Top Five Musical Events

“PJ Harvey I assume you are referring to...”

“Watching my kid play music.

One of my hiking buddy's kids plays music. Little band called Evanesence.”

“Yes, that would be Ms. Harvey. Me thinks it was one of the last Lalapolooza (how ever you spell it) tour.

I assumed that's who you're talking about?”

“PJ for me = Pearl Jam, but I like PJ Harvey too!”

“ooooooooppps! Sorry there fire gal. I'm sure there was lesbains at that one too :)”

“1. Phish (Fall 1994, U of Michigan)

2. Bob Dylan (Fall 2002, Berkeley Greek Theatre)

3. Grateful Dead (last show, 1995 tour...ie. THE last show)

4. Wilco (Warfield, Fall 2002)

5. Snoop Dogg (Oct. 2003 tiny club in SF called Slim's--friend gave us back stage passes)

Honorable mentions: Phish, Halloween 1995; Hank Williams III, G. Love and Special Sauce, Beck, my other 3 Dead shows and 4 Phish shows, Rhett Miller (another backstage pass deal), my 15 God Street Wine shows, Robert Cray, Santana, Lolapalloza (Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys), several HORDE tour shows, Aretha Franklin, Metallica, Allman Brothers, U2, Ryan Adams, Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, about 1000 other shows...”

“My first concert was in 1970 and I have not been to 1000 shows.

I think someone is not being honest.”

“All the Phish shows that I have seen 125 of them!

The best show The Great Went 8-17-97

8)”

“I'm sure that TB is being honest, bp!”

“Ozzy & Metallica Tour (Ultimate Sin & Master of Puppets)

Ozzy & Motley Crue Tour (Bark at the Moon & Shout at the Devil)

White Zombie (Astrocreep 2000)

Ozzy & Korn

Pantera & Prong”

“I'm a 70's and 80's guy so it's

1 - KISS
2 - Van Halen
3 - AC/DC
4 - Scorpions
5 - ZZ Top”

“korn puts on an awesome show. i'm going to see them soon at the electric factory in philly.”

“I gotta get in on this action.

1. Leon Russell, '73, Fort Worth
2. Santana, '88?, Warfield Theatre, SF. Europa brought tears to my eyes.
3. Jefferson Airplane, '70, Henry Levitt Arena, Wichita. Grace was very pregnant.
4. Yes, '00, Sandstone Amphitheatre, KC. These old dudes sounded great and were in excellent physical condition. Squires was jumping up and down all night long. Kansas opened for them and I thought there was no way they could be topped that night. There was a way.
5. Sting. '99, Sandstone Amphitheatre, KC.

I agree that there are too many to decide on a top five or ten.”

“When I first saw them (LONG time ago) I'd never even heard of them. THEY ROCKED!!! I've loved their music ever since!
Have fun at the show!”

“Judas Priest and Iron Maiden ('81)
Pink Floyd ('94)
Gwar (Halloween '97)
Monster Magnet (New Years Eve '97 in The Village in Manhattan)
Bonnaroo (both)”

“Hey Treebeard. I got about 5,ooo albums. also in ABC order but I never did get around to making a list. In fact I just hooked it up to the computer so I can start burning the vinyl to plastic. I am getting that new mp3 player by dell where you can record like 5k songs. I'll be jammin throughout the mountains with that thing.


and for all you ulta lite freaks ....it's on 7ozs”

“"When I first saw them (LONG time ago) I'd never even heard of them. THEY ROCKED!!! I've loved their music ever since!
Have fun at the show!"

Hell yea they rock! They were awesome at Woodstock 99. That was the first time I saw them live.”

“U2 Joshua Tree Tour - Tampa Stadium
Quit - FSU - 1988
Drivn' & Cryin / Pylon / REM - FSU '89
Connells - FSU '89
My Bloody Valentine - FSU '89
Garbage / No Doubt - Orlando '02
10,000 Maniacs - St. Pete '89”

“California Jam in the 1980's - headlining act was Emerson LAke & Palmer during their heyday (huge, mind boggling stage show)

The Tubes at Crawford Hall,UC IRvine 1978 - the ultimate BLOW U AWAY stage show!

Elvis Costello & The Attractions at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium 1978 - he played 45 minutes then walked off due to a bad sound system - a riot broke out.

Midnight Oil & The Hoodoo Gurus at Irvine Meadows Ampitheater 1990 - G'Day indeed mate!

Queen at the Forum,Ingelwood,CA.- the CROWD was more bizzare than the band!

Other Great stuff:

BB King at the Golden bear (Huntington Beach, CA.)
George Thorogood at the Sweetwater (Redondo Beach, CA)
The Plimsouls & the Blasters at the Whiskey-a-go-go (Hollywood, CA)

. . .so much good stuff I gotta force myself to stop!”

“Pete, that's cool. I would like to talk to you about some software. I think I will see you in a few weeks in the Daks, right?

Bacpac, those shows were all real. Music was always my passion. I started collecting when I was seven. Then got into radio and DJing as my bread and butter. So, I spent a lot of time on the concert scene. Then they became so expensive, the shows I had to pay for became fewer and further between...”

“top dawg - same tour I saw tha 'Gurus. Midnight Oil ROCKED the Michigan Theater when they came threw.



Let's GIVE IT BACK!!!!!”