This Week in Concert History - Celebrating Your Golden Years

8/4/14
NIN / Soundgarden
JLL

8/5/89
Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe
MPP

8/ 5/85 Nina Hagen/Trouble Funk    Warner

8/6/12
Dum Dum Girls
Off Broadway Nightclub
St Louis

1994  8/3 -  Rolling Stones - RFK
2022  8/3  - Rage Against The Machine - Cap One
1994  8/4 -  Fugazi - Ft. Reno 🙂
2005  8/4 -  Brian Jonestown Massacre - DC9
1988  8/5 -  Pink Floyd - Wembley Stadium (London)
2007  8/5 -  Satellite Party - House of Blues (Chicago)
1995  8/6 -  Primus/Helmut - Bender Arena
2000  8/6  - AC/DC - Mellon Arena (Pittsburgh)
1992  8/7 -  Black Sabbath - Const Hall
2007  8/7 -  The Black Crowes - Sonar (Balto)
1994  8/8 -  L O L L A P A L O O Z A - Charlestown Races (WV)
1998  8/8 -  Phish - Merriweather
2003  8/9 -  Aerosmith/Kiss - Nissan
2016  8/9 -  Paul McCartney - Verizon Ctr

rich_WDC wrote:
1992  8/7 -  Black Sabbath - Const Hall

🤯

2002/08/08 - american analog set / her space holiday / planar - 929 cafe, richmond va
2002/08/10 - coldplay - 9:30 club, washington dc
2003/08/10 - les claypool's frog brigade - state theater, falls church va
1999/08/13 - roger waters - montage mountain, scranton pa
2003/08/13 - the flaming lips - metropolis, montreal qc

Peter, Paul and Mary
8/7/92
Wolftrap

grateful wrote:
Peter, Paul and Mary
8/7/92
Wolftrap

That's kinda wild.

grateful wrote:
7/29/89
Peter, Paul and Mary
Wolf Trap

That, but not this?

distance wrote:
2002/08/10 - coldplay - 9:30 club, washington dc

no kiss cam?
was it sold out?

Phanick!-Hatch wrote:

distance wrote:
2002/08/10 - coldplay - 9:30 club, washington dc

no kiss cam?
was it sold out?

I was at this show as well.  Couple weeks before Rush of Blood to Head was released. Coldplay never did a proper DC show for Parachutes (just HFStivals) so this was much anticipated.  There was something about the show that made the ‘intimate venue’ still feel like an arena. Like something super professional and removed.  Connection to crowd and the performance of the songs so polished and rehearsed.  They were ready to be huge.

My Morning Jacket / Band of Horses
Aug 08, 2012
Peabody Opera House St Louis, Missouri, United States

8/ 8/85 Meat Puppets    9:30 Club
8/ 9/85 New Order/A Certain Ratio  Warner Theatre

Bombay wrote:
8/ 8/85 Meat Puppets    9:30 Club
8/ 9/85 New Order/A Certain Ratio  Warner Theatre

if Setlist is accurate that ACR show was one of only 13 live performances in the US for them and what looks their only actual tour of four dates.. several one off NYC shows prior to 1985

which leads to this which was release today

A Certain Ratio - Live in America 1985 tour

out on streaming and bandcamp

https://acertainratio.bandcamp.com/album/a-certain-ratio-live-in-america

even a ship from the US option for this one… still not cheap

ACR continue their ongoing reissue campaign with Live in America — an essential artefact from the band’s career, capturing their summer ’85 US tour supporting labelmates New Order— then fellow Factory artists, now as part of the Mute family — across the East Coast and Canada. Originally released on cassette and sold at gigs, this rare gem is now available on CD and vinyl, complete with new artwork and sleeve notes.

Compiled from the standout performances of the tour, Live in America spans the band’s early years through to ‘Si Firmir O Grido’ — a track that was released a year later on Force — capturing ACR at a thrilling crossroads in their trajectory. The recordings were taken from five of the venues they played, Felt Forum: NYC, Opera House: Boston, Agora Theatre: Akron OH, Bismarck Theatre: Chicago and Warner Theatre: Washington DC.

If it wasn’t for Bernard Sumner I have to think ACR wouldn’t have ever played the US. After Ian Curtis died Barney learned a lot about synths working with ACR. There were all these acts Barney worked with like The Section.

That’s the thing people forget …Barney kept working to learn more for about a decade.

Led Zeppelin 2
Aug 09, 2014
The Fillmore

grateful wrote:
Led Zeppelin 2: Electric Boogaloo
Aug 09, 2014
The Fillmore

Fixed it for you.

Paul McCartney
8/9/16
MCI Center

kosmo wrote:

A Certain Ratio

quote from their website

their classic 1980 debut album The Graveyard and the Ballroom, while Moscrop considers it to be akin to “Brian Eno meeting Herbie Hancock meeting Television meeting Jimi Hendrix meeting Chic and The Velvet Underground in a dark alley”. 


apparently this actually happened  ;)

methinks lou would have made this extremely difficult