Bands I forgot...

[savethewave]

Saw these too. I have not been to very many concerts in over 10 years, so most of the shows I saw were in the late 1970's and 1980's, with my really rabid concert-goings ending by the mid 1990's. The ridiculously high price of tickets is what caused me to stop. I am also not a big fan of "reunion" shows, where there is no new output by the band

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[rev_socks]

soup dragons and lush are my favorite 90's bands

[savethewave]

I like them as well, but not my favorite.

[savethewave]

That was the show. The Clash were better than the Who.

[sarcastic_twit]

When you saw a lot of these bands, did you think that in x-number of years, people would be going "you saw them/?? "

I typed out my list of concerts but it was embarassing and short. :[

[savethewave]

I just liked the bands, and back in the late-70's and early-80's, there was a real sense that something special was happening. So much of the Punk and New Wave were so unlike anything else at the time. I had seen most of the stuff on my list by the time I was 25.

That is why I feel bad about someone discovering music today. There really does not seem to be anything that causes one to pause, and think that they have never heard anything remotely like that before. There is nothing wrong with bands like Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Killers, Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand, She Wants Revenge, and so on, but if one does a bit of research, they can hear for themselves how derivative each one of these bands are of Punk and New Wave groups.

[sarcastic_twit]

Exactly! Which is why I've been trying to "discover" older bands rather than try to sort through the muck that's on the radio now to try and find something good.

[sanctuarymoon]

I totally started typing out my list, too, but I wanted to find the years for everything and I know there are holes since I was doing it off the top of my head. Can I get back to you on this? You should start this as a meme or something. I started alphabetizing my list and it was really illuminating and fun to remember which concerts my parents dragged me to, which I really was excited about going to and loved, which were forgettable and lame, etc. etc.

[savethewave]

That idea of making it a meme is a good one. I feel bad for younger people, because it seems that there are NO bands where 20 years on, people will say, "my God, you saw THEM live?"

[savethewave]

I am VERY happy that I never went to concerts with my parents. They dropped us off in front of the venue, or I took the train or bus to NYC myself.

[sanctuarymoon]

Okay, only 1 show of my own choosing did we actually have a parent chaperone come in with us, and that was to see Duran Duran/Erasure when we were all 13/14 years old, and no way were our parents going to let us come into NYC by ourselves. My friend's dad (a rabid D2 fan) went with a whole group of us and it was actually really awesome to have him there.

No, the parental-dragged shows I'm talking about are a mix of awesome/interesting musicians (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)to just plain cringeworthy on my part (Chicago, Air Supply.) And I honestly don't know which of those two categories to put Liberace in, but I saw him with my grandparents when I was 8. I thought he was damn sparkly, and I liked that. I even shook his hand. The Garden State Arts Center was (and probably always will be) a strange place.

[hammersickle]

you have no idea how very jealous i am. oingo boingo, zappa, dcd, the clash...

many of these shows, i would kill to go to. i mean, my obsession with danny elfman aside, most of those bands pretty much rule. damn being born in '85, damn it to hell.

[savethewave]

I feel bad for younger people, because it is hard to imagine bands like Maroon 5 or even "elder statesmen" Green Day having the same impact 20+ years after the fact. Musically, so much of what passes for "alternative" is really just mainstream, highly derivative, and no matter how much people try to create a "scene" around it, the music just is not a relevant part of music history.

[hammersickle]

sometimes, i really wonder what happened to music. somewhere around the early 90s, good music just stopped being made. i don't know why, and i don't know exactly when. but i have been hoping for a long time now that it would go back to doing what it was doing back then.

music these days is depressingly awful. i hope to god it all fades away like it deserves to, else i'll be damned to listening to junk like maroon 5 and green day on the "classic rock" station for the rest of time.

[savethewave]

Just have a glance at my comment above our exchange.