This Week in Concert History - Celebrating Your Golden Years

5/ 3/08 Jukebox The Ghost/Travis Morrison Hellfighters    Black Cat
5/ 4/07 Arcade Fire/The National  DAR Constitution Hall
5/ 5/14  "Big Tony's Birthday Bash" (Foo Fighters/Trouble Funk/The Dont Need Its)  9:30 Club
5/ 6/05 The Decemberists  9:30 Club
5/ 6/13  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/Bass Drum Of Death    9:30 Club
5/ 7/12  Willie Nelson And Family  9:30 Club
5/ 8/82 Journey/Greg Kihn Band      Capital Centre
5/ 8/06 Thomas Dolby    The Birchmere
5/ 8/08 British Sea Power/The Rosebuds/Jeffrey Lewis  Black Cat
5/ 8/09 Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings/Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens  9:30 Club
5/ 8/12  The Go-Go's  Rams Head Live
5/ 8/15  The Replacements  Echostage
5/ 9/94 Shonen Knife/The Dentists    9:30 Club
5/ 9/08 The Cure      Patriot Center

5/10/92 Eric Clapton    Capital Centre
5/10/07 Ben Gibbard (solo) (early show)  9:30 Club
5/10/15  Prince  Royal Farms Arena  Baltimore, MD (tonight!)
5/11/01 The Psychedelic Furs                9:30 Club
5/11/09 Leonard Cohen  Merriweather Post Pavilion
5/11/10  Buzzcocks/The Dollyrots  Black Cat
5/11/11  Echo and The Bunnymen    9:30 Club
5/12/86 Siouxsie and the Banshees/Raunch Hands  Warner Theater
5/12/04 The Quails/The Evens  Warehouse Next Door
5/12/09 The Damned/The Bellrays  Black Cat
5/12/10  Public Image Ltd.  9:30 Club
5/13/95 Beastie Boys    Patriot Center-GMU
5/13/05 New York Dolls  The Trocadero  Philadelphia, PA
5/13/08 The Meatmen/Rustbuckit  The Ottobar  Baltimore, MD
5/13/09 B-52's/The 88  Rams Head Live
5/13/10  Pearl Jam  Jiffy Lube Live
5/13/15  Billy & The Kids  9:30 Club
5/14/04 Bigger Lovers/The Frauds    DC9
(I bailed after a few songs from Bigger Lovers so I could catch Decahedron at The Black Cat)
5/14/04 Q And Not U/Decahedron    Black Cat
5/14/05 Bruce Springsteen (solo acoustic)  Patriot Center
5/14/09 The Shins  9:30 Club 
5/14/11  Ted Leo (solo)  Black Cat Backstage
5/14/15  "Dear Jerry"  Merriweather Post Pavilion (Thursday!)
5/15/05 Two If By Sea/The Cassettes/Bang! Bang!    Warehouse Next Door
5/15/07 Velvet Revolver  9:30 Club 
5/16/04 David Bowie    Patriot Center
5/16/06 The Go-Go's    9:30 Club
5/16/08 Los Campesinos!  Black Cat

2015-05-10 The Bros. Landreth   Rams Head Tavern (matinee show, saw them earlier today)
2008-05-11 Radiohead   Nissan Pavilion (Ye Gods!!!! infamous flooding show)
2011-05-11 Jon Anderson  Rams Head Tavern
2011-05-12 Southern Culture On The Skids   Rams Head Tavern
2003-05-13 ZZ Top   Nissan Pavilion (there was a random DUI check on the road right outside the Nissan parking lot after this show!!)
2004-05-13 John Hiatt    Rams Head Tavern
2008-05-13 Black Keys   Bohemian Caverns, DC
2009-05-13 Spinal Tap Unwigged and Unplugged   Warner Theater
2005-05-14 U2   Wachovia Center, Philadelphia PA
2005-05-15 English Beat   Recher Theater, Towson MD
2008-05-15 Van Halen   Baltimore Arena
2009-05-15 The Shins    Rams Head Live, Baltimore MD
2005-05-16 Chris Stamey Experience    Rams Head Tavern

