This Week in Concert History - Celebrating Your Golden Years

RatBastard wrote:
05-18-09 The Prodigy (930)

One of my favorites. I always have fun at their concerts, but this one in particular was so great.

5/17/03 The Cramps/Von Bondies  9:30 Club
5/18/07 Elvis Costello and the Imposters  9:30 Club
5/18/09 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band    Verizon Center
5/19/99 Blondie                Nation
5/19/01 The Go-Go's            12th & Pennsylvania Ave
        (part of the DC-101 Chili Cook-Off)
5/19/09 Edie Sedgwick    Black Cat Backstage
5/20/05 Gang Of Four  9:30 Club 
5/20/10  Medications  Black Cat Backstage
5/21/04 Washington Social Club/The Carlsonics/The Hold Steady    Black Cat
5/21/08 X/Detroit Cobras  9:30 Club
5/22/07 The Rosebuds/Bowerbirds  Rock And Roll Hotel
5/23/11  The Cars    9:30 Club
5/23/13  Macy Gray  The Birchmere

bearman wrote:

RatBastard wrote:
05-18-09 The Prodigy (930)

One of my favorites. I always have fun at their concerts, but this one in particular was so great.

i caught that tour in NYC (roseland ballroom).  second only to RATM in terms of pit mayhem.  i lasted 2 songs up front before needing to get the hell outta that maelstrom of humanity.

05/25/95  R.E.M./Sonic Youth @ Fiddler's Green Amphitheater
05/30/97  Big Head Todd & The Monsters @ Red Rocks
05/26/00  Alex Gopher @ Soma
05/28/04  Zero 7 @ Fox Theater
05/27/05  Kasabian @ Creepy Crawl (St. Louis)
05/26/09  Doves/Wild Light @ Gothic Theatre
05/29/10  Broken Bells @ Gothic Theatre
05/30/10  Eluvium/Charles Stanyan @ Larimer Lounge
05/24/12  Lindstrom/Mark Farina @ Cervantes
05/26/12  Spiritualized/Nikki Lane @ Rickshaw Theater (Vancouver)

2010-05-24  Neil Young/Bert Jansch  DAR Constitution Hall
2013-05-24  Robert Earl Keen/Lyle Lovett  Majestic Theater San Antonio TX
2011-05-25  Paul Simon  DAR Constitution Hall
2007-05-27  The Smithereens  Boardwalk Hall  Ocean City NJ
2008-05-27  The Raconteurs    930 Club
2011-05-27  Paul Simon    930 Club
2003-05-28  Beck/Dashboard Confessional/Black Keys    Wolftrap
2008-05-28  Ryan Bingham  Ramshead Tavern Annapolis
2009-05-28  Jackie Greene  Ramshead Tavern  Annapolis
2003-05-29  Roger McGuinn  Avalon Theater  Easton MD
2012-05-29  Dandy Warhols  930 Club
2006-05-30  Pearl Jam    Verizon Center    Washington DC
2010-05-30  Peter Wolf    The State Theater  Falls Church VA

