1990 - Cocteau Twins - The Wiltern Theatre

Great show!  Don't remember who I went with though:(

Found the set list online:

  Blue Bell Knoll / From the Flagstones / Cico Buff / My Love Paramour / Pitch the Baby / Iceblink Luck / Crushed / Wolf in the Breast / Orange Appled / Road River and Rail / A Kissed Out Red Floatboat / Cherry-Coloured Funk / Aikea-Guinea / Pink Orange Red / Whales Tales / Heaven or Las Vegas

1990 - Gathering of the Tribes - Pacific Amphitheatre

The lineup for 1990’s A Gathering of the Tribes included The Cult, Soundgarden, Ice-T, The Indigo Girls, Public Enemy, Queen Latifah, Joan Baez, Steve Jones, Iggy Pop, The Charlatans U.K., Lenny Kravitz, The Cramps, and The Mission U.K..

Found a review:

Inside the ''Gathering of the Tribes'' music festival -- The unlikely mix of performers sharing the stage for the two-day/two-city concert

By David Browne
Oct 26, 1990
Breaking the Sound Barriers
''It's a lot to swallow in one day,'' said Iggy Pop, backstage at the ''Gathering of the Tribes'' concert in Costa Mesa, Calif., on Oct. 7. ''It's like the old pop festivals.'' Well, not exactly. The barrier-smashing two-day/ two-city musical extravaganza (which also played San Francisco's Shoreline Amphitheatre Oct. 6) drew more than 10,000 fans for each 10-hour concert, just like the old days. But the shows exhibited a range of musical styles all but forbidden on pop radio, let alone in concert. Rappers like Ice-T shared the stage with hard-rockers like Soundgarden and the London Quireboys, punk-rock veterans like Pop and the Cramps, and politically minded folkies like the Indigo Girls and Michelle Shocked. The idea, according to Cult lead singer and co-organizer Ian Astbury, was to take a stand against the musical and racial segregation that, even in 1990, dominates the pop music world. When the predominantly young, white concertgoers weren't pumping their fists at Ice-T or Queen Latifah, or singing along with Soundgarden's ''Big Dumb Sex,'' they could wander through tents set up for Amnesty International, Greenpeace, the gay-rights organization Act Up, Rock the Vote (a voter- registration drive), and local animal-rights groups. To the surprise of the more jaded in the crowd, concertgoers could be found standing in long lines to sign up for causes or simply grab pamphlets. Elsewhere they could drop by pottery and silk-screen exhibits, receive an erasable tattoo, or relive their childhood with what was billed as the world's largest bubble-blowing machine. Sinéad O'Connor and Drew Barrymore were among the backstage celebrities, but that wasn't the big news. As a show of strength for rock of the future, ''A Gathering of the Tribes'' made its point with the accuracy of a CD laser beam. Remarked one concertgoer, ''It seems there are so many of us. It's like the good guys won after all.''

what i remember most is that the charlatan's opened the show and closed it!  i guess the show ended earlier than expected and so they came back out to play.  it was awesome though so many different types of music.  this was before lollapalooza.  queen latifa and ice t, public enemy?  crazy at the time.  i remember epmd playing as well but nothing online mentions them.  i became a cramps fan that day.  they were awesome live!  it was a very laid back and casual show with loads of good music.

1990 - New Kids on the Block - Pacific Amphitheatre

Yep, Bianca and I saw New Kids on the Block!

Went with Darlene and Beth.

Don't remember now why they asked us to go with them....

I do know that Cathy's Mom got Bianca some of the greatest

NKTOB stuff ever!  She made on girl very happy!! 

It was more than generous.  Thank you Mrs. Durbin!

I really only remember the thousands of little girls screaming.

1990 - Disney Spectacular - Hollywood Bowl

I always liked to do something on the 4th of July.

Something with fireworks.

I usually got my Mom and Bianca and we went to

a baseball game.  How American can you get?

And luckily for us with two baseball teams one

of them is in town for the 4th with a great fireworks

show after the game.  

But, I found this event.  Hollywood Bowl, old fashioned 

fireworks and great Disney music put on by the Philharmonic!

I always hoped this fireworks event would be

the one that didn't terrify Bianca.  

Wrong again. 