May 15, 1997 - Nuttstalk (John Frusciante) @ The Bayou
May 10, 1998 - Tortoise w/ Oval @ 9:30
May 11, 1998 - Modest Mouse @ Black Cat
May 16, 1998 - Harvey Danger w/ The Mayfield 4 @ 9:30
May 12, 2000 - Nine Inch Nails w/ A Perfect Circle @ Merriweather
May 12, 2004 - The Stills w/ Metric @ 9:30
May 10, 2005 - The Lucksmiths @ DC9
May 12, 2005 - Kasabian @ 9:30 Club
May 12, 2005 - 33hz @ DC9
May 13, 2005 - Porcupine Tree @ 9:30
May 10, 2006 - Mogwai @ 9:30
May 11, 2006 - Pelican w/ Mono @ Black Cat
May 11, 2008 - Radiohead @ Nissan Pavilion
May 12, 2008 - The Swell Season w/ Rachel Grimes @ Brown Theatre (Louisville)
May 12, 2011 - The Besnard Lakes @ Black Cat
May 10, 2012 - Spiritualized @ 9:30

5/12/1993  INXS @ the Metro (Chicago)
5/11/1996  Velocity Girl @ 9:30
5/10/1997  The Orb @ 9:30
5/16/1998  HFStival @ RFK (Green Day, Foos, B-52's, Wyclef, Bosstones, Semisonic, Barenaked Ladies, etc.)
5/12/2000  Elliott Smith @ 9:30
5/13/2000  Wire @ 9:30
5/13/2001  U2 w/ PJ Harvey @ United Center (Chicago)
5/15/2002  Belle and Sebastian w/ Sleater Kinney @ DAR
5/12/2005  Echo and the Bunnymen @ Theater of Living Arts (Philly)
5/14/2005  HFStival @ M&T Stadium (Foos, Coldplay, Billy Idol, Good Charlotte, Social Distortion, NY Dolls, Garbage, Interpol, Echo & the Bunnymen, They Might Be Giants, Sum 41, the Bravery)
5/15/2005  Peter Murphy @ 9:30
5/16/2005  Built to Spill @ 9:30
5/16/2007  Arctic Monkeys @ 9:30
5/10/2009  Fischerspooner @ 9:30
5/12/2009  The Damned @ Black Cat
5/14/2009  The Shins @ 9:30
5/15/2009  Southern Culture on the Skids @ 9:30
5/11/2010  Buzzcocks @ Black Cat
5/12/2010  Public Image Ltd @ 9:30
5/11/2011  Echo and the Bunnymen @ 9:30

Bombay wrote:
5/10/92 Eric Clapton    Capital Centre
5/10/07 Ben Gibbard (solo) (early show)  9:30 Club
5/10/15  Prince   Royal Farms Arena  Baltimore, MD (tonight!)
5/11/01 The Psychedelic Furs                9:30 Club
5/11/09 Leonard Cohen   Merriweather Post Pavilion
5/11/10  Buzzcocks/The Dollyrots   Black Cat
5/11/11  Echo and The Bunnymen    9:30 Club
5/12/86 Siouxsie and the Banshees/Raunch Hands  Warner Theater
5/12/04 The Quails/The Evens   Warehouse Next Door
5/12/09 The Damned/The Bellrays   Black Cat
5/12/10  Public Image Ltd.   9:30 Club
5/13/95 Beastie Boys    Patriot Center-GMU
5/13/05 New York Dolls   The Trocadero   Philadelphia, PA
5/13/08 The Meatmen/Rustbuckit   The Ottobar   Baltimore, MD
5/13/09 B-52's/The 88  Rams Head Live
5/13/10  Pearl Jam   Jiffy Lube Live
5/13/15  Billy & The Kids   9:30 Club
5/14/04 Bigger Lovers/The Frauds    DC9
(I bailed after a few songs from Bigger Lovers so I could catch Decahedron at The Black Cat)
5/14/04 Q And Not U/Decahedron    Black Cat
5/14/05 Bruce Springsteen (solo acoustic)   Patriot Center
5/14/09 The Shins   9:30 Club 
5/14/11  Ted Leo (solo)  Black Cat Backstage
5/14/15  "Dear Jerry"  Merriweather Post Pavilion (Thursday!)

