Here are all the concerts I've been to.... I think.
MOST-SEEN BANDS:
Ween: 10 (8 for Carolyn?) (counts Gene Ween solo show, Gene Ween Band show, Gene Ween 1-man show, but not Moistboyz)
Voltaire: 8 (9 for Carolyn)
Gwar: 5 (4 for Carolyn)
Church, The: 4 (3 for Carolyn)
Bad Religion: 3
Freezepop: 3
Kreator: 3 (2 for Carolyn)
NoMeansNo: 3
Rammstein: 3
Sisters Of Mercy: 3
They Might Be Giants: 3 (5 for Carolyn)
Type O Negative: 3 (4 if you count the Carnivore show)
Violent Femmes: 3
Agent Orange: 2
ALL: 2 (3 if you count Descendents shows, but one was the same night as one of these)
Atari Teenage Riot: 2
Celtic Frost: 2
Chemlab: 2
Danzig: 2
Dethklok: 2
D.R.I.: 2 (1 for Carolyn)
Megadeth: 2
Ministry: 2
Marilyn Manson: 2
Nine Inch Nails: 2
My Life With The...: 2 (...Thrill Kill Kult)
Slayer: 2
Testament: 2
Descendents: 1 (3 if you count ALL shows, but one of those was on the same night as one of these)
ITEMS RECEIVED:
pick, guitar, D.R.I., 20101011. Jaxx, Springfield, VA. Given by bassist.
pick, guitar (or bass?), Slayer, Anthrax/Megadeth/Slayer, 20091006. 1st Mariner Arena, Baltimore, MD.
pick, guitar, Agent Orange, 20071024?. Jaxx, Springfield, VA. Orange pick.
drumstick, Chemlab, 20071213. The Sonar, Baltimore, MD. Met Jared. Carolyn got a hat.
drumstick, autographed, NoMeansNo. 20060929. Rock & Roll Hotel, DC.
*setlists -- too many to list for now
*autographs -- too many to list for now
*pictures -- many, including pictures with Nic Endo * 2 concerts, NoMeansNo, Chemlab, All/Descendents:Stephen Egerton, All:Scott Reynolds
*mics -- have sung into mics on occasion, such as the 2011 Atari Teenage Riot show
GUITAR HERO SONGS:
Guitar Hero songs I've seen played live: 9 (8 by the original artist). Bad Religion:Infected, Danzig:Mother, Dead Kennedys:Police Truck (covered by Agent Orange), Dethklok:Thunderhorse, Freezepop:Get Ready 2 Rokk,More Talk Less Rokk,(also, their 2 songs from Frequency and Amplitude) Jane's Addiction:Stop!, Megadeth:Hangar 18, Megadeth:Symphony Of Destruction
CONCERTS PER YEAR:



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BANDS #1:
Agent Orange, All, Anacrusis, Anthrax, Atari Teenage Riot, Bad Religion, Carnivore, Celtic Frost, Chemlab, The Church, Danzig, Descendents, Dethklok, D.R.I., Freezepop, Gene Ween, Gene Ween Band, Gwar, John S. Hall (King Missile), KMFDM, Kreator, Marilyn Manson, MC Chris, Meg Lee Chin, Megadeth, Metallica, Ministry, The Misfits, Moistboyz, Murphy's Law, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Nine Inch Nails, NoFX, NoMeansNo, Ozzy Osbourne, Pixies, Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Sabbat, Samhain, Sisters Of Mercy, Slayer, Smashing Pumpkins, S.O.D., SoulFly, Testament, They Might Be Giants, Tryptikon, Type O Negative, Violent Femmes, Voivod, Voltaire, Ween, Wrathchild America.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BANDS #2:
(opening acts, stuff that wouldn't have drawn me there on its own, stuff seen with parents--some stuff I like, some stuff I don't like)
1349, 16 Volt, Annihilator, Biohazard, Cult,The, Dead Milkmen, Moody Blues, Morgoth, Otto Von Schirach, System Of A Down.
FULL ALBUMS I'VE SEEN PERFORMED LIVE:
(special album-specific concerts kick ass!)
(9 albums total + 1 album seen twice = 10 album performances)
Church, The - Starfish
Church, The - Priest = Aura
Church, The - Untitled #23
Megadeth - Rust In Peace -- TWICE!
