Latest / Deprogrammed Music Podcast / Bryan C's Top 5 Concerts
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- 1:01But you may have noticed that we started doing people's top five
- 1:05concerts and we've had John and we've had Joe so far.
- 1:09And Brian reached out to me like a week, well, actually
- 1:13technically a couple weeks ago saying, hey, I'm going to be
- 1:16free this time. And then you said, hey, man, I'm
- 1:19free these dates. I'd love to do this.
- 1:24And Brian, you said you wanted to do your top five concerts, so
- 1:27I'm going to get out of the way and I'm going to leave you the
- 1:30floor. Yeah, Awesome.
- 1:33Yeah. It's, it's it's awesome being
- 1:34here. I haven't been on the show in a
- 1:35while, so it's awesome to, you know, get back in some facet
- 1:39when I got some free time. Yeah, I, I, I listened to the
- 1:44other ones. I listened to the dailies.
- 1:46I was like, yeah, I can talk about concerts.
- 1:48Like, like, so like I OK, so the way that I kind of took this,
- 1:55like a lot of people, like, you know, they were talking about
- 1:58like their favorite acts or, you know, things that they saw for
- 2:02me. So when I say like a concert,
- 2:04I'm going to use the the term a little loosely too with one of
- 2:08my picks. Like to me, it's the full
- 2:13experience. It's from the time you brush
- 2:18your teeth in the morning until you get home that night.
- 2:21It honestly is because I'm such like a, I'm a very like fickle
- 2:26person and I've gotten worse as I've gotten older.
- 2:29If something happens to me during the day that puts me in a
- 2:33bad mood, it ruins my whole day and it will ruin like I'll go to
- 2:39concerts and just stand there because I'm because I'm a, I'm a
- 2:42jerk. So I'll just it's like stand
- 2:44there like arms crossed, all angry because like I can't get
- 2:48over something that happened earlier.
- 2:50I know it doesn't seem like I'm that way.
- 2:52Like on the show, I'm very positive and happy, but that's a
- 2:55persona. No, I'm I'm I'm usually pretty,
- 3:02pretty happy, optimistic, but like I said, I I get put and
- 3:05it's pretty easily. So like, so like I have a couple
- 3:09like honorable mentions like these could have been on the
- 3:12list, but like something happened and it made the
- 3:15experience not 100%. And when I talk about a show, I
- 3:20mean the I, I mean the whole show, the opening act, if
- 3:24there's a middle act, the closer, like just really great
- 3:29experiences. Sometimes they're not in the
- 3:33hands of the artist and sometimes they are.
- 3:37I just want to give like a quick honorable mention.
- 3:40My first concert ever my dad took me for my 15th birthday was
- 3:44Bob Seger in Hartford. And it was awesome.
- 3:49It was, it was really awesome. I was, it was for my 15th
- 3:53birthday. Can't remember the name of the
- 3:56album that just came out, but like my dad was a big Bob Seger
- 3:59fan and like I got really into him as well.
- 4:04So that was awesome. Another ample mention.
- 4:08It's going to be another another throwback band.
- 4:11The first time I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd, which is again wild,
- 4:15but I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd in like 99 with my buddy Ryan, who I'm
- 4:21going to mention a lot. Ryan who I do the show with
- 4:24Keith, we go. We used to go to a lot of
- 4:27concerts together. It was me, Ryan, my buddy Keith,
- 4:31and Anthony, my girlfriend at the time, Heather, who's now my
- 4:35wife. We used to go to a lot of shows
- 4:37together to hang out together. So first time seeing Lynyrd
- 4:40Skynyrd, it was just me, Heather, Ryan and his girlfriend
- 4:42at the time and it was awesome. I do have to honorable mention
- 4:48the first time I saw Pearl Jam, you know, you know, Pearl Jam
- 4:55was huge, you know, came out when I was, you know, 12-12
- 4:59years old. So, you know, never.
- 5:02They did come to Hartford a bunch of the 90s.
- 5:04But, you know, I wasn't allowed to go to, you know, rock concert
- 5:08when I was 15 years old except for Bob Seger with my dad.
- 5:12So I didn't get to see Pearl Jam until 2003.
- 5:18And you'd be like, oh, like, this is your all time favorite
- 5:21band. Your first time being in the
- 5:22same room and breathing Eddie Vedder's air Isn't isn't on your
- 5:26list. So this is kind of a kind of a
- 5:30famous show. It's called Mansfield 3 John
- 5:33Randy other Pearl Jam heads will will know what that means.
