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Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: copacetic on October 05, 2012, 12:25:04 PM
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For me:
Beatles Tokyo, @Budokan '66. What can ya say about that?
Jefferson Airplane @ Concertgeboew, Amsterdam '68 (day I met Jack Casady and saw a new direction in bass sound)
Miles Davis @Keystone Corner San Framcisco. Electric beyond electric.
Wailers (w/Bob Marley pre big fame) @Matrix, San Francisco '73(wow)
The Meters @Boarding House, San Francisco @'75 (double wow)
Fela Kuti and Africa'70 @Shrine Lagos Nigeria '79(you had to be there)
Bill Laswell & Zakir Hussain @Fillmore '02 (out of this world)
Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland Tony Williams @Blue Note tokyo..'92 ish.
All the aforementioned had bass players of distinction. I'll say Casady took me by surprise and changed my whole approach both with his playing and rig. He took the time to even show me what he was up to during sound check. By this time I had seen the Who (yeah a lot of bass thrashing, loud and good angst show but went home and slept).
These days not as excited going to concerts. Prefer clubs small settings.
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The Rolling Stones - Hemisphere Arena San Antonio June '75 (my first ever concert!)
Dave Brubeck Quartet - St. Andrews Presbyterian College - November '79
The Clash - City Coliseum Austin, TX (summer of '82)
The Fabulous Thunderbirds - City Coliseum Austin, TX (summer '82, they opened for........)
Elvis Costello - City Coliseum - Austin, TX (Bruce Thomas and that P bass!)
Metallica - Special Events Center - Austin, TX 1997 (I had bought their first LP on Megaforce Cassette back in the day but had never seen them up until this point. They were in the round and put on a great show)
Tool - Special Events Center - Austin, TX June '02 (I took my then 18 year old daughter because she liked them but I was blown away. I've never heard a band sound so good live in a large arena)
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Let's see if the brain cells are still firing...
The Tubes/SAHB - Riviera Theater, Chicago, 1980 (it was Halloween, and what a surreal night)
King Crimson - Auditorium Theater, Chicago, 1974
Mott The Hoople/Kansas - Auditorium Theater, Chicago, 1973(?) - Queen cancelled last minute, Kansas was great, Mott was awesome (but only an hour show)
Alice Cooper/The Babys - Chicago Amphitheater, Chicago, 1978(?) - Madhouse Rock Tour, entertainment at its finest
KISS/Rush - Fremd High School, Palatine, 1976 - first tour, no fire marshalls, military precision orchestration. Rush sucked. WOW!
Tons of great shows over the years - Black Sabbath, Cheap Trick, Yes (always amazing), Grateful Dead (when they were good), Wishbone Ash, Peter Gabriel, Rory Gallagher, No Doubt, Toadies - but the ones I listed are probably the ones that hit me best.
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Can't beat the first line of the first post... 8)
Slade/Home@Wembley '74 - first gig
Alice Cooper@Wembley '75 - Welcome to my nightmare, I think you're gonna like it... yep...
Lynyrd Skynyrd@Hammersmith '76 - 6 piece lineup in support of Bullets LP - I can still see this gig in my minds eye...
Who/SAHB/Little Feat/Outlaws/Streetwalkers@Charlton FC '76 - nothing to say about this; no need...
Deep Purple@Wembley '76 - Come Taste The Band tour... Bolin took some somewhat undeserved flack but seeing some of this LP played live will stick with me always...
Rainbow@the Rainbow+the Rainbow '77 - truly magical...
Bad Company @Earls Court '77 - Rodgers is still one of my favourite rock voices...
Spirit/Police@the Rainbow - Randy California... caught him quite a few times and always somewhat magical... my voice, somewhat stoned, can be heard on the live LP shouting "F*ck the curfew!" just before Stone Free... ;D
Gillan@the Marquee - 3 different lineups in 18 months when he could truly still hit those notes...
early Whitesnake gigs - too many to think about - met some of them several times and even got a few of my pics in a tour programme (one of Tina - back-office crew and one of DC) - John Lord... what a gent, as was DC...
