Oliver ,'Conviction (1)'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
As in BIG arena? Hmmm. Probably Rob Zombie & Ozzy Osbourne. MCR played smaller venues for this tour, and there is no way on this earth I would call Showbox SODO an arena.
Which means that my next big arena show will be Slayer & Rob Zombie. I sense a theme here.
I think my last show at anything bigger than a theater was The Cure on the Wish tour. Unless outdoor music venues count, in which case it was Elvis Costello on the Brutal Youth tour with the Attractions. In terms of theater shows, I think Bauhaus was the last one I saw, which would be their last tour.
Jeez, probably AC/DC or else Neil Young, both in the late 80s or early 90s. I only ever saw Nirvana in tiny clubs (heh).
Surely a few of those could have been dropped for some Neutral Milk Hotel, Husker Du or Mission of Burma.
I stand corrected. Hüsker Dü are listed, but düe to the ümlaüts, and poor coding, it appears as "HÅsker DÅ". Also, they only include their worst album (Warehouse)!
Crowded House at Wolf Trap, I think. Does the Hollywood Bowl count as an arena?
The last arena show I saw was My Chem or Pete Seeger at Madison Square Garden. Pretty sure it was Pete.
Since then, however, I've seen Springsteen in a stadium my friends.
The venue I seem to be at the most is the Stone Pony. I think it holds about a thousand.
The venue I seem to be at the most is the Stone Pony. I think it holds about a thousand.
I think Showbox SODO is the venue I end up at the most often. Previously it was El Corazon, but I have finally decided that there is no point to putting up with the shitty sound and sight lines. (I have seen Peter Murphy there. I have seen the Sisters of Mercy there. I don't think there is ANY performer that can redeem that venue, but if Tom Waits or MCR decide to do a show there, I'll give it another try.)
I seem to end up at The Warfield the most, though The Fillmore is giving it a run for its money. I don't know that I'll ever return to The Great American Music Hall - not because of sightline or shitty mix, but because when I saw Lucero there, THREE different audience members jumped up onstage FOUR different times (one was a repeat). Worst. Security. Ever. Have they never heard of Dimebag Darrell? (Also, it takes forever to get a beer there.)
My last arena show was Leonard Cohen.
Before that depends on how you're defining arena. Possibly also Leonard Cohen, but if the WaMu theatre doesn't fit, then it's all the way back to the first MCR show I went to, which was some sort of multi-band deal including Gnarls Barkley.