Ya know…you really can't include this week's shows (2015) until they've passed and you actually were there.  Even if there is little chance of a show cancellation or your car/bike/helicopter breaking down, "concert history" doesn't happen til it's history…

Scorpions (w/ Great White and Trixter opening) 5 10 1991 Capital Centre
Eric Clapton 5 10 1992 Capital Centre
Red Hot Chili Peppers (w/ Foo Fighters opening) 5 10 2000 Baltimore Arena
Red Hot Chili Peppers 5 10 2012 Verizon Center
Joel, Billy                 5 11 1998 MCI Center
Trey Anastasio         5 11 1999 Nightclub 930
Kid Rock                 5 11 2002 Patriot Center, followed by
Dickey Betts Band  (second set only)5 11 2002 Jaxx
Radiohead  [Boardies: insert your story-of-woe on another thread; I got to the show ontime]
                  5 11 2008 Nissan Pavilion
Leonard Cohen 5 11 2009 Merriweather
Cliffs of Dooneen 5 12 1993 Bayou
Hothouse Flowers 5 12 2001 Birchmere
DC Chilifest (The Bravery, Buckcherry, Jet, Silversun Pickups)5 12 2007 Chilifest - citylot 10&H
Bim Skala Bim (w/ Lyres opening) 5 13 1994 Nightclub 930
Beastie Boys 5 13 1995 Patriot Center
Spinal Tap (Unwigged & Unplugged) 5 13 2009 Warner
Pearl Jam         5 13 2010 Jiffy Lube Live
Ramones         5 14 1990 Bayou
Adian Belew         5 14 1992 Lisner Auditorium
HFStival (Afghan Whigs, Counting Crows, Cracker, Meat Puppets, Pavement, Henry Rollins Band, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Violent Femmes) 5 14 1994 RFK Stadium
HFStival (Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Garbage, Good Charlotte, Billy Idol, Jimmies Chicken Shack, Louis XIV, New York Dolls, Stereophonics) 5 14 2005 M&T Bank Stadium
Reverend Horton Heat 5 14 2011 Nightclub 930
Stray Cats                 5 15 1989 Hammerjacks
Belle & Sebastian (w/ Sleater-Kinney opening) 5 15 2002 Constitution Hall
Georgia Satellites         5 16 1990 Bayou
Lou Reed                 5 16 1992 Constitution Hall
HFStival (Everclear, Foo Fighters, Fuel, Green Day, Marcy Playground, Semisonic, Tuscadero, Scott Weiland)                 5 16 1998 RFK Stadium
David Bowie (w/ The Stereophonics opening) 5 16 2004 Patriot Center

rich_WDC wrote:

Bombay wrote:

5/14/15  "Dear Jerry"  Merriweather Post Pavilion (Thursday!)

Ya know…you really can't include this week's shows (2015) until they've passed and you actually were there.  Even if there is little chance of a show cancellation or your car/bike/helicopter breaking down, "concert history" doesn't happen til it's history…

inexcusable, I'm thinking banned for life!

5/14/94  HFStival (Pavement, Meat Puppets, Greenberry Woods, Afghan Whigs, James, Gigolo Aunts, Violent Femmes, Madder Rose, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Rollins Band, Counting Crows, Cracker)  RFK Stadium
5/10/95  Morphine/Please  Black Cat
5/15/95  Cranberries  The Mall (1 song still counts)
5/16/98  HFStival (Semisonic, Harvey Danger, Fuel, Fastball, Save Ferris, Wyclef Jean, Barenaked Ladies, Everclear, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, B-52's, Foo Fighters)  RFK Stadium
5/14/99  Love Seed Mama Jump  Herndon Town Green
5/12/00  Nine Inch Nails/A Perfect Circle  Merriweather Post Pavilion
5/17/03  Quitter UK/Shane Hines  Iota
5/12/04  Angie Aparo/Willy Porter  Birchmere
5/14/04  Robbie Schaefer/Mike Clem  Jammin' Java
5/14/05  HFStival (Stereophonics, Pepper, Garbage, Sum 41, Pietasters, Social Distortion, Good Charlotte, Billy Idol, Coldplay, Foo Fighters)  M & T Bank Stadium
5/12/06  Ember Swift/Natalia Zukerman  Jammin' Java
5/12/07  P.D.Q. Bach  Kennedy Center Concert Hall
5/11/09  Meat Puppets  Amoeba Music (LA)
5/12/09  The Bittersweets  Hotel Cafe (LA)
5/14/10  Crooked Still/Chatham County Line  Birchmere
5/10/11  My Chemical Romance  9:30
5/14/11  M3 Rock Festival (Hurtsmile, Great White, Mr. Big, Sebastian Bach, Big Noize, Tesla, Lita Ford, Whitesnake)  Merriweather Post Pavilion

bearman wrote:

5/12/2000  Elliott Smith @ 9:30

That show was HORRIBLE.

