That’s right, 3 days after my first Phish show, I saw Grateful Dead (or any version with Jerry Garcia) for the first and last time. It was a bit awkward because I brought a date and it was soon apparent to me she was more into me than I was into her. Still, “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”!
My first Phish show. Chris was horrified, but I was amazed by them jamming and then finishing up with covers of Prince and Boston. Plus I’m a sucker for “Down With Disease”.
Fun fact: the attendance record of 10,356 for this show stood for 30 years.
Washington Post review
I don’t remember if I picked up their CD before or after seeing them at the HFStival, but know I loved their power-pop, and went down to this festival just to see them.
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Hard to remember why Spin Doctors had top billing here, but I liked all three bands fine. Don’t recall Vinx at all.
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I know I enjoyed the show, but what I remember most was standing next to the speaker on the right side and feeling a pain in my ear. I went to the bathroom and stuffed some toilet paper in my ears and finished watching the show from up at the bar, then the next day I bought some foam earplugs. I have never gone to a show since without wearing earplugs, and still have pretty good hearing.
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I finally made it to emmet swimming’s home base for an acoustic show by Eric & Todd.
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Boots was just a couple miles away from the CD store, so when they got the big name bands, it was always tempting. These guys seem incapable of putting on a bad show.
Their “Hell Freezes Over” tour was infamous for breaking the $100 concert ticket, but the brouhaha over that failed to communicate what a great, long show it was (in addition to seeing Sheryl Crow again, always good). In addition to their greatest hits (and some fine new ones), the second set included an acoustic portion and the solo hits by Glenn Frey, Don Henley & Joe Walsh. Of vast amusement to me and Eric, we were in the second row of the upper balcony at RFK, and this group of drunk dudes were seated in front of us, and didn’t arrive until 4 songs in. They spent the whole show calling out for “Hotel California”, which they never saw since it was played first.
After the first album when they sounded a little much like Pearl Jam, I just loved their second album Purple. Great show with both represented.
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Not only can I not remember the band, I can’t even remember the venue. Some internet sleuthing shows the venue was likely a pizza place in Tenleytown that closed in 1998.
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