This Week in Concert History - Celebrating Your Golden Years

[bearman🐻]

randomly ran across this
That had got to be the best $5.75 ever spent at the MPP

Supposedly the only time they ever shared a stage.

[Kubacheck]

randomly ran across this
That had got to be the best $5.75 ever spent at the MPP


I didn't want to wait until 5/25 to post...an no I didn't go

LEAD Zeppelin??... clearly the ticketing agency didn't know much about the band....

they came back a couple months later to headline the Laurel Pop Festival....

http://www.theleonardgroupinc.com/assets/img/pop%20festival.pdf

....and funnily enough, the Washington Post reporter sent to review the festival was one Carl Bernstein, who got much more famous a little later on!!!.... and he killed Zeppelin in his review.....

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/special/bernstein081001.html

This bit of "orgasmic frenzy"-related remorse notwithstanding, Bernstein tells me he'd use his first mulligan to redo his assessment of another band, if granted the opportunity.

"I really missed it on Led Zeppelin," he says.

Bernstein is talking about a July 1969 review, when he covered the Laurel Pop Festival?a two-day concert held at a suburban Maryland racetrack. Bernstein brutalized "the British groups" on the bill, a bluesy crop that included Zeppelin?touring at the time in support of its first LP?and the Jeff Beck Group, a prototypical hard-rock combo founded by Jimmy Page's former Yardbirds crony.

To Bernstein's ears, these bands hadn't "demonstrated talent in anything but making raucus [sic], unmodulated, unoriginal noise," and the positive feedback their playing received from fans at the festival and from the record-buying public at large "make it unpleasant to contemplate where rock is going."

Without citing them by name, Bernstein also haymakered both Zeppelin's singer, Robert Plant, and the then-unheralded lead throat of the Jeff Beck Group, a Scotsman by the name of Rod Stewart: "They are engaged in a latter-day version of blackface," he wrote.

All these years later, Bernstein can stomach his dismissal of Stewart, though he's not entirely cozy with the prose used to do so. But failing to foresee Page and Plant's becoming, well, the Woodward and Bernstein of '70s hard rock still bothers him.

"I get Led Zeppelin now. I love them. But, boy, did I not get that band then," he says. "I'm ashamed. But, what can I say? You get to be wrong once in a while."
 

[Hatch, guerrilla-poserll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

haymakered ....going to have to work that one into a sentence

Jules can you give me a hand

[Julian, White Poet WARLORD]

Jules can you give me a hand

"When Hutch was haymakered by Child Protective Services, no one felt sorry for him."

[Hatch, guerrilla-poserll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

at least they got it right on the poster


Perhaps the only people qualified to make that call were those lucky enough to be at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md. on the night of Sunday, May 25, 1969, when Led Zeppelin opened for The Who in one of the most epic double bills in rock history. It was a pairing of hall of fame live acts that would never be seen again on the same stage.

[Kubacheck]

1987-04-25 Eric Clapton @ Capital Centre, Landover MD
2006-04-26 Colin Hay @ Rams Head Tavern
2008-04-26 Nick Lowe @ Rams Head Tavern
2007-04-27 Colin Hay @ Rams Head Tavern
2010-04-27 The Church @ Rams Head Tavern
2012-04-27 Squeeze/English Beat @ Rams Head Live, Baltimore
2013-04-27 Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 @ 930 Club
2002-04-28 Wilco @ The Recher Theater,  Towson MD
2011-04-28 Neil Young/Bert Jansch @ Hippodrome, Baltimore
2013-04-29 Johnny (Fucking) Marr @ 930 Club
2006-05-01 The Little Willies @ Rams Head Tavern
2008-05-01 The Waifs/The Lovell Sisters @ Rams Head Tavern
2012-05-01 Tom Petty @ Germain Arena, Estero FL
2007-05-02 Winterpills @ Rams Head Tavern
2008-05-02 Mark Olson Trio @ Rams Head Tavern

I was at the Wilco show. Can't believe it was 2002! It was so packed I couldn't see the band. But, it sounded perfect.

yes, it sounded great in there... and we got an early version of "Spiders (Kidsmoke)", which didn't come out until the following record some 2 years later.....

[Kubacheck]

funnily enough, I was talking with a friend a couple of years ago, and he casually mentioned that he was at the Zep/Who show..... he said the traffic getting there was horrendous and they didn't get in until Zeppelin was almost over.... he had good pavilion seats, and he said that the pavilion was SO packed with people that he couldn't get anywhere NEAR his seats.....

[Kubacheck]

I'll get this topic going this week.....

