Jaimoe

I think you've done the jumping. Check their website to do some refreshing.

Hey Basher, you should have included in your TTC strike tally the amount of times that strikes were averted, often in the last hour. There's a reason why folks here get mad: sometimes the threat of a TTC strike is just as stressful.

I don't know how their audiences could have co-existed in peace. Who audiences are notoriously unfriendly to any band but The Who (see: The Clash and especially Joe "Hit in the face with a loaded hotdog" Jackson) and if there was any aging mods around at the time of the tour, I hope they didn't stupidly single out any rockers (aka Hell's Angels).

There's a fine line between "favourite" and "best" since it's easy to blur the two together. I have a lot to choose from (as we all do). Here goes.... and sorry for the expansion of the topic, but I've got nothing to do at work today: Best = Pete Townshend @ Massey Hall - July 10, 1993. Even though Pete was supporting his pompous failure concept album Psychoderelict, this 3 hour show was magical. Simon Phillips tore his kit apart. Close second = Television @ The Phoenix Concert Hall - June 9, 2006 (guitarist Richard Lloyd has since left the band, so this is one of the last times the intact band played together). Nothing tops hearing "Marquee Moon" in concert, but their re-worked jammy "1800 or So" came very, very close. Favourite = The Soundtrack of Our Lives @ The Opera House - March 28, 2003 (Fuck you that think all Toronto crowds suck): Craziest = DKT/MC5 (reformed MC5) with that imploding lunatic Evan "Lemonheads" Dando on lead vocals @ The Phoenix for NXNE - June 9, 2004. Dando stalked around stage looking like a possessed scarecrow, distracting the band repeatedly, challenging the audience repeatedly, and then sat behind the drum-kit repeatedly. Good thing Mudhoney's Mark Arm was also recruited as their a co-lead vocalist. Still Shocked I Was There = Wilco @ HMV in-store concert in 1996 with around 20 people in attendance, but most were just browsing - I remember standing next to Jay Bennett and thinking that these country-rockers may make it big.

They got booed because the opener (or closer depending on how you look at it) should have been Anvil.

It was the first new episode after over a month hiatus.

And having your favourite band sucking on stage doesn't make the soak feel any better.

I loved the Stones show. Man, Keith ripped it up.

I'm watching. 8/1 for Mr. Jones.

What year was that? Original guitarist Ed King left the band due to illness in 1996. Guitarist Allen Collins - their most important member outside of Ronnie Van Zandt - died in 1990. Bassist Leon Wilkeson died in 2001. I'm not exactly sure when Artimus Pyle left the band. I believe at best you saw three original memebers. Only two core members exist now in Skynyrd: Gary Rossington and Billy Powell. Lynyrd Skynyrd remain one of the best "non-official" tribute bands, although it feels wrong calling them Lynyrd Skynyrd.

The only two I can remember was Brels and Al. That gym was packed.

A little bit of both.

You are right. One opener. Damned multi-tasking failed me once again.

Gord Downie channelling Jim Morrison right before Small Town Bringdown that would have been good I'm not sure if Booche, Bouche or Davey Boy made it out for the show. I for one only knew of The Hip by word-of-mouth reputation as this "cool Kingston band" that were going to "make it big", but few if any at my highschool knew their music since they weren't on the radio and all of us were too young to catch them in local bars, except for some of the 19 year-olds.

Myrna kicks all of our asses combined.

I think yes to all three, but Beatlemania may fall under "theatrical". I saw The Hip back in 86 (or was it 87) at my highschool before their first EP dropped (1987). They did originals and a number of Doors tunes. Good show.

First or second show? I went to the first show. Townshend wore a cast on his strumming hand because he impaled it at the Buffalo show a night or two before. Great show. I went to The Stones "Steel Wheels" tour at the CNE that same summer. Another great show. Bill Wyamn still looked like a man back then.

I wanted to go to Cheap Trick back around that time when they played Kingston, but being 9 with a dad that hated rock and rock stars made it a little difficult.

The opening band for MMJ in Toronto is "it" Brit power-pop band The Kooks.

Loverboy with opening act Bryan Adams at the Kingston Memorial Centre, spring 1982. I believe The Blushing Brides were also on the bill.

I just bought my ticket for the Toronto show at Rotate This; including their service charge, the total was $34. NOTE: They have only 19 left.

Cyclemania bike shop on the Danforth just east of Broadview on north side beside the church is an excellent store. They make custom bikes in all price ranges and sell name brands in a like manner. I bought my custom hybrid last year for around $200. They sell a good variety of used bikes too in excellent price ranges.

I want to check 'em out. I've heard good things.

I don't know them at all.

Although, personally I think the best concert pairing was The Who with Jimi Hendrix - happened a number of times not including the big festivals; combustible, anthemic, delivering an all-out rock and roll assault. It doesn't get any better.