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Their first full tour, and I’d been a big fan since the Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12-24 had hit the radio (it was big when I worked for Waxie-Maxie, and I had to special order a lot of copies of Savatage’s Dead Winter Dead since that was the only place you could get it on CD for a while). I recall quite the extensive use of the smoke machine as it rolled off the stage into the audience.
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Mourning Widows with Zone 13 at Jaxx Nightclub, Springfield, VA, USA
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With Extreme broken up, Nuno Bettencourt started his own group, and I was a big fan.
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Barenaked Ladies with Guster, MCI Center, Washington, DC, USA
The Barenaked Ladies fan club got us front row seats to a fantastic show. Melanie did join me for this one.
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Boston Rock Opera’s Jesus Christ Superstar at the Tower Auditorium, Massachusetts College Of Art, Boston, MA, USA
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As a big Extreme, I was excited to learn that singer Gary Cherone was playing a lead role (the band often covers a bit of “What’s The Buzz” in concerts). I’d apparently missed him playing Jesus, but I was happy to see him play Judas. I stayed with Chris and he and Jess tried to set me up with Mindy, but I don’t think either of us felt it. Show info, preview, and a review.
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No Doubt with Area-7 at Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia
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From blog.hemisphire.com: “Dinner was chicken in garlic from Tum Tum’s Thai Takeaway, then back to Hodern Pavilion for No Doubt. Opener Area-7 was very similar to Goldfinger, and the crowd was into it, but they were waiting for No Doubt. Their set was heavy on material from Return To Saturn, but they played all the hits from Tragic Kingdom, as well as “Trapped In A Box” from their debut. Gwen was very enthusiastic all night, turning cartwheels at one point.”
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Sydney Symphony Orchestra at Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia for Paralympic Games Gala Concert
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From blog.hemisphire.com: “The performance was great, particularly Bernard d’Ascoli the blind pianist. At intermission we enjoyed the fireworks exploding nearly above us.”
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Saratoga & Sandy Klose at Fox Studios, Sydney, Australia for Pacific Circle Music Conference
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From https://blog.hemisphire.com/2000/10/: “… Sharon had met a girl who was performing at noon at Fox Studios, so we walked over there. The girl, Sandy Klose, was performing as part of the Pacific Circle Music Conference. They gave us visitor’s passes, then we grabbed a bite to eat. They were running late, so we watched a band called Saratoga first. They weren’t bad, but Sandy was really good. She sang and played a standup bass. I liked her songs, and the way she maintained her stage presence when the low frequencies of her bass caused a speaker to fall on a plant.”
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Green Day at Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia
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After the breakup, the October honeymoon to Hawaii was also off. Then I found out my sister had been planning a trip to Australia, and her friend dropped out with a month to go, and this was the days when we could just change the name on the ticket. My sister and I got certified for scuba driving at a pool near the Krispy Kreme in Alexandria just before we went. The whole trip is up at https://blog.hemisphire.com/2000/10/, but I’ve excerpted the appropriate parts for these reviews: “I went back to the room (stopping by a market for some food), then returned to Fox for the Hodern Pavilion next door. I was pleased to see that Green Day hasn’t changed in the nearly six years since I last saw them. They played all the hits, and took requests off Kerplunk. They still try a medley of covers, and I was amused when Billie Joe asked if anyone liked Ozzy, then had to clarify, “I mean Ozzy Osbourne”. Afterwards, I was pleased to note that a fleet of buses was waiting to cart people back to the city.”
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“Green Day played an awesome gig last night in Sydney to a packed out Hordern Pavilion. The set list goes something like this in no particular order: … In addition Green Day played a minute or two of Sweet Home Alabama. The whole set lasted for an hour and 45 minutes during which a fan from the audience got to play Platypus (i hate you) and Billie Joe had half the crowd Screaming fuck you, and the other half screaming back, Go fuck your Mums. For the finale, Tre Cool, after smashing his drum kit with a Little help from mike d, climbed on top of a speaker 2 metres high, and threw his drum down. All in all, a kick ass concert.”
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Urban Nation Hip-Hop Choir, The Max Weinberg 7 & Paul Simon, National Mall, Washington, DC, USA for Web MD Rock N Race
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This was for a race that ended or began at the National Mall, and more importantly, it was free! I hadn’t seen Paul Simon before despite wearing out a cassette of Graceland. I hadn’t tried to use my video camera outside of Herndon, but thought being in a crowd was worth the risk. I did something to try and disguise the camera and shot from my shoulder, so the videos a little jumpy and unfocused, but the audio came out nice.
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Roxette, The Corrs, Fastball, Guster, The Go-Go’s, Ben Harper, Vertical Horizon, Macy Gray, Smash Mouth, Tracy Chapman, The Goo Goo Dolls & Barenaked Ladies at Suffolk Downs, Boston, MA, USA for Mix 98.5 MIXFest
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So Melanie and I had been engaged to be married. She got cold feet about the wedding, and then moved to the other bedroom down the hall, on her way to moving out. My buddy Chris urged me to visit, and we went to this fun festival with his girlfriend, soon to be wife, Jess. And yes, that meant seeing Barenaked Ladies again a week later. They had a very long signing line we managed to get through, and we had them sign the only paper we’d brought with us: a boarding pass for me, and Jess’s birthday card for him (legendary).
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