Whether you were on the stage or in the crowd, what are some of your most memorable/crazy moments with live music involved?

-A full on chick fight broke out as I was playing 'Hide Your Love Away'. It was a real brawl, hair pulling, tits falling out, everything. One of the best fights I've ever seen. This had to be maybe 2008. I kept right on playing.

-An older guy proposed to his gf in the middle of us playing at Katie O'Connors in 2015. Her name was Susie and he kept begging us to play CCR's 'Susie Q' all night. During a break, I looked up the chords and we gave it a shot. The gf's name was actually Susie. This was actually The Blend's final show.

-Eddie Vedder stopping in the middle of 'Lukin' Wrigley Field to kick a fan out for moshing with a woman

-At the UC in 2009, a fight broke out in the stands of a Pearl Jam concert during "Black" of all songs

-Drinking a bottle of White Zin ("Ffag water" as Doug called it) while playing in the blistering heat on Darko's deck at Lakemoorfest 2010 (or 2011?) was a thing. By far the hottest show I've ever played.

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Phish 6/17/94 Milwaukee - For the life of me, I couldn't understand why they kept saying OJ throughout their songs in the 2nd set....next day I understood why when I saw news footage of the OJ Simpson chase.

Red Hot Chili Peppers 11/27/91 Illinois State University - The stage has on orchestra pit and they'd always set the bands up behind it even though the pit wasn't dropped leaving the floor level. The Pumpkins (opening) made a comment about being so far away from everyone. For "Higher Ground" Anthony Kiedis was plying rhythm guitar but his guitar cable wasn't long enough to reach the mic stand. At the end of the show, security tried throwing out someone who jumped on stage, Kiedis grabbed the kid to put him back in the audience from the guard. I think this was the end of the show anyway, but they cut the power on them during a cover of "Fire" as the stage got rushed.

Eric Clapton 9/17/88 Alpine Valley - THE most crowded concert I've ever attended. Mark Knopfler played as a guest and completely blew me away. Opening act was some weirdo on an accordian named "Buckwheat Zydeco" who ended up being all kinds of amazing and I went to see quite a few times later.

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I think most of my best ones are in my "JORR used to rock and roll" thread.

-Chris Splatter banging some chick under the stage while Murphy's Law played at the Warehouse on West Chicago Avenue.

-Snorting blow off the floor tom right in the middle of the crowd before our set at Hippie House.

-Opening up for the Meatmen in some converted barn somewhere in Iowa. Tesco was a fucking madman and a cool guy.

-Some band from Detroit killing a goat with a chainsaw at Hell House. Lots of other craziness at Hell House. Skinheads literally ripping the drywall out and throwing chunks of it at us on stage. I closed the metal gates in front of us. It was like that scene in The Blues Brothers.

-K.K. Downing- or maybe it was Glenn Tipton, I don't remember which one for sure, but I think it was K.K.- throwing his guitar in the air and having it come straight down with the strap landing perfectly over his shoulder whereupon he immediately began playing again. That was at the Aragon.

-Crazy Replacements show at N.I.U. when they played mostly covers. Were you at that one, Furious?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Longest version of Lukin, ever.

Dennis Rodman came out during Black, Red, Yellow at the same show.

I got moshed over the hockey boards at Rosemont during Limp Bizkit's set at Family Values 99...wound up standing up right as Richard Patrick was heading down to the sound board area...shook my hand, grabbed me by the arm, and had me hang out with the Filter guys on the couches there during the Limp Bizkit set. Same show, Korn was the surprise 3rd band on as DMX had been arrested several days earlier. I was right on the rail for that...fucking awesome...at least 20 year old me enjoyed it. I'm too old for that shit now.

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Holy hell. That is terrible.

