04/10/1987 - Iron Maiden
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Notes: My first Rock N Roll show! I was so pumped. It was Lynn Englund, Kaposto, Dorsh, Jafo, Karl Von Schweiger, Billy Loukes that all went. One of the few things I'll never forget is Jafo's car overheating on the way there and after the show we all went to McDonalds and Lynn Englund lent me the money to buy a salad. I also will never forget that Bruce was running to one side of the stage and Steve turned around and just missed clocking Bruce right in the forehead with the neck of his bass.

Set list(s):
Courtesy of http://w1.340.telia.com/~u34009410/maidenindex.htm (ambrosius@telia.com)
Intro - Blade Runner
Caught Somewhere In Time
2 Minutes To Midnight
Children Of The Damned
Stranger In A Strange Land
Wasted Years
Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Walking On Glass (Dave & Adrian Guitar solo)
Heaven Can Wait
Phantom Of The Opera (I don't remember this in Buffalo)
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Iron Maiden
The Number Of The Beast
Run To The Hills
Running Free

08/26/1988 - Gordon Lightfoot
Chautauqua Institution
Notes: It was my first Gordo show. My buddy Pete Zimpfer took me.

Set list(s):
Set list courtesy of http://www.lightfoot.ca/. I'm not sure if it's the exact list, but it'll give you a good feel.
If It Should Please You
Endless Wire
The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Hangdog Hotel Room
The Pony Man
Make Way For The Lady
Spanish Moss
Shadows
In My Fashion
Ghosts Of Cape Horn
Minstrel Of The Dawn
Blackberry Wine
Christian Island
Baby Step Back
I'll Tag Along
East Of Midnight
A Lesson In Love
Morning Glory
If You Could Read My Mind
Don Quixote
Knotty Pine
Cotton Jenny
Sundown
Triangle
The Auctioneer
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Pussywillows Cat-Tails
Old Dan's Records

07/18/1989 - The Who
Ralph Wilson Stadium
Notes: I went with Wulf and we hitch hiked home. We bought tix from some scalper. I bought a bootleg t-shirt. Extra info courtesy Brother John: It was The Kid's Are Allright Tour and the 20th Aniversary of Tommy.

Set list(s):
(not in order)
Set 1
~~~~~~
Overture
I'm A Boy
You Didn't Hear It
Amazing Journey
Sparks
The Acid Queen
Pinball Wizard
We're Not Gonna Take It
Face The Face
I Can See For Miles
Boris The Spider

Set 2
~~~~~~~~
Magic Bus
Won't Get Fooled Again

08/18/1989 - Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Darien Lakeside Amphitheater
Notes: I went with the Handpuppet man. I don't know what day it was but I know it happened in late summer. Brother John remember he got stuck in traffic and arrived after Jon Anderson's solo section. He tried to bootleg the show, but got caught.

Set list(s):
ABWH
~~~~~
Set list courtsey of http://www.nfte.org/fy/abwh_tour/tourdates/darien_center_08_18_89.htm
Young Persons Guide To The Orchestra
(Jon Anderson Solo) Time And A Word/Owner Of A Lonely Heart/Teakbois,
(Steve Howe Solo) Clap
Mood For A Day
Wakeman Solo
Long Distance Runaround
(Bruford Solo)
Birthright
And You And I
I've Seen All Good People
Close To The Edge
Themes
Levin/Bruford Duet
Brother Of Mine
The Meeting
Heart Of The Sunrise
Order Of The Universe

Encore
~~~~~
Roundabout
Starship Trooper

08/07/1990 - Blue Oyster Cult
The Late Show
Notes: I went with Wulf and my neighbor Rob. I met Billy at that show.

Set list(s):
(not in order)
Roadhouse Blues
Career Of Evil
Godzilla
Burning For You
Don't Fear The Reaper
Take Me Away
Dominance And Submission
Cities On Flame

01/19/1991 - Iron Maiden
Rochester Community War Memorial
Notes: Drove up with Kitty and Handpuppet man. We were front row until we got caught in the mosh and Kitty fainted.

Set list(s):
Courtesy of http://w1.340.telia.com/~u34009410/maidenindex.htm (ambrosius@telia.com)


Anthrax
~~~~~~~
(not in order)
Indians
I'm The Man
Won't Get Fooled Again (ending)

Iron Maiden
~~~~~~~~~~~
Intro
Tailgunner
Public Enemy No 1
Wrathchild
Die With Your Boots On
Hallowed Be Thy Name
22 Acacia Avenue
Holy Smoke
No Prayer For The Dying
The Clairvoyant
2 Minutes To Midnight
The Trooper
Heaven Can Wait
Iron Maiden
The Number Of The Beast
Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter
Run To The Hills
Sanctuary

02/28/1991 - Blue Oyster Cult
Sinbads
Notes: I went with Kitty & Adrian, I was just shy of 21, but I chalked up my ID. I got through, Adrian didn't.

Set list(s):
Not in order:
Stairway To The Stars
Dominance And Submission
Cities On Flame
E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)
Harverster Of Eyes
Flaming Telepaths
The Red And The Black
Take Me Away
Burnin' For You
Godzilla
(Don't Fear) The Reaper

04/18/1991 - Fairport Convention
The Marquee
Notes: I went with Brother John, we were both pretty hammered at the time. I remember Simon Nicol making a joke about Spinal Tap and I went yeah and flashed the secret devil symbol. Dave Pegg flashed the symbol back at me.

Set list(s):
Hiring Fair

04/26/1991 - Yes
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Notes: I sat with Wulf. We were first row orange. Went with Brother John, Scott Helfrich and company. Show was in the round. I know there is a bootleg of the show and I know Zimpf has a copy.

Set list(s):
(courtesy of www.yesworld.com)
Your's Is No Disgrace
Rhythm Of Love
Shock To The System
Heart Of The Sunrise
Clap/All's A Chord/Mood For A Day
Make It Easy intro/Owner Of A Lonely Heart
And You And I
Bruford & White Duet
Hold On
Changes
I've Seen All Good People
Trevor solo
Long Distance Runaround
Amazing Grace
Lift Me Up
Wakeman solo
Awaken
Roundabout

07/04/1991 - Steve Winwood
Canada's Wonderland/Kingswood
Notes: My keyboard player at the time was Mike Meal and won free tix, so I went with him on the 97 rock bus. It was a rainy day and a really cool show.

Set list(s):
(not in order)

Joe Cocker
~~~~~~~~~~
When The Night Comes
You Are So Beautiful

Steve Winwood
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'm A Man
Low Spark Of High Heel Boys
John Barlycorn Must Die
Back In The High Life
The Finer Things
Roll With It
Gimmie Some Lovin'

07/30/1991 - Gordon Lightfoot
Artpark
Notes: Pete Zimpfer, Brother John and I went. We spent the day at Artpark and got really bombed. Swam in the Niagara River and Brother John got Poisen Ivy. Zimpf was so stoned and bombed at the end of the night, that he kept yelling "Goodbye & Bon Voy-A-gee" to everyone.

Set list(s):
not in order
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Race Among The Ruins
Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Rainy Day People

09/07/1991 - The Allman Brothers Band
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Notes: My first ABB gig, Brother John took me and John Markus and Beth were there as well. We stood about three rows back from Greg Allam, my back was killing me so I sat down after the show. Brother John remembers it was a three hour plus show. They played a Bettie Boop cartoon before the encore.

Set list(s):
Allman Brothers Band
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hot 'Lanta
Statesboro Blues
Blue Sky
End Of The Line
Nobody Knows
Low Down Dirty Mean
Melissa
Come On In My Kitchen
Midnight Rider
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Hoochie Coochie Man
Kind Of Bird
Get On With Your Life
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Revival

Encore
~~~~~~
You Don't Love Me
Southbound
One Way Out
Jessica
Whipping Post

10/29/1991 - David Benoit
The Marquee
Notes: I met a guy at the LaSalle subway station. He couldn't get his girl or someone to come with him so he gave me a ticket. I remember seeing Woje and Marian at the show.

Set list(s):
Linus & Lucy

12/03/1991 - Metallica
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Notes: The show started out with an interview segment which noone coudl hear because people were cheering too fucking loud. Went by myself, remember seeing some kid passed out all fucked up in his seat, what an asshole...you just paid $30 to sleep through Metallica.

Set list(s):
(not in order)
Enter Sandman
The Unforgivin
Creeping Death
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Stone Cold Crazy
Master Of Puppets
Welcome Home Sanitarium

12/15/1991 - Rush
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Notes:

Set list(s):
Rush
~~~~
Force Ten
Limelight
Freewill (abbreviated)
Distant Early Warning (abbreviated)
Time Stand Still
Dreamline
Bravado
Roll The Bones
Show Don't Tell
The Big Money
Ghost Of A Chance
Subdivisions (abbreviated)
The Pass
Where's My Thing?
Drum Solo
Closer To The Heart
Xanadu (abbreviated)
Superconductor
Top Sawyer
The Spirit Of Radio
2112 Overture/Temples Of Syrinx
Medley:Finding My Way
La Villa Strangiato
Anthem
Red Barchetta
The Spirit Of Radio (reprise)
Cygnus X-1

01/10/1992 - Willie Nile
The Marquee
Notes: I fell off the wagon on that show and never fell off again. I don't remember what date it was though. Brother John was so nobbed that he fell on ice and laughed his ass off.

Set list(s):
(not in order)
Heaven Help The Lonely
The Hammer Song

04/08/1992 - Ghost Of An American Airman
The Marquee
Notes:

Set list(s):
Ansley Court
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(not in order)
Shells And Cheeze

Ghost Of An American Airman
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Encore
~~~~~~~~~
Galvaston(?)

04/18/1992 - Tribe
The Scrapyard
Notes: This band blew me away!! I bought the CD Abort after the show and was hooked ever since. Sadly, they broke up in the mid 90's.

Set list(s):
The only reason I walked into the long gone Scrapyard in Buffalo, NY on Saturday April 18, 1992 was because it's owner, Dror Khon (sp?) owed me money for a recent gig. After suffering through some lame-o local punk act the relatively unknown Tribe mounted the stage.

There I stood, front row dead center, for the show, my gaze almost entirely transfixed on Miss Janet LaValley. I purchased Abort the very next day and listened to it for a week straight. I joined the fan club, have an autographed 8 X 10 (in a scrapbook somewhere) as well as "my lucky" Tribe T-shirt, which I was wearing when I took an ID photo for my Citibank Visa credit card and have never allowed them to change since even though I am 12 years older and now have short hair.

I remember eagerly awaiting the release of Sleeper and initially was sorely disappointed and though time has given it some appeal, it's no Abort.

I prayed that Tribe would return to Buffalo...they never did. Then I received the fan club letter annoucing their final show in Boston. I toyed with the idea of driving up for it, but I was way too broke and my car was way too beat-up. This is one of three shows I regret missing, the other two being the Monsters Of Rock festival (VH, Scorps, Doken, Mettalicrap & Kingdom Come) which I stayed home for so I could study for my calculus exam and INXS in Toronto in September of 1997 which I missed because of car problems I experienced while driving to the 09/21/1997 Bruce Dickinson solo show and I was afraid to tax the poor thing for fear of not making it to my CBGB's showcase a week later so I follow a Russian death metal band on a Monday night in front of 10 people. Needless to say, Michael Hutchence died that December and now I have to seem them with that hack on vocals...but I digress.

Back to Tribe:
1) Thank God that someone (bless your heart Steve) had the wherewithal to put a long overdue site for the band.

2) Does anyone know the Abort tour setlist? The couple of memories I had were one of just the guys coming back on stage for the encore, Eric stating something to the effect of "We're gonna leave the women folk at home for this next song." and them rocking out a song by a Boston band before being joined by Terri and Janet for the final number and of Janet LaValley singing into a megaphone. Actually, my good friend, the Knife, now an engineer/producer in Las Vegas, was the sound man for the Scrapyard at the time and remembers fondly assisting Miss LaValley with bullhorn/mic technique during soundcheck.

3) Are there any bootlegs of the Abort tour? I will gladly clean/remaster them for the 5 of us in the world that care.

07/25/1992 - Guns N' Roses & Metallica
Ralph Wilson Stadium
Notes: I went with Peter Gatti and his girl at the time Lisa M.

Set list(s):
Metallica (not in order)
~~~~~~~~~
The Shortest Straw
Am I Evil?

Guns & Roses
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Set list courtesy of lilSLASH aka Benjamin Lunyou.
Introduction (with The Lion Sleeps Tonight in the back ground)
Nightrain
Mr. Brownstone
Live And Let Die
Attitude
Bad Obsession
Double Talkin' Jive
Civil War
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds/Wild Horses (intro)
Patience
It's So Easy
band introductions
Drum solo
Guitar solo/Godfather Theme
It's Alright
November Rain
Sail Away Sweet Sister/Fallen Angel (intro)
Sweet Child O' Mine
Knockin On Heavens Door
Don't Cry
Mother (intro)/Paradise City

08/25/1992 - The Allman Brothers Band
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Notes: Went to the show with Brother John and Zimpf.

Set list(s):
Allman Brother Band
Don't Want You No More ->
It's Not My Cross To Bear
Statesboro Blues
Blue Sky
Don't Keep Me Wonderin'
Nobody Knows
End Of The Line
Seven Turns
Midnight Rider
Ramblin' Man
Melissa
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Hoochie Coochie Man
Get On With Your Life
Jessica
Revival ->
Mountain Jam ->
Revival
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Whipping Post

10/18/1992 - Black Sabbath
Shea's Buffalo Center
Notes: Black Sabbath's Live Evil was a big album for me, needless to say I had to see this gig...

Set list(s):
Black Sabbth (set list courtesy of www.black-sabbath.com)
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mob Rules
Computer God
Children Of The Sea
Time Machine
War Pigs
Black Sabbath
Master Of Insanity
After All (The Dead)
Iron Man
Heaven And Hell
I
Die Young
Guitar Solo
Orchid
TV Crimes
Drum Solo
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (instrumental)
Neon Knights
Instrumental Track

10/23/1992 - Tori Amos
Rockwell Hall Auditorium
Notes: Tori was on her Little Earthquakes Tour. Here's the kicker. Show was sold out. Brother John and I couldn't get tickets. We snuck upstairs and sat in the last row balcony. We go worried that we'd get kicked out because the show was filled. So we snuck back out. But good fortune prevailed. Brother John got a scalper tix for less then show cost and the kid behind the ticket counter hooked me up with a front row seat. Brother John came down and sat with me. Killer show, I just hate Tori live, she fucks the tunes up too much.

Set list(s):
(not in order)
Crucify
Silent All These Years
Precious Things
Winter
China
Me And A Gun

03/19/1993 - Def Leppard
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Notes: Chuck and I took Ethos to this show for his birthday.

Set list(s):
Set List
~~~~~~~~
Let's Get Rocked
(not in order)
Make Love Like A Man
White Lightning
Photograph
Bringing On The Heartbreak
Pour Some Sugar On Me

04/21/1993 - Copperhead
Blind Melons
Notes: I opened for these guys. They were really cool, we partied on their tour bus after the show. There was another band between the two of us. I don't remember their name, but Spike and Jack were in the band.

Set list(s):
Peer Pressure Project
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Shack In The Woods


Copperhead (not in order)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Whiskey
Keepin' On

06/06/1993 - Paul McCartney
Exhibition Stadium-CNE Toronto
Notes: Brother John and I made a day of it. We borrowed Pete's car packed a huge lunch and had a picnic at Ontario Place. Then Brother John got majorly fucked up on Jagermeister and doesn't remember the show.

Set list(s):
(not in order)
Drive My Car
Michelle
Paperback Writer
Live And Let Die
Band On The Run
Hey Jude
Magical Mystery Tour

06/13/1993 - The Grateful Dead
Ralph Wilson Stadium
Notes: This was my first and last experience with the dead. I thought it sucked. Bought a burrito offf some dude in the parking lot. A couple of guys were giving away free hugs. Went with Wulf, Chuck & Pete (Sciandra), Brother John & John Markus. Brother John remembers it being very hot (making for a mellow show) and tailgating for hours.

Set list(s):
Sting
~~~~~~
Blackbird (?)
Murder By Numbers

Grateful Dead
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Touch Of Grey
(not in order)
Trucking
Space
I Fought The Law

06/14/1993 - Warren Haynes
The Tralfamadore Cafe
Notes: Warren Haynes
~~~~~~~~~~~~
(courtesy of www.mulebase.com this was the set list of the Cleveland show the day before. Don't know if it's exact or not.)

