This week rollcall

Sunny Day Real Estate
Neil Young

bearman🐻 wrote:
Sunny Day Real Estate
Neil Young

Awesome! Look forward to hearing how Neil DC show I attend sucked compared to anything else.

Hutch wrote:

bearman🐻 wrote:
Sunny Day Real Estate
Neil Young

Awesome! Look forward to hearing how Neil DC show I attend sucked compared to anything else.

Oh, no, Bearman and I will be at that one – it'll be awesome.

Neil as well

Julian, wrote:

Hutch wrote:
Be sure to visit the monument to me erected after my stay in that city….

We tore that down with the other monuments a few years back. Sorry, got carried away.

well played, points awarded

Hutch wrote:

bearman🐻 wrote:
Sunny Day Real Estate
Neil Young

Awesome! Look forward to hearing how Neil DC show I attend sucked compared to anything else.

This made me laugh…to be fair, if I say something was better in another city, I'm just stating a preference/opinion. One of the only times I can absolutely say one show in a city sucked vs. another was the final Replacements tour when DC (Echostage) was underwhelming to a truly epic scale, and Philly the next night was a joyous and raucous celebration of the band. There might be others, but that's the most obvious one.

bearman🐻 wrote:
One of the only times I can absolutely say one show in a city sucked vs. another was the final Replacements tour when DC (Echostage) was underwhelming to a truly epic scale, and Philly the next night was a joyous and raucous celebration of the band.

grr…I enjoyed my one and only mats show, not like I'll get a chance again

My point is if you’re lucky enough to see multiple nights it’s kind of poor form to poopoo the local show. No offense bearman I know you don’t have a mean bone in your body.  But Kind of makes one feel bad.  That’s the kind of thing for a particular artists forum where many people follow a band around to multiple shows.

And I didn’t need to see multiple Mats shows to know DC sucked.

No wrote:
My point is if you’re lucky enough to see multiple nights it’s kind of poor form to poopoo the local show. No offense bearman I know you don’t have a mean bone in your body.  But Kind of makes one feel bad.  That’s the kind of thing for a particular artists forum where many people follow a band around to multiple shows.

And I didn’t need to see multiple Mats shows to know DC sucked.

I understand. I also have missed out on SO many shows because of work over the years…I felt left out when I'd hear people glow about stuff that I didn't get to see, often that I was looking forward to and then couldn't go because I was stuck and had no choice. So many times I'd be scouring tour dates to see if I could make another gig, and often that was the only shot I had at seeing them, and then I'd be bummed out. Sometimes I think I try to make up for it if I can make it work out, because life is short and I realize I'm fortunate to try to get to see multiple shows on tours if I'm able. But that never stopped me from enjoying what people would post if I missed out because it also sort of helps reinforce that I suspect when something will be great. More often than not, DC gets the better shows. We are lucky. Bands seem to love playing here, the audiences are great, and the venues for the most part are superior. These days, Anthem is super hit or miss for me. I'm trying to embrace it for what it is, but all too often it just feels too big for the bands that I enjoy seeing there. I  appreciate that my posts can be like rubbing salt on a wound, so I'll shut up and stick to the local stuff.

Got to the lube at 2 am. No traffic issues! Like I said 20 minutes! Waiting for gates to open

Go Neil!

Three songs added to last set

If he plays Vampire Blues I may have a heart attack

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/neil-young-and-crazy-horse/2024/firstbank-amphitheater-franklin-tn-6bab9a4e.html

How's traffic and parking looking after a 15 hour head start? Any cock sightings or is he still sitting on the Beltway?

If you haven’t left yet fuggedaboutit… awaiting torrential downpour and lightning…you may need a boat to get around

Oof glad I dodged that 85 lawn ticket

Opener just went on

Rev Billy and the Church of stop shopping!!

I am here by myself. My friends didn’t even respond to my Facebook chat post about the show. Suits me fine. Am here for Neil.

Alcohol prices here at the lube are insane….$18/$25 for a drink… because of Neil they are not serving lots of things. Very limited options and nothing reasonable. I didn’t get anything

They have local beer…DB and I think another kind

Not even Red Bull! No jack Daniel’s cause of Neil! $25 cocktails

Wine and champagne only by the bottle!

Took me 48 minutes to get to my parked spot. It was raining and traffic was bad around Vienna

Julian, at merch they have a 100% organic cotton shirt for you! $150

Ok Rev Billy was only on 30 minutes…now a bunch of roadies in lab coats are on stage

Holy shit

The ocean

Omg this parking lot…am so fucked