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Yeah, I walked outside. I'm not a fan of goat sacrifice.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Oh, I forgot to mention G.G. throwing shit all over the old Exit and shoving Al Davis's microphone up his ass. Then the show at Medusa's where he let audience members smash him in the face.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

8/29/97 - Rage Against the Machine and Wu-Tang at the World in Tinley. My buddy had just harvested a crop of hydroponic weed (back when hydroponics was a thing) he grew that was killer. Especially when compared to the weed that was prevalent in those days. We rolled a bunch of joints to bring with us. During the concert we would light them up, take a few hits, and just pass them to whoever was around us like Santa Claus. That was such a fun night.

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RAIDERS!!

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Seeing Joe Lovano at Yoshi's in Oakland 1996. First show was so good we stayed for the second. Kenny Werner broke a piano string and improvised an amazing solo with the busted piano note.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Sod and water bottle fights at Tinley Park during the SLAYER set at Ozzfest 99. Luckily we were far enough under the pavilion to avoid most of the projectiles. There had to be 1,000 things flying through the crowd.

If anyone has seen Matt "Spider" the dancing guy at concerts, he used to come see my first couple bands at the double door and would in front of the stage. Do these strange poses and shit. It was very weird.

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@audioidkid

Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance.

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Aiii!

Rolling Stones,Steel Wheels tour up at Alpine Valley. Rained all day so the hill was basically a huge mud slide.

Richard Marx /Wilson Phillips at Holiday star. was in third row. The hot blond wasnt wearing anything under the dress and she showed off a lot.

Bob Mould at The Metro. One of his first solo acoustic shows. Place was packed and I was pushed to the very back. I was able to enjoy the show despite that .Still to this day my favorite show ever.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

We did a show at Katie Oconnors. We played Friday I'm In Love but we did it Boers and Bernstein style with the drops and all. Frank was in charge of doing the vocals on the drops.

So there was a Male male couple at a table in front of us. They were clearly... involved.

When we were to play friday, I was like maybe we shouldn't do the drops.

Frank had none of it.

He said "Hes gay!, yeah but hes gay!" at the appropriate moment. Well, not exactly appropriate.

They got up and left.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Yeah. I remember that

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That is fantastic!!!

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

welp back in the year two-thousannnnnndddd </conan> there were back to back nights where autechre and then aceyalone headlined shows at the metro. obviously I went to the aceyalone show in my new autechre shirt and I told the snickering metro staff "just book anyone who's got a made up word starting with A and I'll be here. may I suggest aphex twin?"

that night aceyalone did a set that went as late as it could go, as the metro eventually turned on the house lights on him then after another 10-15mins of that they eventually cut his mic. nonetheless aceyalone kept going, boasting that he'll rock a party all night long! All in all the set must have ended at like 230-3am or something. It was a thing for a genre of music that isn't known for great live shows.

Speaking of aceyalone, the next time I saw him was again at the metro in early 2006 with RJD2 for the magnificent city tour. I'll always remember that show as after freestyling (no, not "defeating" autocorrect) by myself over RJD2's instrumental hour acey comes out, stares down the ~99%+ white audience, and goes "RJ THESE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHO I AM.... WE GOTTA SHOW THESE PEOPLE WHO I AM" and he kicks off a set of his classics/greatest hits starting with my fantasy from the first freestyle fellowship album and ending off of the good cuts from magnificent city. After the set RJ was on stage and I go up to him and start asking him questions about what it's like to hang with aceyalone (read: the GOAT rapper) stuff like how much weed does he smoke in a. Day and etc. Shrugging off a literal line of bearded flannel + new balance rocking hipsters who go up to him to tell him that he's such an influence on their musical careers, he proceeds to tell me that I should ask acey myself and writes up a backstage pass for me. I excitedly tell my friend+ride, who declares that nope it's time.to go (as they had just enacted the venue smoking ban on Jan 1st 2006 and this was like Feb 24th 2006 or something) and that I can meet aceyalone next time cuz we gotta go now.

Of course, I would go on to meet aceyalone next time he was in town circa June 2008 and I even got a picture with him. I heard years later that after the 06 show he dipped out super fast cuz of some pussy.

