top 5 shows you have seen at 930

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by LonnieBeale:
   

Didn't see the earlier show but everyone across the country seemed to pan that tour. Also, we were one of the few venues to get the post Field Day tour which was only a stripped down show while they happened to be in the States. In my mind, it was sort of like acoustic Spiritualized even though it wasn't acoustic.  

Some friends of mine saw Spiritualized a month or so after the disappointing 930 show and reported to me that the band wasn't "stripped down" and they were back to their usual bombastic space/psych rock-style, which made me feel cheated and even more pissed about the DC show. [/b]

That was probably when they came back to the States for a real tour but skipped DC because they had just been here for the Spiritualized Lite tour.   :roll:  Shame they didn't come back because when they are on, they are really on.

[cdg]

Originally posted by brennser:
  hmmm, my memory is shot but here goes
 
 1. Afghan Whigs -Sept 99 - surprise, surprise!!
 2. Sleater Kinney - One Beat tour
 3. The Verve - 1997
 4. Wilco - I'm guessing maybe 99 or 2000, pre-YHF though
 5. blank

I saw Verve on that tour in detroit and it was incredible.  The funniest part was that they were filming a tour video and had cameras out interviewing people in line to get in.

[Chip Chanko]

i second these two:
 
 

Originally posted by brennser:
  hmmm, my memory is shot but here goes
 
 2. Sleater Kinney - One Beat tour
 4. Wilco - I'm guessing maybe 99 or 2000, pre-YHF though

-was this the Wilco show with old 97s opening? i requested kingpin and they played it in the encore.
 
 i'll add:
 
 -the tibetan freedom fest Radiohead makeup show
 -Weezer on the Pinkerton tour (basically played the first two albums)
 -Godspeed You Black Emporer!
 
 honorable mention:
 
 -first time Beta Band was at the club (half full, i'd won tickets through the old forum ticket contest)
 -Stereolab with Quasi opening (my favorite time seeing quasi)
 -Grandaddy's first headlining gig
 
 ...hmmm....so many good shows...
 
 -GbV on the Under the Bushes tour...
 -Hum/Swervedriver
 -Tortoise on the TNT tour

[h8paperdoll]

I keep remembering other good ones...Buffalo Tom and Bettie Serveert at the old club in '92 or '93.  By the way, if you haven't seen the Betties, check 'em out later this year, probably at Iota (it amazes me how few people see those Iota shows)..  Always a damn good show!  And yeah, I saw Weezer open for Live at some point at the new club...Weezer was the better of the two.
 
 Favorite show downstairs at the old club??  Mine was Buck 'O Nine back in '95 or so...

[distance]

Originally posted by tinygee:
   That show was right before all the liitle 13 year old girls with weezer shirts got into them.  

so the show was in early 1994?
 i remember seeing a lot of kids with weezer shirts in 94/95

[brennser]

-was this the Wilco show with old 97s opening? i requested kingpin and they played it in the encore.  

yup, thats the one - old 97s were great too - there was also a wilco gig at some stage where they let a few fans come up on stage and play a song

[Defcon9]

these are mostly old 9:30 shows..
 
 1. Mudhoney 1993 EGBDF tour
 2. Nirvana (Loop headlining) 1990 Bleach tour
 3. Smashing Pumpkins 1991 Gish tour
 4. Helmet 1992 Meantime tour
 5. Failure 1996 Fantastic Planet tour
 
 honorable mention:
 
 Ride & Lush 1993 (maybe 92)
 
   

[brennser]

honorable mention:
 
 Ride & Lush 1993 (maybe 92)  

that sounds like a good un!

[Defcon9]

yea it was hot. I believe Ride was supporting Going Blank Again and Lush had just released Spooky. I'd love to know the exact dates of all these old shows I went to back in the day.. Black Cat too.

[distance]

Originally posted by Defcon9:
  yea it was hot. I believe Ride was supporting Going Blank Again and Lush had just released Spooky. I'd love to know the exact dates of all these old shows I went to back in the day.. Black Cat too.

sp played the 930 club on feb 15th and august 1st in 1991.
 
 nirvana played the 930 club on 04/29/90

[TheREALHunter]

Off the top of my head:
 
 Dwarves 1990 (by far the best 20 minute set Ive ever seen in my life, smoke bombs galore choking the audience and Blag dry humping a topless woman onstage, effing amazing!)
 
 Hank Williams III 2001 (nuff said there)
 
 Helmet 1991 (I was never a fan of anything past their first album but they played a show in the summer and in the fall and both kicked my ass)
 
 Shudder To Think 1991 (Chris's last show with the band, very emotional and killer setlist, they even played their first ever recorded song!)
 
 24-7 Spyz 1989 (they played twice that summer but the second show was far more memorable due to Peter pulling me up onstage and handing me the mic to sing "Grandma Dynamite" in its entirety)
 
 honorable mentions:
 Soul Brains 2003 (wanted to get tickets in '89 but SOLD OUT)
 Living Colour 1989
 Gwar 1989
 Smashing Pumpkins 1991
 Hole 1991
 Body Count 1992
 Dio 2002
 Polyphonic Spree 2003 (both nights)
 Sex Pistols 2003
 Kingface 1997
 Damned 1989
 Mojo Nixon 1989 (went straight to the club after seeing Public Enemy play a festival at Anacostia Park in SE that afternoon, a surreal day to be certain haha)
 
 Hunter

[jkeisenh]

i haven't been around for long, but...
 
 Dismemberment Plan's Farewell Show
 this summer's Polyphonic Spree
 Sleater Kinney's All Hands on the Bad One tour
 Flaming Lips Yoshimi Tour
 Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress tour
 
 NOTE that I'm not including this summer's wilco show (boring).
 
 Worst shows:
 Bright Eyes last summer (I love the music, but he was smashed and it was boring and the crowd was sleepy)
 The Sea and Cake last summer (ugh)

[TomJaworski]

 NOTE that I'm not including this summer's wilco show (boring).
 

You're insane.

[Goof_Ball]

so far  in no order
 
 the last coldplay double show
 
 garbage  
 
 manson (never would have expected to have liked it,  and was totaly impressed)
 
 the living end in 2000 2001
 
 the used

[gm9928]

Hmmm...... well, in no particular order:
 -  Nikka Costa, Dec. 2001
 -  Ani Difranco (with band), March (?) 1999
 -  Lenny Kravitz, Oct 1998
 -  Alanis Morissette, Oct 1998
 -  Prince (after party), 1997 or 1998