um...with Dinosaur jr. - maybe 93? it was one of the greatest concert experiences i've ever had. (and i've had many.) waves of noise. and sound. and the lusciousness that was MBV. yum.

I never got to see them live. How in gods name did they reproduce their sound live?? Especially "Loveless". That album is SO thick with layers...

NYC, 1992 (i think - it was definitely the Loveless tour tho.)

the two things i remember most were that (1) the set was really short, less than an hour or so, and (2) almost half of it was spent by the band playing one single chord - just this one uninterrupted piece of feedback that went on for almost a half hour.

i remember being excited, then frustrated, then bored ... and then completely enthralled. i can still hear it in my mind now, twelve years later, even though there have been times when i thought i'd imagined it somehow. but Kevin Sheilds talks about it in this 1993 interview from Guitar World, so i guess it really happened:

"The lengthy feedback barrage at the end of My Bloody Valentine's concerts does seem like it's causing permanent neurological damage.
JM: [to Kevin] Yeah, I didn't like that part of your show when I first saw it, 'cause it was only around 12 minutes. It didn't last long enough! But later on, when I saw you headline a show, it lasted 20 minutes.
KS: Once we did it for 40 minutes.

"Was there anybody left in front of the stage by the end?
KS: No, half the audience left. But we had to try it. It is better longer; it only works because it's so long. 'Cause after a while you lose all perspective.
JM: That's when you start hearing something."

- www.mybloodyvalentine.net/press...3.html