KTC won't forget where he was 30 years ago tonight - or 30 years ago tomorrow:
I spent my last evening at the old Boston Garden with Pearl Jam Cobain died a few days before and no one knew what to expect. The show started in pitch black, the 1st song Release. Epic. Saw them next night at Orpheum.
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Mudhoney opened
By Matt
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 6:41pm
Eddie made a point to commend the front row fans who went just as crazy for the warm up act.
Adam u just opened up a can
By anon
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 6:42pm
Adam u just opened up a can of worms. We all have antique tickets from days of older older than that. Watch the comments fly in. Led Zeppelin at the Boston Tea Party?? Let me go dig out the memories in my other room.
Saw a very young Beethoven open for Mozart
By Andrew R.
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 8:30am
Knocked my wig off!
Page and Plant
By anon
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 9:22am
I believe Page and Plant was the last show at the Garden. My parents took me and Rusted Root opened.
People were ripping out the seats as souvenirs once the show ended.
I saw Miles Davis at his last
By anon
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 7:00pm
I saw Miles Davis at his last Newport Jazz appearance before he died shortly thereafter. Music changers.
I saw Miles
By SamWack
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 11:14pm
at Kix, a former disco in Kenmore Square, in 1981. I was working as a bartender at the Howard Johnson's, and Miles and Cicely Tyson were staying there.
The show was recorded, and released as We Want Miles. It is legendary in some circles, but I remember it as Miles standing alone at one corner of the stage, playing occasional unrelated solos while a very loud jazz-rock band made massive noise along side him. I've never listened to the album. I wonder what I would think of it now.
Not clicking on a Twitter
By Rwgfy
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 7:06pm
Not clicking on a Twitter link.
At least tell us why.
By Plen-T-Pak
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 7:26am
At least tell us why.
Probably something to do …
By Lee
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 9:34am
…. with Mayor Wu and possibly her bike.
You sure you want to know?
Too many Nazis?
By Scratchie
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 10:12am
Too many Nazis?
Alas
By Mike Murphy
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 9:09pm
Today - the cost of fees and other associated nonsense exceeds the price of that ticket.
And yes, I know that everything is more expensive; but why is it that we can no longer walk up to a box office and buy a ticket for face value?
well
By Luke Warmer
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 10:01am
yeah there is the fact that capitalism has finished itself and everything is going to turn to chaos, which is obvious when you see the price of current concert tickets. its all over. really. it just has not caught up to people's brains yet.
Short Answer
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 10:12am
Don Law
The same thing is true
By Scratchie
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 10:53am
The same thing is true everywhere. It's not just because of Don Law. The first concert where I remember paying a service fee at the box office was at the Oakdale Theater in Connecticut.
I tried and tried
By Luke Warmer
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 9:54am
and called and called the phone number to get tickets for the Orpheum show. It was very sad. I was 13. At least it is on YouTube. They really have grown to represent decent manhood and citizenship in an exemplary way.
Didn't know what to expect?
By anon
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 10:45am
Didn't know what to expect? They played three times earlier that week, once in Sprinfield, all after his death... and this was the second show at the Garden that week lol...
ummm, youngblood...
By Rob
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 6:53pm
ummm, youngblood...
It was 1994.
Unless bootleg set lists were being posted on Prodigy, it's entirely possible (and likely) that KTC didn't know.
There weren't fan sites and blogs and stuff like now.
* Well, unless there was an active discussion somewhere under \rec\arts\music...
Smashed a hole in the stage?
By MikeBoston
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 1:02pm
Was this the show that Eddie punched a hole in the main stage with the microphone stand? Funny the things you remember and the things you don't......
The good old days
By MamaRoz
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 1:21pm
Check out those ticket prices. I went to many a show back in the day. My kids can’t claim the same.
Rush 1994
By Cleary Squared
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 5:10pm
I went to see Rush at the Providence Civic Center (Counterparts tour) on May 1, 1994, a few days before I would take my final final exams as a UMass Dartmouth student. I don't have the ticket, but I think we paid $26.00 for seats towards the back. The souvenir guide cost me $12.
The last time I saw Rush was for their Clockwork Angels tour in 2012 in Manchester, NH, I paid $60 for tickets. Yes, ticket prices have gotten a mite high.
$60 is a bargain these days
By Scratchie
Mon, 04/15/2024 - 10:46am
$60 is a bargain these days for a legacy band like Rush. I paid over a hundred bucks per lawn ticket to take my kids to see the remnants of the Grateful Dead last summer.
1990, opening night of Billy
By Rob
Fri, 04/12/2024 - 6:55pm
1990, opening night of Billy Joel's Storm Front tour.
Upper level at the Centrum cost $20 per seat.
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