I remember The Dead Milkmen played in a cemetery about 5 years ago on Halloween i think,
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
I would say most definitely the coolest place I've seen a show (and one of the very best shows I've seen) was Sun Ra and the Solar Arkestra doing a show in the planetarium in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The music and the venue were literally out of this world!
Couldn't find photos of the show, but this gives you an idea:
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
I would say most definitely the coolest place I've seen a show (and one of the very best shows I've seen) was Sun Ra and the Solar Arkestra doing a show in the planetarium in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The music and the venue were literally out of this world!
Couldn't find photos of the show, but this gives you an idea:
Holy Moly that takes the cake for me! That is epic, like literally dictionary definition of "epic", right there! I may have to re-arrange my wish list if I ever find a time machine or transporter... cuz that would have been incredible!
I love this question! I really had to think about it... Most of these were at least interesting if not amazing, and only one nightmare:
I'll do the nightmare first: Waaaay back in the day there was a music conference in NYC called New Music Seminar. One year one of the showcase shows (several artists with same manager or label or from same country) was actually on a rented Staten Island Ferry. There was a buffet, an open bar, and like 4 bands. Long story short, the bands were fine, but first the food ran out, then the ALCOHOL ran out. Once the alcohol ran out, most people were like "Ok, party over, we're outta here!" BUT... we're on a boat! There is no leaving just cuz you're bored, don't like the band, or there's nothing to eat or drink. First it was just funny, then people got restless, then people got pissed.
Finally it looked like we were pulling back into the dock, and everyone was relieved, but then we realized a) this was Staten Island's dock, not Manhattan's dock; and b) the boat got close to the dock but then stopped and everyown wondered why we weren't actually docking.... Then we all heard the metal saw screeching cutting through metal objects, and saw all the sparks, and heard the screeching guitars.... and realized there was one more band: Skinny Puppy. So now the boat sat for another 40 min, no one could leave, no food, no drinks, no exit, and 2 or 3 people on the dock literally shredding metal clanging loud things together and screeching guitars for 40 min.
If Lyft ran a boat service at the time, they'd have made a FORTUNE with water taxi service back to Manhattan!
That was the most dramatic. The rest I can't pick one of were:
Michael Franti, before he was solo or in Spearhead, was in one of the best bands ever: Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. One of my favorite shows I've ever ever ever gone to, was Disposable Heroes at a Korean buffet restaurant in Oakland, CA, where literally as we arrived the band was moving the tables with the empty buffet containers out of the way and figuring out how best to set up the instruments, but it was a KILLER show with probably 50 people max in the audience.
Ben Harper at Bimbos in San Francisco, it was a speakeasy club during Prohibition, but the coolest part (technically not the show but still) was I interviewed him for our college radio station in the kitchen which was this brass everything kitchen (including the floor I think), brass pots and pans everywhere, and people wheeling stuff all around the metal floor which meant sonically it was almost unusable because o fthe constant clatter because we were in a real functioning giant kitchen. But the setting was cool as hell and Ben was super into it.
Gogol Bordello played the opening of an indie modern art museum in Atlanta, I think maybe 60 people were watching, and they slayed but they really were still making their name so it wasn't quite the right crowd, but what a wild setting.
By far the strangest was Hozier for a radio show but the sponsoring radio station held it at a private club for trillionaires in San Francisco so it was radio station contest winners (me and all the fans that went), but then it was all these absurdly bizarrely beautiful tan people with really expensive clothes, the show was in a literal library in the private club, but it had total "Eyes Wide Shut" vibes or "Assassin's Creed" vibes, like it was a cult and there were fancy rooms with sex workers in them down the hallways (not actually, but that's what it felt like was going on) and the various dining rooms and lounges were crazy fancy with absurdly beautful people lounging in them. And there was a STRICT "No photos of any kind" rule and they emphasized with the contest winners over and over "Our guests are big on privacy, so if anyone sees you taking a pic even of a plant, your phone/camera will be taken away and we'll kick you out right away." So you just got that rich people sex club vibe. And Hozier in the end was only allowed to play 3 songs to maybe 40 people. Totally strange but very memorable.
I saw Sonic Youth play inside an anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Whoa, that sounds cool! When was that and what kind of event was it? Like they just did it for the hell of it, or it was part of some bigger event?
