Red Mosquito

As we won't be having concerts for a while here is where /you can post about your favourite/first/last concerts.

Rolling Stone had a panel chatting about their favourite and first concerts.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... ts-987669/


I'll go first.

First 3 shows
Dire Straits 1985 Sydney Entertainment Centre (Brothers In Arms tour)
U2 1989 Sydney Entertainment Centre (Love Town tour)
Bon Jovi 1989 Sydney Entertainment Centre (New Jersey tour)

Last show
WAAX 2019 Cambridge Hotel (Big Grief album launch)

Favourite 3 shows (excluding PJ)
Screaming Trees 1995 Big Day Out
Bob Dylan 1998 Syd Ent Cent
Ryan Adams 2002 Metro Theatre

Favourite PJ show
10/03/1995 Sydney Ent Cent

Biggest regrets for shows missed
Metallica/Kyuss 1993 (injured, sold ticket)
Pearl Jam London 2007 (sold out)
Laura Marling 2020 (Bloody Covid-19)

This crashed hard.

I’ll play when the kids go to bed

First 3 shows
The Kingsmen (when I was a really little kid)
Bush and No Doubt 1994 at the Tacoma Dome
Couldn’t tell you the third, went to a bunch of like teen club shows with local bands before getting my drivers license

Last show
Counting Crows and Live last summer ... I think? White River Amphitheater

Favourite 3 shows (excluding PJ)
Endfest 1997 (Kitsap County Fairgrounds)
A Perfect Circle (maybe on like 2000? At Mercer Arena)
Sonic Evolution at Benaroya Hall (2014? 2015?) does that count as non-PJ?

Favourite PJ show
Damn too hard to choose but The Gorge 2005 stands out

Biggest regrets for shows missed
Never got to see Stone Temple Pilots, just never worked out
Wish I’d seen Aerosmith in the ‘90s ... never did ... lost interest
Pearl Jam night 2 at the Showbox in 2002. Low on cash at the time and didn’t want to spend over $100

Bammer wrote:First 3 shows
The Kingsmen (when I was a really little kid)
Bush and No Doubt 1994 at the Tacoma Dome
Couldn’t tell you the third, went to a bunch of like teen club shows with local bands before getting my drivers license

Last show
Counting Crows and Live last summer ... I think? White River Amphitheater

Favourite 3 shows (excluding PJ)
Endfest 1997 (Kitsap County Fairgrounds)
A Perfect Circle (maybe on like 2000? At Mercer Arena)
Sonic Evolution at Benaroya Hall (2014? 2015?) does that count as non-PJ?

Favourite PJ show
Damn too hard to choose but The Gorge 2005 stands out

Biggest regrets for shows missed
Never got to see Stone Temple Pilots, just never worked out
Wish I’d seen Aerosmith in the ‘90s ... never did ... lost interest
Pearl Jam night 2 at the Showbox in 2002. Low on cash at the time and didn’t want to spend over $100

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You lucky sonsabitches.

LetMeSleep wrote:Screaming Trees 1995 Big Day Out

Bammer wrote:A Perfect Circle (maybe on like 2000? At Mercer Arena)

February 2001

Bammer wrote:First 3 shows
Last show
Counting Crows and Live last summer ... I think? White River Amphitheater

you still trying to get out of the parking lot?

bodysnatcher wrote:

Bammer wrote:First 3 shows
Last show
Counting Crows and Live last summer ... I think? White River Amphitheater

you still trying to get out of the parking lot?

Funny thing about that. We stayed with friends in Enumclaw who live pretty close, to the south. So we took a right out of the lot whereas everyone else was waiting to turn left. Piece of cake.

Still hate the venue enough to have skipped Alice In Chains a couple years ago.

First 3 shows
I only remember the first two: Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge Tour 1995 and Pearl Jam in Salzburg 2000. The third probably was some kind of small metal show...

Last show
Both Eddie Vedder shows in Amsterdam in June 2019

Favourite 3 shows (excluding PJ)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 2008 Vienna
Leonhard Cohen 2013 Vienna
Neil Young 2008 Vienna

Favourite PJ show
Salzburg 2000

Biggest regrets for shows missed
Neil Young & Pearl Jam Mirrorball Tour in Salzburg 1995. Was too young to go alone...
Couldn't afford to do dates on the PJ EU Tours in 2009 & 2010. Would have loved to see both Berlin shows...
Neil Young did another show in Austria in the summer of 2008 (first one was in February) but unfortunately I had to work that evening.

First 3 shows
Pearl Jam/Ben Harper/Fastbacks at Randall’s Island 1996 (1st show)
Dave Matthews Band at Knickerbocker Arena in Albany 1996
Live/Portion at RPI Fieldhouse in Troy, NY 1997

Last show
Get the Led Out at Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY 2019

Favourite 3 shows (excluding PJ)
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Nassau Coliseum 2009
My Morning Jacket at Capitol Theatre 2019
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals at Bowery Ballroom 2003(?) - this is like Dylan going electric at Newport Folk Festival except it was Ben Harper standing up from the chair for almost the whole show for the first time

Favourite PJ show
5/21/10 Madison Square Garden

Biggest regrets for shows missed
Not seeing Nirvana
Not seeing The Rolling Stones
Not seeing any iteration of the Dead[/quote]

First 3 shows:
Huey Lewis and the News, sometime in the late 1980's (there were a few other 80's bands my parents took me to see when I was little, can't remember who though)
Smashing Pumpkins (Champaign, 1996)
Tonic/The Verve Pipe (Peoria, 1997)

