The Concert Thread
This is the concert thread. Surprisingly, there wasn't one.
This year, I've gone to more concerts than I have in a coon's age. I don't like masses of people, but it just worked out that I was able to go to Sigur Ros, Foster The People, The Pittsburgh Orchestra performing the Zelda Symphony, Florence and the Machine, Ben Folds Five, and I have tickets for Of Monsters and Men on Thanksgiving Saturday night. Except for the "lawn setting" of the Sigur Ros concert, about which I whined and bitched, they've all been excellent. It's almost overwhelming how talented some people are.
Dave Matthews Band in december!
I haven't been to a concert in years. I didn't even go to see Fagan and McDonald and Scaggs, and that would have been awesome.
I used to go to big venue concerts a lot...later on in life I spent a lot of time in Dayton's Oregon District with my musician ex...and saw a lot of great shows, jazz mostly, some blues.
I'm going to try to make a list of everyone I've seen (except of course, local bands.) I think it will be interesting. I'll post it later when I've thought about it.
Last concert I attended was Queensrÿche, the "Empire Tour". Suicidal Tendencies opened.
This was about 1990-91.
I paid $21 each for 2 tickets. Thought the price was outrageous.
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Dave Matthews Band in december!
You must be under the table and dreaming ;)
How big does it have to be to be considered a concert?
Saw Chopteeth about a month ago.
In a couple weeks I'm going to my brother's CD release concert, at a legitimate non-hole-in-the-wall venue. He's been sponsored by some local promotions group, and got featured on MTVHive and everything. I'm proud of the kid, I really am. It will be the first time I've seen live music of any kind in over a year.
Last concert I attended was Queensrÿche, the "Empire Tour". Suicidal Tendencies opened.
This was about 1990-91.
I paid $21 each for 2 tickets. Thought the price was outrageous.
:yelgreedy
Dude! :hedfone:
What pisses me completely off is that bands mostly give Edinburgh a miss.
It's Aberdeen Glasgow then usually Newcastle of Manchester, time after time i see bands on tour dates thinking I'd like to see them but no joy.
The big theatres in Edinburgh hold on average 1800 to 2000 capacity and the smaller venues hold between 500 to 1000 so bigger bands dont come here because you can't get into the bigger venues they are usually booked out with shit musical productions, Billy Connolly complained a few years ago about Edinburgh not being able to book bigger venues for fucking andrew Lloyd Webber shows.
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Fucking Andrew Lloyd Webber?
Do you mean Sir Fucking Andrew Lloyd Webber?
I hear what you're saying and understand but the SECC is an hour or less away by car, that's not too bad. Mind you, these days there isn't many 'big' bands I'd travel further than the length of my living room to see. Rest comfortably in the knowledge that Glaswegians are still jealous as hell of the Festival.
"but the SECC is an hour or less away by car"
Not any good if you fancy a few beers before the show,the last time i was at the SECC got there in just over an hour but took nearly 3 hrs to get out the car park and back on to the motorway.
Glasgow is a shit-hole that i try to stay out of if possible, lived there for a time in the 70's the place was the pits.:bolt:
Aussie Pink Floyd at the
Tower next week. :D
Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, and Suburban Legends at
Crockadile Rock last summer. Long drive but worth it.
last concert I saw was probably 1993-4 Grateful Dead. Or maybe the B-52's or Buffett.
I haven't been to a concert since I got divorced lo these many blue moons ago.
sigh. I can't even get up any enthusiasm to go see some band, either.
Only the Stones could get me to come out of my hovel.
This past Saturday night, I saw Of Monsters And Men at The Tower Theater. They were Egggsellent
At the Dave Matthews Concert RFN!
That is a SCARRRRRY looking thing !!!!!
Is that Carrot Top??
Yup! And amanda and liz.
Was Carrot top an act, or a [strike]spectacle[/strike] spectator
the latter. We stood in Gen Admin right behind the control boards. he came waltzing in with a 50? yr old woman with nearly as much plastic surgery as him. They let him inside the little fenced in area there. Liz eventually got the nerve up to pester him during a lul. He was nice enough. Said he liked my red beard.
For my birthday, Twil took us to see Leonard Cohen. It was really amazing. All I can say is
Hallelujah!
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the latter. We stood in Gen Admin right behind the control boards. he came waltzing in with a 50? yr old woman with nearly as much plastic surgery as him. They let him inside the little fenced in area there. Liz eventually got the nerve up to pester him during a lul. He was nice enough. Said he liked my red beard.
Cool.
When I saw the announcement that the Grateful Dead were doing one last set of concerts in Soldier Field this summer, I got all nostalgic and thought about how cool it would be to be there. The end of an era! 50 years.
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Then I thought about the logistics of getting there, and squeezing it into an overbooked summer. And I remembered how bad they sounded the last time they came through town. So I forgot about it.
Now I see that tickets went on sale over the weekend and sold out in just a couple minutes. Breaking some Ticketmaster record. And scalpers are selling for up to $15K per ticket.
without Jerry... it's not the Grateful Dead. it's just the Dead.
I have purchased tix for Fallout Boy in June. Ripley wanted to go with her friends for her birthday. SO ... me and 3 14 year old girls will be seeing Wiz Khalifa, Fallout bouy and some white rapper. I. can't. wait.
glatt - I agree with you. Last time I saw any of them they were awful. Bobby lost his voice what seems a decade ago. Phil never had one... I called my ex brother-in-law and we were talking about it ... he somehow got tix for $300. He's taking his wife and 2 daughters. They're all flying in from Cali. I noticed that a bunch of other friends are going as well.
Me? I'm going to spend $90 TOTAL to go see DSO at the Queen in Wilmington DE again. This time with both my sons. IF you haven't seen them, go. Well worth it.
DSO?
Is that a band, or am I too stupit to decode the anagram?
I figured it was a tribute band. So I Googled it, and it is.
Dark Star Orchestra
Apparently they are so serious about it that they have been joined onstage by Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Donna Jean Godchaux. Bizarrre that the originals would play with a tribute band.
Sorry - been busy. Yes it is Dark Star Orchestra.
They are extremely talented - MUST SEE
OK, this isn't set in stone yet, but I may be going to see Yes and Toto in August. I think more people are going for Yes...but I'm a big fan of the Toto. Africa makes me almost cry I love that song so much!
Sweet! And you can share with everyone your knowledge of the bassist recently passing away.
OK, this isn't set in stone yet, but I may be going to see Yes and Toto in August. I think more people are going for Yes...but I'm a big fan of the Toto. Africa makes me almost cry I love that song so much!