Pixies - Doolittle
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Testament - The Legacy
REUNIONS/BANDS THAT HAD BEEN BROKEN UP AND I THOUGHT I'D NEVER GET TO SEE:
Carnivore - 2006, Jaxx, Springfield - RIP Peter Steele
Celtic Frost - twice in 1 year or so [then they broke up again]
Samhain - Danzig opening for himself (and better, too)
S.O.D. - after 15 years or so
Pixies, The - Doolittle tour
...will hopefully be adding Descendents to this list
LIST OF SHOWS:
- Moody Blues. 19881027. Patriot Center, VA.
Taken by my parents. Kind of a lame first concert! Had I not gone, my first would have been Metallica! :)
- Metallica/The Cult. 19890628. [DATE UPDATED, THIS MAY BE WRONG: Capital Centre, Landover, MD]. And Justice For All tour.
Damn did The Cult suck in a bad way.
Hetfield played a riff that was Twist Of Cain by Danzig. I'd never heard it at the time. They had a Misfits shirt on, too, I think.
That is pretty much how I got into The Misfits, who became my favorite band ever for 10+ yrs, until they were co-tied with Ween and Atari Teenage Riot.
Neck sore for 5 days.
- Testament/WrathChild America/Annihilator. 19891117.
Annihilator opened, followed by WrathChild, with Testament headlining. Practice What You
Preach tour. Somewhere in College Park, MD. Assaulted multiple times
by some loser BBSer, pratically broke my back once and my neck the other
time. Dad hung out in the parking
lot the entire time because he was my ride. Damn did I need a driver's
license.
- Kreator/BioHazard/Morgoth - Kreator headlining. The Bayou, MD.
1990ish I think.
Morgoth opened, their first American show. Dad insisted on going
so I made him wear a Danzig shirt. He stuck out like a sore thumb and
made people do double-takes. We found someone's wallet, looked around
for them, and gave it to the club.
<Butt-head>They thought he was cool, huhuhuhuh.</Butt-head>
As an update, Dad says my friends bailed on me, and I had no one to get there. I don't remember it that way at all.
If only I could find out the date of this show, I could find out whether I had a driver's license then or not. I got my license in 5/1990.
- The Church. 19900608. The Citadel, Washington, DC. Gold Afternoon Fix tour.
Forgot who opened.
Somewhere in Adams-Morgan. Hung out with fellow TJHSS&T people while
there. Still in 10th grade but some stranger bought me beer.
- Anacrusis/D.R.I. 1991. I think this was around D.R.I.'s
Thrash Zone album though really I'm only a fan of their first 2 albums
(Dirty Rotten EP and Dealing With It). I hadn't heard Anacrusis until
I moshed to "Terrified" at the show, but I was very impressed and was into
them afterwards (although each successive album got lighter and lighter
until it become sucky). I met the D.R.I. singer, he happened
to be sitting at the bar next to me. I got his autograph, but eventually
lost it since I had it in my notebook that I used for class.
- Bad Religion/All. 19920721?, 9:30 Club, Washington, DC.
This must have been 1992, maybe late 1991.
Internet records indicate they played at 9:30 club on 19920721 and 19920722, so it was probably one of those.
All's Percolator tour.
Bad Religion opened for All, who played about
1/3rd Descendents songs much to my happy surprise. Before the
show I listened to Stephen Egerton of All talk about how cool
it felt to see their video on a vidscreen in a club. It was cool just
hanging out with a band member. Later, in the back of the club, I ran
into Descendents/All founder Bill Stevenson and got him to
autograph several All stickers. He was with some woman, he told
me he hadn't seen her in like 10 years. The fact that they remembered
each other made me wonder if she was one of the females significant enough
to have had a Descendents song written about her.
This show was cool because I ventured out to the 9:30 Club
all by myself for the first time, cuz no
one wanted to go to the show with me. At the time I had never heard
Bad Religion. I chatted with fellow BBSer Trailblazer while there.
Drove around and looked at whores afterwards, fun for a highschooler.
- spoken word: singer of King Missile ... and a couple other speakers.
It was in the movie theatre of Squire's Student Center, Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, freshman year (1992-1993). The King Missile singer, John S. Hall, appeared
without his band and performed many spoken-word acts. Some of these
were King Missile songs, like "Martin Scorcese", or "Too Many Socks!".
