Friday Music Day

FMD: March 21, 2014

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I'm still really excited to be taking my 8-year-old to see Colin Stetson at the Cedar.
Four weeks from yesterday.

What the first concert you attended? Have any of you brought your children to shows? At what age?
My first show was Stone Temple Pilots/Meat Puppets/Jawbox at Roy Wilkins in '94. I was 16.

63 thoughts on “FMD: March 21, 2014”

  1. First concert was KISS a month before my 15th birthday. I think the first show I took my son was the Green Day American Idiot tour, but he may have gone somewhere else with some friends. It wasn't her first show, but I did get to take my daughter to the 7th Street Entry to see Noah and the Whale. That was fun.

    1. Sympathetic Noose - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
    2. Not From Where I'm Standing - The Wedding Present - George Best
    3. Run Wild - Guided By Voices - Isolation Drills
    4. American Girl - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty
    5. Get Back -- The Beatles -- Let It Be
    6. West Of The Fields - R.E.M. - Murmur
    7. Lodi - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle, Vol. 1
    8. It's So Easy - Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
    9. Fly Into Ashes - Guided By Voices - Delicious Pie & Thank You For Calling
    10. A Clean Break (Let's Work) - Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads

    B1. Unfair - Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
    B2. Warfare - Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20, 1992

    Hey AMR (and others) got my Lydia Loveless ticket for her April 24th 7th Street Entry show. Only $10. But with the buzz surrounding her latest album, won't be surprised if The Entry is sold out. Also I noted that Camera Obscura is coming to First Avenue and I think tix on sale today for those interested.

    1. Thanks for the tip. I should get the ticket soon.

      How old were your kids for those shows?

  2. Guess it was my day to obscure curse words in titles.

    1. Ha Ha Tonka “The Humorist” Death of a Decade
    2. Disclosure feat. Sam Smith “Latch” Settle*
    3. Nine Inch Nails “At the Heart of It All (Created by Aphex Twin)” 26 Mixes for Cash
    4. Lydia Loveless “Let Me Leave” The Only Man
    5. Robyn “Don't F@#&ing Tell Me What to Do” Body Talk, Pt. 1

    6. Merle Haggard and the Strangers “Some of Us Never Learn” Branded Man
    7. Neneh Cherry “Somedays”* Homebrew
    8. PJ Harvey* “Down by the Water” To Bring You My Love
    9. Ice Cube “We Had to Tear This Mothaf@#&er Up” The Predator
    T. Twilight Circus Dub Sound System “Dance” Horsie

    B. Cypress Hill “Pigs” Cypress Hill

    *Notes:
    2. I read a lot of praise for this album last year but I don't get it. There's some decent singles but nothing so outstanding.

    7. I just learnt that this song was produced by Geoff Barrow who later got "famous" for Portishead. Good song. Man did Neneh Cherry work with a lot of the Trip-hop stars of the 90s before they were "famous". No wonder I was drawn to that scene.

    8. I saw PJ Harvey in concert in Somerset, WI, back in 1996(?). She opened for Live, touring on Throwing Copper. I can't recall if Veruca Salt was the first or second opener. I didn't know anything from PJ at that point. I remember she wore shorts and a shiny brassiere and had a banana in each pocket that she later used as if they were pistols in a western movie, and then they were thrown into the crowd.

    1. RE: 8 - heard on the radio that Veruca Salt is working on a new album. Been something like 14 years since their last release.

      1. I was unimpressed with album 2. I was really excited for it because the Albini-recorded EP that followed album 1,Blow It Out Your @$$, It's Veruca Salt!, was pretty fantastic.

  3. My first concert was Warped Tour when it started in Fargo. I don't have a list since its country music friday in my office, but I am super pumped for The Hold Steady in DC in a couple of weeks.

    1. My friend's daughter's first concert was The Hold Steady in utero about 2.5 years ago in Omaha. A few of us went right before Prague.

  4. My first concert was Jewel in 2002. I've been to two concerts. And you guys are giving me a video week!

  5. I'd been to many concerts (Maynard Ferguson, etc) before, but I guess my first rock concert might have been Asia in '82 at the Orpheum. Runner daughter has been to concerts before, but I enjoyed taking her a couple different times to see They Might Be Giants.

  6. I believe first concert was the Indigo Girls at Northrup Auditorium – July 1994 (14-years-old). My girlfriend’s parents had an extra ticket and invited me along. My cousin had made me a mix-tape as a Christmas gift in ‘93 which included Galileo, but I didn’t know anything about them otherwise. It was a fun show, but completely outside my “comfort” zone because I’d been mostly focused on Pearl Jam/Nirvana/Soundgarden/Alice in Chains/STP since transitioning from pop to grunge.

    My daughter hasn’t been to a concert in present form, but she did hear The Decemberists (Feb 2011) and U2 in-utero (a little less than a month before we met her).