Sweeeeeeeeet! I'll be going as well. I'm heading to Newark NJ and the I'll be seeing them in Atlantic City NJ the next day... I think. Thats the loose plan forming now.
Jane's Addiction
They are playing at the Electric Factory in Philly on Sat the 16th May... but I'm going to the Friday 16th show an hour north in Sayreville NJ. Jinx is taking the kids to the Philly show (their first rock concert) ... and the Friday show is a special presentation of Nothing's Shocking in it's entirety. Also easier for me to get there on time, as I'll be off at 1p on Friday that week.
So, I'm here. What a strange venue. I rode my motorcycle. I may regret this. The sky is cloudy.... This morning, the wunderground forecast said no chance of rain until about 1am. I think I'll be lucky if I come out to a dry bike. I smell moisture in the air.
Whatever. This is Jane's Addiction. And they are doing Nothing's Shocking. In its entirety. Boo. Ya.
Sold out show. Starland Ballroom. Sayreville NJ. Surprisingly rural. And the crowd is Surprisingly.... Mature. I'm just waiting in the parking lot at this point.
This is the second time I've gone to a concert alone.... I went to see Cake in 2010.... Shortly after I got fired as a husband. That was kind of sad and lonely ... Sad and lonely.
But not this time. I'm psyched. I will post clips.
Oh, and I parked for free because I didn't use an actual space. $7 more I can spend on..... Soda. Yay.
Inside now, and it is very similar to Cabo Wabo. It's a lot like a big bar. Maybe 1000 heads. 1500 to the moon.
This is going to be insane. Huge big band, little tiny venue. Someone do the math. There has to be a formula for band fame to venue size ratio.
The smaller the venue, the more intense the experience. Like imagine Led Zeppelin performing in your living room in 1977. That's the Omega.. Vanilla Ice at Woodstock is the alpha.....
So this show should definitely be in the upper 25%, right?
Stay close to the FIRE exits.
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You got a next day review for us?
when i get a minute.... was right into bed last night, and slammed out of the chute at work here today.
in short.... The perfect show, set list and venue.
Ok so the venue was really cool. I guess it filled up to about 2500-3000 people by the time they went on... which wasn't until 9:50, btw..... cocks.
But I had sidled down to about center and toward the back where it wasn't too crowded. It was standing room only GA.
The opening act was intense. They were noise based, atmospheric and loud as hell. Lots of feedback, rhythmic pulsing and throbbing. I was pretty into it until the last song they did which was to discordant and squealy for my ears.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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But Jane's Addiction ...after about a half hour wait, finally came on, and did Up the Beach. And then right into Ocean Size.... both sounded great. These guys have not lost a beat in 27 years since they released it. Navaro has a few more tattoos.... but they sounded tight and practiced.
it took me about 5 songs to realize that they were doing the album in order. That hada very satisfying effect. If you've listened to an album over and over.... you begin to tie them together song by song.... so when you hear Ted, just admit it (the song that has 'nothing's shocking' in it) you expect to hear 'Standing in the Shower thinking' right after. and last night, you DID. Cool.
They pulled out the kettle drums for Jane says, as you can tell if you clicked the above.. so THAT was AWESOME. It started a little thin, but they got into it pretty quickly. I think the only minor bummer was that they omitted "Thank You Boys" or maybe I just missed it? it's a 45 second song... It might just not be do-able live. It has organs and snapping fingers and what not. But there WERE crowd surfers a couple times, so I think that evens things out.
So, before you know it, they're through the whole album. But right out of Pigs in Zen, they went into 'Been Caught Stealing' and everyone started dancing. REally smoking hot version of that. I hope I can find it, I didn't do video of that because I was dancing. Got right sweated up doing that song.... and then Perry said thanks, and walked off.
BUT WAIT!
There's MORE!
What song would you hope to hear as an encore? me? 3 Days. That's 14 minutes long, has great drums, cool lyrics, and I like the live versions I've heard better than the studio. So I'm telling that to my neighbor in the crowd, and he's like... yeah... but I'd like to hear 'Stop!'
That's a good one too.
Well, they did both. IN THAT ORDER.
we high fived
For the encores, these girls came out in lingerie and danced on the speakers.... and then two of them got hooked up to harnesses and were hoisted up to swing from the rigs. I'm pretty sure they were hanging by their pierced backs. you can see it pretty clearly......
check it out:
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awesome awesome awesome.
five thumbs up.
I'd really like to go to the one in Philly tonight. I'm amazed that it's not sold out.
um... so the two dangling ladies are Miss Crash and Samar. They are pros. shiver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Crash...sad and lonely ... Sad and lonely.
But, some sweet mama came and took a chance with you, cuz, you ain't so bad...:D
Jim, were you using your phone, or your camera?
Cuz the audio was pretty awesome. Video, was good, too, but,
dayum, the audio sounded like it came from the board.
Samsung Note4, bub. I luvs this phone.
That there, that's a crazy freakshow.
But not until the meat hook suspensions. I google image searched that woman, and good googly moogly, that's some crazy stuff.
Now there's a band I would love to see live "Strays" is my favourite album of theirs
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Gonna take the boy to Cake in July too. That should be fun
DSO last night with my son at the World Cafe Live at The Queen in DE.
Fantastic music played by very talented musicians. Saw a bunch of heads from the old days. Good deal. Hung out with my State Senator for a bit too. That was a little ... ... ... weird.
Oh, and we spent most of the time in the front row.
Tickets - $25.00
Parking $5.00
Crappy food at Extreme Pizza - $25.00
Seeing my son rockin' out to some GD - Priceless
ETA - Second set list posted for Jim.
Oh, look, the guy on keyboards is still alive.
Nice, classic. That's a happy set list
I'm glad you had a good time, classic. Maybe I'll go see them one of these days.
We got tickets to see Colin Hay in November at the Birchmere, a fairly small venue in Alexandria. It's going to be awesome. He's a small venue kind of guy. He's perhaps my new favorite musician.
Guys/gals ... go see 'em. It's def worth it.
They're playing this NYE again in Philly at the Electric Factory.
Other tour dates are on their site.
The best part of a Fallout Boy concert?
No line at the beer concession. NONE. 75% of the attendees are too young to have beer. Silver lining.
FooFighters, Dropkick Murphy, and Royal Blood at Fenway Park last night! Grohl, Hawkins, and company went hard for 3 hours less some amusing high-jinx related to the the leg and the throne. Dave's orthopedist Lou sang 7 Nation Army and Sully Erna from Godsmack covered Alice Cooper's Schools Out. Tayler Hawkins sang Under Pressure. Royal Blood bears watching. The first album is dynamite, let's hope they pull off the follow up.
