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  • Review: AC/DC at Air Canada Centre

    Notes from scrapbook

    Who DOESN’T like AC/DC?  Danny, Mike and I drove from Kap to see this wild concert.  Slash’s Snakepit opened and they played Nightrain.  AC/DC was great with their classic rock symbolism.

    Setlist

    Life’s Sweet Drug
    Been There Lately
    Just Like Anything
    Shine
    Mean Bone
    Back to the Moment
    Serial Killer
    It’s So Easy [Guns N’ Roses]
    Mr. Brownstone [Guns N’ Roses]

    Ain’t Life Grand
    Speed Parade

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    You Shook Me All Night Long
    Stiff Upper Lip
    Shot Down in Flames
    Thunderstruck
    Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be
    Hard as a Rock
    Shoot to Thrill
    Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution
    Safe in New York City [Live debut]
    Bad Boy Boogie
    Hells Bells
    Satellite Blues
    The Jack
    Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
    Back in Black
    Highway to Hell
    Whole Lotta Rosie
    Let There Be Rock

    The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond [Traditional]
    T.N.T.
    For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)

  • Review: Nine Inch Nails at Maple Leaf Gardens (Toronto)

    Notes about this show written in 2019

    19 years later and this is still one of the epic concerts Eric and I went to.  Epic in that I arrived in Ajax, Eric never showed up and then I got in touch with him Saturday afternoon in Kingston.  Turns out that he lost the address of my Aunt’s place and couldn’t find her in the phone book so stayed in a donut shop all night long hoping that I would come looking for him.  He went back home the next day.  When I phoned him up, I convinced him to hop back onto a bus and come down for a great show.  A great story.

    Setlist – A Perfect Circle

    Magdalena
    3 Libras
    Sleeping Beauty
    Breña
    Orestes
    Thinking of You
    Thomas
    Rose
    Judith

    Setlist – Nine Inch Nails

    The New Flesh / Pinion @Tape
    Terrible Lie
    Sin
    March of the Pigs
    Piggy
    The Frail
    The Wretched
    Gave Up
    La Mer
    The Great Below
    The Mark Has Been Made
    Wish
    Complication
    Suck [Pigface]
    Get Down, Make Love [Queen]
    Closer
    Head Like a Hole

    The Day the World Went Away
    Just Like You Imagined
    Starfuckers, Inc.
    Hurt

  • Review: Our Lady Peace at Ottawa Civic Centre

    Notes from scrapbook:

    Cool things happened concerning the OLP concert.  First off I won 2 tickets AFTER I had bought some but also sent in a vocal review of the show into the band’s website.  THEN Amanda got us into the soundcheck where we met the band and got their autographs.  Mike was a very cool guy who seemed to be in it for the fans.  I went with Ryan, Larisa, Joe, Amanda, Lindsay, Shawn and his friend.

    Setlist

    [Soundcheck]
    Is Anybody Home?
    Thief
    Teardrop [Massive Attack]

    [Main]
    Dirty Walls
    The Birdman
    Automatic Flowers
    One Man Army
    Waited
    Thief
    4am
    Naveed
    Stealing Babies
    Clumsy
    Blister
    Teadrop [Massive Attack]

    Hope
    Starseed

    Is Anybody Home?
    Superman’s Dead

     

  • Review: Live at Robert Guertin Arena

    Notes from scrapbook: Went with Joe and Scott.  Edwin sucked and Live rocked.  It was cool that I won tickets from The Bear but even cooler how we snuck into the floor.

    Setlist

    Where Fishes Go
    Operation Spirit (The Tyranny of Tradition)
    All Over You
    Selling the Drama
    The Distance
    Shit Towne
    Pillar of Davidson
    Imagine [John Lennon]
    Sparkle
    Heropsychodreamer
    The Dolphin’s Cry
    Lakini’s Juice

    Run to the Water
    Lightning Crashes
    I Alone

    They Stood Up for Love
    Dance With You

     

  • Review: I Mother Earth at Fed Hall (Waterloo)

    Notes from scrapbook

    Went to this concert at Fed Hall with Larisa, Kevin and friends.  See Spot Run opened and that’s where I busted my glasses!

  • Review: Our Lady Peace at Corel Centre

    I remember we were excited to ring in the year 2000 by going to this concert.  Then it got cancelled.