Rush@Hammersmith '77 to Wembley '07 - all of them magical...
A lot of the NWOBHM era was fun with Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Tygers, etc - spotty oiks... some of them made good...
There were lots of other special moments but probably none more than having the opportunity of chatting to Bruce Palmer after the third night at Wembley in '82 (NY Trans Band) and sitting down with SRV, Tommy Shannon and Whipper (whilst ignoring a phonie Black Sabbath) at Reading and talking about their stand-out gigs (Allmans with Duane - SRV really rated him, Hendrix and Winter - multiple votes for these guys, obviously) and embarrassing myself by forgetting who wrote Little Wing and being mockingly chastised for my incompetence - the personalised programmes are still treasured items for me...
At the Rainbow in '77 between watching Clover and standing at the bar waiting for Skynyrd I was talking to an American that had seen the Allmans gigs at the Filmore (awe-struck Kenny) and he told me of his lasting memory of Woodstock... "The smell!" ;D
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only a few would I consider "life changing".
1. Springsteen closing the Meadowlands while doing the entire "Darkness" album cover-to-cover - had my mom and my 3 brothers in a luxury suite for that one.
2. X - it was a dream come true to see them. Billy Zoom kissed every lady goodnight and shook every guy's hand as we funneled out of Cat's Cradle. Too cool.
3. William Elliott Whitmore (alone on a stage with a guitar, banjo and a kick drum) opens for The Low Anthem, who have changed the way I listen to music. They are truly magnificent musicians, who will try just about anything. I had never heard of them before that night.
4. Warren Zevon at a tiny bar in Dallas, TX - I sat at the bar about 20 feet away from him. What a creative mind.
5. Clutch - I took my (then) 14 year old son to his first concert here in Raleigh. They opened with a raucous rendition of Mississippi Fred McDowell's "Gravel Road" and it was balls to the wall from there on out.
Unfortunately, I never got to see Pink Floyd. I am going to see The Who in November - I know it's not really The Who anymore, but I'm not turning down the chance..plus Pino is cool.
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Great topic! For me:
KISS: 12/27/76 Rock and Roll All Over Tour - Cumberland County Area, Fayetteville, NC - my dad took me. It was my first ever concert. :)
Yes: 09/16/83 - Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC. Alan White had his limo pulled over at the gate after the show and signed some tour books, including mine.
Heart: 11/7/84 - Minges Coliseum, Greenville, NC
ZZ Top: 04/03/86 - Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC
Pink Floyd: 10/25/87 - Dean E. Smith Center, Chapel Hill, NC
Pink Floyd: 05/88 (I think) - Carter Finley Stadium, Raleigh NC. It had rained all day and 5 minutes before the show started the setting sun came out, a few airliners flew overheard and then the lasers started shining into the sky. It was so perfectly Pink Floyd, it was surreal.
Lynyrd Skynrd: 06/87, Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC. First tour since the plane crash and it was fantastic but emotional and almost heartbreaking. Alan Collins had to do his drunk driving speech as part of his plea agreement, I guess.
AC/DC with Cinderalla opening: 10/18/88 - Reynolds Coliseum, NC State, Raleigh NC. I was deaf for 3 days. :)
The Who: 7/27/89: Carter Finley Stadium, Raleigh, NC. All night long a bat kept flying around Entwistle's head and he swatted at it the whole show.
Man or Astroman?: 01/17/99 Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill, NC. Without a single doubt one of the best shows I've ever seen in my life.
Blue Öyster Cult: 11/16/01 Lincoln Theater, Raleigh NC. This show stood out among the times I saw them because they played a TON of stuff they hadn't played in years.
Flogging Molly with the Rolling Blackouts and the Scotch Greens: 02/22/06 930 Club, Washington DC.
Gogol Bordello: 07/31/09 The Norva, Norfolk VA. THE ENERGY!
Asia: 08/10/10 Raleigh Memorial Auditoreum, Raleigh NC
Man or Astroman?: 11/06/10 Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill NC (Yes, they are on my list twice)
Tour dates courtesy of my folder of ticket stubs...