Speaking of rap shows, I saw pharoahe monch @ The doubledoor in either Feb 2010 or 2011. That show was amazing as it was the antithesis of most rap shows I've gone to in that instead of "spot the black person.in the audience" it was "spot the white people in the audience" and there were freestyle ciphers, b-boy circles, and all kinds of stuff that was a throwback to a proper old-school rap show. then Chicago rap legend sharkula spots me at one point, grabs me, and we end.up pulling a blunt with the owner of the nice yuppie restaurant next door back by the dumpsters. you can find youtube videos on sharkula, and go figure THAT guy thinks I was some sort of genius when he saw me.obliterate this rapper named kid static in a freestyle battle on stage at his own damn show.

for what it's worth, monch was so damn good live it was almost antithetical seeing him since you were essentially listening to the CD. He wasn't lip-synching, he was just that damn good and on point live.

going back to the mid-90s at the fireside bowl I remember seeing a Japanese punk.band called Hi-Standard play and when they get on stage their singer says in his best broken engrish "WE JUST GET OFF PLANE IN AMERICA... WE NO KNOW MUCH ENGLISH.... HOWEVER.. WE ROCK YOUR ASS!!!!! and.they proceeded to play a set featuring songs with hooks like YOU WAIT IN LINE FOR THE JOHN!!!!

Of course the fireside bowl was an experience in and of itself, as one might you might see them card members of performing bands trying to buy a beer and another night you'll see them selling beers.to 12 year olds. I think it was the slapstick dill records release party where they opened up re bowling lanes and you'd see puke in the gutters and whatnot. I've still got my The
Eclectics shirt after all these years.

Ceephax's first trip to America (The country, not the poster) was a pitch perfect Chicago gig at some art gallery a little bit south of pilsen on Morgan I wanna say? Unofficial venue so you could smoke in there (an extreme rarity for 2011) and $2 ice-cold cans of PBR to go around. Plus ceephax (not Kerouac, auto-correct) hung out in the crowd during the flashbulb's set so I was able to meet another musical hero and get my.picture and my autographed shirt (RIP) -- I bootlegged the whole set in video but only 3 chunks of it exist in my YouTube page anymore. or well, prolly on one of my collection of old hard drives.I gotta dig through someday in.order to get that mp3 of idiron soundtrack's version of the grange hill theme back in my musical repetoire.

Or how about seeing aphex twin circa Sept 97 at the vic on a day where methamphetamine was involved and my friend driving hung out of the window to scream at all the people out driving around for Puerto Rican fiesta week to.go the fuck.home and get out of his way? I had tears in my eyes when he did his heliospan live version that was note for note the same as it was on the big day out bootleg that I had a RealAudio file of all summer. There were goths flailing next to me during it as I realized I was seeing my favorite musical artist at a time in my life that would never be as magic as it was at that point.

Or there was that time I saw Cubanate at the metro and then two sides come.out with guitars and the drums/synths/etc were all on a.DAT tape. or that awesome Toasters / Let's Go Bowling / Mephiskapheles show also at the metro was fantastic. Walking out on LTJ Bukem for being a proper Caller Bob who disapproved of the shirt Chicago dnb audience circa 99-00 so he'd come out from.behind a curtain, sigh, quick-mix the next record, go back behind the curtain for 3-5mins, come.back out and shake his head and.quickmix again, go behind the curtain til it was time.to quickmix the next record, and repeat until I lefr. Ed rush and.optical (my fave dnb producers) were supposed to headline.but got sick or something.

Or how about that crackhead/junkie/dopefiend who looked like Kerry wood who used to hang out on the green line who claimed he was George Clinton's crack hookup whenever he played in chicago? supposedly george would get like 30 rocks whenever he was in town and at his shoes whenever he rotated off stage for a bit he'd make sweet love to the pipe?

I'm sure there's more but I'd have to remember them.

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