Last show
Nick Cave solo, Chicago, September 2019

Favourite 3 shows (excluding PJ)
Elvis Costello/Steve Nieve (Chicago 2004, North Tour)
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau (Bloomington IL, 2012)
Bill Frisell (St. Louis, 2017)

Favourite PJ show
St Louis, 10/11/2000

Biggest regrets for shows missed (ones that I reasonably might have seen)
Pearl Jam, United Center 1998 (I missed someone's phone call offering me tickets, so they just offered the ticket to someone else)
Neil Young (for some reason I've never pulled the trigger on a Neil show, not sure when I'll have the chance again)
Bruce Springsteen (ditto)

First 3 shows



Last show
John Hyatt and Logan Ledger, Feb 2020

Favourite 3 shows (excluding PJ)
My Morning Jacket - Summerfest '06 or '07. Steam Engine with fireworks over the river...
Hiss Golden Messenger - opening set of the opening year of Eaux Claires fest, 2015.
Wilco - Barrymore (Madison WI), right before SBS came out. Small theatre, front row, right in front of Nels.

Favourite PJ show
The Ice Bowl...my first.

Biggest regrets for shows missed
Roadside Graves, 2009. Made the shortsighted decision to stay and watch Justin Townes Earle at the Bloodshot BBQ rather than walking a few blocks to see the Graves make a rare midwest appearance. I don't think they've played a show outside of New Jersey since.

Neil Young at a theatre in MPLS last winter. It was a 2-hour drive and -20F! Fuck that.

First 3 shows
Pearl Jam - Summerfest 95 night 2
White Zombie with The Toadies 95 Fargodome
Not sure about show 3. Might have been Bush/No Doubt/Goo Goo Dolls in Fargo or it might have been Weezer on the Pinkerton tour at First Avenue.

Last show
White Reaper at the Fillmore in Minneapolis in February

Favourite 3 shows (excluding PJ)
Chris Cornell at the O’Shaughnessy - the second of the 3 Songbook style shows I saw. He played Footsteps.
Local H at the Amsterdam in 2018. Pack up the Cats 20th anniversary show
Soundgarden at the Orpheum. 2011, I think? Front and center.

Favourite PJ show
Too many to choose from, but I really loved the show on the beach in Pensacola in 2012.

Biggest regrets for shows missed
Lollapalooza 96. Had to work. Should have asked for the day off.
Pearl Jam Cleveland 2010 - went to two other shows instead and missed a way better set
Cornell at First Ave on Easter Sunday in 2007- my son was born and we brought him home that day. Fucker.

First 3 shows
Beach Boys
Styx
only know the first two for sure

Last show
Marcus King Band


Favourite 3 shows (excluding PJ)
The Who 1982
Headpins 1983
Another Roadside Attraction 1995(?) The Tragically Hip, Sheryl Crow, Ziggy Marley, Blues Traveler. I feel as though there are a hundred shows at number 3 but those first two, they were/are everything music should be. The Real Me as a single song encore is the greatest piece of music I've seen/heard performed.

Favourite PJ show
Benaroa Hall, the unplugged one
Otaawa 2005

Biggest regrets for shows missed
John Mellencamp, Lonesome Jubilee Tour - sold out
Prince 1993, had tickets and gave them to my wife. She hated the show as he didn't stick to the hits
U2 1992, see comments about Prince. Never should have married someone who didn't appreciate Zoo TV Tour.
Led Zeppelin 1980, had a seat in a box and then fucker has to go die.

First 3 shows
Meatloaf - Sandstone Amphitheater, Bonner Springs, KS - 7/15/94
Candlebox / The Flaming Lips / Rob Rule - Memorial Hall, Kansas City, KS - 12/18/94
Eagles - Sandstone Amphitheater, Bonner Springs, KS -4/30/95

Last show
She & Him - Christmas Special at the Kings Theater, Brooklyn, NY - 12/6/19

Favourite 3 shows (excluding PJ)
Radiohead - Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH - 8/8/01
Alanis Morissette - Judson Memorial Church, New York City - 6/9/08
Fiona Apple - Terminal 5, NYC - 10/17/12

Favourite PJ show
Vote For Change Tour - Fox Theater, St. Louis, MO - 10/5/04

Biggest regrets for shows missed
Tom Waits at Bridge School (because it's the only show he's done since I've been a giant fan and would have wanted to see him live).

Whatever PJ show that was a few years back (2015?) where everyone from RM was in town (NYC) at the same time but I was back in Kansas. I fucking hate that I missed that show.

ghost wrote:First 3 shows

so did you escape and de-program yourself, or did you have help?

96583UP wrote:

ghost wrote:First 3 shows

so did you escape and de-program yourself, or did you have help?

Yeah really. This is some heavy shit.

Honestly don't remember my first concert but I probably posted about it here. Early shows I remember were Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson, Foo Fighters/Weezer, and Relient K (lol).

Last Show
Bad punk show at a warehouse in South Philly.

Favorite Three
Beach House - Oxford, MS (2013)
Broken Social Scene - Tallahassee, FL (2008)
Radiohead/Liars - Tampa, FL (2008)

Never seen Pearl Jam, probably never will. Closest I came was in Argentina but I went to a party instead, blacked out, and came to walking home on the other side of the city.

Biggest regret is probably missing Silver Jews back in college.