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- jevad0
Public Enemy
Hong Kong 1992Good bands coming through Hong Kong were few, and very far between. Wham and Bryan Adams come to mind.
My first ever realy show was seeing Public Enemy at the So Kon Po amphiteatre.
(That is if you don't count seeing LOUDNESS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou…) there a year earlier - which I don't because I was totally wasted up the back trying to get my hands down Claire Jackson's pants...)
They were so fucking loud (PE - not LOUDNESS...who were also pretty fucking loud btw...) that when i got home I couldn;t sleep all night due to the ringing in my ears.
Anyway...about halfway through the set...everybody is standing up on their seats - and Chuck D between songs starts saying that the management of the venue asked him to tell us not to stand on the seats but that he 'Didn't give a fuck what we did'. He then led the crowd of predominantly white middle class english kids into a resounding chant of 'Fuck The Queen!' before ripping into 'Fuck Tha Police'...at which point all fucking hell broke loose as seats were ripped up and thrown around and the whole amphitheatre erupted into a giant mosh pit.
The look on teh faces of the chinese management was just pure brilliance. They hadn't even hired any security. Flava Flav went backstage and came back out with the biggest looking blunt I have ever seen. I was in teh 5th row..he took a couple pulls and then passed it to some guy in the front row - and 5 minutes later it was in my hands. I took one big draw and almost passed out.
Ahhhh...good times...good times!
Oh and incase you were wondering - I did manage to slip Claire Jackson the hot beef injection at that loudness show....
- jamble0
I met the Cardigans, Nina is fit and they gave me some beer.
- fooler0
Nashville Pussy, PHX, AZ. '98 or '99
On vacation me and my girl went to this show. crappy little place ( I think it was the Mason Jar ). My girl got Corey Parks to autograph some shit before the show for me. After the first band the drummer for NP took about an hour duct taping the rebel flag behind his kit and then it was time to rock. The club was all ages so they had to separate the stage in half with some fencing. The place was going nuts, fireworks on stage ( this was before the Great White thing). Chicks making out, people climbing the fence, moshing, fighting.... During one of the mosh fights the bouncer jumped over me and my girl and grabbed to guys at once. It then when I noticed he had sandwiched my girl between the 2 fighting dudes. I Pushed the bouncer and yelled "you;ve got me girl, you've got me girl" Once he noticed that he backed off and was our personal bouncer in the pit the entire night! Afterwards we were drinking in the parking lot with some local punks and when they saw the Towncar come pick us up the yelled "Rich ass punks!" It was classic!!
The next night we went to go see George Clinton in the round on 2 hits of E a piece! We were making out so bad these old black ladies taped us on the sholder and said "get a room". I looked at them and smiled and said "we have one" and continued making out. Those ladies laughed so hard at us whities.
That is one vacation I will never forget
- mg330
Seeing The Cure in a 999 person capacity venue in Dallas in 2000 or 2001.
They played for three hours. I was literally 15 feet from Robert Smith the entire show. I could have died and gone to heaven afterwards.
I was lucky enough that they called my ticket from amongst the 40 or so people in line at the Ticketmaster location I was at.
When they called my number (meaning, everyone know only that person would get tickets) I felt like I was floating.4356!
A guy in line behind me actually gave me money for his two tickets and paid me $35 since I was only buying two.
Most incredible, amazing, breathtaking concert night of my life.
- gfro0
My best concert story never happend last week.
I went to LA for a week to vist friends, but I chose last week, cause I wanted to see Roger Waters at the bowl. My friend I did work for comped them to me.
My wife picked up tickets right before Thursdays show. So I pick her up on Melorse and head up to the Bowl. "Did you see the tickets?" I ask. No, been too busy. So I look at them and notice they are for fridays show. Now, mind you, I'm leaving LA on friday AM.
My reason for gloing to LA that week in the first place was the concert.
Then on the plane the next morning. dark Side of The Moon documentry on VH1. What a kicker.
- Point50
Coachella 2001
Really so many stories to tell, but it was mushrooms, vodka and ghb that led to the insanity that weekend.