Beastie Boys (w Firehose opening!) 5 24 1992 Gym
Girls v Boys (w Therapy? opening) 5 24 1996 Black Cat
OZZFEST (Black Sabbath, Fear Factory, Machine Head, Ozzy Ozborne, Pantera, Powerman 5000, Type O Negative) 5 24 1997 Nissan Pavilion
Lucy Pearl 5 24 2000 Garage
DC 101 Chilifest maybe (AFI, Audioslave, Chevelle, The Donnas, Godsmack, Jane's Addiction, Jack Johnson) 5 24 2003 RFK Stadium
Collective Soul 5 25 1994 Bayou
Black Crowes (w Everlast opening) 5 25 1999 Nissan Pavilion
Lenny Kravitz 5 25 1999 Nissan Pavilion
HFStival (Eminem, The Strokes, Sum 41) 5 25 2002 RFK Stadium
Fu Manchu 5 25 2014 Rock & Roll Hotel
Matthew Sweet 5 26 1995 WUST Radio Music Hall
U2         5 26 1997 RFK Stadium
HFStival (Abandoned Pools, Citizen Cope, Good Charlotte, Lennex, Little Kingz, New Found Glory, Our Lady Peace, Phaser, Rezin, The Vines) 5 26 2002 RFK Stadium
Lynyrd Skynyrd 5 26 2004 Wolf Trap
Garbage       5 27 1998 Nightclub 930
Eric Clapton (w Doyle Bramhall II opening) 5 27 2001 MCI Center
HFStival (The Cult, Fuel, Powderfinger) 5 27 2001 RFK Stadium
Velvet Revolver 5 27 2004 Nightclub 930
HFStival (Jah Works, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Matisyahu, The Misfits, Nico Gega, Panic!AtTheDisco, KanyeWest) 5 27 2006 Merriweather
Nikka Costa         5 27 2012 Hamilton
The Pretenders 5 28 1994 Hammerjacks
HFStival (Bloodhound Gang, Filter, Rage Against the Machine, Sev, Stone Temple Pilots, Third Eye Blind)               5 28 2000 FedEx Field
HFStival (3 Doors Down, Linkin Park, Little Kingz, Live, Powderfinger, Tantric) 5 28 2001 RFK Stadium
Robert Plant (late arrival, due to HFStival) 5 28 2001 Constitution Hall
HFStival (AFI, Coheed&Cambria, Counting Crows, H.I.M., Jarfly, JoanJett&Blackhearts, Matchbox Romance, The Strokes, The Plunge) 5 28 2006 Merriweather
Chickasaw Mudd Puppies 5 29 1992 Nightclub 930
Tragically Hip 5 29 1996 Nightclub 930
HFStival (Goo Goo Dolls, Jimmies Chicken Shack, Live, The Offspring, Orgy, Beth Orton, RedHotCPs, Silverchair, Sugar Ray) 5 29 1999 PSINet Stadium
Cracker /  Reverend Horton Heat 5 29 2010 Nightclub 930
Winwood, Steve Winwood 5 29 2012 Wolf Trap
Ozzy Osbourne                 5 30 1989 Hammerjacks
Pearl Jam (w My Morning Jacket opening) 5 30 2006 Verizon Center
Free Energy (w Miniature Tigers opening) 5 30 2010 Rock & Roll Hotel

5/24/03 Loudbomb              Black Cat
5/24/05 Cartel/Snowden  Black Cat Backstage
5/24/08 Urban Verbs/Martin Royle    9:30 Club 
5/24/14  Guided By Voices  Black Cat
5/25/10  Diana Ross  Music Center At Strathmore
5/26/02 Ratdog  9:30 Club 
5/26/07 The Slickee Boys/The Howling Mad/Chelsea Graveyard and the Screams At  Midnight    The Ottobar
5/27/87 We've Got A Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It  9:30 Club
5/27/05 High Dials/Marsha Brady  Velvet Lounge
5/27/07 The Slickee Boys/Rustbuckit  9:30 Club 
5/27/08 The Bellrays/Architects  Black Cat Backstage
5/27/09 Holy Fuck/Crocodiles  Rock And Roll Hotel
5/27/11  Paul Simon  9:30 Club   
5/27/11  Scream/OFF!  Black Cat
5/28/86 Meat Puppets    9:30 Club
5/28/94 Beastie Boys    Radio Music Hall  (afternoon show)
5/28/94 Pretenders      Hammerjacks
5/29/97 Tuatara/Minus 5/Mark Eitzel  9:30 Club
5/30/05 Kraftwerk      9:30 Club
5/30/06 Pearl Jam/My Morning Jacket  Verizon Center

That Beastie Boys show may be a Top Ten one for me.  Crazy.

^^^ that Pearl Jam show in 2006 that a few of us have listed is one of the worst gigs I've ever been to, soundwise…… one of the very few times I have ever left a show early…..

Why does it seem I'm the only one who went to all those HFStivals??!?  I thought that was what all the cool kids did.

