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D Generation was being pushed by EMI so we got tickets free. I liked them, but I like lead singer Jesse Malin’s solo career more.
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Lisa Germano, L7, Neil Young & Crazy Horse & Pearl Jam at D.A.R. Constitution Hall, Washington, DC, USA for Voters For Choice
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After such an amazing experience seeing Pearl Jam, I was determined to recapture the magic. They announced they were playing two nights of benefit shows for Voters for Choice at Constitution Hall, and the only way to get tickets was with a postcard lottery. At this point I was working at a record store I co-owned, and we would print and mail brightly colored postcards to our mailing list so I made 20 and sent them in. I got chosen for the first show and took my sister.
It was an amazing show. L7 and Neil Young opened, but the audience was clearly there for Pearl Jam. And they were rewarded for their patience with an epic show featuring plenty of songs from Vitalogy (still my favorite album of theirs). New drummer Jack Irons took on his first full length show without a problem and Neil Young joined them during the encore for Neil’s new song “Act Of Love”.
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emmet swimming with Biohio at Planet Nova, Fairfax, VA, USA
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The flyer for the show notes “Free new single to first 100 people” (of course I was), free giveaways, free champagne at midnight”
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Dave Matthews Band with From Good Homes at Bender Arena, Washington, DC, USA
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A return to Bender to see DMB as they went from a xxx seat club to a zzz seat arena in a little over a year. Alas, the only time I got to see From Good Homes, but I’d follow frontman Todd Sheaffer to a solo show, then onto Railroad Earth.
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Freedy Johnson, Pete Droge, Evan Dando, Go-Gos, Veruca Salt, Simple Minds, Big Audio Dynamite II & Līve at Patriot Center, Fairfax, VA, USA for the HFSMas Nutcracker
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I always loved the HFStival, but the HFSMas Nutcracker holds a special place in my heart. This, the first year we went, Chris and I got 2nd row seats, and got to see it all, from Evan Dando storming off stage to the reunited Go-Gos, a rocking Veruca Salt and Līve serving as defacto headliners with arena ready songs everybody knew and sang along to.
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Candlebox with Sweet Water & The Flaming Lips at Patriot Center, Fairfax, VA, USA
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Back at the Patriot Center for a second night, seeing Candlebox for the second time. I really liked them, and Sweet Water from seeing them the previous year, so it was The Flaming Lips that were a pleasant surprise.
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Green Day with Pansy Division at Patriot Center, Fairfax, VA, USA
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Pansy Division was the first out performer I ever saw, and they were not afraid of bringing to Green Day’s audience. Green Day themselves were great, Dookie was now a huge hit and this show offered plenty of it (along with songs from their Lookout Records output, which the fans had been seeking out in stores like mine).
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The True at T.T. Reynolds, Fairfax, VA, USA
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Don’t remember the show. I used to have the CD, but their name is too generic to find in a web search.
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Lotion at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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I may have been going to graduate school there and working on a student newspaper, but I rarely saw much of other students. This was a rare show I went there that wasn’t at the Patriot Centerm, but just for students.
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emmet swimming with Gravity’s Pull at T.T. Reynolds, Fairfax, VA, USA
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The flyer for the show notes “Come and celebrate the debut of Motorama, released by Chapel Hill’s Gravity’s Pull! (released on our very own Screaming Goddess Records)”
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