I'm too ashamed to admit my first REM show was in 1995, Milwaukee. But then I saw them again in Chicago that year, and then in 1999 and then in 2003 and then in 2004 ... so yeah, I'm caught up now.
You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
Alicia K - Feb 02, 2005 12:22:24 pm PST #7218 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
msbelle - Feb 02, 2005 12:33:01 pm PST #7219 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
never seen them.
DXMachina - Feb 02, 2005 12:43:34 pm PST #7220 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Me, neither.
Atropa - Feb 02, 2005 12:47:25 pm PST #7221 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Neither did I.
DavidS - Feb 02, 2005 12:48:28 pm PST #7222 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well, there's no use going now since they're old and boring. However, I'll still stand by my statement that R.E.M. in '83 was about the best concert I ever saw.
bicyclops - Feb 02, 2005 1:37:34 pm PST #7223 of 10003
14 May 1982 - Atlanta Arts Festival, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA
I was there, but I don't remember much about it.
Polter-Cow - Feb 02, 2005 4:40:21 pm PST #7224 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What's the song in the iPod shuffle commercial? I've heard it before.
Gandalfe - Feb 02, 2005 7:34:26 pm PST #7225 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I haven't seen REM, either. Nor have I seen U2.
The five best concerts I've seen:
Howard Jones, 1995 or so. He still sells tons of tickets here in Salt Lake, and makes a point of playing a show if he comes to the states for any reason (like to get his hair cut, by his hairdresser who is also my hairdresser). But, this show, when he could have sold 5000 tickets, he played at a small club (Zephyr, for those keeping score) for about 200 people. Absolutely brilliant.
Sinead O'Connor, 1988, I believe, while she was on top. She sold out the Salt Palace (15000 seats, I think. Where the Jazz used to play), and, at one point, got every one in the audience so quiet you could hear the security guard's walkie talkies.
Dead Kennedys/Black Flag, 1986ish. Wow. All I can say.
Oingo Boingo, many times from 1984-1988. They came thru and played every 6 months or so, and I went to see them every time. My favorite was on their final tour, when a friend of mine had taken so much acid I started frying just from holding his hand going through the crowd.
Crash Worship, 1994. Absolutely insane, tribal shit. It started, for me, with a girl, about 4'10", with a rainbow dreadlock mohawk, buck naked, squeezing watermellon on me. Then came the midgets with drums, the fire pits, the fuck circle, the humming clump . . . . Insane.
Fred Pete - Feb 03, 2005 3:20:42 am PST #7226 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Also never seen REM. Had tickets to see U2 in 1997, but couldn't go because of work.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 03, 2005 3:22:08 am PST #7227 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I saw REM in Portland, ME the summer of 1985. Good show - Fables/Reconstruction tour.