Just Before The Bullets Fly
Tear Me Down
Movers & Shakers
Invisible
Tattoos & Cigarettes
Sammy
The Same Thing
Fire In The Kitchen> Blue Radio
I'll Be The One
Loaded Dice
Gambler's Roll
Sister Justice

Encore
~~~~~~
Yonder Wall
Power & The Glory
Broken Promised Land


Set list(s):
Went as a special guest with Ronnie Mendez. I remember hanging out the the soundman's (Bud Snyder) hag a lot.

06/29/1993 - Bon Jovi
Aladdin Theatre
Notes: We were in Vegas on business (Chuck, Sam and I) and we decided to go see the concert. Sam put it on the company credit card as a business expense. It was a great show. Everytime Richie Sambora played one note on the guitar every chick in the audience went fucking bananas. I almost went ape shit with Jon played Blood On Blood. And it was one of the first times I ever saw Sam Sciandra smile.

Set list(s):
Extreme (not in order)
More Than Words
Hole-Hearted
Get The Funk Out

Bon Jovi (not in order)
Keep The Faith
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Livin' On A Prayer
Blood On Blood

07/02/1993 - Gordon Lightfoot
Chautauqua Institution
Notes: I went with my dad and my buddy Pete Zimpfer.

Set list(s):
(not in order)
Fading Away
Wild Strawberries
Drink Yer Glasses Empty
Sundown
If You Could Read My Mind
Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Old Dan's Records
Cotton Jenny

07/09/1993 - The Band (w/Levon Helm & Rick Danko)
The Marquee
Notes: Went with Brother John and John Markus.

Set list(s):
Up On Cripple Creek

08/12/1993 - The Allman Brothers Band
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Notes: Went with Brother John. Remember catching the tail end of Warren. Marc Ford was on guitar as Dickey was in jail for pounding on his hag.

Set list(s):
Warren Haynes
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Set list courtest www.mulebase.com
Tear Me Down
Movers & Shakers
Invisible
I'll Be The One
Fire In The Kitchen> Blue Radio
Sister Justice

George Throurogood
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(not complete and not in order)
Who Do You Love?
Nightime Is The Right Time
I Drink Alone
1 Bourban 1 Scotch 1 Beer
The Sky Is Crying
Bad To The Bone
Move Ove
No Place To Go

Allman Brothers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Statesboro Blues
Stormy Monday
All Night Train
You Don't Love Me
Temptation Is A Gun
Just Before The Bullets Fly
Dreams
Midnight Rider
Melissa
Southbound
What's Done Is Done
The Same Thing
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Whipping Post
End Of The Line
One Way Out

09/15/1993 - John & Mary
The Marquee
Notes: Brother John took me.

Set list(s):
Pretty In Pink

11/10/1993 - The Outlaws
Blind Melons
Notes: Not much remember about this show, but Dorsh and Laurie, Ethos and Brother John were with me, I bought there live album Hittin' The Road Live right after this show, and I could swear that the sets were identical, except that they did 2 acoustic numbers in the middle.

Set list(s):
In order but some missing songs.

Hittin' The Road
There Goes Another Love Song
Hurry Sundown
Watterhole
Hitmas Blues
Evil, Wicked, Mean And Nasty
*****************************
Acoustic Tunes
*****************************
You Are The Show
Superficial Love
Ghost Riders In The Sky
Green Grass And High Tides

11/17/1993 - Robert Plant
Shea's Buffalo Center
Notes: Was a gift from Brother John...One of the best shows I've ever been to...what a great time...Plant is such a sick dude. We sat last row balcony, which I think are one of the best seats. Manic Nirvana tour, Brother John bought a tour shirt.

Set list(s):
Set list (not in order)

Tall Cool One
Ramble On
Thank You
In The Mood
Going To California
What Is And What Should Never Be

11/18/1993 - Blue Oyster Cult & Nazareth
The Pellamwood House
Notes: What at show!!! I caught the last 2 songs from Wishbone Ash because Chaz and Brother John were to busy getting lubed from the show. Uriah Heap wailed, and Nazareth stole the show, I thought BOC sucked compaired to the last times I've seen them. It was an interesting venue, seeing a band in a banquet room.

Set list(s):
I can't remember the set lists but I'll try to write the songs that I know.

Wishbone Ash
Blowin' Free

Uriah Heap
Stealin'
Gypsy

Nazareth
Do You Wanna Play House?
Hire And Fire
Razamanaz
I Want To (Do Everything)
Holiday
Long Black Veil
My White Bicycle
This Flight Tonight
Love Hurts

Blue Oyster Cult
Dr. Music
Dominance And Submission
Still Burnin' (new song)
Cities On Flame With Rock N Roll
Burning For You
Godzilla
Don't Fear The Reaper
The Red And Black

12/30/1993 - Warrant
Impaxx Nite Club
Notes: I was kinda pumped to see this gig, even though Warrent was cheezy, I figured they would rule. Well it was ok, but I paid $12 to see Jani Lane get bombed on stage, fuck that.

Set list(s):
Not in order.
Down Boys
Uncle Toms Cabin

03/28/1994 - Chuck Mangione
Shea's Buffalo Center
Notes: Brother John took me for my 24th birthday present. I saw Billy at the show and it was shortly after that we started to hang out together. I also Joe Cravotta and his wife there. It was a five hour concert and Chuck whipped out a ton of goods. Charles "Meat-Man" Meeks was on bass, "General" Grant Geissman was on guitar and Steve Gadd on drums. Plus a whole childrens choir and orchestra. I really saw how great Steve Gadd was on drums that night.

Set list(s):
(not in order)
Feel So Good
Hill Where The Lord Lies
Children Of Sanchez

04/02/1994 - Jethro Tull
Shea's Buffalo Center
Notes: I was front row right of the balcony. There were 8 of us. (Brother John, R. H. And Liz Stamps, Mr. & Mrs. Handpuppet Man and myself) Jafo, Mary and John had met us at the house and we had a dinner party before the show.

Set list(s):
Not in order:

Songs From The Wood
Farm On The Freeway
Budapest
Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll: Too Young To Die
The Whistler
Living In The Past
Bourée
With You There To Help Me
Thick As A Brick
Aqualung
For A Thousand Mothers
Nothing Is Easy
Locomotive Breath

04/18/1994 - Rush
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Notes: Went with Brother John, Poultry and Mrs. Poutlryson...Thanx to Brother John for set list.

Set list(s):
Rush
~~~~~
Dreamline
The Spirit Of Radio
The Analog Kid
Cold Fire
Time Stand Still
Nobody's Hero
Roll The Bones
Animate
Stick It Out
Double Agent
Limelight
Mystic Rhythms
Closer To The Heart
Show Don't Tell
Leave My Thing Alone >
Drum solo
The Trees
Xanadu (abbreviated) >
Hemispheres - Prelude >
Tom Sawyer

Encore
~~~~~~
Force Ten
YYZ (Cygnas X-1 riff)

05/28/1994 - Z Z Top
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Notes: Brother John did ZZ's laudry so we got 9th row seats...Out of nowhere Ethos shows up...and we got 3 tix...what a outstanding show...Brother John got me all the set info for this show. There were some killer dancing girls...during Breakaway the girls were behind sheets and you could see their shadows. A couple made it seem that they were making out.

Set list(s):
George
~~~~~~
Who Do You Love?
Nightime Is The Right Time
I Drink Alone
1 Bourban 1 Scotch 1 Beer
The Sky Is Crying
Get A Haircut (?)
Bad To The Bone
Move Ove
No Place To Go

ZZ Top (some tunes are missing)
~~~~~~~~~
?
Waiting For The Bus
Jesus Just Left Chicago
Nationwide
Cheap Sunglasses
Just Back From Baby's
Fool For You Stockings
Legs
Just Got Paid
Gimmie All Your Lovin'
La Grange
Sharp Dressed Man
Viva Las Vegas
Tush

(I know they did Breakaway)

07/05/1994 - Pink Floyd
Exhibition Stadium-CNE Toronto
Notes: Got busted going over the border with a can of mace...and almost got busted for Brother John smuggling weed...luckily Canadian immigration was more concerned with the long hairs rather than Brother John...set list courtesy of Brother John.

Set list corrected on 09/11/03 by James Siemens (jimsiemens@hotmail.com) from Toronto, who pointed out that according to According to the book "In the Flesh" (the complete PF performance history), Coming Back To Life was originally performed as opposed to A Great Day For Freedom. Me thinks, good ol' Brother John was high...as usual.


Set list(s):
Set One
~~~~~~~
Astronomy Domine
Learning To Fly
What Do You Want From Me
On The Turning Away
Take It Back
Last Words
Sorrow
Coming Back to Life
Keep Talking
One Of These Days

Set Two
~~~~~~~
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Breathe
Time
Great Gig In The Sky
High Hopes
Money
Wish You Were Here
Another Brick In The Wall Part II
Comfortably Numb
Run Like Hell

07/13/1994 - Motley Crue
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Notes: I went with Poultry (the tickets were 2 for 1) good time.

Set list(s):
Not in complete order

Hooligans Holiday
Shout At The Devil
Live Wire
Misunderstood
Home Sweet Home
Drum Solo (Planet Boom)
Revolution
Wild Side
Dr. Feelgood
Kickstart My Heart
Primal Scream

08/11/1994 - Lynyrd Skynyrd & Ted Nugent
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Notes: The tix were given to us by Schroedy after Cheezy Money auditioned from him when he worked for Starstruck Productions. Ethos, Brother John and I went. We missed Pride & Glory, and Nugent was ok. I though Skynyrd sucked. The show was the night before Woodstock 1994, Brother John hit the road right after the show.

Set list(s):
Ted Nugent (Not in order)
Wango Tango
Stranglehold
Cat Scratch Fever

Skynyrd (not in order)
Ballad Of Curtis Lowe
I Know A Little
Sweet Home Alabama
Free Bird

09/04/1994 - Traffic
Fingerlakes Performing Arts
Notes: Left right after the Bills game. Thought that 20A merged with 20 (only to find out it doesn't until New York City) Got a speeding ticket in Warsaw speeding to get to this show...went with Ethos and Brother John...Fell asleep behind the wheel...Set list courtesy of Brother John...

Set list(s):
Traffic
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pearly Queen
Medicated Goo
Ridin' High
40,000 Headmen
Heaven In Your Mind
Some Kinda Woman
Rock 'n Roll Stew
Mozamique
Empty Pages
Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
Glad
Freedom Rider
Light Up Or Leave Me Alone
Mr. Fantasy
Gimmie Some Lovin'

10/21/1994 - Blue Oyster Cult
Blind Melons
Notes: Went with Brother John, Sex Martin, Gooch and Craig & Lisa Maddigan. I got the Mirrors cd signed by original members, Eric Bloom, Donald "Buck Dahrma" Roeser and Allen Lanier. I said to Allen Lanier, "This is my fifth time seeing you guys", he said, "Good, you're not a virgin."

Set list(s):
Not in order

Urban Sturgeon
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If Red Were Blue
In The Morning I Rise
Rita
1000 Holidays
Beating Around The Bush (AD/DC cover)

Blue Oyster Cult
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dominance And Submission
Cities On Flame
E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)
The Red And The Black
Take Me Away
Burnin' For You
Godzilla
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Joan Crawford

11/01/1994 - Marshall Tucker Band
Ogden Street Music Hall-Impaxx
Notes:

Set list(s):
(not in order)

Walk The Line
Can't You See

12/01/1994 - Peter Criss
Impaxx Nite Club
Notes: It was an ok show, some of it was great some of it just sucked. A guy called Mark Cranston, who roadied for Accent, remembered me from when Cheezy Money opened for them and gave me free tickets to the show. I got Peter to sign my his Kiss solo cd from 1978 at the show. Though I never saw him sign it.

Set list(s):
He did some Kiss Klassics like: Beth, Hard Luck Woman, Nothin' To Lose and Strutter. He did some stuff off his new solo album but I cannot place the songs yet.

12/12/1994 - Aerosmith
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Notes: I went with Brother John and Chucky Cheeze. Ok show, no big deal. Bought a bootleg t-shirt.

Set list(s):
not in order
Seasons Of Wither
Sweet Emotion
Amazing
Rag Doll

01/23/1995 - Teenage Head
Blind Melons
Notes: I went with Ethos.

Set list(s):
Songs I remember:
California Sun
I Wanna Be Sedated

02/10/1995 - The Outlaws
Blind Melons
Notes: The only thing I remember is that it was a shitty, stormy, wintery night and that Brother John and I almost didn't go. But I'm glad I did. I got the guys to autograph there last live CD Hittin' The Road - Live, Timothy Cabe wasn't with them that time. I told Chris Hicks I though he was a rippin singer and told him how my girlfriend at that time saw him sing at another show (Marshall Tucker-.38 Special, The Fabulous Thunder Birds, The Outlaws and someone else) and almost flipped out.

Set list(s):
These are the songs I remember them playing.

There Goes Another Love Song
Hurry Sundown
Waterhole
Hitmas Blues
You Are The Show
Ghost Riders In The Sky
Green Grass And High Tides

03/15/1995 - The Black Crows
Shea's Buffalo Center
Notes: Went with Brother John, his ex-hag, Gipp and

Set list(s):
Set list courtesy off www.tallest.com

Black Crows
~~~~~~~~~~
Sting Me
Jam>Black Moon Creeping
P. 25 London
Thorn In My Pride
Jam>My Morning Song
Ballad In Urgency>Wiser Time
Twice As Hard
Gone
Stare It Cold>Three Little Birds
Cursed Diamond
Hotel Illness
Exit
Jealous Again
Hard To Handle

Encore
~~~~~~
Seeing Things
High Head Blues
Chevrolet
Remedy

03/29/1995 - Elton John & Billy Joel
Skydome
Notes:

Set list(s):
Elton John
Pinball Wizard

Billy Joel
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
Big Shot

04/27/1995 - The Tubes
The Showplace Theater
Notes: Fee Waybill was stripping in the middle of What Do You Want From Life? and I caught his shirt as he threw it out into the audience.

Set list(s):
not in order

What Do You Want From Life?
Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman
White Punks On Dope
I Saw Her Standing There
She's A Beauty
Suishi Girl
I'll Talk To You Later

05/23/1995 - Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Joint (Hard Rock Casino)
Notes: I was in Vegas on busness. Tesla kicked my ass across the floor, Skynyrd was lame as usual.

Set list(s):
Tesla (not in order)
Love Song
Signs
Comin' Atcha Live

Skynyrd
Freebird
Sweet Home Alabama
Simple Man

05/26/1995 - King Crimson
UB Center For The Arts
Notes: The California Guitar Trio opened and they kicked ass! I was fifth row for this show! Their first North American concert in over 10 years! The opened there tour here.

Set list(s):
(not in order)

California Guitar Trio
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor
The Good The Bad And The Ugly

King Crimson
Vroom
Dinosaur
Walking On Air
One Time
Elephant Talk
Frame By Frame
Matte Kudasai
Indiscipline
Red
The Talking Drum
Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part Two

06/28/1995 - Jesus Christ Superstar
Shea's Buffalo Center
Notes: Went with Brother John...gold time...

Set list(s):

06/30/1995 - King Crimson
The Wiltern Theater
Notes: I bought the California Guitar Trios Invitation Cd there and I had the band sign it. When I went to Las Vegas in May with Sam Sciandra on business, we did business with a guy called John English. Well he and I hit it off and I told him about Thrak. He bought 4 front row tickets at about $175 each in LA. He bought one for me, all I had to do was to fly out to LA. What a great time, John paid for everthing and treated me like gold. His brother Al and his best friend Vinny was there also. We drove all over LA. We even went to the Nicole Brown Simpson crime scene (watta bunch of cheezers). After the show we hung around a place called the Atlas Club. Nuts!

Set list(s):
(not in order)

California Guitar Trio
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
Apache

King Crimson
Vroom
Dinosaur
Walking On Air
One Time
Elephant Talk
Frame By Frame
Matte Kudasai
Indiscipline
Red
The Talking Drum
Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part Two
Heartbeat

07/08/1995 - Warren Zevon
Marquee At The Tralf
Notes: Warren was great except that he invited a bunch of bozo's on stage to sing Excitable Boy.

Set list(s):
Not in order

Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
Werewolves Of London
Lawyers, Guns And Money
Excitable Boy
Things Do In Denver When Your Dead
Seminole Bingo
Mutineer

07/19/1995 - The Kinks
Melody Fair Theatre
Notes: This was my first Kinks and my first Melody Fair Show. The ticket was a gift by Brother John. I had a great time, Ray Davies is kinda goofy sometimes but there tunes rule. Billy dug that Gipeto looking bass player.

Set list(s):
From memory and not in order.

Stop Your Sobbin'
I'm A Cave Man?
Celluiod Heros
Lola
You Really Got Me

07/28/1995 - Robin Trower
Blind Melons
Notes: Brother John took me. That dude kicks ass, ugly geeky dude, but boy can he wail.

Set list(s):

08/13/1995 - George Jones
Erie County Fair & Expo
Notes: I went with Billy, we blew of BOC for this show...solid gold.

Set list(s):
(not in order)
He Stopped Loving Her Today
The Race Is On
I Don't Need No Rockin' Chair
White Lightnin'
Bartender Blues

09/02/1995 - Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Show
Cleveland Stadium
Notes: My boss Pete Sciandra wanted to go, so on a whim I went with him, he paid for the ticket $160. I was a nuts time. I kinda got board, 'cause there was a lot of cheeze, but over all I was glad I went.

Set list(s):
Chuck Berry &
Johnny Be Goode
John Cougar Mellcamp
R.O.C.K. In The USA
Bon Jovi w/ Eric Burdan
With A Little Help From My Friends
It's My Life
We Gotta Get Outta This Place

09/15/1995 - Bjorn Again
The Marquee
Notes:

Set list(s):
Not in order:

Take A Chance On Me
Dancing Queen
Fernando
S.O.S.
Paranoid (Sabbath cover)

09/29/1995 - R.E.M.
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Notes: We were in the upper golds. I found the show really boring because all REM did was play shit they wrote last week ago in a train station somewhere or whatever. I remember Pete Sciandra leaving early to go to Kix Niteclub. Burp!

Set list(s):
Set List (not in order)
Pop Song '89
What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
Drive
It's The End Of The World As We Know It
Tongue
Everybody Hurts
South Central Rain

10/07/1995 - John Wetton
Nietzsche's
Notes: I met him after the show and he autographed my Asia and my Larks Tongue In Aspic Cd. He played the show acoustic with a taped synth part for 2 UK songs. He was a real sweetheart.

Set list(s):
(not in order)
Heat Of The Moment
Only Time Will Tell
Lament
Easy Money
Book Of Saturdays

10/19/1995 - Plant/Page
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Notes: One high ethos show! Brother Johh, Teddy & I eat pasta and did the pudding thing.

Set list(s):
This are not in any order. If there is a number before it that means that was the order.

1. The Wanton Song
Heart Breaker
Hey Hey What Can I Say
Goin' To California
Black Dog
D'yer Maker
Whole Lotta Love
Encore
99. Kasmire

11/05/1995 - 10,000 Maniacs
Damien College
Notes: Really ok show, It was a college party and they had free pop and snax.

Set list(s):
Selections played:

What's The Matter Here?
Candy Everybody Wants
These Are Days
Under The Cherry Tree

11/10/1995 - The Outlaws
The Fun House
Notes: I didn't see Scott Carpenter and the Real McCoys open but I did see the
Hawaiian Hag there, what a fine kettle of fish. The Outlaws played with their rippin' rock n roll, drummer B. B. Borden wasn't there, I don't know if he quit or what, but in his place was this cheezoid double kick Warrent outtake jizz metal drummer, with a full drum cage (burp). What a cheeze crack drum solo. I live for Chris Hicks, I ain't gay but he is one cool dude. He plays a mean guitar and sings like a mother fucker, when the shot whore came by, I bought a shot for Chris, later in the night, he did his guitar solo for Ghost Riders with it, TOO SICK, I lost it, that dude is too nuts. What kills me is that his eyes bulge out of his skull when he plays, I loose it every time.



Set list(s):
In order but not complete

There Goes Another Love Song
Hurry Sundown
Waterhole
Hitmas Blues
*******************************
New Tunes
*******************************
Ghost Riders In The Sky
Green Grass And High Tides

12/07/1995 - Phish
Niagara Falls Convention Center
Notes: It was my first Phish show and they kicked my ass! It was me, Brother John, Billy and Roger. What a nuts show! Years later I was able to find (and someday remaster) a bootleg of the gig.

Set list(s):
Set One
~~~~~~~~
Old Home Place
The Curtain
AC/DC Bag
Demand
Rift
Slave To The Trafic Light
Guyute
Bouncin' Around The Room
Possum
Ragtime Gal

Set Two
~~~~~~~
Split Open And Melt
Strange Design
Taste
Reba
Julius
Sleeping Monkey
Sparkle
Mike's Song
Weekapaug Grove
Amazing Grace

Encore
~~~~~~
Uncle Pen

12/13/1995 - Ace Frehley
Blind Melons
Notes:

Set list(s):
Not in order:
Rocket Ride
Louie Louie
Foxy Lady
Cold Gin
Detroit Rock City
Deuce

12/30/1995 - Barenaked Ladies
Niagara Falls Convention Center
Notes: They were pretty good. Jill just played acoustic guitar, but the boys played a few cuts on stage with her near the end of her set. During if I had $1,000,000 the audience threw macaroni and cheeze at the band.

