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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 18, 2010 21:32:50 GMT
all the concerts all the years everyone you've seen.. except Tull Santana - Glasgow 70's (can't be more accurate) Earth Wind Fire - same concert PInk Floyd - Reading 70's Pink Floyd - Wembley 80's Cat Stevens - Glasgow 70's Osibisa - Glasgow 70's Lindisfarne - Glasgow 70's Led Zep - Earls Court 75 - Very accurate on that Gallacher and Lyle - Stirling Uni - 70's Golden Earring - 70's Amsterdam Simple Minds - Glasgow 70's Blue Nile - Glasgow waaay before they were famous Black Sabbath - Glasgow 70's can't think of anymore just now
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Post by Col on Mar 18, 2010 22:33:30 GMT
Wabbit I am jealous of your Led Zep, Page & Plant was the closest we got. Would have loved to have seen Queen too, just missed out on them (I started going to gigs in 88)
We have a lot of our ticket stubs in frames, so looking at those.....
Bon Jovi (from 89-2010 - many, many times!) Aerosmith (few times) Guns n Roses (few times) Motley Crue The Darkness Velvet Revolver The Cult U2 Rush Mostly Autumn Prince Iron Maiden The Wildhearts megadeth Terrorvision The Almighty Soundgarden Judas Priest The Scorpions Pearl Jam Red Hot Chili Peppers Magnum Sisters of Mercy Bad Company Thunder Tool Kiss Little Angels Marilyn Manson Page & Plant Black Sabbath Black Crowes Blue Oyster Cult Live Alice Cooper Hothouse Flowers Metallica Slash's Snakepit Perfect cicle Blackfoot Status Quo Skin Manic Street Preachers Rob Zombie AC/DC Skid Row Reef Simple Minds Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Won't bore you with all the venues, but they range from Wembley Stadium down to Camden fleapits!! ;D Not counting all the Reading festivals, and Donington Monsters of Rock festivals, or support acts at any of the above. Ahhhhh those were the days. As you can probably tell, Tull are a bit of a Sunday band for me.
Be interested to see who other people have seen?
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Post by tullist on Mar 19, 2010 0:08:27 GMT
Man, I can have some serious fun with this, as I am quite old now at 53, and this sweet disease of music has been part of me since the Fabs first popped up on tv with my parents wary eyes nearby on Feb 7 64. My own concern with this is somewhere in its construction if the computer plays a game with me and I need to discipline it, as if the coffee I fed the keyboard about a month ago was not a sign of my best intents. I saw the American board offered this opportunity which did intrigue me some months ago during my self imposed exile. Fresh opportunity for me to waste at least an hour. Three of these entrants are going to have to be afforded a special section for having seen them so many times, our precious of course amongst them. First entry though is my very first rock concert, Jan 67, my best friend Phil's eleventh birthday party, Chicago Amphitheater, where FDR was nominated and in more recent years the main congreation site for the speeches of Louis Farrakhan, one of the main players in the execution of Malcolm X, Farrakhan the main player in the past 30 years in the Nation of Islam, well know for his inflammatory speeches and seeming hatred of white people. I think it recently met the wrecking ball. Anyways that first concert was a 3 or 4 headed thing including ? and the Mysterians (96 tears which I still love), Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and the Four Seasons as headliner. Have to jump ahead to 5/72 for my next show, the spring venture of the Brick tour at the same venue. Recall having had a Aqualung type coat and being frisked thouroughly at least twice. Also recall the freaks outside hawking the local underground paper the Seed, which must have been about to meet its demise around then. It was not this show that supplanted the Beatles and Jimi at the top of my heat, but basically the same show the following November at the Stadium, a night from which I have never returned, so yeah, pretty good show. Never missed a tour since until 2008, and then and now only because of finances, All told counting often seeing them in town within 500 miles, (and one UK show, the 82 outing at Nostell Priory near Leeds, a show that also had Simon Nicol and Dave Swarbrick, I suspect Pegg may have joined them, I was not there in time, racing down from Skye) so I will conservatively put my Tull count at 80. Probably 5 Ian solo shows of various stripes in addition to this. As of yet never seen an orchestral one though I did have to miss one a few years back cause I could not afford both a ticket and the downtown Chicago parking rates. I am amongst those who mark that dvd and cd as damn good though, surprised that so many find something like Eurology so difficult to swallow, as it has a couple huge Tull trademarks in it re time changes and its musicality, but there again I don't mind Bouree still in the set as long as its going to be mostly classics anyway, Ian usually has the little guy in some nice new clothes anyway. And then of course the behemoth that is the Grateful Dead, but compared to thousands of Deadheads, I am positively subtle, as near as I can surmise I fall just short of 100 performances, probably all but 20 in Illinois or California. Adding to this roughly 10 shows by the Jerry Garcia Band or Jerry acoustic with his old bass player, the also late John Kahn, pretty sure I never saw Jerry when he wasn't brilliant in these formats, close to religious to the believers a couple times. Seen the various offshoots of course, the Other Ones, the Dead, Phil and Friends, Ratdog, Mickeys Planet Drum and Mickeys other band probably about 15 times total. Also the other drummer Bill Kreutzman I recall seeing in Chicago across from Wrigley Field in 84, which I recall only because as Billy was making it to the stage I recall his head passing by the bar and this over the top gay guy standing near by shouting out in that effeminate voice, "O Mr Deadhead!" Since they constituted at least half of my social life and circle between 