Out we went with Park and Ride

and Bianca's firing range headphones to enjoy the best

America has to offer.  I should have learned then to 

stop planning family events!  

1990 - Midnight Oil - Universal Amphitheatre

help me out!  don't remember much about this one!

1990 - David Bowie - L.A. Sports Arena

I went to this one with Cathy! 

This was supposed to be his retirement tour. 

The Sound & Vision Tour.

It was great, but, I have since learned that David Bowie

doesn't do a bad show!! 

The choice of songs was amazing.

Corrected set list, thanks anon!

1. Space Oddity
2. Changes
3. TVC15
4. Rebel Rebel
5. Be My Wife
6. Ashes To Ashes
7. Starman
8. Fashion
9. Life On Mars?
10. Blue Jean
11. Let's Dance
12. Stay
13. China Girl
intermission
14. Sound And Vision
15. Ziggy Stardust
16. Station To Station
17. Young Americans
18. Suffragette City
19. Fame
20. "Heroes"
encores
21. Pretty Pink Rose
22. The Jean Genie
23. Panic In Detroit.

1990 - The Creatures - The Wiltern Theatre

This was an amazing show. 

Siouxsie and Budgie and a lot of drums.

This tour was for the Boomerang cd.  

Found a review of the show from the L.A. Times;

Pop Music Review

Siouxsie Sioux and Creatures at the Wiltern
March 31, 1990
RICHARD CROMELIN
Siouxsie Sioux (as in Suzy Sue) dominates female post-punk female fashion and consciousness the way Jacqueline Kennedy defined straight style in the '60s. There's nobody close.On Thursday, the lobby of the Wiltern Theatre swarmed with fans paying homage to the singer of Siouxsie & the Banshees: specters in black lace, faces powdered white, eyebrows painted thick, dark-circled eyes, black lips, helmets of ratted hair. Same for the girls. It was like an Elvis impersonators' convention, but with Siouxsie rather than Presley as the central icon. The occasion wasn't a Siouxsie & the Banshees concert. The band has become one of the few punk-era originals to survive and thrive more than a decade later, and it now headlines bigger rooms than the 2,300-seat Wiltern. Instead, It was the first local appearance by the Creatures, a side project consisting of Sioux on vocals and Banshees drummer Budgie on percussion. That--and a fair amount of programmed sounds--was it. (They also play Crawford Hall at UC Irvine tonight.) At first it seemed like a thin premise for a whole show, despite the intriguing nature of some of the material on the Creatures' recent album "Boomerang": a batch of rhythm-centered songs from a dimly-lit singer with a strong but expressively limited voice and a haughty personality. By the end the music had made its point, and the once-severe Siouxsie was grinning and joking like a schoolgirl. The set took its initial momentum from the Siouxsie worship, from the release of anticipation, from the audience's sense of partaking in a special event. Siouxsie and Budgie quickly picked up and intensified that energy, and the opening sequence found the crowd rising and falling with her every leap, swaying with every undulation, hanging on every wail. Siouxsie, done up in tie-dyed, Gypsy-cum-Middle-Eastern finery, performed with the exaggerated gestures of a silent-film actress, her face drawn in codified expressions of anxiety, her eyes widening and flashing as each new song took hold. The show tended to lose focus periodically, since the lyrics were pretty indecipherable and the musical vocabulary so limited. Instead of expanding the range, the programmed music--from horn riffs to full rock band--diluted the premise, making things sound more conventional without providing the rewards of a live performance. The best moments were the barest: Siouxsie wailing, Budgie pounding. There they caught a pure, primitive power, a purging sense of ritual underscored by Siouxsie's animal yelps, barks and howls. It was by firelight at the dawn of time, not a computer in the universe. 
Second-billed Blackbird is also a duo: L.A. boys Chip and Tony Kinman, who set up a programmed drum pattern and layered on the bass and guitar. It never stopped, just shifted gears up and down, and came off like the Jesus and Mary Chain meets the Beatles, Beach Boys and Merle Haggard. Unrelenting and compelling.

Though I don't remember the songs I do remember the

stage presence and how powerful they were . 

1990 - Peter Murphy - The Wiltern Theatre

My first Peter Murphy show. 

And at such a wonderful place! 

I don't remember if this is the show I went to with Cathy or not. 

