What Was Your Most Memorable/Favorite Show Experience?
Revisiting a query from the early days here at WAIM. Tell us about your favorite night at a show.
I have been to hundreds of shows. Like literally several hundred shows at this point. From arenas to basements and every imaginable sorta venue in between, I have watched or played hundreds of rock shows and had my life transformed.
While almost any night seeing live music is a good night in my book, there are nights that become almost transcendent. Some shows become special for reasons we might not have been able to predict or control. I wanna know what your favorite live music experience was and why.
The last time I asked this question of y’all, back in February of 2023, my audience was much smaller and more bashful than it is these days. I like that sorta growth. So, here is your chance to answer again, or for the first time.
What was your favorite night out seeing live music and why?
My Mother had a wonderful answer to this query when I asked this question. She even penned a lovely essay of the first official date that she and my Dad went on to see Simon & Garfunkel at Cobo Hall in Detroit in the Fall of 1969.
I can’t wait to hear what y’all have to share with the group about your favorite night out seeing live music.
Alright kids, what have ya got?
Cheers,
Matty C
I wrote about this in one of my posts but, in short, when I was I think 18, I saw a triple bill of Dead Milkmen, Meat Puppets and Red Hot Chili Peppers. This was the Freaky Styley tour and Hillel Slovak was still alive. It was at a warehouse in Long Beach, California. The crowd was going apeshit and being 5’2”I made my escape by climbing the marshall stacks at the front of the stage. I stayed up there almost the entire night. Security kept trying to get me down but they were too big. At the end of the Peppers set, they invited both openers on stage and all12 musicians jammed hard for another hour, playing punked out classic rock cover tunes like, “I Just Wanna Make Love To You.”
Saw Beck (acoustic) open for Johnny Cash in the early 90s. I briefly chatted with Joe Strummer in the Pantages Theatre lobby between acts.