#nedstalgia — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nedstalgia, aggregated by home.social.
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Caught 6 shows in that historic December 95 stretch, all but one or two from front center (or close enough). Didn't just see the New Haven Tweezer, the Albany YEM, the Portland Dog Logs, but from an arm's length away. Wild to think about, 30 years later, how my 21-year-old self quite confidently knew that he was witnessing some of the greatest livemusic ever made and did everything he could for a front row seat to it all. Holds up! Smart fucking kid.
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30 years ago tonight, an all-timer blizzard show with PH. Several stories worth that night and the show was kinda good, too! Near the top of my list of shows I had no business going to but so glad I did. If you listen closely to the start of some audience tapes, you can hear me and @liffy shouting for Tube and Trey admonishing with an "alright, I hear you!"
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More importantly, this show and the people I hung out with that night and the amazing, debaucherous fun we all had was the impetus to finally start the NYC Freaks email list, an idea I'd been kicking around for a while. The rest, as they say, is livemusic history. More on that later...
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1/18/2000: Justice League of America at Wetlands
25 years ago tonight, the first show in NedBase™ for the year 2000. Justice League of America was one of those jambandy supergroups that were probably contractually obligated to play the Wetlands. As far as these things go, the talent was pretty high B-list with Jimmy Herring on guitar, T Lavitz on keys, Adam Nitti on bass and Richie Hayward on the kit. Cool covers and heady jams, what's not to like?
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Do you track the shows you go to? I started my spreadsheet in 2000 and so I have a pretty detailed account of quite nearly all the livemusic I've seen for the past 25 years. Almost 4400 shows in NedBase. Kind of remarkable now that I stop and think about it. I highly recommend it, even if you start today, you'll be happy for it in the future.
Might do a regular #nedstalgia looking back at shows 25 years later. See how it goes.
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32 years ago. First PH + first livemusic in NYC. Two of the small handful of things that defined my adult life, more or less. One of the more important days in neddyo history!
I wrote about it long ago here: https://weeklyned.blogspot.com/2007/03/nedstalgia-15-years-ago.html?m=1
I should update that piece sometime, but it captures it more or less.
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A day late, but 30 years ago yesterday, I saw Jerry Garcia Band for the third and final time at the Worcester Centrum.
In the annals of "be careful what you wish for," all I wanted was to hear Ruben and Cherise and then they played it, I yelped loudly, was lightly chastised by the stealth FOB taper sitting next to me (sick seats on the floor) and then... Jerry botched it horribly. 😂
Still, JGB was a great time, wholly different than the Dead in only good ways.
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Perhaps my favorite memory of 071593 is walking into the venue with @unclejuice, surveying the scene before us, turning to him and saying "follow me" and 5 minutes later we're standing with our arms on the rail. Different times, my friends, different times.
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The return of #nedstalgia and I don't think I ever made this connection before, but I was dead center on the rail for two different summer tour openers held on racetracks on opposite sides of the country on this date 5 years apart. 30 years ago in ("you know it's summer when they're rocking in'") Weedsport and 25 years ago in Portland, OR. Yay me!
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The story/legend went that Trey met this guy on vacation in the Caribbean and offhandedly said "next time we're in Albany, come play with us!" and then these guys show up at the stage door with instruments in hand. Open invitation! Then the band completely built the show around them.
I wonder if that story is true. Lol.
Ended up being a great companion show to the ARU madness the night before.
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Next night in Albany, 30 years ago tonight, equally weird for different reasons with another set of guests and first extended bluegrass/country section they ever did, I believe.
My fave memory of 5/6/93 was the Mike's, with the characteristic thick smoke and Trey + Mike jamming while on the tramps and all of the sudden, the fiddler from the 1st set is jumping up and down and jamming the fiddle in between them as they go into an Ob-la-di-ob-la-da Beatles jam. Totally surreal.
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All about the YEM of course, the og Albany YEM. Tapes will never do justice to the mayhem of witnessing live ARU + Dude of Life + Col Bruce filling that stage with weirdness & music. Mike on keys, Fish on washboard so Q258 + Oteil-from-Egypt could do their thing. At one point Dude is just screaming & shaking his car keys. Freeform PH at its best, atypical for the day. Was a revelation and as good as it does/doesn't sound on playback, absolutely a had-to-be-there experience.
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Currently at Bowery Ballroom waiting for Cass McCombs.
While I wait, here's a crummy photo from time I saw Cass at the Bowery Ballroom ~10 years ago. The band that night was Dan Iead on guitar, Jon Shaw on bass, Sir Joe Russo on drums.
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The reason why I'm such a 93 stan of course, is seeing a crapload of sick shows in 93 at an impressionable 19 years of age. Saw 10 shows on the winter/spring tour including 3 of the 1st 4 and 3 of the last 4, that final bit kicking off 30 years ago in Albany.
Palace Theater a great spot for livemusic, wasn't quite dfc, but close enough. Band was in the proverbial high gear, in that we-can-do-anything mode...
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OK, I looked it up and room capacity was 1200, definitely less than 1000. Don't think I saw em anywhere smaller than that. Mostly UVM kids that night.
