Secret Shows You Have Gotten Into

LukinFan

dankind said:

Off the top of my head:

• Pearl Jam at HOB Lake Buena Vista in 2003

I remember finding out about this show the next day (I had gone to the Tampa show - which I think was a day or two before the HOB show). I think you had to win tickets through a radio station to get?

Guy Dudebro

Metallica at The Troubadour in W.Hollywood May 23,1988. Billed as Frayed Ends.

Chris1401

Camp Freddy with guests Ozzy Osbourne, Slash, Macy Gray, Steve Jones, Cypress Hill, Mark McGrath and Steve Stevens, at a party in Hollywood. Maybe 500 people there.

Neil Young and Crazy Horse in a 1500 seat theater. 

Flickerstick in front of about 10 people at a sports bar in college. 

Not a surprise show, but I recently saw the Melvins in a small bar. What a show! 

Zod

It wasn't secret, but Pearl Jam at the commodore fit's the bill.  1100 seat bar in Vancouver.  It was an event for 99.3 the fox in Vancouver.   You could only win tix off the radio.   I tried extremely hard to get tix, so I was pretty stoked once I won a pair.

dankind

LukinFan said:

dankind said:

Off the top of my head:

• Pearl Jam at HOB Lake Buena Vista in 2003

I remember finding out about this show the next day (I had gone to the Tampa show - which I think was a day or two before the HOB show). I think you had to win tickets through a radio station to get?

Yes. It was a contest. Record stores (Tower or Virgin or HMV) also had a contest for this one through the label.

lolobugg

Dave Grohl and Warren Haynes-  Snow Jam 2018 at the Peel in Asheville NC

$10 tickets and was announced about 4 hours before the show took place.

CantKeepmedown

I don't think it was a secret, but PJ at the HOB in Florida in 2003.  My buddy, who lived in Orlando at the time, won tickets over the radio.  He called me on Thursday night and said he had a ticket and a place to stay, I just had to get down there.  Booked a flight and took off the next morning.  Fun time seeing them in such a small setting.