Concerts on a School Night!
Posted January 19, 2010 by
Morning Show Crew 
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Comments(23) 
Doesn’t it seem like some of the greatest shows are smack in the middle of the week? We’re reminiscing on sick concerts we saw on a school night! Tell us what shows that made you suffer the next day, but were totally worth it!
I saw U2 at the Ritz in Manhattan on a Tuesday night. It was, I believe the Edge’s 22 birthday. Great show!
I love the song Trip Through Your Wire from the Joshua Tree
I’ve seen Damien Rice 8 times, always a weeknight. He plays forever, well after midnight but worth it.
Any Damien Rice song of your choice.
My concert on a school night was Talking Heads Oct.27th,1977 at the Bottom Line. First major show they played outside of CB’s and clubs like that. I googled Oct 27,1977 and it was a thursday. Still have the ticket stub.
The best most recent school night concert I saw was Ray LaMontagne at the Beacon in November. I was really dragging the next day and my student could totally tell I was out the night before, but it was totally worth it. He was great live, cab I hear “Meg White” today?
Thanks! Have a great day!!
It wasn’t quite a school night, but in 1977 I took the ACT exams college entrance exams the morning after seeing the Eagles “Hotel California” show at the Cleveland Coliseum.
By the way, I scored a perfect 36 on the math portion!
Phish on that thursday erarly this december. Taught four high school english classes before noon that friday. Rough.
ABSOLUTELY!
My very first concert ever, Freshman at Fordham, spring, 1960, Rose Hill Gym: THE KINGSTON TRIO: Charlie on the MTA; Scotch and Soda.
PS: Pete Fornatale was there.
All the best.
James Brown
NYC Lone Star Cafe
Early 80’s. He played into the morning
Peace on Earth
I was the one with the car- my friend was the one that had to get up early to take the NY Math Regents exam because he failed it the first time. July 1989 Meadowlands: Guns and Roses, Deep Purple and Aerosmith (in that order). Got there at noon and home roughly just in time for the exam. I happy to say my friend (now an engineer) passed.
Another one- with the same friend: Fall of 1997 (ish)- this time it was MY school night. I was in graduate school at Stony Brook University and in the middle of some pretty serious experiments. Some of these you could set up to ‘run long’ so you could break for dinner etc. I set up one to run extra long, left a ‘be back soon note’ and drove to MSG to see Lyle Lovett and back before anyone really knew I was gone.
Note the evolution of interests!
Concerts on school nights have always been par for the course around here. Back in college some of the best were Phish and Jerry Band. We were at Syracuse University, so there was no shortage of great local arenas. I have a very fond memory in fact of Jerry playing Van Morrison’s “And It Stoned Me” at the Syracuse War Memorial. So sweet. I was there with my college sweetheart, now my husband, and Van was, well, “our” man. For Jerry to play this sank deep with both of us that night.
Now it’s our young children that have the school nights, which are frankly harder to recover from for the next morning. But we have seen some great shows mid-week:
Ray LaMontagne
Gomez
The Dead
Many good times both ways…..
:)
morning guys! my brothers and I would always get together on a school
night to see Steve Forbert at the (now closed) Stanhope House (a
wonderful blues club) in Stanhope, NJ…last time he asked for
requests so we yelled out “The Pretend Song” (from his 2004 release
“Just Like There’s Nothing To It”) but he graciously declined, stating
“too many words”….happy to report that he will be playing in this
area 2/25 at the SALT Gastro Pub in Byram NJ- may bring the lyrics for
him this time around…he’s always very social with the fans after the
show, signing CD, etc…. anyway, today it’s my brothers’ request:
either Tom in Oceanside, L.I. or Jim in Madison, N.J…..
Now, this ‘Thought’ brings back a flood of memories (of GREAT concerts – and sleeping-past-my-alarm-the-next-morning!!!!!).
The Grateful Dead (Play ANYTHING)
John Fogerty (ANYTHING)
Ringo Starr (and His All-Starr Band) (Please play something from Ringo’s new CD (Y Not)
Thank you
Peeping Tom at Warsaw, Brooklyn on a Tuesday night. Mike Patton dressed pimp-like in white suit with hairnet, big black rapper, beautiful female(with Afro) backup singer. What stage presence. Even a little mosh pit.
Neil Young at MSG December 2008. One of the best concerts I have seen in my 52 years on earth. Amazing he just gets better and better.
It was Sunday, July 25, 1965. We were just out of high school and had summer jobs before college. My friend Cassandra and I took the early morning train from NYC to Newport RI to the folk festival. We hitchhiked around Newport and got to see Dylan “go electric” when the Sunday night rain finally let up. That was the highlight of the day, but seeing Joan Baez, Peter Paul Mary, Gordon Lightfoot and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band added to the thrill. Mimi and Richard Farina entertained us with “Pack Up Your Sorrows” over and over until the rain stopped. We took the train home in the wee hours of Monday morning. I cleaned myself up as best I could, popped on a little dress and sandals in the office closet, and had the coffee ready before my co-workers arrived. I still remember it vividly 45 years later!!
Living way upstate, school night shows is about all we get, as artists are filling in the gaps between bigger cities. It’s also usually a drive to the show of about 45 min. to Ithaca NY. But it was definitely worth it this past year seeing Josh Ritter, Gomez, Rhett Miller, and Dar Williams all on school nights and all worth it. Rhett Miller was unbelievable. Also an isolated upstate NY fact, I wouldn’t have been turned on to any of this music without WFUV. Looking forward to John Prine next month on a school night.
Most memorable show on a school night: Lucinda Williams in New Haven on September 10, 2001. My sister came up from NYC and before Lucinda went onstage, they were playing Dylan’s soon to be released “Love and Theft.” Lucinda played a great show! Unfortunately, the performance ran so long that my sister missed the last train leaving New Haven. We drove along the coast trying to catch it, but finally gace up in Stamford, where my sister took a taxi home.
This was literally a school night for me, as I was teaching at a high school. The news of the morning (September 11, 2001) kept me and my classes glued to the television, numb, totally washing over the great show I had witnessed the night before.
Multiple night Phish runs at Madison Square Garden…more recently the December 2-5 2009.
gerard
brooklyn
Back in college I went to see R.E.M. on a night when I had a test (final?) the next day. Didn’t necessarily pay with lack of sleep, but my grade on that test certainly paid dearly.
I’ve seen R.E.M. a few times, so I forget the exact tour, but time frame would put it around Document.
“Oddfellows Local 151″ is a favorite of mine off that album.
Cutting HS to see the Dead at MSG
RE: Steve
I remember the Stanhope House in NJ, as well. I grew up about 10 mins. from there.
Think I may have seen Steve Forbert there, too.
@Bob & Steve… I used to live 10 min from Stanhope House, and Loved the shows there. I had tickets to see Citizen Cope and found out that the show was canceled because they closed down.
I have still yet to see Citizen Cope Live. I also had tix to see him @ Steven Talkhouse in EH. Hopefully soon.