2000-05-03 Glen Campbell @ Rams Head Tavern
2005-05-03 Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks @ Rams Head Tavern
2012-05-03 Lindsey Buckingham @ The Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach CA
2005-05-04 Al Stewart @ Rams Head Tavern
2007-05-04 Arcade Fire @ DAR
2008-05-04 Electric Prunes @ Rams Head Tavern
2013-05-04 The Breeders @ 930 Club
2014-05-05 Dandy Warhols @ Mercy Lounge, Nashville TN
2006-05-06 Thomas Dolby @ Rams Head Tavern
2006-05-07 Thomas Dolby @ Rams Head Tavern
2000-05-08 Mick Taylor @ Rams Head Tavern
2008-05-08 Tina Dico @ Rams Head Tavern
2003-05-09 Fleetwood Mac @ (the then called) MCI Center
2011-05-09 Jon Anderson @ Rams Head Tavern
2012-05-09 Mike Doughty @ Rams Head Tavern
2013-05-09 Hayes Carll @ Rams Head Tavern

[rich_WDC]

The Alarm              5   3   1991   Hammerjacks
Murphy's Law      5   3   1992   Nightclub 930
Zero                      5   4   1992   Bayou
Rush                      5   5   1990   Capital Centre
Screaming Cheetah Wheelies      5   5   1994   Nightclub 930
Rob Zombie              5   5   2014   Rams Head Live
Blues Traveler      5   6   1995   GWU-Smith Ctr
Laura Cantrell      5   6   2004   Library of Congress
Reverend Horton Heat (w/ The Supersuckers opening)      5   7   2005   Nightclub 930
Public Enemy      5   8   1989   Nightclub 930
Soundgarden      5   8   1992   Ritchie Coliseum
The Cramps (w/ Date Bait and maybe Flat Duo Jets??)   5   9   1990   Lisner Auditorium
Marilyn Manson      5   9   1997   DC Armory
Govt. Mule              5   9   2001   Nightclub 930
Monster Magnet      5   9   2002   Nightclub 930
Drive-By Truckers      5   9   2008   Nightclub 930

[bearman🐻]

5/3/1993  Jesus Jones w/Stereo MC's @ Aragon Ballroom (Chicago)
5/6/1995  Ned's Atomic Dustbin w/ Orange 9mm @ WUST
5/2/1997  Emmylou Harris @ 9:30
5/6/1998  Sonic Youth @ 9:30
5/9/1999  GusGus w/Esthero @ the Metro (Chicago)
5/2/2000  Supergrass @ 9:30
5/3/2000  Oasis w/Travis @ Patriot Center
5/8/2001  Blink 182 @ 9:30
5/8/2003  The Faint @ 9:30
5/4/2007  The Arcade Fire w/the National @ DAR
5/9/2007  AIR @ 9:30
5/9/2008  The Cure @ Patriot Center
5/4/2013  The Breeders @ 9:30 (early)
5/4/2013  Deathfix @ Black Whiskey (late)
5/2/2014  The Both (Aimee Mann & Ted Leo) @ 9:30
5/5/2014  Foo Fighters w/Trouble Funk @ 9:30

[Lazer Guided Melodies]

5/6/1995  Ned's Atomic Dustbin w/ Orange 9mm @ WUST

I saw that show in Denver about 10 days later and loved it.  They would break up at the end of that summer and I never got to see them again.

[Lazer Guided Melodies]

05/07/94  The Samples @ Arnold Hall Theater
05/03/96  Acoustic Junction @ Paradise
05/04/98  Kelly Joe Phelps @ 12 Bar Club
05/07/99  Robbie Williams @ Paradise
05/03/01  Badly Drawn Boy @ 9:30 Club
05/07/02  Jurassic 5/Blackalicious @ 9:30 Club
05/07/04  Belle and Sebastian @ Fillmore
05/09/05  Mercury Rev @ Fox Theater
05/08/08  Wilco/Retribution Gospel Choir @ Pikes Peak Center
05/05/11  The Black Angels/Sleepy Sun @ Fox Theater
05/08/12  The Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Bluebird Theater

And I got Levitation (Austin Psych Fest) coming up at the end of the week.

[bearman🐻]

5/6/1995  Ned's Atomic Dustbin w/ Orange 9mm @ WUST

I saw that show in Denver about 10 days later and loved it.  They would break up at the end of that summer and I never got to see them again.

I always loved seeing them. Except for the time I got caught in a crowd rush and had the living crap beat out of me. That was scary...but their shows were always a ton of fun, and I still listen to "Are You Normal" often. That LP was so underrated.

[Lazer Guided Melodies]

I always loved seeing them. Except for the time I got caught in a crowd rush and had the living crap beat out of me. That was scary...but their shows were always a ton of fun, and I still listen to "Are You Normal" often. That LP was so underrated.

I agree on Are You Normal being underrated. I think that tops God Fodder and one of the few vinyl purchases I made in the 90s.   

[bearman🐻]

I always loved seeing them. Except for the time I got caught in a crowd rush and had the living crap beat out of me. That was scary...but their shows were always a ton of fun, and I still listen to "Are You Normal" often. That LP was so underrated.

I agree on Are You Normal being underrated. I think that tops God Fodder and one of the few vinyl purchases I made in the 90s.   

I got to hang out with them a bunch around the time AYN? was released, and they were just super sweet and funny guys. Matt and Jonn especially. I so wish they'd come back to the US. I always thought they were doing pretty well over here. I think they were an unfortunate victim of a band being pushed aside while major labels tried to push bands like Sponge, Letters to Cleo, etc. They broke up because they owed too much money to the label and so they were forced to disband. At least that's what Alex told me in 1995.