5/24/1995  Moby @ Black Cat
5/27/1995  Q101 Jamboree @ World Music Theater (Tinley Park, IL) featuring Duran Duran, Faith No More, The Stone Roses, Sheryl Crow, Collective Soul, Flaming Lips, KMFDM, Bush, Sponge
5/29/1995  KMFDM @ the Metro
5/30/1996  Electrafixion @ 9:30
5/24/1997  Gene @ 9:30
5/30/1997  Bettie Serveert w/Ben Folds Five @ 9:30
5/24/2001  Placebo w/Idlewild @ 9:30
5/29/2001  Grant Hart @ Black Cat
5/30/2005  Kraftwerk @ 9:30
5/28/2007  The Faint @ 9:30
5/29/2013  Marilyn Manson @ House of Blue (San Diego)

2009-05-31  Phish  Fenway Park Boston
2014-05-31  Pat DiNizio  Club 66  Edgewood MD
2006-06-01    Radiohead    Tower Theater  Upper Darby, PA
2011-06-01  EELS    The Galaxy Theater  Santa Ana, CA
2014-06-01  Old 97?s  Annapolis Smokehouse and Tavern (private radio station gig)
2004-06-02    Glenn Tilbrook Band  Rams Head  Annapolis
2007-06-02  Junior Brown  Rams Head Annapolis
2008-06-02  Bonerama  Rams Head Annapolis
2013-06-02  The Smithereens  The Hamilton  DC
2005-06-03    The Futureheads  Club Sonar  Baltimore
2011-06-04  Buffalo Springfield  Wiltern Theater  Los Angeles CA
2006-06-05    Willie Nile    Rams Head  Annapolis
2008-06-05  Tom Petty & Heartbreakers/Steve Winwood  Wachovia Center Philly
2009-06-05  Dean & Britta  Black Cat
1988-06-05    Thomas Dolby and the Lost Toy People  930 Club

that Thomas Dolby gig was my only show at the old 930 Club, and it was interesting all around…. there was almost a fight because one guy was dancing so exuberantly he kept bumping into and/or stepping on peoples feet and another guy politely asked him not keep bumping into his girlfriend…. dancing guy was ready to throw down right then and there, kept yelling "I'LL KNOCK YOU OUT!!!"… I'd never expect fisticuffs at a Thomas Dolby show….. anyway,  I thought the show was pretty great, but at some point, my GF felt a little faint from the heat, so we went downstairs for a little while where we could sit and watch the show on the closed circuit tv…. the opening band was sitting next to us, and they were just making all kinds of fun at Dolby's expense, I remember them skewering him during "I Scare Myself", singing it in mocking falsetto voices …. not cool in my book….. then, to put a cap on things, we looked up and there was Robert Downey, Jr coming down the steps…..  all in all, a memorable night for this young suburbanite….  :)

6/4/1993    Pere Ubu @ the Metro (Chicago)
6/1/1995    The Orb @ 9:30
6/2/1995    Radiohead w/ David Gray @ Black Cat
6/4/1996    Pulp @ 9:30
5/31/1997  HFStival @ RFK (Prodigy, Beck, Blondie, Jamiroquai, Echo and the Bunnymen, Cardigans, Kula Shaker, Third Eye Blind, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Verve Pipe, etc.)
5/31/1997  Supergrass @ 9:30
6/6/1997    Everything @ 9:30 (worst concert I've ever had to work)
6/1/2001    Book of Love @ 9:30
6/2/2003    Queens of the Stone Age @ 9:30
6/5/2003    Blink 182 w/ Green Day @ MCI Center
5/31/2005  Kraftwerk @ 9:30
6/4/2005    Sleater-Kinney w/Mary Timony @ Warfield (SF)
6/6/2006    Wolfmother @ Black Cat
5/31/2007  Dinosaur Jr. @ Abbey Pub (Chicago) (this was an amazing show)
6/5/2009    Jane's Addiction w/ Nine Inch Nails @ Susquehanna Bank Center (Camden, NJ)
6/3/2011    Death Cab for Cutie @ 9:30
6/3/2012    Radiohead @ Verizon Center
6/6/2013    Beach House @ 9:30
5/31/2014  The Feelies @ The Met (Pawtucket, RI)
5/31/2015  The Pixies @ 9:30

