The PLAY MINNESOTA Thread!

Dirty Frank Z

CM189191 wrote:

Dirty Frank Z wrote:

Bump for picking up the slack at work (again) because people called in.

This place really gets my goat.

Could use a pick me up.

Soon????

sigh

bump.

Where do you work? Left my job recently, looking for new employ. Able to drive to work in the snow.

Regions Hospital. We are hiring cooks. Apply online. If you do, tell me and I'll put a good word in

CM189191

Damn - not really in my wheelhouse. thx tho!

evenflow82

Let's hope those rumors hold true and PJ returns!

We will be there if you play here!

vant0037

evenflow82 wrote:

Let's hope those rumors hold true and PJ returns!

We will be there if you play here!

Rumors?

Anything new?

Or just the Matt-not-playing-with-Soundgarden + radio-station-contest-rumor-from-KC + general rumors this time of year?

evenflow82

Yea, that's about it. :-) I may be running on some blind faith, but those are encouraging signs and shows some possible movement toward shows.

vant0037

evenflow82 wrote:

Yea, that's about it. :-) I may be running on some blind faith, but those are encouraging signs and shows some possible movement toward shows.

I think there'll be some shows. If for no other reason, Matt's announcement. They'll play BDO in Aus/NZ, which ends on February 2, 2014. Probably take some time off, announce shows in March for the US (shows starting in May?), heading into Europe beginning in June/July.

That would fall in line with their recent tour trends.

Whatever it is, I do think they'll play US shows next year. Make what you want of this: they've played at least 2 US shows (often far more than that) EVERY YEAR they've been a band. The locations aren't always as varied as we'd like, but most years, they do more than 10 shows. The coasts got hit hard this tour, and in 2012 there weren't that many US shows. I think the midwest is due. Even if it's not a tour with a MN show, I think we'll get something close. I'd be thrilled with something like a Milwaukee or Des Moines show.

I had a dream a few weeks ago about getting that email and seeing "St. Paul" listed for shows. The nightmare part about the dream? Getting shut out of the lottery for it!

kdiddy

vant0037 wrote:

evenflow82 wrote:

Yea, that's about it. :-) I may be running on some blind faith, but those are encouraging signs and shows some possible movement toward shows.

I had a dream a few weeks ago about getting that email and seeing "St. Paul" listed for shows. The nightmare part about the dream? Getting shut out of the lottery for it!

.. goodness, that would mean both you and Hannah would lose out on your lottery tix. Getting two chances at lottery is the whole point of double household memberships! I bet the silver lining to that nightmare, though, is that both Derek and I win the lotto and we give you my set of tix

evenflow82

If you win the lotto do you think we could pay PJ to play MN?

vant0037

What was your first concert experience?

Mine was Edgefest 4 at Floatrite Amphitheater in Somerset in May of 1997. I had just turned 14, and my parents' friend had a son who was a few years older and kind of a loner and had an extra ticket. So I got to go for free.

Here was the lineup: Beck, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Sponge, Social Distortion, Reverend Horton Heat, Local H, Verve Pipe, Tonic, Better Than Ezra, Republica, Linda Perry, Matchbox 20, Bloodhound Gang, Perfect, Skunk Anansie, Flipp, Likehell, Greazy Meal, Treadmill Trackstar, Cowboy Mouth.

What a lineup of 90s bands! I remember Beck being cool, seeing the Bloodhound Gang, hating Flipp, loving Sponge and LOVING Matchbox 20. :oops:

My first real concert experience (meaning one I initiated myself, bought tickets for on my own etc) was Rage Against the Machine at Target Center in September of 1997 (pretty sure it was the second day of school, freshman year). Zack De La Rocha had sprained his ankle earlier in the tour, Wu-Tang Clan had cancelled, everyone was sure the show would be subdued or suck etc.

It was phenomenal. I still remember thinking I was going to die on the floor. People had jumped down from the 100 level reserved seats and so the floor was too tightly packed. It was made much worse due to the fact that Evil Empire was really popular and people were super eager to see them.