Set list(s):
Jill

I Kiss A Girl

Bare Naked

If I Had $1,000,000

01/23/1996 - Motorhead & Bella Donna
Ogden Street Music Hall-Impaxx
Notes: I got Lemmy autograph after the show. Lemmy is such gold....He walks on stage and says "Hello, we're Motorhead, and we're gonna kick you ass".

Bella Donna's band was gold and the played some Anthrax classics.

Set list(s):
Not in order

Bella Donna
...
...
Anti Social
I Am The Law
Caught In The Mosh
Indians
...
...

Motorhead
Ace Of Spades
I'm So Bad Baby I Don't Care
Scarifice
Orgasmatron
I'm A Nice Guy
Killed By Death
Iron Fist

02/11/1996 - Iron Maiden
The RPM Warehouse
Notes: Me and Billy rented a car from Budget and drove to Toronto for the day. What a killer show. I was pretty impressed with Fear Factory. They were filming footage for their video and me and Billy got on tape because we were wearing nuts hats. Toronto is so good for the constitution, I live for that place.

Set list(s):
Iron Maiden
------------
Man On The Edge
Wrathchild
Heaven Can Wait
Lord Of The Flies
Fortunes Of War
Blood On The World's Hands
Afraid To Shoot Strangers
The Evil That Men Do
The Aftermath
Sign Of The Cross
2 Minutes To Midnight
Edge Of Darkness
Fear Of The Dark
The Clairvoyant
Iron Maiden

Encore
The Number Of The Beast
Hallowed Be Thy Name
The Trooper

02/29/1996 - Blue Oyster Cult
The Evening Star Lounge
Notes: This was the worst BÖC show yet. They had a couple of new cracks on bass and drums and the songs seemed to drag. Billy and I were front row. The sound sucked so bad...we left during Godzilla and didn't see the encore. Then only good thing was they played a ton of rare goods. In Thee and Lips In The Hills to name a few. Spinning Room was hip though.

Set list(s):
Blue Oyster Cult
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Stairway To The Stars
Dr. Music
O.D.'d On Life Itself
E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial intelligence)
Harvest Moon (new tune...net yet recorded)
Before The Kiss, A Redcap
I'd Like To See You In Black (new tune)
Joan Crawford
Flaming Telepaths (excellent!!!!)
Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll
The Last Days Of May (nuts!!!!!)
In Thee (ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!)
Lips In The Hills (evil!!!)
Burning For You
Godzilla (burp!)
Don't Fear The Reaper

Encore: (don't know...we left)

03/04/1996 - Bob Seger
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Notes: What a high ethos show. Brother John and I were on the floor in about row Z.

Set list(s):
John Hiatt
~~~~~~~~~
(John Hiatt set list courtest of Phil Aitchison - paitchison1@cogeco.ca)
Slow Turning
You Must Go
Perfectly Good Guitar
Thing Called Love
Native Son
Tennessee Plates
Cry Love

Bob Seger
~~~~~~~~~
Another Way
Lock And Load
Shakedown
Mainstreet
Old Time Rock & Roll
I Wonder
Hands In The Air
Which Way
The Mountain
Betty's Lou's Getting Out Tonight
Travelin' Man
Beautiful Loser
Like A Rock
It's A Mystery
We've Got Tonight
Turn The Page
Sunspot Baby
Horizontal Bop
Katmandu

Encore 1
~~~~~~~
Night Moves
Hollywood Nights

Encore 2
~~~~~~~
Against The Wind
Rock & Roll Never Forgets

03/26/1996 - B.B. King
Ogden Street Music Hall-Impaxx
Notes: Chaz Sciandra took me out for my birthday.

Set list(s):
Win, Lose Or Draw

In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed

B.B. King

The Thrill Is Gone

03/30/1996 - Jackson Brown
Shea's Buffalo Center
Notes: Brother John did his laundry and got a pair of tix. Row K (11 th row). Vonda Shepherd opened up for Jack and returned as his backup singer. His band became her backup band.

Band:
Marke Goldenberg-Guitar
Jeff Young-Organ and Vocals
Luiz Conte-Percussion
Maurici Lewak-Drums
Vonda Shepherd-Backup Vocals
Scott Thurston-Guitar,Keyboard,Vocals
Kevin McCormick-Bass

Set list(s):
I'm Alive
Everywhere I Go
Some Bridges
The Barricades Of Heaven
Fountain Of Sorrow (Dedicated to Stan Szelest)
The Cat (Dedicated to Sandy Konikoff)
? (new tune-Angeline-about LA)
? (song off the first album acoustic-Something Fine?)
? (piano tune-Dance Alone?)
Doctor My Eyes
Niño
The Prentender
Running On Empty

Encore
The Load Out/Stay

Encore 2
For Rockers Only
Before The Dew

04/15/1996 - Billy Joel
UB Center For The Arts
Notes: Billed as Questions & Answers & A Little Music. Billy fielded questions throughout the evening. I asked him about tied to one of the most oppressive management contracts. It was a good time and Billy was funny.

Set list(s):
The Entertainer
Piano Man

04/17/1996 - Joe Satriani
Ogden Street Music Hall-Impaxx
Notes: Brother John did his laundry and we got free tix.

Set list(s):
Satch Boogie
Big Bad Blue

08/13/1996 - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Notes: The Doobies opened up for Lynyrnd Skynyrd at Darien Lake on 08/13/96. A couple of days earlier Tom Johnson and Pat Simmons came in to Brother John's laudry mat and did their laundry there. The gave Brother John two tickets and two backstage passes. He wasn't able to go so he gave them to me, I took Greg Windgerter, an associate from work, with me. I got Tom Johnson and Pat Simmons to sign Cycles. I also got autographs from Johnny Van Zant and Rickie Medlocke.

Set list(s):
Doobies
-------
Dangerous
Jesus Is Just Alright
Rolling Down The Highway
Slow Burn (new song from double live album)
The Doctor
Slack Key Soquel Rag
South City Midnight Lady
Clear As Driven Snow
Excited
Wild Ride (new song from double live album)
Black Water
China Grove
Long Train Runnin' (drum solo)

Encore
Take Me In Your Arms
Listen To The Music

Skynyrd (I might have missed a few)
------------------------------
Working For MCA
?
Down South Jukin
T.R.O.U.B.L.E (?)
I Know A Little
Saturday Night Special
Swamp Music
What's Your Name?
That Smell
Simple Man
Gimmie Back My Bullets
Gimmie Three Steps
Call Me The Breeze
(we left to go home)

08/18/1996 - Jethro Tull
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Notes: Probably one of the best and worst Tull shows I've ever seen. They played some rare goods...but Ian's voice is jizz. I went with Brother John and Pete.

Set list(s):
ELP
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hoe Down
Touch & Go
?
Take A Pebble
Hammer It Down
Still...You Turn Me On
Tarkis
Pictures At An Exibition
Lucky Man
Bitches Crystal
Fanfare For The Common Man (?)

Jethro Tull
~~~~~~~~~~~~
(opened with a little flute dittie (Divinities?))
Aqualung
Thick As A Brick
Boureé
Dangerous Viels
? (tune from Divinites)
Slip Stream
Mother Goose
Up The Pool
Empty Cafe (Martin Barré solo album)
Beside Myself
In The Times Of India (Bombay Valentine)
Nothing Is Easy
Andy Giddings Solo
Farm On The Freeway
My God
Locomotive Breath

Encore
Crosseyed Mary
Jam (including Dogs In The Midwinter and Dambusters March)

08/21/1996 - Englebert Humperdinck
Artpark
Notes: Billy and I took our mammies...what a nuts show...too much Vegas corn and too many new songs. One of the best sounding shows I've seen and Engy's voice was solid gold. His opener was some jizz comic called Stew.
Band line up that I got:
Jeff Wells - Sax
Etta Brick - Backup vocals
Piano & leader - Tom Reynolds

Set list(s):
(I don't know all the names (?) denotes what I think the names are)
Overture
Stay With Me (?)
This Moment In Time (?)
Words
(Rap Vamp Joke)
Aint Nothin' (?)
After The Lovin'
Healing (?) (duet with his daughter Louise)
Hold Me A Just A Little Tighter (?)
Too Young
Release Me
(Release Me country vamp style)
Vegas Cheeze Impersonations
- Jerry Lewis
- Dean Martin
- Elvis (Wooden Heart & Don't Be Cruel vamp)
- Julio Iglcias (To All The Girls I've Loved Before)
I Could Get Used To This (?)
Feelin' Alright (sung be backup singer who introduce the band while Engie changed his shirt)
Once In A While (?)
Baby You And I or We Live To Love (?) (duet with backup singer Etta Brick)
I Would Love More Than I Do (?) (sax solo by Jeff Wells)
Unchained Melody

Encore
Stay With Me (reprise)

10/13/1996 - Kiss
Marine Midland Arena
Notes: My first show at the Marine Midland Arena. A little too much hype and I would have loved it. Let Me Go Rock And Roll kicked ass. Ace was in great form.

Set list(s):
Kiss
~~~~
Duece
King Of The Night Time World
Do You Love Me
Calling Dr. Love
Cold Gin
Watchin' You
Firehouse
I Stole Your Love
Let Me Go Rock And Roll
Shock Me
Ace guitar solo
Shout It Out Loud
Strutter
Gene spits bloods and flys to ceiling
God Of Thunder
Peter drum solo
New York Groove
Love Gun
100,000 Years
Paul guitar solo
Black Diamond

Encore
~~~~~~
Detroit Rock City
Beth
Rock And Roll All Nite

10/19/1996 - Phish
Marine Midland Arena
Notes: I missed the first set because I had to open Edifest II at the showplace theater...I was pissed.

Set list(s):
courtesy of the Tackle Box

Set 1
~~~~
My Friend My Friend
Rift
Free
Esther
Llama
Gumbo
Down With Disease
Prince Caspian
Frankenstein

Set 2
~~~~
AC/DC Bag
Sparkle
Slave To The Traffic Light
Bouncing Around The Room
Split Open And Melt
Fluffhead
Swept Away
Steep
Run Like An Antelope
Ragtime Gal

Encore
~~~~~~
Fee
Rockytop

10/20/1996 - Rush
Marine Midland Arena
Notes:

Set list(s):
Set 1
Dreamline
Big Money (with Wipe Out ending)
Driven (with Geddy bass solo)
Half The World
Red Barchetta
Animate
Limbo
The Trees
Red Sector A
Virtuality
Nobody's Hero
Closer To The Heart
2112
I. Overture
II. The Temples Of Syrinx
III. Discovery
IV. Presentation
V. Oracle: The Dream
VI. Soliloquy
VII. Grand Finale

Set 2
Test For Echo
Subdivisions
Free Will
Roll The Bones
Resist
Leave My Thing Alone
Drum Solo
Natural Science
Force 10
Time In Motion
The Spirit Of Radio
Tom Sawyer

Encore
YYZ (with Cygnus X-1 ending)

10/24/1996 - Mercyful Fate
The Showplace Theater
Notes: Overdose was nuts! They were a group from Brazil. But Mercyful Fate kicked my ass. King Diamond is one sick dude.

Set list(s):
not in order
Evil & Doom By The Living Dead
The Bellwitch

The Legend Of The Headless Horseman Part I (?)

Desecration Of Souls

The Fall Of Satan

Encore
~~~~~~
Come To The Sabbath
Nuns Have No Fun

11/09/1996 - The Who
Marine Midland Arena
Notes: Linda Perry kicked my ass! She was awesome! It's a little premature now, but this was the #1 show 1996. The Who were incredible. When they did 5:15, people just snapped.

Set list(s):
Linda Perry
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What's Going On?

The Who
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I Am The Sea
The Real Me
Quadrophenia
Cut My Hair
The Punk Meets The Godfather
I'm One
The Dirty Jobs
Helpless Dancer
Is It In My Head
I've Had Enough
5:15
Sea And Sand
Drowned
(new tune Pete did acoustic)
Bell Boy
Dr. Jimmy
The Rock
Love, Reign O'er Me

Encore
Won't Get Fooled Again (acoustic)
Behind Blue Eyes
Who Are You

11/10/1996 - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Marine Midland Arena
Notes: Neil was cool. He was sorta high ethos at being unethos.

Set list(s):
Moist
-----
Push
(last song had a jam that included Enter Sandman & Billy Jean)

Neil Young
-----------
Hey Hey My My
Pocahontas
Slipped Away
Bar Stool Blues ? (Stupid Girl)
Big Time
The Needle And The Damage Done (*)
? (*)
Heart Of Gold (*)
Scattered
Cinimon Girl
The Loner
Cortez The Killer
Music Arcade (*)
Rockin' In The Free World
Like A Hurricane

Encore
~~~~~~
This Town
Sedan Delivery
Roll Another Number

(*) Acoustic

11/13/1996 - Gov't Mule
The Showplace Theater
Notes: I went with Gouch to the show. What a good time. I met Warren Haynes and got him to sign a couple cds. I also gave him a copy of my cd.

Set list(s):
100 Iced Animals
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(not in order)
Totem Pole
Geometry

Gov't Mule
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Setlist Courtesy of www.mulebase.com
Set: Grinnin' >
Mule >
Rockin' Horse >
Game Face >
No Need to Suffer >
Dolphineus >
Painted Silver Light
Birth Of The Mule
Left Coast Groovies >
World Of Difference > China Doll tease > World Of Difference >
Pygmy Twylyte >
Blind Man in the Dark > Drums > Blind Man in the Dark >
Thelonius Beck > St. Stephen jam >
I Shall Be Released >
Just Got Paid > Who Do You Love?, Just Got Paid

Encore
~~~~~~~
Same Thing >
Young Mule Blues > Schoolgirl > Young Mule Blues

11/15/1996 - Gordon Lightfoot
Massey Hall
Notes: I went will Billy. Gordo sounded like jizz.
Lineup: Terry Clements - Lead Guitar
Rick Haynes - Bass
Barry Keane - Drums
Mike Heffernan - Keyboards

Set list(s):
(Set I)
14 Karat Gold
I'll Prove My Love To You
In My Fashion (wrote when he was 40)
Fading Away
The House You Live In
On Younge Street
I Used To Be A Country Singer
Sea Of Tranquility
The Pony Man
Boat House
Carefree Highway
Sundown
Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Sit Down Young Stranger

(Set II)
Drifters
Restless
Ring Them Bells
A Lesson In Love
Don Quixote
If You Could Read My Mind
Beautiful
A Painter Passing Through History
Uncle Toad Said
Early Morning Rain
Song For A Winter's Night
Blackberry Wine
Canadian Railroad Trilogy

(Encore I)
Cold On Your Shoulder

(Encore II)
Bitter Green
Old Dan's Records

12/14/1996 - Mark Freeland
The Marquee
Notes: Electropective CD release party.

Set list(s):

03/25/1997 - Metallica
Marine Midland Arena
Notes: Chuck and Wee bought me a ticket for my birthday. The only thing that sucked about the show was they only played for about 90 minutes.

Set list(s):
COC (not in order)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Albatross
Clean My Wounds
Drowning In A Daydream

Metallica
~~~~~~~~~
Ronnie Jam (?)
So What
Creeping Death
Sad But True
Ain't My Bitch
Hero Of The Day
King Nothing
One
Wasting My Hate (Dedicated to COC)
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Intro Tease
Nothing Else Matters
Until It Sleeps
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Where Ever I May Roam
Fade To Black
Seek And Destroy/Fight Fire With Fire Tease

Encore
~~~~~~
I Killed Your Mother Today (?)
Master Of Puppets
Enter Sandmand
(stage blows up)
Am I Evil?
?

04/26/1997 - Ronnie James Dio
Ogden Street Music Hall-Impaxx
Notes: What a show! Ronnie's voice is stronger the ever! I met him afterwards and got him to autograph a couple of cds.

Set list(s):
My Dying Bride
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
?
From Darkest Skies
The Dark Caress
All Swept Away
A Kiss To Remember
Your Shameful Heaven
Like gods Of The Sun

Dio
~~~
Jesus, Mary & The Holy Ghost
Straight From The Heart
Don't Talk To Strangers
Holy Diver
Drum Solo
Heaven And Hell
Double Monday
Stand Up And Shout
Bass Solo
Hunter And The Hunt
Mistreated/Catch The Rainbow
Guitar Solo
The Last In Line

Encore
~~~~~~
Rainbow In The Dark
The Mob Rules
Man On The Silver Mountain/Long Live Rock And Roll

Encore II
~~~~~~~~~
We Rock

05/10/1997 - Barenaked Ladies
Marine Midland Arena
Notes: I went with Del and Poultry & Mrs. Poutlryson.

Set list(s):
From Good Homes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
?
?
The Old Man In The Van (?)
Rain Dance (?)

Bare Naked Ladies
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Shoebox
Be My Yoko Ono
(Rap Jam)
This Is Where It Ends
Enid
Life In A Nutshell
Hello City
Stomach Vs Heart
Alternative Girlfriend
These Apples
(Sabers Jam)
(Piano Song) (?)
Bass Solo
?
Crazy
Straw Hat & Old Dirty HAnk
? (Spider In My Room)
The Great Provider
The Apartment Song
If I Had $1000000 Dollars

Encore
~~~~~~
What A Good Boy
Brian Wilson

Encore II
~~~~~~~~~
Material Girl

06/14/1997 - The Brain Surgeons
The Star Bar
Notes: Gouch and I were walking by to get to another show and heard the band playing "Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll" and asked who it was. The doorman told us it was The Brain Surgeons and I flipped out. I bought the new cd and talked to Albert Bouchard for about 30 minutes. During the second set, while they played "Astronomy" Debroah Frost the lead singer invited me on stage to sing with them. I even played a little guitar. AHHHHHH!

Set list(s):
(according to Richard Zoll - Syracuse, NY astro@dreamscape.com_
Set 1
~~~~~
Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll
St. Vitus Dance
Gun
Medusa
A Kiss Is A Promise
Laura's Plastic Swords
Gimmie Nothing'
My Civilizaition
Tender Was The Night
Overture
I Am The One (You Warned Me Of)
Dominance And Submission

Set 2
~~~~~
Name Your Monster
Soul Jive
Language Of Love
Date With A Guitar
Locked Up
Donkey Show
I Play The Drums
The Red And Black
Astronomy
I'm On Fire
Night Of The 1,000 Guitars
Death Valley Nights
Career Of Evil

06/30/1997 - Rush
The Molson Amphitheatre
Notes: My first time seeing Rush in Toronto. Went up with Billy, Gooch and Dark Markus

Set list(s):
Set 1
Dreamline
Limelight
Stick It Out
Driven (with Geddy bass solo)
Half The World
Red Barchetta
Animate
Limbo
The Trees
Virtuality
Nobody's Hero
Closer To The Heart
2112
I. Overture
II. The Temples Of Syrinx
III. Discovery
IV. Presentation
V. Oracle: The Dream
VI. Soliloquy
VII. Grand Finale

Set 2
Test For Echo
Free Will
Red Sector A
Roll The Bones
Resist
Leave My Thing Alone
Drum Solo
Natural Science
Force 10
The Spirit Of Radio
Tom Sawyer

Encore
YYZ (with Cygnus X-1 ending)

07/31/1997 - Fish
The Guvernment
Notes: Went up with Sex Martin, Mark & Marg Frey.

