Here's some. Dammit, now you've gone and made me all sad-like.


1. Was up in Madison WI junior high school year to visit the school with my parents. Like Madison a lot -

1.5 wait!! just remembered a flyer from a Tar Babies/Gomers show that I saw - never saw the Tar Babies also. So I guess that's another lamentable miss.

1 (cont.) Anyway, as we were leaving we drove past some club, and I as I looked out the window I saw this:

TAD
Nirvana

for later that night. There's no way it would of happened so I schemed all of the way back to ChIL on how to get a car and some buddies and drive back up. Unfortunately it was a Gordion Knot, and moot because I would have been too young to get in.

2. Vague recollection of post-Nevermind release/pre-global explosion show in Chicago at the Metro where some people were going, and I was, I dunno, broke or going to see something cheaper and I thought "Ahh, whatever, I'll just see them next time." Boy, that was entirely wrong. Four months later they crossed into the "live shows that are so insanely packed and shitty sounding that I boycott them" realm.

Never saw Nirvana.

3. Slint
4. Bastro
5. Have yet to see Fantomas/Melvins Big Band - a spectacle at minimum.
6. Have managed to be out of town or busy for every Mission of Burma reunion show. Thank god they're recording.
7. Same goes for Wire.
8. Barely need to mention it but Big Black/Rapeman. And Scratch Acid for that matter.
9. 4-piece Silkworm
10. Moving Targets
11. Minutemen

1.5, 3, 4, 8, 10, 11 - all of these bands were playing when I was too young to get in the clubs or too stupid to find out about non-club shows.

The final Tar show.

The first time there was supposed to be a final Tar show it was scheduled for the Fireside so I went, but Tar couldn't make it.
The next (real) final Tar show was at Lounge Ax and I wasn't 21 yet.

I also missed the Shellac show during the final week of Lounge Ax due to a number of factors.

I'm not a huge fan of any of these bands, but I do like them all to some degree: Beat Happening, The Melvins, and Nirvana played in a grange hall in the woods on the Olympic Penninsula back in 1988 or so. I knew it was happening & could have gone, but didn't. People talked about that show for quite a while.

A high-school buddy of mine saw U2 at The Paramount in Seattle in, I think, 1983, on the War tour maybe. He said that he and most everyone else in the audience wept with joy, and I wish I had.

There's a photograph on the wall of the Fillmore West in SF of The Who, playing "the last note of the last performance of Tommy" at the Fillmore in 1972 or whenever it was. Has anyone seen this photograph? I get chills thinking about it, I really do: the photo is taken from high up behind the stage; Pete Townsend has thrown his guitar maybe 40 ft into the air; the whole place is lit up; and every face (and you can see them all, including the rest of the band) is looking up at the airborne guitar w/a look of something like ecstacy. It's maybe my favorite live photograph ever, and it does make me wish I saw The Who back in the day.

I also wish I'd seen the Grateful Dead, Santana, The Outlaws & Eddie Money in Eugene in '78 or whenever that was. Oh, wait a sec - I did.

Dylan wrote:

Christopher wrote:-December 20, 2003 at the Abbey Pub in Chicago, IL - U.S. Maple w/Cheer-Accident

Two of my favorite bands on the same bill. Almost went, but i was broke as hell and couldn't make the drive. God damnit.

Me, too. It would be interesting to be in the audience instead of on stage.

Hello, Dylan. Thanks for the information regarding DNA.

while I would have loved to have seen DNA and let's say the Who 68-70 (if I had a time machine I hook up that bill)or the stooges from the same period or about a zillion other bands I wish I could have seen but due to when/where I was born I missed, there is only one show that truly eats me up inside that I missed:

Shellac, Halloween 1998

because the (now mrs) and I were planning on going, but at the last minute her mother said she was coming up to stay w/ us and instead. but that isn't the worst part, the worst part was that instead of seeing yow and shellac do sex pistols songs I nearly died in an apartment fire w/ my cat under on arm and my hysterical mother-in-law by the other. happy halloween

a long time ago a co-worker told me about a show in chicago at some place called Bangkok on Bangkok, possibly in 1989.
he said the lineup was Slint and an early version of Jesus Lizard.
I know that Slint played there because I have a crusty 13th generation tape of the show, but if the Jesus Lizard played also...well holy fucking shit, that would have been sweet. like I said, I don't know the validity of his claims but it seems true

yep.

oucheh wrote:a long time ago a co-worker told me about a show in chicago at some place called Bangkok on Bangkok, possibly in 1989.
he said the lineup was Slint and an early version of Jesus Lizard.
I know that Slint played there because I have a crusty 13th generation tape of the show, but if the Jesus Lizard played also...well holy fucking shit, that would have been sweet. like I said, I don't know the validity of his claims but it seems true

yep.

For six bucks, you got a meal and a show. King Kong also played. It was good. The owner kept exhorting everybody to "dance here, we got nice dance floor... everybody can dance here..."

Slint were really great that night. The Jesus Lizard not yet, but on their way. They played on a rooftop in Uptown later that summer, and that was the first in an incredible string of brilliant gigs.

to steve,

thank you for backing up my co-worker's claim.

i can only imagine how great it was

yep