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30 years ago my first (of 2) trips To Canada to see PH. Probably the smallest room I saw them in? Maybe the Montreal show the next year was in a smaller room, but 30 years ago in a moderate-sized rock club that was probably not 2/3 full, PH put on a rager. Crazy high energy show, people tried to stage dive! Wild!
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Many morals here. Take a chance, you never know. But maybe more so, find those voices you trust and put your faith in them. I was basically putting my faith in the dude who booked the Bowery Ballroom at the time, someone I now know and would still trust with any rec 20 years later. There are lots of folk like that out there. Get you one or two. That kind of faith has almost always worked out for me... 3/3
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Friends, they were very very good. Kind of blew me away, actually. It wasn't my normal kind of music back then, but they were unreal, opened my eyes to quite a bit. Their sound was hypnotic and dreamy, but it rocked and it grooved. That drummer! They had a cool stage set-up with panels and blue-sky projections that matched their sound. That was the first time I saw the Sea and Cake I remember it as if it were yesterday, but felt like a much bigger first. 2/3
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Speaking of #MusicDiscovery, 20 years ago tonight I did something I don't think I'd ever done before: I went to see a band I knew absolutely nothing about. I was in the midst of understanding there was more to the musical world than the jambands and jazz I was seeing and so I saw that this band was playing three nights at the Bowery Ballroom and based solely on the fact that "they must be good if they're playing 3 nights" I went to the final, Sunday show... 1/?
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anyway, the Neddy takehome lesson is:
it's not every day you hear/see your favorite band for the first time, but it's important to realize that it COULD be. Be open to the possibility, you never know.
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The lineup has changed twice since then, but they still do it for me.
Yesterday I saw the Bad Plus for the 59th time.
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Story time!
A very important day in neddyo livemusic history...
20 years ago, back in late Feb or so, my friend Ben hands me a CD and says listen to this. Not something he usually does. "April 2nd, Joe's Pub, we're going!" So I listen and... Whoa!
The album was called "These Are the Vistas" by a new jazz band called The Bad Plus, but it's unlike any jazz I've heard before, unlike anyTHING I've heard before.
April 2nd Joe's Pub, ticket bought...
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There are certain shows that are just legitimate lifechangers and that night at Joe's was absolutely one of them. I remember it so well that to this day I still associate the light warm buzz of a single Maker's Mark on the rocks with the way I felt that night.
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The album was an instant classic, I must've listened to it 1000 times leading up to the show, but it still didn't prepare me for the live experience. They felt like a band made just for me, but I wouldn't have known it until I saw it. Smart, funny, beautiful, intense, creative beyond measure, informed by history and pop culture. They closed with "Silence is the Question" & I do believe it had me in awestruck tears. It's never quite as moving as the first time. 20 years ago tonight.
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Yesterday's 20-years-later #nedstalgia was my first trip to the Jazz Standard to see the Dave Douglas Quintet. The JS didn't survive the pandemic, alas, so this one feels notable. I think it was my favorite jazz club in NYC: comfortable to be in, great sound and sightlines, fantastic best-in-city BBQ from Blue Smoke upstairs and a great booze menu. Really a perfect specimen for that type of room. Clubs come and go, but it's too bad the Jazz Standard is no longer.
Also, that DDQ was so damn good
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Can't let a 3/20 go by without a #nedstalgia note about PH 3/20/1992. My second show (@Sashaseesshows first), perhaps the best show of 1992 and up there on the list for the pre-grand piano era. A perfect 1992 specimen, dark and loose, in a theater in upstate New York.
Blew my 18-yo mind.
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Then PH in E Rutherford on 2/24, definitely my least favorite PH show! I was so down on the band/scene back then (and living in NJ) didn't even think of going to Nassau. Dummy, sure, but ended up letting my eyes get opened to a lot more. Worked out fine.
And now we're caught up on my #2003 #nedstalgia.
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I think I need to do more #nedstalgia posts here. I like to reminisce and also 1993, 2003, 2013 were big livemusic years for me. Plus #content!
Especially 2003, which may have been the most important year in my evolution as a listener. Fun to think about sometimes. Will post something later to catch up on some good moments in Jan/Feb of 03.
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30 years ago tonight, saw my first show of the Clinton administration. Amazingly it was barely a month after NYE, in Providence, just a short drive from the Matthews arena. It was a great time to be a 19-year-old fan in college in Boston!
My 11th show was as much a revelation as my 1st. Somehow a completely reinvigorated band, now with a grand piano, new songs (debut of Sample, 2nd Wedge, Amazing Grace), & a heightened sense of adventurousness (1st legit no-Hydrogen Mike's/Groove).
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Shows seen on 12/28:
93 PH opens with Peaches in DC
94 PH in Philly
96 Widespread Panic intimate in Athens
98 Widespread Panic @ the Fox
04 Marilyn Crispell > Uri Caine @ Tonic (RIP)
08 Gov't Mule @ Angel Orensanz >
08 Bustle in your Hedgerow @ Knitting Factory
10 John Zorn improv night @ the Stone >
10 Surprise Me Mr Davis @ the Bowl
14 Deer Tick @ the Bowl
19 Yo La Tengo (Snail Mail) @ Bowery Ballroom >
19 Karina Rykman @ Nublu