- 5:38Basically, they were they they they about a month or two before
- 5:43the show, they said that they were going to do a third show in
- 5:46Mansfield, MA. This this little town about 20
- 5:50miles South of Boston. And though they were going to do
- 5:55a third show and over those three shows, they're going to
- 5:57play like every song in their catalog.
- 5:59So I got tickets to it. I was pumped.
- 6:02This was 2003. So I I wasn't like Internet
- 6:07savvy back then really in 03. And I didn't know that they were
- 6:13going to play in order to play all their songs.
- 6:17They were going to play an acoustic set pre Sleater Kenny,
- 6:23the opening band at like 6:30. So I'm sitting in traffic in
- 6:27like Providence and my buddy Anthony, who's there with Ryan
- 6:31calls me. He's like, dude, where are you?
- 6:33I'm like, I'm in Providence. I'm like, I'm like almost there.
- 6:36I'm like 25 minutes away and he's like, dude, Pearl Jam is on
- 6:41right now, dude. I mean, you could you could
- 6:45imagine it sent me. I was spiraling.
- 6:51So yeah, they played a one hour acoustic set, thence leader
- 6:54Kenny came out, played their set, and then Pearl Jam came
- 6:57back out and played another three hours.
- 6:59So they ended up playing four hours that night.
- 7:03And so Mansfield 3 is like a historic show.
- 7:05So when I tell people, how's that Mansfield 3 and they're
- 7:09like, oh, so awesome. But I missed the one hour.
- 7:13I missed the one hour acoustic set.
- 7:15Once everything started and I calmed down, I did get there.
- 7:19I did get into the groove of the band and everything.
- 7:21But yeah, that was bad. Like, like, you know, again,
- 7:29that's an outside thing. I had another outside thing
- 7:31bothering me at a Pearl Jam show.
- 7:34The last time I saw the Fenway, I had like an ear infection or
- 7:37something going. Like I'm shit to start with, but
- 7:44everything was vibrating in my ear and I couldn't.
- 7:47I couldn't hear a fucking thing. All I heard was all night.
- 7:52That was terrible. So.
- 7:57That'll do it. That said, so my top five here,
- 8:03OK, so I'm going to start here, taking the word concert kind of
- 8:07loosely here. So here I, I live in a small
- 8:12town in central Connecticut. It's it's very like small.
- 8:16It's it's very like small. They try to be like small New
- 8:20England. We have every year in October,
- 8:24we have this like a festival of the apple harvest festival.
- 8:30And every year they they well, every year pre COVID, they got a
- 8:35banned to come play. And this might seem crazy and I
- 8:41hope to do the show on them at some point.
- 8:43This is the most important band in in in making me who I am.
- 8:50And you're not going to believe who it is.
- 8:53I have no idea. The 1st when I was a kid, I
- 8:57would listen to like pop music and like hip hop is that this
- 9:01band crossed over. They were like a pop.
- 9:05They had two big pop hits. But when you bought the record,
- 9:09none of the songs were pop. They were jam band.
- 9:13They were like acid rock. They were the Spin Doctors.
- 9:17Wow, the this is the band that got me into rock music.
- 9:22My first rock album I ever bought was the Spin Doctors
- 9:25Pocketful Kryptonite. So in 2019 they played on the
- 9:33Town Green here in Southington for free.
- 9:38And it was like, like, I it's 22 miles from my house.
- 9:43I'm like, oh, well, you gotta go see spin doctors like, and
- 9:47you're like, OK, you saw the spin doctors for free and your
- 9:50town green. It was, it was awesome.
- 9:53Like they like, you know, no pyrotechnics, obviously.
- 9:56You know, it's just, it's just a little town green in a little
- 9:59like New England town. And like all the 40 year olds
- 10:04from Southington are there. And it was just such an awesome
- 10:09experience that like, it is, it's like one of the best like,
- 10:14shows I've ever been to. Like, even though it's not
- 10:16really like what you would think of as like a concert, you know,
- 10:22there's #5 #4 again, this is going to be a surprising 1.
- 10:29I didn't, I didn't find the year.
- 10:33I did try to look it up. I would, if I'm going to guess,
- 10:37I'm going to say 2012 or to 14 area.
- 10:43My wife loves country music. I didn't really get into country
- 10:49country like I liked like, you know, Neil Young and like Grand
- 10:55Parsons and stuff like that. But like I didn't get really
- 10:58into country country until later.
- 11:01I got in tune with Zac Brown. But my wife is a big fan of
- 11:12Miranda Lambert so this is going to be wild.
- 11:16So the tickets went on sale the day before my wife's birthday
- 11:21and the concert was on our wedding anniversary in August.
