Last concert you saw?

[Buckeneye]

Tickets for Tool in March - CLE. Saw them in Pittsburgh in 2016, believing that was a certain farewell and there would never be another album.

Happy to see them at home. Even going to take my Dad along for the experience.

 

[dozenmonkeyz]

Heading to Jacobs Pavilion next Weds to see Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats. Wasn't sure about an outdoor show in the middle of October but temps are looking pretty nice. Haven't seen them live but love their tunes and expect the energy to be great.

 

[dozenmonkeyz]

Heading to Jacobs Pavilion next Weds to see Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats. Wasn't sure about an outdoor show in the middle of October but temps are looking pretty nice. Haven't seen them live but love their tunes and expect the energy to be great.

It was a beautiful night and the band sounded fantastic. Very polished group but kept the crowd energized and engaged. So much fun!

The only downside was some guy in the row behind me had some sort of episode, not sure if an overdose or what. He was puking, passing out, convulsing and eyes rolling back into his head. The folks in his group just sorta laughed and acted embarrassed but it sure looked like he was gonna die. I had to stand on my seat and scream over the crowd for help until staff came with EMT's and carried him out. Left me pretty down for a few minutes but the music got me out of the funk and ended well - although no idea what happened to the guy

 

[BayBuck]

It was a beautiful night and the band sounded fantastic. Very polished group but kept the crowd energized and engaged. So much fun!

The only downside was some guy in the row behind me had some sort of episode, not sure if an overdose or what. He was puking, passing out, convulsing and eyes rolling back into his head. The folks in his group just sorta laughed and acted embarrassed but it sure looked like he was gonna die. I had to stand on my seat and scream over the crowd for help until staff came with EMT's and carried him out. Left me pretty down for a few minutes but the music got me out of the funk and ended well - although no idea what happened to the guy

Sorry for partying.

 

[MGMT]

Green Day
Wrigley field, August 15th

unreal

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Green Day
Wrigley field, August 15th

unreal

From 924 Gilman to Wrigley… what an interesting journey.

I’ve always been torn with my feelings about GD. I certainly do not begrudge their success, they’ve clearly earned it. And if anything, their success has opened up the genre and adjacent genres for growth and more exposure which has, without question, been to my benefit.

Yet… there’s just this gnawing on my soul that comes from watching Billie Joe pandering to a stadium. Maybe that’s just the punk in me that wants my music in a small room with an 18-inch riser for a stage.

But ultimately, they are professional artists who deserve to put food on their table, so it’s very hard to find fault with success. Knowing people in the industry and how rough it is, I just need to remind myself that for many artists there is give for the take — and for a lot of them the take is just being able to continue to create art. With bands like GD and others who started off in clubs like 924 Gilman (40-Watt, 1st Ave / 7th Street, CBGB, Maxwell’s Tavern and many others) I hope that they never lose or forget the ethos they had as young artists trying to make their break.

Glad you had a good time. Last time I saw GD was at the Aragon, Chicago’s greatest acoustic tragedy.

I had to think a little about the last show I saw. Damn, I’m getting old. I used to see great shows on the regular because everything comes through Chicago… but it’s been a long, long time. But it’s also getting to the point where there’s very few bands that I’ve wanted to see that I haven’t… and the list of bands that I’d see over and over again is shrinking.

I think that the last show I saw was Jawbreaker… also at the Aragon, in 2018. I think that’s the last thing I’ve gone to… all I know is that it’s been too long.

I was supposed to go to Riot Fest this year and had some shit storms start up at work and hand to skip. Kinda kicking myself in the ass for that.

 

[BuckBackHome]

Frank Turner at the Grog Shop a few weeks back.

I saw something recently that Cleveland audiences are not considered good because they talk so much during shows. One thing I love about Frank Turner shows is everyone is singing along to all of his songs. No chatting in the audience for the most part.

 

[BayBuck]

From 924 Gilman to Wrigley… what an interesting journey.

I’ve always been torn with my feelings about GD. I certainly do not begrudge their success, they’ve clearly earned it. And if anything, their success has opened up the genre and adjacent genres for growth and more exposure which has, without question, been to my benefit.