     

  • Review: The Tea Party at Civic Centre Theatre (Lansdowne Park)

    Notes from scrapbook: Went with Joe and Amanda.  Very cool concert in support of Triptych.  Edwin opened.  Pretty cool.

    Setlist

    Army Ants
    Fire in the Head
    Psychopomp
    Great Big Lie
    Silence
    Temptation
    The Bazaar
    Heaven Coming Down
    The Messenger [Daniel Lanois]
    The Halcyon Days
    Touch
    Release
    Save Me

    Gone
    Sister Awake

     

  • Concert Review: Joe 90/Gigolo Aunts/Counting Crows Metropolis Montreal, QC November 13, 1999

    Counting Crows-Metropolis, Montreal November 13, 1999

Went along with Joe and Amanda.  Great place to have a concert….like Barrymore’s but bigger.

Joe 90 and Gigolo Aunts opened.  Gigolo Aunts were really great and Dan came out for the last song and he was wearing a funny hat.

Charlie comes out talking about the AIDS booth in the corner and how to get information from it.

Then the radio station comes in and tells us this is being broadcasted over the radio and the net.  Too bad I didn’t get a copy!

Starts off with Magical Mystery Tour.  
Mr. Jones-Same as always…little intro and then rips into the cool version.  Some guys started to crowd surf at this point.
Daylight Fading-I love this song and the lighting was great.  Dan was wild in the solo.
Children In Bloom-First for me.  Never heard it live.  Very cool and Matt had a great bass solo.
High Life-Introduces this song while holding up a bristle board from a fan…it seemed to ask if he could play guitar on a song and he was saying how they already had enough guitarists on stage and they were handsome handsome devils.   Introduced this song as off This Desert Life and it was pretty cool.
Omaha-Awesome accordion by Charlie.  Gotta love it.
Monkey-I couldn’t believe they played this song.  I never heard of them ever playing this and he even admitted he hasn’t played it for 3 years.  He talked about meeting a Canadian girl in New York which prompted an interest in this optimistic love song again.  Loved it!
Another HorseDreamer’s Blues-Great stuff!  I love this song more ever since I saw it live in Kitchener and I’ve been playing it on guitar forever.  
Catpult!!!-By far my favourite Crows song.  I couldn’t believe they played it.
Hangin Around-Brought Joe 90 and Gigolo Aunts out for this one and had all of us clapping.
Amy Hits the Atmosphere-Adam sat at the piano for this one and the place shook when they sang ‘I’ve waited so long’.
All My Friends-Good song.
I Wish I was  A Girl-WICKED!  I love the lead in this song and it just builds up at the end!  It was great.
St. Robinson And His Cadillac Dream-Good song.
Rain King-Great song with a little improv in the middle.
A Murder of One-Rocking song.  I felt that the crowd just wasn’t as kerazy as the Kitchener crowd but I got right into this song.
ENCORE
Anna Begins-Always a favourite.
Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby-Thank God they played this song.  It looked like they just came up with it too since it wasn’t on the setlist (that I caught a look of later on.).  He sat down for this one and was shaking hands and stuff.
A Long December-Had a new intro with the accordion and piano.  Kind of neat.
Walkaways-Started the song and stopped it concerned with a fan who might have fallen down.  Then he goes ‘ah shit’ cause they never really fell down (I think).  They started the song up again.  Awesome song.

  • Review: Counting Crows at Metropolis (Montreal)

    Notes from scrapbook:

    Very cool concert!  It was even on a webcast!  Joe 90 opened.  Went to this with Amanda and Joe.  Almost got killed driving there.  Thanks Amanda!

    Opening bands

    Joe 90

    Gigolo Aunts

    Setlist

    Mr. Jones
    Miller’s Angels
    Daylight Fading
    Children in Bloom
    High Life
    All My Friends
    Another Horsedreamer’s Blues
    Omaha
    Monkey
    I Wish I Was a Girl
    Catapult
    Amy Hit the Atmosphere
    A Murder of One
    St. Robinson in His Cadillac Dream
    Rain King
    Thunder Road [Bruce Springsteen]
    Hanginaround @With Gigolo Aunts

    Anna Begins
    Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby
    A Long December
    Walkaways

  • Review: Wide Mouth Mason at Strait’s Dance Hall (Ottawa)

    Memories written in 2019

    All I really remember about this show was being directly in front of the band and it was a show where the stage was at level with the crowd (think Heart and Crown).  Pretty wild!