87 and 92 I will also include a now extinct Chicago area Dead band called the Deadbeats, probably nearly 100 times, these guys became friends, I could usually get in free, they were especially good at the rarer bits of the Dead catalogue, and their originals were often outstanding. Additionally two other Dead bands, one based out of Chicago, The Dark Star Orchestra and the oldest of them out of New York, The Zen Tricksters, probably about 10 times. They both are good enough that they have provided replacement parts to various of the post Dead aggregations. I can understand the distaste of many for the concept of tribute bands but Grateful Dead tribute bands are a slightly different animal in that it presumes the ability to speak eloquently in the tongue of improvisation, in a sense its impossible to exactly copy that, u have to have your own notion, and believe me all those I have mentioned really do, sometimes more fun than the real thing, particularly in the nineties. And as Bill Graham once had displayed over the Warfield Theater during I think the 80 run there, "They're not the best at what they do, They're the only ones who do what they do." Equally true is "There is nothing like a Grateful Dead concert." Certainly no other show that goes on for days on end, however long a tour or run of shows in a particular town was, because of course the show continued out in the parking lots or fields adjoining the venues, used to be written into their contracts including camping, until they just got too damn popular along about 1987. The Metallica and mall people heard about this party and conversation that had been going on for about 20 years or more and they came and peed in our church basically, long story, they done f**ked it up. Another cover band has to be mentioned. Was brought quite unwillingly to see a well known Beatle cover band in about 1999 at the local very Irish pub, and within three songs I knew I was witnessing the very best Beatle cover band in the world, named American English who still exist. Everyone of them looked nearly, and more importantly sounded precisely like the Beatle they were imitating. This remained so until 2004 when the John guy was removed for giving away the names or email addresses of the fans at their website, or so I understood. I mean these guys, who would go thru three costume changes to cover the moptop, Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road look, were nothing short of magic, and were a reawakening to me of who truly was deepest in my musical heart. You could close your eyes during something like I Feel Fine and it was them, profound. Additionally so great was their appeal they were finally no longer allowed to play at Beatlefest cause they won every year, finally one of the original promoters of the Beatles in the north of England in the early sixties, Sam Leach, caught wind of them and would come over in the summers to be their manager, saying things like lightning having twice been caught in a bottle they were that good. Right down to the personalities, these suburban Chicago guys nailing the individual accents, you could pretty much not tell the Ringo guy wasn't Ringo, right down to how he held the sticks, his attack, and they used the identical instruments and amps the Beatles did. Paul and John would even have verbal fights on stage it was remarkable. That whole scene reached a personal apex when the night after George passed, I found myself standing next to a sobbing older sister of George Harrison, Louise, saying its my little brother. Marty, the guy who played George, such a sweetheart, ended up having Louise, who has been an Illinois resident since the early sixties, staying at his home for weeks when she would come up to Chicago, shortly to manage the band. She still manages the band that the John and George guy left for, called Liverpool Legends, who, to their credit, in their first year of existence nailed down the residency at this godawful junior Las Vegas town in Arkansas called Bramson, not surprisingly winning top performers of the year in their first year, but, I have seen both them and the later edition of their old band American English and while I don't doubt they are both still among the top Beatle imitators in the world, they are both now that, imitators, the magic that saw me see them about 100 times I guess between 99 and 04 is not evident. That same night I met Louise, (the only real resemblence between them was the pronounced Harrison eyebrows and even after all those years in the US, which included a George visit to southern Illinois the year before the other Fabs came here, a visit for which a fairly obscure book has been written) also present was the Beatles original drummer Pete Best, they were all in town for a show with American English the next night, I think it was called Rockestra, and included a few other people who had played with Beatles, I recall one was Denny Laine, formerly of the Moody Blues and Wings. I must say when u would see these guys perform something like side 2 of Abbey Road it was close to sacred ground, and additionally was something, of course, that the actual Beatles never did. There was also always a fifth guy up there who would do all the George Martin things, and allowed them to do the post mop top stuff to the letter. One very intriguing thing they did, recorded in various places including Abbey Road, the Cavern Club, and before 100000 people in Liverpool at their annual Beatlefest, for which they are the most well received group that annual event has ever hosted, is an album and dvd I recalled to have been titled 'What If?" which featured the Beatles doing the material they each recorded solo in 71 as the Beatles. Quite a trip to see these master imitators taking on something like Admiral Halsey with all of them, particularly John, up there. So American English as they existed between 1999 and 2004, probably 100 times, sure wished they had not f**ked with it. I can tell the computer was getting a little bit combative a few minutes ago, so I think I will do this in two parts, end of part one.