Yet… there’s just this gnawing on my soul that comes from watching Billie Joe pandering to a stadium. Maybe that’s just the punk in me that wants my music in a small room with an 18-inch riser for a stage.

But ultimately, they are professional artists who deserve to put food on their table, so it’s very hard to find fault with success. Knowing people in the industry and how rough it is, I just need to remind myself that for many artists there is give for the take — and for a lot of them the take is just being able to continue to create art. With bands like GD and others who started off in clubs like 924 Gilman (40-Watt, 1st Ave / 7th Street, CBGB, Maxwell’s Tavern and many others) I hope that they never lose or forget the ethos they had as young artists trying to make their break.

Glad you had a good time. Last time I saw GD was at the Aragon, Chicago’s greatest acoustic tragedy.

I had to think a little about the last show I saw. Damn, I’m getting old. I used to see great shows on the regular because everything comes through Chicago… but it’s been a long, long time. But it’s also getting to the point where there’s very few bands that I’ve wanted to see that I haven’t… and the list of bands that I’d see over and over again is shrinking.

I think that the last show I saw was Jawbreaker… also at the Aragon, in 2018. I think that’s the last thing I’ve gone to… all I know is that it’s been too long.

I was supposed to go to Riot Fest this year and had some shit storms start up at work and hand to skip. Kinda kicking myself in the ass for that.

Green Day was maybe the 2nd concert I ever went to, my sophomore year of HS, at the Newport for the Dookie tour. I definitely get what you're saying now about their punk cred or whatever, but for little ol' suburban me and my friends, that was really something new and exciting. "Hey, look at us, we're 'moshing' in the 'pit'!" And they really went on to make a lot of interesting stuff well outside the niche they came from; certainly can't begrudge a rock star for getting rich and famous.

 

[MGMT]

From 924 Gilman to Wrigley… what an interesting journey.

I’ve always been torn with my feelings about GD. I certainly do not begrudge their success, they’ve clearly earned it. And if anything, their success has opened up the genre and adjacent genres for growth and more exposure which has, without question, been to my benefit.

Yet… there’s just this gnawing on my soul that comes from watching Billie Joe pandering to a stadium. Maybe that’s just the punk in me that wants my music in a small room with an 18-inch riser for a stage.

But ultimately, they are professional artists who deserve to put food on their table, so it’s very hard to find fault with success. Knowing people in the industry and how rough it is, I just need to remind myself that for many artists there is give for the take — and for a lot of them the take is just being able to continue to create art. With bands like GD and others who started off in clubs like 924 Gilman (40-Watt, 1st Ave / 7th Street, CBGB, Maxwell’s Tavern and many others) I hope that they never lose or forget the ethos they had as young artists trying to make their break.

Glad you had a good time. Last time I saw GD was at the Aragon, Chicago’s greatest acoustic tragedy.

I had to think a little about the last show I saw. Damn, I’m getting old. I used to see great shows on the regular because everything comes through Chicago… but it’s been a long, long time. But it’s also getting to the point where there’s very few bands that I’ve wanted to see that I haven’t… and the list of bands that I’d see over and over again is shrinking.

I think that the last show I saw was Jawbreaker… also at the Aragon, in 2018. I think that’s the last thing I’ve gone to… all I know is that it’s been too long.

I was supposed to go to Riot Fest this year and had some shit storms start up at work and hand to skip. Kinda kicking myself in the ass for that.

Would love to pick your brain about your industry involvement if you’d ever be willing to share

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Green Day was maybe the 2nd concert I ever went to, my sophomore year of HS, at the Newport for the Dookie tour. I definitely get what you're saying now about their punk cred or whatever, but for little ol' suburban me and my friends, that was really something new and exciting. "Hey, look at us, we're 'moshing' in the 'pit'!" And they really went on to make a lot of interesting stuff well outside the niche they came from; certainly can't begrudge a rock star for getting rich and famous.

Dookie was my second year of grad school so we were four years apart and probably in and out of the Newport at the same time for a few different shows.