(I want to say one of the other acts was Jeneane Garafolo,
but really it was this chick who was in a spoken-word-to-music
video that Beavis And Butt-head watched. John S. Hall was nice enough to notice this list, and tell me that it was Maggie Estep! Awesome!)
- Gwar/Murphy's Law. Peppermint Beach Club, Virginia Beach.
1992-1994ish. Didn't know Murphy's Law was opening until I saw them
perform! Pleasant surprise! Lost my shoe in the pit, but found it
again. I had to go into the mosh pit hopping on one leg! I managed to get the show,
but was moshed into so hard it flew out of my hands (and I flew a few feet as well).
Hopping on one foot, managed to get it again, and hop out of the pit and put it back on!
Of course "Sex-Offender Doug" was there. Had one of the most
memorable nights of intoxication following the show. For instance,
I was at the beach (in Pungo I think), but I never managed to see it.
We drove a minivan between trees, in the woods (randomly avoiding trees), etc. Doug MacKenzie
("Werewolf Doug") ran in front of the minivan while we were driving in the middle of
Norfolk -- how did he know
we were there?!?! In all of Norfolk?!?!? He was like a werewolf!
I wish they'd played "Have You Seen Me?". Gwar only played like an hour.
But the juggling of fire by Slymenstra Hymen was exquisite.
Slave blood? Yeah some.
- Smashing Pumpkins. 1993-1994ish. Salem or Roanoke Civic Center,
near Virginia Tech. Siamese Dream tour. AWESOME lightshow, probably the
best I've seen to date (as of 5/24/2000). They had color-cycling, zooming
animated fractals set to a laser show and fog.
- Violent Femmes. Squires Student Center Auditorium. 1994-1996ish.
They talked about how they were going to go to college, but formed
a punk rock band instead.
- Nine Inch Nails/Marilyn Manson. 1994. On the way back from Ocean City.
Had never heard of Marilyn Manson at the time; it seemed like
the most awful crap I'd ever heard and practically drove Brent and Me
insane (Though I like Marilyn Manson now!). NO ENCORE! Trent is a
prick. The crying during "Something I Can Never Have" was a bit
too melodramatic -- am I supposed to be buying it?? It was still a
great show, of course! But they did not play long enough...
- NoMeansNo with Alice Donut, Ultra Bide. 19951013. 9:30 Club.
They finally came this far
south! I bought my first Hanson Brothers (Ramones-sounding
NoMeansNo side-project) CD here. I remember they played a messed up
version of "Big Dick" that lasted like 10 minutes, and included band
associates getting up on stage and playing weird instruments (horns, etc).
I wonder if this was the "Big Dick (Extended Version)" that showed up on
the "Would We Be Alive?" EP a few years later?
- Misfits. 1996-1997ish. (new) 9:30 Club.
Finally most of the band reunites and
plays their old 1977-1983 songs! Of course without Danzig, they are not
The Misfits, but just Misfits. With no creative head. And whatshisface
Graves is a good Danzig poseur, but there was no substitute for Danzig's
songwriting ability. At least they only played 3 or so songs from the new
album. Why wont they play Theme For A Jackal? This was my first chance
to see some of my favorite songs performed since my parents wouldn't let me
go to one of the last
Undead concerts before they broke up (they re-formed later, though, but
with a lighter sound of course. I got drunk my first time ever,
right before turning 16 on 1/13/1990, due to my anger at parental units).
- Sisters Of Mercy. 19970628. The Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA.
Farthest I've gone for a concert. At first we we're looking eye-level
at all the buildings going "Where the hell is it?". Then
we looked up and saw this huge factory-looking building. Well
DUH, The Electric Factory is the big factory-looking building.
This show was much better than the D.C. show (3 concerts later).
They played "Under The Milky Way" by The Church as an interlude.
ANDREW ELDRITCH LOOKED JUST LIKE MY DAD, but with blonde hair.
FRIGHTENING.
I ended up having nightmares about people from Delaware sabotaging
our vehicles so we couldn't escape, and being
part of my family, and part of a secret society consisting of all my
distant relatives, all
conspiring against me to keep me imprisoned in Delaware forever.