Set list(s):
Harum Scarum
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fish
~~~~~
The Persuasion of John Punter
What Colour Is God?
Family Business
Gold Fish & Clowns
Mr. 1470
Jungle Ride
Assassing
Credo
Tongues
Incubus
Drum Solo
Assassing
Fugazi
White Feather
Cliche
Brother 52
Lucky

Encore
~~~~~~
A Worm In A Bottle
Internal Exile
The Complany

Encore II
~~~~~~~~~
Lavander

08/07/1997 - Fish
The Tralfamadore Cafe
Notes: Met him after the show and got his autograph on my Sunsets On Empire & Internal Exile cds.

Set list(s):
Mastermind
~~~~~~~~~~
Brainstorm
Jubilee

Fish
~~~~~
The Persuasion of John Punter
What Colour Is God?
Family Business
Gold Fish & Clowns
Mr. 1470
Jungle Ride
Assassing
Credo
Tongues
Incubus
Drum Solo
Assassing
Fugazi
White Feather
Cliche
Brother 52
Lucky

Encore
~~~~~~
Internal Exile
The Complany

Encore II
~~~~~~~~~
Lavander

09/13/1997 - Prince
Marine Midland Arena
Notes: I bought the ticket off a friend of Sonnies. I was 16th row.

Set list(s):
Grahmn Central Station
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(?)
Feel It (?)
(?)
...
Family Affair
Everyday People
Dance To The Music
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)
I Want To Take You Higher

Prince
~~~~~~
Jam Of The Year
Talkin' Loud And Saying Nothing
Purple Rain
Little Red Corvette
Get Your Groove On
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
Face Down
When You Were Mine
The Ride
The Cross
One Of Us
Do Me, Baby (Adore, Insatiable, Scandalous, How Come U Don't Call Me)
Sexy MF
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Diamonds And Pearls
Girls And Boys
The Beautiful Ones
Deliriouse
How Come U Don't Call Me
Take Me With U
Raspberry Beret

Encore
Sleep Around (?)
Baby I'm A Star
1999

09/21/1997 - Bruce Dickinson
The Guvernment
Notes: Got to meet Bruce & Adrian after to show, thanks to Dave form Etoboko.

Set list(s):
Polar
~~~~~

Bruce Dickinson
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Accident Of Birth
Star Children
2 Minutes To Midnight
Darkside Of Aquarius
The Magician
Road To Hell
Tattooed Millionaire
Tears Of The Dragon
Powerslave

Encore
~~~~~~
Taking The Queen
Flight Of Icarus

Encore II
~~~~~~~~~
Laughing In The Hiding Bush
The Prisoner

10/13/1997 - Flotsam & Jetsam
The Generator
Notes: Went with Billy. Blew off the opening acts to go get a blow job. Met the guys in the band. Swell dudes.

Set list(s):
Flotsam & Jetsam
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hammerhead
Never
HOY
It's On Me
High
Monster
Hallucinational
Everything
Swatting At Flies
Escape
Me

Encore
~~~~~~
I Live You Die

11/10/1997 - Yes
Shea's Buffalo Center
Notes: Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Alan White, Steve White, Billy Sherwood & Igor

Set list(s):
Set List
~~~~~~~~
Siberian Khatru
Rhythm Of Love
America
Open Your Eyes
And You And I
Heart Of The Sunrise
Steve Howe Solo: The Clap/Classical Gas Station(?)/Mood For A Day
Leaves Of Green (excerpt from The Ancient/Giants Under The Sun)
Children Of Light
Ivan's Solo ->
Long Distance Runaround
Squire/Alan White Solos Fish->Tempus Fugit->Soundchaser (tease)
Owner Of A Lonely Heart
Soon
The Revealing Science Of God
I've Seen All Good People

Encore
~~~~~~
Roundabout
Starship Trooper

11/12/1997 - Nazareth
Malibu Jack's
Notes: I got backstage to meet the band, they were such sweethearts. Met the promoter of the show and the band's road manager. Supergarage was excellent.

Set list(s):
Supergarage (actual set sheet copy)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Smile
Except
Angus
Fave
Dead
Worst
Plus
Work
Elvis
Post

Nazareth
~~~~~~~~
Steamroller
Razamanaz
God Save The South
Beggars Day
Dream On
Holiday
Big Boy
My White Bicycle
Heart's Grown Cold
Java Blues
Whiskey Drinkin' Woman
This Flight Tonight
Hair Of The Dog

Encore
~~~~~~
Cocaine
Love Hurts

11/13/1997 - Nazareth
Club Denim
Notes: A mega flippy night, the club was the Honky Tonk On Whup'em Up Mountain and we drove home in a snow storm.

Set list(s):
Nazareth
~~~~~~~~
Steamroller
Razamanaz
God Save The South
Beggars Day
Dream On
Holiday
Big Boy
My White Bicycle
Heart's Grown Cold
Java Blues
Whiskey Drinkin' Woman
This Flight Tonight
Hair Of The Dog

Encore
~~~~~~
Cocaine
Love Hurts

12/11/1997 - Phish
Rochester Community War Memorial
Notes:

Set list(s):
Set I
~~~~~
Punch You In The Eye -> Down With Disease -> Maze
Dirt
Limb By Limb
Loving Cup
Rocky Top

Set II
~~~~~~
Drowned -> Roses Are Free (Ween Cover, first time played) -> Big Black Furry Creature From Mars -> Ghost -> Down With Disease reprise -> Johnny B. Goode

Encore
~~~~~~
Waste

02/11/1998 - Judas Priest
The RPM Warehouse
Notes: What an amazing show!! Ripper Owens is killer. I remember seeing him in his Priest cover band at Blind Melons years ago. No guitar or drum solos, just tunes.

Set list(s):
Judas Priest
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Hellion (tape intro)
Electric Eye
Metal Gods
Grinder
Blood Stained
The Sentinel
Touch Of Evil
Burn In Hell
The Ripper
Bullet Train
Beyond The Realms Of Death
Metal Meltdown
Night Crawler
Victim Of Changes
Breaking The Law
Green Manalishi

Encore I
~~~~~~~~
Pain Killer
You Got Another Thing Coming

Encore II
~~~~~~~~~
Hell Bent For Leather
Living After Midnight

03/13/1998 - Blue Oyster Cult
The Evening Star Lounge
Notes:

Set list(s):
Animal Planet
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Venezuelan Moon
Carpe Diem
I Am Nada
Ramshackle Man
In The Morning
Hard Way
Killing Zone
Past Lives
Walk Away
Don't Lose Faith
Running With Scissors

Blue Oyster Cult
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Before The Redcap (A Kiss)
Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll
ETI
Harvest Moon
Bucks Boogie
O'ded On Life Itself
The Vigil
Live For Me
Flaming Telepaths
See You In Black
The Last Days Of May
In Thee
Burning For You
Godzillia (with bass & drum solos)
Don't Fear The Reaper

Encore
~~~~~~
Dominance And Submission

03/27/1998 - Magoon
Goofie's
Notes: It was a Magoon reunion playing a benefit. The orginal guitar player Swamp Webber was their, but Christ Stallone (the original bass player) was not.

Set list(s):
Set One
~~~~~~~
I've Had It
Road To Magoon
Gigolo Aunt
Money For Love
Bee Hive
Hallalujah
Blow It Out
Green Fatigue
Ravaged Raving Lunatic
Big Old Plague
Firefly

Set Two
~~~~~~~
Two Way Street
Piss Shake
Baby Toe Nails
Bernie Vigilante
Drunk
Get Out
Old Men In Camaros
Johnny's In Love Again
Mutilated Girl Of Love
Human Dildo

Encore
~~~~~~
Piss Shake
......

04/06/1998 - Saxon
Peabody's Down Under
Notes: Drove up there with Alenko. Hung out at this killer strip club called the Circus & Sideshow. Got to meet Biff after the show.

Set list(s):
Saxon
~~~~~
Unleash The Beast
Dallas 1 PM
Cut Out The Disease
Broken Heroes
20,000 Feet
747 (Strangers In The Night)
Thin Red Line
Circle Of Light
Motorcycle Man
The Eagle Has Landed
Absent Friends
Strong Arm Of The Law
Denim And Leather
Power And The Glory
Princess Of The Night

Encore 1
~~~~~~~~~
Dogs Of War
And The Bands Played On
Wheels Of Steel

Encore 2
~~~~~~~~
Crusader
This Town Rocks

04/09/1998 - Saxon
The Penny Arcade
Notes: Bumped into the boys before the show and drove Biff, Paul & Doug to House Of Guitars.

Set list(s):
Saxon
~~~~~
Unleash The Beast
Dallas 1 PM
Cut Out The Disease
Dogs Of War (Dedicated to Sex Martin & I for taking them to House Of Guitars)
20,000 Feet
Thin Red Line
Motorcycle Man
The Eagle Has Landed
The Preacher (first time on this tour)
Circle Of Light
Denim And Leather
Power And The Glory
Princess Of The Night

Encore 1
~~~~~~~~~
(Doug Solo)
Wheels Of Steel
This Town Rocks
(Paul Solo)
Crusader

Encore 2
~~~~~~~~
All Hell's Breaking Loose

05/16/1998 - King Diamond
The Penny Arcade
Notes:

Set list(s):
Hate Machine
~~~~~~~~~~~~
?
?
3 1/2 Stesp
? (black)
Has Been (about 80's metal bands)
?
Retard

Pitbull Daycare
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
?
? (leave alone)
?
?
? (fuck you)
Children Of The Grave

King Diamond
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Welcome Home
The Invisible Guests
The Spider's Lullaby
Sleepless Nights
The Eye Of The Witch
The Trial
The Candle
Up From The Grave
The Family Ghost
Voodoo Intro
Voodoo
One Down Two To Go
Sarah's Night
The Exocist
Abigail

Encore 1
~~~~~~~~
Halloween

Encore 2
~~~~~~~~
Come To The Sabbath

05/21/1998 - The Tubes
Millenium
Notes: Got autographs by Fee Waybill, Roger Steen & Rick Anderson after the show.

Set list(s):
The Tubes
~~~~~~~~~~
Up From The Deep
Sushi Girl
What Do You Want From Life?
Genius Of America
Piece By Piece
She's A Beauty
Slipped My Disco
Tip Of My Tongue (nuts drum solo)
Matter Of Pride
Mr. Hate
Amnesia
Say What You Want
White Punks On Dope

Encore
~~~~~~
Mondo Bondage
Talk To You Later

05/27/1998 - King Diamond
Lee's Palace
Notes:

Set list(s):
Pitbull Daycare
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
?
? (leave alone)
?
?
? (fuck you)
Children Of The Grave

King Diamond
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Welcome Home
The Invisible Guests
The Spider's Lullaby
Sleepless Nights
The Eye Of The Witch
The Trial
The Candle
Up From The Grave
The Family Ghost
Voodoo Intro
Voodoo
One Down Two To Go
Sarah's Night
The Exocist
Abigail

Encore 1
~~~~~~~~
Halloween

Encore 2
~~~~~~~~
Come To The Sabbath

06/18/1998 - The Southern Rock All Stars
The Surf Club
Notes: I went up with Feedback Bernie, we had a great time and got to meet the guys.

Set list(s):
Set One
~~~~~~~
Railroad Man
They Call Me The Breeze
Wishing Well
Dreams I'll Never See
Flirting With Disaster
Gimmie Three Steps

Set Two
~~~~~~~
Don't Believe A Word (new song, Thin Lizzy cover)
Can't You See
Crazy Again (new song)
Bounty Hunter
Pay My Dues
Sweet Home Alabama
Train Train
Highway Song

Encore
~~~~~~
What's Your Name? (we left in the middle)

06/23/1998 - Wide Mouth Mason
The Barcade
Notes: Gary Zajdel bought me a ticket to the show...they were nuts.

Set list(s):
Wide Mouth Mason
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Game
Tom Robinson
Corn Rolls
Sister Sally
Sugar (new song)
My Old Self
The River Song
The Preacherman Song
Midnight Rain
Tell Me
Mary Mary

Encore
~~~~~~
Castles Made Of Sand

06/25/1998 - Molly Hatchet
Laffyette Square
Notes:

Set list(s):
Molly Hatchet
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bounty Hunter
Shoot You Dead And Gone (?)
Gator Country
Beating The Odds
Edge Of Sundown (?)
It's All Over Now
Fall Of The Peacemakers
Saddle Tramp
Whiskey Man
Dreams I'll Never See
So Alone (?)

Encore
~~~~~~
Queenie (?)
Flirting With Disaster

07/18/1998 - George Jones
Melody Fair Theatre
Notes: Sex Martin got free tix, we went with Rocky Paluchi.

Set list(s):
James Patrick Lynch
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mexico (?)
Giving In
Ohio Feels Like Texas
You Mess With The Bull You Get The Horn
Leaving Lousiana
Don't Wake Me Up
I Can't Drive Without The Outlaws
I'll Be There When They Tear The Last Honky Tonk Down
I'll Never Lose This American Smile

George Jones
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Love You Just The Same (?)
Give Me A Country Song (?)
High Tech Red Neck
Once You've Had The Best
The Race Is On
Bartender Blues
The Black Mountain Rag
A Picture Of Me Without You
The Corvette Song
I'll Give You Something To Drink About
Tied To A Stone
Fire On The Mountain
Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes
The Way That I Am
Smack Dab In The Middle Of Love
Medley: I'll Share My World With You
The Window Up Above
The Grand Tour
Walk Through This World With Me
White Lightning
She Thinks I Still Care
(fiddle tune)
He Stopped Loving Her Today
Rockin Chair

08/07/1998 - The Brain Surgeons
The Mohawk Place
Notes: It was great opening for Al and company. He even invited me on stage for the encore and I sang Astronomy.

Set list(s):
NSS (not in order)
~~~
My Own Way
All That And Brains Too
The Last Days Of May
Blind Faith
Mr. Handpuppet Man
I Don't Care If You Go To Hell
No Apologies
(You Can) Grab On If You Like

The Brain Surgeons
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
St. Vitus Dance
Date With A Guitar
I Am The One You Warned Me Of
Baby Ice Dog
A Kiss Is A Promise
Laura's Plastic Swords
Gimme Nothing
My Civilization
The Red & Black (with the 5 guitars)

Set 2
~~~~~
Stairway To The Stars
Cities On Flame
Astronomy (with NSS on lead vocals)
The Revenge Of Vera Gemini
Name Your Monster

08/24/1998 - Nazareth
Front 54
Notes: Missed Rick, arrived just as Naz hit the stage.

Set list(s):
Nazareth
~~~~~~~~
Telegram
Steamroller
Razamanaz
God Saved The South
Beggars Day
Dream On
Holiday
My White Bicycle
Hearts Grown Cold
Java Blues
Whiskey Drinking Woman
Hair Of The Dog

Encore
~~~~~~
This Flight Tonight
Love Hurts

09/05/1998 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - John Kay & Steppenwolf
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Notes:

Set list(s):
Kim Mitchell
~~~~~~~~~~~~
(not complete)
Battlescar
Lager & Ale
Go For A Soda

John Kay & Steppenwolf
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sookie Sookie
Rock & Roll Rebel
? (Rolling On)
The Endless Commercial
Hey Lawdy Mama
? (Hold On - 1996)
Hoochie Coochie Man
Monster
(Organ Solo)
Magic Carpet Ride
Born To Be Wild

Lynyrd Skynyrd
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
? (Everybody's Getting Wild)
?
Saturday Night Special
What's Your Name?
The Needle & The Spoon
I Know A Little
? (Speed Back East)
That Smell
Simple Man
T For Texas
Gimmie Three Steps
The Call Me The Breeze
Sweet Home Alabama

Encore
~~~~~~
Freebird

09/06/1998 - Union
Miggs Classic Roxx
Notes: Met the guys and got autographs. Did a Q & A with Bruce Kulick.

Set list(s):
Union
~~~~~
Old Man Wise
Around Again
Heavy D
The Jungle
Love (I Don't Need It Anymore)
Man In The Moon
I Walk Alone
Surender (Cheap Trick cover)
Empty Soul
Pain Behind Your Eyes
Tangerine

Encore
~~~~~~
Power To The Music

11/13/1998 - Men At Work
Sideshow Music Hall
Notes: Got backstage and met Colin Hay & Greg Ham, thanx to Shannon. Show was a dream come true.

Set list(s):
Howard Jones
~~~~~~~~~~~~
? (played a bunch I didn't know)
I'd Like To Get To Know You Well
What Is Love
Everlasting Love

Encore
~~~~~~
Noone Ever Is To Blame
Things Can Only Get Better


Men At Work
~~~~~~~~~~~
Touching The Untouchables
Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive
Catch A Star
Blue For You
I Can See It In Your Eyes
No Sign Of Yesterday
Overkill
Everything I Need
The Longest Night
Show Me (Colin solo?)
Underground (dedicated to Ron Strykert who now lives in a missle silo)
Helpless Automation
No Restrictions
Down By The Sea
I Can't Take This Town
Love Terrorist (?)
Who Can It Be Now?
Down Under

Encore
~~~~~~~
It's A Mistake
Be Good Johnny

11/18/1998 - Chris Isaak
Auditorium Theater
Notes: Went up with Sex Martin. Got him to autograph all the cds after the show. Thanx to dwright@hlmnet.com for filling in the blank spaces.

Set list(s):
Shawn Mullins
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
?
?
Level Land
? (Kansas)
? (Saddest song he ever wrote)
The Gulf Of Mexico
? (Rock A Bye)
? (Salbury Steak Day/Quit the klan)
Schindler

Chris Isaak
~~~~~~~~~~~
Wanderin
I'm Not Sleepy
Please
Speak Of The Devil
Flying
Sombody's Cryin
Wicked Game
Go Walking Down There
Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing
Forever Blue
Black Flowers
I Want Your Love (Put Out Your Hand)
Diddly Daddy

Encore 1
~~~~~~~~
Super Magic 2000
Blue Hotel

Encore 2
~~~~~~~~
Don't Get So Down On Yourself
Only The Lonely
San Francisco Nights
Bonnie B

11/29/1998 - Kiss
Marine Midland Arena
Notes: I went with Alenko. It was his birthday. Had some 3-D shit on the screen...big deal...Gene forgot the words to God Of Thunder...I'll never see them again...

Set list(s):
Econoline Crush
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
?
Wicked

Kiss
~~~~
Psycho Circus
Shout It Out Loud
Deuce
Do You Love Me?
Firehouse
Shock Me
Let Me Go Rock & Roll
Calling Dr. Love
Into The Void/Ace's stupid guitar solo...burp
King Of The Nighttime World
Bass solo/Gene spits blood and flies to the ceiling...burp
God Of Thunder
Within
Peter Criss drum solo...brup
Cold Gin
Love Gun...Paul flies in crowd to smaller stage in middle of audience
100,000 Years
Rock And Roll All Night

Encore
~~~~~~
Beth
Detroit Rock City
Black Diamond

04/05/1999 - Slayer, Fear Factory, Sick Of It All, Hed PE, Meshugga
Sideshow Music Hall
Notes: First Slayer show. Was total nutsness! Went Colin (from TO) and his buddy Moe.