Simply kicked ass.
Dave's actual orthopedic doctor came on stage and sang? That's fun.
When I saw the announcement that the Grateful Dead were doing one last set of concerts in Soldier Field this summer, I got all nostalgic and thought about how cool it would be to be there. The end of an era! 50 years.
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Then I thought about the logistics of getting there, and squeezing it into an overbooked summer. And I remembered how bad they sounded the last time they came through town. So I forgot about it.
Now I see that tickets went on sale over the weekend and sold out in just a couple minutes. Breaking some Ticketmaster record. And scalpers are selling for up to $15K per ticket.
Remember how this 4th of July show was it? The end?
Ha!Ry Cooder is coming to Seattle in October and Twil and I are going to see him!
Skaggs has been playing country and bluegrass since he was a child. He’s garnered over a dozen Grammys to his name in the past 30 years. Ry Cooder is the quintessential ethno-musicologist, exploring, playing, and producing albums about Cuba’s music scene and the Latino scene in Chavez Ravine (now Dodger Stadium), and has released a vast number of albums, both solo and in collaboration with other artists such as Captain Beefheart, Maria Muldaur, and Warren Zevon. Sharon White has spent much of her life playing with gospel/country vocal group the White Family. At the Sheldon show, the band was joined by Sharon’s sister, Cheryl (who sat in on backup vocals), and her father, Buck White (who sat in on piano and vocals). The ensemble was rounded out by Skaggs’ former Kentucky Thunder bassist Mark Fain and Cooder’s son Joachim on drums.
My first exposure to Ry Cooder was hearing his work on the soundtrack to the film Paris, Texas.
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I was immediately and permanently hooked. I went on to learn and love more of his work, especially on "Into the Purple Valley" and "Paradise and Lunch" and "Chicken Skin Music", "Bop Til You Drop", etc. (
discography here). I can't wait to see and hear him live.
Stevie Wonder is on tour performing the greatest album of all time, Songs in the Key of Life. This fact is not up for debate. I will be going to see said album performed by said artist in St. Louis in October.
Bring. Money.
When he came through Seattle last year, Twil and I were super excited at the prospect of seeing him live. That is, until we learned that the only tickets available to us were $400 and up. I love me some Stevie Wonder, but not as much as I love eating food for the month.
Tix came in the mail today. We paid $59.50 a piece...we're in the top seats at Scottrade Center...and I give no fucks. :)
Dea and Company are coming to Philly ... anyone interested?
Dea and Company are coming to Philly ... anyone interested?
The DEA? No thanks, man, no thanks...:p:
Sabbath is doing their "last" tour and are coming to Kansas City in March. Tix go on sale next week and are reasonably priced. I've never seen Sabbath with Ozzy (saw them with Dio, which was pretty fucking awesome), and though Bill Ward will not be behind the kit, I might buy those tix.
I would have loved to have seen Black Sabbath in their heyday. I saw Dio on the Sacred Heart tour, absolute awesomeness!!!:devil:
Saw Ozzy on the Ultimate Sin tour. Metallica opened, w/Cliff Burton on bass, w/broken arm in a bent cast so he could still play. And, boy, did he.
Today and tomorrow, we're going to Westport for the Westport Blues Festival.
westportblues.com
THANK YOU TWIL!
Pete and I saw Tedeshi-Trucks Band last night. They put on an excellent show in a little local theatre.
They covered a Joe Cocker cover and blew the roof off.
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The drummers did a version of this last night, but better.
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One more. :)
Sonia Kitchel openned with a kind of Americana set of well constructed tunes.
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She has a fascinating voice.
Do virtual concerts count? Cause I got to see the opening concert of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra this year. Live. I love technology sometimes
That is pretty wonderful isn't it?
The problem with virtual venues is they are too close to the refrigerator/pantry. :haha:
Griff, that's the perfect combination. A good or better band that isn't so big you can predict their play list, in a small venue where you can see them work, but more comfortable and less noisy than a club. It's hard to find that combination outside of a few college towns.
Griff - it was really cool. Found out that you can play violins like ukuleles :D
Bruce - Luckily, I was at work, so it just took up one of my computer monitors. No extraneous snacking :P
Pete and I saw Tedeshi-Trucks Band last night. They put on an excellent show in a little local theatre.
They covered a Joe Cocker cover and blew the roof off.
You didn't say that there was an old gray LumberJim at the show as well.
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The vids aren't from my show but damned if that ain't Lumberjim from the future catching one of the few shows he missed.
Griff - it was really cool. Found out that you can play violins like ukuleles :D
Bruce - Luckily, I was at work, so it just took up one of my computer monitors. No extraneous snacking :P
The tuning is the same as a mandolin...
The problem with virtual venues is they are too close to the refrigerator/pantry. :haha:
Griff, that's the perfect combination. A good or better band that isn't so big you can predict their play list, in a small venue where you can see them work, but more comfortable and less noisy than a club. It's hard to find that combination outside of a few college towns.
Despite the recent hit piece in the New York Times, Binghamton is becoming a quality college town.
I actually started typing a pretty long one out, but found myself lacking the words to describe it. So I deleted several paragraphs. How do you write about music anyway? It was the best concert I've been to. I laughed, I almost cried, and I sat enhanced listening to him play.
You were enhanced?
I didn't know you smoked weed...
Hmm. Pretty sure I typed entranced. Must be one of those phone autocorrect things
I. Am. Sooooo. Stoked.
I just got three tickets to ZZ Top. One for me, one for my big brother B, who is adored by his nephew who gets the third ticket as a birthday gift, SonofV, who will turn 21 just before showtime.
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Absolutely, without question, a bucket list act I've been waiting to see since I was a kid.
Outstanding, I won't even bother to tell you to have a good time. :thumb2:
I. Am. Sooooo. Stoked.
I just got three tickets to ZZ Top. One for me, one for my big brother B, who is adored by his nephew who gets the third ticket as a birthday gift, SonofV, who will turn 21 just before showtime.
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Absolutely, without question, a bucket list act I've been waiting to see since I was a kid.
Dress sharply, wear cheap sunglasses, and get some tush.
Well now, I might be mistaken, uh hmm hmm hmm hmm.
https://www.jazzalley.com/www-home/artist.jsp?shownum=1631
Twil and I are here now, lights down, curtain up in three minutes.
