Your Largest Artist Seen In The Smallest Venue?

I feel better knowing it was all you. Now I don't have to be jealous.

 

I vaguely recall that Slipped Disc, the campus record co-op, had something to do with it but that could be a false memory.

I was there but didn't go to the show because I had other interests at the time/was an idiot.

 

The Fixx @ Good Skates Roller Rink, East Setauket, LI NY
Peter Frampton @ Toad's Place, New Haven CT
Mott the Hoople @ Sunshine Inn Asbury Park, NJ
Humble Pie & T Rex @ Rockpile, Island Park LI NY (same show) !
Black Sabbath @ Rockpile
Berlin @ Rathskellar (underneath Hofstra University's cafeteria)
Thompson Twins - in some club way out on Long Island
Dickie Betts @ Mulcahy's in Wantagh, LI NY
Twisted Sister @ Mr T's --- it's a florist shop now, a couple doors away from Mulcahy's
It's A Beautiful Day -- Adelphi University's Quad
Jethro Tull in an empty hangar @ Mitchel Field AF Base
Allman Bros (with Duane) in Hofstra U Gymnasium
Steely Dan & Cheech & Chong - Westbury Music Fair
Alvin Lee - Roxy Music Hall - Huntington, NY

 

REM at The Rat Boston
U2 The Orpheum Boston
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Rat Boston
The Pixies The Paradise Boston
Tori Amos Nightstage Cambridge 250 capacity first tour

 

Deep Purple at The Palace in St Kilda, Melbourne April 27 1999. That venue has since burnt to the ground. I think the venue was hit by a Fireball that sent it Into The Fire. The sprinklers came on and there was Smoke on the Water. Should I stop now???

 

Rolling Stones at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, November 4th 2002
Had to go to the theater the weekend ahead of the show to get a wristband,
we had to wear those all week before the show. What a show! had seats in
the balcony, close to the front, and it felt like you could almost reach out and touch them.

 

That is the best story on the thread.

 

wow that's great.
that's when I would have liked to have been able to see them.
(it's the first two albums for me, and I'm originally from San Jose, so...)

 

I guess Richard Thompson is not a large artist, even though he should be?
At The Carriage House in Villa Montalvo, seats 300. Saw him 2011 and 2012 there.

 

Oh YEAH!
The winner! (as far as I'M concerned!) man oh man Bruce in '73 and at the....omg

 

Without scrolling through 19 pages, here are a few:

Bruce Springsteen - solo acoustic benefit at the Somerville Theater in 2003 while touring behind The Rising

Some shows at the Paradise Club in Boston, late 70's-early 80's:

• Peter Gabriel, touring behind the Scratch album
• Hall & Oates, touring behind the X-Static album
• Talking Heads, just before the More Songs album was released
• David Johansen, on the tour from which the Live It Up album was recorded

 

Stephen Stills at the Alladin in portland, may 2014, qualifies: capacity: 620. He sang suite: judy blue eyes.

 

Bob Dylan 1992(x6) and 2014(x2) at the Palais Theatre Melbourne, capacity 2896

And of course Bob Dylan at the Mercury Lounge in Melbourne 98, capacity 250. Ripsnorter of a night!
Cheers, SLuggy

 

I saw Dylan at The Palais in the early 90s. He was absolutely terrible. People were walking out way before the encore. I reluctantly stayed till the end hoping that he would spark up. He never did. Got bad reviews at the time. Is that the same show you were at?

 

I was at all six (in a week)! Most interesting Bob shows I've been to, you never knew what would happen next although neither did Bob's band. Cool seeing the first Idiot Wind since 1976 tho!

Cheers Bobbishly, SLuggy

 

All 6 shows - amazing! I much preferred when I saw him at Kooyong Stadium backed by Tom Petty & band.

 

I was there too. STALKER ALERT!

Very coked up show I thought at the time. Fun tho.

Cheers SLuggy

 

I saw Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists in my college cafeteria. There were no seats, but they put a carpet on the floor with throw pillows strewn about. It was pretty weird.

I saw Justin Timberlake play a local club the night after he played the arena. The club parking lot had 18 wheelers of equipment, they brought their own mixing board, PA, etc. The sound was the best I've ever heard a live concert and the place was so packed I couldn't make it past the side of the stage - I was coming in through the kitchen in the back. I recommend his Netflix concert movie, the band is really great.

 

I have seen both the Foo Fighters (in 2003) and Coldplay (in 2001) play at the 320 person capacity Galatos Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand. Jaz Coleman got up during the Foo Fighters set and played Requiem with the band. What a night.

 

Radiohead for a couple of hundred people at the old Melkweg in Amsterdam in the early '90s.
Also quite a few concerts of Porcupine Tree in their early years in small venues in the Netherlands.

 

Considering they were playing places like the Olympic Stadium and Riverplate, seeing Guns And Roses at the Augusta Civic Center in Maine on the 1993 Skin And Bones tour was like seeing them in a club. What a crazy show. Axl kept referring to being in such a small venue, which for them at that time certainly was.

 

Aerosmith in a hotel bar. It was in Tampa and they came back to the hotel after the show and were still pumped and wanted to jam. There were about 10 of us in the bar. Luckily for me, even at that late hour I was sober enough to both enjoy and remember lol.

 

Forgot about the Stadium rockers Muse. Did see their first tour at Paradiso Amsterdam. Great concert.

 

Steven Wilson, Grace For Drowning Tour/Eurobuilding Hotel(Caracas/Venezuela) April 15, 2012

In a conference room for 500 people

 

He just sang one song?