Set list(s):
Slayer setlist
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(set list supplied by Rocky Paluchi)
Bitter Peace (Diabolus in Musica)
Death's Head (Diabolus in Musica)
Scrum (Diabolus in Musica)
Evil Has No Boundaries (Show No Mercy)
Hell Awaits (Hell Awaits)
War Ensemble (Seasons In The Abyss)
In The Name Of God (Diabolus in Musica)
Dead Skin Mask (Seasons In The Abyss)
Season's In The Abyss (Seasons In The Abyss)
Die By The Sword (Show No Mercy)
Postmortem (Reign In Blood)
Raining Blood (Reign In Blood)
Stain Of Mind (Diabolus in Musica)
Dittohead (Divine Intervention)
Mandatory Suicide (South Of Heaven)
Angel Of Death (Reign In Blood)

Encore
~~~~~~
South Of Heaven (South Of Heaven)
Chemical Warfare (Haunting The Chapel)

04/08/1999 - Blue Oyster Cult
The Evening Star Lounge
Notes:

Set list(s):
NSS & His Bargain Bin Band
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Have A Shot And A Beer
Mr. Handpuppet Man
All That And Brains Too...
Eunice
My Own Way
No Apologies
(You Can) Grab On If You Like
Blind Faith

Blue Oyster Cult
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Stairway To The Stars
Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll
Career Of Evil
ETI
Harvest Moon
Buck's Boogie
Joan Crawford
Flaming Telepaths
See You In Black
The Last Days Of May
In Thee
Burning For You
Godzillia (with bass & drum solos)
Don't Fear The Reaper

Encore
~~~~~~
The Red & Black

04/17/1999 - Colin Hay
Van Dyck Club
Notes: Drove up with Rocky. We had a great time. Met Colin after the show and got autographs. Hung out with a sick dude who writes for Goldmine and his wife. Quality!! Colin could have done more tunes though. We caught the second show-9pm.

Set list(s):
Colin Hay
~~~~~~~~~
I Haven't Seen You In A Long Time
Freedom Calling
Can't Take This Town
Wayfaring Sons
Waiting For My Life To Begin
Maggie
It's A Mistake
Death Row Conversation
Down Under (w/ Kukaberra tease)
Looking For Jack
Company Of Starngers

Encore
~~~~~~
Be Good Johnnie

05/22/1999 - Motorhead
Sideshow Music Hall
Notes: Went up with Sex Martin, Alan Skeldon, Colin from TO and Jimmy from Hamilton. Got to meet Lemmy shooting pool in the Joint. He was trying to pick my hag up.

Set list(s):
Motorhead
~~~~~~~~~
Bomber
No Class
I'm So Bad Baby, I Don't Care
Over The Shoulder
Civil War
Take The Blame
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Not For Sale
The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
Nothing Up My Sleve
Born To Raise Hell
Shine
Overnight Sensation
Sacrifice
Orgasmatron
I'm Going To Brazil
Iron Fist
Killed By Death

Encore
~~~~~~
Ace Of Spades
Overkill

06/03/1999 - Flotsam & Jetsam
The Barcade
Notes: Went with Schroedy, Rocky & Sex Martin. Got invited on the tour bus becuase Schroedy got Ed Carlson stoned. Got autographs from Eric A.K., Ed Carlson and Craig Nielson.

Set list(s):
Pain Stake
~~~~~~~~~~
Rituals Of Pollution
Pleasure Center
Autonomized
Second Sould
Planet Dead
Primitive Aggression
Brew O' Confidence
Unlisted

Flotsam & Jetsam
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dream Scrape
Chemical Noose
Hammerhead
Swatting At Flies
Missing
It's On Me
Monster
Falling
Me
Hard On You
Wading Through The Darkness
No Place For Disgrace
?
Fairies Wear Boots

Encore
~~~~~~
I Live You Die

06/12/1999 - Anvil
Malibu Jack's Hideway
Notes: My buddy Colin "Mad Dog" Brown from Toronto has been buggin' me to see "the old" Anvil. Met up with him, Sick Jimi Ramsay from Hamilton and a couple of other sick snappers from TO. Bought the cd Speed Of Sound and got the band's autographs. A mega bunch of swell guys. Watched Colin drink a beer through his nose on stage...too sick!! Lead singer Lips made a ton of kooky faces on stage, must have gone to Front Man School with the lead singer frpm the Killer Dwarfs. Lips has the EXACT guitar sound, flying V guitar and lead playing style as Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap, it's uncanny. Taught my hag how to play air hockey and whipped Sick Jimi's ass as well. A good time was had by all.

Set list(s):
Jane Doe
~~~~~~~~

Anvil
~~~~~
Speed Of Sound
Smoking Green
Old School
Bullshit
Forged In Fire
Winged Assissin
Blood On The Ice
The March Of The Crabs (drum solo)
Blood In The Playground
No Evil
666
Metal On Metal

Encore
~~~~~~
Mothra (Nigel Tufnel guitar solo-played guitar with a viabrator)

07/10/1999 - Britney Spears
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Notes: My first concert with my daughter and we had the time of our lives. Michael Fredo couldn't sing his way out of a paper bag. Good God that man was flat left and right. Ginger couldn't stop hugging me, kissing me, and thanking me for taking her to a concert. I've created a monster, today Britney, tomorrow Motorhead.

Set list(s):
Micheal Fredo
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Intro
Do You Think About Me (?)
Hard Enough To Say (?)
This Time Around

Boyz-n-Girlz United
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Boyz-n-Girlz intro
Dance With Me (?)
That's What You Get (?)
They Say

Third Storee
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Inspector Gadget intro
Is It You Or Is It Me (?)
(?)
(?)
(?)

Britney Spears
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Intro (Baby One More Time tease)
(You Drive Me) Crazy
Soda Pop
Born To Make You Happy
From The Bottom Of My Heart
(band jam-drum solo)
Vogue/Material Girl tease
Black Cat/Nasty tease
The Beat Goes On
(intro dancers)
I Will Be There
Open Arms (too sick Journey style)
Sometimes

Encore
~~~~~~
Baby One More Time

07/31/1999 - The Misfits, Earth Crisis, The Gathering
The Flying Machine
Notes: This is is what's weird about, and I have to be honest. I went to see The Gathering, not knowing they were opening for the Misfits. My hag & I were at the club around 1 pm. The Misfits showed up first around 4, they are the niceset bunch of guys I've ever met. They immediately started unloading their weight equipment and began lifting and drinking power shakes. Jerry was mega swell, signing autographs for all the kids and giving interviews. The Gathering pulled in about 5:30, great kids. I wish them the best. Their set rocked. It was a million degrees in the club and we had to leave to get back for Toronto so I never saw The Misfits, but I can guarantee, I'll see them the next time they come to Buffalo.

Set list(s):
The Gathering
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Great Ocean Road
On Most Surfaces (Inuit)
Strange Machines
Probably Built In The Fifties
Liberty Bell
Travel

08/01/1999 - Roger Waters
The Molson Amphitheatre
Notes: Went up with Zimph, Brother John and my hag. Set list could have been better, but show was solid gold! Roger fucked up the words for Comfortably Numb.


Set list(s):
Roger Waters - Set One
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In The Flesh
The Thin Ice
Another Brick In The Wall, Part I
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Another Brick In The Wall, Part II
Mother
Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
Southhampton Dock
Pigs On The Wing, Part I
Dogs
Welcome To The Machine
Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I - IX

Set Two
~~~~~~~
Breathe
Time
Money
Every Stangers Eyes
The Powers That Be
What God Wants, Part I
Perfect Sense, Part I
It's A Miracle
Amused To Death
Brain Damage
Eclipse

Encore
~~~~~~
Comfortably Numb

08/05/1999 - The Marshall Tucker Band
Laffyette Square
Notes: Sick dudes...got their autographs after the show. Doug's voice is starting to sound like jizz.

Set list(s):
The Marshall Tucker Band
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Like Good Music
Heard It In A Love Song
This Ol' Cowboy
Where A Country Boy Belongs
Hillbilly Band
Take The Highway
Stay In The Country
Cattle Drive
Fire On The Mountain
24 Hours At A Time

Encore
~~~~~~
Can't You See
Southern Belle (? New tune, blues tempo)

08/15/1999 - Mark Farner
The Majestic Theater
Notes: The tix were given to me by Dawn Wichlacz, a work associate. What a great time! We arrived late and came in during Undone. Someone told me that he opened with Hey You. Got Bachman's autograph after the show. Farner impressed the hell out of me. What a great voice! Some of those old Grand Funk tunes were mega nuts.

Set list(s):
Randy Bachman Band
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hey You
Undun
Let It Ride
Albert Flasher
These Eyes/Laughing
Bus Rider
Looking Out For #1
Roll On Down The Highway
No Time
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
American Woman
Taking Care Of Business

Mark Farner
~~~~~~~~~~~
Footstompin' Music
Rock And Roll Show (? Nothing But A Party)
?
Hooked On Love (?)
Mr. Liberty Driver (?)
Famous Lady (?)
Judgement Day Blues (?)
Heartbreaker (first song he ever wrote)
Mean Mistreater
Don't Let Them Take Your Guy (dedicated to Frank Zappa)
Rock And Roll American Style (?)
Love From Above
To Be In Love (?)
The Locomotion
Some Kind Of Wonderfull

Encore
~~~~~~
Closer To Home

10/18/1999 - Robbie Williams
The RPM Warehouse
Notes: Went up with Gooch, his brother and my hag. Had a gold time...Veronica and I bought Gooch's ticket for his birthday...Robbie was telling chicks in the front row to shut the fuck up...killer band, killer tunes, killer show...

Set list(s):
Robbie Williams
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Let Me Entertain You
Man Machine
Lazy Days (Hey Jude ending tease)
Strong
Win Some Lose Some
One Of God's Better People
She's The One
No Regrets
Old Before I Die
Angels

Encore
~~~~~~
Should I Stay Or Should I Go? (The Clash)
Song 2 (Blur)
Millenium

11/25/1999 - The David Nelson Band
Sideshow Music Hall
Notes: This was the 14th Annual Belle Starr Reunion. Three different stages and venues as follows.

The Side Show Concert Hall: The David Nelson Band, Red Rhythm, NSS & His Bargain Bin Band, Darby Switch

The Funhouse: Willie and The Reinhardts, The Danny Lynn Wilson Band, The Whiskey Creek Band, Silver Extreme, The Morvells

The Joint: Lewis & Klark and the Dave Betts Band

It was also the release party for the Lewis & Klark Holiday Cd with Friends.

Set list(s):
David Nelson Band
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Panama Red
I'm Not Ready But I'm Right
Keep Turning Me Down (? old David Nelson tune)
Still Got A Long Way To Go Home (?)
No Reason To Be Found (?)
Where Are You Tonight Sweet Marie (?)
The Road To Aramgeddon
The Edge Of A Wire (?)
Beat It On Down The Line
Lonesome L.A. Cowboy (gold!!)
?
The Wheel
Think I've Been Hit (?)

Encore
~~~~~~
Babe It Ain't No Lie

NSS & His Bargain Bin Band
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Have You Met Edna?
Have A Shot & A Beer
Mr. Handpuppet Man
Me, Bobby McGee & Our Gay Teletubby
Eunice
(You Can) Grab On If You Like
My Own Way
Blind Faith

11/26/1999 - Neurosis
The Penny Arcade
Notes: Went down with Rocky & Sex Martin. I was tired so I slept sporatically.

Set list(s):
Neurosis (incomplete & not in order)
~~~~~~~

The Doorway
2 older tunes (from Souls at Zero I believe)
Under the Surface
End of Harvest
Belief
Locust Star
The Road to Sovereignty

12/02/1999 - The Goo Goo Dolls
Shea's Buffalo Center
Notes: Went with Sam Sciandra who gave me a ticket. The Goos were collecting toys for tots and gave out autographed pictures. Da Mexican Session cranked (they won the 103.3 Contest), Velour blew. Goos were gold, but I think Johnny was flat.

Set list(s):
Da Mexican Session (not in order)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hot For Teacher

Velour (not in order)
~~~~~
Merry Go Round (?)
Something To Remember

The Goo Goo Dolls
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dizzy
Long Way Down
Lazy Eye (from Batman)
Slide
Faling Down
Full Forever
Black Balloon
Bullet Proof
Naked
Name
January Friend
She's Gone
Broadway
(Another Time Around (?) Robbie tune)
Flat Top
Acoustic #3
Iris

Encore
~~~~~~
Just The Way You Are
Burning Up
Hate This Place
Two Days In February

12/16/1999 - Quiet Riot
Rock & Roll Heaven
Notes: Missed Black Widow's set, but got the info from Lana. This has got to be the worst show I've ever seen. I was so pumped to see them and Quiet Queer really let me down. They hammered through the hits at a million miles an hour playing them as if they would rather be golfing, zipping in and out of boring nowhere jams. The hamormies blew. Will somebody please tell Frankie Banali that he is a great drummer, just please stop over playing? The guy pretty much ruined WASP-The Crimson Idol with his over playing.

Set list(s):
Black Widow
~~~~~~~~~~
I Don't Need No Doctor
Green-Tinted Sixties Mind
Radar Love
Wait
Mr. Crowley
All Alone
Children Of The Grave
Highway Song
Enter Sandman

Quiet Riot
~~~~~~~~
Alive and Well
Slick Black Cadillac
Condition Critical
Mama Weer All Crazee Now
Angry
The Wild & The Young (Purple Haze tease)
Thunderbird (dedicated to Randy Rhodes)
? (Should be ...anyway ) great tune kind of a southern groove
Sign Of The Times
Carlos' Gay Guitar Solo
Let's Get Crazy (Black Dog Tease)
The Ritual
Cum On Feel The Noize
Metal Health
Party All Night (Join Together Tease)

12/23/1999 - Shy Boy (w/Billy Sheenan - Talas)
Rock & Roll Heaven
Notes: What a fucked up night. Feedback has always been telling me how great Talas was and how I have to see them. He hears about this secret reunion, calls me up, sez he bought the ticket and I'm going...tough shit. Well, I've always wanted to see them so I said what the hell. Here's where it gets interesting. The bar has paid their bills, so there is no heat or electricity in the place. The whole club is run by generators. Shy Boy's set was lame and gay. After an hour or more wait...Talas finally hits the stage. The rocked. Three songs in the power goes out. Ten minutes later the fix the generators, it goes back on. Power goes out in three more songs. I say fuck this we're leaving. Stupid Feedback didn't want to go. I said screw this...I'll call my hag to come pick me up. I go outside 6 cop cars show up to escort everyone out of the building. What a gay night...I was so pissed at Feedback...

Set list(s):
Shy Boy
~~~~~~
Are You Gonna Go My Way?
Hey Hey Baby
The Shape I'm In
Mystery Man
Somehow Somewhere Someway
Higher Ground
Cult Of Personality
Woodstock
Going Down
Nobodies Crying In My Home
Perpetual Motion
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)

Shy Boy (Talas)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sink Your Teeth Into That
Rock The Nation
Rock Candy
Sheer Heart Attack
Bad Company
Headfirst
See Saw

03/08/2000 - Reverend Horton Heat
Water Street Music Hall
Notes: Went up with V. Hung out with good friends Damon and Brad for the show. Nuts club...remimded me of Fifth Avenue from Purple Rain. Crashers kicked ass...my back started to hurt so I went to the car to sleep.

Set list(s):
Dance Hall Crashers (set list courtesy of stage)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Go!
Purr
Mr. Blue
Next To You
The Real You
Triple Track
Enough
American Girl
Cat Fight
Good For Nuthin'
Othello
Queen For A Day
Don't Wanna Behave
Lost Again

Reverend Horton Heat
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Set One
~~~~~~
? (instrumental)
Since You Been Gone (?)
Do It Till... (?)
It's My _____ On The Floor (?)
Spend A Night In The Box
Boogie Woogie Now (?)
Can't Surf
Scratch It Baby (?)
400 Bucks
Dead Wrong Again (?)
(?)
It's Martini Time
The Jimbo Song
(left to go to the van)

03/10/2000 - Humbucker
The Tralfamadore Cafe
Notes: Went with V....had a great time...band sounded hot. Only caught the last song of the Bushmen and wound up leaving after Ingnorance Is Bliss because we were both mega tired.

Set list(s):
The Electric Bushmen
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Detroit City

Humbucker (set list courtesy light man)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Giving It Away
Super Man
Think About Me
When I Was Young
Pure Sky
Buck Up
Complain
Soul Food
Place 4 Me
Ingorance Is Bliss
I'm The Fool
Winning The War
Seconde Chance
Searching For Diamonds
Spare Room
Digging A Hole
Behind Clouds
5 Golden Apples
Without A Sound
Tractor
Color Blind

03/24/2000 - Tom Jones
UB Center For The Arts
Notes: Ultra nuts show...We (Sex Martin, Gooch, Jahoo & myself) were fourth row center. Tom caved my head in...Jahoo was gold scoring these gold seats...