- 11:26Concert was August 18th and the opening band I actually liked.
- 11:33I knew them. They're called Brothers of the
- 11:34Osborne, but like the whole thing was just such an
- 11:38experience. And one thing that like I take
- 11:42like when I say like this is my favorite show, my favorite band
- 11:46or my favorite concert is were were you captivated?
- 11:51Like when I tell you Miranda Lambert owned that fucking
- 11:57place, like, I wasn't I, I was in awe, like at her command, at
- 12:06the way she just held the audience like in her palm like
- 12:10it was, it's not like my type of music.
- 12:16And just the fact that, like, she drew me in so hard is like,
- 12:20this is what you want. Right, like this?
- 12:22Is what you want at a show Is you want to be like taken away
- 12:25from your, you're outside life and you want to escape for like
- 12:29a, for a couple hours? Like I like fell in love with
- 12:33her. Like that night towards the end
- 12:37of the show, somebody in the crowd held up this sign.
- 12:42So they, they were stationed in Afghanistan in like the early
- 12:482000s and they held a sign that said, like, your music got me
- 12:53through Afghanistan. And like, she started to cry on
- 12:57stage. Like she's like bawling.
- 13:00And I'm like, I want to go up there and hug her Like, And it
- 13:07was just like the whole night. It was just a, it was a perfect
- 13:10night. Like I said, it was our wedding
- 13:12anniversary. Like it was like everything was
- 13:15just absolute roses, you know, just just a great night all
- 13:21together. So I got so all right, so #3 So
- 13:29again, this is kind of taking concert loosely.
- 13:33It was a concert I actually had to look up because I forgot half
- 13:38the bands I saw that day. But I looked it up and some of
- 13:42them, one of them actually surprised me.
- 13:44I, I wish I remembered this more.
- 13:46I kind of created a false memory like, Oh yeah, I definitely
- 13:49remember that. So in the year 2000, our local
- 13:53radio station, our Radio One O 4, they would do these like a
- 14:02festival. It was the A1O4 fest.
- 14:06So this is the year 2000. I went with Ryan, our friend
- 14:12Keith, Keith's girlfriend at the time, also Heather.
- 14:18So we were all like, you know, 19 year olds, you know, I was
- 14:2320. And then, like, just set loose
- 14:27at the Meadows Music Theatre for the day.
- 14:29It was hot, but it was. But, you know, it was one of
- 14:31those days where it's hot and you just don't fucking care.
- 14:35And just walking around with everybody, just all these
- 14:39different bands. We saw a dynamite hack,
- 14:43Remember? They did that, that cover of
- 14:45Boys in the Hood. Yeah, we saw them and when, when
- 14:49we walked up to the stage, it just happened to be playing that
- 14:51song. And I'm like, yeah, I think it
- 14:54was like not it might have been like when they started playing
- 14:56that, like everyone ran towards that stage and like, 'cause they
- 15:02didn't give a fuck about whatever, whatever else the
- 15:04dynamite hack did. So the mainstage that night,
- 15:08this is the one that I saw listed and I, I don't remember.
- 15:12I wish I did. 3 doors downplayed.
- 15:16Well. So they were new back then.
- 15:20I do remember Ryan was obsessed with that song Kryptonite.
- 15:26I think Ryan signed me up to, to do a show on, on Three Doors
- 15:29Down. Yeah, deprogrammed.
- 15:32He was obsessed with that song Kryptonite.
- 15:34And when I saw it listed on the like, Skype, like looked it up
- 15:38for research and I was like, I don't remember 3 Doors Down
- 15:41being there. But then I then I'm thinking
- 15:44about him. I kind of do.
- 15:46EVE 6 we saw. I definitely remember seeing EVE
- 15:496 Catherine Wheel. Hell yeah.
- 15:54Yeah, they were there. They were awesome.
- 15:58And then the third. So the, the the main acts were
- 16:02Seven Dust and Creed. I'm gonna make all the Pearl Jam
- 16:04fans, like cringe now. But like, I love Creed.
- 16:09I'm sorry. No need to apologize for them.
- 16:13The thump of the band before them was fucking Veruca Salt.
- 16:16Aw, wicked. I saw fucking Veruca Salt and
- 16:21then Seven Dust. My first time seeing 7 dust.
- 16:26This was when home came out. They I, I, I mean Creed, fucking
- 16:32like lived up to it because they were, they were like the main
- 16:35headliner. But every time I see Seven Dust,
- 16:38they're always an opener and they always make the opening
- 16:41band just feel really bad about themselves. 7 I don't know what
- 16:497 Dust does that's so special, but they just, I, they just blew
- 16:54everything away. Earlier that year, Creed and
- 16:59Seven Dust were on tour together.