What's yours?

By the way, even just looking up information about concerts from the 90s is like a travel back in time to a simpler time on the internet, where domain names included percent signs, things like "Angelfire" and "Geocities" were real companies, there were four fonts available, colors were ridiculously vibrant and loud, photos had pixels as large as checkerboard squares, and providing useful, current information was still a thing left to radio, TV or newspapers. I found a Flipp fan site that should be in a museum.

Crazy!

vant0037

evenflow82 wrote:

If you win the lotto do you think we could pay PJ to play MN?

Absolutely.

vant0037

Haha...here was RATM's setlist:

People of the Sun
Know Your Enemy
Vietnow
The Ghost of Tom Joad
(Bruce Springsteen cover)
Fistful of Steel
Tire Me
Down Rodeo
Darkness of Greed
Bombtrack
Revolver
Without a Face
Bullet in the Head
Freedom
Township Rebellion
Bulls on Parade
Killing in the Name

evenflow82

My first concert was New Found Glory and NOFX in Fall of 2001 at age seventeen. I got invited to it by my friends who had an extra (didn't even have to pay). It was at the Quest. Remember that place?

Aside from that, the first show I paid for and went under my own choosing was Weezer in 2002 after Maladroit was released. How the once mighty have fallen.

CM189191

Q101 Twisted Christmas in Chicago:

Fiona Apple
Bloodhound Gang
Sheryl Crow
Gravity Kills
KoRn
Stabbing Westward
The Violent Femmes
The Wallflowers
Weezer

My buddy had a crush on some girl. I ended up making out with her in the back of the van on the 1.5 hour drive home while her mom chauffeured. (Not a euphemism) He ended up with the fatty, I ended up with chapped lips. Good night!

Dirty Frank Z

evenflow82 wrote:

My first concert was New Found Glory and NOFX in Fall of 2001 at age seventeen. I got invited to it by my friends who had an extra (didn't even have to pay). It was at the Quest. Remember that place?

Aside from that, the first show I paid for and went under my own choosing was Weezer in 2002 after Maladroit was released. How the once mighty have fallen.

Dusick, didn't you go to both of those shows?!

Dirty Frank Z

My first show(s) were at a small club above a parking garage in Freeport, Illinois, where I lived from the ages of 9-14. It was called Club Phenonmenom. The shows I went to were all ages northern Illinois heavy metal scene shows. Probably thought it was the coolest thing ever.

My first real big time concert was Stone Temple Pilots at the Xcel in 2001. I think it was under the Family Values Tour, I think.

Static X. Linkin Park. Disturbed. All opened.

It was pretty awesome.
Static X was what they are. Heavy and loud.
Linkin Park was just off their first single and relatively new. They put on a good show. Again, for what they were
Disturbed, sigh. I disliked and didn't care about. The only memorable thing was when a guy puked on me when I snuck onto the floor during their set. I ran straight into the sea of people and a guy was stumbling out and then let it go down my pants. Yuck.

After I washed my pants in the Xcel Energy Center, I snuck back onto the floor. Yes, May be one of a few who has taken their pants off at the X and hand washed them in the sink. Bump.
STP killed it that night.

There's more to that story, but I'll reserve that for when someone really wants to know the tale of my first show over a few beers.

evenflow82

I've never drank alcohol at a concert and I'm 30.

I do drink once in a while but I want to avoid piss breaks at shows.

Dirty Frank Z

evenflow82 wrote:

I've never drank alcohol at a concert and I'm 30.

I do drink once in a while but I want to avoid piss breaks at shows.

I can't recall a concert I didn't drink at. Or ingested something else.

CM189191

Dirty Frank Z wrote:

evenflow82 wrote:

I've never drank alcohol at a concert and I'm 30.

I do drink once in a while but I want to avoid piss breaks at shows.

I can't recall a concert I didn't drink at. Or ingested something else.

That's funny - I can only recall the concerts I didn't drink at...