- Rammstein. 19981031. Patriot Center, GMU.
Also playing: Korn, Ice Cube, Limp Bizkit, and 2 more -- but we didn't see any of that.
Three damn songs before the evil and pervasive Fairfax County Police
had to arrest the band for obscenity!
Despite the fact that many people
there had paid $36 ($12 a song) specifically to see Rammstein! Not Korn!
They suck! Damn poseurs! Why didn't they get arrested???
I wish Rammstein would have been headlining cause there probably would have
been a riot. :)
(The 3 songs were Rammstein, something else, then Weisses Fleisch.)
- Slayer/Clutch/System Of A Down. 19980615. Nation.
Went with Wayne & Shehab (at least).
I was the only one who didn't think System Of A Down sucked to see live -- though I never liked them outside of that one night. It was a one night stand :)
- Hell Awaits [opening song]
- Spirit In Black [2nd song?]
- Black Magic [order unknown for rest of set]
- Die By The Sword
- Captor Of Sin
- Altar Of Sacrifice
- Jesus Saves
- Reign In Blood
- South Of Heaven
- War Ensemble
- Dead Skin Mask
- DittoHead
- Sex, Murder, Art
- Death's Head
- Stain Of Mind
- ENCORE: Chemical Warfare [1st]
- Mandatory Suicide
- Angel of Death [last]
- Ween. 19990102. Washington, DC. 9:30 Club. Met Gene Ween and got his
autograph on the back of a Wal-Mart receipt I had. They played
a few country songs, a few songs from "White Pepper" (was released a year
later)... "Now I'm Freaking Out" was their 2nd song. Great show.
I downloaded the MP3s off some Ween FTP site too, so I can listen to the
show again anytime I want. I think I hear myself doing my brrrreeep noise
in the beginning of one of the songs. Anyway, because I have the MP3s I know
the exact set list:
- What Deaner Was Talking About (opening song)
- Now I'm Freaking Out
- Buckingham Green
- Take Me Away
- Waving My Dick In The Wind
- Freedom Of '76
- Pandy Fackler
- Golden Eel
- She Wanted To Leave
- Voodoo Lady
- The Grobe
- Homo Rainbow (short)
- Dr. Rock
- 1999
- Frank
- Tender Situation
- Spinal Meningitis
- Piss Up A Rope
- Aids (HIV Song)
- Fluffy
- Mollusk
- Drop The Bomb Rap
- Pony
- Mr. Richard Smoker
- Stroker Ace
- U Fucked Up
- The Blarney Stone
- The Enabler
- Billy Joel Medley
- Baroque Jam
- Gay Disco Party Rap
- Poopship Destroyer (with bullhorn)
- Hot For Teacher (closing song)
And at some point they played Piano Man, but it was only a verse or so.
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- Rammstein (Nation). 19990601. Nation.
Finally they are allowed to complete their
set! Thanks for the nation's crappy murder capital for having more
free speech than
Republican Virginia does. Talk about an awesome show. Whereas
Smashing Pumpkins had had the best light show, Rammstein had
the best show, period. They were comparable to Gwar in their theatrics.
Cybernetic looking laserpointer helmets, fire you could FEEL,
flamethrowers manually setting off explosives near the roof,
the ejaculating dildo that would not stop, the fire-suit with
the singer singing "Rammstein" while on fire. AWESOME show.
- Sisters Of Mercy. 19990923. Washington, DC. 9:30 Club. Not the best show. Didn't recognize
some of the songs, even though they haven't really had a real new
album. A few were some of the 4 new songs I'd heard from the Visions At
The Forum bootleg live show (CD purchased by friend in Tokyo), such as "Giving Ground".
The show was a disappointment to me, personally, who wanted something
more like the Philly show.
(Carolyn went to They Might Be Giants on 19991015, but I didn't go)
- S.O.D. 199911. First show in 12 years! Nation.
Songs from new album "Bigger Than The Devil" and also from the original
1980s album "Speak English Or Die". They made fun of Type O Negative,
who I would have gone to see if S.O.D. wasn't playing opposite their
show. They played some non-standard ballads of different dead people
than usual. For an encore, the audience was forced to chant "Captain
Kirk" over and over again until they came back on stage.
Scott from Anthrax was one of the band memebers. I didn't
realize that til I saw his trademark goatee.