- 17:01This was their second time in Connecticut.
- 17:03They played earlier in Connecticut in New Haven
- 17:07Coliseum which is gone now. We went to that show and what
- 17:12almost takes points off this for me is that 7 or not 7 dust?
- 17:16Sorry. Creed played the same setlist in
- 17:21both shows they played. I think they just play like one
- 17:23silent setlist and then that's all they play.
- 17:25But Creed played the same setlist in New Haven and
- 17:29Hartford like 6 months apart. Sevendust I don't they repeated
- 17:34like Bitch in Black and then like a couple songs off home
- 17:37like because they have to like denial a waffle, but like 7 Dust
- 17:42played a ton of stuff off the first record and then a bunch of
- 17:45deep stuff off of home and they just blew it apart.
- 17:50So like I said, it was just it was just an awesome fun night.
- 17:54Yeah, I got you know, we you know, we got home like one in
- 17:57the morning. We were just, it was just a
- 18:00great fucking day all together. All right, so that brings me #2
- 18:06this is in 2003, 2003. My wife's uncle, my wife's
- 18:15family is big into a meatloaf. And this is my first.
- 18:20This is where I became a meatloaf fan.
- 18:23Cyndi Whopper opened for Meatloaf.
- 18:25Oh man. Oh.
- 18:26Man, you want to talk about fucking captivated again?
- 18:31I'm going into this knowing like 2 Meatloaf songs and like the
- 18:35two Cyndi Lauper songs. I, I couldn't even tell you what
- 18:42happened around me that night. My eyes never left the stage.
- 18:48Like never. I didn't even I well, it was
- 18:522003. It's like, you know, we weren't
- 18:54all like staring at phones yet. Like I never, I never looked at
- 18:59a person around me. I don't remember even looking at
- 19:03my wife. I don't remember watching my
- 19:05wife then, but like I don't remember anything around me.
- 19:09It felt like it was me and Meat Loaf in the room and that was
- 19:15it. Like it was, I mean, I, I hate
- 19:21to keep using the word, but it was like it was captive, like
- 19:24captivating, like he, he, he came out and he just immediately
- 19:32came out with I want my money back.
- 19:35I remember that. And everything he did was just
- 19:44I, I can't even explain his, his stage presence and Cindy
- 19:48Whopper, like, again, going into it just knowing like true
- 19:52colours and girls want to have fun.
- 19:55And I was like, oh, OK, you know, yeah, you know, she's,
- 19:58she's fine, I guess. Just absolutely, absolutely took
- 20:04everything away from me. It was, it was just a fucking
- 20:08fantastic, fantastic show. And again, everything went
- 20:13perfectly. So I was able to enjoy the show.
- 20:19All right, so number one, I talked about two bad experiences
- 20:23at Pearl Jam shows. Number one, I got to go with the
- 20:26Pearl Jam show, of course. So this was in 2010, usually
- 20:33when they played in Hartford. So I saw them in Mansfield.
- 20:36That was that was like one of those like inside, outside kind
- 20:40of things. You know, like every area has
- 20:43one of those concert venues. It's usually called like The
- 20:45Meadows or Great Woods or something like that.
- 20:49So when I saw the Mansfield that was in it that that was like an
- 20:52indoor outdoor kind of stadium. We were inside and then I saw
- 20:58him a bunch in Hartford at the Meadows and we were on the lawn
- 21:04each time. One time.
- 21:05I mean, they were all great. When I saw him at the Meadows,
- 21:08every single 1 was fantastic. One of them, we were currently
- 21:14like, like arguing with one of my friends.
- 21:18So like, we, we, we, we bought tickets together, but like, we
- 21:21didn't stand near each other at all.
- 21:23So that made it kind of weird. But we saw them in 2010 in
- 21:29Hartford in the Harvard Civic Center.
- 21:33So this is an inside venue. How how the roof didn't fucking
- 21:39collapse, I have no idea. Like third song in Eddie broke
- 21:46the microphone stand and he's like, he's like, I guess it's
- 21:51going to be one of those nights. And if you ever, if you ever go
- 21:57back to the, to the Pearl Jam like live podcast from the other
- 22:05guys, it was like, like they talk about it.
- 22:08And Randy especially because he, you know, this is where like he
- 22:13used to live. And it was the most energetic
- 22:20like show I have ever been to. Like every, every person around
- 22:26us just belting out every word to every song.
