Touring Bands that Played the Axiom
The Accused
The Adolescents
Adrenalin O.D.
Afghan Whigs
Agnostic Front
Agony Column
Alien Sex Fiend
All
G.G. Allin
Babes In Toyland
Bad Mutha Goose
Bad Religion
Beat Happening
Big Drill Car
Billy Goat
Biohazard
Blake Babies
Bouffant Jellyfish
The Buck Pets
Buffalo Tom
Camper Van Beethoven
Cannibal Corpse
Carcass
Cat Butt
Chainsaw Kittens
Chemical People
Alex Chilton
Christian Death
Christmas
Coffin Break
Coroner
The Cows
Crash Worship
Crime & The City Solution
Cro-Mags
The Crumbsuckers
Crust
Dag Nasty
Danzig
Dark Angel
Das Damen
Dayglo Abortions
The Dead Milkmen
Death
Deicide
D.I.
Die Kreuzen
Dinosaur Jr.
Dogs D’Amour
Down by Law
D.R.I.
Dwarves
Ed Hall
Exhorder
The Exploited
Fearless Iranians from Hell
Foetus
fIREHOSE
The Flaming Lips
The Fluid
Fugazi
Game Theory
Gaye Bikers on Acid
G.B.H.
Giant Sand
Glass Eye
God Bullies
Goo Goo Dolls
Government Issue
Gumball
GWAR
Half Japanese
Hard-ons
The Hickoids
Honeymoon Killers
H.R. (ex Bad Brains)
Incubus (metal)
The Jayhawks
The Jesus Lizard
J.F.A.
Junkyard
Killdozer
Killing Joke
Kreator
L7
The Lazy Cowgirls
Live Skull
Loco Gringos
Loop
Lubricated Goat
Roger Manning
MC 900 Ft. Jesus
M.D.C.
The Melvins
The Mentors
Roger Miller (ex Mission of Burma)
Miracle Room
Missing Foundation
M.O.D.
Monks of Doom
Morbid Angel
Mother Love Bone
Mr. T Experience
Mudhoney
Nice Strong Arm
Nirvana
NOFX
NoMeansNo
Nuclear Assault
Obituary
The Offspring
Overkill
Poster Children
Prong
Psychic TV
Pylon
The Rollins Band
Sacred Reich
Scrawl
Scream
Screaming Trees
Screeching Weasel
Sepultura
7 Seconds
Sham 69
Shoulders
Shudder to Think
Sister Double Happiness
Sleep Chamber
S.N.F.U.
Social Distortion
Soilent Green
Squat Thrust
Superchunk
Swans
Tad
Thin White Rope
Thinking Fellers Union Local #282
Three Day Stubble
Tragic Mulatto
True Believers
T.S.O.L.
U.K. Subs
Uncle Tupelo
Urge Overkill
The Vandals
Verbal Assault
Victim’s Family
Vio-lence
Voivod
Volcano Suns
The Walkabouts
Watchtower
White Zombie
Yo La Tengo
Were you at one of these shows? And if so, do you remember it?
August 16, 2007 at 4:43 pm |
The Jesus Lizard
Psychic TV
Three Day Stubble
Those I can remember, but Lance tells me we were at The Rollins Band and many others.
We drove up from Galveston and then back after, damn that road is longer at 3 in the morning!!!
August 17, 2007 at 7:14 pm |
Dayglow Abortions
Coffin Break
Screeching Weasel
D.I.
Reverend Horton Heat (do they count?)
tons more i’m forgetting.
I remember seeing TAD talking to Indian & thinking it was Meatloaf.
I like that sentence!
August 19, 2007 at 11:20 pm |
No Warrant? My fav Axiom memory is when Warrant pulled up in their tour bus (don’t ask me why they were playing there). 10 trunks of wardrobe to unload. they took a look at who all was standing around and were scared to get off the bus. Someone yelled “c’mon Jamie, this is where ‘the downboys go’!!” haha
August 24, 2007 at 5:47 pm |
I’ll never forget taking Jesus Lizard to Leo’s Mexican Restauarant for dinner before the gig. They wanted to eat at the place where the inside jacket photo from ZZ Top’s “Tres Hombres” was taken. Much delicious food was consumed, and margaritas, and they were nice enough to pick up the tab. And then they went and kicked some serious ass.
But the Pik n Pak show the year before might have been even better…!
August 26, 2007 at 8:02 pm |
Didn’t Nirvana open for TAD ?
My recollection is mighty fuzzy but I only remember a hand full of people at the show.
I don’t think the Rev counts as they played nearly every month !
August 27, 2007 at 7:35 pm |
I think that Tad & Nirvana played in the same week, but I don’t think it was on the same night.
August 28, 2007 at 4:00 pm |
D.R.I. played there I believe.
August 29, 2007 at 11:53 pm |
I was in Turmoil in the Toybox when we opened for Afgan Wigs. I also Remember an L7 show where I hung with the band a bit. If I knew that one day the girl would pull a tampon out onstage I would have been more enamoured. I vaguely remember that Nirvana did play the Axiom but I could not get my Mom to give me a ride. Mind you I was 33 you understand.