This was for the cd, Deep.  With the song Cuts You Up. 

1990 - The The - The Wiltern Theatre

I think I went with Christine to this one.

I remember Johnny Marr played

guitar with the band at the time.

Good show. 

Matt Johnson wrote some interesting songs. 

I still listen to them.  

1990 - Ministry - Hollywood Palladium

I went with Cathy to this one.

It was amazing.  A fence around the stage. 

The fire dept. shutting the show down. 

Them burning the American flag.

I loved this show.

1990 - The Jesus and Mary Chain - Universal Amphitheatre

Went to this show with Christine and Shawn I think.

What is most memorable about this show is that

Nine Inch Nails was the opening band.  Well, and the Nymphs.

I remember being blown away by them.  They destroyed the stage.

All their equipment was broken, Trent threw water everywhere.

The stage hands were so upset.  They literally turned on all the lights

to clean up the stage for Jesus and Mary Chain. 

 But they really didn't need too. 

All Jesus and Mary Chain did was stand

way back on the stage and play. 

The singer sat at the front of the stage and sang.

But it was the noise I loved the most.  This was an amazing show.    

The Eighties

And so they end......  The 80's.
That really was the start of my concert going.
There is really something amazing at a live show. 
The energy of the crowd, the excitement, the anticipation.
It's like a drug to me.
In some small way I understand how musicians become addicts.
They want to relive that high they get on stage. 
I want to relive the event.
It starts at the concert announcement for me. 
The ad or the radio promo. 
Then the onsale info. 
It used to be the waiting in line, getting a number or wristband 
to see where you would be placed for tickets. 
Then it got to be using the phone and then the internet.
I loved that whole camping out for tickets.  
Meeting other fans.
Everyone there for the same reason. 
Music playing.  It was so fun. 
Now we are all isolated and we have lost that bond. 
That being a fan bond.     

I have received a few comments on the price of tickets in the 80's.  
Can you believe Jane's Addiction for $10?  Unheard of!!!  
But this is just another example of the times and how they grew. 
How music became such an enormous industry.  
What was the most you ever paid for a concert? 
Just tickets. 
Not travel etc. 
Cause I have a Depeche Mode show that cost a
fortune if we want to get into that!!! 
By this time in the 80's the most I had ever paid was $96
from a ticket agency for my third row Bob Marley seat. 
I could have had a seat in the back but I wanted to be
up front at the Starlight Bowl in Burbank.  
To this day, and considering what an icon he
became, that was the bargain of the century! 
Let me know what yours was.

I have also been asked about the many Cure
and Depeche Mode shows I have been to. 
Where are those stubs? 
I have decided to make individual posts for each of them.
They have meant the most to me over the years so they deserve it!  
And well, I have to locate The Cure stubs. 
I hate moving.  I can't find anything! 
I think I have rounded up most of the DM ones. 
Now if only I can find the right box.......

Now, on to the 90's......              

1989 - The Cult - Long Beach Arena

As the comments state below my memories are

from the show they did in 1987.  I do not have the

ticket stub from this show so I will leave the 

comments as is.  Thanks for the info anon!

New Year's Eve at Long Beach Arena.

Opening bands, Bonham, Dangerous Toys

and Guns and Roses.

Can you believe that? 

Guns and Roses opening for The Cult?

And what an odd set of opening bands for The Cult.

Is this a metal show?  Are The Cult a metal band?

I didn't think so.  They were a KROQ band.

It was an amazing show. 

Not necessarily for the music but for the

antics of the crowd and the bands.

Guns and Roses were really starting to take off and they

were playing to a metal crowd. 

Everyone has been watching their videos on MTV

and they are gonna be huge. 

Guess I don't have to tell you the crowd didn't

really want to see The Cult.

But they were in for a treat and they didn't even know it!

The Cult did their hits and Ian Astbury was

out there with his beautiful hair.

It was great till he decided to crowd surf

and someone stole his boots.

The Arena lights came on.  Police were called. 

And no one was leaving till he got his boots back!

One was thrown at him fairly quickly. 

The other took awhile to get back.

Ian strutted around the stage demanding that he get

his boots back and that he wouldn't

let anyone go till he did! 

It was epic!!!

Eventually it was found and given back. 

The band left the stage.

I don't remember if they came back or not. 

