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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2013 17:41:59 GMT
Fans often discuss the quality of concert performances (and quite right, too), but I'd be interested in hearing about the best (and worst) venues in which you've seen Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson. I tend to prefer a nice theater with good acoustics. My favorite of all the places I've seen Tull would have to be the Beacon Theatre in NY. I saw the band there in July 2000 and it was very, very nice. My least favorite would be...the Bankboston Pavilion. It's an outdoor tent on the waterfront, with very poor acoustics. Sometimes the wind off the water literally blows the music away! Having said that, however, I do have a fond memory of the last time Tull played there (in June 2010). During "A Change of Horses" I turned my head and saw the Boston skyline glittering against the night sky, providing great atmosphere for the song. So, there is always an upside even to the least appealing of venues! The strangest place I have ever seen Tull was a hot air balloon festival in Long Island, NY, in August 2001. The illuminated balloons were supposed to rise up behind the concert stage during the show, but extremely windy conditions prevented this from happening. Ian actually performed behind a plexiglass "shield" from time to time so the wind would not interfere with his flute playing!
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 24, 2013 20:15:44 GMT
Nicest place i saw Tull ( once on light/dark tour, circa 92 and again ian band/2010) was the Warfield theater in SF....amongst the best include Mountain Winery ( Ian with orchestar and Aqualung's 4oth) Good memories of Chicago Theater in about 90 or 91, Easton Thetaer in PA twive...Tull 2001, Rubbing Elbows 2003....red rocks in Denver- 40 year tour. Luther Burbank theater in Sta Rosa in 2009 very nice as was a small theater in Modesto in 2010 ( ian tour).
Worst ever hands down a county fair in orange county california in about 2004 or 2005...crummy, bleacher seats, crummy sounds and background noise of county fair rides and amusements...very yucky.
back in the 70'es they played some pretty soulless, huge places: McNichols in Denver, Richfield Colisieum in ohio, Cobo hall detroit, Boston garden, oakland Colisieum,....but I didn't mind...they handled those kinds of places well and made me forget the venue ! The boxy, odd sized, sound pathetic SF arena was a shame...saw then there 2 or 3 times.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2013 22:28:32 GMT
Nicest place i saw Tull ( once on light/dark tour, circa 92 and again ian band/2010) was the Warfield theater in SF....amongst the best include Mountain Winery ( Ian with orchestar and Aqualung's 4oth) Good memories of Chicago Theater in about 90 or 91, Easton Thetaer in PA twive...Tull 2001, Rubbing Elbows 2003....red rocks in Denver- 40 year tour. Luther Burbank theater in Sta Rosa in 2009 very nice as was a small theater in Modesto in 2010 ( ian tour). Worst ever hands down a county fair in orange county california in about 2004 or 2005...crummy, bleacher seats, crummy sounds and background noise of county fair rides and amusements...very yucky. back in the 70'es they played some pretty soulless, huge places: McNichols in Denver, Richfield Colisieum in ohio, Cobo hall detroit, Boston garden, oakland Colisieum,....but I didn't mind...they handled those kinds of places well and made me forget the venue ! The boxy, odd sized, sound pathetic SF arena was a shame...saw then there 2 or 3 times. I hear that Red Rocks is a GREAT place to see a show! I understand (if what I've read is the truth) that it was packed for that show in 2008! I don't miss the days of hockey arenas... or "echo chambers" as a friend of mine calls them! David
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 26, 2013 2:53:37 GMT
Red Rocks is pretty special... a natural 7000 seat arena craved out of rock formations with a view of Denver...I grew up in Denver and saw dozens of gigs there...but it isn't THAT small...so as cool a place as it is, it doesn't beat a cozy 1200 seat place meant for music.....I'm seeing TAAB I and II, for the second time, in July in an Opera House in San Francisco....can't wait. I think the musicians step up their game in amazing venues. I saw a crummy concert at the beacon about 1o years ago and I've sen the Stones movie filmed there...all I could think of is how great it would be to see Tull there...I also wish i coulda been at the 'City Winery' gig a few years ago...never been there but it sounds tiny.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2013 19:14:48 GMT
What show did you see at the Beacon that wasn't very good? Tull were GREAT there! I think you're right - the venue probably can/does inspire the performers.
I was surprised to learn that Ian played the winery in NY, too.
David
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 26, 2013 19:32:54 GMT
It wasn't Tull...someone dragged me to a Phil lesh and friend's show before i had the sense to pretty much give up on all post-garcia iterations of trying to recapture the grateful dead. Nice area to walk out into after a concert...no shortage of food, drink and street life. where else but NYC would you find a micro neighborhhod that features the impossibly amazing food category : Chinese who went from China to Cuba to flee communism, then fled Cuba to NYC...and brought with them Cubano-Chinese food. How NYC is that ? I think there's about 8 restaraunts of that style right near the Beacon.
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