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I can't remember exact dates and my stubs are all gone now: In no particular order
Kiss, the Houston Summit, Rock and Roll Over tour - first one for me too! Mom dropped me and four of my friends off and picked us up at 10:15 - dad was pissed off that we got home at 11:00 on a school night! Times have changed :sad:
AC/DC - Highway to Hell tour in the Houston Music Hall - this was where the symphony played - maybe 3,000 seats and perfect acoustics. Bonn carried Angus up the steps on his shoulders - lots of steps - unforgettable.
Tom Petty - Refugee tour? - also in the Music Hall - spot on show.
The Jam @ the Agora Ball Room. 78 or 79?. Small crowd, 200 maybe, of teenagers all using fake ID's to get in. They ferocity of the show was amazing. They were nice guys too - they looked like they were beat to Hell yet most everyone in club went back stage to meet them - they were painfully polite young men.
The Buzzcocks - also at the Agora, huge crowd and an amazing show.
Rockpile - once again at the Agora. Was a lot of fun and those guys rocked - Nick Lowe was a hoot.
The Who - Face Dances Tour '80. Had third row seats right in front of Pete who had cast on his right hand - smoked dope the whole time. Kenny Jones on drums but the rest of the them were close to their prime.
I saw just about everything that came through town but these are the one that hung out as special in my mind
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Lost most all of my ticket stubs in the divorce. Still have my Stones stub though! I was 13 and in the cheap seats!
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Moody Blues. No one else, but every one of the five times I've seen them has been wonderful.
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King Crimson - Auditorium Theater, Chicago, 1974
I was there! Seated in the first row of the first balcony. It was awesome.
Pink Floyd at Soldier Field on the Animals tour was another. The flying pig in the hazy sky amid doric columns and quadrophonic sound. Amazing.
But the life changing one was at a psychedelic dungeon (an old Jewel store with the interior painted flat black and black lights added) on the east side of Aurora Illinois, a band called The Flock, the song "Can't You See" the bassist playing a Fireglo 4001 with all 8 fingers
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lucky to have seen these guys before they passed:
roland kirk
muddy waters
jimmy reed
albert king
freddy king
SRV
willie dixon
frank zappa
rory gallagher
new york dolls (almost)
i'm sure there are more but my mind illudes me at the moment.
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I could name the obvious stuff, Status Quo and Rainbow in 1977, DP with Morse on that first tour, Judas Priest 81 or on the Turbo tour, Whitesnake on their very first tour in Germany, Slade around that time, but there is also Leonard Cohen and Neil Young a few years ago and, most notably, The J. Geils Band in 79 or 80 in a small club, they were arena and stadium schooled from the US, yet played for a couple of hundred people in Germany. Four Encores. The last one AFTER the house lights had gone up and music played from the PA, half the people already outside and lovely Peter Wolf jumps once more to the miKe and raps: "wamma jamma?!!!"
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Wishbone Ash '72, Kiss early '75, Kiss '77, Cheap Trick '79, The Ramones '81, The Who '82, Motorhead '86, McCartney '89, Ian Hunter 2001.
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Slade; Blackburn UK, 1973 and 1974. My first ever gigs, could hardly see a thing but I swear Dave Hill pointed at me to get up and stomp.
Nazareth 1975 UK tour, support by Snafu, featuring a young Micky Moody later of Whitesnake. Opened up my young eyes that there was more to music than Slade. Seen Nazareth around 8 times since too, Dan McCafferty has THE most rock voice ever!
Motorhead; Bold Street Working Men's Club, Accrington, UK. 1977/78. Recommended by a mate, loudest noise I'd heard in my life until then. The start of a lifetime fandom of Motorhead. After a chat with Lemmy in 2005 I wrote to Marshall demanding ;) they make a Lemmy Marshall tribute stack and years later when they did I was invited down to play it before he did :P
Slade; Bradford Univ 1978, was asked by the roadies to give them a hand humping the 14 tons of gear into the gig. Sat with them when job was done and watched the band sound-checking. Then got sent to buy 13 lots of fish and chips for them all, while my mate was sent for three dozen of the cheapest toilet rolls he could find. It was the day that I saw at first hand just how much went into playing a gig.
