Pushmonkey at NxNG around 2002.

Any oldtimers remember Dennis Ivey and the Waymen at Lakeview.......

Steve Martin- G. Rollie




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Ag Kickoff at Wolf Pen in '98.

Pat Green
Run DMC
Vanilla Ice
Jerry Jeff Walker

REK @ Rudder was good, too.

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the houston symphony, brazos valley symphonic orchestra, burden brothers, and a sitar player that i can't remember the name of

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best I didn't see because I had a test was a thursday night Nixons show at the tap. I think it was 99 or 00 and it was one of their last shows

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Random fact: The Exies opened up that show.

Charlie Daniels, early 80's in Jolly Rollie

David Allen Coe at Wolf Pen around 96 or so.

Digital Underground at Deware.

Blue October at Time Square fall of 04

small show - Blue October, pretty early on at Shadow. Pushmonkey the last year they headlined the festival.

Mid-size - Dishwalla, The Refreshments, and Chalk Farm. Fall 1996

Large - No one has played Reed and touched Garth.

Still pissed I missed out on Blue October as a clueless undergrad.

I would have to say Pat Green at Wolf Pen in 2000.

I was also at the DMB "secret extra show" in 99 in Austin, where the stench of weed was so strong that I walked out of there high as a non-smoker.

I am also ashamed to say that I missed Pushmonkey and Cooder Graw in undergrad, as I became fans after they broke up.

Chris Tomlin at Rudder!

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I am also ashamed to say that I missed Pushmonkey and Cooder Graw in undergrad, as I became fans after they broke up.

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Cooder Graw was probably my favorite Texas Country act to see live in concert. Those guys always put on a great show, especially if you like dancing.

They had a live act specialty where they mixed REK's "Front Porch Song with Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance." They would sing REK while playing the tune of the Petty song, and then when it got to the chorus, they sang Petty's chorus. It sounds strange, but it was amazing and awesome.

Pusmonkey technically hasn't broken up. They just play like once a year now.

Merle Haggard at the Hall, Pat Green at Shadow Canyon he was recording his Here we go Live album.

Cheap Trick & Zebra at G. Rollie

I saw Indigo Girls at Deware as well. Pretty good. Right when Closer to Fine was a single.

Garth Brooks played Hall of Fame just before he hit it big.

Any show by Junior Medlow and Chris Duarte was Woodstock worthy. I'm not kidding.

For Cryin Out Loud was always a blast.

Gatemouth Brown played at a place I can't remember. It was basically a coverted house, maybe 1/2 mile north of Northgate. They had lots of shows there. Lyle Lovett, Duarte, Preston Reed, etc.

REM played Rollie during tours for Green and Paegent albums.

Skankin' Pickle always put on unbelievable shows. They were super high energy ska band. The bass player were periodically ride on his unicycle. He would play a bass solo on unicycle and jump a wheelie off the stage at Stafford. They played a double bill with Fugazi that was awesome.

Alabama

Or the Debonaires at the Texas Hall of Fame. Thursday nights were sure fun.

Blue October at Shadow Canyon, 2000.

It was my first show of theirs, and still remains the most impressionable. Their other shows at Shadow and Harry's were still greatness. I've still never seen a band match their early levels of intensity.

Monte Montgomery at Times Square in 2005.

Better than Ezra

Northgate Music Festival

Lyle Lovett's Bonfire benefit concert, spring 2000. Most moving version of the Front Porch Song I've ever heard. The REK Wolf Pen shows were great too.

Sinatra at Texas Hall 1993

Toadies at Shadow Canyon. The roof was about to blow off that place.

saw Ryan Bingham, Dub Miller, and John Evans do a joint concert at the Tap back in 02 or 03. It was just the singers and their guitars taking turns.

Better than Ezra - Shadow Canyon

Twang Twang Shockaboom in the Rudder Theater

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I saw the Indigo Girls at DeWare (opening band was a real doozy - The Ellen James Society).

And I saw R.E.M. at G Rollie in November '87.

I was at that Indigo show as well, the lesbian groupies were a trip.

Another good Deware show in that era was the Violent Femmes

I forgot about the Femmes at Deware. Always great.

Poi Dog Pondering played everywhere and were greatness.

top 3 would be:
1. Toadies- Shadow Canyon - Spring 2001
2. The Nixons - Tap - Fall 2000 (?)
3. Blue October/Bowling for Soup/Sponge - Spring 2001 (met my now wife at that show. She was there for Blue, I was there for Bowling, and my buddy that knew her was there for Sponge) This show was 2 nights before the Toadies concert, on a Tuesday night. The Toadies concert was Thursday night before Good Friday. I rode up to Dallas with my freshman year roommate to spend Easter weekend with his family, and I couldn't hear him the whole drive up Friday afternoon because my ears were still ringing. Apparantly after the Toadies concert, when we were at Taco C, my now wife saw me and tried to say hi (we had met 2 nights earlier at the above mentioned concert), but i was so deaf from the show (front row left side of stage), that I didn't hear her.

I'll also throw a Vibe show in there as well (only because I have never seen a band more into a show with only about 100 people in the crowd) This would have been at Shadow as well...can't remember when..sometime in 2001-2002 probably.

Poi Dog! Forgot about them! My first show at A&M was Poi Dog at the Annam Teahouse which was on Northgate somewhere, maybe where that Irish bar is across from the 7-11, I think the Shoulders opened up. We also used to go and see Pop Poppins play ajust about anywhere all the time