- grunttt0
outdoor venue between the final set and the encore at a dave matthews concerts (shut up, it was 10 years ago) - the lights were down and it was quite dark. I was out in the lawn section. I lit some crazy big sparkler thing and raised it above my head and everyone in the place started yelling, screaming, clapping. When it burned out I lit another one to try to keep the crowd going when a security gaurd grabbed my shoulder and told me to put it out or he'll put me out.
sparklers are damn hard to extinguish.
- k0na_an0k0
Metallica
Outdoor show. 1998I made the stupid drunken mistake of crowd surfing. My cousin talked me into it and before I knew it I was 5 rows back from the stage. Everything was fine and dandy until some asshole ripped off my shoe, I yelled at him and the next thing I know they through me over the railing onto the concrete in front of the stage. Dazzed as fuck I hear "HOLY SHIT... IS THAT DUDE OK!?!" over the loudspeaker and I look up to see James Hetfield leaning over the edge of the stage pointing at me yelling into his mic "GIVE HIM HIS FUCKING SHOE BACK!" as security rushed to what I thought was going to be a severe ass kicking. They helped me to my feet and about a second later my shoe came flying back over and landed next to the guard. They helped me walk off to the side of the stage and the band went back to playing.
The funniest part was everything seemed to stop for a second after James yelled if I was ok, then, when my shoe came flying back over the crowd cheered like their favorite team just scored a touchdown and the band went back to playing.
My cousin seriously though I had broken my neck from the way I landed. We didn't tell my folks.
- grunttt0
awesome kona
- nosaj0
Sounds awesome mg33.
The Cure - Disintegration Tour in 89 was my 1st and best concert. Love and Rockets Opened. Changed my life.
- chossy0
I went to see David homes by myself and got pissed up pulled a chick and then rode her after the concert.
Super cool
- mg330
damn nosaj - I remember when that happened but was way too young! Had just gotten into them around then. I wasn in the 5th grade I think!
- Witt0
Can't remember which Band was it (it was a big one like U2 or something), but someone in the crowd throws a beer bottle at the vocalist in the first 15 min of concert. He was really pissed and throws the bottle to the crowd. The next second... like, 100 bottles hit the stage. they run away. end of gig. no money back.
- k0na_an0k0
glad you brought up the dmb gruntt. i think in 1996 in champaign at UofI i got tickets to go to the dave mathews concert with a few friends.
sometime during the day i took my buddies lighter and turned it into a flame thrower. (where you keep adjusting the amount of fluid that shoots out to make the flame higher). i did it right and on average i could get the lighter to have a bout a nine inch flame.
midway through the concert i was drunker than an irishman (no offense to irishmen) and a slow song came on and everyone starts lighting their lighters. drunk i pulled mine out and completely forgot it was the flame thrower. i lit it up in this small dark venue and you could hear the black dude with the violin go "HOLY SHIT!" and points up at me. dave looked up but kept on singing. the crowd went crazy. then security came over and took the lighter from me and kicked us out. never understood why.
- k0na_an0k0
not as cool.
1996 (i think)
dekalb illinois. veruca salt (not one fucking word)
i got free tickets to otto's in dekalb and brought a broke ass friend of mine along for the show. i knew he was broke so i payed for most of his beers throughout the night. it was a small place and i could have sworn one of the girls was looking at me the whole night.
after the show one of the bouncers came over and was like 'you have been invited to join veruca salt back at their hotel for the after party, but only one of you can go'. before he got out the "o" in go my buddy was like 'cee ya doug', took the ticket and went backstage with the bouncer. that was the end of that friendship. i got his ticket. i paid for his beer. he screwed me out of the after party. i was furious.
- k0na_an0k0
awesome mg33!
hahaha gruntt! "put it out or i'll put you out" haha!
- nosaj0
Soundgarden, early ninties, concert hall in Toronto.
Riot in Toronto following the Rodney King verdicts heading down Young Street towards the concert hall (Thousands of people tearing up the street).
At the concert hall about 1500 hundred people out front waiting to get in - they wouldn't open the doors.
