Dead Meadow – Old Growth (Matador)
Full disclosure: Dead Meadow and I have a history together. It was the summer of 2004 and my then-girlfriend/now-wife traveled to Chicago for what would be our first road trip together. To be honest, I had already planned to go there; I had a ticket to the Seurat exhibit and noticed the Dead Meadow was playing at a small club that same weekend, so a full agenda was set before I extended an invitation to her.
Like a big shot, I tried to impress her by cramming everything that I could in the course of a day and wiped her out to the point where she was passed out from exhaustion before the doors of the club even opened.
I didn’t see Dead Meadow that weekend.