1990 - X - Hollywood Palladium

Don't remember this one.  Maybe I didn't go.

Can't find anything online about it either.... 

1990 - KROQ Acoustic Xmas - Universal Amphitheatre

The first of the official KROQ Acoustic XMAS shows.

I ended up going to a few of them.  But I was the ultimate

KROQ fan in those days.  I won so much stuff from them

at one time that they sent me a W-2 at the end of the year!

I won trips, concert tickets, cd's, you name it!  I felt like I

had a direct line to them!

But, back to this show...

The line up for this show was;  

Dramarama, The Havilinas, Chris Isaak, The Posies, Social Distortion,

Soho, The Trash Can Sinatras  

It really was acoustic too.  This was when the bands took it seriously.    

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.