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Post by tullist on Mar 19, 2010 2:12:51 GMT
If i can remember 70 per cent of the other live music I have consumed since 72, I will be doing well, though I do excel at personal minutae. I believe I will try to do this in mostly alphabetical order, as being exacting about exactly what year in a small percentage i would not remember. Doubtless there will be many, particularly from Chicago's longstanding free jazz fest, which I saw most nights for 19 of the first 20 years it existed, but I will remember most of the legends. That thing used to go on for a week before it had to share time with 20 other fests. Also so many nights (and occasionally days, matinees, I recall falling sound asleep in front of the master vibes player and close friend of Malcolm X, Milt Jackson, I do not doubt I was stoned and the guy excelled at swinging low tempo ballads which can lull you to sleep, but very beautiful) at Chicago's Jazz showcase, around at various locations for 60 years now, sort of the Chicago version of Ronnie Scotts, though I am sure the still living propreitor would never have allowed Jimi Hendrix to sit in there, or rockers of any stripe at all, he even hates the Beatles. Actually what I will do with this sucker is write down the year if I remember it, in most cases I think I will. Actually this is too daunting to even do alphabetically, I will do it as memory serves.
Miles Davis 74, 81, 3, 4, 7 (where I got to touch the hand which he offered like the Queen, u just grabbed the tips, like touching a living history book)9 and 91 only weeks before he passed, when he started doing stuff he said he would never do again, revisiting his past, it was terribly beautiful, he must have known he was dying Fairport Convention, 74, 86, 87, 8, 9 and a couple times 6 to 8 years ago at my friends the Fitzgeralds great, mostly American music club, quite a trip to see them in there on my home field Steeleye Span 74, 94 Altan, twice, both roughly about 10 years ago Clifton Chenier, (king of zydeco) twice, both at Fitzgeralds, 85, 7 Dirty Dozen Brass Band, 86, 8? Terrance Simien and the Mallet Playboys, a burning state of the art zydeco band w a Deadhead bent, probably 3 times in the past 20 years at Fitzgeralds. Lavay Smith and the Red Hot Skillet Lickers, boys if u ever wondered what a hot swing band fronted by Bettie Page would look like, this is the place, I recommend hunting her down on the net to accentuate my point, San Francisco based Bernie. Dave Alvin, must be about 8 times now, mostly at Fitzgeralds, my main musical find of the past ten years, sort of the ultimate roadhouse rocker, but that does not even do him justice. Do roadhouse rockers normally do chilling versions of things like Shenandoah? A real pillar of distinctly American music, can simply not recommend this guy highly enough. Maddy Prior a show about ten years ago with a keyboard player where she told me that Ian Anderson knows precisely what he wants. Hot Tuna 74, 86 and about 3 more times in the past 20 years. Of the old guys I can think of no show I would recommend more highly right now than seeing Jorma Kaukonen on acoustic, and Jack Casady on electric, performing as a duo, something close to sacred. Full band ain't half bad either. The musical heart of the Jefferson Airplane. Richard Thompson 82 and roughly three other times including once at Fitzgeralds, cannot explain what a kick it was to see a main musical hero right in what is very like my own living room. Meeting him once about 20 years ago was surprised how tall he was, I am 6'3, he is about the same if I recall right. Muddy Waters, Chicagos prince, 74 and 79. Art Ensemble of Chicago, 5 or 6 times between 74 and now, the most cutting edge jazz improvisation outfit of the past 40 years, and centerpiece of Chicagos famed AACM, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicianship, since 65. Sun Ra and his Arkestra, roughly about 10 times between 73 and his death in the early nineties. That first show in 3/73 I did not even know who he was, we had gone to see the other guy on the bill, Yusef Lateef, and were about the only white people in the audience, lots of brothers in daishikis playing kalimbas in the audience. Was in the midst of one of my most severe acid trips, and if u know who Sun Ra is, i need say no more. Charles Mingus 74 Jazz Showcase, Chicago Dexter Gordon, Long Tall Dexter, (highly recommend the 87 movie Round Midnight which he starred in, and includes most of the other great living jazz legends, Academy Award nominated)probably about 10 times between 78 and 86. Art Blakey and the Jazzmessengers, probably about 8 times between 78 and his death around 1990. Once notably with his nephew Paul who I worked with, got to sit at his table between sets, very cool. Emmylou Harris 94, Green Bay Wisconsin, I am sure this involved the Packers too, can't quite remember. Have had a crush on her for over 30 years, that I do know. Her music since about 90 has aged so well as has she, no longer strictly country. John Renbourn, twice, once with Robin Williamson, in 94, shows up on the remarkable live record Wheel of Fortune, and once about 8 years ago at Fitzgeralds, quite a trip to see him there. Black Sabbath 72 I remember the middle aged satanists in line, this is about when my brief attraction to them was at an end, the show, (which opened with an all girl band save for the drummer who was Mitch Mitchell)while I am sure perfectly good, did nothing to draw me back in. Amazed and sickened that they are more relevant than Tull. There was no more unhip band u could like in the seventies than Sabbath, or maybe Uriah Heep. Deep Purple 73, again, never a fan, a friend had an extra, they were certainly loud. Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, here some more of the main players from Chicago's AACM, though they would be filed under jazz, magic would be more apropos, probably about 5 times between 81 and 2000. Pharoah Sanders, my eighteenth birthday in 74, and a pure magic show with the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble in the late nineties. Max Roach, once with his all percussion ensemble M'Boom, twice with his quartet, between 84 and 90. Joni Mitchell, Shadows and Light Tour, around 80 i think, with the jazz guys, Shorter, Jaco, Herbie. Jaco Pastorious, became a friend of mine in a long story in his last year, 86, saw his big band a couple times in the early eighties in Chicago. Keith Jarrett standards group w/ Jack Dejohnette, around 91 Cecil Taylor, king of avant garde jazz I guess, he was wearing a spacemans outfit and would sneak up on his piano to try and catch it unaware the Who, 73 I think it was, Quadrophenia tour, if u saw it u know what I'm talking about, difficult on that night to think there could possibly be a better live performing band. Literally awesome. John Lee Hooker 76 Willie Dixon 79 Boiled in Lead, 88,90,92 Tempest, likely 4 times in the past 20 years Henry Threadgill, 3 or 4 times, another product of the AACM, as important a participant in improvisational and true world music as has been seen in the past 30 years. Various of his bands including Very Very Circus. June Tabor w the Oyster Band, must be 20 years ago now, i forget Don Pullen, twice 20 or 25 years ago, my favorite of the avant garde jazz piano players, Mingus' mainstay over his last ten years or so I think, and of course the great Don Pullen/George Adams quartet. Johnny Griffin, Chicago's "little Giant" of the tenor saxophone, Monk's guy for many years, probably about 3 times, mostly in the 80's. Muhal Richard Abrams, one of the originators of the AACM, famed composer and bandleader, 3 times maybe since late 70's. Pink Floyd 72, DSOTM tour Gil Scott Heron, about 5 times between mid seventies and 90. Stan Getz, twice, maybe 78 and 82 Flora Purim and her husband the remarkable percussionist Airto Moreiera, a handful of times in the seventies, brilliant Betty Carter, first lady of swing and dangerously good with a ballad, early or mid eighties Dizzy Gillespie, 84 and 6 Kahil El Zabar, in various aggregations outside of his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, between 84 and 94. Bobby Hutcherson, likely my favorite of the great vibes players, 81, 87, 91, 94 Milt Jackson Quartet a couple of times in the eighties Jefferson Starship 74 and 76, the 74 show at the Auditorium in Chicago was the only tour where they performed Blows Against The Empire. Quite some little bit different from what they later morphed into. Jefferson Airplane 72 Hawkwind 3/74 Chicago Auditorium Possibly my furthest out psychedelic experience, still remember holding onto my seat for dear life as I catapulted thru space, the crowd was so high they had to be told the show was over, few could find their way out of the building, long, very funny story. Remarkably I found out on the Folk Forum board this show had been released, I damn sure got my copy Gary Burton, remarkable vibraharpist and lift off point for 18 year old Pat Metheny, about five times, once with Chick Corea, and once in a remarkable mushroom experience in 79, again challenged to find the exits, thought I was in a maze of some clever construct. Air (the jazz air)Henry Threadgill, Chico Freeman, Steve McCall, master free jazz technicians from the AACM, about 78. McCoy Tyner, about 7 times between 75 and 2002. ELP 1974 Johnny Winter 74 Tony Williams with his straight ahead hard bop quintet, about 3 times in 88 thru 90. Herbie Hancock in acoustic jazz outings, including VSOP with the young Wynton Marsalis in about 82. George Benson 9/22/78 my 22nd birthday Mahavishnu Orchestra 10/73 Chicago Auditorium, jaw dropper John McLaughlin, a couple brilliant times, lastly maybe in 90. Genesis 74 Lamb and 77 Peter Gabriel, 77, 78 and 80 Terje Rypdal 76 Freddie Hubbard, maybe 4 times between 78 and 95, 2 of which I was certain I was witnessing the greatest trumpet player in the world. Although I think he often played the trumpet like fluglehorn. Pat Metheny, a few times between 76 and 82, again a mushroom experience par excellence for the 82 gig, his piece Are You Going With Me sent me out. Randy Weston 84, w Blakey and Dizzy James Newton as remarkable a flute player as I have seen save for our perennial favorite Rahsaan Roland Kirk 76 Frank Zappa 84, maybe my last deep acid experience, on a double bill w Garcia, I remember it took like two hours between set, like disasembling one industry and constructing another, Zappa was brilliant, watching the Deadheads trying to dance to it was unmercifully funny. The Eisenhower expressway turned into a conveyor belt on the way home. We listened to Beefhearts last, Ice Cream For Crow when we got home, laughed the remainder of our brains out. Abbey Lincoln 89 Ernest Khabeer Dawkins, another stalwart from the AACM, more straight ahead than most of their personell, early to mid nineties Jack Dejohnette, a few times between mid seventies and now Alan Stivell, 86, Great American Music Hall, SF Passport 76 Tom Waits 77 Allman Brothers 94 surprised I have only seen them once, I recall they opened with Dont Want You No More into Not My Cross To Bear, they were so nasty ass hot that they could have left the stage then, case closed. I remember being kind of proud of them that after all the $h1t they had been thru that the mission to the blues was still so strong in their souls. When Allman sang those first words, a simple Yeah Yeah Yeah went right up your spine. Ted Nugent 78 another one I was dragged to, only show I have ever left where my hearing was affected. Never been a fan but I do respect him, what he did, he did damn well. And although I come from a polar opposite of him politically, I deeply respect him, he lives what he preaches and is a very intelligent man. Wynton Marsalis, 4 or 5 times between 82 and 92. Branford Marsalis, twice late eighties early nineties, one dead brilliant, a real tribute to Coltrane. Traffic opening for the Dead in the early nineties Roger McGuinn opening for the Dead, same Band opening for the Dead, same Might be getting the name wrong, but the Chinese Orchestra of San Francisco opening for the Dead during a Chinese New Year run in 2/86, dead brilliant Sting opening for the Dead about 93, very good he was too Jerry came out for a song or two Phish, about 94, much better than I supposed Jan Garbarek 78 Malachi Thompson (AACM) a handful of times in the 80, 90's and early 2000's, now passed away Mwata Bowden, fantastic multi instumentalist from the AACM, several times in various aggregations in the past 30 years or so Ray Charles, I want to say about 92 Mercifully I will bring this to an end now, always wanted such a document for my personal records, thank you for lending me this extavagance.
