CoasterBuzz Podcast #115 posted

Lol! I forgot all about Hootie showing up! Man, I remember when EVERY Cleveland Station was playing their singles.

Shame about Morrissey... He's been known to cancel... but I don't care.. i'll still try to see him. I think he's getting better and a little warmer to the public as he gets older. I think he's around 48 now.

That Cranberries/Toad was my first concert... ever... so I guess i remember it as being pretty good considering how I didn't have anything else to compare it to.

Sounds like you guys have lucked out a bit more on great concerts than I have, but thats okay, I was happy to see what I did.

I saw Sixpence None The Richer when they Performed at Six Flags WOA as part of a big Christian set of artists.. they were okay. It's too bad Cedar Fair didn't make better use of that stadium, They could have booked at lot of decent acts for Geauga.. oh well what's done is done.

I also saw Cheap Trick do a few songs at Disney MGM on New Years Eve 99/00, but the group I was with wanted to see LFO instead....Terrible!

I also saw Fugazi here at The Newport in Columbus if anyone is familiar.

I don't even know how many shows I've been to. I went through a couple of years where I think I saw KMFDM and Lords of Acid six times each, which was kinda silly because they get boring after awhile. I was lucky enough to see INXS just before Hutchence killed himself. I saw Garbage in a small club before anyone knew who they were. I've seen Blue Man Group nine times (four in the arena tour, twice in Vegas, three times in Orlando). Def Leppard (with Poison!), Depeche Mode, Debbie Gibson, Tears for Fears, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Violent Femmes, Praga Kahn, Republica, BNL, Fiona Apple, James, Peter Gabriel, Lenny Kravitz, Aerosmith, Jewel, Kid Rock, INXS, Cranberries, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Nine Inch Nails, Prick, David Bowie, Abandoned Pools, Imogen Heap, James, Luscious Jackson, Tracy Bonham... that's the best I can do off the top of my head. I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty.

Wow.. someone else who actually knows who "Prick" was. I don't think he ever put out anything after his first album.. which was a gem.

I'm all gaga for Imogen Heap... she made a note on her myspace page that she's recording album #3. I liked her on her Frou Frou CD as well.. thats all good stuff.

Me, too, Jeff. I have to be well in to the hundreds. I really like live music, and I used to go to stuff constantly. I'm jealous you saw Praga Khan. I was out of the country the only time I remember him being here. Also, I see your Debbie Gibson, and I raise you Tiffany!

Some of the most memorable old school bands: Siouxsie, The B-52's, Go-Go's (and Belinda solo!) Flock Of Seagulls, Human League, Missing Persons, the aforementioned Depeche and Cure, Psychedelic Furs, Ramones, Jesus And Mary Chain, Sinead O'Connor once doing the hits and once being all artsy, U2, The Pixies, 10000 Maniacs, INXS, Ministry, Concrete Blonde, Dead Milkmen many many times, Nitzer Ebb a few, an absolutely amazing show by Front 242.

Some of the better newer bands (of course, my newer is some people's old school): Veruca Salt, Elastica, The Shins, Republica, Garbage (also in a small club when their only release was Queer), Thrill Kill Kult, Chemlab, Sister Machine Gun, Lords Of Acid, KMFDM... (first time I saw them was in a club with fewer than 50 people), Blur, Material Issue, Venus Hum, BMRC, Metric, She Wants Revenge, NIN small club in a snowstorm where only a couple hundred showed and then a few times with 20,000 others, Social D many times, Interpol, L7, VNV Nation, Lush (twice, once from the front row with Miki in a really, REALLY short sundress and Emma looking all pissed.) and surprisingly, Hole puts on a great show.

I missed out on seeing Nirvana in a small (around 400 capacity) club right when Nevermind came out because no one wanted to go with me. About two weeks later Teen Spirit got huge, and they never returned. (Although I got my hands on a tour shirt from the concert here that never happened due to Kurt's suicide.)

I don't get to as many these days, and frankly not as many come around here since Clear Channel/Live Nation consolidated all their Pittsburgh bookings in to the Cleveland office. When they have to book one or the other, guess who wins.

I've still never gotten to see New Order, Morrissey, Berlin, or Blondie. I'd love to see Ladytron, The Sounds, Funker Vogt and Apoptygma Berzerk. I'd also love to see Depeche Mode again, too.

(Edited to make more sense.)

*** This post was edited by kpjb 6/26/2008 3:56:11 PM ***

I saw Blondie, well, Debbie Harry anyway, opening for TFF. Not impressed.

And bitch, I met Tiffany, so there. :) She played my high school.

Ha! She kissed me on the cheek backstage at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh. Beat that.

(If you slept with her I'll cry.)

Yeah, Debbie's gone way down hill. Terri Nunn seems to get better with age. She's hotter now than she was in 1982.

Wow! You guys are putting me to shame.. I bow defeated to the Masters.

Did either of you hear the new Boy George song about Barac Obama? (no joke)

I'm sure Jeff has me beat. He worked in radio, so I'm sure he's seen and met more than me. Actually, the only people I've ever met were Tiffany & Midnight Oil, although I did run in to Trent Reznor while we were both shopping in a record store in downtown Pittsburgh once. It was around the time when Pretty Hate Machine was getting big... talked for a few minutes, seemed down to earth and genuinely glad to see someone who was affected by what he wrote. Nice guy.

Anyhow, I have heard of no such song. Is it a remake of "The War Song"? :)

Most famous people are assholes. I missed meeting Britney Spears by a month after my departure from radio, which disappoints me because I really would've liked to have gotten a feel for her dumbassedness.