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grateful
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Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 02:12 PM UTC #
So the first Fillmore Silver Spring shows have been announced - http://www.fillmoresilverspring.com/

That deserves a big giant meh. 

Any ideas on who could be playing Sept 21 and 22?
wml7
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 02:15 PM UTC #
Kenny Loggins and Michael Bolton  ;D
mdh9857
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 02:18 PM UTC #
They basically went "Who played at Wolf Trap/ the Birchmere this summer that we can book again in the Fall?"
grateful
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 02:29 PM UTC #
What!?!  You mean the Mountain Goats won't be playing there anytime soon?  :P
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 04:37 PM UTC #
i wonder if i can get shot, see crack vials in the streets, or have my car windows busted out when i park at the new fillmore?  i wonder how much a shitty tasting beer from tap will cost there? 
hutch
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 04:43 PM UTC #
the lineup is respectable actually.. i mean check your hatred for LNTicketbastard at the door and think about it;

Cheap Trick, Primus, Blondie, Black Star, Mary J Blige, Thorogood, Psychedelic Furs/TOM tom club


its just not bands that are "hip"..there is also the promise of "Rock en Espanol" shows which is something sorely needed and virtually ignored by IMP


to me it looks like the venue is going to be putting on CLUB shows by bands that often times don't do club shows in the DC area… thats great news to the concert consumer if not the IMP cheerleader.
Mobius
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 04:45 PM UTC #
Train

Surprise! At the Fillmore!  Reba

Love Seed Mama Jump

hutch
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 04:47 PM UTC #
also Lewis Black sells out multi night stands at the Warner Theatre regularly…


so its going to draw…
MyraEllen
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 04:54 PM UTC #
Mary J tix are $100.50 with fees
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 05:04 PM UTC #
MonkeyPants wrote:
Mary J tix are $100.50 with fees


hutch
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 05:22 PM UTC #
i guess someone has to pay for all the Live Nation execs, Montgomery County pols, etc…

Mobius
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 05:28 PM UTC #
hutch wrote:


to me it looks like the venue is going to be putting on CLUB shows by bands that often times don't do club shows in the DC area… thats great news to the concert consumer if not the IMP cheerleader.



People don't fundamentally dislike this place because they are "IMP Cheerleaders".  People aren't attacking the Black Cat or the Birchmere.  A music club should reflect the character of the community.  It should have a soul.  A personality.  People are just calling bullshit.  This place is a strictly corporate entity, with no soul, and is an insult to the community. . .a community that is making progress towards some personality (AFI Silver, Ray's the Classics) but still mired in faceless chain franchise crappiness.  Don't confuse advocating businesses that reflect, enhance and promote community and personality with 'hipsterism' or cheerleading.

And to your other point, if you were alive in the past 5 years you probably could have seen nearly all those bands play a local club show.
DeathFromAbove1979
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 05:35 PM UTC #
Primus on a Saturday? Sounds like a party to me.
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 05:38 PM UTC #
I can't count how many times I've seen a band at the 9:30 Club say "this is the best club in the country" or "this is our favorite place to play" or "you guys are so lucky to have the 9:30 Club". That's not going to change just because a new venue opens up. I'm not intrigued by much of what I see announced at Fillmore SS. I was concerned when Ram's Head opened up (and for a while they did get a LOT of good shows that the 9:30 didn't get), but the 9:30 still is a jewel that bands will go out of their way to book if they can get it. How many times have you seen a band play at a House of Blues that said, "MAN, we LOVE playing here!"? Please. Corporate venues are lame.
hutch
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 05:50 PM UTC #
Mobius wrote:
hutch wrote:


to me it looks like the venue is going to be putting on CLUB shows by bands that often times don't do club shows in the DC area… thats great news to the concert consumer if not the IMP cheerleader.



People don't fundamentally dislike this place because they are "IMP Cheerleaders".  People aren't attacking the Black Cat or the Birchmere.  A music club should reflect the character of the community.  It should have a soul.  A personality.  People are just calling bullshit.  This place is a strictly corporate entity, with no soul, and is an insult to the community. . .a community that is making progress towards some personality (AFI Silver, Ray's the Classics) but still mired in faceless chain franchise crappiness.  Don't confuse advocating businesses that reflect, enhance and promote community and personality with 'hipsterism' or cheerleading.

And to your other point, if you were alive in the past 5 years you probably could have seen nearly all those bands play a local club show.



I fundamentally disagree with you. Of course Live Nation blows as a company but do you think my friend Enrique who is a huge music maniac and lives 10 blocks from the venue and loves Cheap Trick, enough to have driven up to Baltimore at Ramshead, isn't going to get pleasure out of seeing Cheap Trick in his backyard?