Lights down, curtains open? You exhibitionist, I hope the neighbors and passer-bys, appreciate the show.:o
Saw Howard Jones/OMD/Bare Naked Ladies concert last night, picnicking on the lawn at Wolf Trap with friends.
I rented the little folding lawn chair/back rest things from the concession. Maybe that makes me old, but they made sitting in the grass for four hours comfortable. I highly recommend. A folded up towel under the lower part on the hill makes them nice and level and keeps you from getting a wedgie.
Going in to this, I had low expectations. The forecast was for thunderstorms and while I thoroughly enjoy a few BNL songs, I don't really follow them. And Howard Jones and OMD are so dated. I went to the Howard Jones website the day before to see what he was doing these days and it was all this peppy disco synth crap with no vocals. But it's always nice to have a picnic with these friends, so I figured it would an ok time.
Well, let me tell you, Howard Jones blew me away. He started off with a song that I knew really well, and he sounded GREAT. I figured, "this is great. He's starting off strong with the one song I'll know, to get me into it. Even if I don't know the rest, at least I like this one." That song ended, and he promptly started in on another song I knew. And it sounded great too. And then another, and another, and another, and another. Who knew? I've apparently got the whole Howard Jones catalog stored in my head from 30 years ago from all the airplay he got back in the day. He sounded so good. It was really nice. Surprising. He's on Jimmy Fallon tonight, so check him out.
So then there was a little break before OMD came out. I checked my weather radar app on my phone and saw that the thunderstorms were splitting to go around us to the North and South, and we were going to be in the clear!
Our friends were there to see OMD. The husband is a big OMD fan. I figured I would know 3-4 OMD songs, but it turns out I only know 1. They were decent, but following Howard Jones had to be difficult for them. Still, having our friends right there singing along to each one made us enjoy the band through osmosis, or something.
Then Bare Naked Ladies came out. I'd never seen them before, but I like 4-5 of their songs, and I understood that they have a great stage presence. It's true. They were a tremendous amount of fun. The lead singer told a story about his airline adventure earlier that day and how he almost hadn't made it to the show on time. And he apparently had thrown together a song about that afternoon's airline mishap, and they must have had a chance to get on the same page because the song sounded pretty damn good. They played all the hits, and a couple good songs I didn't know, and a handful of covers that sometimes seemed spontaneous because they followed banter that was specific to to that day. They invited Howard Jones back out on to the stage in the middle of their set, and they backed him while he played his big hit "No one is to Blame." It was so good, it gave me goosebumps on this muggy and warm summer night. These guys are musicians who can be all spontaneous and sound good while doing it.
So it was a surprisingly good concert. Fun was had by me.
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Excellent report, sir
having our friends right there singing along to each one made us enjoy the band through osmosis
S'funny how this does happen, and how music is weirdly social.
Even the airlines and weather didn't dare mess with the Capitol crowd. :haha:
It's great when they can do more then play by rote, and they engage the fans.
Sounds like the evening made for good vibrations and pleasant memories for your gang.
I saw Bare Naked Ladies at an outdoor festival, they make it a point to play one written-a-few-minutes-ago or even fully improvise a song at every performance. There was one about how a chick in the audience was on her boyfriend's shoulders, topless, and he started singing about how she'd been up there so long he was unexpectedly getting kind of tired of seeing titties...
...getting kind of tired of seeing titties...
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Excellent show at The lost Horizon over the weekend. I only took like four pictures because I'm trying to be present when I go out and I'm never sure about the phone/camera in those situations. Against Me! is a pretty well known punk act. They've made the decision to play NC despite having a trans lead because she does not want to punish her people. It makes sense as Springsteen has broad appeal when he gives an FU it sticks and makes a point. Anyway this is a solid band if you like the genre. They have great rapport with the audience which was pretty entertaining as well and a safe place for gay (place alphabet here) kids. They are a 4 piece in concert but here is a cut from elsewhere.
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FEA was a fun punk band from Texas. Their singer has some Debra Harry in her voice and a tendency towards bloody stage falls. Little Griff felt solidarity with the lady drummer. The only dude in the band was on guitar put on an excellent show with the bassist.
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Tim Barry would seem like an odd choice to travel with these folks but his wiki page says he used to perform with a couple different Richmond based punk bands. He had a prison song, a train hopping song, and a protest song about VCU paving the graves of slaves who staged an insurrection. He was very passionate and charmingly stage frightened. Great voice. The Upstate New York punk crowd got nervous when he started to get political but they warmed up when they figured out a guy with that accent could still be with them politically.
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That can actually happen?!!?:eek::eek::eek:
No.
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So, one night while watching some killer videos, I got to wondering...just how many concerts have I seen, and, more to the point...which bands? How many times?
I know you didn't ask, but I'm going to share this list with you anyway. I am either sorry, or you are welcome.
