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Completely Conspicuous 660: When Schlitz Rocked America

Author
Jay Kumar
Published
Tue 29 Jul 2025
Episode Link
https://compcon.libsyn.com/completely-conspicuous-660-when-schlitz-rocked-america

Celebrating 19 years of podcasting with part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see. 

Show notes:

  • On to our top 10 shows
  • Phil's are in chronological order, Jay's in no particular order
  • Phil: Neil Young and Pearl Jam on their short Euro tour, 8/26/95 in Dublin
  • PJ standing in for Crazy Horse
  • The Velvet Sundown, lame AI band
  • Jay: The Clash from June 1980 at Hammersmith Palais
  • 31 songs from throughout their career
  • The Clash opened for the Who on the Schlitz Rocks America tour
  • Apparently Schlitz was once a big name in beer
  • Phil: Stevie Ray Vaughan on 9/21/85 at the Capitol Theatre
  • Jay: PJ Harvey on the Rid of Me tour in '93
  • Saw her on the next tour in '95
  • Phil: Talking Heads on the Speaking in Tongues tour in Oct. 1983 in Billerica, Mass.
  • Jay: I would've picked the 1980 tour with Adrian Belew on guitar
  • Jay: Living Colour at TT the Bears in Cambridge, Mass. in the summer of '88
  • Taped the show off the radio simulcast on WBCN
  • Killer show before the band blew up the next year
  • Phil: U2 on the War tour in March 1983
  • Jay: Prince's Purple Rain tour at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse
  • Prince was the biggest musician in the world at the time
  • Phil: The Pretenders at the Paradise in Boston in 1980
  • The band's original lineup was so good
  • Jay: Went with a December 1981 Pretenders show in France
  • To be continued

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

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