- Misfits/Gwar. 199911. 9:30 Club.
We messed up and they sold out, a friend
knew a friend (by the way, Sue--You suck and you're a snob) who got us
in, but we had to run around and I had to
exchange services for this privelege. We got in near the end of Misfits
and only saw the last few songs.
Gwar came out during the last Misfits song (which was
Die, Die My Darling I think). It was AWESOME when they were both
on stage playing with each other (that sounds bad, but this is Gwar
we're talking about).
- Samhain/Danzig. 19991113. Nation. Hatebreed/Samhain/Danzig.
Awesome show.
Danzig kinda sucked, only played 6 songs I knew and about 6-8 more i didn't [too much Danzig 6].
But Samhain was possibly the first band I've ever seen where I knew EVERY song being played, because they don't have any new album. Danzig didn't play the guitar when playing as Samhain, even though that's always how it was in the 80s. "Play the guitar you pussy!" -Yelled by me a few times.
Samhain played their version of The Misfits's All Hell Breaks Loose and Halloween 2.
Danzig opened with a song from Black Aria -- how pretentious. He played Mother and Twist Of Cain from Danzig 1. Long Way Back From Hell and Her Black Wings from Danzig II. Dirty Black Summer from Danzig 3. One song from Danzig 5. And a bunch of stuff from 6 that no one had heard or cared to hear.
The audience was completely still at points, unlike at every point during the Samhain portion of the show, where there was some of the craziest audience energy I've ever seen.
Danzig closed with "Earth A.D." by The Misfits, because he knows nothing he'll ever do in his solo career will match his 2 previous bands -- even if it is awesome stuff.
Suffice to say, the highlight of this show was not Danzig, but Samhain. Danzig is damn lucky he's in both bands :D
- Ween. 20000522. 9:30 Club.
Ween was the only band, and played for 3+ hours...
No country songs this time. Finally played "Sorry Charlie" which I had
requested many times at the 19990102 show. Also played the other request
I kept yelling out, "Sketches Of Winkle". Some moshing to that. They
played a version of "Johnny On The Spot" that was seriously heavier during
the musical interludes between verses. Another song was heavy-fied too,
not sure which one it was. Played The Blarney Stone as a closer -- "I've got cancerous
tumours on my nutsuck, and my pee pee is all red" lyrical variation --
hadn't heard that particular variation in any of the bootleg Ween
recordings. Encore closed (I think) with "Buenos Tardes Amigo".
Played a version of "Push Th' Lil Daisies" that was different enough to
not be recognizeable at the very beginning. Also "Dr. Rock".
- My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. 20000729. 9:30 Club.
Can't believe I missed Meg Lee Chin who opened. They didn't announce she was playing or put her name on the ticket or anything!! Bastards!! I'm more interested in seeing her than Thrill Kill Kult!!
Saw the last
10 seconds of "Thing", then they ended. Didn't get there early enough.
Very pissed. Later, Meg came and watched Thrill Kill Kult standing next
to Carolyn, and elbowed her at one point. :)
The MLWTTKK portion of the show, however, was pretty cool. They played
7 songs I knew.
They also played: A Daisy Chain 4 Satan (Remix) (at one point, this was my favor song EVER, though not the remix version), Waiting For Mommy,
The Days Of Swine & Roses, Cooler Than Jesus (impressive live),
Ride The Mindway,
A Girl Doesn't Get Killed By A Make-Believe Lover...'Cuz It's Hot,
Sex On Wheels.
- Meg Lee Chin. 20001023 or so. The Cage.
We got robbed while we were at this concert. They took Carolyn's 8-day
old AIWA CDC-MP3 cd-player (plays mp3-cdroms--10 hrs per disc) plus the
leather jackets we have both worn since 1992 or so. About $700 loss if
you include the installation of the stereo.
Anyway, the concert was decent. They opened with Heavy Scene I believe,
played Sweat, Nutopia, Thing, Swallowing You, London, Deeper. I think
they also played a few new songs from Junkies & Snakes, which I bought
for $5 after the show.
- NoMeansNo 20001118. The Black Cat.
A great concert, as always, but it could be considered kind of disappointing
in some ways: For example, they only played
1 song from "The Day Everything Became Isolated And Destroyed", and
"0 + 2 = 1". Nothing from "Mama" either but that doesn't bother me
as much.