The Buckinghams
Gary Lewis and the Playboys
Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
Pearl Bailey
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
Bloodrock (x2)
Grand Funk Railroad
The Henry Mancini Orchestra
Wayne Newton
Liberace
Steeleye Span
Jethro Tull (x2)
Emerson Lake and Palmer (x3)
Yes (x4)
The Moody Blues
Genesis (x3)
The Who (x4)
Fanny
King Crimson
It's a Beautiful Day
Robin Trower
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (x2)
Steve Martin
John Lloyd
Kansas (x3)
Arlo Guthrie (x2)
Leo Kottke (x2)
Golden Earring
Sugarloaf
Blue Oyster Cult
Black Oak Arkansas
Brewer and Shipley
Frank Zappa
ZZ Top
The Charlie Daniels Band
Gentle Giant
Foghat
Steely Dan
Three Dog Night
Edgar Winter Group
Leon Russell
Fleetwood Mac
Little Feat
Triumvirat
BB King
Eric Johnson
Joe Pass
Charles Mingus
Chick Corea (x2)
Gary Burton (x2)
Asleep at the Wheel
Steve Miller
John Fogerty
Little River Band
Brewer and Shipley (x3)
Wishbone Ash
Jimmy Spheeris (x3)
Ozark Mountain Daredevils (x2)
Ted Nugent (sorry)
The Allman Brothers
Gino Vanelli
Billy Joel (x2)
Elton John (x2)
Ambrosia
Dr Hook and the Medicine Show (x3)
Rare Earth
JJ Cale
Bob Seeger
Harry Chapin (x3)
Peter Gabriel
Phil Collins
Earth, Wind and Fire
Eric Clapton (x2)
Sting
The Police
Concrete Blonde
The Pretenders
The Northwest All Stars (Steve Cropper, Billy Preston, Felix Cavaliere, Mark Farner, Mark Rivera, Ray Cooper, and an incredible female bass player whose name I can't remember)
Henry Gross (x2)
The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver
Pat Metheny (x5)
James Cotton
Jean Luc Ponty
Paul Thorne
Mark Pender (trumpet player with Conan O'Brien's band and former HS classmate) (x2)
The Rainmakers (KC's arguably most successful rock band) (x a lot)
The Beach Boys (x3)
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Crosby and Nash
Jessie Colin Young
Melissa Etheridge (x2)
Richard Thompson (x5)
The Marshall Tucker Band
Pink Floyd (x2)
REO Speedwagon
Tori Amos
Elvis Costello
Trans Siberian Orchestra
Merle Haggard
Jeff Beck
Jefferson Starship
Robert Plant and Jimmy Page
The Black Crowes
Webb Wilder
Chuck Berry
Bruce Springsteen (x2)
Boz Scaggs (x2)
David Bowie
Doc Severinson with Johnny Carson
Tina Turner (x2)
Warren Zevon (x2)
Live
The Spin Doctors
Donovan
Pat Benatar
Heart
Journey (before Steve Perry joined)
Lacuna Coil
Meat Loaf
Rush (x2)
Carlos Santana
James Taylor
Alanis Morrisette
Sarah McLachlan
Chuck Mangione
The English Beat
Stevie Winwood/Jim Capaldi as Traffic
America
KC and the Sunshine Band
Jimmy's Chicken Shack
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Firefall
Pure Prairie League
Head East
John Hiatt
Todd Rundgren
Kentucky Headhunters (amazing concert)
BB King
Weather Report
Barry Manilow
Dave Koz
Dave Albin
The Mamas and Papas (John/Denny/Spanky McFarland/McKenzie Phillips iteration)
The Alan Parsons Live Project
The Sweet
The Tannahill Weavers
Sly Digs
Anderson, Rabin, Wakeman
I apologize for not being clever enough to use the expedient of searching for "Concerts" before starting a new thread on this, so here it is, in it's proper place.
So...I got to take my mind off of the woeful state of our nation for a couple of hours last night. My friend Brenda and I saw Anderson, Rabin, Wakeman performing the music of Yes last night at the staggeringly awesome Fox Theater in St Louis. To say that it was a peak experience is to downplay the awesomeness considerably.
The Fox Theater itself is a historic and beautiful example of the early days of film palace excess. It is a huge venue, seating 4,500...a perfect size for acts such as ARW, who, being less than any full version of Yes (no longer possible with the death of Chris Squire last year), will no longer fill an arena. However, the opulence and history of the place makes it virtually a destination in and of itself. Trust me when I say that have *never* peed anywhere nicer.
Among the best amenities were the live theater organ performance serenading arrivals in the stunning lobby, and the thoroughly accommodating, polite, friendly and cheerful staff of ushers. There's even an elevator operator and a doorman - in full doorman dress uniform regalia - who held the door open for us, welcomed us to The Fox, and bade us have a good evening.
The performance itself will long be present in my memory. I was almost immediately transported to another plane, existing as eyes and ears only, absorbing the often otherworldly music of one of Progressive Rock's pinnacle acts...or a reasonable chunk of it, anyway. My primary reason for wanting to see this ensemble was that I am unlikely to have another opportunity to see the remarkable Rick Wakeman play huge banks of synthesizers while clad in his gold lame trousers, sweater, flowing gold cape, and straight long blonde hair.
As have many of us of advancing years, Mr. Wakeman has grown a bit of a paunch and is a bit more full of face - but his prodigious skills at the keyboards are undiminished. I am particularly enamoured of his mastery of the venerable Minimoog synthesizer, of which he is said to own *nine*. He uses two on this tour due to the frequency of their presence in the music of Yes, each needing to be played along with other keyboards in different locations at different times. Wakeman's style is distinctive and very much classically based, and any iteration of Yes in which he was not present was the poorer for it, IMHO. However, he completely nailed the Rabin-era Yes hits, even though Geoff Downes did those original honors.
At age 72, Jon Anderson still appears slightly elven, but he moves with the same flowing grace, sings with the same high register that any fan of Yes would recall. He apologized for having a cold and the likelihood that he would miss a few notes here and there, but they were very few, as it turned out. Given that there was a time not long ago when it was feared he would not sing again, his voice was able and capable. As frontman, he kept the patter very brief, allowing the maximum amount of music to be presented, something everyone seemed to appreciate a great deal. The crowd was most gratified when he invoked the memory of Yes' appearance at the now defunct Kiel Auditorium in 1970.
It can be reasonably argued that, had not Trevor Rabin come to Yes when he did, Yes might have wasted away into one of those bands that...well...wastes away. Instead, his presence gave a new and more vigorous, contemporary sound to the remaining roots of the classic band lineup (Anderson, Squire, White), and eventually led to a mass reunion of both major iterations of the band for an album entitled "Union" (not a great album) and a subsequent same-titled tour (a *great* tour). Since Wakeman did not play on "90125" and "Big Generator", the fact that they played so well together - numerous note for note parallel runs in various songs were a highlight of the night - is further tribute to the greatness of these artists. According to Wikipedia, this tour is the consummation of a project begun in 2010, and it has borne beautiful fruits.
While the above mentioned trio are the names and faces of this current effort, it could not be successful without the gentlemen who are sitting in for Bill Bruford/Alan White and the late Chris Squire. Lee Pomeroy, playing a pair of stunning - and sonically necessary to recreate the classic Yes sound - Rickenbacker basses, is a virtuoso player, not only replicating Squire's performances when necessary, but also bringing an energy and creativity all his own to the project. Drummer Lou Molino III may well be the tightest percussionist I have ever heard, bordering on human metronome...if the metronome was able to both tick sedately and buzz madly, depending on the need. Solid, expressive play coupled with an amazingly good drum mix put a perfect underpinning to the glory that soared above it.
Was this show superior to any classic Yes lineup shows I've seen in the past? No. However, as a thing judged upon it's own merits, it was glorious...mesmerizing...both familiar and new at the same time.
All in all, a brilliant alternative to dwelling upon politics.
Have you ever seen anyone famous? :rolleyes:
Last concert I attended was Queensrÿche, the "Empire Tour". Suicidal Tendencies opened.
This was about 1990-91.
I paid $21 each for 2 tickets. Thought the price was outrageous.