    From Pandora
    1. Sour Times - Portishead
    2. Lovegame - Lady Gaga
    3. Clover - Ramona Falls
    4. 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
    5. Daylight - Matt & Kim

    6. 1 2 3 4 - Feist
    7. Mississippi Woman - Led Zeppelin
    8. S&M - Rihanna
    9. All I Ever Wanted - Basshunter
    10. Time To Send Someone Away - Jose Gonzalez

    B. Enter Sandman - Metallica
    B2. All Apologies (Live) - Nirvana*

    *Unplugged In New York is still one of my favorite albums of all time. Listened to it in its entirety just two days ago.

    1. I agree on the Nirvana Unplugged album. That version of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" is perfect.

  7. 1. "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"--Creedence Clearwater Revival--Creedence Gold
    2. "Black Dog"--Led Zeppelin--Led Zeppelin IV
    3. "Hurt"--Johnny Cash--American IV: The Man Comes Around
    4. "Ventura Highway"--America--Homecoming
    5. "Alone"--Heart--The Essential Heart
    6. "The Wanderer"--Dion--Runaround Sue
    7. "We Are Dancer/The Goat Whisperer"--Hanneke Cassel--For Reasons Unseen
    8. "The Soldier and the Oak"--Elliott Park--Fly Boy
    9. "Nights Are Forever Without You"--England Dan & John Ford Coley--Nights Are Forever
    10. "Bugle Call Rag"--Sleepy Man Banjo Boys--America's Music

  8. The first concert I ever attended was Metallica in January 2000 (I think that was the date, anyway) at the Bullseye.

    01. Primordial - "The Cruel Sea", Spirit the Earth Aflame
    02. Behemoth - "Lucifer", Evangelion
    03. The Misfits - "Scream!", Famous Monsters
    04. Symphony X - "Incantations of the Apprentice", The Odyssey
    05. Death - "Empty Words", Symbolic
    06. The Misfits - "Scarecrow Man", Famous Monsters
    07. The Tim Malloys - "The Night Visit", Bloody Irish Music: Live at Kierans
    08. Oathean - "From the Depths of Despair", Fading Away into the Grave of Nothingness
    09. Testament - "Ride", Low
    10. Bolt Thrower - "Laid to Waste", Mercenary

  9. Fitting nicely into your theme, my first show was Twisted Sister around 6 years old. My dad took me. I made him get tickets after I saw they were coming to town because for some reason I loved Twisted Sister. My first concert by myself was Nirvana during the In Utero tour, so I was... 13? Not sure how I talked the `rents into that one.

  10. 'Nothing Else Matters' - Metallica Metallica
    'The Hardest Button to Button' - White Stripes Elephant
    'Ruby Soho' - Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves
    'Burden in My Hand' - Soundgarden Down on the Upside
    'Cowboy Song' - Thin Lizzy Jailbreak

    'Shes Got Everything' - The Romantics The Romantics
    '(I Know) Im Losing You' - Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story
    'Raised in the City' - The Replacements Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
    'Big Ten Inch Record'- Aerosmith
    'Gypsy Queen' - Van Morrison His Band and Street Choir

  11. We're giving another go tomorrow at the nearby nursing home -- they didn't throw any tomatoes or anything the first time we sang there. We've added to the mix with some Everly Brothers, America, and Norman Greenbaum among others.

  12. The first concert I ever went to was Guns 'n Roses at the Fargodome. I just went to look it up and it was uh... exactly 21 years ago today! I was 11. I'd heard a school yard rumor they were coming to Fargo and I asked my dad if I could go. He promised me that if they came he'd get me tickets, thinking it would never come to fruition. He held up his end of the bargain and stood in line to get tickets. One of my parents' friends accompanied me to the show. I remember not having a ton of fun because it was so loud the seats were shaking and the guys behind us were drunk and stoned. One kept spinning his jacket around his head and hit me with the zipper in the head a couple times.

    I think the first show I ever went to on my own was Mike Watt at the "First Avenue" in Fargo. It was an 18+ show, I was 16 and friends with one of the promoters, so they let me come in before the show started. I got to meet Watt, he was a really weird guy but really friendly even to a star struck teen.

    1. That's sortof the situation here although I also love Stetson and am excited that HPR gets to see him in concert.
      But I said that if Stetson ever plays a show that HPR could attend (meaning that there were no conflicts and it was an all-ages event), and he wasn't just an opener for some expensive show like Arcade Fire, I'd take him.
      The same promise was never cashed out for CER and Björk.

      I also told HPR that if Stetson came and played a show he was too young for, I'd pester him (or his managers) on Twitter and Facebook to have some in-store event.