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Post by tullist on Mar 19, 2010 2:16:34 GMT
First one I know I forgot was a double bill of Clapton and Santana in 76, Eric was way lame, Santana was so damn brilliant, just coming out of their period, my favorite of Caravanserai and Borboletta. Saw them again opening for the Dead at Angels Camp Ca twice in 87, they were pretty lame, except for sitting in with the Dead, probably the best Dead guest I have ever witnessed, Carlos burned.
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Post by tullist on Mar 19, 2010 2:28:26 GMT
First one I know I forgot was a double bill of Clapton and Santana in 76, Eric was way lame, Santana was so damn brilliant, just coming out of their period, my favorite of Caravanserai and Borboletta. Saw them again opening for the Dead at Angels Camp Ca twice in 87, they were pretty lame, except for sitting in with the Dead, probably the best Dead guest I have ever witnessed, Carlos burned. Also 4 or 5 Weather Report shows between 73 and 82.
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Post by tullist on Mar 19, 2010 2:30:12 GMT
First one I know I forgot was a double bill of Clapton and Santana in 76, Eric was way lame, Santana was so damn brilliant, just coming out of their period, my favorite of Caravanserai and Borboletta. Saw them again opening for the Dead at Angels Camp Ca twice in 87, they were pretty lame, except for sitting in with the Dead, probably the best Dead guest I have ever witnessed, Carlos burned. Also 4 or 5 Weather Report shows between 73 and 82. And there is no way I am leaving out Renaissance, maybe 5 times between 74 and 82, like many I was in love with Annie Hasmem. Additionally someone else with a huge vocal range, Shawn Phillips, probably 5 times between 74 and 2000.
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Post by tullist on Mar 19, 2010 2:42:39 GMT
Also 4 or 5 Weather Report shows between 73 and 82. And there is no way I am leaving out Renaissance, maybe 5 times between 74 and 82, like many I was in love with Annie Hasmem. Additionally someone else with a huge vocal range, Shawn Phillips, probably 5 times between 74 and 2000. And how can I forget the mighty Led Zeppelin, an el lame o performance that has forever colored my perception of them, along about 74 i think. Other than their acoustic set, most of it was embarrassing. A few others of many I have forgot include Oregon, a few times between 76 and 82, Captain Beefheart in about 80, and the Police at Club Lucky Number in 79, I swear there were not more than 10 other people there, they were pretty good. Remarkably I have never seen 2 of my favorites still living, the Stones and Neil Young.
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Post by tullist on Mar 19, 2010 2:46:59 GMT
And there is no way I am leaving out Renaissance, maybe 5 times between 74 and 82, like many I was in love with Annie Hasmem. Additionally someone else with a huge vocal range, Shawn Phillips, probably 5 times between 74 and 2000. And how can I forget the mighty Led Zeppelin, an el lame o performance that has forever colored my perception of them, along about 74 i think. Other than their acoustic set, most of it was embarrassing. A few others of many I have forgot include Oregon, a few times between 76 and 82, Captain Beefheart in about 80, and the Police at Club Lucky Number in 79, I swear there were not more than 10 other people there, they were pretty good. Remarkably I have never seen 2 of my favorites still living, the Stones and Neil Young. This might go on all night but Geoge Harrison in 74, an embarrassing performance where it was made all better just seeing that smile thru the binoculars, I remember he chastized the crowd saying "You're not going to find Lord Krishna in a bottle", and two Paul shows, both excellent, 76 and 89.
