Best and Worst shows at new and old club

I thought the first Arctic Monkey show was great, right after the debut came out. More than anything, I thought they sounded amazing. Saw them again after the second album came out and thought it was pretty blah. The end.

Anyone see The Prodigy last year?  Now that show was awesome  ;D

Old Club

Best:  Fugazi 1/3/91 . . . right band, right time, right place, great show

Worst:  random 3 Bands for 3 Bucks . . .still a good time

New Club

Best:  Its a cop out answer, but in general 2001 stands out . . . Guided By Voices, Spiritualized, Fugazi, Joe Strummer, The Strokes, Sigur Ros, Built to Spill, Richard Ashcroft, BRMC . . .whoever I'm forgetting

Worst:  The Vines 2002 . . .gave Asberger's a bad name!

Weird, I didn't think that Vines show was too bad. Seem to remember the opener being good but can't remember who it was.
The first Polyphonic show at the club was amazing.

Id rather see flipper tune their guitars for 6 dollars then half the shit mentioned in this thread

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
When did you see them? I've seen them 3 times, and I was never really taken aback by them they sort of just performed their songs and said shit in their indecipherable accents. But the last show the did at 930 was monstrous, they actually rocked.

just went through the stub collection: it was may'07, so just after the second album.

Best at the old club was Jeff Buckley
Worst at the old club was LUscious Jackson for bitching me out from the bandstand

Best at the new club is too tough but the most important show I saw at the new club- for a variety of reasons- was Johnny Cash
Worst at the new club…shit I just don't remember. Gwar wasn't my bag but I wouldn't say it was bad…Now its coming back to me: TOSCA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a disappointment…ALso Jeff Tweedy was a blathering mess…

Mobius wrote:
Worst:  The Vines 2002 . . .gave Asberger's a bad name!

Yes! - that's what she said!

Never got to see a show at the old club. 

New Club
Best:  Iggy and the Stooges, The Cramps, Sonic Youth last year, Sleater-Kinney's last DC show (until they reunite), and X

Worst:  Guttermouth, Bad Brains Election Night 2008

Old Club

Best: King's X in summer '91 when they were musically at the top of their game touring on their 3rd album (which was the last one worth a shit) with then 16 year old guitar prodigy Eric Gales opening.

Worst: C.O.C. Summer '90?  Went to see Mind Over Four but stuck around for C.O.C. this was the time period between them playing hardcore and going full on lame buttrocker, the first 2-3 minutes sounded like a huge distorted fart and I said fuck this and split.

New Club

Best: The Stooges by a mile.

Worst: Bad Brains election day show by even more than that.

Best at F St Location:  Jane's Addiction 12/15/88
Worst at F St:  Counting Crows  1/19/94

Best at V St location:  Tie: Radiohead / Teenage Fanclub  8/12/97
                                      Bryan Ferry Orchestra  11/3/99

Worst at V St:  Sugar Ray  7/30/97

I also haven't been visiting the club as long as some of you folk.

BEST: Cat Power (Feb. 2009) or Spiritualized (July 2008). I know the Cat Power show caught a lot of flack on here, but I was up close enough to see everything, and I thought the dark atmosphere lent a lot to an ethereal quality. Chan sounded awesome and I'm a big fan of the Jukebox-era persona. "The Moon" and "Ramblin' (Wo)man" blew me away.

WORST: I don't know if I have one. I didn't really want to see Hanson in 2007 (my wife dragged me there), but they sounded fine. Helmet sounded pretty bad in 2004 but that's no surprise. BRMC was too damn loud last month. Squeeze last year was just OK.

Easy. Worst: Dave Navarro played a solo concert in 2001. He was on stage for about 30 minutes straining to remain in key when finally he announced "Guys, I just don't have it tonight" and walked off stage. End of show.

bearman wrote:
Best new club:
Social D (November 2001)
I've seen some great shows, but Mike Ness was in top form this night. It just stands out as being one of those incredible evenings that I'll never forget.

Agreed.  I was dating a crazy girl at that period of my life and she walked out of that show with my jacket, keys, wallet and phone, but I DIDN'T CARE ONE BIT.

I recall for some of you Badly Drawn Boy was the worst show at the new club…? I'm trying to recall…

Relaxer wrote:
Weird, I didn't think that Vines show was too bad. Seem to remember the opener being good but can't remember who it was.

I thought it was The Vines who opened for someone else, but now I think, was it Jet who opened for The Vines?
*edit* just looked it up - yep, Jet opened for Vines (in 2004, anyway). Those f'ers smoked a carton of cigarettes in about five minutes in the upstairs bar after their set, while acting aloof to the ladies who approached them. Damn annoying night overall.

Tied for worst show I saw at the new club: Happy Mondays and Tragically Hip (both last year)

chancegardener wrote:
Best at F St Location:   Jane's Addiction 12/15/88
Worst at F St:   Counting Crows  1/19/94

Best at V St location:   Tie: Radiohead / Teenage Fanclub  8/12/97
                                      Bryan Ferry Orchestra  11/3/99

Worst at V St:   Sugar Ray  7/30/97

Saw Janes at that show, it was a great one.  Not sure if it was the best though, but then again I never caught a bad show at the old club.

Think that the best at the old club might have been the Orb.  Live drummer and bassist, triphonic (the mono house PA and the stereo back speakers).  Otherwise, maybe Husker Du when Bob looked at the video woman all night, or the many Butthole Surfers shows.

New club?  Worst is easy.  Dispatch.  The advantage of working occasionally you see bands you otherwise would miss.  THese guys at the time were a MySpace sensation, and they didn't have the chops to pull it off live.  THey flubbed notes left and right, no continuity, just bad.

Best, gack so many, the last Spiritualized (HE SMASHED HIS GUITAR!!!!), Sigur Ros (THe drummer is the secret weapon), Love and Rockets, or the Chemical Brothers (Just wow).

More too, but if I said them all I would be here all night.

Crap, Superdrag when GUided couldn't make it, they were amazing.

Vas wrote:
Tied for worst show I saw at the new club: Happy Mondays and Tragically Hip (both last year)

I guess that I was so willing to give the Happy Mondays a ton of extra rope that I was still quite happy.  One friend puts it top 10.

Sugartastic wrote:
I recall for some of you Badly Drawn Boy was the worst show at the new club…? I'm trying to recall…

I saw Badly Drawn Boy at the new club but it wasn't terrible.  Just ok.  I think I did leave before the end of the set.