best show you have ever seen irrespective of venue?

I gave him up when he had his kid and did the morning has broken stuff…….

the early solo cds are the weakest - I actually forgot about him for about 6 years and rediscovered him when Love Story was released

I'll burn you a CD of his more recent stuff - I think you'll like it

thanks…..

but you probably dont need to. I am sure I have seen them in game exchange on the cheap….. Which do you recommend?

Which do you recommend?

Start with The Negatives, then Love Story

Ok, thanks…….

Another great show was beck on the odelay tour in Glasgow. I drove 6 hours to get there and passed out near the end. It looked and sounded fantastic.

Next month I'm taking my daughter to see The Wiggles at MCI Center. This is sure to be near the top of my list of all time greats.

Originally posted by chaz:
Next month I'm taking my daughter to see The Wiggles at MCI Center. This is sure to be near the top of my list of all time greats.

Oh, my heart goes out to you…luckily my daughter is way too old for them and my son way too young. Dodged that bullet.

-sonic youth thousand leaves tour free show at penn state. ben fold five show at the same free show the next year would be an honorable mention
-sleater-kinney in 2002 at the 930
-guided by voices do the collapse tour at the beehive in pittsburgh
-trail of dead club laga pittsburgh like right after source tags and codes came out

honorable mention goes to the lemonheads at washington and jefferson college in 1997, for getting to party with evan dando and murphy the ex-dinosaur jr drummer. what a bunch of wackos

Hey Sir HC, nice to meet another 9353 fan! I missed that show, although I actually remebmer hearing from others that they sucked. One thing I remember about 9353 is that when they played smallish venues like the 930 or dc space, they were usually awesome, but they often seemed to fall flat on their face at bigger shows.

Best show I've ever, ever seen was Jesus and Mary Chain, Curve, Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, and Blur, together in Brighton, UK circa 1991 or 1992. The music was intense, and the Brits, about 2,000 frenzied teenagers, got into the music in a way that I've never seen DCers do.

Best show I've seen here in DC was probably the "Punk-Funk Spectacular," Minor Threat and Trouble Funk, sometime around 1982. At the Lansburgh Center, then an abandoned department store, now a luxury apartment building.

isn't it time you visited Doomlink?

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:

honorable mention goes to the lemonheads at washington and jefferson college in 1997, for getting to party with evan dando and murphy the ex-dinosaur jr drummer. what a bunch of wackos

Hey, thanks for reminding me

i should have put up there when i saw Evan Dando play in Dallas in Spring 2002. It was just him and some guy from Massive Attack and he played, like, every song thats good:

rockin stroll
hannah n gabi
frying pan
dawn can't decide

i don't think i've ever been so awestruck. i went and got an autograph just so i could say thanks for playing frying pan. funny thing was it was a first date and i just kept drooling and yelling like a little girl and going "gawd he's hawt." when i dumped the guy later he said i'd been "the puzzle piece behind the couch that makes the sky complete."
:p

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
Hey Sir HC, nice to meet another 9353 fan! I missed that show, although I actually remebmer hearing from others that they sucked. One thing I remember about 9353 is that when they played smallish venues like the 930 or dc space, they were usually awesome, but they often seemed to fall flat on their face at bigger shows.
isn't it time you visited Doomlink?

I had read that they were very mixed, never saw them at Space or 930 in their heyday, did see them for their reunion at Taste of DC back when Pratt-Kelly was mayor (she was at the gig). They did a lot of their classics that night, had fun, and sounded good and tight to me and my friend. Taped the show, but they were loud so it is all distorted beyond use.

Originally posted by mankie:

Originally posted by chaz:
Next month I'm taking my daughter to see The Wiggles at MCI Center. This is sure to be near the top of my list of all time greats.

Oh, my heart goes out to you…luckily my daughter is way too old for them and my son way too young. Dodged that bullet.

Actually I'm pretty excited to take her….she's gonna totally flip out. I got great seats. like 10th row on the floor center stage. She just loves them wiggles.

Fruit Salad
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Fruit Salad
Yummy Yummy

Originally posted by Sir HC:
I had read that they were very mixed, never saw them at Space or 930 in their heyday, did see them for their reunion at Taste of DC back when Pratt-Kelly was mayor (she was at the gig). They did a lot of their classics that night, had fun, and sounded good and tight to me and my friend. Taped the show, but they were loud so it is all distorted beyond use.

I saw them twice back in the day.

Then, about ten years ago I ran into Vance as I was coming out of the Foggy Bottom Metro. He was bumming for change. He said something along the lines of: "Yeah, I used to be in this band, 9353, we played around here a lot. Maybe you heard of us? I've been clean for a couple weeks and I'm trying to get something to eat. Can you help me out?"

It was pretty sad.

I've since heard different things about whether he is clean or not now. Hope he is.

Originally posted by chaz:

Originally posted by mankie:

Originally posted by chaz:
Next month I'm taking my daughter to see The Wiggles at MCI Center. This is sure to be near the top of my list of all time greats.

Oh, my heart goes out to you…luckily my daughter is way too old for them and my son way too young. Dodged that bullet.

Actually I'm pretty excited to take her….she's gonna totally flip out. I got great seats. like 10th row on the floor center stage. She just loves them wiggles.

I understand completely…I took my daughter to see Hanson a few years ago. The look on her face when they walked on stage was worth sitting through mmmmmmm bop a million times if I had to.

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
Hey Sir HC, nice to meet another 9353 fan! I missed that show, although I actually remebmer hearing from others that they sucked. One thing I remember about 9353 is that when they played smallish venues like the 930 or dc space, they were usually awesome, but they often seemed to fall flat on their face at bigger shows.

Add me to the list of 9353 fans. One of my favorites, back in the day. Remember those great fliers they would cover the city with?

It's OK.
It's not loaded.
I'm a good driver.
Don't worry, honey.

Have both their records, have the CDs, the last CD was a downer, all instrumental and with only Bruce left in the band. Had heard that Vance was still clean, hope so. Their flyers (many which were on the stairs at DC space) were great. And such a short simple name made them stand out. Try writing "Super furry creatures" or "The Soundtrack of Our Lives" on a poster so that everyone driving by can read it.

I don't think I have the all-instrumental CD, but I did see that incarnation at DCAC once.

My favorite incarnation of 9353 will always be Merkle/Carmer/Bockis/Joseph, i.e. the original, or close to it. Apparently like many a great band they hated each other, and that tension only ramped up the psychopathic dynamic that much more.

I remember one time at DC Space Bruce Merkle puked over the edge of the stage, and the front row of the audience jumped back in horror….

smithereens @ the bayou it was the 10th anniversary of "especially for you" and they played it in it's entire starting with track one.

Bad Brains at the 9:30, I Against I tour, 1986. Never seen anything like it before or since. Probably never will.

rolling stones with living color, foxboro stadium, 1989

first concert of career. was young and had to beg beg beg for my father to let me go.

tracy chapman, 250 seat theatre in milan italy. complete with mad italian boys screaming, in horribly accented english "we love you tracy." :D

Primal Scream all nighter on Valentines Day '98 at Brixton Academy. Alabama 3 opened up with dj sets by Spring Heel Jack and Asian Dub Foundation with suprise guest Spiritualized who didn't go on till 2:30 in the morning.

Air at the Karman Club in Boston in Oct. '98. I thought I was floating. There was a fashion show afterwards.

Spiritualized, Nov. 2001 at the Fox Theater in Boulder, CO

Glastonbury '99: five glorious days strolling through the fields of Avalon