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Comments on: Little moments http://www.winkie.org/2005/08/12/little-moments/ Searching for one brief hour of Madness & Joy Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:16:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: americanvenus http://www.winkie.org/2005/08/12/little-moments/#comment-796 Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:16:16 +0000 http://www.winkie.org/2005/08/12/little-moments/#comment-796 1991 Lollapallooza, KCMO Just graduated high school...Sid, I've mentioned this before...Summertime Rolls: the clouds roll away and there are summer stars above the arena and lighting flashing all around us. First pot-smoking experience e'er. 2000 The Norva, Norfolk VA Stone Temple Pilots Whelan had just gotten clean, intimate setting, fantastic energy. My girlfriend was a jock on a local radion station and had VIP tickets. The guy moved like Mick Jagger with more sex appeal. Announced to the crowd that they were only going to do "new" stuff the rest of the show and then launched into Interstate Love Song. 2004: Prince. Musicology tour. Pittsburgh PA What can I say? I'm an addict, I always have been. Especially when he sang The Question of U. *Le sigh* Oh yeah...how could one forget?? Weird Al Yankovich, Memorial Hall, JoMo. First concert e'er. 1991 Lollapallooza, KCMO
Just graduated high school…Sid, I’ve mentioned this before…Summertime Rolls: the clouds roll away and there are summer stars above the arena and lighting flashing all around us. First pot-smoking experience e’er.

2000 The Norva, Norfolk VA
Stone Temple Pilots
Whelan had just gotten clean, intimate setting, fantastic energy. My girlfriend was a jock on a local radion station and had VIP tickets. The guy moved like Mick Jagger with more sex appeal. Announced to the crowd that they were only going to do “new” stuff the rest of the show and then launched into Interstate Love Song.

2004: Prince. Musicology tour. Pittsburgh PA
What can I say? I’m an addict, I always have been. Especially when he sang The Question of U. *Le sigh*

Oh yeah…how could one forget?? Weird Al Yankovich, Memorial Hall, JoMo. First concert e’er.

]]> by: Robotnik http://www.winkie.org/2005/08/12/little-moments/#comment-795 Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:44:48 +0000 http://www.winkie.org/2005/08/12/little-moments/#comment-795 old 9:30 or new 9:30? old 9:30 or new 9:30?

]]> by: Sarah http://www.winkie.org/2005/08/12/little-moments/#comment-794 Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:21:01 +0000 http://www.winkie.org/2005/08/12/little-moments/#comment-794 Back in 1991 I got my older brother to take me to Lollapalooza - I was 14 and wanted to go only to see Ice-T (I don't think I had even heard of the other bands before that day). I was blown away by the whole experience. It was my first real concert, the first time I'd smelled pot, drank a little beer, and the first time I spent time in a mosh pit. The whole day was amazing, but by far the best part was Jane's Addiction. By the time he sang "Summertime Rolls" I was hooked. That song still pulls at me when I hear it. 1993 - Spin Doctors, Soul Asylum and some other band I can't remember. I was 16, and got wasted in the parking lot on some REALLY bad tequila some guys had given us (it was years before I could even smell tequila without wanting to hurl after that). Soul Asylum was playing, a mosh pit formed and I was off to join the fun. The only problem was the fact I was wearing sandals...not a good plan. Some guy wearing boots fell back and crushed my little toe...good thing was I was too drunk to care and spent the rest of the night dancing and running around. It wasn't until I got home I realized how bad my toe looked and felt. That same summer, seeing 10,000 Maniacs on their last tour before breaking up. Watching Natalie Merchant twirl in circles for what seemed like hours and falling in love with her. Ziggy's in Winston-Salem, NC - a little dive of a club that always had great bands playing. My most memorable experience there was the Jim Rose Circus freak show. When they turned the lights out and started running around with chainsaws I was convinced I was going to die. Another memorable music moment from my youth was not a band but just a lot of musicians playing together in Durham, NC. I was working backstage at the local theatre and during one of the productions one of the actor/musicians invited the kids to a music party held at a beautiful old house. There were banjos, fiddles, bases, mandolins and more harmonicas than I could count. These people just set up in different rooms in the house and started playing together. From the front porch you could hear different strains of music coming from everywhere in the house and it all melded together to form something beautiful. I've been to many folk music festivals since then but it never has hit me quite the same way that that night sitting on the porch did. Back in 1991 I got my older brother to take me to Lollapalooza - I was 14 and wanted to go only to see Ice-T (I don’t think I had even heard of the other bands before that day). I was blown away by the whole experience. It was my first real concert, the first time I’d smelled pot, drank a little beer, and the first time I spent time in a mosh pit. The whole day was amazing, but by far the best part was Jane’s Addiction. By the time he sang “Summertime Rolls” I was hooked. That song still pulls at me when I hear it.

