This Week in Concert History - Celebrating Your Golden Years

has anybody else noticed, that the majority of people who post in this thread, do not post anywhere else on the forum, for some, reason. maybe if life was a gigantic list of dates to remember, they would.

Probably because the rest of the forum comes across like a handful of hipsters sniping at each other for their lack of hipness.

hemisphire wrote:
Probably because the rest of the forum comes across like a handful of hipsters sniping at each other for their lack of hipness.

No, it doesn't.  ::)

What Walkie is talking about is more accurately explained by a divide between people in this community who have no interests outside of music and other people who do.

Julian, wrote:

hemisphire wrote:
Probably because the rest of the forum comes across like a handful of hipsters sniping at each other for their lack of hipness.

No, it doesn't.  ::)

What Walkie is talking about is more accurately explained by a divide between people in this community who have no interests outside of music and other people who do.

This is the thread for true music geeks. If we had a thread about the rarest vinyl and CDs you own, I bet the same people would post. It's fun to see what people have seen over the years.

bearman wrote:
This is the thread for true music geeks.

partially.  it's also a dick measuring exercise…

All I've asked for in this thread is how people have cataloged their concert going for nearly 30 years and no one has answered me.

Bueller?

3/28/1991 – Cocteau Twins @ Riviera (Chicago)
3/25/1994 – Urge Overkill w/ Eugenius @ the Tavern (American University)
3/27/1995 – Shellac @ Black Cat
3/28/1997 – Emmett Swimming @ 9:30 (back when I was working at the Club)
3/27/1999 – Kill Hannah w/ the Cupcakes @ the Metro (Chicago)
3/23/2004 – Saves the Day w/ Grandaddy @ 9:30
3/28/2004 – The Sleepy Jackson @ Black Cat
3/24/2005 – Interpol w/Blonde Redhead @ Sonar
3/25/2005 – Interpol w/Blonde Redhead @ 9:30
3/26/2005 – Interpol w/Blonde Redhead @ 9:30
3/27/2005 – Queens of the Stone Age w/ Throw Rag @ 9:30
3/28/2007 – Cold War Kids w/ Tokyo Police Club & Delta Spirit @ 9:30
3/26/2009 – Primal Scream @ Trocadero
3/27/2009 – Primal Scream @ 9:30
3/27/2010 – AIR @ 4th & B (San Diego)
3/24/2011 – Queens of the Stone Age @ Electric Factory (Philly)
3/24/2012 – Bad Religion @ National Mall
3/22/2013 – Bad Religion @ 9:30
3/23/2013 – The Feelies @ Ottobar
3/27/2013 – The Feelies @ 9:30
3/22/2014 – Ex Hex @ Boot and Saddle (Philly)

sweetcell wrote:

bearman wrote:
This is the thread for true music geeks.

partially.  it's also a dick measuring exercise…

Well, wouldn't the purpose of this entire board serve as that? I mean really…if we can't geek out about the fact that someone saw Hendrix or Nirvana or whatever, then we really are way too jaded and cynical for our own good.

bearman wrote:
Well, wouldn't the purpose of this entire board serve as that?

absolutely! i was just adding a bit of color ;D

Ely, Joe 3 23 1989 Bayou
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant (with Rusted Root opening) 3 23 1995 USAir Arena
The Magic Numbers3 23 2006 Nightclub 930
Jawbox 3 24 1994 Nightclub 930
BB King 3 24 1995 Warner
Zebra         3 24 2001 Jaxx
The Cult 3 24 2006 Nightclub 930
Fu Manchu 3 24 2007 Jaxx
Fatboy Slim 3 26 2005 Nightclub 930
Rob Zombie 3 26 2006 Nightclub 930
Lamb of God 3 26 2007 Nightclub 930
Bob Weir & Ratdog3 27 2006 Warner
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 3 28 2012 Warner
Marillion 3 29 1992 Bayou

sweetcell wrote:

bearman wrote:
Well, wouldn't the purpose of this entire board serve as that?

absolutely! i was just adding a bit of color ;D

Now I want to see some bravado. Damn you! :)

This is a great thread… keep going guys..

nevermind the inevitable backlash


I would have loved to see the Van Halen show at the Cap Center in 1984…

a few years back i thought about starting a concert journal or something….i regret not having done so…..

i post, to start dialogue . . . i, succeeded.  i do enjoy this thread.  i just, found that little bit of trivia, to be inter,esting.

Yada wrote:
All I've asked for in this thread is how people have cataloged their concert going for nearly 30 years and no one has answered me.

Bueller?

Lost among the chaff.  I kept it in a spiral notebook until 1999, then created my own website where I add a page per year.  These days I also crosspost at setlist.fm.

3/25/91  The Pet Shop Boys  Tonight Show
3/22/95  Jimmy Page & Robert Plant/Rusted Root  US Air Arena
3/23/95  Jimmy Page & Robert Plant  US Air Arena
3/28/96  Collective Soul/Rust  Capital Ballroom
3/25/03  The Bobs  Barns of Wolf Trap
3/24/06  Getaway Car/Adam Richman  Jammin' Java
3/23/07  Snow Patrol/OK Go/Silversun Pickups  Bender Arena
3/24/07  Winterpills  Iota
3/26/07  Tommy Shaw & Jack Blades  Birchmere
3/22/08  Jim Boggia/Ruut  Coffee East
3/28/08  Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby  Johnny Mercer Theatre
3/28/09  Eddie From Ohio/Lucy Wainwright Roche  Rams Head
3/27/10  Mercy Creek  House Concert
3/24/11  Lucy Kaplansky/Mark Erelli  Barns At Wolf Trap
3/28/12  Van Halen/Kool & The Gang  Verizon Center
3/27/14  Red Molly/Mark Erelli  Barns At Wolf Trap

hemisphire wrote:
3/23/07  Snow Patrol/OK Go/Silversun Pickups  Bender Arena

I remember You Be Betty being all sorts of hyped about this show. Man, I wonder what happened to her…

Yada wrote:
All I've asked for in this thread is how people have cataloged their concert going for nearly 30 years and no one has answered me.

Bueller?

Just a text file, really.  In the early 2000s I scanned all my old ticket stubs and made a list of all of the shows.  From that point onward I just kept adding new shows to the list.  Date/Bands/Venue/City.  Occasionally I'll remember an old show that I don't have cataloged and just lookup the info online and fill it in.  Unfortunately, many of the early shows I don't have a record of were old 9:30 gigs and local/hardcore shows for which I didn't buy tickets in advance, so I have no record of those. :-(

Promo ticket from their "Power" tour.  Came with backstage meet and greet, merch and a flashlight.  Seats were bleachers behind the band.  We were given cues for using the flashlight during the show.



Then again, it was Kansas…

walkonby wrote:
has anybody else noticed, that the majority of people who post in this thread, do not post anywhere else on the forum, for some, reason. maybe if life was a gigantic list of dates to remember, they would.

I'm a long time forum lurker going back to the early 00s. Not currently in the area and this seems like a fun exercise to remember some older shows. That's all. Guess I'll go back to lurking

this is what I do.  I just keep every single ticket of every single concert/comedy show/special movie/theatre performance I have ever gone to, starting with my very first two concerts when I was a wee lad, which were utwo zoo tv rfk, and pink Floyd division bell rfk.  I keep them in fully overstuffed envelopes marked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6 7, 8 . . . yeah I think I am on eight now.  and I go through them and read them and have nice memories from them.  that, is all.