On a rock tip:

Haino's 4-hour set in Newcastle.
Mogwai, about 3 days before MYT was released
Melt Banana in... '99, maybe?
Urusei Yatsura '96 or '97 or so.
NNCK in... '03? And every time since.
Shuji Inaba, Newcastle '06.
... actually, pretty much the whole of Music Lovers' field companion that year.
Mis Teeq, Glastonbury '99.
Kenny Rogers 06 or 07.

The jazz band down the road from me (there's been so many amazing night in the last 4 years I've been watching them).

There's been loads of wonderful experiences with street musicians - I've said before, there's an amazing Kora player on the way into town, there's some wonderful percussionists, Samba bands, good-awful guitarists and the like around.
There was a particular Sunday where I was sat in a graveyard listening to a 3-hour peel on the best church bells I've ever heard...

And there's loads of classical shows I've seen, I won't bore you with them all, but Kaija Saariaho's piece at the proms and the sextet version of Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht stand out as astonishing (as do the second movement of Beethoven's 7th and the whole of Messiaen's Quator pour le fin de temps that I've seen in the last fortnight).

It sounds like Altamont.

Yeah, it was like that. But on acid.

Where there any black people in the audience?

No, just retarded Orange Goblin fans, I'm afraid :(

Orange Goblin really are as bad as people say. How they have the fanbase they do genuinely puzzles me. They must have very big families.

I don't know about the rest of you, but this beats out seeing Nirvana with three other people in the audience for me.

Anyway, uh, I haven't been to all that many shows, so these aren't too spectacular:

Sigur Rós (came at a really rough time in my life, and as cheesy as it sounds, made me feel a lot more optimistic about things. Aside from that, this is the best show I've ever been to.)

Roger Waters (almost two years ago. One of the last solo shows he did before he started infusing too much of that political garbage into his shows with the writing on the pig and whatnot. The performance of Dark Side was surreal.)

Boredoms (a few months ago. I'm just glad I got to see them. I couldn't make it to 77 BOADRUM.)

Boris (a few weeks ago. I had my best friend with me, who had only heard Pink and Smile once before the show, and was totally converted at the end. It's really nice when you can share something like that with yr bestie.)

Sonic Youth (this past July 4th. I really don't know what to say for this one, except they've been consistently one of my favorite bands for the past two and a half years. I was just excited that I finally got to see them live for my first time, especially for free.)

But you live in Delaware now? Yesterday when I was pulling out of the Fred Meyer parking lot onto interstate, I got behind someone in a Jetta with a Sonic Youth sticker on it. I seriously wondered if this was someone I knew on the board. Even in Portland, the odds of two cars in a row (mine being the second) on the road with Sonic Youth bumper stickers seems kind of low.

SY 2002 murray street tour hamburg, because of kool thing (merzbow), YYYs 2003 or something in berlin in the knaack club with around 90 people else and a stage of 15 centimeters. so very small.

staying down here for the summer to work at an ice cream shop

i went out to the northwest to do the seattle and portland shows and stayed with another forum member in Seattle, love that part of the country, shall endeavor to get back out there

holy fuck!!!!! i'd be smiling everyday ever since if i had seen that; no way anything in life could ruin that.

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i remember one, last summer when i saw porter wagoner (a scant three months before dying) and grinderman opening for the white stripes.

thinking fellers/sun city girls in '93
chris knox/bill direen ('95?)
king loser in auckland ('95)...happened to be in the right place, right time
jesus lizard on Goat tour...immense
secret show w/ Robyn Hitchcock playing tons of old stuff, covers and Soft Boys songs in '89
NNCK on the rooftop of Poon Village (show was released on one of the cds)
the who/the clash, shea stadium '82
deep wound @ the greenfield grange, '83
the verlaines (both times were fucking amazing)
ghost @ terrastock V was mind-numbing
the two peter jefferies/alastair galbraith tours
two shows in one night (sugar, then tall dwarfs/yo la tengo)
thela/loren mazzacane/t moore+tom surgal
jesus lizard/tar, liar tour
one of the last PTV shows before lady jane died
the smiths (queen is dead tour)
jazz butcher/blue aeroplanes (great show!)
REM, pre-Fables

The 77 Boadrum....life changing.

I was hoping they would do some shows for Pot Boiler, but it seems they're only going to be studio band now with Graeme Downes' teaching commitments.

Shellac + Fugazi in London 99
SY in Paris huh 2004 or 5 don't remember Rock en Seine

these gigs rocked my sorry sock

I saw this gig too!