August 29, 2007 at 11:56 pm |
Jesus Lizard with all the duct tape and the Cows heart? If im wrong its a shame.
September 2, 2007 at 7:27 pm |
NomeansNo on the Wrong tour
September 3, 2007 at 2:02 am |
I remember going to U.K. subs. I also went to a dozen or do other shows down there. Memory’s a little fuzzy back then. I work in construction and had to go down to the area last week. I hardly recognized the area anymore.
September 10, 2007 at 1:07 am |
Bad Brains with Isreal singing
September 10, 2007 at 1:18 am |
Verbal Assault
September 10, 2007 at 1:18 am |
Screeching Weasel
September 10, 2007 at 1:19 am |
Carcass?
September 13, 2007 at 9:15 pm |
Um… I think the duct tape and bovine inerds was Crust.
September 22, 2007 at 1:02 am |
I believe I broke my collarbone at “The Accused” show, Which means that I really enjoyed myself.
September 25, 2007 at 4:35 pm |
G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies. I remember standing in the theater seats hoping he wouldn’t sling poo our way.
September 25, 2007 at 4:51 pm |
Fearless Iranians From Hell!
September 26, 2007 at 3:23 am |
J.R. doesn’t think Bad Brains played there (though H.R. did) but all the rest, yes.
September 28, 2007 at 6:34 pm |
Maybe it was Catal Hyuk or whatever by then, Bad Brains played with Israel in that building. I grabbed Israel’s butt while sitting on the stage.
September 29, 2007 at 1:24 am |
I remember being at Crust, Afghan Whigs, Crash Worship, Victims Family, Flaming Lips (2 bowie covers!), Jesus Lizard, L7 (they covered spinal tap’s stonehenge), Loco Gringos, Mentors, Rollins Band, Squat Thrust…
September 30, 2007 at 5:43 pm |
Homeboy Shire
Violent Playground
I was @ the L7 show. Those were some violent chicks. I remember them kicking people in the audience. Wild.
October 2, 2007 at 11:18 pm |
Some memorable shows for me were:
-Babes In Toyland and The Cows – it was the coldest day in ages, and the audience was me, Larry, and Jay Hova 4×4. Oh and our trusty kerosene jet engine heater.
-Voivod – ZRock ran that show and advertised the hell out of it. The crowd came straight from TT&R. Met Al Ovalle for the first time that night.
-Fugazi – the cat had kittens that night and we named them after the band.
You are missing a name from the list, DJ Lebowitz.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=153720611
http://home.earthlink.net/~djlebo/
-Gwar – Remember when their shows told a story and it was not all about hosing the crowd off with fake blood?
October 2, 2007 at 11:23 pm |
I remember seeing Destruction , although they’re not listed above. They might have been with Kreator, but like everyone else you ever crossed the threshold of the Axiom my memories are fuzzy at best.
October 3, 2007 at 2:42 am |
King Missile played there in ‘91. I believe Roger Manning opened.
October 8, 2007 at 3:34 pm |
i think it was dharma bums playing with nirvana that night.
October 8, 2007 at 3:39 pm |
oh! and that crust show was fantastic. i was in awe and in love. and frightened. bless them.
October 10, 2007 at 9:30 am |
Please add.
Cryptic Slaughter.Bold.Insecticide.Swiz.Nuclear Death.Whoppers Taste Good.Vomit Spots.Anal Cunt.Phlegm.Incantation.Goreaphobia.Immolation.Sadus.
Best times ever…Shows are lame nowadays.
October 10, 2007 at 6:06 pm |
Dr. Know…….
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb51/hesu2/143689915_e8e6f4cee9.jpg
October 11, 2007 at 3:38 pm |
I used to have a huge crush on Jack Grisham of TSOL.
He was like the Simon LeBon of punk rock.
That’s right,
that’s what I said.
I also had a crush on all the guys in Bark Hard too.
And then I got to know Johnny Gibson a bit
and I got over all that real fast like.
Totally kidding.
See you Friday Johnny.
October 12, 2007 at 8:08 pm |
Damn.
The strangest had to be Psychic TV with GPO walking straight through the crowd and grabbing me by the collar. The psychedelics helped with that one.
Crust…ohhhh Crust. Cow tongue, diapers and fishing lures.
Mudhoney, Sugar Shack, NoMeansNo, L7 all top the list.
Never got enough of the Pain Teens.
So many more that I can’t quite remember…
May 4, 2008 at 11:41 am |
I played a number of times at the Axiom, on the bill. I did a double bill with GWAR. Another time JR induced me to cancel my Oklahoma City gig so I could play on the bill with 3 Day Stubble. I shared the bill with Check Your Shoes, and others.
Does anyone know where JR is these days?
November 16, 2008 at 1:47 am |
Wow. I remember the Agnostic Front show. We (Grimace) were opening for Agnostic Front and UYUS. Scott (formerly of Social Deceit, who was playing bass for UYUS at the time) told me later that they were afraid to go on stage after us, as we had riled up the thirty or so folks that were there early enough to see us.
And I expected the guys from Agnostic Front to be taller, but they were all like five-foot-two.
Wow. Those were the days, I tell you.