Nat Bailey has also seen Bob I'm sure.
Oh yeah. Twice - once at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, and "Babylon By Bus" show, at the Pacific Coliseum. I was holding for War Memorial too. I was standing on Hwy 99, hitching to work outside the Husky station at Whistler when I heard Bob died. A local bro pulled over and told me he just heard it on the radio - saw me standing there, and thought I'd want to know. Funny how you remember shit like that.
I've resisted posting to this thread, because like, I've seen a LOT of bands, and it's not because I'm cooler or hipper; it's because I'm older and lucky to have been around and able to sneak into the Commodore starting in about 1976. Also, I was in some punk bands for a while, and toured and stuff, and got to see some cool stuff that way too. So, here are some highlights, lowlights, acts from different genres, special shows and stuff. Not a complete list by any means.
Major Acts I've Seen More Than 10x
The Ramones
Sonic Youth
Beastie Boys
Major Act You've Never Heard of That I've Seen More Than 10x
Jonathan Richman
Biggest Band in Smallest Venue
Green Day at The Nappy Dugout
Glad to Have Been There
The Clash at the Commodore, the PNE Forum and the Kerrisdale Ballroom
Bob Marley at the QE and Pacific Coliseum
Dead Kennedys at the New York Theatre
PIL at the Showbox
Beck at the Howden Ballroom
Nirvana and The Melvins at the Crocodile
Best Show I Thought I Would Hate
Kid Creole and The Coconuts at Expo86
Could Have Done Without
The Cars at Pacific Coliseum
Hard to Believe They Played the Commodore
U2
Talking Heads
The Police
Loudest
Motorhead at the I-Beam in SF. No contest.
Longest
Parliament
Weirdest
Mike Meyers as "Dieter" from Sprockets, playing a "surprise" set of Sprockets Euro-trash at the Viper Room.
Reggae, and a lot of these with 'skid
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Ziggy Marley
Peter Tosh
Jimmy Cliff
Black Uhuru
Gregory Isaacs
Steel Pulse
Linton Kwesi Johnson (with Aswad)
Burning Spear
Eek a Mouse
Leroy Sibbles
Third World
UB40
Culture
Alpha Blondy
Ini Kamoze
Mikey Dread
Shinehead
Ska
(Original)
Skatalites
(Second Wave/Two Tone)
The Specials
The English Beat
The Selector
Madness
(Third Wave)
Operation Ivy
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Fishbone
Went because of a girl :cuffs:
David Bowie
Boz Scaggs
Beach Boys
10,000 Maniacs
Punk Rock Shows
Best Band To Open For My Band
- The Offspring
Worst Band to Open For My Band
- Grateful Dead Kennedys
Best Band We Opened For (Meaning they were nice and stuff)
- Faith No More
Worst Band(s) We Opened For (Meaning they were not nice)
- (tie) Social Distortion (hypocrites) and The Angry Samoans
Favorite Punk Rock Shows of All Time in Vancouver
- The Clash, Kerrisdale Arena
- The Descendents, Arts Club on Seymour
Favorite Punk Rock Shows Anywhere
- Mr. T Experience, Gillman Street in Berkeley
- NOFX, Raji's in Los Angeles
Honored to Be There
- Fugazi, Washington DC, private party (acoustic!)
OK, I'm getting fried. So many to list, like X, Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Metallica, Slayer, Sepultura, RHCP, Bad Brains, James Brown, Dick Dale…
Funny enough, and I took some ribbing for this, but I totally stand by it - the most fun I've had a show in a long while was The Wiggles. Went there with Nat Jr, front row Coliseum, 3PM show. We were home by dinner. It was a great show, and can't wait for them to come back.