The Pixies 5 31 2015 Nightclub 930
Bonnie Raitt 5 31 1995 Merriweather
HFStival (Beck, Blondie, Cardigans, Jamiorquai, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Kula Shaker, Local H, Prodigy, Soul Coughing, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Verve Pipe) 5 31 1997 RFK Stadium
930 Anniversary Party (Clutch, The Evens, Dave Grohl, Justin Jones, Tommy Keene, Ted Leo, Bob Mould, Pietasters, Slickee Boys, Troublefunk) 5 31 2010 Nightclub 930
Michelle Shocked 6 1 1994 Nightclub 930
Rammstein 6 1 1999 Nation
Crosby, Stills & Nash 6 2 1992 Wolf Trap
Queens of the Stone Age6 2 2002 Nightclub 930
HFStival (Better Than Ezra, Bush, PJ Harvey, Primus, Ramones, Shudder to Think, Soul Asylum)
6 3 1995 RFK Stadium
Cracker 6 3 2009 State Theater
Radiohead 6 3 2012 Verizon Center
OZZFEST (Black Sabbath, Drain STH, Godsmack, Slayer, System of a Down, Rob Zombie)
6 4 1999 Nissan Pavilion
Pink 6 4 2002 Nation
Cracker 6 5 1998 Fairfax Fair
The National (w The Antlers opening)6 6 2010 Constitution Hall

Fugazi / Sleater-Kinney, Dolores Park SF, 6/4/00
Sleater-Kinney, Warfield SF, 6/4/05
Radiohead, Tower Theater, Philly, 6/2/06
Arcade Fire, Greek Theater, Berkeley, 6/1/07
Grizzly Bear, 930, 6/1/09
Jucifer, Black Cat, 6/1/10
LCD Soundsystem, Fillmore SF, 6/3/10
Buzzcocks, Uptown Oakland, 6/4/10
Johnny Flynn & Caitlin Rose, Ottobar, 6/2/11
Wildbirds and Peacedrums, Black Cat, 6/6/11
Omar Souleyman, Mezzanine SF, 6/1/12
Radiohead, Verizon DC, 6/3/12
The Bats, DC9, 6/4/13
King Khan & the Shrines, Ottobar, 6/4/14
Omar Souleyman / Dengue Fever, 930, 6/6/12

06/04/94  KTCL's Big Adventure @ Fiddler's Green Amphitheater (The Pretenders, The Church, Violent Femmes, Paw, Eve's Plum, Frente, The Call)
06/03/95  KTCL's Big Adventure @ Fiddler's Green Amphitheater (Adam Ant, The Samples, Pretty & Twisted, Ass Ponys, Lord of Word and Disciples of Bass, 311, The Christines, Face to Face)
06/03/98  Peter Bruntnell/Foghorn Leghorn @ 12 Bar Club (London)
06/06/00  Primal Scream @ Bluebird Theater
06/05/01  The Black Crowes/Oasis/Spacehog @ Merriweather
06/05/04  The Billy Nayer Show @ Boulder Theater
06/02/08  Jamie Lidell/James Pants @ Bluebird Theater
06/04/09  Leonard Cohen @ Red Rocks
06/05/09  Shpongle/Hallucinogen/Ott @ Mishawaka Amphitheater
06/01/11  Yeasayer/Smith Westerns/Hush Hush @ Ogden Theater
06/04/11  Iron & Wine/The Head and the Heart @ Boulder Theater
06/05/12  Tinariwen @ L2 Arts and Culture Center
05/31/13  BRMC/Thenewno2 @ Vinyl (Vegas)

Lazer wrote:
06/04/09  Leonard Cohen @ Red Rocks

Nice!

5/31/10  9:30 Club 30th Anniversary Show  9:30 Club 
6/ 2/06 The Bonaparts (final show)/Two If By Sea/Hard Tomorrows  Black Cat 
6/ 2/07 The Pipettes/Smoosh  Black Cat
6/ 3/95 R.E.M./Luscious Jackson    Rosemont Horizon        Chicago, IL
6/ 3/04 Maritime/Medications    Black Cat
6/ 3/05 Washington Social Club/Army Of Me/Exit Clov  9:30 Club
6/ 3/07 Bloc Party  D.A.R. Constitution Hall (front row!)
6/ 3/11  Furthur  Shoreline Amphitheater  Mountain View, CA
6/ 4/11  Furthur  Shoreline Amphitheater  Mountain View, CA
6/ 5/09 A Place To Bury Strangers/Caverns  Rock And Roll Hotel
6/ 6/05 Erasure  9:30 Club (postponed from 5/2)
6/ 6/09 X  Rams Head Live    Baltimore, MD

Bombay wrote:

Lazer wrote:
06/04/09  Leonard Cohen @ Red Rocks

Nice!