Set list(s):
Set One
~~~~~~
Ain't That A Lot Of Love
Hard To Handle
Help Yourself
With These Hands
Without Love
Delilah
She's A Lady
Sometimes We Cry
Mama Told Me Not To Come
Sexbomb
Crapped Out Again
If I Only Knew

Set Two
~~~~~~
James Bond Theme
Thunderball
Shakey Ground
Give Me One Reason
Never Fall In Love Again
Waking In Memphis
Green, Green Grass Of Home
What's New Pussycat
You Can Leave Your Hat On
Midnight Hour
Hold On I'm Coming
It's Not Unusual

Encore:
~~~~~~
Are You Gonna Go My Way?
Kiss

04/09/2000 - Tina Turner
Marine Midland Arena
Notes: Went as a guest with Wayne & Michelle Nelligan, Pam Good and Veronica. Janice Robinson was heavy...ran from the plane to the stage, I felt her pain. Lionel was gold, I personally think he took the night (thanx to Michelle for help with the set list), Tina was gold (Acid Queen tease caved my head in), but too much Rock Vegas dancing and costume change smaltz. More rock less dancing cheeze...book with the dancers...

Set list(s):
Janice Robinson
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I Did What I Did (?)
Finally Taking Over (?)
Afterlife (?)
What Can Happen To Us

Lione Richie
~~~~~~~~~~
Hello
Running With The Night
Dancing On The Ceiling
Cinderella (new tune)
Three Times A Lady
Stuck On You
Fancy Dancer (?)
All Night Long
Brick House
Still

Tina Turner
~~~~~~~~~
I Want To Take You Higher
Absolutely Nothing's Changed
A Fool In Love
Acid Queen (TOO SICK!!!!!!!!!)
River Deep Mountain High (evil!)
We Don't Need Another Hero
Better Be Good To Me
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Private Dancer
Let's Stay Together
What's Love Got To Do With It
Living Without You (? - new single)
Baby I'm A Star (back up singers only)
Help (ultra heavy)
Whatever You Need (caved my head it)
Try A Little Tenderness (burp)
Addited To Love (burp)
Simply The Best (gold)
Proud Mary
Nutbush City Limits

05/03/2000 - Union
Miggs Classic Roxx
Notes: Went with V...noone there at all...mega pity...bought the new disc there...got autographs and what not...killer show....killer band...

Set list(s):
Union
~~~~~
Old Man Wise
Dead
Heavy D
Love (I Don't Need It Any More)
Hypnotized
The Jungle
Do Your Own Thing
Everything's Alright
Who Do You Think You Are
Man On The Moon

Encore
~~~~~~
No More
Let It Flow

05/25/2000 - Peter Searcy
The Tralfamadore Cafe
Notes: Pete is one of the nicest guys in the world. He let me hang backstage with the band and even offered me a beer...too sick. Gold voice...hope he gets to where he needs to...the guys and road crew were mega swell. One of my better shows....though I blew out my voice from nerves...

Set list(s):
NSS
~~~~
Carefree
Highway To Tomorrow
Have You Met Edna?
Don't Die On Me Darlene
Blind Faith
I Don't Care If You Go To Hell
No Apologies
My Own Way

Peter Searcy (courtesy his stage set list)
~~~~~~~~~~
Look
Furniture
Ceiling Star
Invent
Hateful
Nothing
Balsa
Losing Light Fast
I Will
Crush Collector
Bored

06/14/2000 - U.D.O.
The Fun House
Notes: Went with Sex Martin, Rocky & my hag. This show has to be the sleeper hit of 2000 for me. I was totally floored by it's intensity and power. Udo and boyz came out with a bang and never let us rest for one second. It was a non-stop barrage of songs. Winterdreams was wonderful and Balls To The Wall made me insane!!! The group of us that were in the front (about 25 or so) were all alike. Between 27-33 and knew our metal goods. While a bunch of dorks were busy hitting on my hag, I rocked it out with Chunkhead Jeff and Brother Mike. Udo looked great and sounded great. Got a chance to meet for autographs after the show....nuts. If you ever bump into Sex Martin or me, ask us about our hotdog dinner @ the Bacteria Square before the show.

Show review from NSS 06/00 Newz Letter: Second, I went to see U.D.O. (see the review in the concerts section of my web site) at the Funhouse last Wednesday (06/14/00). U.D.O. is Udo Dirkschneider's (former lead singer of the German metal band Accept) solo project. At 48 years old, Udo hammered through those old Accept tunes with such a vengeance, I felt my head was going to crack in half and my brains would bleed out my ears. There was about 25-30 of us old ugly heavy metallers (all between 27-33) in the front row, banging our heads and pounding our fists in the air. When Stefan Kaufmann (former Accept drummer now U.D.O. guitarist) began strumming the chords to Accepts biggest hit "Balls To The Wall", the whole gang of us went completely bloody mental. It was beautiful...I was 16 again...until I got home and me back began to hurt...then I felt my age.



Set list(s):
Highwire
~~~~~~~
One Of us
Choir Or Chaos
Keep Me Alive
You Better Believe
Reality Check
Fight For What You Believe In
Youth Gone Wild
Tonight
More Outta Life
Seeing Is Beliving
Diamonds And Rust

U.D.O.
~~~~~
Holy
Razor Blood (?)
Midnight Mover
Independence Day
(?) mega nuts tune
Drum Solo
London Leatherboys
No Limits
Winterdreams (ultra rare gold!!!!)
Metal Heart
Living On The Front Line (guitar solo)
Restless & Wild
Son Of A Bitch
Balls To The Wall (mega nuts)

Encore
~~~~~
Princess Of The Dawn (gold)
I'm A Rebel
Fast As A Shark (killer)

06/15/2000 - The Guess Who
The Molson Amphitheatre
Notes: Drove up with Brother John, V, Feedback, Bruce Blackman and Tom & Melinda Danat. Arrived late and missed Wide Mouth Mason. Parking was jizz!! Wound up getting caught in the wrong lane heading to the band access enterance. Could have sworn the band drove by in the escort van. Show was killer...tons great rare tunes. Too much of a mellow acoustic set in the middle, Looking Out For #1 was neat addition, but book with Takin' Care Of Business. Always knew all the hits...it was nice to get turned on to the rare goods.

Set list(s):
The Guess Who
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Runnin' Back To Saskatoon
Guns Guns Guns
These Eyes
Rain Dance
Glamour Boy (mega rare)
Looking Out For #1
Sour Suite (possessed)
No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
Talisman (mega ultra secret rare gold)
Let It Ride
Undun
Follow Your Daughter Home (killer)
American Woman (burp)
Albert Flasher
Hand Me Down World
Orly
Road Food
Taking Care Of Business (mega burp)
Laughing
Clap For The Wolfman
Bus Rider

Encore
~~~~~~
No Time

Encore II
~~~~~~~
Share The Land

06/22/2000 - The Animals II
Laffyette Square
Notes: This has got to be one of the worst shows ever....I almost walked out. All Ray Charles covers, no Animals tunes. Went with my buddy Ed adn hung out with Brother John. Ed kept yelling "Do I make you horny?" at the stage...I was rolling.

Set list(s):
The Animals II
~~~~~~~~~~~
?
Boom Boom Boom
Baby Let Me Take You
I Believe To My Soul
See See Rider
Don't Bring Me Down
I'm Gonna Send You Back To Walker
House Of The Rising Sun
Bright Lights Big City
Roberta
It's My Life
I'm Crying
Hallaujah I Just Love Her So
Bring It Home To Me
?
Tell Me What I Say
Road Runner
Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

Encore
~~~~~~
I Need Your Love So Bad
?

07/18/2000 - The Brain Surgeons
The Mohawk Place
Notes:

Set list(s):
The Brain Surgeons
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
St. Vitus Dance
Cities On Flame
Stones In My Passway
Last Angry Woman
A Kiss Is A Promise
Niagara Falls
On The Road (Again)
Name Your Monster
Take Care Of You (?)
Godzilla
Dominance & Submission
Death Valley Nights
Astronomy (w/ NSS on vocals)
The Red And Black

Encore
~~~~~~
Biloxi

07/29/2000 - The Tragically Hip
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Notes: V won tix from the Edge, went with V & Gooch. Place was so packed, I've never seen that many people going nuts at a show before. Crowd was so mega loud. Special thanx to Kevin Kerr and Gouch for helping me out with the setlist as I didn't know jack shit.

Set list(s):
Chris & Kate
~~~~~~~~~~
Oh Virginia (?)
Next To My Soul (?)
? (Does It Scare You To Know)
Suns In Your Eyes (?)
Vanishing Point
Apology

Guster
~~~~~
? (4321)
? (I've Been So Bad)
? (So High, So What)
?
? (Elect Me)
? ( All By My Side)
?
?
? (Let Me See Her Again)

The Tragically Hip
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tiger The Lion
Fully Completely
Puttin Down
Gift Shop
Pigeon Camera
Poets
Lake Fever
Fireworks
Springtime In Vienna
Completists
Courage
?
Ahead By A Century
Wheat Kings
Nautical Disaster
My Music At Work

Encore
~~~~~~
Bobcaygeon
At the Hundredth Meridian

Encore II
~~~~~~~
Little Bones

08/01/2000 - Iron Maiden
The Air Canada Centre
Notes: Ok, call this Canadian ingenuity, but I just don't get it. The show as billed as the Sears Theater inside the Air Canada Centre. It thought, "Holy Shit! There's a theater inside that aud?" Nope, half of the Air Canada Centre was covered off and was renamed the Sears Theater.
Had great seats, up close and to the far left.
Entombed impressed me, even though I'm not really into that growl metal.
Rob Halford caved my fucking head it. He played a sheer set of molten metal, not missing one scream or a beat. Perfect set of great solo stuff and rare Priest.
Maiden sounded great, played great (except from Wrathchild, timing guys...timing) and looked great. Except:

a) the set list sucked mega dick (can't you guys just forget the Blaze Bayley years? I did!!!) How about Revelations, Still Life or Back In The Village? Do we really need the Trooper. And enough of the new album or at least play the good songs like Out Of The Silent Planet rather than Blood Brothers!

b) Bruce saida bunch of cocky stupid shit on stage. Telling off other bands and claiming that Brave New World is best Maiden album ever, better than Number Of The Beast & Piece Of Mind. (I'm sorry sir, but that answer is incorrect, the punishment is death)

c) Somebody give Janick Gers his walking papers. Get of the stage you fucking Robert Plant poser cheeze crack guitar player and take your wammy bar with you.

Funny story: during Hallowed Be Thy Name, Bruce was yelling at Rod Smallwood who was smoking off stage by all the pyrotechnics. Nuts!!!

Cool Wicker Man Eddie! Rent the movie NOW!!!

Set list(s):
Entombed
~~~~~~~~
>
To Ride, Shoot Straight & Speak The Truth
Say It In Slugs
?
?
?
Won't Back Down
Damn Deal Done (?)
?

Rob Halford
~~~~~~~~~~
(with some help from Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles (www.bravewords.com))
Resurrection
Made In Hell
Locked And Loaded
Into The Pit
Stained Class
Running Wild
? (Say No More)
Night Fall
The Hellion
Electric Eye
Riding On the Wind
Silent Screams
The Tyrant

Iron Maiden
~~~~~~~~~
The Wicker Man
Ghost Of The Navigator
Brave New World
Wrathchild (horribly performed...what happened to your timing Nicko?)
Two Minutes To Midnight (sounded like a wall of mud)
Blood Brothers (burp)
Sign Of The Cross (fuck this tune)
Mercenary
The Trooper (boring...can we think of something else?)
Dream Of Mirrors
The Clansman (burp!!!)
The Evil That Men Do (worst song off of Seventh Sun....how about Infinite Dreams instead?)
Fear Of The Dark (ahhhh!!!! I hate this tune and I hate this album)
Iron Maiden

Encore
~~~~~
Number Of The Beast
Halloweed Be Thy Name
Sanctuary (rare...ultra rare)

08/02/2000 - King Diamond
The Reverb Room
Notes: First and foremost, special thanx to Boat, the driver and stage manager who got a couple cds back for King to sign. Dude, you made my day!!!

The Deep (Texas) were cool. Babylon Whores (from Finland) reminded me of a heavy Hanoi Rocks. Shadows Fall were very mega nuts...crowd was really into them.

What can I say? The King always takes care of his fans. Great set. Band was plauged with a small stage and numerous techincal problems so they didn't play as intense and tight as I remembered before...but they came and they played. Wasn't loud at all and the sound mega sucked!!! Ultra rare track Burn...never played before. Plus Dressed In White...heavy.

Set list(s):
The Deep
~~~~~~~~
?
The Way It Is Now
? (off first album)
Way I Fall
Criminal Of Life

Babylon Whores
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Radio Werewolf
(song about slavery)
Deformed (?)
In Arcadia Ego
Accident
Omega Therion
Errata Stigmata

Shadows Fall
~~~~~~~~~~~
Rise Up (?)
The First Normal Truth
Monitauk (?)
A Fucking Epic (?)
Of One Blood
?

King Diamond
~~~~~~~~~~~
Welcome Home
The Invisible Guests
Voodoo
Sarah's Night
Sleepless Nights
Upon The Cross
Follow The Wolf
The House Of God
Black Devil
Help!!!
The Candle
Dressed In White
The Eye Of The Witch
Burn
Funeral
Abigail
Black Horsemen

Encore
~~~~~~
The Family Ghost

Encore II
~~~~~~~
No Presents For Christmas

08/06/2000 - Gordon Lightfoot
The Majestic Theater
Notes: After Massey Hall, I didn't want to go. Sex Martin talked me into it. Went with V. Great time...did a ton of goods from Waiting For You.

Set list(s):
Set One
~~~~~~
14K Gold
I'll Do Anything That You Say (?)
I've Had (?)
Beautiful
Forgive Me Lord
Sundown
Carefree Highway
Spanish Moss
Don Quixote
I'll Prove My Love
Ghosts Of Cape Horn
Blackberry Wine
Minstrel Of The Dawn
Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

Set Two
~~~~~~
Restless
Waiting For You
Fading Away
Ring Them Bells
A Painter Passing Through
Early Morning Rain
Baby Step Back
Make Way For The Lady
Song For A Winter's Night
Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Encore
~~~~~~
Old Dan's Records

08/11/2000 - King Diamond
Water Street Music Hall
Notes: Had my buddy Derek Hendrickson (misterd1313@hotmail.com) make me one of his Elvis busts, this time with King Diamond face. I put in a box for King along with a Monkey Head Magazine (Issue 8) article that proved that the King was really Elvis (it's true).
Hung out with my buddy Dino thoughout the evening, sick dude has pic with the King (sans makeup) in 1987 backstage at the Rivera Theater (Abigail tour). Took to that Voodoo chick.
Mega thanx to Da Chef (sick dude!!) who got us close enough to the backstage area so I could get Ole Bang to give King the gift. Thought we saw King performing a ritual before the show...(possessed!)...bumped into King outside after the show and shook his hand...he dug the bust.
Overall great show...never a complaint with the King...could hear the man struggle a bit from Abigail on...it's a pity...

Set list(s):
Was too tired to pay attention to the other bands...if you remember your set list, please e-mail it to me.

King Diamond
~~~~~~~~~~~
Welcome Home
The Invisible Guests
Voodoo
Sarah's Night
Sleepless Nights
Upon The Cross
Follow The Wolf
The House Of God
Black Devil
Help!!!
The Candle
Dressed In White
The Eye Of The Witch
Burn
Funeral
Abigail
Black Horsemen

Encore
~~~~~~
The Family Ghost

Encore II
~~~~~~~
No Presents For Christmas

08/13/2000 - Blue Oyster Cult, Todd Rudgren, Nazareth
Vernon Downs
Notes: Went up with Brother John, Karl Von Schweiger, his brother Doug and my hag. Met up with Darkness, John & some sick dude. Some car caught fire in the parking lot...mega fucking loud show!!!!

Breakdown:
Rick Derringer - Arrived late, but gold guitar playing....

Edgar Winter - Killer jams, a little long winded. Ed's a goofy lanky geek, but a monster player. Mitch Perry on guitar (from Phil Naro Talas days)....ripper player, but a mega beat-up old pretty boy cheezer

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - The Blackhearts looked a bunch of beat-up old Sex Pistols dudes...rocked out with a bunch of punk heavy tunes. Joan looked nuts with her head all shaved...must have snorted a pound of snow before the show...her nose kept twitching and she kept blowing it between every song with Kleenex...guitar players arm looked like a pin cushion with all the needle marks. Joan snapped middle of the set about not having earplugs on stage....work no underwear under those leather pants...which the laces cameundone (Guess Who style)...

Nazareth - just came out, slaughtered the audience and stole the show...what more can I say. Crowd started getting all gay and nuts...got a little scary....

Todd Rundgren - had a mega headache after Nazareth...walked back and dug the tunes from a far. Wish I could have snapped up front....

Blue Oyster Cult - I've had it with this dudes...patch it up the with Bouchards so we can stop having the Buck & Bloom show and start hearing some good tunes....and while your at it, get rid of that Bobby Rondinelli cheezer. He and Frankie Banali (Quiet Queer) suffer from the same, I'm So Good I'll Overplay disease. He just charges through those tunes like bull in a china shop with those gay double kick drum fills...overplayer of the year award 1980-2005....Harvester Of Eyes and This Ain't The Summer Of Love weren't enough to salvage this show. Left during Godzilla...
Rocky said it best, "They're just getting lazy!" And it's true, they play like they'd rather be golfing, where as Nazareth comes in screaming with vengeance (Priest style)

Set list(s):
Rick Derringer
~~~~~~~~~~~
(not complete came in late)
? (blues tune)
Pride & Joy
? (instrumenta)
? (instrumenta)
Jump, Jump, Jump
Hang On Sloopy
Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo

Edgar Winter
~~~~~~~~~~
(?) Keep ? That Rock And Roll
Turn On Your Love Light
(?) blues tune new album
Free Ride
guitar solo (burp)
Frenkenstein

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bad Reputation
Light Of Day
Androgynous
I'm Not Ashamed (?)
Mary Tyler Moore Theme
Baby Blue
I Know What I Am (?)
Radio On (?)
Fetish
I Wanna Be Your Dog (?)
I Love Rock & Roll
Crimson & Clover
I Hate Myself For Loving You

Nazareth
~~~~~~~
Light Comes Down (left people in the dirt)
Razamanaz
Miss Misery/Please Don't Judas Me (secret track)
Holiday
My White Bicycle
Hearts Grown Cold (too sick!!!)
Beggars Day
Whiskey Drinking Woman
This Flight Tonight (can never get enough of this song)
Hair Of The Dog
Love Hurts (encore)

Todd Rundgren
~~~~~~~~~~~~
(set list courtesy of Brother John & Darkmarkus - twave@bluemoon.net)
I Hate My Freaking ISP
Couldn't I Just Tell You
Love Of The Common Man
Black & White
Yer Fast
Open My Eyes
The IKON
There Goes My Inspiration
Number One Lowest Common Denominator
Love In Action
Worldwide Epiphany
One World (encore)

Blue Oyster Cult
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This Ain't The Summer Of Love (gold)
Burning For You (ok...I do dig this tune)
ETI (next!!!)
Buck's Boogie (long...overplayed...boring)
Cities On Flame (not again)
Harvester Of Eyes (gold)
Then Came The Last Days Of May
Godzilla (die!!!)
Don't Fear The Reaper (encore)

08/16/2000 - Iron Maiden
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Notes: Went with Poultry and my hag. God I fucking hate Darien Lake...sound sucked dick. Future bands who play there...don't call that place Buffalo. Come play Buffalo rather than this God forsaken Hell Hole.

Rob Halford - was in personal and vocal pain...barely limped through the set. Just stood there, rarely walking...still kicked ass...

Queensryche - This band blew the doors off the place. I though they were gonna suck...but they fucking rocked. Geoff Tate (who always had image problems) looked really cool. Band looked, sounded and played great.

Iron Maiden - What can I say: Fat, Boring, Bloated, Loose & Pretentious. Bruce threw some crack out of the show because he was shining a laser light in his eyes...also...shut up Bruce you fucking Nazi. Stop it with this stage banter bullshit. Page, Plant & Gers...anything to get this guy out of Maiden. What can I say, same gay set list as before. I was wondering why I was digging Sign Of The Cross and then Poultry put it perspective. Itwas the tightest song they played...sad statement my friends....save your money...stay home and watch Live After Death on 11....

Set list(s):
Rob Halford
~~~~~~~~~~
Resurrection
Made In Hell
Into The Pit
Stained Class
? (Say No More)
Night Fall
The Hellion
Electric Eye
Riding On the Wind
Breaking The Law
The Tyrant

Queensryche
~~~~~~~~~~
Revolution Calling
Empire
? (Q2K tune)
Speak
? (Mother Mary In Control)
The Lady Wore Black
Walk In The Shadows
Queen Of The Ryche
Take Hold Of The Flame
Eyes Of A Stranger

Iron Maiden
~~~~~~~~~
The Wicker Man
Ghost Of The Navigator
Brave New World
Wrathchild
Two Minutes To Midnight
Blood Brothers
Sign Of The Cross
Mercenary
The Trooper
Dream Of Mirrors
The Clansman
The Evil That Men Do
Fear Of The Dark
Iron Maiden

Encore
~~~~~
Number Of The Beast
Halloweed Be Thy Name
Sanctuary

08/19/2000 - Steppenwolf
The Majestic Theater
Notes: Went with V...met up with BOC hardcores Rocky, Dave Sheppard, Mark Surra and Karl Von Schweiger.

