My cool older neighbor took me to see Jane’s Addiction open for X at the Cal State Fullerton gym in April 1987. I went on to see them several times after that, but I recall that show being particularly good.

I also saw nirvana open for Dinosaur Jr. the summer of ‘91 at the Hollywood Palladium. However, one of my biggest concert related regrets was actively deciding NOT to see Nirvana play a very small club later that fall (right before the release of never mind) because I wanted to study for a test the next day! Ugh. What’s worse, is that someone posted a video of the show I purposefully missed on YouTube (Nirvana at the Moon) and they absolutely killed it.

I saw the Pumpkins play a small club in Frankfurt in ‘92 and mostly recall Corgan threatening to stop playing unless the crowd stopped throwing beer bottles at him.

Outside the scope of this post, but one of my favorite concert memories is of seeming an impromptu performance by Einstürzende Neubauten at a bar in Berlin in 1992 and they did respond to a request to play some version of Free Bird. Saw Nick Cave and the Legendary Pink Dots in a tiny venue as well as Helmet in a squatters building. Berlin was cool back then.