AndySlash

my first show was pink floyd at the dome in 1994. helluva way to start. saw the stones later that year, too.

evenflow82

I wonder if any band will play a gig in the dome before it is taken down. Probably not. What was the last concert held there?

Dirty Frank Z

evenflow82 wrote:

I wonder if any band will play a gig in the dome before it is taken down. Probably not. What was the last concert held there?

I doubt it. Considering they are planning on tearing it down the day after the last Viking game.

MookieBlaylockMN

First concert - Rage Against the Machine, fall of 1993 at First Avenue. Near the front of the pit the entire time. Was pretty much ready for anything after that experience.

evenflow82

Does anyone know the last band to play in the metrodome?

kdiddy

I grew up with my a few brothers, two of them really into music. My quite older brother is a guitar man and was always in a band doing the Minneapolis music scene. He's played everywhere and I especially remember feeling jealous that he couldn't sneak me into First Ave when he played because I was too young. So, I was chomping at the bit to go to live music as soon as I was old enough (so, 13 or 14 probably)

My closer to age older brother and I, grew up in the christian alt rock music scene so we went to the New Union a ton (a small venue in Minneapolis that is no longer around..). Saw a ton of fun bands play, 5 Iron Frenzy, Ghoti Hook, Supertones..

Though I was always the one finding new bands, I was the only one interested and didn't have the mindset of venturing out to see them on my own (although, without having the good internet sites we do now, I really didn't know who was coming to town and all of that). So, my first big concert after graduating high school was more of a joke and my girlfriends and I wanted to have a last hurrah, so we went to the N'Sync concert at the 'Dome. Then I went to college and my Dad got me a security gig at the Xcel.. that's when things started getting fun. I didn't see the concerts because I was at the front desk but I heard quite a few... not that it counts (eminem, snoop, poverati, no doubt). By working there, though, I did manage a few tickets to some shows- one of them being Weezer 2002 with Dashboard Confessionals as the opener at Roy Wilkins.

The best was when my brother had tickets to the 2003 Beck concert at Roy Wilkins (again, with Dashboard opening!) and my Dad snuck me in with me pretending to be working security that night. Once I got in, I gave Dad back the radio and we split. My brother did what he did best and we shot from the back all the way up to center stage. It was the best! Beck had an amazing set list that night and a great show in and of itself! From then on, my concert experiences have only gotten better.. love it!

Following Joe's lead.. and for the record.. Beck's June 12, 2003 setlist:

1- Novacane
2. Mixed Bizness
3. Thunder Peel
4. Hotwax
5. The New Pollution
6. Get Real Paid
7. Nicotine & Gravy
8. Lazy Flies
9. Do You Realize (flaming lips cover)
10. Guess I"m Doing Fine
11. Lost Cause
12. Lonesome Tears
13. Cold Brains
14. Paper Tiger
15. Loser
16. Milk & Honey
17. Beercan
19. Hollywood Freaks
20. Where It's At
20. Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See (busta rhymes cover)
21. Erotic City (Prince cover)
22. Hot in Herre (Nelly cover)
23. The Golden Age
24. It's All in your Mind
25. Sunday Sun
26. Devil's Haircut

evenflow82

My brother in law saw PJ at the Harriet island lollapalooza show in 1992. The other day he asked me why the band never plays here anymore...

AndySlash

evenflow82 wrote:

Does anyone know the last band to play in the metrodome?

i wanna say metallica in 03? i know nsync played there around that time, too, but i think that was before metallica.

kdiddy

AndySlash wrote:

evenflow82 wrote:

Does anyone know the last band to play in the metrodome?

i wanna say metallica in 03? i know nsync played there around that time, too, but i think that was before metallica.

N'sync played there summer of 2001

AndySlash

and what a great summer it was.

CM189191

Anyone going to check out Midlake at Turf Club tonight?

CM189191

CM189191 wrote:

Anyone going to check out Midlake at Turf Club tonight?

Crickets...