What was everyone's first show?

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I am a n00bie

3-6-09, Hampton Coliseum, VA

Set I: Fluffhead*, The Divided Sky, Chalkdust Torture, Sample in a Jar, Stash, I Didn’t Know#, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Farmhouse, NICU, Horn, Rift, Train Song, Water in the Sky, Squirming Coil, David Bowie
Set II: Backwards Down The Number Line^, Tweezer, Taste, Possum, Theme from the Bottom, First Tube, Harry Hood, Waste, You Enjoy Myself
E: Grind**, Bouncing Around the Room, Loving Cup

  • Last played 9/28/2000

with Trey on drums

^New original
** Last played 12/30/98

I am pretty sure everyone knows this setlist by heart by now, but I wanted to feel slightly less n00bish XD

You beat theSloth by two days, and he has been around these parts for years :slight_smile:

My first post, as well.
11-20-94 Dane County Colliseum in Madison, Wisconsin

  1. Chalkdust, Fee, Scent, Stash, If I could, Butter them biscuits, Long Journey Home, Dooley, Divided Sky, Sample

2.Also Sprach Zarathustra>David Bowie, Glide, Axilla II, Reba>Simple, Rift Terripin, Julius, Cavern

E-Icculus, Fire

-Rev. Jeff Mosier was on banjo for some of the show

Asheville Civic Center! 6-9-09!
WAHOOOOO!

9/29/00 - Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas NV

I: Carini, Rift, Frankenstein, Mellow Mood, Wilson > Spock’s
Brain > Bathtub Gin > Character Zer0

II: Dinner and a Movie, Moma Dance > 2001, Fluffhead > jam >
Meatstick, Walk This Way, Rapper’s Delight > You Shook Me
(All Night Long)

Encore: We’re An American Band

Paid some dude $90 about 20 minutes before the doors opened and was able to find my friends in line. It was well worth it IMO. For the first time in my life I felt at home…with a bunch of people I never knew.

I posted this on the “Wow” thread, but thought I’d post it here too.

10-29-95 Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY

1: Buried Alive-> Poor Heart, Julius, Punch You in the Eye, Cars Trucks Buses, The Horse-> Silent in the Morning, Split Open and Melt, NICU, Gumbo, Slave to the Traffic Light, Sweet Adeline

2: Makisupa Policeman-> David Bowie, The Mango Song, It’s Ice-> Kung-> It’s Ice-> Shaggy Dog-> Possum*-> Lifeboy, Amazing Grace

E: Funky Bitch

*With “Beat It” (Michael Jackson) teases.

7-15-98 Portland, OR ,first of many

07-15-98 Portland Meadows, Portland, OR

1: Wolfman’s Brother, Water in the Sky, The Moma Dance, Guyute, Horn > Chalkdust Torture, Brian and Robert, Beauty of My Dreams, Cars Trucks Buses, Roggae, Birds of a Feather, Loving Cup

2: Limb by Limb, Simple, Tweezer -> Free, Meat, Harry Hood

E: Wilson, Tweezer Reprise

Facemelt…I knew Trey was truly a Jedi after that concert…

29 shows later, I still think the same thing…

The Great Went was my first show. I get to celebrate my anniversary at SPAC!!

08-16-97 Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, ME

1: Makisupa Policeman-> Harpua*, Chalk Dust Torture, Theme From the Bottom, Punch You in the Eye-> Ghost, Ginseng Sullivan, You Enjoy Myself, Train Song, Character Zero, The Squirming Coil (1:16)

2: Wolfman’s Brother-> Simple** -> My Soul#-> Slave to the Traffic Light, Rocky Top, Julius (1:08)

3: Halley’s Comet-> Cities-> Llama-> Lawn Boy, Limb By Limb^-> Funky Bitch (0:59)

E: Contact-> Loving Cup (0:13)

4: Disco Tent Jam

^ Doojette and I saw our first shows the same year… but we hadn’t met yet! Mine was Ventura '97… Red Rocks night one will be the 12 year anniversary!

07-30-97 Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA

Soundcheck: Jam, Twist, Chuckie’s In Love, Chuckie’s In Love (played to Makisupa), Jam

1: NICU, Wolfman’s Brother-> Chalk Dust Torture, Water in the Sky, Stash, Weigh, Piper, Cars Trucks Buses, Character Zero

2: Punch You in the Eye, Free, David Bowie*-> Cities-> David Bowie, Bouncing Around the Room, Uncle Pen, Prince Caspian, Fire

E: My Soul

*With “Simpsons” language in the high-hat intro.

11-30-91 Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY

1: Glide, Llama, Foam, Sparkle, The Divided Sky, Cavern, The Squirming Coil, Brother, Paul and Silas, Guelah Papyrus, You Enjoy Myself

2: Chalk Dust Torture, Uncle Pen, Harry Hood, It’s Ice, Bouncing Around the Room, My Sweet One, Horn, I Didn’t Know, Run Like an Antelope, Golgi Apparatus

E: Contact, Rocky Top

Thursday, April 14, 1994
The Beacon Theatre, New York, NY

Set I: Runaway Jim, Foam, Sparkle, Down with Disease, Glide, Rift, Demand -> Split Open and Melt Jam, The Squirming Coil
Set II: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Run Like an Antelope, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Scent of a Mule, You Enjoy Myself, Nellie Kane, Dog Faced Boy, Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Rocky Top
Show Notes: Nellie Kane and Dog Faced Boy, which made its debut, were performed acoustic and without microphones. YEM featured a guest trampoline jumper for Trey, who had recently broken his foot.

My first two were 5/1/93 and 5/2/93

The life changer:

08-12-96 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN

Soundcheck: Punch You in the Eye

1: Ya Mar, Split Open and Melt, Esther, Chalk Dust Torture, Weigh, It’s Ice, Dog Faced Boy, Taste, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony -> Suzy Greenberg

2: Timber (Jerry), Sparkle, Simple, Prince Caspian-> McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Run Like An Antelope, Hello My Baby, Golgi Apparatus, Possum*

E: Sample in a Jar

*With “All Fall Down” and “Simpsons” language.

Anyone in OKP land tally up results yet? I wonder who here has seen the earliest show and what year. Seems the earliest I recall is 93. Do we have any late 80s here? If so, LUCKY BASTARD!

OK! Man I would have LOVED to see a 91 show! Dude’s were SMOKING and SOLID!

I think there was even a couple '90s… wasn’t KevinHose '91 as well? Maybe I am wrong…

And my memory is admittedly terrible, but I swear I remember someone mentioning an '89 show. That would have been some sweetness.

weatherman posted here for a bit, and I’m pretty sure he saw multiple 80’s shows

Kevin’s first show was 12.29.90 I believe.

^That’s true… At the now defunct Campus Club here in Providence. I should have gone too. I was 7 at the time and probably watched Family Matters or some shit that night.

Yeah I wonder if I even knew you in 1990 man.

But yep, my face left my head that night for sure. I was 17 years old.

[size=75]12-29-90 Campus Club, Providence, RI

1: I Didn’t Know, Llama, You Enjoy Myself, Esther, David Bowie, Lawn Boy, Rocky Top, Horn, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony-> Suzy Greenberg

2: Buried Alive, Runaway Jim, Lizards, Cavern, Stash, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Dinner and a Movie, Bouncing Around the Room, Destiny Unbound, Run Like an Antelope

E: Donna Lee, AC/DC Bag [/size]

I remember it like it was yesterday. I hardly remember it, it was a long freakin time ago.