We eventually left to the usual Arena issue of

a rowdy crowd stirred up by the band

and a huge police presence. 

So the windows in the glass stairwells started being broken. 

(This happened a lot at shows.) 

The Arena has since learned to board up the windows

for concerts so this doesn't happen as much anymore.

Great memorable show.

Couldn't find any info on it online.  Shame really.

Hopefully one of you reading will have more to add!!

       

1989 - KROQ X-mas Bash - Universal Amphitheatre

This was the first of what was to become

the KROQ Acoustic Christmas shows.

There used to be a mention of it on the KROQ web-site

and now I can't locate it to get a listing of the bands that played. 

I really only remember Camper Van Beethoven.

They sang a memorable song about the Lincoln Memorial. 

And Food for Feet.  With the guys from Oingo Boingo.

I know there were other bands. 

Maybe Violent Femmes? 

If anyone remembers please leave a comment!     

1989 - Public Image Limited - Universal Amphitheatre

No real memories of this show.  Sad, but true. 

1989 - REM - Pacific Amphitheatre

This was another show with Christine.  Her favourite band at the time was REM.

Looking back now, I am glad I saw them before the illness and fame and age

changed the dynamic of the band.  I do wish I had seen them earlier before they

were a huge MTV band.  Most notable is that Christine and I waited outside the

Amphitheate to see if we could get autographs.  We both got to see

Michael Stipe.  What a great time we had!  This may have been the start

of my staying after shows trying to get autographs.   

1989 - The Damned - Celebrity Theatre

Set List:

See Her Tonite, Fish, Born To Kill, Fan Club, Help, Neat Neat Neat, I Fall, New Rose, I Feel Alright, I Just Can't Be Happy Today, Hey Jo, Wait For The Blackout, Noise Noise Noise, Melody Lee, Love Song, Smash It Up, Daytripper, Looking At You, The Last Time.

A review from the L.A. Times:

The Damned Ends as It Began: Naked and Ablaze

Pop Music Reviews
July 22, 1989
CRAIG LEE
The Damned may not have been the best or most innovative of the English punk groups, but in 1977 this messy goon squad was the first British punk outfit to issue a single and an album, and, most influentially, it was the first to play Los Angeles, serving as the catalyst for a revolutionary style of music and fashion whose ramifications still roar through L.A.'s rock scene.
It's fitting that the group ended the L.A. show of what's billed as its farewell tour on Thursday at the Hollywood Palladium in the same rowdy manner as its debut at the Starwood: with drummer Rat Scabies igniting and demolishing his drums while bassist/guitarist Captain Sensible (definitely not a contender for any health spa endorsements) ran around nude.
Like the title of one of its most ferocious rave-ups, the Damned are still pretty "Neat Neat Neat." Running through a career retrospective, the quartet concentrated on the dark fury of its first and best album before adding a fifth player for later "hits," while a sold-out throng of kids took songs like "Smash It Up" to heart (and body) in the slam pit.
This show also confirmed that underneath the obnoxious behavior and often sloppy, haphazard playing is a band of faithful believers in the liberating spirit of outrageous rock 'n' roll.
Paying tribute to that spirit with crash-and-burn versions of Beatles, Stones, Iggy Pop and MC5 classics mixed in with its own tunes, the Damned proved it deserves a place alongside the musical company it kept. The group plays Anaheim's Celebrity Theatre on Wednesday.

I went to this show with Christine.  It is a little theatre in the round that I had never heard of before this show.
All the seats were good.  I remember I had taken my binoculars not knowing how big or small this place was.  Well, no seat was more than 20 feet or so from the stage.  It was memorable because it was supposed to be the last tour of the original line-up and it was a great show.  Captain Sensible taking his clothes off and well, leaving an impression!  
I do have to say that I have become a huge Rat Scabies fan since then.  I love researching and reading about the Holy Grail and all of the conspiracy and intrigue surrounding it.  Who knew that Rat Scabies is a Grail expert.  His father is one of the most noted researchers on Grail and Rennes-le-Chateau lore and because of his fathers expertise he has become one himself.  A book came out in 2005 called, Rat Scabies and The Holy Grail it is a fantastic journey not only to find the Grail but, about friendship.  By Christopher Dawes.  Read it if you can!