Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I thought that was General Public.

General Public was the other half. Either that or FYC was a third generation entity. At one point, I was really into British ska. Then I went half-senile.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I saw The Band, without Robbie Robertson, at that cheezy club in Stamford (i think the word "tree" is in the name) that is on the Post Rd. right next to the Old Greenwich border. Take a load off fannie. And I think I also saw BTO there as well. Or are they the same band? You aint seen nothing yet, buh buh buh baby.

Also saw Modern English open up for UB40 on the Pier. UB40 played for about 45 minutes. I was so totally disappointed.

I went to see a Red Hot Chili Peppers show in 1991. The opening acts (then unknown) were Pearl Jam and the Smashing Pumpkins.

S(PJ stole the show)D

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by baltassoc


-balt(my band in college got it's first -- and only -- gig when Hootie and the Blowfish bailed on a campus party to play Letterman after their first single hit the charts)assoc

Hootie will be playing the Naperville (IL) Ribfest next Wednesday, July 2nd... I'd say "Oh how the mighty have fallen", but Los Lobos and Lonnie Brooks are also on the bill, so it can't be all bad...

http://www.ribfest.net/entertainment.html#mainstage

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ms. naughty diplomat
i'm not sure if it is actually possible to name an obscure band that people have heard of but that no one else on the board have seen.

but anyway - for obscure at the time i saw them, soul coughing would qualify - i saw them before ruby vroom (their first album) was released. they were very good.

for just plain obscure cult favorites - the mr. t experience qualifies. possibly swervedriver (at least in the u.s., they aren't very well known).

for bands that should have been major stars but didn't work out and would have ended up as a one-hit wonder except it really wasn't much of a hit despite a major push from their label - summercamp. personally, i think they became doomed to failure when they took the opening slot for the failure/poster children coheadlining tour (so aloha, you aren't the only one who has seen poster children).

ms. naughty diplomat

I was glad to have caught one of the few really fantastic bands that should have made it but never did when I was last in California -- the Mother Hips. Folks on the left coast seem to know them and its a shame folks on the east coast don't.

S(guess it doesn't matter too much since they hung it up for good last year)D

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
I saw the Ramones .

Didn't the ramones play Toad's in New Haven like every other weekend?

Toad the Wet Sprocket during college is the most "before they were big" (if they ever really were) viewing. The Monkees a couple years before that, opening for someone else lame, was the really-long-after-they-were-big viewing experience.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Al Stewart. Also did Time Passages, so technically a 2 hit wonder.

(I play Time Passages in a local dive jukebox every now and then)

AGGGHHHH. I should have known that! I saw him play live last year at a stupid street fair thing. At least it was free.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Didn't the ramones play Toad's in New Haven like every other weekend?

Toad the Wet Sprocket during college is the most "before they were big" (if they ever really were) viewing. The Monkees a couple years before that, opening for someone else lame, was the really-long-after-they-were-big viewing experience.

You are so right about Toad.

The Dave Matthews Band played my little southern college town so often I thought they were a local band. Imagine my surprise when I someone I really liked (M'shelle N'dege O'cello) opened for them in the mid-90s.

Even(I left the DMB show after 2 songs)Odds

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Barenaked Ladies played at my friend's birthday party in 1989.

Danger Kitty played my friend's bar mitzvah.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by evenodds

The Dave Matthews Band played my little southern college town so often I thought they were a local band.

Like all but about 350 of my classmates, I did not attend an indigo girls campus performance. Most assuredly had they come the following year, they could have filled an auditorium on campus, rather than a classroom.

Meanwhile, we had a ticket lottery to listen to Ice-T speak, not perform. The man is (or was at the time) a complete idiot whose thoughts were made to look completely foolish by a bunch of 18 year olds. "Admit it--you only talk to women to get them to fuck you." Uh, yeah.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Anyone out there ever see Annie & The Shirts? I loved the Shirts.

CBGBs.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Hootie will be playing the Naperville (IL) Ribfest next Wednesday, July 2nd... I'd say "Oh how the mighty have fallen", but Los Lobos and Lonnie Brooks are also on the bill, so it can't be all bad...

http://www.ribfest.net/entertainment.html#mainstage

Wow. I saw Hootie open for Big Head Todd in '95.

Saw BHT in 2002 also - still a good live band.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I went to see a Red Hot Chili Peppers show in 1991. The opening acts (then unknown) were Pearl Jam and the Smashing Pumpkins.

S(PJ stole the show)D

Ahh, but if you were really kewl, you would have seen them when they were still called Mookie Blaylock. Pearl Jam, Schmerl jam.

I saw Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney in various clubs, pre-major labels. Had a beer with Mark Arm, a genuinely nice guy who is starting to look disturbingly like Iggy Pop.

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
there's a one hit wonder quiz right here: http://www.selfnetwork.com/tests/test.asp?testnum=7

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (CJ.)
Far too easy. 100.

"Your Score: 100
Excellent! You must be a child of the 80's - you really know your 80's music! "

I concur with Brother Burger. This test is far too easy.

"Your Score: 100
Excellent! You must be a child of the 80's - you really know your 80's music! "

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Chicago is getting pretty hard to top for unusual goings-on lately...

From high school hazing to monkeypox, horrible nightclub disasters, crazed mullet-headed fans attacking ballplayers, corked bats, US Open streakers and Bears Football presented by Bank One, things have been a little bizarre lately...

Now comes this story:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/0623...lyonsclub.html

Police raid in suburban Lyons, IL at purported law office uncovers Swingers Club...

Suggested slogan -- "I'm a lawyer, I'll screw you one way or another..."

[MisterEbola]

Originally posted by evenodds
You are so right about Toad.

The Dave Matthews Band played my little southern college town so often I thought they were a local band. Imagine my surprise when I someone I really liked (M'shelle N'dege O'cello) opened for them in the mid-90s.

Even(I left the DMB show after 2 songs)Odds

That is sacrilege. Of course, DMB has gotten a little too big for itself.

Anyhow, I remember seeing Pearl Jam at a little club in TJ - about 250 people in attendance. Great show.