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Best big name / small venue show?
Have you ever gotten to see a big name band in a small venue? Maybe it was before the band got big, or they were doing a 'club' tour?
The only bigger name bands I can recall seeing in a small place would have to be Nirvana and Green Day. There was a bar on South Street in Philly
that had shows all the time, and both of them played there before they got so huge. It was probably around 1990, and there couldn't have been 100
people at the shows.
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I remember seeing Pantera at small venues on their Cowboys From Hell tour and their Vulgar Display Of Power tour. White Zombie was the opener for one
of them. I saw Marilyn Manson many years ago in a small club. Dropkick Murphys, Hatebreed, and SOIA to name a few of others.
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I saw Blood for Blood at a club in baltimore called "The Depot" That place is small as shit.
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dude. Led Zeppelin played my living room before they blew up. Got that shit on video tape too!
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does seein blitz set up their gear at a legion and then leave the stage 5 minutes later last weekend count? hahaha
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saw green day with sloppy seconds a long ass time ago in a small club.
Hatebreed would always play austin, so wed chill with them alot. they even rememebered the laredo dudes, It was wierd.
Saw bad religion at a small ass club, cant remeber who they played with... Green day again i think.
Saw monster magnet with some other bands... same small ass club in san anto...
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Oi!
I almost forgot! We saw Shane MacGowan play at a bar called The Irish Rover (duh) in Astoria, Queens (duh again) last summer. Any time Shane is in
New York City, it's guaranteed he'll be staying at the Gramercy Park Hotel and drinking at The Irish Rover. There may not be many others on this
board who care, but for me, this was one of the best shows ever. This guy is a genius. Here are a few pics...
Oh yeah, the band he's playing with is Lancaster County Prison. They were shooting a video for one of their songs that Shane sings on. After two or
three takes of that song, they did about 10 traditional Irish songs, including Whiskey in the Jar, Irish Rover (duh x3), Dirty Old Town, and Lonesome
Highway.
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That would have been an amazing show.
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arggh.....i hate you duane. seein the terry woods band was amazing but it still wasnt shane macgowan. damn damn crap damn 
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Need to live in a city like NY to see something that good. Damnit.
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argh, Duane. you lucky bastard.
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I used to work at a club/bar and I saw Limp Bizkit, System of a Down, Incubus, a whole shitload of those gay radio rock bands in a place that barely
held 200 people. I saw many a small Hatebreed show over the years. I saw Terror in a basement in Denver. There's probably some other stuff I can't
think of right now.
P.S. - at that same club I used to work at, check this show that got cancelled at the last minute: Cold As Life, All Out War, Clenched Fist, and an
unkown honky rapper name Kid Rock.
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I guessmy big band/little show earth crisis in a strip mall little store (like a nail place or something but it was gutted), like 500 kids...
this was on the destroy the machines tour I belive
I don't think I have ever heard another band sound exactly like the record with having a massive p.a. to play thru
as for the Shane MacGowan pics....fucking rad
my dream is to be an old drunk irish bastard and sing pub songs all day, after the kids grow up though....
duane next time you hear of anything like this in the city let me know
I am close enough to make it there
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Blood For Blood back in around 98 at the Mindbomb in St Catharines, the place only holds like 75-100 max and it was packed.
Hatebreed at the Reverb too in like 2000 or something, that was maybe 250 people.
Gob at the Vault in St Kitts in like 95 then they got big and now nobody cares again.
I forget what else. Alexisonfire at the NAC a couple years ago with like 60 people now they fuckin sell out in Toronto.
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favourites but in the end it doesn’t matter who or where it comes from... so long as it’s good and it's real.
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hatebreed is the only big band i've seen in a small venue
i think........
it was awesome though, every time
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well, Ive thought about this for a while now and I cant think of one fucking bigger named band Ive seen in a small place. Well, actually I saw
Converge on my 21st birthday in this small shithole that I loved called The Hanover House in Meriden, CT. I really wasnt feeling too well because I
had gotten knocked around during One King Down's set right before that so I left after Converge played a few songs. I wouldnt say that Converge is
huge though.
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oh shit I totaly forgot about shows at the outhouse in lawerence kansas
about the size of a double wide trailer in a corn field...
I saw the best shoe of my life there
soia, good riddance, and ensign....
and the rev paul was there as well....
tons of kids, but everyband played there you ever wanted to see.....
I tried looking it up a while ago, but there is almost no documentaion online about it, other the nit's a tittie bar now....
in a corn field,
other bands I saw there were deicide, obituary, fear factory's first tour when they were death metal,....
hmm
I know there were shows there all the way back to the black flag days, so if I can find any other info I will let you guys know
found a link
http://www.lawrence.com/news/2003/feb/19/inside_the/
give the history of the place...
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theres a cool club in london called the underworld, it's in a basement below a pub/nightclub and quite small.
i saw SOIA and Blood for Blood there on seperate occasions.
awesome both times.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DAN SMASH
theres a cool club in london called the underworld, it's in a basement below a pub/nightclub and quite small.
i saw SOIA and Blood for Blood there on seperate occasions.
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underworld in camden? i've been there a few times myself, years ago. that's one of those great clubs that books all kind of shows, too.
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yep.
thats the one dude,
they got AF and terror in march, if ya know the place- you know what that shows gonna be like!
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in january, i'm seeing madball in a ridiculously small club. with 100 demons etc, but they've already played there.
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i think it was the underworld i saw motorhead at when i was there. cool spot for sure
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