You are holding this venue to an impossible standard before it even began… remember if you read the statements from the GM she specifically cites a desire to reflect the community etc..  remember that the 930/imp has barely put on ANY latin music in an area where the hispanic community is sizable (I have written about it in the Hey Seth thread to no avail).. AND remember that the Warner Theatre which IS a LIVE NATION venue reflects the DC community arguably far more than the 930 does (all those urban theatre plays)..

Its poppycock to prejudge it as a bad thing.. in the end its a club to see music..


And people do talk shit about the Birchmere all the time on this board FYI.
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 05:56 PM UTC #
bearman wrote:
I can't count how many times I've seen a band at the 9:30 Club say "this is the best club in the country" or "this is our favorite place to play" or "you guys are so lucky to have the 9:30 Club". That's not going to change just because a new venue opens up. I'm not intrigued by much of what I see announced at Fillmore SS. I was concerned when Ram's Head opened up (and for a while they did get a LOT of good shows that the 9:30 didn't get), but the 9:30 still is a jewel that bands will go out of their way to book if they can get it. How many times have you seen a band play at a House of Blues that said, "MAN, we LOVE playing here!"? Please. Corporate venues are lame.


I don't disagree with pretty much any of this.. we all know the 930 Club is the best club in the country

thats not the issue… its more like "Ok the 930 club is the best club in the country but is the Fillmore opening going to improve my concertgoing at all?"

I'd have to say that based on the early indications its pretty clear it is.. at worse it will be somewhere else to catch rock bands and if you like them and they can't/don't play the 930 I don't see anything wrong with checking them out at the Fillmore..
Mobius
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 06:05 PM UTC #
Of course Enrique should walk the 10 blocks and see Cheap Trick.  I'm sure he'll enjoy it.  And of course Live Nation put out press releases saying they would try to reflect the community.  But its not authentic, and that's a disservice.  If DC subsidized putting a Panera Bread where Busboys and Poets originated, the residents would have a place to get coffee and WiFi . . .and bread . . .which is nice . . .but an opportunity for true vitality (which of course resulted from B&P) would have been retarded by something stagnant (even if Panera tried to 'reflect community').

People talk sh*t about Birchmere, but I'd be surprised if people don't respect the Birchmere.
wml7
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 06:07 PM UTC #
DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
Dunno if these have been posted:

Pictures of construction from the inside and out:

http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgtmpl.asp?url=/content/DGS/DBDC/RegionalProjectPages/SilverSpringProjects/fillmore.asp

Looks cool


damn, that is some corporate swag  ;D
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Re: Fillmore SS Shows July 22, 2011 at 06:10 PM UTC #
Mobius wrote:
Of course Enrique should walk the 10 blocks and see Cheap Trick.  I'm sure he'll enjoy it.  And of course Live Nation put out press releases saying they would try to reflect the community.  But its not authentic, and that's a disservice.  If DC subsidized putting a Panera Bread where Busboys and Poets originated, the residents would have a place to get coffee and WiFi . . .and bread . . .which is nice . . .but an opportunity for true vitality (which of course resulted from B&P) would have been retarded by something stagnant (even if Panera tried to 'reflect community').

People talk sh*t about Birchmere, but I'd be surprised if people don't respect the Birchmere.




crazy.. there were DECADES for other people to build a concert venue in Silver Spring.. nobody did. the birchmere pulled out.. IMP only seemed to get interested/ panties in a bunch when Montgomery County and LN reached their agreement..

Moreover, I'm not so sure the concertgoer isn't better served by having LN have a major club presence in the area than by IMP expanding its empire.. Lets remember: IMP is the one that runs the show in town.


people hate Live Nation and everythingn about it.. if Live Nation hadn't built the Fillmore we'd have the coolest club full of personality etc. built by IMP without taxpayer subsidies… and pigs fly…ok maybe, but I'm skeptical… IMP seems very comfortable with its current setup… when it has bigger shows it rents out DAR (substandard sound) or Strathmore or now the Kastles stadium.. it also books at Ramshead and MPP..I mean IMP has it all already… its going to keep doing great.. but having another player, I think, could be good for the concert consumer


the 930 hardly ever books Latin rock acts. I might not like Live Nation but its Live Nation venues putting on Andres Calamaro's first US tour.. and I will gladly go to NYC to check it out and I hope he comes back and plays the Fillmore cause I know the 930 Club ain't doing it.


again , lets remember that we all know the 930 is the best club in the US et.. we all know LN and Montgomery County pulled a shady deal that did not benefit taxpayers, and we all know LN is on the hall of shame list of companies..


BUt at the end of the day when I saw Mark Knopfler at the Warner Theatre who gave a rats ass if it was a Live nation venue? same with Elvis Costello and many others!

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