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First Live Concert
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Really low-key concert with few attending. Production was also bare-bones and the venue woefully empty. I remember the Melvins had an upside-down cross and Nirvana had the In Utero statue. My best friend at the time spent the show making out with his girlfriend, so I hung out with his kid brother who had tagged along.
My biggest memory otherwise is when Krist Novaselic jumped off the stage into the crowd. When he got back to the stage, he went on this profanity-laden tirade about how he saw someone groping girls in the audience and had jumped in to stop them. Interestingly enough, they still played Rape Me later in their set.
Cobain seemed high and only halfway there. Kept breaking guitar strings.
Always had a Nirvana connection after that. When Cobain died, I watched MTV for hours after I heard and the station played Nirvana videos non-stop. For years afterward every time I saw more than one video in a row from a group that I liked, it half-convinced me that some musician from that band had died too.
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Pete Yorn, Alien Ant Farm, Sum 41, 311, Bush
In that order, I think. There may have been another band that was even more forgettable.* Bush may have come before 311, and we arrived after Pete Yorn was done. I remember that the kid from Sum 41 flipped off the crowd. I liked 311 all right but Bush was the only band that I really liked. I thought they were good live.
I smelled weed long before the concert, because my 6-years-older brother hung out with the skaters when I was 8.
*Haha, I just looked it up . Blink 182, Crystal Method, and Puddle of Mudd also played.
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On the bill- Anthrax, Helloween and Exodus. So of course it was awesome. They were touring on "State of Euphoria", "Keeper of the Seven Keys part II" and "Fabulous Disaster", respectively. I remember being really kind of scared but it was that excited, exhilarated kind of fear. I remember at the end, Helloween and Exodus came running back out on stage and pelted Anthrax with tennis balls and shaving cream. It was that kind of goofy, late 80s thrash thing. Of course I got the T-shirt, I was upset that they didn't have the Judge Death shirt so I settled for the one that had the illustration of the band done up in MAD Magazine style by Mort Drucker.
Second show was Living Color. Third was Nuclear Assault, Savatage and Testament. I think fourth was Queensryche and Suicidal Tendencies. Beyond that, it's all pretty hazy.
I do recall NOT going to see Nirvana like literally the week before "Nevermind" came out. They played a really small venue, I didn't go because I had a test the next day.
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metalface13 wrote: I have such a different musical pedigree from everyone else who visits these forums
Hip hop terrifies most board gamers. Perhaps if your background was 80s showtunes and Rush or no-longer-cool grunge rock you would fit in better.
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The other live concert I remember from that era was 1993, when I went to Cow Palace to see the Breeders open for Nirvana. I think Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy were one of the openers as well (California Uber Alles era) and L7 (hated them).
I went to both of these with a "friend" who was into the Pixies and other 4AD bands at the time. I put "friend" in quotes because I had a huge crush on her in that weird almost supra-romantic way when you meet someone who you know is intimidatingly smarter and more world-wise than you are and you hope to just be cooler by osmosis. I never was cooler by osmosis.
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We got right up front for the opening bands because we could. Took a break to get stoned in the back by the first aid station while Bon Jovi played. We had never heard of them at the time and made fun of their wuss-rock music while we watched the paramedics carry in some giant German bikers that had gotten into a pretty bad fight apparently.
Scorpions, Ozzy and Def Leppard were all amazing. I remember Ozzy screaming at the crowd "Get Fucking Crazy Out There!" and I was really hoping the crowd didn't take him literally....
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How did Godwin's Law come into effect in a thread about rock concerts??
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I'm holding onto that one.
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