K8teebug wrote:

bearman wrote:

5/12/2000  Elliott Smith @ 9:30

That show was HORRIBLE.

Really?? Did you see the one later that year? I didn't think the May show was that awful. What was odd is I saw him 3 times that year…he unraveled awfully quickly in 2000. By autumn he was ending sets with "Don't Fear the Reaper".

Sidehatch wrote:

rich_WDC wrote:

Bombay wrote:

5/14/15  "Dear Jerry"  Merriweather Post Pavilion (Thursday!)

Ya know…you really can't include this week's shows (2015) until they've passed and you actually were there.  Even if there is little chance of a show cancellation or your car/bike/helicopter breaking down, "concert history" doesn't happen til it's history…

inexcusable, I'm thinking banned for life!

If it doesn't happen, I promise to go back and delete that entry. :)

Bombay wrote:

Sidehatch wrote:

rich_WDC wrote:

Bombay wrote:

5/14/15  "Dear Jerry"  Merriweather Post Pavilion (Thursday!)

Ya know…you really can't include this week's shows (2015) until they've passed and you actually were there.  Even if there is little chance of a show cancellation or your car/bike/helicopter breaking down, "concert history" doesn't happen til it's history…

inexcusable, I'm thinking banned for life!

If it doesn't happen, I promise to go back and delete that entry. :)

nothing disappears on the interwebs!!!

05/16/95  Ned's Atomic Dustbin/Orange 9mm @ Ogden Theater
05/11/02  Cornershop/Smokey & Miho @ 9:30 Club
05/10/09  Fleetwood Mac @ Pepsi Center
05/16/09  Flight of the Conchords/Iron & Wine @ Red Rocks
05/15/10  Mono/The Twilight Sad @ Bluebird Theater (early)
05/15/10  Akron/Family @ Quixote's True Blue (late)
05/16/10  Turin Brakes/Joshua Novak @ Larimer Lounge
05/13/11  LoHi Music Festival
05/14/11  Broken Spirits/A. Tom Collins @ Hi-Dive
05/10/13  Black Angels/Hanni El Khatib/Wall of Death @ Boulder Theater
05/13/13  Prince @ Ogden Theater (saw the early and late show that night)
05/10/14  Shpongle/Emancipator/Minnesota @ Red Rocks
05/16/14  Chris Robinson Brotherhood @ Cervantes

I wish Cornershop would tour again, that was a fun show

Tom Tom Club (w Fear of Man opening) 5 17 1989 Bayou
Stone Roses 5 17 1995 WUST Radio Music Hall
Cracker (at DC Chilifest)5 17 1997 DC Chilifest
Social Distortion 5 18 1992 Gym
Widespread Panic 5 18 1993 Hammerjacks
Black Sabbath (as Heaven & Hell), with Megadeth opening 5 18 2007 Merriweather
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals5 19 2007 State Theater
Pursuit of Happiness 5 20 1993 Nightclub 930
Wolfmother (w Kadavar opening)5 20 2014 Lincoln Theatre
Lynyrd Skynyrd 5 21 1992 Merriweather
Holy Barbarians 5 21 1996 Nightclub 930
Marc Ford&The Sinners 5 22 2002 State Theater
HFS-tival (The Cure, Jimmies Chicken Shack, Lit, Modest Mouse, The Offspring, Violent Femmes, YeahYeahYeahs, Yellowcard, The Living End) 5 22 2004 RFK Stadium
DC 101 Chilifest (Alice in Chains, Amberlin, Cage The Elephant, Stone Temple Pilots, Switchfoot)
5 22 2010 RFK Pkg Lot
Danzig 5 23 1993 Hammerjacks
Derek Trucks Band5 23 2000 Birchmere
Robt Bradley's Blackwater Surprise 5 23 2002 State Theater

