Comments on: How Did It Come to This?

By: Greg McG

Greg McG — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:45:26 +0000

Damn, I was supposed to go to this show. I was 15, and my friend bailed out at the last minute. That would have been my first show at City Gardens.

We did go the following Sunday and saw Suicidal. That was OK, but to this day, I wish I had gone.

By: SDA

SDA — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:27:19 +0000

My favorite dump to see a show..Leeway, Fugazi, Biohazard, In the NJHC scene, this was the center. Skins, punks, new-agers, it didn’t matter when the show started it was all about the music. I miss that place at 39 yrs old, no club compares today.

By: JC

JC — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:41:21 +0000

city gardens to me was always my favorite place for shows. while I loved the “historical” aspect of CB’s I would often do the drive from NYC to Trenton following a hardcore matinee…
My favorite Ween memory is when they opened for Fugazi and someone threw gum in one of the guys’ hair and they threatened to keep playing until someone apologized…funny

By: Lee Conte

Lee Conte — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:58:50 +0000

I was one of those gaping rambunctious teens (well, at 23 I was still a teen ok) who was actually there and damned near the stage even. I not only remember, but recount with much glee and frothing, the fire leaping off the … splash cymbals … turned upside frontside backside downside.

I can die immediately after posting this and I will still have been there and seen that; future perfect tense notwithstanding.

By: Jason Valarik

Jason Valarik — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:35:15 +0000

I grew up around Langhorne so I was about 20 minutes away. Always heard that this show was legendary and now I remember why

I’d love to meet Gibby.

Mickey, I met you after the MOIST BOYZ show at Mr. Small’s on 9.11.2005. I was wrong about you getting your hair cut in my Lambertville house, in ‘93 …it was your bro, Aaron.

By: City G Cherry popped.

City G Cherry popped. — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:31:28 +0000

Test yes yes. This vivid hazed fast forward show popped my cherry.
I had no clue what I had stepped into. I had put this show into the a receded zone only to rear it’s head for comic relief.
Now I will need to protect my children from what I have seen
I missed that chat now with Hunter Thompson. Poor rocket ship of dust.
Thank god it’s Easter and I have a weekend to work it through I need a furry rabbit to calm myself and chocolate therapy right now.

By: Fast Eddy

Fast Eddy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:40:04 +0000

Saw the Philly B.H. show on the same tour, and yes, it was like being in hell – Gibby’s description of the strobes, etc. was spot on, and yes, I was tripping at it…

Saw some great shows at City Gardens, including Janes Addiction on the Nothing Shocking tour and Nirvana right when Nevermind came out before they broke big – I think 6 months later they were playing at MSG!

Can’t wait to read the whole book…

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:18:55 +0000

This is amazing! I wish I had enough foresight to ever see the surfers…it seemed like a whole underground world that was way too hardcore for me. I never even attempted it….and now I kind of see why.
Can’t wait for this book.

By: scott_d

scott_d — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:56:23 +0000

brings tears to the eyes. i was a timid suburban troll until my first DK’s show in 1985 (after hearing an advert on the ‘decline and fall’ on PRB). after that, the transformation happened rapidly. met some wonderful people along the way. everything you hear or may have heard regarding this venue is probably true. the BS’s 1987 show was a trip down the rabbit hole. it was all good.

By: Mary McIntyre

Mary McIntyre — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:02:30 +0000

Amy, that was hilarious and really brought me back!!! Can’t wait to read the book…