Sweet Jesus, the music section sucks now. :-(

Brendan, did you go with Holy Ghost and Clorox to Bolton, UK? If so, my old band was on that show and we may have met.

The plague mass was like one big hallucination. One big AWESOME hallucination. Why haven't we seen Ms. Galas' in so long here in Seattle?

I saw ¡Tchkung! at the offramp. it was every bit as odd and awesome as Brendan remembers. Most audience members stripped to the waist, because the band was throwing some sort of oil (and kerosene) into the crowd. People (maybe me) were climbing on the pipes under the ceiling. Mayhem. Awesome.

@ 3. I was there! What was your band's name?

Hey Brendan, I got confused, my band (Corinthians) played with Clorox and The Feelers (from Ohio). I was at that show though, it was fucking great!

I went to pretty much every ¡TCHKUNG! show in Washington for about five years. All of them were good, but I gotta say, I think that crack about "theater-­with-a-capital-T" is kind of a stupid comparison. Not all music is ¡TCHKUNG! Classical music is good for its own reasons, and criticizing it for not being ¡TCHKUNG! is valid, in terms of personal taste, but it's a pointless criticism for a music critic to make. You're not critiquing anything about the execution of the work -- you're expressing a style preference.

And, much as I loved their work, ¡TCHKUNG! was basically just a Crash Worship clone.

(cue ex-collective member and ex-fan screaming match)

i once spent an afternoon reading the Angels in America script and listening to Plague Mass. Fucked me up good and proper, it did.

Meh.

EndFest with Dandy Warhols on the small stage, Icelandic electronica inside, and main stage pogo slamming out to "Firestarter" while hanging with some musician friends.

Now that was fun.

Wow, Gas Huffer...that's a name I haven't heard in a looooong time. They were the first show I ever went to (in Olympia).

The Ramones last time in Seattle at Bumbershootwas one of my most memorable concert experiences. Someone had brought a tarp to the show, and they were using it to hurl fans into the air. Then after the show there was a massive "fight" with lemon wedges from the lemonade. They quit putting those wedges in the lemonade the following year.
The first time I saw Nirvana was extremely memorable as well. It was the legendary 1990 show at the Motorsports International Garage with Melvins, Dwarves, and the Derelicts.

@9

good god, you can't even talk about music without sounding like a passionless drone, can you?

Dick Dale @ Graceland. He was about 62 at the time, and by the end of the show every living creature in the building wanted to have sex with him. I hate the word "aura", but his just consumed the room.

Pink Floyd. They put on a nice show.