though of course no one knew it)
Type O Negative
Lemonheads
Cracker
Hudson Falcons
Pere Ubu
Freedy Johnston
Lucinda Williams
Ron Sexsmith (twice)
Van Dyke Parks
T-Bone Burnett
Sam Phillips
Richard Thompson (twice)
Spinners
Michelle Shocked (twice ... first was a couple of years before she released anything, at the 8/84 Rock Against Reagan show in Dallas)
Reagan Youth
Condemned to Death
Die Kreuzen
Jazz Butcher
Robyn Hitchcock
Siouxsie & the Banshees (twice)
Violent Femmes (three times)
Los Lobos
Bongos
Slobberbone (twice)
Seam (twice)
Death Ray Davies
Rhythm Pigs
Waco Brothers
Heart
Gregg Allman
Delbert McClinton
Guess Who
Also the first 2 Lollapaloozas, which included a handful of bands mentioned previously that I also saw separately under other circumstances (like the Banshees & Femmes), as well as Ministry, Butthole Surfers, Living Colour, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Lush, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, et al.)
Naked Raygun (3/91 at the Antenna Club, Memphis)
Gang of Four (circa fall of 1982, Devil House, Tempe ... obscure U.S. band called REM opened)
Mekons (12/89, Tipitina's, New Orleans ... the other 4 times I've seen them, in Little Rock, Memphis twice & Atlanta, didn't suck, either)
Wall of Voodoo (spring of m'82, I think ... Grand Central Station, Phoenix)
Chumbawamba (10/92 I think, Antenna Club)
Wire (summer of 2000 I think, The Metro, Chicago)
The Cure (9/17/89, a/k/a my 30th birthday, UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans)
Buzzcocks (12/93, Deep Ellum Live, Dallas)
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (spring of '91 I think, Omni New Daisy, Memphis)
Tons of others, of course --
Bob Dylan (twice)
Rolling Stones
Pegboy
Bad Brains
Shudder to Think
Minor Threat
Prince
Devo
Social Distortion (twice ... maybe thrice)
Channel 3
Agent Orange (twice)
Crucifix
Sluts
Social Unrest
Dan Bern
Graham Parker
Old 97s (twice)
Dandy Warhols
Robert Earl Keene (twice)
Hot Hot Heat
Swans
Amy Rigby
Circle Jerks (twice)
Man ... or Astroman
Ting Tings
Ramones
Bruce Springsteen
John Fogerty
MNDR
Balzac
Richard Buckner
Silos
Skull Kontrol
Skabs
Bella Morte (twice)
Bile
Das Ich
Red Rockers
TSOL (twice, sort of ... first time I was late & caught only the encore)
Alleycats (twice)
Stray Cats
Fugazi
Strange Boutique
Tiny Lights
Misfits (three times ... Michael Graves version, at least the first 2 times)
Dickies
Damned
Jesus Chrysler
Screeching Weasel
Bowling for Soup
Urge Overkill
Elvis Costello
Vapors
OMD
Nine Inch Nails
Modern English
Missing Persons
Sex Pistols ('97 tour)
SPK
Dead Kennedys (three times)
Gear Daddies
Alex Chilton (twice)
Tav Falco & Panther Burns (twice)
Dicks
MDC
7 Seconds
Replacements
Circle One
Doughboys
Swingin' Utters
NOFX
Blasters
Romeo Void
Shattered Faith
Black Flag (three times)
Cramps
Cruxshadows (twice)
White Stripes (eve of 9/11, though of course no one knew it)
Type O Negative
Lemonheads
Cracker
Hudson Falcons
Pere Ubu
Freedy Johnston
Lucinda Williams
Ron Sexsmith (twice)
Van Dyke Parks
T-Bone Burnett
Sam Phillips
Richard Thompson (twice)
Spinners
Michelle Shocked (twice ... first was a couple of years before she released anything, at the 8/84 Rock Against Reagan show in Dallas)
Reagan Youth
Condemned to Death
Die Kreuzen
Jazz Butcher
Robyn Hitchcock
Siouxsie & the Banshees (twice)
Violent Femmes (three times)
Los Lobos
Bongos
Slobberbone (twice)
Seam (twice)
Death Ray Davies
Rhythm Pigs
Waco Brothers
Heart
Gregg Allman
Delbert McClinton
Guess Who
Also the first 2 Lollapaloozas, which included a handful of bands mentioned previously that I also saw separately under other circumstances (like the Banshees & Femmes), as well as Ministry, Butthole Surfers, Living Colour, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Lush, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, et al.)
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