Olive's Top 51 Live Shows

In case you doubted my experience as a critic, I am posting my top fifty-one shows as a bit of a resume.  This is a response to the facebook challenge some years ago in which people were asked to list their top fifty live music shows in any order.  I ranked mine here based on showmanship, the setlist, crowd enthusiasm and my personal experiences as a concert goer (Journey was my first show, Jane's Addiction my first mosh-pit show). I would probably have more jazz on there if those tickets weren't so damn expensive.  Check it out and enjoy...  See you at Radiohead in March, too.  Maybe they'll make the list this time...

Olive Tabugi’s Top Fifty-One Shows

Jane’s Addiction (City Coliseum, Austin, TX - 1991)

The Who, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Fabulous Thunderbirds (The Cotton Bowl, Dallas, TX - 1988)

Lollapalooza with Jane’s Addiction, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Butthole Surfers, Ice-T’s Body Count, The Violent Femmes, etc. (Starplex Amphitheater, Dallas, TX - 1991)

Phil Lesh & Friends w/ Warren Haynes and Jimmy Herring (The Backyard, Austin, TX - 2002)

The Flaming Lips (Which Stage - Bonnaroo, Tennessee - 2008)

Journey, Bryan Adams (The Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX - 1985)

Sonic Youth (That Tent - Bonnaroo, Tennessee - 2006)

The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins (City Coliseum, Austin, TX - 1991)

Gogol Bordello (This Tent, Bonnaroo, Tennessee - 2007)

Fucked Up (Kenny Dorham’s Backyard, Austin, TX - SXSW 2007)

Girl Talk (The Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX – 2010)

Fishbone, Primus (The Austin Opera House, Austin, TX - 1992)

The Grateful Dead (Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, PA - 1995)

King Crimson (Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX - 1996?)

Jeff Tweedy (Hogg Auditorium, Austin, TX - 2007)

Iggy and the Stooges, Mike Watt on bass (Stubb’s, Austin, TX - SXSW 2007)

The Flaming Lips (Liberty Lunch, Austin, TX - 1993)

U2 (The Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX - 1987)

Beastie Boys, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Roots (The Summit, Houston, TX - 1994)

Feist (This Tent, Bonnaroo, Tennessee - 2007)

The ORB (Deep Elem Live, Dallas, TX - 1994)

Medeski, Martin and Wood (This Tent, Bonnaroo, Tennessee – sat. late show 2002)

The Rolling Stones (Zilker Park, Austin, TX - 2006)

Manu Chao (Bud Light Stage, ACL Festival, Austin, TX – 2006?)

The McCoury Brothers (One World Theater, Austin, TX – 2008?)

Galactic, James Brown, RJD2, The Dead (What Stage, Bonnaroo, Tennessee – 2003)

Morphine (Liberty Lunch, Austin, TX - 1998)

Elvis Perkins (This Tent, Bonnaroo, Tennessee – 2007)

Stereolab (Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX - 2005)

Galactic (Stubb’s, Austin, TX -  Halloween 2002?)

The Raconteurs (Stubb’s, Austin, TX - 2008)

Stanley Clark (One World Theater, Austin, TX – 2010)

The Pretenders (Stubb’s, Austin, TX - 2009)

R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians (The Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Tx - 1990)

Paul McCartney (San Antonio, TX – 1998?)

Neil Young, Dinosaur Jr., Blind Melon (The Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX – 1995?)

American Music Club (Glasgow, Scotland - 1994)

Z-Trip (Elysium, Austin, TX – 2007?)

Metallica (What Stage, Bonnaroo, Tennessee - 2008)

Rollins Band, TOOL, w/ Butthole Surfers during encore (The Back Room, Austin, TX - 1992)

Sparklehorse (AT&T Blue Room Stage, ACL Festival, Austin, Tx - 2006)

The Grandmothers (Glasgow, Scotland - 1994)

Flogging Molly (Stubb’s, Austin, TX - 2009)

Pearl Jam, Soundgarden (City Coliseum, Austin, TX -  1992)

Mickey Hart (some quarry in Pennsylvania, 1999)

Fugazi (San Antonio, TX – 1990?)

The Charlie Hunter Trio (La Zona Rosa, Austin, TX – 2003?)

The Wailers, 311 (The Backyard, Austin, TX – 2008?)

Living Color, Bad Brains (Texas Student Union Ballroom, Austin, TX – 1994?)

Tom Petty (The Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX -  1989)

Bob Dylan (Palmer Auditorium, Austin, TX - 1991)