1994 - The Ramones - UCI Crawford Hall

Went with Ron and met Shawn there.

Opening artist, Frank Black.

Another night of The Ramones.  We stayed for almost the entire show this time.  I think this was the place The Ramones were meant to be seen.  It's big basketball gym, all open, the hoops tied up to the roof  with open floor and people.  It was a great show but how could it go wrong with Frank Black singing I heard Ramona Sing!

Set List

Durango 95

Teenage Lobotomy
Psycho Therapy
Blitzkrieg Bop
Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio?
I Believe In Miracles
Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
Rock 'N' Roll High School
I Wanna Be Sedated
Substitute (The Who cover)
I Wanna Live
My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)
Commando
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Rockaway Beach
Pet Sematary
Main Man
Journey To The Center Of The Mind (The Amboy Dukes cover)
Take It As It Comes (The Doors cover)
Somebody Put Something In My Drink
7 And 7 Is (Love cover)
Wart Hog
Cretin Hop
Listen To My Heart
Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
Pinhead
Encore:
My Back Pages (Bob Dylan cover)
Poison Heart
We're A Happy Family
Encore 2:
Punishment Fits The Crime
I Just Want To Have Something To Do
Beat On The Brat 

1994 - The Ramones - Hollywood Palladium

Went with Ron and Shawn.

Opening artist Frank Black.

This was a fun show.  Ron had to work super early and so we left before the encores.  Great energy and such a fast paced show.  I know we went mainly because of Frank Black as 1994 will be the year of Frank Black for us.  But how could we not enjoy the Ramones.  This is one band that I am so happy I got to see. 

Set List

Durango 95

Teenage Lobotomy
Psycho Therapy
Blitzkrieg Bop
Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio?
I Believe In Miracles
Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
Rock 'N' Roll High School
I Wanna Be Sedated
Substitute (The Who cover)
I Wanna Live
My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)
Commando
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Rockaway Beach
Pet Sematary
Strength To Endure
Journey To The Center Of The Mind (The Amboy Dukes cover)
Take It As It Comes (The Doors cover)
Somebody Put Something In My Drink
7 And 7 Is (Love cover)
Wart Hog
Cretin Hop
Listen To My Heart
Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
Pinhead
Encore:
My Back Pages (Bob Dylan cover)
Poison Heart
We're A Happy Family
Encore 2:
The Shape Of Things To Come (Max Frost & the Troopers cover)
Chinese Rock
Beat On The Brat

1994 - The Dead Milkmen - Roxy Theatre

This is another of my all time favourite shows. 

Love The Roxy.  Its small and lets you really get into the band. 

Went with Ron and maybe Bianca.  

The Vandals were the opening band and were amazing. 

This could have been their show.

The Dead Milkmen were touring for  Beelzebubba and

MTV was playing Punk Rock Girl like crazy.

Probably the best $13.50 ever spent on a show!   

Set List

Nutrition

I Walk The Thinnest Line

Where The Tarantula Lives
Big Time Operator
My Many Smells
Brat In The Frat
Tiny Town
I Against Osbourne
Take Me To The Specialist
I Am The Walrus
RC's Mom
Smokin' Banana Peels
Stuart
Punk Rock Girl
Serrated Edge
VFW
Ex-Lion Tamer (Wire cover)
Bitchin' Camaro
Surfin' Cow
Swordfish
Bad Party
Ringo Buys a Rifle
Big Lizard
Life Is Shit
Beach Party Vietnam
Two Feet Off The Ground

1994 Update

I haven't abandoned you... More posts soon! 

I will start adding 1994's shows shortly. 

I have been going through the house

searching for ticket stubs. 

I found some autographs too. 

This will be fun!  

So keep checking and I will have more shows up soon! 

searching...

i may have mentioned that i can not locate my ticket stubs for the cure.  which is causing me considerable heartache.  so, i am going through boxes searching. 
i found a box today that held a treasure trove of ticket stubs!
i think i have mentioned that i was a big fan of the door's when i was a kid.  they were my first band.  but, when i tell someone that my first concert was for the doors, i am often met with a look of, "sure i believe you saw the doors." when they don't believe me at all.  so i opened a cigar box and found within ticket stubs for some amazing points in my young life.
there it is!  a stub from the doors playing the long beach arena on february 7, 1970.  a little googling will confirm if you still don't believe me.

 i found a ticket stub for a show i can't find any additional info on.  but, what was awesome was that led zepplin played the night before this show and jethro tull the day after!  so who knows who played this show!

this one is for elton john at the hollywood bowl 1973.  this was before tommy and a huge year for him.
daniel, goodbye yellow brick road.  this was an amazing show.  $4.50 for elton john at the hollywood bowl!

now some one off odd shows, three dog night and earth, wind and fire.  i remember steppenwolf and eric burdon and the animals at the three dog night show.  i do remember the performance of house of the rising sun by eric burdon.

now some sports tickets.  i loved the lakers from early on.  the stubs here are when the lakers had jerry west and wilt chamberlin playing for them.  i also remember that one of the games i went to was against the milwaukee bucks and they had just acquired a ucla grad named lew alcindor who we know later became kareem abdul-jabbar!  i saw some great players from those days, pistol pete maravich being one of my favourites!  i am adding one of my most prized give away treasures, the der wienerschnitzel tribute to the longest winning streak. classy!

