Best live show you ever saw

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

The older I get, the less I care about that sort of thing - I freaked out about it a little when I turned 30, but now I don't even think about it.  Young, old, people go to shows to have fun.  I do have to admit being waaaay over the Cocaine Heights scenesters at McCarren Pool shows who all look like American Apparel ads and don't know who any of the bands are, and sometimes the obviously-wealthy skate dad types can be a little irritating, but honestly I can't imagine it mattering that much.

[Andy]

holy shit.  you're over 30?

[dave from knoxville]

holy shit.  you're over 30?

Yah, how did you get in here?

[iAmBaronVonTito]

Mostly cupcakes. It doesn't happen often, but when it does the results are usually good. I made chocolate cupcakes for the Hylozoists once because they were playing a free show at Harbourfront and I think their music is pretty, but there are like 20 of them so I ended up showing up like an hour early, carrying a million cookie tins. I'm sure I looked like a crazy person. They dedicated a song to me, though, which was surprising and awesome.

I made TL vegan brownies the first time I saw him play live, too! He was super nice to me, of course. That was probably one of the best shows I've ever been to, now that I think about it.

the majority of my friends/people i know are in bands and i have heard and seen this phenomena: droves of girls bringing cupcakes or baked goods and even legitimate food (spaghetti in ziploc bags, casseroles in tupperware, etc).  pretty insane, but it never went unappreciated.  when those same girls turned 21, they had a never-ending free line of beer buyers, which i also reaped the benefits of.


dont stop bringing those cupcakes, emma...people gotta eat.  

[yesno]

The older I get, the less I care about that sort of thing - I freaked out about it a little when I turned 30, but now I don't even think about it.  Young, old, people go to shows to have fun. 

I tried using the same reasoning with my PO to explain why I like hanging around playgrounds after school.  I mean, they're just fun!

[tenspeed]

Don't think there's a point where a person formally decides to stop going to shows (unless maybe there's some sort of life event that really precipitates/necessitates it). 

Teaching high school freshman in the south side of Newark, NJ was that life event for me.  Sadly, I was only 27.  I had a personal rule to be in bed by 10 p.m on week nights.  If not, I would pay the consequences the next day.   I only broke my rule once to go see Vic Thrill and the Saturn Missile.  Sure enough, in 3rd period Robert smelled my weakness and threw our last working computer monitor out of our 4th floor classroom window.  I vowed to never do it again. 

But in hindsight it was well worth it to be apart of this spectacle:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5qHemVYYRk[/youtube]

[Man Machine]

The older I get, the less I care about that sort of thing - I freaked out about it a little when I turned 30, but now I don't even think about it.  Young, old, people go to shows to have fun.  I do have to admit being waaaay over the Cocaine Heights scenesters at McCarren Pool shows who all look like American Apparel ads and don't know who any of the bands are, and sometimes the obviously-wealthy skate dad types can be a little irritating, but honestly I can't imagine it mattering that much.

I agree. I was way more concerned about this before 30. Now, because the arrangements are more complicated (wife, kids, work, etc.) when I do go to a show, I go because I have to see that show. I don't care about the rest.

[Susannah]

Don't think there's a point where a person formally decides to stop going to shows (unless maybe there's some sort of life event that really precipitates/necessitates it). 

Teaching high school freshman in the south side of Newark, NJ was that life event for me.  Sadly, I was only 27.  I had a personal rule to be in bed by 10 p.m on week nights.  If not, I would pay the consequences the next day.   I only broke my rule once to go see Vic Thrill and the Saturn Missile.  Sure enough, in 3rd period Robert smelled my weakness and threw our last working computer monitor out of our 4th floor classroom window.  I vowed to never do it again. 

But in hindsight it was well worth it to be apart of this spectacle:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5qHemVYYRk[/youtube]

Jay-sus.  I will never complain about my students again.

[andrew in philadelphia]

mike watt at various spots in philadelphia over the years- he was outstanding pretty much any/every time i've seen him.

roky erickson at webster hall in new york in march '08 - there's no words to describe how incredible this was.

[Steve of Bloomington]

Thee Hypnotics at the 930 Club, 1990

They are totally forgotten now, but that night they played a hybrid Hendrix/Stooges thing at a volume that paralyzed everybody in attendance.

Shudder to Think at the 930 Club, 1991
Encore of 'The Joker' dedicated to Homer Simpson

Sonic Youth and Holy Rollers at UMD, 1990

ZZTop in Indy in the 80s

Superchunk in Bloomington, 1998 (after they had recorded Indoor Living in Bloomington)

[Come on, Jason]

The Dismemberment Plan/The Vehicle Birth at The Dharma Coffeehouse, 1994 

Fugazi at Fort Reno, 1994

Medications at The Galaxy Hut, 2008

Radiohead at Nissan Pavillion, 2008

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

holy shit.  you're over 30?

I feel like I've been zung but I'm not sure how.  Like the zing gun just went off and I'm feeling around looking for a wound or something.

[Andy]

aw, you know i'm joking. I'll be 30 in 6 months, which I believe makes me in the upper echelon (sp?) of FOT

[dave from knoxville]

I'm weeping over here

[JonFromMaplewood]

I think you and I are outliers on the Best Show bell curve, DFK.