The Toasters, Dance Hall Crashers, Hepcat, Voodoo Glow Skulls at Metro

Fugazi, Slant 6, Tar at the Aragon Ballroom

Did I go to this show by myself?  Amy was supposed to meet me there, but she "drove past and couldn't find parking."

I was clearly visible in the picture accompanying the show review in the Trib:

The Negative Ten Commandments at Rodrigue's

I helped make a sheet with a horned skull on it for a backdrop.  A sheet that is now in my basement (Emmett used it on his bed for a while when he was little).

The band threw stuffed animals into the audience as some sort of sacrifice I think.

Poster Children, Hum, Jumpknuckle at Rodrigue's

Rose was sick. I passed her on the stairs and she was coughing. I said to her "don't die."

Pato Banton, No Doubt at Cubby Bear

That's right, No Doubt opening for a reggae singer nobody (at least nobody who isn't an English Beat fanatic) had heard of at what is essentially just a bar.  I think they went on to bigger things after this.

Special Beat, The Toasters, The Skunks at the Vic

Helmet at Metro

Justin always used to cheer at the quiet breaks in songs in the hopes of making it on a live recording.  He succeeded when two tracks from this show (Bad Mood and Distracted) were made the b-sides on the Unsung 12".

Bonnie tells me that she lost her shoe in the pit and we pulled her out.  That certainly sounds like something that could happen.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Bad Religion at Metro

The only thing i remember about this show was watching Bad Religion from the balcony.  It's one of the only shows i've seen from there, maybe the only one.  I'm sure i went down front and center for the bosstones.

Pearl Jam at the Metro

I worked with a guy named Lars at the pizza place in Evanston.  He was studying opera at Northwestern.  Listening to him sing, or even shout back to the kitchen, was amazing.  He was from Seattle.  He said we should see Pearl Jam.  We did.  He was right - they were good.  Other folks discovered this fact as well...

I could have sworn this was the first time I had seen Pearl Jam, but this show was after I saw them open for the Red Hots at the Aragon.  They did play Metro once before this (21 July 1991), but that was before I was living in Chicago, and thus before I met Lars.