I love shit like this, and I'm totally stoked to add to the survey. Answers will follow in among the questions.
Tommy B
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>What's the 1st record you bought?
I think it was the "A Hard Day's Night" Soundtrack LP by the Beatles; it might have been the "Let it Be" 7"
>When did you buy it?
Well, I know I bought "Let it Be" when it came out in 1969/70, whenever it was, but I may have bought "A Hard Day's Night" a few weeks before that. I would have been about 8 or 9 years old.
>Do you still own it?
Either way, I still have both. Hell, I still have all my old kiddie story records my parents bought me, like Jack in the Beanstalk and so on.
>What's the last record you bought?
Well, on Monday I dropped about $168 at Mondo Kim's on Saint Mark's Place in the East Village. (I didn't run into GVSB either, although I did run into Johnny and Alexis on the New York Subway when I was up there for CMJ in '95 or '96.)
Here's a pretty thorough list of what I bought:
Roky Erickson Never Say Goodbye
Foetus Null
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation (UK Import)
Sonic Youth Silver Sessions For Jason Knuth
The Grifters Full Blown Posession (I forgot I had this-dummy)
The Grifters Ain't my Lookout (This too, how did I do that?)
Firewater The Ponzi Scheme
The Ex Alternators Starters
Stooges Live at the Whiskey A Gogo
GVSB Park Avenue CDingle
JSBX Talk About the Blues
Dirty Three UFKUKO
Various Artists Hey Drag City
Various Artists KVRX (?-Austin Radio Station-Stuff recorded in their studios)
Various Artists Threadwaxing Space: The Presidential compilation 1994-95
Foo Fighters We'll Stick Around (Live Bootleg for my wife)
Robyn Hitchcock Element of Light
>When did you buy it?
>Monday February 15, 1999
How was your musical evolution from 1st Rec to the last one?
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My older siblings turned me on to all the stuff that now is considered "classic rock." You know Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, Who, Grin, Hollies, Byrds, Neil Young, etc.
In High school, a couple friends turned me on to the whole "Punk Rock" thing, and I started really buying records then. College gave me the opportunity to get onto the radio, and that really got me going.
Dropping out of college brought me back home to DC, where I started going to shows, big concerts at first, then I discovered the local club/performance space/basement scene.
In 1979/80 I hooked up w/the harDCore scene and became a real fixture at all those shows.
As the 80's wore on, I really broadened my horizons and have explored all sorts of varieties of music. If I ever post one of my gig playlists to the list, I think you'll see what I mean. Maybe the list of stuff I bought Monday gives some indication.
Did you have any period you're now ashamed of during this evolution?
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>Not really. I have buttloads of records I never listen to, but it's not like I have an extensive disco collection or anything like that. I have a few Jimmy Buffett records I'm not missing in storage, and "Frampton Comes Alive" probably hasn't seen my turntable since I used to skateboard back and forth in my basement listening to it.
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>First gig you've been to and when?
This is a little embarrasing, but I didn't pay for the ticket, my brother took me. I saw Jackson Browne at Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia, MD sometime in 1978. Hey, he did date Nico for a while. (Jackson Browne, not my brother)
I tried to see the Ramones in February 1979, but I was only 17, and they were carding everybody. I saw the Clash at the Ontario Theater in DC with Screaming Jay Hawkins (and the Razz?) on 2/14/79.
>Last gig you've been to and when?
Blues Explosion Number 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1/13/99
>Best gig you've been to and when?
I can't imagine coming up with ONE best show of all time. The Ruts DC and UK Subs were always amazing. Rites of Spring shows were always incredibly moving experiences. That first Clash show hit me so hard I couldn't believe it.
>Worst gig you've been to and when?
I can't really think of any shows that were that bad. I either blocked them out, or just ignored the shitty bands on the bill and watched the good ones. The Swimming Pool Cues were pretty dreadful when they opened for Lou Reed, I saw Neil Haggerty in a band called Man Ray before he started Royal Trux, and they were pretty shitty. The Heatwave Festival at Mosport Speedway outside Toronto, Ontario was a mostly crappy bill, but I did see the Talking Heads, Rockpile, and Elvis Costello there.
>Most exhausting gig you've been to and when?
I guess driving all the way to Toronto for Heatwave was pretty exhausting. I guess it was around 1982. I did get my picture in the L.A. Times for attending. (as Tommy Bizarre)
>Most crowded gig you've been to and when?
I would say one of those UK Subs gigs at THE 9:30 club around 1984, back when the walls would literally SWEAT from all the bodies mashed into the tiny space.
>Less crowded gig you've been to and when?
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I've seen my share of sparsely attended shows. Heck, I used to work at Phantasmagoria (sorry Bobby)!
The first Replacements show at 9:30 in Fall, 1983 had about 5 people there to see them, even though the club had a decent sized crowd that night. It was on a Tuesday, which was a regular dance night, and the headliner, Red Rockets, had to cancel because the brother of their drummer, Jimmy O'reilly? (originally of Stiff Little Fingers?) had been killed in Ireland, and the usual dance crowd showed up, even though the Replacements still did the gig. The DJ, Wannabe Dub, played dance music all night, and the Replacements were pissed. They put on the best show I ever saw them do.
Most crazy stuff you did or/and that happened to you during a gig and
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>Alec Bourgeois and I did a tandem stage dive flip, with our arms entwined off the stage at the Ontario Theatre once. I can't remember if the Damned or Minor Threat were on stage at the time.
At a Butth*le Surfers show at the old 9:30, I practically passed out once. It was the first time they'd come to town with their whole castration films and naked mohawk dancer bit, and the place was really packed. I was right up against the stage when the crowd moved back a few feet, and whoever had been right bedind me came and creamed me and smashed me against the stage, right when the action on one of their movies was particularly disgusting. I got the wind knocked out of me and decided I should get out of the maelstrom. As I waded through the crowd to the back of the club I started seeing stars, and practically passed out. I made my way into the office and laid down on the couch, and listened to the rest of the show in the strangest mental state. I've never done psyechedelics, but I think that experience was a pretty close approximation. It was a pretty appropriate band to hear in that state.
Thanks for letting me particiapte in yr survey. Sorry if I obred anybody w/me long-winded answers.
DJ Tommy B (Tommy Bizarre)
DJ Tommy B
Nightclub 9:30
Box 50186
Washington, DC 20004-0186
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