Later recognised at many gigs after that by the band giving me the chance to play a couple of Jimmy Lea's basses & do a few design jobs for them or their fan club.
Rolling Stones, Edinburgh Murrayfield, 1999. Was the 2nd crowd member to arrive at the venue. Waited all day to get in. Stood at the front about 12 ft from Keith and Mick shook my hand in the 1st 10 minutes as he went along the front row.
Moody Blues; Edinburgh Usher Hall, 2002, spur of the moment decision. Gig was sold out & I was offered a pair of returned tickets with an hour's notice. So glad I did, awesome experience, it was Ray's last tour due to illness.
Steve Cropper, (with The Animals & Friends) several venues 2008. First real chance to see one of my few heroes up close. Went to so many gigs then & in his next tour in 2011 that he picked us out in the crowd, went to the end of tour bash, got drunk & swapped email addresses. Really really decent nice guy, full of so many stories brilliantly told of all of the stars he played with.
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led zeppelin western springs auckland 1972,ravi shankar christchurch town hall 1973,farnk zappa auckland town hall 1976,midnight oil wellington show buildings 1982.more when the coffee kicks in.
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Lost most all of my ticket stubs in the divorce. Still have my Stones stub though! I was 13 and in the cheap seats!
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Man, do I ever remember cheap tickets! I started buying concert tickets in about 1976 and they were always under $10 :sad: Minimum wage was about $3.35 and I had to work at least three hours to pay for one. Seems like most arena acts now will set you back a bare minimum of 50 bones + service charges.
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My '76 KISS ticket was a whopping $9.50!
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My '76 KISS ticket was a whopping $9.50!
My ticket for KISS, with Rush opening, was $4.00.
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I'm most envious to those two who saw King Crimson in Chicago 1974. Thankfully there's no official release of that concert so I could listen it and confirm they were fantastic which they of course were. Please don't tell me that Wetton had to use his black mapleneck Fender Jazz after he busted a string on his white Precision...
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The Who at Orlando, Florida 1967...$3.00. Festival seating at a rodeo rink. Moon's naked lady drum kit, he threw a tom tom into the audience. Closer was the entire "A Quick One" followed by "My Generation".
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I'm most envious to those two who saw King Crimson in Chicago 1974. Thankfully there's no official release of that concert so I could listen it and confirm they were fantastic which they of course were. Please don't tell me that Wetton had to use his black mapleneck Fender Jazz after he busted a string on his white Precision...
I want to say it was the natural Precision, and he didn't bust a string. The real thrill of the show was watching Bill Bruford, whose drum cage took up about 2/3 of the stage. Bruford inherited not only his own kit, but all of the percussion tasks that Jamie Muir abandoned, and to watch him bounce around during the show was pretty cool. Fripp, as always, was seated and faced sideways towards the band.
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The Stones had that impressive Lotus stage and it was their first tour with Wood. Billy Preston was playing keys with them. The big inflatable phallus made the appearance and my older sisters were fighting over the binoculars trying to look over Mick. A fog developed around the arena as the show wore on. :mrgreen: My 2 older sisters who had taken me and my then 15 year old sister had seen them in Dallas in 1965.
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The first concert ever was Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas in -63 or -64, when I was still in my teens. It was a summer night in northern Sweden.The band was good, but what really impressed me was the fillers Johnny Vallons & The Deejays from England. Bass player had a Gibson Eb 0, guitarist a Gibson SG, while Johnny himself had an acoustic guitar. Had never seen Gibsons before. These guys put on a great show! Old rock'n'rollers, and r'n'b. Plus some Hank Williams, I seem to remember.
The 70's came with Springsteen, The Who, The Kinks, Little Feat, Muddy Waters, Rockpile, and much more. But nothing's got me as enthusiastic as the night the sweat was pouring in rhythm of the Deejays!