Of the many shows I have seen at Red Rocks, that remains my favorite.  Next one up is Belle and Sebastian with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra in a few weeks.

6/ 7/85 The Tubes/Utopia        Merriweather Post Pavilion
6/ 7/12 The Clean    Rock And Roll Hotel
6/ 8/08 Swervedriver  9:30 Club   
6/ 9/91 Grateful Dead/Violent Femmes    Buckeye Lake Music Center
6/ 9/01 Dave Matthews Band/Macy Gray        RFK Stadium
6/ 9/08 Death Cab For Cutie    Merriweather Post Pavilion
6/ 9/09 Beastie Boys/Biz Markie  Rams Head Live
6/10/85 Tears For Fears            Smith Center-GWU   
6/10/95 R.E.M./Luscious Jackson    Coca-Cola Star Lake Amphitheater  Burgettstown, PA
6/10/99 James Brown            9:30 Club
6/10/08 R.E.M.  Walnut Creek Amphitheater  Raleigh, NC
6/10/11 Bob Mould/Olivia Mancini  The Birchmere
6/11/98 X      9:30 Club
6/11/08 R.E.M.  Merriweather Post Pavilion
6/12/88 George Winston              Kennedy Center Concert Hall
6/12/05 Sloan/The Capitol Years    Black Cat   
6/12/06 Joe Jackson  9:30 Club 
6/13/98 Tibetan Freedon Concert RFK Stadium
6/13/05 Pixies/Bloc Party/The Bellrays    Merriweather Post Pavilion
6/13/06 Pat Benatar/Hangface  Rams Head Live
6/13/07 Voxtrot/Favourite Sons  Black Cat 
6/13/13  The Go-Go's/The Psychedelic Furs    Wolf Trap

2009-06-07  Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3  Rams Head Tavern Annapolis
2011-06-07  Buffalo Springfield  Santa Barbara Bowl  Santa Barbara CA
2014-06-07  The Autumn Defense  Rams Head Tavern  Annapolis
2013-06-08  Gary Louris  Jammin? Java  Vienna VA
2005-06-08  The Killers/Keane/Regina Spektor/Louis XIV
2006-06-08  KT Tunstall   930 Club
2008-06-08  Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers/Steve Winwood   Nissan Pavilion
2009-06-08  Decemberists/Andrew Bird/Robyn Hitchcock & Venus 3   Merriweather Post
2011-06-08  Buffalo Springfield  Santa Barbara Bowl  Santa Barbara Bowl CA
2006-06-10  Tom Petty & Heartbreakers/Trey Anastasio  Nissan Pavilion
2013-06-10  Gary Louris  Rams Head Tavern  Annapolis
2008-06-11  Death Cab For Cutie  Merriweather Post  Pavilion
2011-06-11  The Sonics  The Queen Mary   Long Beach CA
2004-06-12  NRBQ   Rams Head Tavern  Annapolis
2006-06-12  Joe Jackson   930 Club
2011-06-12  He?s My Brother, She?s My Sister/Wayne Kramer/Everpresent Fullness    Rhino Pop-Up store, Los Angeles CA
2005-06-13  Pixies/Bloc Party/Bellrays  Merriweather Post Pavilion
2006-06-13  Robert Cray   Rams Head Tavern Annapolis
2008-06-13  My Bloody Valentine    ICA, London UK
2009-06-13  Eric Clapton/Steve Winwood  Verizon Center DC

a couple of things about the above…. the Death Cab thing I went to was a pre-show soundcheck for WRNR listeners, not to the show itself later that night….  second, a sidenote relating to that My Bloody Valentine gig…. they had announced a reunion tour, first time they were gonna play together in I-don't-know-how-many years….. then, about a month before that tour was gonna start, they announced a couple of warm-up gigs in London…. since I was already going to be in London then, I managed to snag tix for the first one…. went to the show, and at the end, the setlist was lying on the soundboard, so I snapped a photo of it and posted it on Flickr…. now, I'd been taking a camera into shows for quite awhile, have gotten some decent shots and a few compliments here and there on some of my concert photos…. so what is by far the MOST viewed photo on my Flickr page???…. not any of the concert "action shots", but the photo of that setlist, with 9700 views, apparently it created quite a stir in the MBV world….. second most views for any photo on my page is 3900….   :)