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Post by tullist on Mar 19, 2010 3:26:49 GMT
And there is no way I am leaving out Renaissance, maybe 5 times between 74 and 82, like many I was in love with Annie Hasmem. Additionally someone else with a huge vocal range, Shawn Phillips, probably 5 times between 74 and 2000. And how can I forget the mighty Led Zeppelin, an el lame o performance that has forever colored my perception of them, along about 74 i think. Other than their acoustic set, most of it was embarrassing. A few others of many I have forgot include Oregon, a few times between 76 and 82, Captain Beefheart in about 80, and the Police at Club Lucky Number in 79, I swear there were not more than 10 other people there, they were pretty good. Remarkably I have never seen 2 of my favorites still living, the Stones and Neil Young. In fairness to the Led Zeppelin, we had real dodgy hockey arena seats for the show, and seeing those vids from that thing they released a few years ago, it was a case of aha, i see what the fuss was about. I recall Song Remains The Same, which i saw when it was new, to seriously suck though. I did download that show they did a couple years ago, sounded damn good, opening with one of the best openers ever, Good Times Bad Times
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Post by tullist on Mar 19, 2010 5:12:05 GMT
Goodness me, how could I have forgotten Stevie Ray Vaughn in 81, when he was already big news on the blues circuit, but was about 1 or 2 years away from being an out and out star. Was never a huge fan on the one hand, because I did not think he was bringing me any information that Jimi had not alread told me better. This was at that Fitzgeralds nite club that I have now mentioned alot, in their first year, I was notified that I should see this guy by the owner, knowing I was a Hendrix nut. SRV ended his set with 4 Hendrix pieces, none of the predictable $h1t, I remember 2 were Third Stone From the Sun and Machine Gun. After the set when the doors were closed he and I sat at the bar and jabbered non stop about Jimi for half an hour. Also note that I failed to mention King Crimson in 82, such a full bore knockout, particualrly Larks Tongues, doubtless I am forgetting lots of stuff.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 19, 2010 8:44:04 GMT
... thank you for lending me this extavagance. THANK YOU for giving us this - I've started to read through it with Youtube opened for reference. It's a pleasurable task ;D ;D
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 19, 2010 8:51:14 GMT
The Beatles on '63 The Yardbirds at Eel Pie Jimi Hendrix Experience 3 maybe 4 times '67 Cream, ditto JHE Ten Years After Chicken Shack Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Free Mott The Hoople Fairport Convention Pink Floyd Blodwyn Pig The Who The Dubliners The Corries David Bowie as a mime artist John Mayall The list is long and that's all I can think of at the moment. Think I'll be returning to this thread
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 19, 2010 8:54:43 GMT
Jen I think I've bored the pants off everybody with the story of the Led Zep gig and how I blabbed my way in for nothing (all above board) but the concert was amazing funny I haven't thought of watching the DVD released in 2003 probably will tho. John Bonham brought up little Jason on stage to play drums. You had that "I can't believe I'm hearing this live" feeling. I would love to time travel back to that one.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 19, 2010 8:57:52 GMT
Wabbit I am jealous of your Led Zep, Page & Plant was the closest we got. Would have loved to have seen Queen too, just missed out on them (I started going to gigs in 88) We have a lot of our ticket stubs in frames, so looking at those..... Bon Jovi (from 89-2010 - many, many times!) Aerosmith (few times) Guns n Roses (few times) Motley Crue The Darkness Velvet Revolver The Cult U2 Rush Mostly Autumn Prince Iron Maiden The Wildhearts megadeth Terrorvision The Almighty Soundgarden Judas Priest The Scorpions Pearl Jam Red Hot Chili Peppers Magnum Sisters of Mercy Bad Company Thunder Tool Kiss Little Angels Marilyn Manson Page & Plant Black Sabbath Black Crowes Blue Oyster Cult Live Alice Cooper Hothouse Flowers Metallica Slash's Snakepit Perfect cicle Blackfoot Status Quo Skin Manic Street Preachers Rob Zombie AC/DC Skid Row Reef Simple Minds Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Won't bore you with all the venues, but they range from Wembley Stadium down to Camden fleapits!! ;D Not counting all the Reading festivals, and Donington Monsters of Rock festivals, or support acts at any of the above. Ahhhhh those were the days. As you can probably tell, Tull are a bit of a Sunday band for me. Be interested to see who other people have seen? Queen would have great to see. Would like to have seen Rush (Skull put me on to that) Bad Company Blackfoot Blue Oyster Cult.........all the "b"'s
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 19, 2010 9:00:53 GMT
The Beatles on '63 The Yardbirds at Eel Pie Jimi Hendrix Experience 3 maybe 4 times '67 Cream, ditto JHE Ten Years After Chicken Shack Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Free Mott The Hoople Fairport Convention Pink Floyd Blodwyn Pig The Who The Dubliners The Corries David Bowie as a mime artist John Mayall The list is long and that's all I can think of at the moment. Think I'll be returning to this thread Oh Bloody 'ell Maddog You've seen everyone I wanted too but never got round too. How mad is it now that you "never got round to seeing" Free/Cream etc etc
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Post by kleynan on Mar 19, 2010 10:13:21 GMT
Being fairly young I havent seen many of the what i consider GREAT bands.. the closest I got to seeing Floyd was Roger Waters in 2006, and I saw Golden Earring in Amsterdam in 2007 i believe (I grew up there), but for the rest its all "modern" bands which.. are good.. BUUTT... just dont cut it for me >.> Tool and Opeth were good concerts
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Post by tullist on Mar 19, 2010 18:32:05 GMT