:yelgreedy
I've seen them twice! I had to wait 21 years for the first one, which was "Extended Suites", selections from Rage for Order, American Soldier, and something else non-Mindcrime. Every previous attempt I'd made since 1988 was foiled by lack of one of three things: money, transportation, or free time. I'd have $$ and be off work but unable to find anyone going, or I'd have friends going and either be broke or have to work. In 2007 I tried for like 4 days to win tickets and failed; closest I got was caller 7 of 10. The second time was their 30th anniversary tour--also their last; as I recall the singer flipped out during the South American leg of the tour and pulled a knife on the rest of the band. They squabbled about the name for a few years, but nobody seems to be doing much with it now. Still, the 30th anniversary show was AWESOME. They could have added ONE song to the show to make me like it more than I did. ONE. :D And I have LOTS of pictures of both shows.
How big does it have to be to be considered a concert?
Saw Chopteeth about a month ago.
For me, it's a concert if there's a stage, a performer who sings or plays an instrument, and someone at the door making sure you have a ticket, your ID, or that the place doesn't end up violating fire codes and crowd control. :D
Only the Stones could get me to come out of my hovel.
When they played up at the college amphitheater in Missoula a few years back, half the slope of Mount Sentinel (actual small mountain right behind the college, has a big white M on the side) was covered in college students and semi-reformed hippies with flasks and binoculars. Sound carries REALLY well at this elevation! I didn't go because I'm just not a huge Stones fan, but it made the news.
For my birthday, Twil took us to see Leonard Cohen. It was really amazing. All I can say is Hallelujah!
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RIP, Mr. Cohen. He died age 82 like yesterday...what a loss to the American arts community.
Have you ever seen anyone famous? :rolleyes:
TREVOR RABIN IS FAMOUS. And awesome.
I took a huge break from concertgoing...like 1995 to 2009. Back in "the day", which for me was the last of the 80s and early in the 90s, I was all about the hair metal. As best I can recall, the pre-break list is something like:
The Scorpions at the Tacoma Dome, can't remember if it was 92 or 91 but they were straight up goddamn amazing.
AC/DC at Seattle Center, either 91 or 92--all I'm sure of is these 2 shows were not the same year.
Mr Big was one of the Scorpions' opening acts.
So was Great White, making the 3rd time out of 4 I've seen them. They were worth it back then, but my recent habit of checking how bands are doing NOW via the magic of YouTube tells me they're not any more.
LA Guns opened for AC/DC, and I managed to wind up seeing them a total of 4 times. The last one, in like 1994, was AWFUL. The lead singer was sloppy-ass drunk and almost got punched by a roadie he tried to drag up to a mike in mid-song.
Alice Cooper on his Trashes The World tour. In a 2000-seat hellhole in Salem, Oregon. Couldn't nod or turn my head for like 3 days afterward.
Faster Pussycat, with a couple other bands I don't remember. I do remember the show started an hour and a half late and all 3 bands blamed each other for the delays. My first husband, who had the reach of a damn orangutan, stole me a drumstick that had technically fallen behind the no-admittance ropes. I still have it.
Dangerous Toys
Danger Danger, during which they did a cover and apparently me and my best friend, all squashed up against the riot wall until some very nice college athletes decided to MAKE us some dancin' room, were the only ones who knew the words. The singer dragged every band member but the drummer over to show them the two chicks who knew all the words to Jimmy Buffett's 'Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw'. No, we did not get backstage passes.
Bonham, the band formed by Jason "Son of John" Bonham. SO MUCH AWESOME. Too bad the singer died in like 1996.
The Cult, for whom Bonham was opening. Before Ian Astbury cut off all his hair. Again, couldn't nod for like 3 days.
Oh, yeah, and there was that time my best friend (see the Danger Danger entry above) won tickets to the Dr. Feelgood Tour, a/k/a the last time Motley Crue was worth a damn.
I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch.
Post-break, I've now seen:
Robin Trower twice. If you do not know who he is, check the albums For Earth Below, Day of the Eagle, Bridge of Sighs, and Long Misty Days. I waited, seriously, 33 years to see this man live and OMG was he worth it. He's both precise and joyful in his playing, and I chewed my parents out rudely for not taking me with them to the 12K-seat Memorial Coliseum in Portland in 1976. When I was like 5.
Queensryche twice--see an earlier post.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo. If you get a chance, GO SEE THEM. Even if you've never heard of them. They're incredible, and since I asked super nice and was very respectful, they let me touch the Grammy Award that was touring with them at the time. :D Always makes my list of the most amazing things I've gotten to touch/hold. At the end of the set they invited anyone who wanted to come up on stage and learn some Zulu dance moves (they're all ethnically Zulu), and although I hid behind a stage curtain I did dance myself into an actual asthma attack. Totally worth it.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy!!! In, get this, a 140-seat high school drama department. These guys are the KINGS of American swing and have played for at least 3 in-office Presidents of the US. You don't have to love swing to find yourself groovin to their cover of "Minnie the Moocher"! I told them they were one of the best Christmas presents I'd ever gotten and the trumpet player looked like he was gonna cry.
Alice Cooper, again, with Rob Zombie on the Gruesome Twosome leg of Alice's Theater of Death tour about 6 years back. We drove 350 miles each way, in a gale-force side wind all the way to Billings. Alice was worth it. Rob was not.
The Reverend Horton Heat, think we made 2 of the 3 shows we had tix for but missed the last one cuz the only available driver came down with the flu super bad :(. If you're unfamiliar with The Rev, the easiest way I've come up with to describe him is "If Weird Al had a drunk uncle from Texas, it would be The Rev." He and his bassist, Jimbo, are AMAZING. They do the coolest stunts (like when Jimbo lays his upright bass on its side and Rev hops up ON IT; it's specially reinforced for this). I have him, and a few others on this list, on my new Twitter account so I can find out about upcoming shows.
Oh, and on the way home from Cooper/Zombie, we were literally chased halfway across Montana by a goddamn BLIZZARD.
In MAY.
Now here's my question: who, whether you've seen them before or not, would you pay the ticket price to go see in the future?
1. Weird Al. I've missed him by 2 weeks. Twice. Once he played the Western Washington State Fair right after I moved to Montana, and last year he played Portland square in between my July and August visits to the area.
2. Robin Trower. Always. I will never, ever forget standing in front of that giant speaker/amp stack feeling the bassline from "Too Rolling Stoned" walk up and down my sternum. I love that feeling.
