Completely Conspicuous29 Heinä 2025

Completely Conspicuous 660: When Schlitz Rocked America

Celebrating 19 years of podcasting with part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see.

Show notes:

On to our top 10 shows
Phil's are in chronological order, Jay's in no particular order
Phil: Neil Young and Pearl Jam on their short Euro tour, 8/26/95 in Dublin
PJ standing in for Crazy Horse
The Velvet Sundown, lame AI band
Jay: The Clash from June 1980 at Hammersmith Palais
31 songs from throughout their career
The Clash opened for the Who on the Schlitz Rocks America tour
Apparently Schlitz was once a big name in beer
Phil: Stevie Ray Vaughan on 9/21/85 at the Capitol Theatre
Jay: PJ Harvey on the Rid of Me tour in '93
Saw her on the next tour in '95
Phil: Talking Heads on the Speaking in Tongues tour in Oct. 1983 in Billerica, Mass.
Jay: I would've picked the 1980 tour with Adrian Belew on guitar
Jay: Living Colour at TT the Bears in Cambridge, Mass. in the summer of '88
Taped the show off the radio simulcast on WBCN
Killer show before the band blew up the next year
Phil: U2 on the War tour in March 1983
Jay: Prince's Purple Rain tour at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse
Prince was the biggest musician in the world at the time
Phil: The Pretenders at the Paradise in Boston in 1980
The band's original lineup was so good
Jay: Went with a December 1981 Pretenders show in France
To be continued

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