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Karen and I repeated seeing Chris Whitley a couple months later.
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Paul Westerberg at Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, MD, USA
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Paul Westerberg put out a stunning album called 14 Songs in 1993. You’d be forgiven if you went to the show because he was the guiding force behind The Replacements, but if you liked them both, this show gave you the best of both worlds as the band had just disbanded. Went with Karen.
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Robert Plant at Patriot Center, Fairfax, VA, USA
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Alas, my first cancelled show. And not postponed, either. I was left with the impression the whole leg of the tour was axed, but checking setlist.fm, it clearly wasn’t.
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Dave Matthews Band at The Bayou, Washington, DC, USA
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My first show at The Bayou and my first Dave Matthews Band show. It was a rainy night and my sister was going to school at the University of Virginia at the time, and she was telling me about this great band I had to see. So we went down there with a couple friends (Karen and Michelle) without tickets, only to find it was sold out. We waited outside as the rain came down off the Whitehurst Freeway onto us while Sharon begged for spare tickets in her UVA hat. Eventually we got enough tickets to get in, and we worked our way to the side. We only caught half the show, but it didn’t matter as I just fell in love with the band. It didn’t hurt that they covered “All Along The Watchtower” with guest Warren Haynes.
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Chris Whitley with Lois at The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA, USA
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My first show at The Birchmere (their second location). Karen and I also shared a love of Chris Whitley, and after the show, scored an interview with him (wished I’d asked for an autograph now).
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Sun-60 with Sweet Water at 9:30 Club, Washington, DC, USA
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Sun-60 had an unlikely radio hit with “Mary Xmess” on WHFS; Karen and I went and managed to interview them afterwards.
My first show at the 9:30 Club.
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Cheap Trick with Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ at United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA
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See previous night.
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Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ with Raging Slab at The Flood Zone, Richmond, VA, USA
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I had bonded with another Expulsion writer Karen over a mutual love of Drivin’ N’ Cryin’, and when we heard they were coming to Richmond and Annapolis, we decided to go to both! And we wrote an article about it.
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Bon Jovi with Extreme at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, USA
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I went to see Extreme, and they played a great opening set. I went with my friend Katharine (also from Expulsion), and I spent most of Bon Jovi’s set half watching them, half watching her fail to get backstage (she had written a lot for local music magazines, but security was tight that day).
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The Brian May Band at Hammerjacks, Baltimore, MD, USA
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I had picked up a copy of Back To The Light about a month earlier at CD Cellar, and had played it just about every day since. It’s such an amazing album, and proved that Brian could have been lead vocalist on more thatn just a handful of Queen songs. Anyway, I got a call from a friend at Expulsion that he was playing a free show at Hammerjacks on a day off from opening for Guns N’ Roses. The show was incredible, opening with the first two songs of the album, sprinkling in Queen classics (like “’39”!) and introducing me to a Rainbow classic (touring drummer Cozy Powell was in that band when they released “Since You Been Gone”). A super long version of “Resurrection” with a drum solo and the end of “Bohemian Rhapsody” would tease how Brian would later come out during the We Will Rock You musical. And “Love Of My Life” would prove to be the blueprint of every Queen tour since, just a singalong with Brian and the audience. I could say more, but here’s an account from one of the friends I went with.
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