Best show you saw at the Bayou

[bearman🐻]

holy crap...that is so cool. Did they play "She's Sad She Said" too??

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

Back to The Bayou...........
 
 
 Echo & The Bunnymen- "Crocodiles" one of the first 3 or 4 shows they ever played in the U.S.
 5 bucks at the door. Wow,they were YOUNG back then. What a show.
 
 Split Enz- "True Colours" Pure pop with lotsa hooks from the Finn Brothers. This was a cool evening.
 
 The Ramones- at least twice. Rocked the joint.
 
 Jason & The Scorchers- twice. Come get Dixie Fried. Hank Williams meets the Ramones.
 
 Iggy Pop- "Soldier" tour with Ivan Kral from the Patti Smith group. We were really smashed and young and dumb and kept throwing quarters at Iggy.
 He got pissed off and said something like "I wish you little bastards would quit with the fucking coins....they HURT.....I'm done with you!"....we stopped,the show was too damn good to have him walk off the stage.....

[Bags]

Originally posted by bearman:
  holy crap...that is so cool. Did they play "She's Sad She Said" too??

YES!!

[Bags]

Originally posted by Jonas Grumby:
 Echo & The Bunnymen- "Crocodiles" one of the first 3 or 4 shows they ever played in the U.S.
 5 bucks at the door. Wow,they were YOUNG back then. What a show.
 

OH.....MY.....GOD.  That is so cool.  I was YOUNG back then (in fact, too young to have seen Echo at a club like the Bayou, never mind the fact that I lived in bumfuck Florida).

[twangirl]

More great shows I saw at the Bayou...
 
 Mary My Hope
 
 Drivin' n' Cryin' & Jason & the Scorchers
 
 Arc Angels
 
 At the Ontario...
 
 The English Beat...who opened? Was it the Go-Gos?
 
 The Cure
 
 Echo & the Bunnymen...for some reason I think Billy Bragg opened for them?
 
 I saw Joe King Carrasco & the Crowns there but can't remember if they were opening for someone else or headlining.

[chancegardener]

my best Bayou show was Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fishbone in '88, I think; a life-changing event!; also Gang of Four with R.E.M. as the openers back in '81 or so. Other good'ns ... Lindsey Buckingham; Tom Tom Club; the Kinks ...

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by twangirl:
  Echo & the Bunnymen...for some reason I think Billy Bragg opened for them?

Yep.  That was my only Ontario Theater show.  Echo, Billy Bragg and The Velvet Monkeys.  E&TB were on their Ocean Rain tour.
 
   

I saw Joe King Carrasco & the Crowns there but can't remember if they were opening for someone else or headlining. [/b]

Joe was one of my favorites to see at the old 9:30.  What a great time.

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by Jonas Grumby:
  One of the most memorable would have to be the Frankie Goes to Hollywood show on election night 1984....the height of Frankiemania

sigh...I remember this.  I was away at school and couldn't go.  A few of my friends went and said it was just out of control.

[bearman🐻]

Gosh, seeing Echo in their famous army uniforms back on the Crocodiles tour...how friggin' cool.
 
 Bags, I'm so friggin' excited about this Judybats show now!

[edbert]

I saw Joe King Carrasco & the Crowns there but can't remember if they were opening for someone else or headlining.

Must've been opening because I remember it, and I wouldn't have gone to see him headlining.  Could that have been Squeeze or Rockpile headlining?

[kosmo vinyl]

i saw R.E.M., before having ever heard of them, warm up for The English Beat and being underwhelmed musicially, but sure do remember Stipe standing still front and center while Buck and Mills bounced all over the place.  needless to say once I heard the record i was a fan, until "Losing My Religion" era tours..

[SPARX]

Originally posted by Seth Hurwitz:
     

Originally posted by SPARX:
  Todd Rundgren playing with Ian Hunter in the same band at a benefit for John Anderson's Presidential campaign.They played both Todd and Ian's songs and also some of their favorite songs by other artists.Still have the T-shirt.

that was at the Ontario Theatre [/b]

I finally googled it and they did 2 shows that night at the Ontario.Not sure which I attended but it left a lasting impression,having a few of my idols involved in the 1st presidential election I could vote in,but I digress.After more thought I'm gonna go with Patti Smith at Bayou when she was so wasted she fell off the piano and PIL's show at the Ontario as my faves.Although both the Furs and Cure shows Jonas mentioned were stellar.

[Bags]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  i saw R.E.M., before having ever heard of them, Stipe standing still front and center while Buck and Mills bounced all over the place.  

Man, that's when Stipe had all that curly hair almost entirely obscuring his face...he had a long road to charisma on stage.  Meanwhile Buck always tickled the hell out of me -- that much joy is infectious.

[twangirl]

Originally posted by edbert:
   

I saw Joe King Carrasco & the Crowns there but can't remember if they were opening for someone else or headlining.

Must've been opening because I remember it, and I wouldn't have gone to see him headlining.  Could that have been Squeeze or Rockpile headlining? [/b]

Unfortunately I never got to see Rockpile. But definitely could have been Squeeze.

[twangirl]

a couple more memorable Bayou shows...
 
 The Factory, when Vance took the stage by diving onto it from the balcony
 
 Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction