This Week in Concert History - Celebrating Your Golden Years

[Lazer Guided Melodies]

08/13/94  Indigo Girls/Big Fish Ensemble @ Red Rocks
08/15/95  Dave Matthews Band @ Red Rocks
08/10/97  Arlo Guthrie @ Mishawaka Amphitheater
08/11/98  The Verve @ Mammoth Events Center
08/15/99  R.E.M./Mercury Rev @ Red Rocks
08/14/01  Murder City Devils/BRMC @ 9:30 Club
08/12/03  Sister Hazel/Virginia Coalition @ Vogue Theatre (Indianapolis)
08/11/05  Beth Orton/Turin Brakes @ Boulder Theater
08/11/07  Denver Post Underground Music Showcase (Bad Weather California, The Omens, Monofog, Born In The Flood, The Swayback, Ian Cooke, etc.)
08/10/09  The Entrance Band @ 3 Kings Tavern
08/15/09  Sonneblume/The Overcasters/Blue Million Miles/Gangcharger @ Hi-Dive
08/12/10  Blitzen Trapper/Adam H. Stephens @ Ogden Theater
08/10/12  Thievery Corporation/Beats Antique @ Red Rocks
08/10/13  Psychedelic Light and Sound Denver @ Larimer Lounge and Meadowlark (Twin Peaks, Hearts in Space, The Blue Rider, Max Pain & the Groovies, Ned Garthe, Thee Dang Dangs, Emerald Siam)
08/15/14  Beck/Jenny Lewis @ Red Rocks

[Bombay Chutney]

8/ 9/85 New Order/A Certain Ratio   Warner Theatre
8/ 9/92 The HORDE       Merriweather Post Pavilion     
8/ 9/04 Metropolitan/The Caribbean/Pagoda  Fort Reno
8/10/81 Pat Benatar/Billy Squier        Merriweather Post Pavilion
8/10/05 New York Dolls    9:30 Club
8/10/08 Virgin Mobile Festival   Baltimore, MD
         (Stone Temple Pilots, The Stooges, Bob Dylan, BRMC, The Go! Team, Shudder
         To Think, Paramore, Rabbit On The Moon, Deadmau5)
8/10/12  The Dismemberment Plan/Deleted Scenes   Metro Gallery
8/11/01 Madonna                   MCI Center
8/11/04 Sonic Youth   9:30 Club   
8/11/05 Olivia Mancini and the Spectacles   DC9
8/11/06 Washington Social Club/Death By Sexy/Dance Party    Black Cat
8/11/12  The Dismemberment Plan/The Bassic Needs/Cat Be Damned    Eyeclopes Studios   Fredericksburg, VA
8/12/84 Thompson Twins/Berlin   Merriweather Post Pavilion
8/12/05 The Knitters   The Birchmere 
8/13/05 Devo           9:30 Club
8/13/13  Adam Ant   9:30 Club 
8/14/05 Devo           9:30 Club
8/14/08 The Hold Steady/The Loved Ones     9:30 Club 
8/14/01 "So Many Roads" (Ratdog/Rusted Root)   Pier Six Concert Pavilion
8/15/04 The Dead/Warren Haynes   Nissan Pavilion 
8/15/05 Mary Timony/Medications/The Threads  Fort Reno
8/15/06 X/Rollins Band   9:30 Club 
8/15/09 The Fleshtones/Robert Gordon   9:30 Club

[Bombay Chutney]

8/16/84 Echo and the Bunnymen/Billy Bragg/Velvet Monkeys     Ontario Theater
8/16/92 U2      RFK Stadium
8/16/06 Foo Fighters (acoustic)   Tower Theater 
8/16/11 Bob Dylan/Drive-By Truckers/Leon Russell   Merriweather Post Pavilion
8/16/12 Barry Manilow   Wolf Trap Filene Center
8/17/87 Siouxsie and the Banshees/Julian Cope   Constitution Hall
8/17/91 Bonnie Raitt/Chris Isaak    Merriweather Post Pavilion
8/17/95 Bob Weir/Rob Wasserman     Constitution Hall
8/17/08 Eddie Vedder   Warner Theater   
8/17/14 Cheap Trick   Rams Head Live 
8/18/05 Metropolitan/Horses       Fort Reno
8/18/06 The Slickee Boys  9:30 Club
8/18/14 Echo and the Bunnymen    The Fillmore
8/19/07 Pat Benatar/Lennon   Loudon Music Fest    Ashburn, VA
8/20/88 Ramones/Dickies/Cycle Sluts From Hell   The Ritz        New York, NY
8/20/89 Elvis Costello  Merriweather Post Pavilion
8/20/91 "Greatfully Yours"     Steeltown    Dundalk, MD
         (Merl Saunders, Tom Constanten, Kingfish w/David Nelson,
         Papa John Creach)
8/20/11 Marginal Man   Black Cat   
8/20/13 Pat Benatar/Cheap Trick   Wolf Trap
8/20/14 X  Black Cat 
8/21/07 Pat Benatar   Rams Head Live
8/22/01 Dickey Betts/Road Ducks            Jaxx
8/22/07 Martin Royle/Mick Coogan & Kevin Bayly/Stephen Kilroy   Black Cat Backstage   
8/22/08 Olivia Mancini & Donny Hue    Comet Ping Pong 

[day of love-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

ok I understand pat benatar in 87....but two shows in two weeks in 2007?!

fun fact, pat benatar grew up in Lindenhurst NY (on long island) my mom was a Math teacher in her High School and Pat was training to be an Opera singer and my mom said she'd never forget hearing her one day when she was practicing.  She was soo small but could really belt it out

Pat for some reason always distanced herself from Lindenhurst and LI

it does mention Lindenhurst on her bio on her own website but in interviews in the 80's and 90's she would never say she grew up there

[bearman🐻]

I'm sort of condensing a couple weeks together...here are some August highlights

8/14/1992  Beastie Boys w/ L7 @ Aragon Ballroom (Chicago)
8/14/1993  Smashing Pumpkins @ Metro (Chicago)
8/18/1995  L7 @ Black Cat
8/16/1996  Yo La Tengo @ Black Cat
8/20/1998  Front 242 @ Metro
8/18/1999  Duran Duran @ Nissan Pavilion
8/17/2002  Sonic Youth @ Metro
8/20/2003  Radiohead @ Merriweather
8/23/2003  Radiohead @ Alpine Valley (East Troy, WI)
8/17/2004  Face to Face @ 9:30
8/19/2005  Judybats @ Ram's Head (Annapolis)
8/15/2006  X w/ Rollins Band @ 9:30
8/25/2007  Marilyn Manson w/ Slayer @ San Diego Sport Arena
8/21/2009  B-52's @ House of Blues (Chicago)
8/25/2011  Death Cab for Cutie @ UIC Pavilion (Chicago)
8/17/2013  Thievery Corporation @ 9:30
8/18/2014  Echo & the Bunnymen @ Fillmore SS
8/27/2014  Arcade Fire w/ Devo @ United Center (Chicago)

[Lazer Guided Melodies]

08/18/01  Gordon Lightfoot @ Paramount Theater
08/16/02  Coldplay @ Fox Theatre
08/20/05  Hopewell/The High Dials @ Mercury Lounge
08/17/07  Gordon Lightfoot @ Chautauqua Auditorium
08/16/08  These United States/Bad Weather California @ Hi-Dive
08/22/09  Bat For Lashes/Other Lives @ Bluebird Theater
08/17/13  Cultivate Music Festival @ City Park Denver (Cold War Kids, Blitzen Trapper, Good Old War, Allen Stone, Air Dubai, Chris Golub)
08/19/13  My Bloody Valentine/Lumerians @ Ogden Theater
08/16/14  Synesthesia:  Denver Psych Fest @ Savoy/Big Wonderful (The Cosmonauts, The Vacant Lots, Tjutjuna, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Guy Blakeslee, Paw Paw, Rumtum, Sunboy, Emerald Siam, The Kinky Fingers, Ned Garthe Explosion, Colfax Speed Queen, Taverns, etc.)

[Lazer Guided Melodies]

09/01/93  Neil Young/Blind Melon @ Fiddler's Green Amphitheater
08/31/05  Retribution Gospel Choir @ Larimer Lounge
09/01/07  Wilco/Richard Swift @ Fillmore
09/02/07  Wilco/Richard Swift @ Fillmore
09/01/10  Chemical Brothers @ Fillmore
09/02/11  Jazz Aspen/Snowmass @ Snowmass Town Park (Girl Talk, Thievery Corporation, Paper Diamond, Something Underground)
09/03/11  Jazz Aspen/Snowmass @ Snowmass Town Park (Steely Dan, Rodrigo y Gabriella, Ryan Bingham)
09/04/11  Taj Mahal Trio @ Belly Up Aspen
08/31/12  Dressy Bessy/The Omens/Pacific Pride @ Bluebird Theater
09/04/12  Amon Tobin/Holy Other @ Ellie Caukins Opera House
08/30/14  Poolside/Sylent Efx @ Club Vinyl

[rich_WDC]

I know you've all missed my entries..... I promise I'll get back to it..   Summertime has/had so many festivals so too many band names to include.  The cut/paste/edit process can be tedious.   

Don't let me know if there is a greater first-world problem.

[day of love-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

not necessarily yours, but I do have an odd fascination with this thread

I have no objection to the concept...but really does this live beyond the year

Will new bordies carry the flame?

though they'd dread the very thought of it, agaz or ksal could quite easily produce a running list of the last 214 bands they've seen on 10/2-9/2000-15

might even be 216?