I saw them in 1997. It was just them. Apparently, The Anchorage had many different arts and music events for a while. I don't think they do it anymore, though. I haven't heard of anything there in quite a while. Here is a blurb from a 1989 New Yorker article about the venue:
The Anchorage, a venue that is actually a
seventy-foot-high brick-and-limestone-block structure that anchors the
Brooklyn Bridge to the Brooklyn shore (there's another one on the
Manhattan side). Described as resembling a Roman bath, the anchorage is
technically where the bridge cables join metal plates lodged in the
bridge foundation. Augustus Roebling, the first Chief Engineer of the
bridge, envisioned the anchorage as "room for cavernous treasury vaults
which... would be the safest in America and ample enough to house
three-quarters of all the investments and securities in the country." He
also designed the anchorage so that it could become a tiered retail-shop
area. The Anchorage now hosts art installations (many sponsored by an
arts organization called Creative Time) and musical events, such as "The
Resonators," a piece composed by audio artists Yoshi Wada and Terry Fox
specifically for performance at The Anchorage.
Creative Time was the organization that brought Sonic Youth there as well.
I would say most definitely the coolest place I've seen a show (and one of the very best shows I've seen) was Sun Ra and the Solar Arkestra doing a show in the planetarium in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The music and the venue were literally out of this world!
Couldn't find photos of the show, but this gives you an idea:
Holy Moly that takes the cake for me! That is epic, like literally dictionary definition of "epic", right there! I may have to re-arrange my wish list if I ever find a time machine or transporter... cuz that would have been incredible!
It was mind boggling, JH. To add to the mystique, the band came marching in through a side door twirling whirley tubes. For those not familiar with them:
The band created a very strange and amazing melody with these interesting instruments and when each band member reached their seat, they picked up their instrument (horn, bass, percussion, etc) and started playing a free jazz piece with total wild abandon. All the while the stars and planets lit up the entire ceiling. It was pure magic. I so very much wish that had been filmed or recorded!
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
I love this question! I really had to think about it... Most of these were at least interesting if not amazing, and only one nightmare:
I'll do the nightmare first: Waaaay back in the day there was a music conference in NYC called New Music Seminar. One year one of the showcase shows (several artists with same manager or label or from same country) was actually on a rented Staten Island Ferry. There was a buffet, an open bar, and like 4 bands. Long story short, the bands were fine, but first the food ran out, then the ALCOHOL ran out. Once the alcohol ran out, most people were like "Ok, party over, we're outta here!" BUT... we're on a boat! There is no leaving just cuz you're bored, don't like the band, or there's nothing to eat or drink. First it was just funny, then people got restless, then people got pissed.
Finally it looked like we were pulling back into the dock, and everyone was relieved, but then we realized a) this was Staten Island's dock, not Manhattan's dock; and b) the boat got close to the dock but then stopped and everyown wondered why we weren't actually docking.... Then we all heard the metal saw screeching cutting through metal objects, and saw all the sparks, and heard the screeching guitars.... and realized there was one more band: Skinny Puppy. So now the boat sat for another 40 min, no one could leave, no food, no drinks, no exit, and 2 or 3 people on the dock literally shredding metal clanging loud things together and screeching guitars for 40 min.
If Lyft ran a boat service at the time, they'd have made a FORTUNE with water taxi service back to Manhattan!
That was the most dramatic. The rest I can't pick one of were:
Michael Franti, before he was solo or in Spearhead, was in one of the best bands ever: Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. One of my favorite shows I've ever ever ever gone to, was Disposable Heroes at a Korean buffet restaurant in Oakland, CA, where literally as we arrived the band was moving the tables with the empty buffet containers out of the way and figuring out how best to set up the instruments, but it was a KILLER show with probably 50 people max in the audience.
Ben Harper at Bimbos in San Francisco, it was a speakeasy club during Prohibition, but the coolest part (technically not the show but still) was I interviewed him for our college radio station in the kitchen which was this brass everything kitchen (including the floor I think), brass pots and pans everywhere, and people wheeling stuff all around the metal floor which meant sonically it was almost unusable because o fthe constant clatter because we were in a real functioning giant kitchen. But the setting was cool as hell and Ben was super into it.
