Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition

When Fillmore invites you to a free night of live music to celebrate a few decades or their version of the world’s fair come talk to me, ok? I would not hold my breath

There is most definitely a difference but I realize you are just trying to stir the pot and see how far you can go before your ban is made effective ..mind ya I would tread a little lighter….constructive criticism must always be most welcome, however, so focus on that…if you have good ideas and you seem smarter than many of your posts, I am sure you can figure out how to get them to the right people

David wrote:
There is most definitely a difference but I realize you are just trying to stir the pot and see how far you can go before your ban is made effective ..mind ya I would tread a little lighter….

oh please.  jules has definitely posted some inflammatory stuff but his opinions/criticisms RE: 930 vs. FSS do not rise anywhere near the level of requiring discipline.  i don't agree with his views, but they don't amount to mean-spirited trolling hence that's why we're having a civilized discussion.  let's not get overly authoritarian (i recognize it's a popular flavor these days).  let's save the ban stick for when it's actually needed.

I did not say he should be banned just referencing that he was given his walking papers a few months ago, said he was retiring and yet here he is posting.

If you really think the 9:30 Club has a discernible better "sound" than every other venue on Earth, you are right that is subjective and you are entitled to your subjective opinion I guess. I would suggest you spend a few minutes looking reading about confirmation bias and consider if that might, in part, be the issue.

Neon Budweiser signs in no way impact my ability to enjoy a concert.

^^ I think in writing the previous sentence, it helps me to better wrap my head around why I find this continual fanboying of IMP so eyeroll-inducing. I legitimately don't get where a lot of you are coming from on this. I go to concerts to enjoy seeing a band. And for the most part, that happens 90% of the time. Sometimes I don't enjoy a band because their performance sucked that night. Sometimes I don't enjoy a band (on extremely rare circumstances) because someone in the crowd was annoying and spilled a drink on me or (on even rarer occasions) the venue is so godawful terrible it ruins the entire experience. But solidly 90+% of the time, its fine – I have fun.

And then I get on here and a not insignificant subset of the members seem so cultish that it feels as if they go to non-IMP venues for the sole purpose of talking about how miserable they were. And I don't get that. For a community ostensibly centered around a love of seeing live music, some people sure seem awfully picky about the conditions in which they will see it. I legitimately, and with all sincerity, don't understand that. I don't understand how some tribal devotion to all things IMP renders and otherwise enjoyable experience moot and makes them focus on how much better it would be if the sound was indiscernibly different or there was no neon Budweiser sign.

I don't have any major gripes with IMP. The 9:30 Club is good. Merriweather is good. The Anthem needs a lot of work. But lots of other places are good. A great many more are perfectly fine. Jiffy Lube and Disco Rodeo in Raleigh are the only two venues I've ever been to where the venue was actively odious enough to merit me not going back.

I have lots of great concert memories. I attribute exactly zero of them to the particular venue I was in. Had I been with the same people seeing the same set and it was at VENUE X, I would've enjoyed it equally as much 99% of the time. I feel bad for people who go out and spend money to see bands and partake in this hobby we all share and cannot enjoy it fully if its not in their venue of choice. That's weird to me. Every IMP venue can burn to the ground tomorrow and all the bands you want to see will still play in town because its the 7th largest metropolitan area in the country and you know what, it would be fine and 99.9% of the attendees wouldn't know the difference. It only matters to a small subset of people who exist in this echo chamber. I feel like I should loan some of you the "______, venue CONNOISSEUR" nomenclature.

You know what is weird is that this board on this recently opened conversation proves Julian’s above post false…there is no cultish devotion…we have seen more posts about a decline in 930 staff than anything else…and some like richWDC evidently still have ruffled feathers over the set times…

And venue matters a lot to me but in the great words of the immortal Sly Stone “different strokes for different folks”

Also, the industry has voted 930 the best club in the nation every year for…reasons.

David wrote:…we have seen more posts about a decline in 930 staff than anything else…

not sure I agree with this anecdotal statement

and for the record…I think I had the David Dennison moniker first

Julian, wrote:
(1) The sound thing is so ridiculous…. This "it doesn't sound as good " is just this undefinable figleaf IMP fanboys use. It's very clever because there's no arguing with the unmeasurable credulity of their hypothetical venue sound rankings.

I've been telling you the same thing about your record collection for years….

bellenseb wrote:

Schulzenstein wrote:
Arctic Monkeys
July 28
Anthem
$55-75

These prices are insane.

I've never seen the Arctic Monkeys put on a great show. They've always been OK. Can't say that I'm willing to give them a fourth try.

hutch wrote:
Outlaw festival
Willie Nelson
Elvis Costello
Sturdily Simpson
Plus others
Jiffy lube
5-27

Already a Groupon

Unsanity wrote:
Earth Rocker Fest
Saturday August 4th @ Shiley Acres

Clutch
Black Label Society
Corrosion of Conformity
Eyehategod

now that sounds like fun.  would attend, if i could…

bellenseb wrote:
Matthew Sweet @ Birchmere 6/3

Probably playing the same setlist as the last 5 shows unfortunately

Nice one.  I lol'd and stopped going after the second time.

TheREALHunter wrote:
not holding my fucking breath but…
Killing Joke
Baltimore Soundstage
Sept 10

grr why can't we get a DC date

My first show at the 930 club (in like 90-91) was Killing Joke


but yeah, that was a bummer they canceled their last date

I'm rather stunned that they're even considering a US Tour. Will definitely buy a ticket to that….and pray they actually make it over here.

StoneTheCrow wrote:
I'm rather stunned that they're even considering a US Tour. Will definitely buy a ticket to that….and pray they actually make it over here.

Since they're playing Riot Fest I give this one a better shot of actually happening.

TheREALHunter wrote:
Bush/STP/The Cult
JLL
Aug 5

i haven't been keeping up on my 90's recycling - which of this bands is headlining this train-wreck?

The show poster says all three are headliners

But I bet cult then stp then bush


The cult are always great…stp should change name and Bush should stop torturing people

hutch wrote:
The show poster says all three are headliners