I Don't Remember When,
But I Remember Where...
What started out as "Sounds of Seattle Concert Series" evolved into KISW's Pain in the Grass.
Free on Friday's at the Seattle Center Mural Amphitheater. I must have been about 19 when I started going (1992). Went pretty consistently prob'ly '93 - '95/'96? Riding on the waves of what had just passed thru. A day late and a dollar short.
This has nothing to do with the Pain in the Grass Festival of today. The big-bill line ups, the big-ticket festival, the crowds, that amphitheater. Before there was KISW, there was KXRX
The Pain in the Grass of yore.
1989 – Year 1 (best I can fig'r)
August
7 – Alice
1991
August
1992
August
9 – Black Happy
1993
June
18 – Forced Entry
1994
June
17 – (O.J’s low-speed chase, can't remember who played, but I remember being there, waiting for a beer at the bar, watching this and cracking up!!)
June
8 - Mudhoney
1995
June
30 – The Fastbacks
July
7 – Presidents of the United States
August
18 – Year Bitch, Bloodloss, and Sleep Capsule
1996
Aug
9 – The Posies, the Minus Five and Lucky Me
date unknown - Shine, Carmine, Goodness
1998
Aug
21 - Combover
2001 (12th annual)
June
15 - The Dusty 45s, Shinola and Grindstone
22 - The Donettes, Six-String Eric & the Lazy Ranch Hands and Hicky
29 - Geoff Tate, Jack the Hotrod and Left to Roam
29 - Geoff Tate, Jack the Hotrod and Left to Roam
July
6 - Cookie, Razorbabes and the Droo Church.
13 - Mountain Consolidated, Blue Spark and Lower 48
Unknown Dates
Forced Entry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFuLm7d9Omc)
Hall Aflame (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oef2p8RM5q4)
Bitter End (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1yhzO8YRqQ)
Post-Era – KEXP presents Concerts @ the Mural (NOT really Pain in the Grass, but I appreciate their efforts to carry on the free music spirit)
Tea Cozies
August 23, 2008 - Goodness
Special thanks and credits thus far go to You Tube, The Seattle Times and a few artists' web sights.
Not too shabby after only an hour or so of Googling.
