March 2025 Challenge Thread - Live Music (Really) Is Better!

Day 8: Play something over the top.

Their live energy is amazing! Pelle is certainly an over the top frontman.

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The Hives Setlist at Primavera Sound São Paulo 2023

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The Hives - Lex Hives

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Day 9: Play something by a band that has kept the fans in mind.

Gotta play The Cure, right?
Saw them 3 times (1996 and twice in 2023). What can I say, really? They’re fucking great.

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The Cure Setlist at Primavera Sound São Paulo 2023

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The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

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Day 15: Flight To Mars May 2012, The Casbah – Play something with a guest star.

Nirvana - MTV Unplugged

A fab album with the Meat Puppets as guests. Good to play this again as I normally turn to the electric live stuff.

Plus 15th gig was Oasis the 3rd time around - these were the cocaine years with a much more mental crowd. First Earls Court was much better!


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Day 16: Drive~By Truckers May 2010, House of Blues – Play something by an artist you wish you could have seen.

Otis Redding - Live at the Whisky A Go Go

So many I could have chosen for this but I'll go for my favourite soul singer (Aretha wants a word as well. Yesterday and tomorrow would have been good choices too.

And my last gig for a while - I had to go to a different folder to find the rest of my tickets, nearly all from Paris. This was the Charlatans' biggest concert to date, I think, so was something of a victory lap.

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Day 14: Oingo Boingo December 1986, Hollywood Palladium – One of my favorite memories of my late friend Jim was seeing Oingo Boingo with him and jumping around in the pit. Play something for a friend.

Billy Joel - 52nd Street

Having lunch with a friend Friday and My Life came on. He's a big Billy Joel guy and said "great song". So I said, yeah, the theme song from Bosom Buddies. And he had no idea or remembrance of the show or that Tom Hanks was in it, or dressed as a woman in a woman's apartment complex. So this play is from that, and no ticket for a Billy Joel show oddly enough.

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Day 15: Flight To Mars May 2012, The Casbah – Flight To Mars was a UFO cover band formed by Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, and raised money every year for Chron's & Colitis foundation. 2012 was the one year they did a small tour, and it was great to see Mike in a small (250 person) room. Best part of the night was when Ace Frehley popped up on stage for Black Diamond. Play something with a guest star.

This show from Chicago's Vic Theater in 2007 includes Black Diamond in the encore, and Ben Harper came out to guest on the final song - Indifference.

Pearl Jam ~ 8/2/2007

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Also including a grainy 2012 era phone pic of Ace Frehley on the stage with Mike McCready at the Casbah as mentioned in the prompt There is no 'backstage' at the club to get to the stage, you come in from the street. So it was pretty cool to see the door open to the street, Ace walk in and pop up on stage.

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Day 10: Play something by a band that has disbanded, bonus points if they did a reunion tour.

Even though the tour was called “This is What We Do for a Encore” at the time, they played some new songs, signed with Rough Trade Records late last year and now announced a new tour called “You Deserve More” for 2025! My hopes for a new album have gone up!

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Pulp Setlist at Movistar Arena, Buenos Aires

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Pulp - His ‘N’ Hers

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Day 15: Flight To Mars May 2012, The Casbah – Flight To Mars was a UFO cover band formed by Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, and raised money every year for Chron's & Colitis foundation. 2012 was the one year they did a small tour, and it was great to see Mike in a small (250 person) room. Best part of the night was when Ace Frehley popped up on stage for Black Diamond. Play something with a guest star.

Lotsa stars on this one. Just cleaned it and spun it for the first time today, what a fun album.

I've seen Tony Levin around 6 times I think, (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel and Beat)
I saw the Thrak tour twice, a few months apart in 1995.
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Day 11: Play something by an artist who had a release that disappointed you, or that was disappointing in concert.

It was a boring concert. My future wife and I left feeling very meh about it.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers Setlist at Estádio do Pacaembu, São Paulo

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Their music has aged poorly for me, I have some of their CDs, but I never listen to them now.
I played this one a lot back in the day, but I now find Anthony Kiedis’ vocals kind of annoying. Let’s see if I can get to end of it.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
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Day 11: Play something by an artist who had a release that disappointed you, or that was disappointing in concert.

It was a boring concert. My future wife and I left feeling very meh about it.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers Setlist at Estádio do Pacaembu, São Paulo

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Their music has aged poorly for me, I have some of their CDs, but I never listen to them now.
I played this one a lot back in the day, but I now find Anthony Kiedis’ vocals kind of annoying. Let’s see if I can get to end it.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
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Yeah, this is what they sound like to me now:



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Day 12: Play something by an artist with rabid fans.

The crowd was wild in Argentina, both times.

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Blur Setlist at Tecnópolis, Villa Martelli

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Blur Setlist at Primavera Sound Buenos Aires 2023

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Spinning the album with my favorite song: The Universal

Blur - The Great Escape

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Day 16: Drive~By Truckers May 2010, House of Blues – Play something by an artist you wish you could have seen.

I’ve listened to/watched a lot of Who live performances over the years. They are definitely THE band I’d want to see if I had access to a time machine.

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Day 17: The Pogues October 2009, House of Blues – Play an artist who speaks to you with their lyrics or delivery.

Bill Withers - Live at Carnegie Hall

I could listen to his voice all day long.

Paired with another guy whose voice and lyrics and songs I could listen to all day too - Dan Penn. Fun to hang out with him and Spooner Oldham and especially their two wives in Paris. One of the best gigs I've ever been to. Tried to find my stub for seeing Shane and the Popes but couldn't - it was a train wreck of a gig in 2003 or so, he was a real mess.


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Day 16: Drive~By Truckers May 2010, House of Blues – I’ve seen the DBT many times over the years, and more often than not they close out with Let There Be Rock, which name checks bands that Patterson Hood saw, or didn’t see, and includes this refrain at the end:

So I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd
But I sure saw Ozzy Osbourne with Randy Rhoads in 82
Right before that plane crash.
And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw AC/DC
With Bon Scott singing, "Let There Be Rock Tour".

Play something by an artist you wish you could have seen.

And I never saw Pink Floyd but I sure saw Roger Waters
With My Morning Jacket & G.E. Smith singing, "Wish You Were Here".

Pink Floyd ~ Wish You Were Here

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Roger Waters Setlist at Bridge School Benefit 2016

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Day 14: Play something for a friend.

We’ve been going to concerts together since 1991!

This was our last show pre-corona hiatus:

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The Jesus and Mary Chain Setlist at Tropical Butantã, São Paulo

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To my brother in noise!

The Jesus and Mary Chain - B-Sides & Rarities Collection

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Day 15: Play something with a guest star.

Beck was the guest star on the studio version of Valley of the Pagans and Damon Albarn was the guest star live on this day:

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Beck Setlist at Primavera Sound Buenos Aires 2023

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Gorillaz - Song Machine

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Day 16: Play something by an artist you wish you could have seen.

Now you might think I would pick Talking Heads for this one. Sure, I’d love that (if a reunion didn’t happen to celebrate Stop Making Sense, I guess it won’t happen at all), maybe one day I’ll catch a David Byrne concert.
But Lux is gone, so The Cramps is what I’m spinning.

The Cramps - Smell of the Female

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