At the end of the show, we walked away with half of one of the set
lists. Not the whole set list like we obtained when they played on
19951013.
For an encore, they also played 2 Hanson Brother's songs,
Jack Off and You Can't Hide The Heino.
First section is from the set list, second section is the other songs
we remember them playing, third section is the encore songs we remember.
- Graveyard Shift
- Oh No! Bruno!
- The Day Everything Became Nothing (only song from that album...grrr)
- Red On Red
- This Story
- Hello Goodbye
- The Fall
- Angel Or Devil?
- Dark Ages
- Under The Sea
- Sex Mad
- ...
- Two Lips, Two Lungs, And One Tongue
- The Fall
- The River
- I Need You
- Humans
- ...
- ENCORE: Hanson Brothers:Jack Off
- ENCORE: Hanson Brothers:You Can't Hide The Heino
- ENCORE: guitarist plays/sings "The Love Boat" theme
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- Type O Negative. 20001121. 9:30 Club.
This show seemed kind of short, but I think that is partially because
Type O Negative (formerly Carnivore) has VERY LONG SONGS. They played
for about 1.5-2 hours or so. The encore was only 2 songs.
I have trouble figuring out which songs they played from "October Rust".
So this song list is definitely short. Also, "World Coming Down" is an
album that, at this point, I only know the sound of, not titles.
- Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infideltiy
(I Know You're Fucking Someone Else)
- Prelude To Agony
- Christian Woman/Body Of Christ (Corpus Christi)/To Love God/J.C.
Looks Like Me
- Black No. 1
- Death In The Family (??)
- Kill All The White People
- Cinnamon Girl
- Wolf Moon (including Zoanthropic Paranoia) (??)
- Everyone I Love Is Dead
- World Coming Down
- All Hallows Eve (??)
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- Voltaire. 20010723 (approx). The Black Cat (?). Comic-book signing /
1-man show. (Voltaire with guitar only, no band.)
Got autographed "Oh My Goth!" comics. Opened with "Ex-Lover's Lover". Played
"When You're Evil", "U.S.S. Make Shit Up", among other songs. Voltaire
Read Top 13 lists from "Oh My Goth!" including "Top 13 Reasons You Know You're
A Second Rate Goth" (too many of which applied to me, because I don't care
about conformity enough to even conform to a group of nonconformists--WHOOPS, sue me.)
We stood in the front row. Carolyn danced alot. The rest of the room, being full
of goths, had as much motion as a glacier. The guy next to Carolyn actually said,
"I'm tired. Leave me alone." It was as if the characters Voltaire parodies in his
"Oh My Goth!" comic books had come to life.
- Rammstein (Nation). 20010731. Nation.
Second Rammstein show at nation; Probably as awesome as the first, but they blend together.
I just remember feeling more heat from fire than anywhere else in my life other than MGM Studios or camping, and wondering if it's safe
to manually set off pyrotechnics with a flamethrower. This was before the Great White concert disaster (which I think would make a great video game).
- Ween #3. 20040610. 9:30 Club.
I can't believe its been 3 years since I've been to a show! Seriously, I can't.
This was a good show, but Gene was way off. He seemed overly intoxicated or overworked.
Speaking of overworked, I was in a major deadline crunch and had to go back to bed afterwards.
But that didn't stop me from FAINTING and HITTING THE FLOOR WITH MY HEAD before
Ween ever even came onto stage! I don't know what my problem was.
I was well-prepared for the show, and Carolyn and I ordered
2 whiskey sours each which were downed in about 10 to 15 minutes.
Then we stood by the stage. Very hot. Very crowded. Lots of
bright lights. We bummed a cigarette. Lots of anxiousness waiting
for the show. I started to not feel so good. I told Carolyn.
Finally she had me hold onto her neck. That's about the last thing
I remember. Then I thought I was laying in my bed and Carolyn
was waking me up because it was time to go to work. Something
wasn't right, and my next thought was along the lines of "This
isn't a mattress! It's a wooden floor! ... Wait ... There's feet
around me ... it's really noisy ... This isn't bed, this is the 9:30
Club!" Apparently while I was out, Carolyn
lifted my head, slapped my face, and let it fall back on the ground
again. So I had 2 bumps that hurt for several days.