  13. 1. Plain White T's - "The Giving Tree" - Should've Gone to Bed
    2. Queens of the Stone Age - "I Sat By The Ocean" - ...Like Clockwork
    3. Cold War Kids - "Hang Me Up To Dry" - Like Robbers and Cowards
    4. Vampire Weekend - "Oxford Comma" - Vampire Weekend
    5. Sufjan Stevens - "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" - Songs for Christmas
    6. Yo La Tengo - "Sometimes I Don't Get You" - I'm Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
    7. Civil Twilight - "Letters From The Sky" - Civil Twilight
    8. Radiohead - "Fake Plastic Trees" - The Bends
    9. Drive By Truckers - "Pauline Hawkins" - English Oceans
    10. Alabama Shakes - "Always Alright" - Always Alright

      1. That was a Spotify recommendation, I believe. The bio there tells me they are like Muse and Pilot speed. I really like this track, haven't listened to a lot of their other stuff yet.

  14. I think my first concert was Newsboys when I was in junior high with a church group. I didn't really get into music until later in life, and I still haven't gone to a lot of concerts. I'm starting to though.

  15. If you want to get technical about it, my first concert would be my parents taking me to see Lawrence Welk at the Corn Palace in Mitchell when I was a kid. Man, I'm old.


  16. Free, here's another band that you might do well to discover 20 years after the fact. 🙂
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jxyAPHAm1o&feature=kp
    Also, the new War on Drugs record is Dad Rock at it's finest. (Not a diss.)

    1. I loved that Catholic Boy album back in the day.

      I've heard good things about that War on Drugs release. It's on the list.

      Now that I don't have to raise little kids, I'm hoping I can get to cool bands a lot sooner than 20 years. I'll put that Red Red Meat disc on my 2017 tickler.

    2. The new War on Drugs album is definitely dad rock, but you are correct about the "at its finest" part. It's good stuff that I've been coming back to quite a bit lately. The long track times worried me when I saw the track listing, but there's no wankery or long, dull spots. It's an album that feels like an album, and I like it quite a bit.

  17. First concert was Aerosmith at Met Center in '78. I was 16. About a month later I saw Heart (who were much better) at the Civic Center.

    1. I saw Aerosmith when I was 12 with Pops (Get A Grip tour). I'm also informed that I was taken to a Heart concert around 6-7ish and fell asleep.

    1. Ugh, late 90's concerts at the River's Edge were the worst for me. Nothing like having to keep the f***ing DQ open until 2 am for drunk concert goers!

      1. "Late 90's concerts at the River's Edge ...drunk concert goers"
        I knew we'd met before!

  20. Are any of you folks going to the Meat Puppets concert on April 5th? I'm going to be in town for a nerd thing, but I might duck out to go to that show and watch Moistboyz open. I've never got to see them and I'll probably never get to see Ween again, so...

    If anyone's there maybe we can grab a beer.

  21. Ugh also, that picture up top reminds me that my car stereo has basically taken a crap on me. Its the stock deck that I was using a tape deck adapter to listen to my music from my phone and about 3 weeks ago the sound suddenly went to hell. I couldn't hear any vocals and the rest of it had that electronic-y interference-y type sound.

    1. I get a ton of that interference-y sound in my car with my tape adapter/phone, too. I've been thinking about getting a new stereo for my car, but I don't love the idea of spending $200 on a stereo for a $1000 car. I might relent, though, as I will be travelling four weekends in a row here.

      1. I was looking at some bluetooth enable head units and I think I can get a reasonable one for around $80-100. (plus another $30 or so for mounting crap.) I've been reluctant to do it because when I first got the car I tried to put the head unit from my previous car and the wiring harness that claimed it fit was false advertisement.

    2. I couldn't hear any vocals and the rest of it had that electronic-y interference-y type sound.
      So you got that CD I made for you!
      httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QqM3_wEQxs

      1. That, surprisingly, seems like only a slight exaggeration of how it sounds in my car.

    3. Hardly Related Tangent: Does anyone have any experience with an "external" Bluetooth hookup for their stereo? Jane's car has Bluetooth built in, and I really like the convenience, but my car was a little too old for that feature. I've seen Bluetooth receivers that one can plug into an audio jack. Anyone know if they're any good?

  22. Oh and I guess one more thing. I'd just like to chime in that My Krazy Life by YG is really, really good. It makes up for how disappointed I was in Oxymoron by ScHoolboy Q.

    1. I saw YG at SXSW. He was alright, but Snoop joined him on stage and was understandably upstaged. It's a bit unfair to YG, but I was so pumped Snoop came out I didn't really pay very good attention. Also, it was after about 5 hours at the free Lagunitas tent, so I was a bit tipsy too.

  23. To those in the Twinned Cities might I suggest going to the Varsity Theater on June 24th to check out Courtney Barnett.

    1. Check her out here. This is what happens when you grown up listening to PJ Harvey and Pavement.

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