1993 - Spin Doctors, Soul Asylum and some other band I can’t remember. I was 16, and got wasted in the parking lot on some REALLY bad tequila some guys had given us (it was years before I could even smell tequila without wanting to hurl after that). Soul Asylum was playing, a mosh pit formed and I was off to join the fun. The only problem was the fact I was wearing sandals…not a good plan. Some guy wearing boots fell back and crushed my little toe…good thing was I was too drunk to care and spent the rest of the night dancing and running around. It wasn’t until I got home I realized how bad my toe looked and felt.

That same summer, seeing 10,000 Maniacs on their last tour before breaking up. Watching Natalie Merchant twirl in circles for what seemed like hours and falling in love with her.

Ziggy’s in Winston-Salem, NC - a little dive of a club that always had great bands playing. My most memorable experience there was the Jim Rose Circus freak show. When they turned the lights out and started running around with chainsaws I was convinced I was going to die.

Another memorable music moment from my youth was not a band but just a lot of musicians playing together in Durham, NC. I was working backstage at the local theatre and during one of the productions one of the actor/musicians invited the kids to a music party held at a beautiful old house. There were banjos, fiddles, bases, mandolins and more harmonicas than I could count. These people just set up in different rooms in the house and started playing together. From the front porch you could hear different strains of music coming from everywhere in the house and it all melded together to form something beautiful. I’ve been to many folk music festivals since then but it never has hit me quite the same way that that night sitting on the porch did.

]]> by: Jimbodacious http://www.winkie.org/2005/08/12/little-moments/#comment-793 Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:55:48 +0000 http://www.winkie.org/2005/08/12/little-moments/#comment-793 Ahh, you children. In a nutshell (and missing much due to short term memory loss) these are a few of my favorite (and formative)concert experiences. It started in the late 70s with Todd's RA tour. Fabulous "mountain" on stage and a guitar solo that still rocks my brain. And of course Van Halen opening for Black Sabbath at Memorial Hall in K.C. Then there were the Summer Jams at Arrowhead with Ted, Aerosmith, REO, The Cars, Santana, etc. But it wasn't until I blew off college and moved to Venice, CA that I really got an earful. The Music Machine was a favorite place from '81-'82 where I saw such blistering shows as Fear, REM, The Blasters, Redd Cross and Sham 69. I was bummed at having to go to the early show for Fear, but it was a good thing. About 3/4 the way through the show, ALL of the porcelain fixtures from the bathrooms were out on the club floor. Then some guy puts a few rounds from a .45 into the ceiling... end of show, night over. But I did get to hear "Let's have a war." The L.A. days were great. Tuning in to Rodney on the Roq and seeing the last show at the Whiskey a go-go (Tom Petty, The Plimsouls. et.al.) and diving into the punk scene with shows at the Ukranian Culture Center on Melrose where I saw Black Flag, TSOL, the Circle Jerks, the Angry Samoans, Social D, the Decendents (who still kicked ass 20 years later at a show in Ft. Collins) and Salvation Army. Other phenomenal shows in L.A. were The Specials in the Valley, The Clash and Who at the Colliseum and one of the Stop Making Sense shows (while back for Christmas break in '83) at the Pantages. But my three favorite L.A. items that endure are 3) sitting in on a surprise 45-minute set by Richard Pryor at the Comedy Store, 2) seeing my '55 Caddy parked in front of my Venice apartment in a scene from Tales of Ordinary Madness (Ben Gazarra as Bukowski) and 1) making the front page of the L.A. Times Calendar section, just after passing a bowl to my friend, at the PIL show. Damning evidence of alleged drug use... Then I moved to New York to finish school and really went ballistic. The Cramps at the Peppermint Lounge, James Brown (repeatedly) at the Blue Note, The Ramones, the B-52s, Voilent Femmes and Husker Du. Setting up for Suzanne Vega in Hamilton Hall and hearing her play early versions of Tom's Diner was great (she graduated the year after me), as was filming a video of Run DMC for the school cable access channel. And there were of course the numerous shows at CBGBs, of which the Gun Club stands out and then some wierd heavy metal band called Spinal Tap. The Ritz was fun with the Meat Puppets and the Replacements. But seeing Buster Poindexter and his Banshees of Blue at the Bottom Line was always a fun thing for a weekend night. Lately I've mellowed, but have been lucky to be connected with the Boulder Theater where I was treated to a series of talks by Sir Laurens Van der Post in '96, Run DMC, Johnny Cash and the Buena Vista Social Club. But not too mellow. I caught the Gwar show a few months ago as well as Govt. Mule in July. And last, but not least, my wife dated Kirby McMillan in college (University of Miami, OH). I'm not dead yet. Ahh, you children. In a nutshell (and missing much due to short term memory loss) these are a few of my favorite (and formative)concert experiences.

It started in the late 70s with Todd’s RA tour. Fabulous “mountain” on stage and a guitar solo that still rocks my brain. And of course Van Halen opening for Black Sabbath at Memorial Hall in K.C.