Gogol Bordello played the opening of an indie modern art museum in Atlanta, I think maybe 60 people were watching, and they slayed but they really were still making their name so it wasn't quite the right crowd, but what a wild setting.
By far the strangest was Hozier for a radio show but the sponsoring radio station held it at a private club for trillionaires in San Francisco so it was radio station contest winners (me and all the fans that went), but then it was all these absurdly bizarrely beautiful tan people with really expensive clothes, the show was in a literal library in the private club, but it had total "Eyes Wide Shut" vibes or "Assassin's Creed" vibes, like it was a cult and there were fancy rooms with sex workers in them down the hallways (not actually, but that's what it felt like was going on) and the various dining rooms and lounges were crazy fancy with absurdly beautful people lounging in them. And there was a STRICT "No photos of any kind" rule and they emphasized with the contest winners over and over "Our guests are big on privacy, so if anyone sees you taking a pic even of a plant, your phone/camera will be taken away and we'll kick you out right away." So you just got that rich people sex club vibe. And Hozier in the end was only allowed to play 3 songs to maybe 40 people. Totally strange but very memorable.
Gogol Bordello plays crazy places all the time. I am surprised they aren't mentioned more on here, lol!
They put on concerts at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. There is a huge lawn that can accommodate a large stage and a crown of about 4,000 people. I have seen Flaming Lips as well as The National there.
They allow onsite parking, and most of the spaces are on roads that are right next to the burial sites. It is a bit spooky parking next to a grave and then walking past other graves to get to the show area.
Another trippy concert experience was seeing Prince at the House of Blues in Hollywood. Though it was a normal venue, Prince played until 5AM (he came on around 2:30AM). When we left, the sun had already come out!
They put on concerts at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. There is a huge lawn that can accommodate a large stage and a crown of about 4,000 people. I have seen Flaming Lips as well as The National there.
They allow onsite parking, and most of the spaces are on roads that are right next to the burial sites. It is a bit spooky parking next to a grave and then walking past other graves to get to the show area.
Another trippy concert experience was seeing Prince at the House of Blues in Hollywood. Though it was a normal venue, Prince played until 5AM (he came on around 2:30AM). When we left, the sun had already come out!
Was Prince slated to come on that late or was he just "fashionably late"?
They put on concerts at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. There is a huge lawn that can accommodate a large stage and a crown of about 4,000 people. I have seen Flaming Lips as well as The National there.
They allow onsite parking, and most of the spaces are on roads that are right next to the burial sites. It is a bit spooky parking next to a grave and then walking past other graves to get to the show area.
Another trippy concert experience was seeing Prince at the House of Blues in Hollywood. Though it was a normal venue, Prince played until 5AM (he came on around 2:30AM). When we left, the sun had already come out!
Was Prince slated to come on that late or was he just "fashionably late"?
It was a show after his arena show that night. They needed to transfer all the gear from the arena to the HOB. It was pretty much known that he'd come on super late.
They put on concerts at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. There is a huge lawn that can accommodate a large stage and a crown of about 4,000 people. I have seen Flaming Lips as well as The National there.
They allow onsite parking, and most of the spaces are on roads that are right next to the burial sites. It is a bit spooky parking next to a grave and then walking past other graves to get to the show area.
Another trippy concert experience was seeing Prince at the House of Blues in Hollywood. Though it was a normal venue, Prince played until 5AM (he came on around 2:30AM). When we left, the sun had already come out!
Was Prince slated to come on that late or was he just "fashionably late"?
It was a show after his arena show that night. They needed to transfer all the gear from the arena to the HOB. It was pretty much known that he'd come on super late.
They put on concerts at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. There is a huge lawn that can accommodate a large stage and a crown of about 4,000 people. I have seen Flaming Lips as well as The National there.
They allow onsite parking, and most of the spaces are on roads that are right next to the burial sites. It is a bit spooky parking next to a grave and then walking past other graves to get to the show area.
Another trippy concert experience was seeing Prince at the House of Blues in Hollywood. Though it was a normal venue, Prince played until 5AM (he came on around 2:30AM). When we left, the sun had already come out!
They put on concerts at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. There is a huge lawn that can accommodate a large stage and a crown of about 4,000 people. I have seen Flaming Lips as well as The National there.
They allow onsite parking, and most of the spaces are on roads that are right next to the burial sites. It is a bit spooky parking next to a grave and then walking past other graves to get to the show area.
