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Originally posted by Bonky!:
In retrospect, I suppose that was the beginning of the end for GNR. They were a couple of hours late for the show I saw. At the time, they said it was because they hadn't arrived, but it transpired that Axl was just having a hissy-fit backstage.

Still, Soundgarden and FNM were great. (Actually, so were GNR...eventually.) And I got to see FNM's headline tour later in the year, and they were superb. Sorry you had such shitty luck, bluebeard.

the show I was supposed to see was cancelled because of the pyro accident that injured James Hetfield, so it wasn't really Axl's fault (the riot a few years ago was though).. I was able to see FNM twice after this, but it they were both post-Jim Martin. Still great shows. I wonder if Soundgarden went on to replace Metallica on that tour? I remember someone filled in on guitar for Hetfield for a few shows.

Well this wasn't officially an "opening act and headliner" concert, but Les Claypool/Flaming Lips at The Allgood Festival was a fucking great time.

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Flaming Lips - Radiohead (Glastonbury Festival 2003)

fuck yeah that too I was there and it was awesome

Basehead/Firehose/Beastie Boys was a good one
Pixies/U2
Q-Tip/Common Q-Tip blew Common off the stage!!

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Originally posted by EgoTrip:
I just got back from seeing Return to Forever...and damn, that was one of the best live shows I have EVER seen! Those guys were sick as shit! Stanley Clarke is amazing at bass!

That's what I wanted to hear, I'm going tonight. I really never thought I'd have the chance to see these guys play.

No joke, probably in the top 5 best shows I have EVER seen. I'm so glad I went. I was going to sleep and then remembered they were playing at my work, so I grabbed a friend and we sat in a VIP box in the pavilion for free and got free beers (Ahhh I love my job!) and watched the most kick ass show!

Have a great time and let me know how it is! Everyone else who has the chance, should go see them.

What can I say? These dude's can play. Stanely has never let me down, his tone is perfect. It was also a show with The Flecktones who as always are amazing, they opened up with Big Country one of my favorite songs from any artist.

Basehead fucking rules.

Reminds me...I need to throw in Bad Brains/The Roots/Beastie Boys.

I was blunted beyond repair!

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Originally posted by EgoTrip:
Stanley Clarke is amazing at bass!

And a really nice guy, too. Ever seen the video of him doing a double bass solo?

The Flaming lips, 2002...

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Originally posted by Mooneyham jr.:
The Damnations / Spoon / The Gourds / Guided By Voices - FREE show Waterloo Park 3/20/1999 Austin, TX - good day. met GBV because I knew Britt (I had helped him move a piano the week before, he got me in in return). Lots of smuggled in whisky. Still have a GBV signed Budweiser tallboy (unopened).

Was that a SXSW show? I was there if it was. I loved Damnations TX.

Yeah it was during SXSW 1999...free show to end the week.

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The National/Modest Mouse/REM

Shoulda been great, but it was at the United Center, and the sound and venue were both terrible

hey you live in homewood? I live in the heights and work at the flossmoor library... el mundo pequeno..


i saw ben folds open for tori amos. That was a nice show.

Yeah, I've probably seen you there before then.

And as to the other reply, yeah it wasn't my favorite 1-2, but it should have been. I really don't have a favorite- haven't been to enough shows to have experienced something worth mentioning.

i'm the younger guy that works the reference desk. there's only two guys there.

This is gonna date my ass, but here are a few I've enjoyed

Quiet Riot/Iron Maiden (Piece of Mind Tour)
Queensryche/Iron Maiden (Slavery Tour)
S.O.D./Suicidal Tendencies/Anthrax
Wasp/Venom/Metallica
Ween/Bongwater
Ween/Lida Husik/Bongwater
World Saxaphone Quartet/Butthole Surfers
Lunachicks/Gwar/Butthole Surfers
Band Of Susans/Butthole Surfers
Cop Shoot Cop/Butthole Surfers
Flips/Butthole Surfers (BBQ Bar-Mitzvah Tour)
Bardo Pond/Mogwai
SubArachnoid Space/Bardo Pond
Dead Meadow/Bardo Pond
Amber Asylum/Jarboe
Cul De Sac/Damo Suzuki
Sonic Youth/Ween/FLips

I'm sure there's more, can't remember them all at the moment

Hopefully the Lips and Mogwai will be a good double whammy in Belfast next Monday. Mogwai can be very hit-and-miss.

For me its usually been either really good headliners or really good openers, not both. Sooo... I'm gonna go with

Final Fantasy/Arcade Fire - Cats Cradle - 2005 (?)

Rob Dickinson (from Catherine Wheel) doing a solo all acoustic set to open for The Church... think it was '06... maybe '05.

gone/black flag

steelpole bathtub/flaming lips

babes in toyland/my bloody valentine/dino jr.

L7/beastie boys/sonic youth

Kinks/Ian Hunter
Spiritualized/BRMC
Yes/Donovan
Neil Young/Soundgarden
Sonic Youth/Sebadoh/The Fog/Deep Wound