Mid Year Best Live Shows

[eddie]

The Silver Beats - 9:30
 Clutch - Henry Fonda Theater (LA)
 From The Jam - Birchmere
 Woven Hand - The Note (Chicago)
 Iron Maiden - Merriweather

[OscarTheWilde]

Can't believe the Sex Pistols are on a world tour and only doing one city in each country.  And for the US, that city was Las Vegas.  I missed it.  Bummer that I missed X at the 9:30 too, but I guess I've seen them enough.
 
 Best mid-year-ish shows I HAVE seen:
 
 Peter Hammill*- Jammin' Java, Vienna, VA
 Cure- Radio City Music Hall, NY
 Banco del Mutuo Soccorso*- NEARfest, Bethlehem, PA
 
 Now would someone please get the Cocteau Twins, Stone Roses and the Catherine Wheel back together?
 
 *Prog fans check them out!

[thirsty moore]

Didn't you see them on some kind of zipcode tour in California?
 
 

Originally posted by OscarTheWilde:
 Bummer that I missed X at the 9:30 too, but I guess I've seen them enough.

[mr. pretentious]

Originally posted by eddie:
  The Silver Beats - 9:30
 

Oh shit, I totally forgot about this show!  I'd throw this between Wilco and the Hives on my list (ranked 5.5?).

[miss pretentious]

in no particular order
 
 the b-52s
 r.e.m.
 radiohead
 the hives
 nada surf
 + the silver beats
 + flight of the conchords

[Got Haggis?]

Firewater @ Ottobar

[bearman🐻]

Social Distortion @ House of Blues (Anaheim)
 The Cure @ Patriot Center
 X @ 9:30
 Marilyn Manson @ Electric Factory
 Lou Reed @ 9:30

[samsfresh5]

Radiohead@Nissan
 Flight of the Conchords@Lisner
 PJ@VABeach/Camden/DC
 Buffalo Tom@Black Cat
 Honeychuck@9:30 (well, it was *my* favorite live show this year!!!!!)  

[PigIron]

Drive By Truckers at the club.  Hands-down for me.

[OscarTheWilde]

Yes, econo, what a mammary!  
 
 When I was living temporarily in LA in the mid-90s, X did indeed do a tour of the zip codes in southern California.  I saw them in two zip codes as I recall.  
 
 But I had previously seen them back in their early 80s heyday (an Ontario Theater show on Columbia Rd in Adams Morgan springs immediately to mind), so by then it was already nostalgic.

[friarfunk]

In no particular order:
 
 Kanye @ Nissan
 Boredoms @ 9:30
 Tom Waits (in picturesque Jacksonville!)
 Radiohead @ Soggy Nissan
 Love Is All @ Black Cat (backstage)
 
 Seen a few more (Wilco, Battles, and Mission of Burma notable among them) but my "best" list stops at those  5 for now.  I'm really elated that I've already seen so many shows I'd call amazing in just a few month span.

[MonkeyPants]

Editors @ 930
 Nada Surf @ 930
 Spoon @ Sonar
 Pearl Jam - Camden I
 DeVotchKa @ 930
 
 The Raconteurs, X, Lupe Fiasco and Ghostland Observatory (all at 930) were also awesome.

[nmsles]

The Hives
 Fleet Foxes
 Kanye West.

[OscarTheWilde]

Correction:  That was a southern Cali *area code* tour that X did, as opposed to a zip code tour.  I'm guessing the latter would've proven a bit grueling.

[distance]

unfortunately i haven't seen anything this year other than explosions in the sky.
 i don't think i'm going to be going to a lot of shows this year... might not even break 10 shows, which would be unfortunate.