<sarcasm>Thanks for the excellent first aid Carolyn.</sarcasm>
Once awake, I sprang right up because I knew they would
probably try to kick me out. I looked alert, looked around, was
a bit surprised that the stage was on the oppositte side of the room --
man I was disoriented. Got up, walked to the side wall, sat down,
and Carolyn got me some water. The band started about 20 minutes later
and I stood up and moved to the side. I still didn't have the energy
the cheer or dance. I just opened my mouth and pretended to cheer.
By the end of the show, my energy was back, but it was VERY gradual.
The highpoint of the concert for me was the first 4 songs of the
second electric set (after the acoustic set).
Everyone I know who went (except me) got to meet or hang out with members of the band.
This includes three separate parties (Aaron Evans, John the Canadien, Jeff).
If only I didn't have to work...
- ::electric set begins::
- What Deaner Was Talking About
- Spinal Meningits
- Happy Colored Marbles
- Piss Up A Rope
- Take Me Away
- Don't Get Too Close To My Fantasy
- Transdermal Celebration
- Ooo-Va-La
- Voodoo Lady
- Spring Theme
- Push Th Little Daises
- The Mollusk
- Buckingham Green
- Albino
- Sunburn Girl
- Final Alarm
::acoustic:: (Gene & Dean seated on stools)
- Mutilated Lips
- She Fucks Me
- Help Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain
- Joppa Road
- Tried And
- True
- I Don't Want It (with a killer Gener electric solo at the end)
::electric::
- You Fucked Up
- Fat Lenny
- Going Gets Tough
- Johnny On The Spot
- Zoloft
- Pandy Fackler
- Ocean Man
- Someday
::Encore::
- Gonna Be A Long Night
- Ace of Spades (by Motorhead) (Dave on vocals)
- LMLYP (see picture)
- Violent Femmes. 20040716. 9:30 Club.
- Blister In The Sun
- Please Do Not Go
- Prove My Love
- Promise
- Gone Daddy Gone
- Good Feeling
- Gimme The Car
- American Music
- country music death song
- jesus walking on water
- Out The Window
- I Held Her In My Arms (1993)
- Fat
- Add It Up
- [encore] Kiss Off
- My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult / Ministry. 20041025. 9:30 Club.
Good show. Lots of chaos. Very glad to finally see Ministry after over 10 years
of wanting to. Met Paul Barker (without realizing it until days later).
We got 2 sets of official lyrics that were used for the show --
apparently they don't know the lyrics to own hit songs, so they tape those up.
They were for "N.W.O." and "Hero".
They were printed out, with orange blacklight-responsive tape marking the tops --
As if they are so f'ed up that they can't even find their printed lyrics!
They now reside on the inside of our pantry doors.
Thrill Kill Kult:
- A Girl Doesn't Get Killed By A Make-Believe Lover... 'Cuz It's Hot
- A Daisy Chain 4 Satan (Remix)
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- Sex Oh Wheels
- Cooler Than Jesus
- After The Flesh (from Crow soundtrack) (last song)
Ministry:
- Deity
- Jesus Built My Hotrod
- Just One Fix
- So What
- Thieves
- N.W.O
- Hero
- Psalm 69
- Supernaut (encore)
Bad Religion. 20041026. 9:30 Club.
Phew! Two concerts 2 nights in a row!
Opening band: Rise Against.
Phew, two concerts in a row.
This one may have been a mistake. It was very fun, but we only knew 5 of the songs
played. Too much emphasis on new material, and soooo much old material to choose from.
Not sure which ones they were, one of the songs listed below probably wasn't
played at the concert (but I am confused because we were listening to Bad Religion
in the car on the way up).
- The Answer
- Do What You Want
- 21st Century Digital Boy
- Generator
- Punk Rock Song
Gwar. 20051022. 9:30 Club. Killed George Bush doll,
chopped of Sharon Osbourne doll tits, cut off Michael Jackson's
face.
- I Saw Yg
- (the heat-seeking moisture missile)
Ween. 20051027. 9:30 Club. Awesome 35-song almost-3-hour set!