Unless there is a reunion tour, I will never see BOC again. They are lame, boring and the set list sucks. I have an idea...lets shit can the cheezy bass/drum solo in Godjirra and play an extra tune or two. So it shall be written so it shall be done. Oh by the way, Buck's Boogie is one of the dumbest instrumentals ever. Bloom...bury the hatchet with the Bouchards so we can finally listen to some good tunes again.

Steppenwolf kicked ass...great tunes, great harmonies and great performance.

Set list(s):
Blue Oyster Cult
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Stairway To The Stars
Burning For You
ETI
Harvest Moon
Buck's Boogie (burp)
Cities On Flame
Harvester Of Eyes
Then Came The Last Days Of May
Godzilla
Don't Fear The Reaper

Steppenwolf
~~~~~~~~~~
Sookie Sookie
Rock & Roll Rebel
Rock Me Baby
Move Over
Straight Shooting
Hey Lawdy Mama
Hold on (Never Give up, Never Give In)
Ride With Me
Skullduggery
Hoochie Coochie Man
Monster
Magic Carpet Ride
Born To Be Wild

Encore
~~~~~~
The Pusher

08/24/2000 - Bruce Cockburn
Laffyette Square
Notes: Believe it or not, I only went to see Willie Nile...was totally inspired and wrote a ton of lyrics. Ran home to finally start writing...writers block again...we'll it's only been two years....

Met Willie, got autographs, bought the new disk...he's such a swell dude. Band played well...but nothing from Places I Have Never Been. That really hurt. Outside of that, it was a spiritual gig...walked down to where I used to live 9 years ago...reminded myself of were I've been, where I am and where I'd like to go. Wish Brother John was at the gig with me.

Set list(s):
Willie Nile
~~~~~~~~
You Gotta Be A Buddha (In A Place Like This)
Black Magic And White Lies
Whole World With You - dedicated to his brother & sister in law
Bread Alone
Every Time The World Turns Around
Vagabond Moon
Beautiful Wreck Of The World
Golden Down - dedicated to Bruce Moeser
History 101
On The Road To Calgary
Brain Damage
Psychotic Reaction
Somewhere It's Raining
Substitute
Magdalina

11/22/2000 - The Dan Toler Band
The Fun House
Notes: It was the 15th Annual Belle Starr Reunion. What a killer time we never rehearsed with Dan at all. The Dan Toler Band consisted of Dan Toler-guitar, Tony Perrino - Hammond B3 Organ & Vocals, Poultry - drums, Mike Criscione - Guitar & Vocals and NSS - Bass & Vocals. This also was the final Cheezy Money show. The line up for the Fun House was Willie and the Reinhartds, Bar King Spiders, Tommy Z and Blues Power, Cheezy Money and The Dan Toler Band. The line up for The Joint was Leigh Stoner, The Circuit Breaker's, Whirl Wind and The Border City Blues Band.

Set list(s):
Cheezy Money
~~~~~~~~~~~
Feelin' Alright
Back In The New York Groove
Good Times Bad Times
The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
LA Woman ->
Do You Feel Like We Do? ->
Black Magic Woman


The Dan Toler Band
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ali Shuffle
Southbound
Statesboro Blues
Stormy Monday Blues
I'm No Angel
Tupelo Honey
Dreams
Texas Flood
Don't Keep Me Wonderin'
Southern Rock & Roll (with Ronnie Mendez)

Encore
~~~~~~
Whippin' Post

08/02/2001 - Eddie Money
Laffyette Square
Notes: Went with Gooch. The band was hot, Eddie was not. Fat, bloated, drunk and coked up. Spent the entire night bitching about his wife. Told stories about cutting an ex-hags blow for her back in the day. Eddie kept asking, "Do you want some old Eddie Money?" and Gooch and I kept yelling, "We got him!" Highlight of the evening was when my buddy Maria Sebastian sang Take Me Home Tonight with Eddie, the blond haired Ace Frehley.

Set list(s):
The Swill Berries
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jealous
Only Talking
Innocence
Can't Help Her
Hold On
Vegas
Gush
Get Glad
Get In Line
Regards

Eddie Money
~~~~~~~~~~
Where's The Party?
No Control
Walk On Water
Wanna Be Rock & Roll Star
Driving Me Crazy
You Got A Hold On Me
Still Loving You (?)
I'm Comin'
Gimmie Some Water
Life For The Taking
Trinidad
I Wanna Go Back
Baby Hold On
Two Tickets To Paradise
I Think I'm In Love
Just Don't Give It Up
Save A Little Room In Your Heart For Me
Take Me Home Tonight (w/ Maria Sebastian)
Shakin'

09/07/2001 - The Guess Who
Marine Midland Arena
Notes: Tix received courtesy of my friend Wayne Nelligan, mucho gracias. Went with Zimpf, Brother John, Feedback, Feedback's buddy Ted and my hag. Joe blew the doors off the place and the Guess Who played their cheezy american set with no rare cuts save Glamour Boy. Too many BTO tunes...I thought I was seeing the Guess Who?

Set list(s):
Joe Cocker
~~~~~~~~~
Feelin' Alright
Hitchcock Railway
Could You Be Loved
She Believes In Me
Summer In The City
Up Where We Belong
You Are So Beautiful
When The Night Comes
You Can Leave Your Hat On
The Letter
Unchain My Heart
With A Little Help From My Friends

Encore
~~~~~~
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Cry Me A River

The Guess Who
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Shakin' All Over
Guns Guns Guns
Hand Me Down World
These Eyes
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (burp)
Clap For The Wolfman
Glamour Boy (mega rare)
Looking Out For #1
No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
Let It Ride
Undun
American Woman (burp and it took forever)
Albert Flasher
Taking Care Of Business (mega burp)
Laughing
Bus Rider
No Time

Encore
~~~~~~
Share The Land

09/09/2001 - W.A.S.P.
The Opera House
Notes: Went up with Alan Skeldon, Sex Martin and my hag. Hung out a the Zanibar and Jilly's watched my hag tweak a bunch of beat-up strippers...threw cream up in the belfry during Corpusse. Blackie was sick in the head. One of the best showz I've seen in a long time....a must. Blackie was swinging like a monkey on his mic stand smearing flourescent Halloween makeup all over. Drank blood for the encore and got possessed. Bought the Wickerman on DVD and drank bubble tea as well...all around gold day.

Set list(s):
WASP
~~~~~
Helldorado
Electric Circus
Chainsaw Charlie
Let It Roar
Wild Child
L.O.V.E. Machine
Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)
Sleeping In The Fire
Tortured Eyes
The Real Me
I Wanna Be Somebody

Encore
~~~~~~
Blind In Texas

10/07/2001 - W.A.S.P.
House Of Blues @ Las Vegas
Notes: Since we were in Vegas on our honeymoon, went with my hag & Jerry Deloff. Road crue sick dude recognized me and gave V & I a special after party pass. Went into secret party room, Wayne's World style, but party looked like it would be a major cokefest, so we booked. Last show of the tour and Blackie was sounding a little hoarse, but over all great show.

Set list(s):
WASP
~~~~~
Helldorado
Electric Circus
Chainsaw Charlie
Let It Roar
Wild Child
L.O.V.E. Machine
Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)
Sleeping In The Fire
Tortured Eyes
The Real Me
I Wanna Be Somebody

Encore
~~~~~~
Blind In Texas

12/18/2001 - Ozzy Osbourne & Rob Zombie
Marine Midland Arena
Notes: Went with V as she won free tixs from 103.3 The Edge. Zombie had a hot show, but I didn't dig his material. Ozzy is old, fat and jizz...glad I went and glad I didn't pay. We booked during Paranoid.

Set list(s):
Rob Zombie
~~~~~~~~~
?
?
Demon Speeding
Living Dead Girl
More Human Than Human
?
House Of 1,000 Corpses
Feel So Good, Feel So Bad
? (White Zombie tune)

Encore
~~~~~~
Dragula


Ozzy Osbourne
~~~~~~~~~~~~
I Don't Know
?
Junkie
Mr. Crowley
Get's Me Through (?)
Suicide Solution
Zak Guitar solo (too long and jizz, but Star Spangled was gold)
No More tears
I Don't Wanna Change The World
Road To Nowhere
Crazy Train

Encore
~~~~~~
Mama I'm Coming Home
Paranoid

10/16/2002 - Rush
Blue Cross Arena
Notes: First off, I love Vapor Trails, it's one of the best albums they've put out in a long while. Didn't want to go and I didn't see the summer tour because I hate Darien Lake and I was all bummed out about losing my hag. Was taken by my client Joe Carlo from Sam-Son Distributors along with Joe's cousin Matt Hout, Steve Northman, Joe Bologna and Poultry (who hounded me to go).

I'm glad I went as I had the best time ever!!!! The set list was chock full of killer B-sides and I'm glad they got Tom Sawyer out of the way early. Set 1 was definitely better. Bumped into my old friend former bass student (if you can believe it) Vince Valenti who flew up from North Carolina to see the show.

Neil was a little loose surprisingly, but the band opened up a bunch of songs, including Bravado, Driven (which rocked and I hate the song) and La Villa.

Good time was had by all except Steve Northman who got a flat tire on the way up and missed most of the first set.

Set list(s):
Set One
~~~~~~
Tom Sawyer
Distant Early Warning (solid gold)
New World Man (love it)
Roll The Bones (burp)
Earthshine
YYZ
Bravado (killer jam near the end...love this song)
Big Money (Neil was outta synch during the ending)
Between The Sun And Moon
Vital Signs (mega rare)
Natural Science

Set Two
~~~~~~~
One Little Victory
Driven (killer jam at the end)
Ceiling Unlimited (killer)
Secret Touch
Dreamline (nuts!)
Red Sector A (AHHHH!!!!)
Leave My Thing Alone (leave this song alone...burp!)
Drum Solo (double burp)
Resist (acoustic)
2112 Overture (abridged)
Temples of Syrinx
Limelight
La Villa Strangiato (funky jam near end)
The Spirit Of Radio

Encore
~~~~~~
Bytor & The Snowdog ->
Cygnus X-1 ->
Working Man

12/20/2002 - Nazareth
The Glen Pavilion
Notes: What a rare and golden opportunity it was to see Nazareth in their own home town of Dunfirmline, Scotland.

The Glen Pavilion is a really cute and historic little venue right in the middle of Pittencrieff Park.

The gig was a charity benefit for Search M.E. a organization dedicated to fighting Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. I had a lovely conversation with Robert Sclater, the director/chairman the organization and it was he who informed me that the Steve Agnew Band was unable to perform as the other guitarist had popped a blood vessel and had to be rushed to the hospital.

My promoter Robert Ellen of Medicine Music used this gig as the catalyst of the NSS Forget About My Worries and Ex-Wife 2002 UK Christmas Tour. Both he and I received VIP passes courtesy of Ronnie Dalrimple who heads the Nazareth merchandise. We even slept in Ronnie's tour bus right next to all of the Naz bootlegs and other merch. What a lovely and honest guy not caring one bit that we could make off with the whole kit 'n' caboodle. Ronnie had a 6 am set up call for the gig and so he left us free reign of his house and told us to raid the fridge for breakfast. These Scot's are too kind.

Robert and I decided not take advantage of your unbelievably hospitable host and went out and had a wonderful and inexpensive Indian dinner before setting out to the show. As luck would have it, Ronnie was eating in the table right by us and I was able to truly thank him for his hospitality.

We spent the evening hobnobbing and hanging in the VIP room. Needless to say, when the Naz Boyz took the stage they dominated it with a vengeance...a truly unforgettable show.

Naturally, Robert and I made a b-line back to Dingwall after the show (a four hour drive) as the NSS tour commenced the very next day.

Picked up a tour shirt and hat to remember the night by.

Set list(s):
Must Hang Sally
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Missed most of the show, but here are the last three songs.
Because The Night
Dancing In The Dark
Born To Be Wild

Lights Out By Nine
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Missed most of their set as well and I regret this as they totally rocked the house.
Someday Baby
Feels Like Rain (this tune rocked)

Nazareth
~~~~~~~~
When The Lights Come Down
Razamanaz
Miss Misery/Please Don't Judas Me
Holiday
Dream On
Bad Bad Boy
Danger Danger (new song-killer)
My White Bicycle
Hearts Grown Cold (rocked the house)
Broken Down Angel
Beggars Day
Whiskey Drinking Woman
Hair Of The Day
This Flight Tonight

Encore
~~~~~~
Cocaine
Love Hurts

01/18/2003 - Bill Cosby
Kleinhans Music Hall
Notes: Went as part of The PCA Group, INC Holiday Party. Bill was ok, he's getting a bit old, too much marriage corn. At least he did Dentists.

Set list(s):

07/15/2003 - Journey
Marine Midland Arena
Notes: A gift from my boss Wayne. Went with Wayne & Michelle Nelligan, Pam Good, Steve & Lynn Szubinski, Adrian Zannin and his girlfriend Pam.

REO was the sleeper hit of the summer for me, they rocked the house with energy and passion, I am quick to suggest I was duly impressed, Zappa say.

STXY blew moose dick. I knew we were in for a jizz show when they opened with Too Much Time. Oh my God, that was Larry Gowan playing the role of Dennis DeYoung. Now that I found that out, I feel guilty thinking he was such a cornball on stage. Pick up his 1984 classic Strange Animal worship him. Pretty much an overall uninspired performance, barely playing any Dennis DeYoung songs and boring us to tears with long winded jams and second rate new material. Does Glenn Burtnik know he's annoying?

Journey rocked the house, love the new singer, but why does Neil Schon need to prove he's a guitar god and ruin every song with a tasteless solo? Face it, you sold out Neil, take the fame and money and play something melodic and cheezy. Go on a musical masturbation solo club tour with Billy Sheehan and bore us to tears there.

Set list(s):
REO Speedwagon
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ridin' The Storm Out
Keep Pushin'
Can't Fight This Feeling
Don't Let Go
Keep On Loving You
In Your Letter
Take It On The Run
In My Dreams (acoustic - beautiful)
Time For Me To Fly
Back On The Road Again
Keep On Rocking (?)

Encore
~~~~~~
?

STYX
~~~~~
Too Much Time On My Hands (burp)
Grand Illusion
Waiting For Our Time
Lady
Blue Collar Man
Fields Of The Brave
Kiss Your Ass Goodbye (Glen Burtnik runs around the aud like a fag.)
Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
Miss America (gag me with a toilet plunger)
Come Sail Away (solid gold)

Encore
~~~~~~
Renegade

Journey
~~~~~~~
Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Stone In Love
Wheel In The Sky (nuts!)
Guitar Solo/Star Spangled Banner (boring)
Be Good To Yourself
Lights
Open Arms
Where Are You
State Of Grace
Anytime
Don't Stop Believing
Ask The Lonely
Escape
Anyway You Want It

Encore
~~~~~~
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' (kill me now)
Faithfully (solid gold)

08/17/2003 - Jethro Tull
Artpark
Notes: We got tickets to the show as a perk for interviewing Martin Barre for RockstarPix TV. Due to the quality of Ian's voice, I had long given up on seeing Tull. It's not just that he strains to hit the notes, but that he has to change his entire vocal style in order to try and sing at all. I wonder if Ian's throat problems were caused by his flute playing and all the harsh guttural noises he makes while doing so. The set list was pretty bland with the exception of Fat Man, Beside Myself, Hunting Girl, My God (which made me piss my pants) and Budapest. The band was super tight, but I really did get sick of primarily instrumental versions of songs as Ian would sing a verse maybe two and then jam forever. The opening number Living In The Past grew intolerable due to its modern arrangement. We pretty much left before the encore.

My good friend, Mike Criscione has been pestering me for years to see Willy Porter and has gone as far as to travel to Vermont to see the guy. I'm not a fan of guitar gods as to me it's musical masturbation, but Willy's tunes are phenomenal and his guitar playing is insane. But nothing prepared me for when he asked the audience for words and he created an improv tune right on the spot. I am still flabbergasted by this amazing feat and I thought I was good with improv. Needless to say, I have been shamed into submission.

Set list(s):
Willy Porter
~~~~~~~~~
Tribe
The Trees Have Soul
Sowelu
Road Bone
Improv Tune (words used: Harley, Earth Rotation, Hemorrhoids)
Breathe

Jethro Tull
~~~~~~~~
Living In The Past
Nothing Is Easy
Someday The Sun Won't Shine For You
With You There To Help Me
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Beside Myself
Fat Man
Hunting Girl
Count The Chickens (Martin Barre solo from Stage Left)
Eurology (Ian Anderson solo from Rupi's Dance)
Dot Com (burp)
Medley: Songs From The Wood/Too Old To Rock and Roll/Heavy Horses (mega burp)
My God (mega nutsness)
Budapest (solid gold)
New Jig
Aquadung

Encore
~~~~~~
Locomotive Bath

10/10/2003 - Helloween
The Opera House
Notes: Went up with Jafo as originally an interview for RockstarPix TV, but later redirected to Infinity Mag. What can I say, the interview with Michael Weikath was chock full of rare goods and the set list and band rock. The new album kicks unholy ass...buy it.

Set list(s):
Helloween
~~~~~~~~~
Starlight (nuts!!!)
Murderer (evil!!!)
Keeper Of The Seven Keys
Future World
Eagle Fly Free
Hey Lord
Forever And One
Open Your Life
Dr. Stein
If I Could Fly
Back Against The Wall
Power
Soul Survivor
I Can
Where The Rain Grows

Encore
~~~~~~
Sun 4 The World
How Many Tears

11/01/2003 - King Diamond
Odeon Concert Club
Notes: Went with Sex Martin and Rocco's Tacos and met up with Heckle & Jeckle (zizz zizz) at the gig. SBT was ok and Nocturne was pretaped and kinda boring even with the hot hag singer shaking her rack on stage. Entombed was mega nuts and heavy. I really got into their set.

King was gold as usual and I'm glad he played some rare goods for the set, though I would have loved to hear Voodoo. He claimed he was taping the tour for a live album which would be great. Hearing Halloween was super nuts and he brought Livia Zita from Budapest (J-Tull style) to sing. Unfortunately she was stuck off in the corner and not really featured, even though she did some backups. Kings voice started out rough, but he got strong. Too many encores...don't make us beg, just deliver the goods Judas Priest style.

Set list(s):
Single Bullet Theory
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Retribution
Murder Machines
Spit
Scapegoat
Route 666
Hollowed Out

Nocturne
~~~~~~~
Dissolute
My Bitch
Shallow
Happy
Indulge
No Way Out
Cocaine Sex
Dirty Sanchez
Whore

Entombed
~~~~~~~~
Retaliation
?
The Fix Is In
?
Wolverine Blues
When Life Has Ceased
Serpent Speech
Chief Rebel Angel
Out Of Hand
?
Hollow Man
Wreckage
Left Hand Path

King Diamond
~~~~~~~~~~~
Funeral (taped)
A Mansion In Darkness
Family Ghost
Black Horsemen
Spare This Life (taped)
Mansion In Sorrow
Spirits
Sorry Dear (taped)
Eye Of The Witch
Sleepless Nights
The Puppet Master
Blood To Walk
So Sad
Welcome Home

Encore
~~~~~~
The Invisible Guests
Burn

Encore 2
~~~~~~~
Halloween (solid gold)

Encore 3
~~~~~~~
No Presents For Christmas

05/30/2004 - Killswitch Engage & In Flames
Kool Haus Entertainment Complex
Notes: Interviewed Anders Fridén for Infinity Music Mag. Got to shoot stills and video for the first three songs. Killswitch Engage was the headliner that evening so Sex Martin and I dug only In Flames and then booked and went to Seductions where Billy lost his rubber and I just shot down hags trying to hustle me up for a blow job left and right.

Set list(s):
In Flames
~~~~~~~
Montreal set list courtesy of Nathan D (dasilva000@hotmail.com). I'm assuming this is the same for Toronto.

Pinball Map - Colony
System - Reroute To Remain
Episode 666 - Whoracle
Embody The Invisible - Colony
Cloud Connected - Reroute to Remain
Touch Of Red - Soundtrack To Your Escape
Like You Better Dead - Soundtrack To Your Escape
In Search For I - soundtrack To Your Escape
Clayman - Clayman
Gyroscope
Only For The Weak - Clayman
Behind Space 99 - Colony
Trigger - Reroute To Remain
The Quiet Place - Soundtrack To Your Escape
Colony - Colony
My Sweet Shadow - Soundtrack To Your Escape

06/22/2004 - Dave Mason
Artpark
Notes: Went with my friends Bob & Cindy Webster. I love Artpark and this was part of a free concert summer series that's held by the Art-L, except for the fact that they hit you with a $3 walk in fee...so much for free.

It took a while for the mix to come to fruition, but it was a great show all in all. Really bummed that he didn't do Sad And Deep As You.

Set list(s):
Dave Mason
~~~~~~~~~~
Only You Know And I Know
40,000 Headmen
World In Changes
We Just Disagree
Look At You, Look At Me
Dust My Broom
Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave
Let It Go (new song)
Dear Mr. Fantasy
All Along The Watchtower

Encore
~~~~~~
Feelin' Alright

07/01/2004 - Jet
The Dome Theater
Notes: Gooch & his bro took me and I decided to go on a Lark. Immediately fell in love with the band and bought the CD (pre autographed) at the show. Haven't been so into a new band and disk since I saw Tribe back in 92.

Set list(s):
Jet
~~~
Get What You Need
Last Chance
Roll Over DJ
Sweet Young Thing
Lazy Gun
Radio Song
Look What You've Done
Hey Kids
Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Ain't That A Lot Of Love
Cold Hard Bitch
Take It Or Leave It

Encore
~~~~~~
Move On
Get Me Outta Here
That's Alright Mama

08/03/2004 - Blood Sweat & Tears
Artpark
Notes: Went with Brother John, Cindy & Bob Webster and Ann & Bob Welch. It was the largest crowd Artpark ever had...9,000. BST rocked, heard that David Clayton Thomas was a prick to everyone. Click here for the Brother John Concert Phone Cam.

Set list(s):
Blood Sweat & Tears
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
More And More
Hi-De-Ho
And When I Die
Lucretia Mac Evil
40,000 Headmen
Smiling Phases
That Lucky Old Sun
Go Down Gamblin'
Gimmie That Wine
God Bless The Child
Spinning Wheel

Encore
~~~~~~
You Make Me So Very Happy

08/13/2004 - Nazareth
Matrix Nite Club
Notes: Clay and I went to interview the boyz for Infinity Mag and received total red carpet treatment by Naz, stage manager Tom Sinclair and Matrix Nite Club staff.

Had a great time chilling out with security guard, Phil Bodzasi, who regaled us with stories of beating people up.

Seventh and best time I've seen Nazareth. This set list cooked and was chockfull of rare goods, I though I'd lose my skull.

Set list(s):
Nazareth
~~~~~~~~
Changing Times (NUTS!!!!!)
Not Fakin' It
Miss Misery/Please Don't Judas Me
Razamanaz
Kentucky Fried Blues (mega rare!!)
This Month's Messiah (TOO SICK & TOO RARE!!!)
Bad Bad Boy
Love Leads To Madness (KILLER!!!)
Sunshine (too sick, too rare & beautiful)
Cocaine
Turn On Your Reciever (rare, evil, heavy, gold)
This Flight Tonight (never can get enough of this song)
Hag Of The Dog
Love Hurts

Encore
~~~~~~
Night Woman (sick!!)
Brokendown Angel (killer)

10/13/2004 - King's X
Club Rockit
Notes: Went up with my mate Mike Criscione and his best friend Greg Huller for an interview with Infinity Mag. I wasn't feeling up to par and so I asked Greg if he wanted to interview the band as he and Mike are big fans.

Interview went great and the band rocked the house. Harmonies kicked ass and less than a hundred people there...pity. Ty made tons of fag jokes about Doug.

Set list(s):

King's X Setlist
~~~~~~~~~~~~

Acoustic Set
~~~~~~~~~~~
The Difference
Summerland
Mississippi Moon
No Room Inside A Box
Mr. Evil
Feeling Down
Goldilox

Electric Set
~~~~~~~~~
Open My Eyes (unreleased)
Charlie Sheen
Only If (unreleased)
Julia
Hurricane (unreleased)
Mr. Wilson
Freedom (unreleased)
Dogman
I Can't Help It
Visions
We Were Born To Be Loved
Mission
Over My Head

11/24/2004 - Metal Church
The Icon
Notes: Went Sex Martin, Rocky and Scott Davis. Caught a drumstick and show blew me away. More notez when I have time.

Set list(s):
Metal Church
~~~~~~~~~~~
Ton Of Bricks
Start The Fire
Leave 'Em Behind
Watch The Children Pray (Billy & I went nuts)
Battallions
The Dark
Cradle To Grave
Date With Poverty
Madman's Overture
Badlands (I snapped in half!!!)
Gods Of Wrath
Beyond The Black
Metal Church

Encore
~~~~~~
Highway Star

07/13/2005 - W.A.S.P.
Club Infinity
Notes: Met up with Sex Martin and Rocky. Metal Church was gold as always, but too short of a set. Kirk Arrington was giving Sex Martin tips on dealing with diabetes (too nuts).

W.A.S.P. played and sounded good, but no new goods and the show was done in one hour, with the encore. Kinda gay.

Set list(s):
Metal Church
~~~~~~~~~~~
Ton Of Bricks
Start The Fire
Leave 'Em Behind
Battallions
The Dark
Metal Church

LA Guns
~~~~~~~
I know they did Sex Action, but outside of that I didn't give a fuck.


W.A.S.P.
~~~~~~~
Medley: On Your Knees/Inside The Electric Circus/Hate To Love Me
L.O.V.E. Machine
Wild Child
Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)
The Headless Children (rare, sick and gold)
The Idol (fucking evil)
The Real Me (gold)
(Band started playing one song, but Blackie cut them off, I believe to shorten the set, that miser)
I Wanna Be Somebody

Encore
~~~~~~
Blind In Texas

08/13/2005 - Chris Isaak
Avalon Ballroom (Fallsview Casino)
Notes: Remind me to punch Mike Criscione for knowing about the two shows three months in advance and not telling me until morning of the second show. Totally rearrainged my day, was running late, went to the WRONG casino and prolly missed the first three songs.

Chris and band are in stellar form, dude says the funniest shit ever, God I hate casino people.

Tried my best to capture the setlist, any and all help would be greatly appreciated.


Set list(s):
Chris Isaak
~~~~~~~~~
American Boy (Provided by Mike Criscione)
San Francisco Days (this is when I arrived)
Let Me Down Easy
California Sun (Chris on drums and Kenny Dale Johnson on vocals)
Goin' Nowhere
Somebody's Cryin'
Wicked Game
One Day
I Want You To Want Me

(start of acoustic set)
Tonight (Hit for KD Lang?)
Two Hearts
Return To Me
Graduation Day
Western Stars (?)
Sweet Leilani
Only The Lonely

(crank back into full band)
Please
Blue Hotel
Always Got Tonight
Notice The Ring

Encore
~~~~~~
Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing
Think Of Tomorrow
Stay Away From Me (?)
Forever Blue

03/23/2006 - The Gathering
The Reverb Room
Notes: Went up with Rocky and had a super gold time. Giant Squid was ok and for all of the musical proficiency of Unexpect (bassist had a 9 string bass...nuts!!!), they didn't yank my crank.

The Gathering came on and rocked the house. Would have loved it if they'd done Nighttime Birds and Strange Machines.

Set list(s):
The Gathering
~~~~~~~~~~~
Liberty Bell (from How To Measure A Planet?)
Even The Spirits Are Afraid (from Souvenirs)
Analog Park (from If_Then_Else)
Broken Glass (from Souvenirs)
Saturnine (from If_Then_Else)
Probably Built In The 50's (from How To Measure A Planet?)
Shortest Day (new song)
? (new song?)
? (new song?)
Souvenirs (from Souvenirs)
Travel (from How To Measure A Planet?)

Encore
~~~~~~
In Motion #1 (from Mandylion)
Black Light District

08/12/2006 - Chris Isaak
Avalon Ballroom (Fallsview Casino)
Notes: Almost a year to the day later, Mike Criscione makes good for kicking me to the curb (see concert notes above).

Mike, Brenda & I waited in the buffet line for one hour only to quickly gobble our food and make a bee-line to the show.

Chris was consistent as always...God I hate casino people.

Set list(s):
Chris Isaak
~~~~~~~~~
Lonely With A Broken Heart
Let's Have Party
Let Me Down Easy (kinda weak & sloppy which bummed me out cause I LOVE this song)
Speak Of The Devil
Dancin'
Somebody's Cryin'
Wicked Game
Go Walking Down There
One Day
I Want You To Want Me
?
Two Hearts
Except The New Girl
Graduation Day
Can't Do A Thing (To Stop Me)
? (Oh Judy)
? (If you leave me I'll Go Crazy)
Only The Lonely
Baby Did A Bad Thing -> Don't Be Cruel
Gone Ridin'

Encore
~~~~~~
Super Magic 2000 (intro)
Blue Hotel
San Francisco Days
? (bluesy shuffle)
Blue Spanish Sky

08/16/2006 - Ian Gillan
Town Ballroom
Notes: Went with Philipe Warda, Rocky & Sex Machine. They had some cute bikini hag with a small rack and a big crack come out holding signs with the songs on it like some ring side girl. Gillan was gold, but he didn't do Trashed which hurt me bad.

Set list(s):
Ian Gillan
~~~~~~~
No Laughing In Heaven
Into The Fire
Hang Me Out To Dry
Have Love Will Travel
Wasted Sunsets (ultra rare, Billy and Rocky went nutz!!!)
Not Responsible
? (instrument jam because Ian forgot his harmonica and they couldn't do the planned number)
Unchain Your Brain
Bluesy Blue Sea
Texas State Of Mind (Michael Lee Jackson song from new album...I stepped out to take a piss)
Sugar Plum
When A Blind Man Cries
Men Of War
70's drum solo
Smoke On The Water (burp)

Encore
~~~~~~
Trouble
Knockin' At Your Back Door (total sickness!!)

01/12/2007 - Blue Oyster Cult
Club Paradise
Notes: Sex Martin, Rocky, Feedback, Helfrich and even my ex hag (for whatever reason) was there, Alan Lanier wasn't so gay ass Danny Bonaduci was on bass. Richie Castellano played guitar and keyboards and was total nutsness. He and Jules Radino breath new life into BOC's old bones. Goldest and gayest setlist on earth, should have left during Godzilla.

Set list(s):
Blue Oysters Cult
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Stairway To The Stars
OD'd On Life Itself
Burning For You
This Ain't The Summer Of Love (gold)
Shooting Shark (ultra gold)
She's As Beautiful As A Foot (NUTS!!!! TOTAL SICKNESS!!!)
The Golden Age Of Leather (gold)
Cities On Flame
Then Came The Last Days Of May
Godzilla (burp)
Don't Fear The Reaper

Encore
~~~~~~
Road House Blues (BURRRRRRP!!!!)
The Red & Black

04/12/2007 - The Tubes
Club Paradise
Notes: Went with Scott Helfrich, Darkness and Sex Martin. First time I saw Fee get dressed up and nuts. Some dude kept shouting for Space Baby and Fee told him to piss off, but then he did a surprise performance of it as a third encore. Too siick of a show, great time.

Set list(s):
The Tubes
~~~~~~~~~
Turn Me On
I Was A Punk Before You Were A Punk
Mr. Hate
Amnesia
(James Brown tribute)
Tip Of My Tongue
She's A Beauty
Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman
Sushi Girl
What Do You Want From Life?
I Don't Wanna Wait Anymore
Tubes World Tour (Came out as Quay Lude)
White Punks On Dope

Encore
~~~~~~
Mondo Bondage
Talk To Ya Later
Space Baby (sick)

05/11/2007 - Black Sabbath V2.1
Time Warner Cable Amphitheater @ Tower
Notes: Went with Sex Martin and turned out to be a mega late night. Dio and Sabbath were so on it wasn't even funny. It was a therapeutic show.

Set list(s):
Megadeth
~~~~~~~~
?
Washington Is Next
Symphony Of Destruction
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Encore
~~~~~~
Holy Wars...The Punishment Due

Black Sabbath
~~~~~~~~~~~~
E5150
After All (The Dead)
Mob Rules
Children Of The Sea
Lady Evil
I
Sign Of The Southern Cross
Voodoo
The Devil Cried/drum solo
Computer God
Falling Off The Edge Of The World
Shadow Of The Wind
guitar solo/Die Young
Heaven and Hell

Encore
~~~~~~
Neon Knights

06/26/2007 - Steppenwolf
Artpark
Notes: Yet another great show @ Artpark, though I'm totally bummed that they took down the Art-El. Kay and the boys were a bit on the lethargic side, but this is his last tour and I'm sure he wants to get it over with.

Set list(s):
Steppenwolf
~~~~~~~~~~
Sookie Sookie
Rock & Roll Rebel
Rock Me
I'm Movin' On
Endless Commercial (?)
Hey Lawdy Mama
Hold On (love this tune!!!)
Ride With Me
Screaming Night Hog (?)
Hoochie Coochie Man
Monster
Rise And Shine
Magic Carpet Ride
Born To Be Wild

Encore
~~~~~~
The Pusher

07/04/2007 - Rush
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Notes: I "won" free tickets and took Sex Martin, Rocky and Scott Helfrich. We were 15th row dead center and went absolutely ballistic at that show, one of the best set lists in a long time save for the fact that they were too heavy on the new album. They did Summertime Blues in Atlanta (which I wasn't in the mood to hear), but in Buffalo they did Distant Early Warning and Billy and I went SICK!!! Alex started Limelight, but had to pause for a bit because Geddy was late coming on stage...

Set list(s):
Set One
~~~~~~
Limelight
Digital Man (sickness)
Entre Nous (EVIL!!)
Mission
Freewill
The Main Monkey Business
The Larger Bowl
Secret Touch
Circumstances (gold!!!)
Between The Wheels (rare!!!)
Dreamline

Set Two
~~~~~~
Far Cry
Workin' Them Angels
Armor And Sword
Spindrift
The Way The Wind Blows
Subdivisions (possessed!!)
Natural Science
Witch Hunt (too sick)
Malignant Narcissism
Drum Solo
Hope
Distant Early Warning (Billy and I went SICK!!)
The Spirit Of Radio
Tom Sawyer

Encore
~~~~~~
One Little Victory (EVIL!!)
A Passage to Bangkok (RARE!!!)
YYZ

11/14/2007 - The Cult
Town Ballroom
Notes: Went with Scott Davis and Joe and Laura Cultrara. Met up with Sex Martin and Darryl P Brothers.

The band was gold except for that goofy, superfluous Woody Allen guitarist. Ian looked and sounded pretty good but didn't have the stamina to hit a lot of the higher phrases in Revolution, She Sells Sanctuary and Fire Woman.

Before I Assassin security was trying to throw some hag out in the front row and Ian was telling them to piss off and threatening to leave the show even though the hag was the one causing trouble.

Near the end some stupid drunken crack push his way up and kept spilling beer on me, I told his buddy to have him chill out and dude told me to fuck off. Then stupid drunk fuck started pushing/punching Darryl and his crack buddy tried to act like he was helping us.

Sex Martin and Darren got security and they threw the stupid groin out, but that pretty much ruined the show for me.

The show/encore downtime was long and gay as they played some cult tune to a video on the screen.

Besides winning free tickets, Joe won an autographed Jaegermeister gee-tar and he and Laura were able to get me cd covers autographed at after show meet & greet. Laura said Ian was a dick and wanted to punch him but I guess Billy was gold.

Set list(s):
The Cult
~~~~~~~
Nirvana
Electric Ocean
Lil' Devil
I Assassin
The Witch
Revolution
Edie (Ciao Baby)
Rise
Savages
Fire Woman
The Phoenix
Dirty Little Rockstar
Wild Flower
She Sells Sanctuary

Encore
~~~~~~
Born Into This
Love Removal Machine

04/19/2008 - The Black Crowes
Seneca Allegany Events Center (Casino)
Notes: Went with Sex Martin and Beth Galvin.

Set list(s):
The Black Crowes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Move It On Down The Line
Wiser Time
Sting Me
Goodbye Daughters Of The Revolution
Jealous Again
Poor Elijah/Robert Johnson
Descending
We Who See The Deep
Thorn In My Pride
Wounded Bird
Soul Singing
Virtue & Vice

Encore
~~~~~~
Let's Go Get Stoned
Willin'

08/04/2009 - Chris Isaak
Artpark
Notes: Went with Mr. & Mrs. Devine and met up with her best friend and Mr. & Mrs. Criscione.

Set list(s):
Anya Marina
~~~~~~~~~~
?
Miss Halfway
Drop Dead Blues
Cut It Out
Move You
? (written by I.T. in jail)
All The Same To Me

Chris Isaak
~~~~~~~~~
American Boy
Mr. Lonely Man
Let Me Down Easy
Somebody's Crying
Return To Me (?)
Beautiful Homes (?)
Summer Holiday
We Let Her Down
Speak Of The Devil
Wicked Game
Best I Ever Had
I Want You To Want Me
? (Win Your Love For Me)
We Lost Our Way
Take My Heart
Only The Lonely
I'll Go Crazy
? (You don't need me, you don't love me)
Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing

Encore
~~~~~~
Blue Hotel
San Francisco Days
Big Wonderful World
Western Stars