the scan cut off the some of the names.  if you want to know who they are email me!!

my parents were gamblers.  not anything big and we never lost our possessions or anything but they spent a lot of time at the race track betting on horses and going to las vegas.   i sat in many las vegas casino lobbies watching the interesting people walk through.  the sands, the dunes, the stardust.  i remember them all.  it was a very glamorous time for las vegas.  i knew that drive from long beach to las vegas like the back of my hand!  i could pick a winning horse, daily double and trifecta by the time i was ten.  i knew jockeys and kept a recipe box with horse stats on index cards.  i knew the paddocks at hollywood park, los alamitos and santa anita.  i could read track conditions and won more than a few dollars for my parents!  i also loved the roller derby.  the los angeles t-birds played the long beach arena usually on friday's.  i always pulled for the opposing team.  never the t-birds.  i felt sorry for them.  no hometown fans there to pull for them.  only boos from the t-bird fans.  my little contribution to the sport!!

check out the prices for these laker games!

and some roller derby stubs...

now if only i could find my bob marley ticket stubs, i have the terrible photos i took though..
and the search continues for the cure...
 

1993 - Nirvana - The Forum

Went with Bianca, Ron and Shawn.

Opening bands, Chokebore and The Butthole Surfers.

MC for the show was Bobcat Goldthwaite.

We parked next to the ramp that leads under the Forum and saw the tour buses. We called out for and waved at Courtney and Kurt as they walked into the Forum. I remember it being a good show. They sounded very good. I liked looking at the ununsal In Utero set items they had. We had Colonnade seats but I remember them being at the side so there wasn't a huge distance to the stage so we could see really well. I know Bianca has some stories to add to this one!

Set list
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter/ Drain You/ Breed/ Serve The Servants/ Come As You Are/ Smells Like Teen Spirit/ Sliver/ Dumb/ In Bloom/ About A Girl/ Lithium/ Pennyroyal Tea/ School/ Polly/ Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle/ Rape Me/ Territorial Pissings/ Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam/ The Man Who Sold The World/ All Apologies/ On A Plain/ Heart-Shaped Box/ Blew



1993 - Pearl Jam - Aladdin Theatre

Opening Bands - Urge Overkill and Mudhoney

Pearl Jam mega-post!  In spite of what people think, I did encourage Bianca to have her own musical likes.

She went through phases with bands.  She loved them for all they were worth then she was done with them and moved on to the next.  This was the Pearl Jam phase.  

These shows were right after her 13th birthday and I wanted to do something special so we went to Las Vegas to see them.  We went by train.  Amtrak!  It was so fun.  It took forever to get there, but it was well worth it!!  We nearly missed the show.  We stayed at the Aladdin Hotel so we would be right there at the venue for the concerts and to make it easy for us to get around.  We got into the show at the end of the second opening band.  We had great seats but the problem with any show in Las Vegas is that the crowd is there to socialize not watch the show.  They are drinking and talking loudly, and just being a pain.  They also have a tendency to sit through shows.  I guess this is from being in a city full of shows all the time and they don't appreciate it.  So we are there and its Pearl Jam.  They were very good.  But they always are.  

It is a tight band and the sound is always amazing.  

Set-list First Night

Even Flow, Once, Deep, Jeremy, Dissident, Daughter/(Instant Karma)/(Across the Universe), Go, Animal, State of Love and Trust, Tremor Christ, Black, Blood, Alive

enc 1: Rearviewmirror, Whipping, Leash, Porch/(Tearing)

enc 2: (Green River reunion): Swallow My Pride, Ain't Nothing to Do, My Way

'Tremor Christ' premieres. An apparent Beatles tribute is the 'Daughter' outro, with a series of tunes ended with Ed whispering "Get Back" at the very end. In a near Green River reunion, Mudhoney's Mark McLaughlin and Steve Turner join PJ (with Urge Overkill's drummer, Chuck Treece) for 'Swallow My Pride' and 'Ain't Nothing to Do.' 'Swallow My Pride' and 'My Way' (written by Paul Anka, featuring Terry Presley, an Elvis impersonator assisting on vocals)
 
Set-list Second Night
Release, Go, Animal, Why Go, Jeremy, Glorified G, Daughter/(The Real Me), Even Flow, Garden, Blood, State of Love and Trust, Alive, Footsteps, Porch, Jam, Rearviewmirror, Alone, Rockin' in the Free World, Indifference

notes: Urge Overkill and Mudhoney join PJ for 'RitFW.'  
 
We only had tickets for the first night and after it being so good we want to go to the second night which of course is sold out.  I scalp tickets for the show.  I think I ended up paying $100 for two tickets.  Oh well it was worth it for the fun Bianca was having. 
Staying at the hotel the band is staying at can be very fun.  When you go to catch the elevator and the door opens up and its Eddie Vedder standing there can be awesome.  Well, thats what happened the whole time we were there.  They were the nicest people on the planet.  And very nice to a 13 year old girl.  I will leave it to Bianca to write some of the stuff she remembers.  The Urge Overkill band members were amazing to her.