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The best bang for the buck show I ever saw was paying $10 to see Swervedriver opening with Machine Head, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden following (in that order).

It was magical and memorable for many reasons:

1) the price for that lineup, obviously
2) the venue (now demolished) was a converted 1950s hangar, all curved metal & concrete, so there was nowhere for the sounds to go except through humans…and it was LOUD.
3) the venue had a no stagediving/crowd surfing policy…which Eddie Vedder broke during Machine Head’s set, getting him ejected. Fortunately, many fans were able to convince security & mgmt that he was the lead singer in the next act, and ejecting him would be a bad idea.
4) There were drugs EVERYWHERE- more than any show I’ve attended before or since. It’s a good thing I didn’t have a drug test l, because even though I don’t partake, I was probably 2nd hand exposed enough to test positive.
For me it was when I paid about C$120 to see The Who at Rich Stadium, in Buffalo. That included the bus to and from Toronto. The Clash opened for The Who. David Johansen (New York Dolls) opened for The Clash. Same thing; drugs and alcohol everywhere. I drank (not in years now), but didn't and don't use drugs. 1982.
 

Player who cancels at the last minute frequently also cancelled on the group's Friendsgiving plan at the last minute. It's getting to the point that when we do things we're just going assume he isn't showing up and then being surprised when he does.
We had one who would do that. Problem was he was the GM. That's how my "backup campaign" became the main.
 

We had one who would do that. Problem was he was the GM. That's how my "backup campaign" became the main.
Oh, he did this a lot during his one turn at bat as DM too. We started having to reschedule pretty frequently and then at one point he just...stopped responding for about 4 months. He would respond if we didn't talk about dnd, and went to a few outings, but would just clam up and not respond if anyone brought the game up. It was a big contribution to why I stopped playing ttrpgs all together for a few years.
 

The next evolution. Not bad, but I know I can do better.
 

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JEALOUS!

Fun Fact: I had no idea who Prong, Clutch and Drowned were, lol - I'd been driving past (the place was sort of on a side street, but one you had to drive down to get anywhere in that area) and saw there was a show that night, so I just spur-of-the-moment decided to pull into the near-by public parking lot and head inside... :p

It's like that time in 1985 when I was a junior high kid at an amusement park in RI, and a loud band was playing on the large outdoor concrete block they called the Midway Stage so I stopped to listen and convinced my mother to buy me a shirt.
It wasn't until decades later that I googled the band's name and found out that my first ever live concert had been accidentally seeing a world-famous metal band - it was Accept's Metal Heart tour... :cool:
 
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Fun Fact: I had no idea who Prong, Clutch and Drowned were, lol - I'd been driving past (the place was sort of on a side street, but one you had to drive down to get anywhere in that area) and saw there was a show that night, so I just spur-of-the-moment decided to pull into the near-by public parking lot and head inside... :p

It's like that time in 1985 when I was a junior high kid at an amusement park in RI, and a loud band was playing on the large outdoor concrete block they called the Midway Stage so I stopped to listen and convinced my mother to buy me a shirt.
It wasn't until decades later that I googled the band's name and found out that my first ever concert had been accidentally seeing a world-famous metal band - it was Accept's Metal Heart tour... :cool:
My first concert was the Sextasy Ball Tour with Lords of Acid and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. That was a fantastic concert.
 



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