Then there were the Summer Jams at Arrowhead with Ted, Aerosmith, REO, The Cars, Santana, etc.

But it wasn’t until I blew off college and moved to Venice, CA that I really got an earful. The Music Machine was a favorite place from ‘81-’82 where I saw such blistering shows as Fear, REM, The Blasters, Redd Cross and Sham 69. I was bummed at having to go to the early show for Fear, but it was a good thing. About 3/4 the way through the show, ALL of the porcelain fixtures from the bathrooms were out on the club floor. Then some guy puts a few rounds from a .45 into the ceiling… end of show, night over. But I did get to hear “Let’s have a war.”

The L.A. days were great. Tuning in to Rodney on the Roq and seeing the last show at the Whiskey a go-go (Tom Petty, The Plimsouls. et.al.) and diving into the punk scene with shows at the Ukranian Culture Center on Melrose where I saw Black Flag, TSOL, the Circle Jerks, the Angry Samoans, Social D, the Decendents (who still kicked ass 20 years later at a show in Ft. Collins) and Salvation Army.

Other phenomenal shows in L.A. were The Specials in the Valley, The Clash and Who at the Colliseum and one of the Stop Making Sense shows (while back for Christmas break in ‘83) at the Pantages.

But my three favorite L.A. items that endure are 3) sitting in on a surprise 45-minute set by Richard Pryor at the Comedy Store, 2) seeing my ‘55 Caddy parked in front of my Venice apartment in a scene from Tales of Ordinary Madness (Ben Gazarra as Bukowski) and 1) making the front page of the L.A. Times Calendar section, just after passing a bowl to my friend, at the PIL show. Damning evidence of alleged drug use…

Then I moved to New York to finish school and really went ballistic. The Cramps at the Peppermint Lounge, James Brown (repeatedly) at the Blue Note, The Ramones, the B-52s, Voilent Femmes and Husker Du. Setting up for Suzanne Vega in Hamilton Hall and hearing her play early versions of Tom’s Diner was great (she graduated the year after me), as was filming a video of Run DMC for the school cable access channel.

And there were of course the numerous shows at CBGBs, of which the Gun Club stands out and then some wierd heavy metal band called Spinal Tap. The Ritz was fun with the Meat Puppets and the Replacements. But seeing Buster Poindexter and his Banshees of Blue at the Bottom Line was always a fun thing for a weekend night.

Lately I’ve mellowed, but have been lucky to be connected with the Boulder Theater where I was treated to a series of talks by Sir Laurens Van der Post in ‘96, Run DMC, Johnny Cash and the Buena Vista Social Club. But not too mellow. I caught the Gwar show a few months ago as well as Govt. Mule in July.

And last, but not least, my wife dated Kirby McMillan in college (University of Miami, OH).

I’m not dead yet.

]]> by: Sharon http://www.winkie.org/2005/08/12/little-moments/#comment-792 Wed, 17 Aug 2005 08:05:04 +0000 http://www.winkie.org/2005/08/12/little-moments/#comment-792 I saw Hole at Va. Tech just a few months after Cobain killed himself. And Courtney was insane on the drugs, which made for an amazing performance -- ranting, cursing, violence, all of which made glorious sense at the time. She played "Beautiful Son" at least five or six times, and the rest of the band went with it. It was thrilling. I took my sister, who was in town visiting and only in 6th or 7th grade at the time. She was scared shitless of Courtney for years afterward. Also, I just love this story: Saw Yeah Yeah Yeahs at 9:30 a year or two ago. It was a fucking great show, but partway through my husband elbows me and tells me that there's this cute blonde on one side of the balcony who keeps staring at him. He tries to point her out, but I don't see whoever it is. I think he's probably been drinking too much. A little while later he turns back and says, "Shit, it's your sister!" We didn't know she was going to be at the show, and vice versa. It was hysterical. Leave it to my husband to think his sister-in-law is macking on him. I saw Hole at Va. Tech just a few months after Cobain killed himself. And Courtney was insane on the drugs, which made for an amazing performance — ranting, cursing, violence, all of which made glorious sense at the time. She played “Beautiful Son” at least five or six times, and the rest of the band went with it. It was thrilling. I took my sister, who was in town visiting and only in 6th or 7th grade at the time. She was scared shitless of Courtney for years afterward.

Also, I just love this story: Saw Yeah Yeah Yeahs at 9:30 a year or two ago. It was a fucking great show, but partway through my husband elbows me and tells me that there’s this cute blonde on one side of the balcony who keeps staring at him. He tries to point her out, but I don’t see whoever it is. I think he’s probably been drinking too much. A little while later he turns back and says, “Shit, it’s your sister!” We didn’t know she was going to be at the show, and vice versa. It was hysterical. Leave it to my husband to think his sister-in-law is macking on him.

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