Which "Defining Concert of a generation" did you go to?

Or at least watch on TV maybe....

I'm young, cut me some slack.

But that was the Cure's, the Pixies', and Kraftwerk's triumphant return.

.. 'coz I have that recording & I'm so a) in love with 'Into the White' & b) envy I missed them at Roskilde Festival this summer.

But I had to leave early to get a good seat for Kraftwerk.

Alice in Chains, Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Ministry....I went into the moshpit (on acid) during Ministry's set in '92 and got cut in the eye, had to leave and get stitches etc. Had the time of my life.......

and most of the others after that first one.

Year one: "wow, there's so many of us."
Year two: "Fuck, who let the jocks in?"

I was peaking like fsck during Ministry's set (I dropped right before Lush, the openers, who I actually liked a lot).

The dumbass jocks started burning whatever they could find in several smoky bonfires all over the grounds. It was fscking horrible. They were throwing really nice things on the fires, like somebody's wool blanket, a backpack, etc. All these dumbass jocks drunk on pisswarm Budweiser beer destroying things.

1992 was the year it all fell apart: "alternative" went from a musical style to a marketing term. The music turned from clever and quirky to loud, shitty and completely unredeeming. Pretty soon all "alternative" music just sounded like heavy metal, without the sexist lyrics and guitar solos. Good riddance to bad garbage.

puked my guts out.

Five shows of the first NY Dolls tour. New Order's first show, at Hurrah in NYC. Ramones first "tour" (two gigs in Connecticut high schools). Roxy Music's first U.S. tour at Academy of Music.

I have a different definition, I guess.

oooh and I was at Bonds in June...you know what I'm talking about!

*ENVY*

.. pick either of them, though I think 2000 was the one that had the greatest impact ever, when 9 young men died at what was generally considered the safest festival in the industry.

Kinda cool to think back and reflect that this years festival was my 13th (I missed '96 due to a language school trip to the UK) - and I'm only 22!

Before that... Cream, ELP, Yes, CSNY, Who, Traffic, Edgar Winter, Pete Seegar.... and The Beatles.

Never got to see Hendrix or Joplin.

Peaches & Herb at Six Flags, circa 1991.

Saw John Lee Hooker back-to-back with Earl Scruggs and got stoned for the first time in the bargain.

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dbt

Yes, I was there. Those other concerts were for whimps.

Tough as nails, eh?

Ok, so for most of us it was the defining concert for somebody else's generation, but still.

I don't even remember the performance, just all the screaming teenaged girls, I didn't get it and wanted to leave.