3. Jeff Beck. He's on my Twitter because I WILL see him live if I can. If you're not familiar with him, find a copy of his latest album, 'Loud Hailer'. While you listen to it, keep in mind the guitarist you're hearing is 72 years old. He plays from a MUCH younger heart! If you think you've heard of him but can't remember where, it might be because when Jimmy Page left the Yardbirds in 1965 (yes, that says nineteen sixty-five) to found Led Zeppelin with Plant & Bonham, he recommended a young guitarist named Jeff Beck to take his place just as Page had replaced goddamn CLAPTON in the Yardbirds.
4. Ladysmith Black Mambazo
5. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
6. The Rev, of course.
aw hell, what can i even remember any more?
The Bodeans. Twice. Second time, Mike Mills from REM was there next to us.
Oh yeah REM Fables of the Reconstruction.
and REM producer Mitch Easter's band, Let's Active
and REM producer Don Dixon, along with his wife Marti Jones
and REM "5th member" Peter Holsapple's band, the dBs
Julian Cope, at the height of his game from the second row. Goosebumps
The The,
with Johnny Marr
DEVO ~ so goddamn brilliant
The Church, four times
Modern English
Shriekback
Book of Love wow, right in the student center! that never happens!
The Bears, and also, their little-known guitarist Adrian Belew, solo. But yeah The Bears
Yes of course I've seen Yes. 90ICU812 tour blew me away
...but I was even more blown away by Bill Bruford's Earthworks
...and horrified by Asia (ugh) who were okay on the first tour, but degraded to bad on the second. I think Mr Howe did not want to be there any more
Cars - sadly the worst live band I have ever seen
Thomas Dolby
They Might Be Giants (early on, as a two-piece)
Simple Minds
The Smithereens ~ ha and I shopped at guitarist Jim Babjak's record store. And I met the parents of the original bass player once at the Trump Marina casino. Mr and Mrs Mesaros were very nice.
Rush
Blue Oyster Cult. positively did not have enough cowbell!
Lloyd Cole a few times, once with Jill Sobule
Amos Lee
David Gray
Ben Folds
Poco
Three Dog Night (first concert ever)
Squeeze
Bryan Ferry
10,000 Maniacs
Mighty Lemon Drops
Yo La Tengo
Dire Straits
Chris Isaak (three times, once before big fame; brilliant)
fellow central PA homies Innocence Mission (like 15 times) and The Ocean Blue
China Crisis
NRBQ
General Public
Robyn Hitchcock (& the Egpytians)
i'm sure i have forgotten other important times
I'm amazed that you guys remember... I've been to 100's of concerts, but couldn't begin to list them. I do have a lot of old tickets lying around somewhere. Maybe that would be a good start.
Not many bands came to Maine. I've seen maybe a dozen concerts? Maybe 20? How can you remember them all?
Jazz bassist Gerald Veasely
Jerry Harrison (of Talking Heads fame)
Chris deBurgh ("Don't Pay the Ferryman")
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Frank Zappa
Ringo Starr
Willie Nelson
John Lennon
The Who
Kiss
Elvis
Merv Griffin
Johnny Carson
James Brown
Dan Blocker
Bill Clinton
Stevie Wonder
Clint Eastwood
Yul Bryner
Michael Landon
Paul Newman ( filming the Sting)
Mike MacIntyre
Reagan
Big E
The Isley Brothers
Bernie Mac
Phyllis Diller
Glen Fagen
The last name is only famous to me.
tarheel
If we're including comedy, only larger rooms (400+ seats):
Dave Chappelle
Jeff Foxworthy
B*ll C*sby
Emo Philips
Jim Gaffigan
Kathleen Madigan
I'm 100% sure there are others I've forgotten.
~ also ~
Philip Glass
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Paul Winter Consort
1st - Ratt w/The Outlaws, & The Mama's Boys (in Bowling Green, KY)
No particular order:
Ozzy, w/Metallica (w/Cliff Burton on bass, in an arm cast), Nashville
Queensrÿche w/Suicidal Tendencies (ST damn near tore the roof off the Municipal Auditorium) Nashville
Dio w/I don't remember (although rocktourdatabase.com says it was Rough Cutt) Nashville
Marshall Tucker Band, The Outlaws (and some other Southern Rock band, Black Oak Arkansas maybe) If ya brought a Pepsi can ya got in for $5 a carload, late 80's - Nashville, in the early years of
Starwood Amphitheater
AC/DC, Fly On The Wall tour, w/Yngwie Malmsteen
Saw Randy Travis, then he was Randy Ray, The Singing Waiter at (I think it was) The Nashville Palace (I was pretty young)
I know my first was Kiss Dynasty tour at the Spectrum. Judah Priest opened for them.
Aerosmith with Ted Nugent was the first one I drove myself to. Had to be 86 or 87.
Saw The Firm, Robert Plant with that Black Velvet chick opening.
And again with Stevie Ray Vaughn
The Stones, Pink Floyd in 88?
Then about 35 Dead Shows. Crosby Stills Nash....
I've seen Dave Matthews 10+ times...
My 30s are a blur...
Jane's Addiction twice recently.
I've come to prefer small venue shows immensely.
yes, yes & yes. I am LOVING the smaller venues.
Saw Randy Travis, then he was Randy Ray, The Singing Waiter at (I think it was) The Nashville Palace (I was pretty young)
I think I'm gonna have to retract that statement. That might not have been me. I mean that that might not be my memory, maybe someone's story got misfiled under "My Memories". Or something. Maybe. FIDK.
At any rate, I almost had to be with Mom & Popdigr (I remember it as some event in a dinner club type situation) and they don't know what the hell I'm talking about.
And I'm not sure I do either.:neutral:
Undertoad, you might be the only person I've met since Y2K who knows Jerry Harrison was EVER a solo act!
My roomie at the time was trying to reconstruct her favorite driving mix tape. She was 3 songs short, and having trouble remembering some of the details.
Song #1 was easy--"Fly Me Courageous" by Drivin 'N' Cryin.
Song #2: "Umm, it's not about driving. It's this South American girl with the most amazing voice and she was like fifteen at the time." Me: "Oh, you mean "Twist In My Sobriety" by Tanita Tikaram?" Her: "Holy crap, you know that one?" Me: "Lemme go get the cassette single."
Song #3: "Well, it was by one of the dudes in Talking Heads, but not the singer and it's not a Talking Heads song." Me: "Would that be "Rev It Up" by Jerry Harrison?" Her: "Did you make a deal with Satan when I wasn't looking?" Me: "I have the album, 'Casual Gods.' Lemme go get that for you."