I’m a big fan of Dookie. There was a lot of fun music at that time. Seattle was exploding, Manchester England was kicking out a lot of good stuff, Orange County CA was on fire, the East Bay was pushing out good stuff across the board, third wave SKA was kicking and one of my all time favorites was in the middle of his second / third life as an artist (Bob Mould / Sugar)… but Dookie… Dookie took me back to my earliest days as a punk music fan… three chords, two minutes and thirty seconds and a cloud of dust. It was the most exciting thing I had heard since Rocket to Russia. It was the most compelling album of the year as far as I was concerned. Not necessarily the most important, not the greatest piece of art… but there was nothing that grabbed me by the pubes and pulled the way Dookie did that year.

The only other album that year that got my attention as much was a band that I saw open for Toad. Totally different sound, but equally compelling, The Wild Colonials Fruit of Life. But yeah, Dookie should be celebrated. Your experience with Green Day at the Newport was probably much like mine the first time I saw Husker Du or the Ramones. Something not to be forgotten.

 

[BayBuck]

Dookie was my second year of grad school so we were four years apart and probably in and out of the Newport at the same time for a few different shows.

I’m a big fan of Dookie. There was a lot of fun music at that time. Seattle was exploding, Manchester England was kicking out a lot of good stuff, Orange County CA was on fire, the East Bay was pushing out good stuff across the board, third wave SKA was kicking and one of my all time favorites was in the middle of his second / third life as an artist (Bob Mould / Sugar)… but Dookie… Dookie took me back to my earliest days as a punk music fan… three chords, two minutes and thirty seconds and a cloud of dust. It was the most exciting thing I had heard since Rocket to Russia. It was the most compelling album of the year as far as I was concerned. Not necessarily the most important, not the greatest piece of art… but there was nothing that grabbed me by the pubes and pulled the way Dookie did that year.

The only other album that year that got my attention as much was a band that I saw open for Toad. Totally different sound, but equally compelling, The Wild Colonials Fruit of Life. But yeah, Dookie should be celebrated. Your experience with Green Day at the Newport was probably much like mine the first time I saw Husker Du or the Ramones. Something not to be forgotten.

Hey gramps, I said high school!

There was a street in my neighborhood called “Longview”, and we took turns stealing its street sign all sophomore year: I had it on my bedroom wall until my parents sold the house and they never asked….

And when I saw Toad the Wet Sprocket at the Newport, my mom dropped off and picked up me and my friends because she could fit a bunch in her Suburban.

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Would love to pick your brain about your industry involvement if you’d ever be willing to share

Don’t know how much insight I really have to share, I only know a couple of people… they’re the one’s who are the artists. I can only speak to what I’ve witnessed watching their careers and a few of their stories second hand. But that said, I’m tough to beat in a degrees of freedom game. LOL.

But fire away…

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Hey gramps, I said high school!

There was a street in my neighborhood called “Longview”, and we took turns stealing its street sign all sophomore year: I had it on my bedroom wall until my parents sold the house and they never asked….

And when I saw Toad the Wet Sprocket at the Newport, my mom dropped off and picked up me and my friends because she could fit a bunch in her Suburban.

Ahhh… so you did! Eight years then. My eyes are getting worse with age.

Pray Jesus, you can keep that gramps title to yourself for a few more years.

And for what it’s worth, in the NW corner of our state, when they surveyed the land the counties used numbers for N/S roads and letters for E/W roads… at least in my home county… could have been altered in others, but the numbers / letters were common… Anyhow, if a E/W county road had a N/S road between mile markers it was often called Letter1… the second N/S road between mile markers was called Letter2. You can imagine how hard it was for Henry Co to keep County Road U2 signage…. I will go on record that my parents were smart enough to preempt me from being stupid and had an official Co Rd U2 sign purchased for me — and provided me with a receipt should it ever be questioned.

The Ohio St(reet) signage was also a popular mark — or at least, that’s the word on the street.

 

[Dryden]

2020 and 2021 have sucked. But 2022 I’ve got tickets in hand for Tool and Maiden. I am fucking ready!

 

[AKAK]

Gary Clark Jr. Last month at... Express or whatever it's called.

I kinda went on a whim, was expecting more bluesy, but pretty straight hard rock show. Hard working talented guy.