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a couple more i have remembered - faust the garage highbury london 25 october 1998,television shepherd bush empire london 15 april 2001,coil ash ra tempel and julian cope royal festival hall london 2 april 2000,hawkwind waihi beach hotel new zealand 4 feb 2000(the venue was a small bar in an old pub at an isolated beach-most incongruous,like coming across martian karaoke in your local mall- a thoroughly good time was had by all.actually im cheating with the dates,next to my computer is a board covered with concert tickets.
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While it isn't as cool as the early Stones or anyone who actually got to see The Beatles or Hendrix, my first concert was Iron Butterfly on the In-a-Gadda-da-Vida tour. They were at Ravinia outside Chicago. Believe it or not, it was a youth group outing for my church.
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my first concert was cream (outdoors) on their farewell tour, terry reid was the opener. it didn't change a thing but was fun.
was it the RED line up from king crimson in 1974?
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my first concert was cream (outdoors) on their farewell tour, terry reid was the opener. it didn't change a thing but was fun.
was it the RED line up from kc in 1974?
Lark's Tongue In Aspic, and they were a four piece. David Cross was still in the band.
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Lark's Tongue In Aspic, and they were a four piece. David Cross was still in the band.
cool.the live stuff i have from that period is kickass
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I'm most envious to those two who saw King Crimson in Chicago 1974. Thankfully there's no official release of that concert so I could listen it and confirm they were fantastic which they of course were. Please don't tell me that Wetton had to use his black mapleneck Fender Jazz after he busted a string on his white Precision...
The way I remember it it was a white Fender Precision. Their USA album was recorded on that tour if I remember correctly.
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The way I remember it it was a white Fender Precision. Their USA album was recorded on that tour if I remember correctly.
I'm wondering if I saw them a year earlier.
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While it isn't as cool as the early Stones or anyone who actually got to see The Beatles or Hendrix, my first concert was Iron Butterfly on the In-a-Gadda-da-Vida tour. They were at Ravinia outside Chicago. Believe it or not, it was a youth group outing for my church.
My first concert was the Beatles at the Chicago's International Amphitheater August 12, 1966. Later in life I was inducted into the army on August 12, 1970, and my first marrage happened on August 12, 1972. I guess that means it was a life changing concert.
I saw the Rolling Stones st the same Venue a few years later,
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I'm wondering if I saw them a year earlier.
It was mostly Larks Tongue music. I remember them playing "The Talking Drum" starting with a dark stage and a red light behind the drummer that grew in intensity as the music did the same.
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1974 KC tour dates:
http://www.dgmlive.com/tour.htm?artist=5&tour_year=1974 (http://www.dgmlive.com/tour.htm?artist=5&tour_year=1974)
Pics from the 1974 Chicago gig:
http://www.dgmlive.com/vision.htm?artist=&show=393&member=&entry= (http://www.dgmlive.com/vision.htm?artist=&show=393&member=&entry=)
They also played in Chicago in 1973:
http://www.dgmlive.com/tour.htm?artist=5&tour_year=1973 (http://www.dgmlive.com/tour.htm?artist=5&tour_year=1973)
Then the 1961 P-bass was still unfinished.
I'm not sure if he ever used the black Jazz on stage but he had it as a backup on the 1974 tour or at least for their last ever gig in Central Park July 1st 1974:
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I just made myself even more envious than before...
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The link says they played at the Kinetic Playgournd in 1973. I went there a lot too, but at the moment the only band I remember seeing there is Country Joe and the Fish. I remember not seeing Foghat and Focus there because of a disturbance, and getting chased away by the Chicago police.
EDIT: On furthur review they were at the Kinetic Playground April 20, 1973 and at the Auditorium September 29, 1973.
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For me:
Beatles Tokyo, @Budokan '66. What can ya say about that?
Can't beat the first line of the first post... 8)
No kidding. I was 1 at the time but I'm still jealous!