[hutch]

not necessarily yours, but I do have an odd fascination with this thread

I have no objection to the concept...but really does this live beyond the year

Will new bordies carry the flame?

though they'd dread the very thought of it, agaz or ksal could quite easily produce a running list of the last 214 bands they've seen on 10/2-9/2000-15

might even be 216?

lets try to keep it to shows attended by at least 10 peeps paying

[bearman🐻]

Here's a clip about the Sneaker Pimps opening for Aphex Twin, Sept. 5, 1997. Forever one of those perfect, insane nights that can never, ever be replicated. The sound at that show was just ridiculous. Kind of amazing in retrospect that in 1997 it was OK for a laptop to be responsible for an entire performance. I'm still not entirely sure that it was a laptop. I think that Richard D. James was just checking e-mail and surfing the web for 90 minutes. But I've never seen anything like that, and probably won't again. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/09/05/sneaker-pimps-onstage-imprint/8f0d6bdf-890e-449f-be4f-aa2d4d1e7019/

[day of love-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

not necessarily yours, but I do have an odd fascination with this thread

I have no objection to the concept...but really does this live beyond the year

Will new bordies carry the flame?

though they'd dread the very thought of it, agaz or ksal could quite easily produce a running list of the last 214 bands they've seen on 10/2-9/2000-15

might even be 216?

lets try to keep it to shows attended by at least 10 peeps paying

yikes...16 sounds like a better number than

[Bombay Chutney]

8/30/09 Virgin Mobile Freefest   Merriweather Post Pavilion 
8/31/85 DOA/Government Issue/Dag Nasty   WUST Radio Music Hall   
8/31/89 Neil Young (solo acoustic)  Merriweather Post Pavilion
9/ 1/89 Jerry Garcia Band/Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman    Merriweather Post Pavilion 
9/ 1/03 Dismemberment Plan/Beauty Pill/The Aquarium  9:30 Club
9/ 1/06 The Screaming Ducks    Cafe 210 West   State College, PA
9/ 2/88 Grateful Dead   Capital Centre  (My 1st Dead show)
9/ 2/89 Jerry Garcia Band/Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman    Merriweather Post Pavilion
9/ 2/96 George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars     Pier Six Concert Pavilion
9/ 2/04 The Phobes/High Dials     Black Cat
9/ 2/06 The Blue Method   Zeno's   State College, PA
9/ 3/88 Grateful Dead   Capital Centre 
9/ 3/89 Jerry Garcia Band/Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman    The Spectrum    Philadelphia, PA
9/ 3/99 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band   MCI Center   
9/ 3/04 Metropolitan/The Caribbean/Clark Sabine      Black Cat
9/ 3/11  The Ettes/Friends    Black Cat
9/ 4/99 R.E.M.  Jones Beach Theater     Wantaugh, NY
9/ 4/04 Cake          Merriweather Post Pavilion
9/ 4/07 Hoodoo Gurus/The Fake Accents   Black Cat
9/ 4/09 The Slickee Boys   Black Cat
9/ 4/14  Buzzcocks/Loud Boyz   Black Cat
9/ 5/88 Grateful Dead   Capital Centre
9/ 5/98 Allman Brothers Band    Fox Theater     Atlanta, GA
9/ 5/99 R.E.M.  Blockbuster-Sony Entertainment Center     Camden, NJ
9/ 5/01 John Mellencamp/The Wallflowers     Nissan Pavilion

[grateful]

That was my first Dead show too!

[Lazer Guided Melodies]

09/06/96  They Might Be Giants/Morphine/Cardigans @ Hatch Shell
09/12/96  Max Creek @ Paradise
09/10/04  Steve Earle @ Paramount Theater
09/11/04  Jay Farrar/Drag The River @ Fox Theatre
09/06/06  Zero 7/Jose Gonzalez @ Gothic Theatre
09/10/07  Devendra Banhart @ Ogden Theater
09/11/07  Jennifer Gentle/The Dodos @ Hi-Dive
09/11/09  The Psychedelic Furs/Happy Mondays @ Boulder Theater
09/12-13/09  Monolith Music Festival @ Red Rocks (Phoenix, The Dandy Warhols, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Of Montreal, The Walkmen, M. Ward, Chromeo, Deer Tick, We Were Promised Jetpacks, MSTRKRFT etc.)
09/09/10  Pavement/Quasi @ Ogden Theater
09/10/11  Sunnyside Music Festival @ Chaffee Park (Pink Hawks, A.Tom Collins, The Raven and the Writing Desk, Bonnie and the Bead, Broken Tongues)
09/07/13  Deerhunter/Wymond Miles @ Bluebird Theater