In between the riot and the Soundgarden show, many many police telling people at the concert hall to take cover and dispurse. No one was willing to give up there spot in line. Some how the police diverted the rioters before they hit the concert hall.
- joyride0
Prince w/ sheila E
I think i was in 4th grade and this was my 1st concert, my parents took my sister and some of her friends I really shouldn't have been there. Joints getting passed around all around me, Sheila E simulating giving a BJ to some dude she picked from the audience... LOL "Dad, whats she doing?" I think he just ignored my question...
- flavorful0
Grand Buffet/Modey Lemon Show in 2002.
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Insane fucking show. I had only seen either band at house parties beforehand, and not at an actual concert venue and apparently in the beginning I was teh only one who got the memo that when Paul and Phil (Modey) start fucking thrashing you start knocking everyone the fuck over.Most of the people were there to see Sage Francis as he was headlining the tour, but let Grand Buffet rock it out since it is their hometown (and Modey), so my bull rush to the front was quite unexpected and the entire time the Lemon was on I was going absolutely ape shit it was fucking awesome, they rocked so fucking hard and you could actually hear them well for once, I was in heaven.
There was a break in the action before Sage hit the stage, and Phil jumped into the crowd and he was thanking me for rocking out because he wasn't sure how they would play over at a hip-hop show, and that the first round was on him. So we start walking to the bar and we get carded.
Fucking carded.
Okay, he didn't get carded, I got carded.
He looked at the bouncer and went this is my friend Jerome, it's cool.
"No dice."
Didn't you just see me on fucking stage?!
"No dice."
So I told him it was cool, and that I'd catch up with him later as I wanted to see Sagey up in the front anyway.
I've never been a big Francis fan, so it was alrite, I was more so getting my lungs and energy back from the whilrwhind of fury I was consumed with earlier.
Then ... the George W. Bush cut-outs were slowly brought out.
The American flag came up upside down, along with upside down crosses, piles of sand and kiddie pools, hahaha.
Grand Buffet was about to literally attack the stage.
They started tearing it the fuck up, and I was back in prime form, but thankfully this time there were more people willing to at least move around this time and jump up and down, and it was fucking great.
Halfway thru the show, Lord Grunge jumped into the crowd and we were just throwing people around then he goes, "head butt me," and without thinking twice I fucking head butted him, haha. He staggered back and grabbed his head and went, "Jesus fucking christ you got a hard fucking head, get up on my shoulders."
The whole time Mr. Pennyslvania is still going on stage, haha.
So me and Jarrod are chicken-fighting no one, and like the devil's advocate again he goes, "let's start punching people in the fucking face!!!"
Oh yea, by this time everyone is pretty much doing their damndest to get the hell away from us and I'm just fucking clocking people in the back of the head, the face, and he is doing the same thing.
It was fucking mayhem, Modey broke thru and started joining in and then Sage and his entourage hit the stage and we all fucking went up on stage and started throwing cigarettes and bandanas into the crowd who at this point were at a blood frenzy.
It was pure, unadultered chaos and I was drop-kicking one of the cut-offs of Dub-Ya, and giving it the atmoic elbow, hahaha.
Ahhh .... then it was over (the stage antics ensued for like 10 minutes as Trick Pony (?!?! not physically there of course, but fucking hilarious) was blasting).
And we all went to a house party.
Which was surprisngly more relaxing than the concert, haha.
- traut0
Catpower - Wexner Center - Columbus ohio .
I was getting ready for catpower to come on and was enjoying the laidback jazz piano playing of her opening act and had this pack of annoying drunk college brat girls + 1 fellow behind me making a racket and kept bumping into me and my camera bag i asked them nicely to be quiet and stop slamming into me they did this a half a dozen more times before i turned around and got in her face and told her i didnt pay to listen to her drunken rants so please shut the fuck up, she smacked the glasses off my face and instictively i reached out to protect my camera my hand happened to go around her throat her pack of wild heathens began punching and kicking clawing and scratching me i let go and grabbed my glasses and told the bitches to leave me the fuck alone. long story short we were both dismissed from the venue and i didnt get to see catpower . stupid bitches.