Completely Conspicuous 661: Shakin' All Over

Part 3 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Jay: Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust tour in 1973
• Never saw Bowie
• Phil: Grateful Dead's famous Cornell show 5/8/77
• The Holy Grail for Deadheads
• Jay: Canadian art rock weirdos Max Webster in southern Ontario 8/9/79
• Band split up in 1981 as singer-guitarist Kim Mitchell went solo
• Opened for Rush in the U.S. in the mid- to late '70s
• Phil: The Stones at the Boston Garden, 1972
• Jagger and Richards were arrested in Providence and Boston mayor bailed them out in time for the Garden show
• Mick Taylor era was notable
• Jay: Van Halen at Oakland Arena in June 1981
• A few songs were captured on video; VH fans have hoped for more
• Phil: Zeppelin at Berkeley, Calif., September 1971
• Touring before their fourth album was released
• Playing some of their acoustic songs
• Jay: SST legends Husker Du at the Channel in Boston 9/30/84
• In the middle of a killer stretch of albums; this one was for Zen Arcade
• Two classic albums were released the next year
• Phil: Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East in 1971 
• Original lineup including Duane Allman
• Jay and Phil: The Who live at University of Leeds on Valentine's Day 1970
• Played a show at Hull the following night
• We're going to see the Who at Fenway later this month
• Band was at the literal peak of their powers
• First release of Live at Leeds was only six songs
• Longer versions have come out; full set was 33 songs
• No video of this show unfortunately

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Completely Conspicuous 660: When Schlitz Rocked America

Celebrating 19 years of podcasting with part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• On to our top 10 shows
• Phil's are in chronological order, Jay's in no particular order
• Phil: Neil Young and Pearl Jam on their short Euro tour, 8/26/95 in Dublin
• PJ standing in for Crazy Horse
• The Velvet Sundown, lame AI band
• Jay: The Clash from June 1980 at Hammersmith Palais
• 31 songs from throughout their career
• The Clash opened for the Who on the Schlitz Rocks America tour
• Apparently Schlitz was once a big name in beer
• Phil: Stevie Ray Vaughan on 9/21/85 at the Capitol Theatre
• Jay: PJ Harvey on the Rid of Me tour in '93
• Saw her on the next tour in '95
• Phil: Talking Heads on the Speaking in Tongues tour in Oct. 1983 in Billerica, Mass.
• Jay: I would've picked the 1980 tour with Adrian Belew on guitar
• Jay: Living Colour at TT the Bears in Cambridge, Mass. in the summer of '88
• Taped the show off the radio simulcast on WBCN
• Killer show before the band blew up the next year
• Phil: U2 on the War tour in March 1983
• Jay: Prince's Purple Rain tour at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse
• Prince was the biggest musician in the world at the time
• Phil: The Pretenders at the Paradise in Boston in 1980
• The band's original lineup was so good
• Jay: Went with a December 1981 Pretenders show in France
• To be continued

Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and write a review!

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.  

Stuck In Thee Garage #520: March 22, 2024

I try to play a lot of new music on the show, but this week on Stuck In Thee Garage, we're going in the other direction. This installment does a little time traveling, going backwards from 2000 to 1971. Crank up the gigawatts!

This playlist goes over 88 mph:

Hour 1 

Artist - Song/Album

PJ Harvey - Big Exit/Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

Pavement - Major Leagues/Terror Twilight

Cat Power - Cross Bones Style/Moon Pix

Elliott Smith - Ballad of Big Nothing/ Either/Or

Sloan - Nothing Left to Make Me Want to Stay/One Chord to Another

Rocket From the Crypt - Heater Hands/Scream, Dracula, Scream!

Superchunk - Saving My Ticket/Foolish

Morphine - A Head With Wings/Cure for Pain

The Afghan Whigs - Kiss the Floor/Congregation

Matthew Sweet - Divine Intervention/Girlfriend

World Party - Is It Too Late?/Goodbye Jumbo

De La Soul - Me Myself and I/3 Feet High and Rising

The Church - Reptile/Starfish

Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man/Sign o' the Times

Hour 2

R.E.M. - Begin the Begin/Lifes Rich Pageant

The Cure - Close to Me/The Head on the Door

Meat Puppets - Lake of Fire/II

The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another/Reach the Beach

The Clash - Straight to Hell/Combat Rock

The Kinks - Destroyer/Give the People What They Want

Motorhead - The Chase is Better Than the Catch/Ace of Spades

Van Halen - Bottoms Up!/Van Halen II

The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight/All Mod Cons

Talking Heads - The Book I Read/Talking Heads '77

The Ramones - Beat on the Brat/Ramones

Parliament - Ride On/Chocolate City

David Bowie - 1984/Diamond Dogs

Iggy and the Stooges - Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell/Raw Power

Black Sabbath - St. Vitus Dance/Vol. 4

Paul and Linda McCartney - Dear Boy/Ram

Turn back the clock HERE, pal.