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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #75 on: April 03, 2007, 08:18:27 pm »
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oh, I mean, sorry if that came across as kind of a dick thing. I just saw the name of my hometown and a band that people there liked, and made the connection.

Oh no, you didn't. I mean, I don't know how you feel about the people in your high school, so I thought I would explain my feelings towards the atmosphere there *just in case*. And I don't think you're fratty and immature, you seem like a very nice young man. I forgot you were in high school actually, which is part of the reason I mistook your statement a bit.
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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #76 on: April 03, 2007, 08:54:33 pm »
oh, no, I'm not in high school. And I certainly was not at that concert. But I was in high school last year, and was surrounded by guys who thought was really Rad to smoke pot and listen to jam bands.
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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #77 on: April 03, 2007, 09:24:46 pm »
Well, to be fair, don't blame pot on that one.

You could be curing cancer and donating your patent to a war orphanage at a Phish show and...

I would still have to have a long conversation with you to determine if you are Rad or not.

Many very Rad people have gone to Phish shows? But they are not in the majority there.
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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #78 on: April 03, 2007, 10:35:28 pm »
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But I was in high school last year, and was surrounded by guys who thought was really Rad to smoke pot and listen to jam bands.

Ah, you went to school with EXACTLY THE KIND OF GUYS I LIKE.
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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #79 on: April 09, 2007, 04:03:38 pm »
The best shows I've seen in the last few years were Akron/Family and Shellac. I Love A/F's records but they are about 10 times better live, and Shellac played my a set that I might as well have hand-picked as it contained all of my favourite songs of theirs (including earlier stuff I really wasn't expecting to hear, such as Wingwalker and Billiard Player Song). Before that, Sonic Youth on the Murray Street tour was pretty awesome (the only time I've managed to get to see them), Neil Young's solo Greendale tour was great though truth be told I'd have rather seen him with Crazy hoss. I've seen the Flaming Lips about 8 times, and they've been great every time, but somehow I think it would be better if I'd only seen them once so that the show seemed more spontaneous, rather then knowing pretty much exactly what was going to happen each time.
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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #80 on: April 09, 2007, 06:49:11 pm »
As much as I love Neil Young i've only seen him perform once.  I am ashamed of this.

That one time was killer awesome though.  He had Booker T and the MG's as his backing band and it was so good.  If you like Booker T and the MG's, last I heard they were working as Joe Walsh's backup band.
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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #81 on: April 10, 2007, 03:23:45 am »
Quote from: pmcd9 on April 09, 2007, 06:49:11 pm
If you like Booker T and the MG's, last I heard they were working as Joe Walsh's backup band.

Wow.  At that rate of descent, soon they'll be backing up Carrot Top.
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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #82 on: April 10, 2007, 03:26:44 am »
Wednesday.
This week.

I am seeing GZA the Genius.
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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #83 on: April 11, 2007, 05:31:46 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on April 09, 2007, 06:49:11 pm
If you like Booker T and the MG's, last I heard they were working as Joe Walsh's backup band.

For some reason, my Sirius box decided that I like Booker T so much that any time one of their songs is playing on the network that I get an audible alert, putting them on the same level as SF Forty-Niners football.  To my knowledge, I've never consciously heard the band play, let alone setting an alert.  My wife denies any involvement.  The mysteries of AI.
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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #84 on: April 12, 2007, 04:33:52 am »
GZA was alternatingly awesome and disappointing. It was worth putting off starting a paper, though.
He kept stopping halfway through songs.
he started... at 10. The show was supposed to start at 8. I'm not sure if there were opening acts, as we got there late. he stopped at 11.
he had a DJ, whose job seemed to be to press a button at the start of each song to turn on the beat. Occasionally he changed the volume.
he told us to stay in school. "a dummy ain't worth shit." He went on a thing about how minimum wage hasn't even doubled in so long, while "let's say a Cadillac-- the price has quintupled! sextupled, even!". He said "what is it, like 8 dollars an hour?"
the guy who was rapping with him got us to all yell "Wu-tang" when he went off, but he didn't do an encore.
Then he said "he'll be out to sign CDs and shit,"
which also did not happen.

so, yeah. Let's be honest though, his rhymes were extremely tight.
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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #85 on: April 12, 2007, 09:26:11 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on April 12, 2007, 04:33:52 am
so, yeah. Let's be honest though, his rhymes were extremely tight.

Like his arse by the sound of things.
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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #86 on: April 23, 2007, 06:33:03 pm »
My best show ever was giraffebone at the Golden West in Albuquerque, circa 1994.  ROOOOOOOOOOOCK, oh man just ROOOOOOOOOCK.  I helped carry the singer around while he was crowd surfing.  You know how in the early-90s heyday of moshing, that there was a very different vibe in a mosh pit depending on whether people were actually into the music, or if they just wanted to fuckin MOSH man because MOSHING is SO COOL.  At this show, everyone was into the music.  So insane, so fun.

A very close second:  Jeff Buckley at the 9:30 Club in DC, I guess that would be early 1995.  The first show he did there, not the second one.  The place was full, but during a pause in "Hallelujah," the club was completely, utterly silent.  No chatting, no clinking of glasses, not a goddamn sound.  He was just that riveting.  Of course, when he came back the second time, he was much more popular, and a similar pause was marred by some jackass going "WHOOOOOOOOOO!"
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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #87 on: May 02, 2007, 02:39:45 am »
Quote from: carlosdelvaca on April 23, 2007, 06:33:03 pm
A very close second:  Jeff Buckley at the 9:30 Club in DC, I guess that would be early 1995.  The first show he did there, not the second one.  The place was full, but during a pause in "Hallelujah," the club was completely, utterly silent.  No chatting, no clinking of glasses, not a goddamn sound.  He was just that riveting.  Of course, when he came back the second time, he was much more popular, and a similar pause was marred by some jackass going "WHOOOOOOOOOO!"

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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #88 on: June 06, 2007, 04:18:41 am »
They killed. They absolutely killed. I was as close to HR and Dr. Know as I was to SRV back in the day. So, so, so on time.
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Re: Jimi at Isle of Wight? Bad Brains at CBGB's in '82?
« Reply #89 on: June 06, 2007, 04:23:11 am »
I am apparently going to see the Allman Bros with Ratdog in early August, and after that, Dave Matthews Band.
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