5/17/1991  Black Crowes w/Jellyfish @ Aragon Ballroom  (Chicago)
5/23/1994  KMFDM @ Black Cat
5/17/1995  The Stone Roses @ WUST
5/19/1995  KMFDM @ WUST
5/19/1996  Mighty Mighty Bosstones @ 9:30
5/23/1997  Toad the Wet Sprocket @ 9:30
5/23/1998  Frank Black and the Catholics @ 9:30
5/19/1999  Saint Etienne @ 9:30
5/18/2001  Iggy Pop @ Vic Theater (Chicago)
5/20/2001  Black Crowes w/ Oasis @ Tweeter Center (Tinley Park, IL)
5/18/2002  Pet Shop Boys @ Nation
5/20/2005  Gang of Four @ 9:30
5/17/2006  Charlatans UK @ 9:30
5/21/2008  X @ 9:30
5/18/2009  The Prodigy @ 9:30
5/21/2011  Face to Face @ Trocadero
5/23/2011  Face to Face @ Black Cat

05/19/93  Sting/Dada @ Red Rocks
05/20/98  Super Furry Animals/Granddaddy @ Shepherd's Bush Empire
05/20/02  The Vines @ Paradise
05/21/02  Ed Harcourt/Eileen Rose @ Paradise
05/23/02  I Am The World Trade Center/Busy Signals @ T.T. the Bear's Place
05/17/03  The Coral/Kings of Leon/Devotchka @ Bluebird Theater
05/21/03  Pete Yorn/Granddaddy @ House of Blues New Orleans
05/22/04  Acid Mothers Temple @ T.T. the Bear's Place
05/17/05  Caribou/Junior Boys/Russian Futurists @ Bluebird Theater
05/17/07  BRMC/The Cobbs/Eastern Conference Champions @ Gothic Theater
05/18/09  Ghost w/ Helena Espvall/Lichens/Pontiak @ Hi-Dive
05/20/10  Martin Sexton/Ryan Montbleau @ Ogden Theater
05/22/10  Fort Knox Five @ Cervantes
05/20/12  Mark Lanegan/Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss @ Bluebird Theater
05/17/13  Black Moth Super Rainbow/The Hood Internet/Oscillator Bug @ Bluebird Theater
05/20/13  BRMC/Thenewno2 @ Gothic Theater
05/20/14  Mogwai/Majeure @ Ogden Theater
05/23/14  Erik Deutsch and the Jazz Outlaws @ Dazzle (early)
05/23/14  Horse Meat Disco @ Bar Standard (late)

looking at this weeks walk through history, it's apparent that some bands I like were pretty consistent about when they came through town….. and that was my first and last Porcupine Tree show, I actually fell asleep I was that bored……

2008-05-17 Bell X1  Rams Head Tavern  Annapolis
2009-05-18 English Beat  Rams Head Tavern Annapolis
2007-05-19 Southern Culture On The Skids  Rams Head Tavern Annapolis
2008-05-19 English Beat w/Lynval Golding (of The Specials)    Rams Head Tavern Annapolis
2005-05-20 Gang Of 4    930 Club
2008-05-20 English Beat w/Lynval Golding (of The Specials)    Rams Head Tavern Annapolis
2010-05-20 Mose Allison    Birchmere
2005-05-21 Porcupine Tree  Trocadero Theater  Philly
2004-05-22 Mahoney Brothers    Recher Theater  Towson
2010-05-22 Southern Culture On The Skids  Rams Head Tavern  Annapolis
2013-05-22 Paul McCartney  Frank Erwin Center  Austin TX
2003-05-23 Southern Culture On The Skids    Rams Head Tavern Annapolis
2007-05-23 Marshall Crenshaw  Rams Head Tavern Annapolis
2013-05-23 Paul McCartney  Frank Erwin Center  Austin TX

05-23-11 The Cars (930)
05-05-10 Sevendust (The National)
05-18-10 The Sex Slaves (Santos Party House)
05-18-09 The Prodigy (930)
05-21-09 Old Crow Medicine Show (Lewis Ginter)
05-27-09 The Sex Slaves (Jaxx)
05-30-08 GWAR (The National)
05-10-07 Puddle Of Mudd (Chameleon Club)
05-15-07 Velvert Revolver (930)
05-18-07 Elvis Costello (930)
05-29-07 !!! (Starlite Ballroom)
05-03-06 Robert Randolph (Innsbrook)
05-15-06 30 Seconds To Mars (Alley Katz)
05-25-06 James Brown (Charlottesville Pavilion)
05-07-05 Hackensaw Boys (Canal Club)
05-15-05 Velvet Revolver (VA Beach Amp)
05-15-05 BB King (The Norva)
05-25-05 The Ravonettes, Autolux, The Peels (Black Cat)
05-13-04 David Bowie, The Stereophonics (Hershey Park)