- 22:32This was by far the best Pearl Jam show I've ever seen.
- 22:37Like we were we were farther back.
- 22:38I'm not into the whole like, you know, getting up to the getting
- 22:43up to like the stage. Like I don't, that's not my
- 22:45scene. Like I wouldn't want to do that.
- 22:47That seems like a fucking nightmare to me, especially
- 22:50nowadays, just just because of like my anxieties and everything
- 22:56that so like if I can sit towards the back and still like
- 23:00it was Oh my God, when they did like a live, like the house
- 23:05lights were on and everything about it was just like
- 23:12absolutely fucking perfect. We were there.
- 23:15So we had like a four, like a four ticket limit because it was
- 23:21inside. Usually we see them on the lawn
- 23:23and you can get as many tickets as you want or you can, you
- 23:25know, stand like wherever you want.
- 23:27So it didn't matter. So we were going with a whole
- 23:29group and me and Heather had tickets separate from everybody
- 23:34else. So I'm like, oh, this sucks.
- 23:37Like what we going to do? And my buddy Anthony is like,
- 23:41dude, it's a Pearl Jam show. Just ask somebody to trade seats
- 23:45with you. It's not a big deal.
- 23:47So like, I'm thinking it's going to be a disaster, you know,
- 23:49because I'm, you know, that's how I am.
- 23:52And so like we go to the, there's two people sitting there
- 23:56right behind our friends, like like Keith and Anthony and this
- 23:59other kid, Kevin. And I don't think Ryan was
- 24:02actually at that show. I think Ryan had already moved
- 24:04to South Carolina at that point. There were two people sitting
- 24:08behind them. And me and Heather students were
- 24:11actually closer to the stage. And I'm like, hey, do you mind
- 24:14trading tickets with us? Like, you know, these are our
- 24:16friends. And you know, they bought 4
- 24:18tickets and like we couldn't. And they were like, yeah, sure,
- 24:21dude. Like, like, because that's how
- 24:26it is. That that's how it is there.
- 24:27They're like, yeah, of course, man.
- 24:29Yeah, no problem. So like they took our tickets
- 24:32and like I, I points where they were.
- 24:34And the guy gave me a thumbs up. He's like, yeah, I can't wait,
- 24:36man. It's going to be great, you
- 24:38know? And then and it was just like an
- 24:39awesome night again. Just who opened for them?
- 24:45Band Of Horses opened for them, who I didn't know, but they
- 24:50became a big fan of just hear like the funeral once and it's
- 24:56it's like one of the greatest songs of all time.
- 25:00And then Band Of Horses, the lead singer came out later to
- 25:03do, oh, what was the song he did?
- 25:07I keep thinking not going to have his door, but it's not it's
- 25:11not knocking at his door. It's ah, man, Jimi Hendrix
- 25:17covered it. The the Bob Dylan song of Jimi
- 25:21Hendrix covered all on the Watchtower.
- 25:24Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Watchtower.
- 25:26They came out and did Watchtower together, like the Bob Dylan
- 25:30version, not the Jimmy's version, but it was awesome.
- 25:34They did a cover of Van Halen that night and they, they're
- 25:40like, this is like the this is the only time we've played it
- 25:43and we're never going to play it again.
- 25:46They did play it again three years later, also in Hartford.
- 25:49It was Ain't talking about love, Ain't talking about love.
- 25:54They came out and played and yeah, it was just a fucking
- 25:59awesome night. So there you go.
- 26:02There are my top five shows. What I love, boom.
- 26:09Yeah. What I love about this, though,
- 26:10is you set your parameters differently, but to me, like
- 26:15they, they're equal, Like it's all about the story anyway,
- 26:19right? Like it's all about the story of
- 26:21the show. And look, we we've all said
- 26:25this, it's hard to follow what John had, you know, like it's he
- 26:29had a little everything. But you know, Joe had a lot of
- 26:34stuff about like, you know, the the show itself, like the
- 26:37concert and, and, and you had, you know, the surrounding
- 26:41instances of it. So folks just saying like, you
- 26:44define what your top five are. Like everybody has their own
- 26:48different parameters for what that includes.
- 26:50So there is the rules are there are no rules as they said on
- 26:54that movie Grease. Everyone expected me to
- 26:59reference, I'm sure. There you have it folks.
- 27:02There's Brians top five concerts.
- 27:03If you have been a panel member and would like to do this
- 27:06yourself, you know where we are in the discord.
- 27:09Find us and until tomorrow, we'll see you tomorrow.
- 27:13Repetitive but same.