The Beatles on '63 The Yardbirds at Eel Pie Jimi Hendrix Experience 3 maybe 4 times '67 Cream, ditto JHE Ten Years After Chicken Shack Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Free Mott The Hoople Fairport Convention Pink Floyd Blodwyn Pig The Who The Dubliners The Corries David Bowie as a mime artist John Mayall The list is long and that's all I can think of at the moment. Think I'll be returning to this thread Mad dog I know I would like to hear every boring detail of your 63 Beatles experience, even stuff you might think no one would be interested in. What town, venue, difficulty or not in getting tickets. I think largely they played in actual music halls where maybe, just maybe they could be heard? Was that the leg of the tour with any of the following, Cilla Black, Roy Orbison, Little Richard, pretty sure they all played with the Fabs in 63. I realize 63 was so long ago, I was 7, and things I remember from then are almost more a case of I remember remembering, sort of a dfferent person. I do recall JFK's murder and the funeral, cause it was one of only 2 times I saw my Father cry. Kind of recall my first major league baseball game and the Yankees being in the world series, but foggy to say the least.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 19, 2010 19:36:24 GMT
The Beatles on '63 The Yardbirds at Eel Pie Jimi Hendrix Experience 3 maybe 4 times '67 Cream, ditto JHE Ten Years After Chicken Shack Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Free Mott The Hoople Fairport Convention Pink Floyd Blodwyn Pig The Who The Dubliners The Corries David Bowie as a mime artist John Mayall The list is long and that's all I can think of at the moment. Think I'll be returning to this thread Mad dog I know I would like to hear every boring detail of your 63 Beatles experience, even stuff you might think no one would be interested in. What town, venue, difficulty or not in getting tickets. I think largely they played in actual music halls where maybe, just maybe they could be heard? Was that the leg of the tour with any of the following, Cilla Black, Roy Orbison, Little Richard, pretty sure they all played with the Fabs in 63. I realize 63 was so long ago, I was 7, and things I remember from then are almost more a case of I remember remembering, sort of a dfferent person. I do recall JFK's murder and the funeral, cause it was one of only 2 times I saw my Father cry. Kind of recall my first major league baseball game and the Yankees being in the world series, but foggy to say the least. Will do Tullist. Just off to work so I'll get round to your request at the weekend or on Monday. I've still got the flyer so I'll post that as well. Cheers Maddog
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Post by Col on Mar 19, 2010 21:41:47 GMT
First one I know I forgot was a double bill of Clapton and Santana in 76, Eric was way lame, Santana was so damn brilliant, just coming out of their period, my favorite of Caravanserai and Borboletta. Saw them again opening for the Dead at Angels Camp Ca twice in 87, they were pretty lame, except for sitting in with the Dead, probably the best Dead guest I have ever witnessed, Carlos burned. That made remember I saw Clapton on a double bill with Elton John, he must like his double bills..... I forgot so many bands on my list, it all starts to come back now I've started thinking about it, bands that I'd long since forgotten. I will edit my list at some point as it would be nice to have a record of everyone I've seen. Also, not heard of American English, always thought the Bootleg Beatles had the market on Beatles tribute bands. Interesting stuff!
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Post by tullist on Mar 20, 2010 1:03:46 GMT
First one I know I forgot was a double bill of Clapton and Santana in 76, Eric was way lame, Santana was so damn brilliant, just coming out of their period, my favorite of Caravanserai and Borboletta. Saw them again opening for the Dead at Angels Camp Ca twice in 87, they were pretty lame, except for sitting in with the Dead, probably the best Dead guest I have ever witnessed, Carlos burned. That made remember I saw Clapton on a double bill with Elton John, he must like his double bills..... I forgot so many bands on my list, it all starts to come back now I've started thinking about it, bands that I'd long since forgotten. I will edit my list at some point as it would be nice to have a record of everyone I've seen. Also, not heard of American English, always thought the Bootleg Beatles had the market on Beatles tribute bands. Interesting stuff! Agreed that those Bootleg Beatles are terribly good, I came to knowledge of them from their having played Cropredy sometime in the last ten years. I guess where I would give the nod to the 1999-2004 version of American English is in their appearance, since both of them sound spectacular. American English you could close your eyes and it was them, absolutely profound. Plus the Paul guy in AE actually went to the trouble of learning to play real damn well left handed like Paulie, I notice their Paul is playing righty and the Ringo guy does not look like Ringo. Here is the websites of both American English and Liverpool Legends in u compare the Paul and Ringo from AE and the George and John from LL you will see what I mean I think, (although frankly, the Paul guy in LL looks a bit more like him and is very very good but the AE Paul guy more importantly has the sound down perfect and all his mannerisms) American English www.americanenglishbeatles.com/Liverpool Legendshttp://www.liverpoollegends.com/ oops, i see LL has a new Paul guy, does not look as much like him, but whatever. I will say in my lifetime of 53 years the single most powerful force for good in the world at large has been the Beatles. I do so highly recommend the dvd of Paul playing in Red Square in 2004, I think all of which is available on You Tube, to see how profound the effect was, especially on those old enough there to remember when the Beatles were verboten. At the very least the video of Back in the USSR is well worthwhile, definitely hard to top those Moscow and Ukraine girls. Thanks Jen!
