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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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No recording of this exists, but you can stream the next night’s show.
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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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Badi Assad, Shannon Curfman, Arlo Guthrie, Sawyer Brown, North Mississippi Allstars, Travis Tritt, Alan Jackson, Barenaked Ladies, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young & Willie Nelson at Nissan Pavilion, Bristow, VA, USA for Farm Aid
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Farm Aid returned to Nissan Pavilion for the second year in a row. No Dave Matthews Band this year, but Barenaked Ladies returned, as well as the founders. Plus this year we stuck around long enough to see Willie!
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Virginia Coalition at Herndon Town Green, Herndon, VA, USA
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Virginia Coalition were a weird mix of jam band and go-go. Still fun live.
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emmet swimming with ebo at 9:30 Club, Washington, DC, USA
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From the emmet swimming concert archives:
“Hey all! I think the 9:30 show last night just may be the best emmet show I’ve ever attended. If not, it was definitely up there at the top! Ebo was fantastic as always (their new CD is great!) and emmet was just in great form. They seemed very happy and into it, and the crowd was fantastic. Todd talked to the crowd a lot more than he did at the last two shows I saw (Alley Katz & TT’s), but I couldn’t understand much of what he said. Still, I think that showed even more how happy and relaxed he seemed to be. I was up near the front, dead center, and everyone around me was singing along to practically every song at the top of their lungs. That’s got to be exciting for the band. It’s amazing what a huge following emmet has here.
A huge chunk of the crowd hung around after Arlington and was chanting first “emmet! emmet!” and then “one more song! one more song!” but we finally gave up when the crew guys started cleaning up the stage. I did spot Erik off to the side of the stage and thought maybe he’d jump back up, but no such luck. I also kind of missed hearing “Bullet”, one of my favorites, but the energy at the show was so excited and upbeat that it would have been odd if they’d played it. During “So Lonely”, when Erik was about to start singing the “I come from the land down under” part, he waited a little longer than usual and the whole crowd just started singing it for him. He looked surprised, then was sort of laughing, then just kind of waved at the crowd to continue, and he only jumped in at the very end for the part “You better run, you better take cover” and then transitioned back into “So Lonely.” It was cool to see the whole crowd that into the song. :)”
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Widespread Panic at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, USA
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Melanie didn’t go – maybe John? First time seeing the jam band in a show I found hard to get into at the time, but really like listening to now.
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The Excentrics at Revolution Coffee Lounge, Herndon, VA, USA
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Revolution Coffee Lounge wasn’t around that long, but it was nice to see Todd and Matt within walking distance.
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