oh look, WPI in the blogosphere

[solipsistnation]

Popdose, a site I read fairly regularly for the music reviews and stuff, has posted a review/discussion of Dinosaur Jr. playing in Riley Commons in 1997.

I would guess that a few of my delightful readers were there...

Comments

[dariusk.livejournal.com]

I was about to complain about the lack of good concerts when I was at WPI, but we *did* get KRS-ONE. I guess it also means that WPI actually became better at booking appropriate bands: instead of awesome bands that nobody there likes, they now consistently book crappy bands that the kids want to see.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the post-Dag-and-folks era was pretty sad, I think. They probably blew most of that term's (and possibly that semester's!) budget on that one show, too.

[gunthersdncemix.livejournal.com]

I take it you missed the days of TMBG, Sister Machine Gun, Black 47, Los Straitjackets etc.?

[gunthersdncemix.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Guster (before they got popular and were much better IMHO)

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Didn't they break up immediately after that show? Like, "backstage at Riley" after?

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Sheesh, one could only hope.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Goddamn it, lucasthegray and purple_dj tell a story about a band breaking up immediately after playing WPI. I could have sworn it was Dinosaur Jr!

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

I dunno... I know Think Tree didn't last long afterward, but that was before their time. Also, Scratch Monkey broke up on-stage, as did MSF one of the times we got in fights. (That was my fault, heh.)

[gunthersdncemix.livejournal.com]

I worked security at that show, and remember it sucking horribily. It may have been my first show where I got stuck working backstage and didn't get to do anything interesting. ;)