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 20, 2010 19:25:05 GMT
The Beatles on '63 The Yardbirds at Eel Pie Jimi Hendrix Experience 3 maybe 4 times '67 Cream, ditto JHE Ten Years After Chicken Shack Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Free Mott The Hoople Fairport Convention Pink Floyd Blodwyn Pig The Who The Dubliners The Corries David Bowie as a mime artist John Mayall The list is long and that's all I can think of at the moment. Think I'll be returning to this thread Mad dog I know I would like to hear every boring detail of your 63 Beatles experience, even stuff you might think no one would be interested in. What town, venue, difficulty or not in getting tickets. I think largely they played in actual music halls where maybe, just maybe they could be heard? Was that the leg of the tour with any of the following, Cilla Black, Roy Orbison, Little Richard, pretty sure they all played with the Fabs in 63. I realize 63 was so long ago, I was 7, and things I remember from then are almost more a case of I remember remembering, sort of a dfferent person. I do recall JFK's murder and the funeral, cause it was one of only 2 times I saw my Father cry. Kind of recall my first major league baseball game and the Yankees being in the world series, but foggy to say the least. We for what it’s worth here goes. A group of about six of us went and it was a case of a last minute decision and as such we ended up at the back of the auditorium but the acoustics at the Fairfield Halls are pretty good, so for the time the sound wasn’t bad. I do remember that George Harrison broke a guitar string halfway through the set and instead of picking up a replacement guitar, changed the string in the middle of the song without the help of a roadie. Can’t remember the April setlist but this is one I found from December 1963 which gives an idea of what they played around that time. Finsbury Park Astoria , London December 24, 1963 Roll Over Beethoven All My Loving This Boy I Wanna Be Your Man She Loves You Till There Was You I Want to Hold Your Hand Money (That's What I Want) Twist and Shout The show itself was part of a package tour and John Leyton didn’t appear so The Beatles were the headlining act. One thing that does stick in my mind is that although The Beatles were good, The Big Three consisting of Johnny Gustafson, Johnny Hutchinson & Adrian Barber were excellent. For a three piece outfit their overall sound and performance was a notch or two above everybody else. See www.45-rpm.org.uk/dirb/big3.htmSo who else have I seen Tyrannosaurus Rex Roy Harper Stephan Grossman The Pentangle Bonzo Dog Doodah Band The Nice The Animals The Move Amen Corner The Scaffold Derek & The Dominos Delaney & Bonnie Canned Heat Renaissance Deep Purple Dire Straits Judie Tzuke Bruce Hornsby and The Range Basil Brush Alas never seen The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin but very nearly saw Queen but I caught pneumonia and couldn't go, for obvious reasons
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 20, 2010 20:44:14 GMT
The way I look at this thread is that people can come back and ask Maddog eg what was it like to see the Beatles or Tullist what were the Dead like in the 70's from us over in the UK who couldn't afford the long haul flight then or Col/Jen what's Bono like Live ? Not only the big acts - please post about any new bands that you've seen that are worth mentioning or the favourite pub/cover band that were worth the bus fare to see. My most embarrassing band that I saw was at the Uni Union and my friend and I thought we'd pop in to see them. They were listed as heavy metal. The room was huge - the stage was far away and there was no one there except us when we went in We thought at the time that they probably just decided to go ahead for the hell of it ;D Ok they were rubbish and we were too polite to turn our backs to them so we walked backwards out the door. I hope they went onto better things
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 21, 2010 8:39:53 GMT
A few more while I remember them - it's a b****r this old age thing ;D
Simon & Garfunkel The Alan Price Set Zoot Money The Hamsters The Wandering Crutchlees Savoy Brown
Many that I've forgotten about or can't remember.
Used to go to The Ship public house in Wardour St, which was just up from the Marquee Club, every friday night in '66. If there was anyone good on at The Marquee we'd pop down and have a listen. Then back to The Ship for a final pint or two then the long journey home via British Rail and the 54 bus from East Croydon Station. Can someone lend me a time machine?
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 6, 2021 1:00:58 GMT
Saw these guys in 1983 and 1986 ... Judas Priest – Live at US Festival (1983 Full Concert)
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Post by Catqualung on Apr 6, 2021 16:52:22 GMT
Genesis Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Blues Brothers Gong Crosby Stills & Nash Yes Deep Purple Jeff Healey Pooh Steven Wilson Skillet Elio e le Storie Tese PFM ZZ Top Peter Frampton
Obviously the times I attended to JT concerts were the best but my very best concert I can remember is the venue with Paul McCartney in 1989-1990. Simply F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C
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Post by stevep on Apr 6, 2021 20:10:00 GMT
My friend & I went to see a Swedish/English folk group called Scafell Pike at Edinburgh University in the 70's. There were a few other big groups on in the city that night and we were surprised that there was only one other person in the audience when the concert commenced. After a few songs, one of the group mentioned that he normally introduced the band at that that stage in the concert. He said though it would be better if the we we introduced ourselves as there were five of them and only three of us in the audience.
Fortunately for us and the group, more people joined the audience later. The music was not to our taste then (would probably be now) but we did not want to leave when there was only one other person attending.
In those days we went to see everyone & anyone that was on in the main concert venues and university/college unions. Remember seeing Tull, Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis (with Peter Gabriel), Lindisfarne, Roxy Music, Tangerine Dream, Alex Harvey at big venues. Geordie, with AC/DC singer Brian Johnson, were a group that were on at colleges often. I really liked a pub group called Supercharge for their humour as well as their music. Was impressed with Vinegar Joe too, the group had Robert Palmer & Elkie Brooks as singers back then.
One of the best concerts I have seen was Elton John & Billy Joel in Charlotte, USA. Neither are particular favourites of mine but the show was incredible.
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