NFT: For Sonic Youth and other Music Fans...

I ever went to in a small venue was Mighty Mighty Bosstones and the Pietasters at the 9:30 Club.

This had to be 1997/1998 or so.

place was jammed, crowd was great, I was young, in a mosh pit, drunk, and having fun.

do they go back that far?

I've seen many shows there but only a handful since 2005

place. Been going to shows there since 1997 when I first left Long Island for college in York, PA and was within driving distance. I remember being scared shitless of the neighborhood back then and now my brother lives a few blocks away in a very different, gentrified version of the same part of the universe. I stand in the same exact spot for every show, on the left side, next to the bar, half-way between the stage the the back. I can't wait to be able to stand in that spot again.

on the Ragged Glory Tour in February 1991 at the Buffalo Auditorium. The ended up getting boo'ed off the stage which was a shame, I didn't know who they were at the time, but I kind of liked them. They were definitely a bit out there and probably too musically adventurous for most of the crowd who had showed up. I bought their album Goo a year or two later and really liked it.

By the way, it was not at all lost on me that I was in Buffalo less than three weeks after the Giants had beaten the Bills in SB XXV. Good times!

... in the 1980s. My friends and I definitely saw Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper there.
We had a friend who bartended at Chadwicks and his brother was partners in a restaurant ... American something; can't recall.
I'm a little disappointed that The Cramps link only went to their Wikipedia page -- but there are a lot of good shows available, so thanks!