It was -- as usual -- an awesome show. Ran into Aaron Evans, who helped us get to the front (and took some pictures) (and gave his "Home Rainbow" video using Rocky footage to Deaner after the show). Also ran into John The Canadien, who failed to sell his extra ticket...Again. (Did the same at a Rammstein concert years ago...)
They played 35 songs over an almost 3 hour span:
- What Deaner was Talking About
- The HIV Song (nothing like a whole club of people shouting "AIDS!" with glee)
- Spinal Meningitis
- Happy Colored Marbles
- Piss Up A Rope
- Take Me Away
- Waving My Dick In The Wind
- Mr. Richard Smoker
- Transdermal Celebration
- Voodoo Lady
- Mutilated Lips
- Bananas And Blow
- Leave Deaner Alone (new song)
- You Fucked Up
- Puerto Rican Power
- Touch My Tooter
- Nan
- Springtheme
- Push Th' Little Daisies
- The Mollusk
- Light Me Up
- Dr. Rock
- I Can't Put My Finger On It
- Buckingham Green
- Boys Club
- A Tear For Eddie
- Zoloft (very long, drawn-out version)
- Ocean Man
- Sorry Charlie (used the megaphone for this, since they didn't play "Awesome)
- Fluffy
ENCORE:
- Dont Get 2 Close (To My Fantasy)
- Going Gets Tough From The Getgo
- In The Mood
- Johnny On The Spot
- Mr. Would You Please Help My Pony?
- Never Squeal On The Pusher (sick extended jam, Claude drum solo)
It's always a pleasure to see Ween.
Although the over-zealous 930 security decided to grab the wrists of some
couple that was trying to leave and dragged them into the back,
I think just for taking the set list. (Like the ones I have above.)
They Might Be Giants. 20060426. 9:30 Club, Washington, DC.
Well, Wednesday we saw They Might Be Giants at the 9:30 Club. Good times. I found a setlist from setlist.com, a good site that meets a definite demand.
I was saddened that I didn't know most of the songs. I had just spent the past few weeks learning the Spine album really well, and was hoping they would play a lot of songs off of it. They only played 2.
Instead they played what they claimed to be a lot of very old songs, "songs so old even we forgot how to play them". Man, the one time I know more newer material than older material, the band has to go play older material. Meanwhile, I go to see all these other shows looking to hear their earlier songs that I love, and they always play stuff from the newest album(s) instead! (Particularly guilty: Sisters Of Mercy, and, at times, Type O Negative, and most other bands too, those are just the ones that pop into my head at the moment.)
I never realized the two-singer-ness of the band until I saw them live. They switch off a lot, though I definitely think the main singer (the one who plays keyboards) is the one whose voice sounds more like what I imagine TMBG sounding like. I definitely like him better.
I should also add Carolyn looked extremely hot that night.
- Why Did You Grow a Beard?
- Damn Good Times
- Careful What You Pack
- Everything Right Is Wrong Again
- Number Three
- New Song #1
- Malcolm In The Middle Theme (Boss Of Me) (full)
I was VERY happy they played this, I had just "requested" it in Carolyn's ear about two minutes before they played it, joking that they would never actually playthis live. Sometimes I just love being wrong.
- Older
- Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes
- Experimental Film
(also very happy to hear!)
- We're The Replacements
- New Song #2
- Drink!
- Hollywood
- We Want a Rock
- Anaheim
- We Live In a Dump
- Dead
- Bangs
- New York City
- Rhythm Section Want Ad
- Birdhouse In Your Soul
finally a song I knew again, after 11 that I didn't!
- Cyclops Rock
- Fingertips (complete)
In many ways, I have to say this is the highlight of the show. "Mysteeerrrrrrrrious whisper." I never thought they would play all 21 'Fingertips' live either. Short attention-span theatre at its best!
- Purple Toupee (yay)
- Encore 1: Alphabet Of Nations
- Asbury Park
- Doctor Worm
Dr. Worm was awesome to hear, and they had these cannons that shot out confetti right during the climax note of Dr. Worm. It worked out really well, they lasted in the air surprisingly long — several minutes, and we snagged a couple pieces as souveniers
- Encore 2: Istanbul (Not Constantinople).
One of the best covers :)
Blog post: http://clintjcl.wordpress.com/2006/04/30/they-might-be-giants-concert-at-930-club-on-4262006/