Best show you saw at the Bayou

i saw R.E.M., before having ever heard of them, warm up for The English Beat and being underwhelmed musicially, but sure do remember Stipe standing still front and center while Buck and Mills bounced all over the place. needless to say once I heard the record i was a fan, until "Losing My Religion" era tours..

Originally posted by Seth Hurwitz:

Originally posted by SPARX:
Todd Rundgren playing with Ian Hunter in the same band at a benefit for John Anderson's Presidential campaign.They played both Todd and Ian's songs and also some of their favorite songs by other artists.Still have the T-shirt.

that was at the Ontario Theatre

I finally googled it and they did 2 shows that night at the Ontario.Not sure which I attended but it left a lasting impression,having a few of my idols involved in the 1st presidential election I could vote in,but I digress.After more thought I'm gonna go with Patti Smith at Bayou when she was so wasted she fell off the piano and PIL's show at the Ontario as my faves.Although both the Furs and Cure shows Jonas mentioned were stellar.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
i saw R.E.M., before having ever heard of them, Stipe standing still front and center while Buck and Mills bounced all over the place.

Man, that's when Stipe had all that curly hair almost entirely obscuring his face…he had a long road to charisma on stage. Meanwhile Buck always tickled the hell out of me – that much joy is infectious.

Originally posted by edbert:

I saw Joe King Carrasco & the Crowns there but can't remember if they were opening for someone else or headlining.

Must've been opening because I remember it, and I wouldn't have gone to see him headlining. Could that have been Squeeze or Rockpile headlining?

Unfortunately I never got to see Rockpile. But definitely could have been Squeeze.

a couple more memorable Bayou shows…

The Factory, when Vance took the stage by diving onto it from the balcony

Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction

Originally posted by twangirl:
Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction

There's a name I haven't heard in about 20 years.

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:

Originally posted by twangirl:
Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction

There's a name I haven't heard in about 20 years.

Man that is a riot!!! I can't even remember any of their songs, but I remember them…

Prong and Course of Empire

What a great show.

Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction was a great show! How can you forget songs like Prime Mover and Tattooed Beat Messiah? That is golden.

PRIME MOVER

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Well I Love Tv And I Love T. Rex
I Can See Through Your Skirt
I've Got X-Ray Spex
I Came From The Sky Like A 747
I'm The Bad Boy Baby I Fell Out Of Heaven
Sex Fuhrer Baby I'm A Love Dictator
Blitzkrieg Romance I'm A Cool Dominator

P-R-I-M-E Prime Mover
Baby You're M-I-N-E I'm The Groover

Well I'm Christ In Shades I'm A Napalm God
Your Lipstick Flickers Round My Lightning Rod
You Fever Pitch Bitch You Love To Tease
Well I'm A Hot Dog Daddy Up On Your Knees
Sex Fuhrer Baby I'm A Love Dictator
Blitzkrieg Romance I'm A Living Detonator

P-R-I-M-E Prime Mover
Baby You're M-I-N-E I'm The Groover Yeah

I'm The Sex Fuhrer Baby I'm A Love Dictator
You're A Disco Reptile A Funky Alligator

P-R-I-M-E Prime Mover
Baby You're M-I-N-E I'm The Groover

That '00 album blew. So did whatever that new group Heiskell made after they broke up. I'd be interested in seeing them again if the majority of the band is back together. Or if they're playing Convalescing…so maybe i'll be getting tickets.

It's weird but they were mostly just popular around here…HFS played the heck out of Native Son but they didn't get populer nationally till the third album (if they did at all).

Originally posted by Bags:
Yes, they did play "Convalescing in Spain," in fact. They played a lot – over an hour and a half. Everything I would have wanted except "Margot Known as Missy." I never got their self-released Judybats '00 album, but they played several songs I didn't know – at least 5.

Cool, bearman – you're virtually right beside us!

Originally posted by Seth Hurwitz:
speaking of which…

best show show you saw at the Ontario?

I never got to DC that much back in those days and I'm confusing some of the venues.

But I can sure tell you the worst show! You know the one Seth. New Order during their 1st US tour. Probably the worst concert ever! Through no fault of your's, I might add.

The entire show started extremely late and NO was drunk out of their minds and put on one God awful show. Rumor has it that you had to go across the street into the deli and pull their asses out and kick them onstage.

Care to elaborate?

Originally posted by Jaguär:

Originally posted by Seth Hurwitz:
speaking of which…

best show show you saw at the Ontario?

I never got to DC that much back in those days and I'm confusing some of the venues.

But I can sure tell you the worst show! You know the one Seth. New Order during their 1st US tour. Probably the worst concert ever! Through no fault of your's, I might add.

The entire show started extremely late and NO was drunk out of their minds and put on one God awful show. Rumor has it that you had to go across the street into the deli and pull their asses out and kick them onstage.

Care to elaborate?

My elaboration would be that I too, after many years,confuse old shows venues that no longer exist.Funny how that works.Chalk it up to youth, state of mind at the time and the actual amount of time passed.I love when memories get triggered when someone else happens to mention something that rings a bell.Then it comes flowing back,like it was just yesterday.

New Order at the Ontario…

time for the band to go on and nobody could find the bass player…manager went on instead pretending to play bass while we dragged the real one out of the Cafe Don across the street…I say pretended because the whole show was on tape

I remember people camped outside my office door demanding refunds because the band sucked…they didn't think it was on tape, they just thought they should get their money back because they didn't like them…no I didn't give it to them (if I gave people money back every time a band sucked I'd be living in a small apartment in Hyattsville)

we assumed they'd never be able to show their face here again, but then Blue Monday happened and thay sold out the Warner in a day…they pretended to play there too, but nobody cared

a quick peek at the New Order Gigography indicates that six days before that Ontario Theatre show, they played in Detroit where Blue Monday had definitely become a hit at the time. St. Andrews was packed to the gills on an insanely hot night, felt like 100+, with little to no air condition in the club. New Order waited until the absolute last minute at 1am so as they could get thier set in before the 2am curfew. Not a very pleasent experience.

saw them a couple years later with Gene Loves Jezebel and Echo and the Bunnymen headlining, and the only way to differentiate songs was by identifying the beats spewing out of the drum machine

My fave Ontario show: Thin Lizzy, Dec. 9, 1980. The day after John Lennon died. The power went out during "Boys are Back" but Lynott and the band carried on, with just the drums pounding and the crowd engaged in a back and forth "boys are back" chant. Impromptu, professional, and awesome.