Another trippy concert experience was seeing Prince at the House of Blues in Hollywood. Though it was a normal venue, Prince played until 5AM (he came on around 2:30AM). When we left, the sun had already come out!
I'd liked to be buried there
It is the final resting place of Johnny Ramone & Chris Cornell.
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Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
www.headstonesband.com
surviving members of the Hip showed up and played Little Bones with Headstones
www.headstonesband.com
Wow, cool!
Cincinnati 2014
Greenville 2016
(Raleigh 2016)
Columbia 2016
Cincinnati 2014
Greenville 2016
(Raleigh 2016)
Columbia 2016
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
I'll do the nightmare first: Waaaay back in the day there was a music conference in NYC called New Music Seminar. One year one of the showcase shows (several artists with same manager or label or from same country) was actually on a rented Staten Island Ferry. There was a buffet, an open bar, and like 4 bands. Long story short, the bands were fine, but first the food ran out, then the ALCOHOL ran out. Once the alcohol ran out, most people were like "Ok, party over, we're outta here!" BUT... we're on a boat! There is no leaving just cuz you're bored, don't like the band, or there's nothing to eat or drink. First it was just funny, then people got restless, then people got pissed.
Finally it looked like we were pulling back into the dock, and everyone was relieved, but then we realized a) this was Staten Island's dock, not Manhattan's dock; and b) the boat got close to the dock but then stopped and everyown wondered why we weren't actually docking.... Then we all heard the metal saw screeching cutting through metal objects, and saw all the sparks, and heard the screeching guitars.... and realized there was one more band: Skinny Puppy. So now the boat sat for another 40 min, no one could leave, no food, no drinks, no exit, and 2 or 3 people on the dock literally shredding metal clanging loud things together and screeching guitars for 40 min.
If Lyft ran a boat service at the time, they'd have made a FORTUNE with water taxi service back to Manhattan!
That was the most dramatic. The rest I can't pick one of were:
Michael Franti, before he was solo or in Spearhead, was in one of the best bands ever: Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. One of my favorite shows I've ever ever ever gone to, was Disposable Heroes at a Korean buffet restaurant in Oakland, CA, where literally as we arrived the band was moving the tables with the empty buffet containers out of the way and figuring out how best to set up the instruments, but it was a KILLER show with probably 50 people max in the audience.
Ben Harper at Bimbos in San Francisco, it was a speakeasy club during Prohibition, but the coolest part (technically not the show but still) was I interviewed him for our college radio station in the kitchen which was this brass everything kitchen (including the floor I think), brass pots and pans everywhere, and people wheeling stuff all around the metal floor which meant sonically it was almost unusable because o fthe constant clatter because we were in a real functioning giant kitchen. But the setting was cool as hell and Ben was super into it.
Gogol Bordello played the opening of an indie modern art museum in Atlanta, I think maybe 60 people were watching, and they slayed but they really were still making their name so it wasn't quite the right crowd, but what a wild setting.
By far the strangest was Hozier for a radio show but the sponsoring radio station held it at a private club for trillionaires in San Francisco so it was radio station contest winners (me and all the fans that went), but then it was all these absurdly bizarrely beautiful tan people with really expensive clothes, the show was in a literal library in the private club, but it had total "Eyes Wide Shut" vibes or "Assassin's Creed" vibes, like it was a cult and there were fancy rooms with sex workers in them down the hallways (not actually, but that's what it felt like was going on) and the various dining rooms and lounges were crazy fancy with absurdly beautful people lounging in them. And there was a STRICT "No photos of any kind" rule and they emphasized with the contest winners over and over "Our guests are big on privacy, so if anyone sees you taking a pic even of a plant, your phone/camera will be taken away and we'll kick you out right away." So you just got that rich people sex club vibe. And Hozier in the end was only allowed to play 3 songs to maybe 40 people. Totally strange but very memorable.
Creative Time was the organization that brought Sonic Youth there as well.
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
They allow onsite parking, and most of the spaces are on roads that are right next to the burial sites. It is a bit spooky parking next to a grave and then walking past other graves to get to the show area.
Another trippy concert experience was seeing Prince at the House of Blues in Hollywood. Though it was a normal venue, Prince played until 5AM (he came on around 2:30AM). When we left, the sun had already come out!