Gravedigr, one of the great disappointments of my earlier concert days was that huge multi-band tour that had Cinderella, Ratt, LA Guns, and a bunch of other hair metal bands, including a splinter group called Arcade (biggest hit was "Cry No More") composed of members of the main groups. I had tickets and TWO STOPS before my town the whole rabble melted down and cancelled the rest of the tour.
I blame Stephen Pearcy. He's a jerk and thus an excellent blame target.
lumberjim, you said:
Saw The Firm, Robert Plant with that Black Velvet chick opening.
Do you mean you saw Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in the same place? If so--wowzers, sorry I missed that one! I have seen Robert Plant, tho. Scared the (unladylike word here) outta most of my few high school friends. Went back for senior year and everyone's talking about their awesome summers. They ask me what I did, and I told them most of the summer sucked because my mom made me get a job, but Father's Day was awesome. That got some strange looks--most of my friends didn't get along with their parents, especially dads. So they ask what we did, and I tell them the truth.
"I took my dad to a concert."
"Who'd ya go see, Englebert Humperdinck? Slim Whitman maybe?"
"Nah, we went to see Robert Plant."
"You took your father WHERE???"
He was touring Now and Zen. I also saw him on the next tour, for Manic Nirvana. Way up in the nosebleeds at the amphitheater on the Oregon State Fairgrounds, there's this chick next to us with opera glasses getting all excited about an open door to one side of the stage. Sure enough, there's a HUGE dude with a mop of curly blonde hair standing there, and she lets out this unbelievable war whoop: "Hey Bobby baby!!!" at the top of her lungs. He comes whipping around like he was goosed, she freaks out, my best friend freaks out, I just wave.
He waves back, then mule-kicks the door shut. It was a good show :D.
Oh, lumberjim, that "Black Velvet" chick is Alannah Myles. Want me to go get the cassette single? Pretty sure I still have the damn thing. Does anyone collect cassette singles any more?
No, I saw the Firm at one show, and Robert Plant a couple of other times
We, Lori, SonofV, and I, just got done watching and rocking out to Robert Cray at the triple door. It was very nice, sold out!
I've got my eye on a few geezers by way of a quiet little Twitter account. Alice Cooper is touring, but went straight from scheduling California dates to the Midwest. Jeff Beck is touring Europe and at least twice a month I pop him a tweet begging for US dates to follow because I'm still totally in love with his album 'Loud Hailer' from last year. LOUD is right! Robin Trower is touring, but nowhere in my neighborhood. Ditto Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and The Reverend Horton Heat and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Of that list, Beck is the only one I haven't seen live, and I better take any chance I get because he's 72! I got to meet Trower, dance on stage with Ladysmith, and after a show in a 140-seat high school drama theater, I told the dudes from BBVD that they were one of the best Christmas presents I'd ever gotten. Judging by the look the trumpet player (the one that looks like Harry Dean Anderson from Night Court) gave me, that was a new one.
My next hot entertainment date is with a movie...but I've got my eye on some concert schedules.
St. Paul and the Broken Bones last night with J.
That dude can sing a little bit.
Dead & Co. rocked in NJ this week...
If you ever get a chance to see Dean & Co., local Dead trib, they are all my family.
Most excellent! Hi to the family!
If you ever get a chance to see Dean & Co., local Dead trib, they are all my family.
Where do they play? Would def like to take a shot at seeing them.
Just sent in my down payment for Jam in the Sand. Dannyboy and I are going in January. Whoa!!!! This will be EPIC!
Where do they play? Would def like to take a shot at seeing them.
https://www.facebook.com/deanandcompanyband/
The gal up front is Shabbey Road's singer and she is leaving us... graduating to the triple-A club.
The big guy next to her was my previous lead singer in D-Train and the Membranes. He owns a pawn shop... that I didn't work at, but he's the brother of the guy who owns the shop I worked at, and how the whole pawn connection happened in the first place (via music)
Of the 20 Dead Tributes in the area I imagine they are one of the best, apparently their guitar player is Jerry reincarnate. (But I've never seen them.)
(But I've never seen them.)
Eh hem ... sounds like an opportunity for us both.
Sir we should do that actually, I regret not meeting up before I am a turrible person and socially inept.
Would really like that. Maybe a little CTG ... Bruce, Jim ... ?
Saw Queen with Adam Lambert here in KC a couple of weeks ago. It was excellent. If rock and roll subtlety is your thing, you'd not have enjoyed it. I didn't' get a lot of pics, and most of them sucked because the venue was heavily fogged to maximize the laser effects, so here's a shot of the laser effects. The little silhouetto of a man there on stage is Adam Lambert.
Maybe you can Catch Ronnie James Dio on his upcoming tour. Yes, that's what I said. ;)
The little silhouetto of a man there on stage is Adam Lambert.
I see what you did there.;)
Concerts vary in price by city even before the scalpers get them...
Shabbey Road @ Wagon Wheel, Quakertown 11/11 9pm, admission $0.
$0 is what Quakertown can afford
But seriously, these are the prices for arena shows. All the artists in those arenas, at one time, played small clubs where you could go see them for $10-$20, and see them up close. They might graduate or fall back to 1000 seat theaters for $40. Or even 400-seat theaters for $25. Where the sound is 100% better and the experience is 100% better. In some cases you could even meet the band, if you hung around.
But go ahead, pay $100 to see Stevie Nicks from two football fields away. (It's really the only way she'll look and sound like she did in 1977.)
Also, Uncasville, CT? They mean Mohegan Sun, CT; there is no good place name to describe where the massive CT indian casinos are. Middle of nowhere, CT.
Right, Mohegan Sun would ring more bells than Uncasville.
The Tower theater in Upper Darby, PA (Philly suburb) was a great place to see groups before and after they hit the big venues.
And they seem to have placed Delaware in the western part of Maryland. Or created a new state. Or something. WTF?
What? There are no venues/cities listed in DE or MD. :confused:
DE is hidden under the DC bubble, and the only thing near western MD is the Pittsburgh bubble.
I was talking about the borders of the states. MD seems to be split up into two states. And the shape of western MD reminds me of DEL
Oh, I see what you mean. A lot of the national maps, especially crude illustrations like this one, have trouble with that area. The smaller area maps usually do better, but it is a fucked up arrangement with the width of MD between PA ans WV is only one mile at one point. And WV has that flag like it's a long load. Hard to capture on a big map.
Don't worry glatt, when the designers take over they'll fix that shit. ;)
I hadn't seen that XKCD.
I always forget about XKCD and then when I remember it, I am happy that I have a dozen or so new comics to go off and read.