Thursday, February 24, 2011

1994 - Nine Inch Nails - The Palace

The Self Destruct Tour.
It was amazing.  Went with Ron to this show.
I think it was his first time seeing them.
The Palace is a smallish, club type venue that has featured
so many amazing artists like Frank Sinatra and all the big bands.
So it has this classy vibe with an amazing wood dance floor.
Nine Inch Nails is huge at this point and playing this 
small venue was amazing.
 
Setlist
Pinon
Terrible Lie
Sin
March of the Pigs
Something I Can Never Have
Closer
Reptile
Wish
Suck
The Only Time
Get Down, Make Love
Down In It
Big Man With A Gun
Head Like A Whole
Dead Souls
Help Me I Am In Hell
Happiness In Slavery

1994 - Frank Black - Roxy Theatre - The Foothill

I combined the info on these shows cause they were so similar.
This tour had early and late shows.
The Foothill show was late.  
The early show was at Cal State Fullerton.
He was still touring for Teenager of the Year.
Can't find a specific set-list for these shows but I did collect a 
few from this time period.  
I will include two of them here!





Monday, February 14, 2011

1994 - Cocteau Twins - Universal Amphitheatre


 
What an amazing show this was.
Went with Ron.  
It was Easter Sunday.
Such a magical band to hear on this day.
I will never forget looking at Ron at one point during the show 
and he had his hands on his head in amazement!  
Their stage set up was long gauzy curtains with fog and lights
creating shadows so you never really saw them at all.
It was all atmosphere.
And so wonderful.
Opening band was Luna whom Ron and I both love.
One of my favourite things to do is to try to get the
set-list from the show and I got Luna's.  
Here is the Cocteau Twins set list-
Pur / Heaven or Las Vegas / Pitch the Baby / Carolyn's Fingers / For Phoebe Shall a Baby / Evangeline / Whales Tales / Lorelei / Road River and Rail / Bluebeard / Summerhead / Iceblink Luck / Blue Bell Knoll / Cico Buff / Aikea-Guinea / Ella Megalast Burls Forever / Pink Orange Red / Sugar Hiccup / Crushed / Cherry-Coloured Funk

I found an article in the L.A. Times previewing the show- 
At the Cocteau 'Cafe' : Scottish trio's latest album reflects a turbulent period of personal growth. Southland gig begins Sunday at Universal Amphitheater.
POP BEAT
April 02, 1994|ROBERT LEVINE | TIMES STAFF WRITER
While "Four Calendar Cafe" only reached No. 78 on the national pop charts after its November release, it has so far nearly matched its predecessor with sales of more than 200,000 in the United States--and Capitol plans to promote the album for at least several more months. On their last tour, the Twins played the Wiltern Theatre, and their move up to the 6,000-seat Universal Amphitheatre reflects the band's growing commercial base.  The current tour--their first since 1990--will also be their first with a full band. Having previously relied on sequencers to reproduce the full sound of their albums, the band is now touring with two more guitarists, a percussionist and a drummer.  http://articles.latimes.com/images/pixel.gif"I used to be completely paranoid about live performance," said Raymonde about the Twins' decision to tour with a full band. "I wish we'd done it before because it sounds so much better."What can you lose? Maybe we'll bring some other musicians on a record one day. You've got to be open-minded about these things. You don't really get anywhere unless you change."
* The Cocteau Twins and opening act Luna appear Sunday at the Universal Amphitheatre, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, (818) 980-9421. $20 and $25. 8:15 p.m.; Tuesday at Symphony Hall, 1245 7th Ave., San Diego. $22.50. (619) 699-4205. 8 p.m.; Wednesday at Bridges Auditorium, Claremont Colleges, Claremont. $20. (909) 621-8032. 8 p.m.

And if you can find it, maybe on YouTube, they played the Tonight Show w/Jay Leno the week after this show and did Bluebeard.

I may have the wrong set list up, so here is my other Luna one. One of these is correct!

    

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

1994 - The Breeders - The Palace

Went with Ron.  Maybe Bianca.
This was a warm up show for their going on Lollapalooza.
I think L7 opened for them.
Setlist
Shocker In Gloomtown (Guided by Voices cover)
New Year
Hellbound
Saints
Safari
Iris
I Just Wanna Get Along
Fortunately Gone
Flipside
Roi
Head To Toe
S.O.S.
So Sad About Us
Cannonball
Invisible Man
No Aloha
Doe
Divine Hammer
Encore:
Don't Call Home
Happiness Is a Warm Gun (The Beatles cover)
Lime House

1994 - Frank Black - The Coach House


Went with Ron.
We went to the Coach House quite a few times.
If you have never been there it is like a warehouse
in an industrial park.  It serves dinner and if you make a dinner
reservation you can sit closer to the stage.
Everyone sits at table and watches the show which
is on a smallish stage.  Sound is great, not the hollow weird sound
you would think since it is in a pre-fab industrial building.  
I couldn't find a specific set-list for this show but it was so
fun watching Frank Black at this time.  His backing band was great. 
He was touring for Teenager of the Year and
not only doing these solo shows but opening for The Ramones
and They Might Be Giants.  In the band at this time was
the brilliant Eric Drew Feldman and Lyle Workman.
Who knew then that Lyle Workman would go on the
make such great music and movie soundtracks as,
Get Him to The Greek, Super Bad and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
 I have been searching on the internet for a photo of Frank Black
staring at his pick.  Between songs Frank will tell you about the songs
or just talk and as he does this he will hold out his pick in
front of him and stare at it in the stage lights.
It became one of my favourite parts of the show,
waiting for him to do this!
I will keep looking for a picture of it. 
Someone out there must have taken one!