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I never saw The Beatles "live" but I did see them on the Ed Sullivan show when I was five, thats what lit the fuze. I didn't know what they were doing just that I had to do it!
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A (now long lost contact) drinking buddy and his elder brother were taken to see them at the Hammersmith Odeon in '66 - he has absolutely no recollection - he was about three or four at the time - he can legitimately say he saw them though... :-\
I'm disgusted with myself for not mentioning Zappa around the Zoot Allures era at Hammersmith - seeing him soloing so much was something else - Patrick O'Hearn on bass and Eddie Jobson and not forgetting Bozzio...
Wishbone Ash at the Marquee in '77 on a hot summers night - imagine a club that holds 400 - MAX - open a fire exit and 300 extra SNEAK IN...! there was significant "rainfall" from the condensation forming on the club's ceiling to be a concern but they were quite simply stunning - there were a few people that became overcome by the heat and were carried out via the stage...
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That has reminded me that I saw wishbone ash at the st james theatre Wellngton nz .not sure what year.1975?any way after that I wanted a thunderbird.
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Did anybody manage to see the mighty Doug Rauch on bass with Santana in 1972 or 1973? Or perhaps with David Bowie in September 1974?
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My list of concerts I've gone to is average at best. However, my brother-in-law (around 15 or 16 at the time) was at Woodstock. My impression I get from him is that it was actually more uninhibited than the accounts might indicate. I guess you just had to be there.
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Ask him about the smell... ;D
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I saw the Dixie Dregs once. If I remember correctly, they opened for Santana or the Allmann Brothers here in Raleigh at the Walnut Creek Amphitheater. The violin player for Mahavishnu Orchestra was standing in for Allen Sloan who, because of his busy medical practice, could not make that tour. Eventually, the rest of the band played so fast the stand-in fiddle player gave up. ;D
My buddy and I ran down to the merch booth after they finished playing but there was not a single thing remaining of the Dixie Dregs merch.
They were awesome!
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Ask him about the smell... ;D
I hesitate to even speculate about that on my own, but I'll ask him. He was right in the middle of everything that was going on and was still there going strong when Hendrix played.
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I saw the Dixie Dregs once...
They were awesome!
Now that I can agree with wholeheartedly...
During the time the ABB were in hiatus the three sections of the band all toured the UK and I got to see the lot - Gregg and Cher (front row - slick and bland but still a good memory), the exquisite Dickey Betts and Great Southern (pretty much the next incarnation of the ABB - Dave Goldflies on bass, Dan Toler etc) and the quite simply brilliant four-piece lineup of Sea Level - the first two at the Rainbow and the latter at the Hammersmith Odeon - the support acts were Grinderswitch and, you guessed it, Dixie Dreggs - superb... Steve Morse is such an exceptionally gifted guitarist... '78 if I remember correctly...
I sold off almost all of my programmes and ticket stubs on greedbay some years back to cover a variety of needs - I hoard too much junk - if I want new junk, the old has to go... I still have a few - all the Rush, Cooper, Neil Young, the first Slade, Boston (1st tour) and a select number of others...
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I sold off almost all of my programmes and ticket stubs on greedbay some years back to cover a variety of needs - I hoard too much junk - if I want new junk, the old has to go... I still have a few - all the Rush, Cooper, Neil Young, the first Slade, Boston (1st tour) and a select number of others...
And it's all worth $$ to collectors....
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"more uninhibited than the accounts might indicate"
Even more?! :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
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I wish I could remember a life-changing concert from my youth! I lived in Dayton, OH as a teen during the 60's and it wasn't exactly a hot destination for the top groups of the time. I cut my teeth on surf music, which my first band was deep into when the British invasion occurred and turned our heads and minds. At the same time, folk music was exploding on the mainstream radio stations and everything seemed to change overnight.
I did attend a really good concert by none other than Simon and Garfunkel. When I went off to college, things improved:
Philadelphia: Leslie West and Mountain; The Turtles (ha, ha remember them?); Spencer Davis Group; The Rascals; Nazz
Kent State University: Emerson, Lake and Palmer (the best concert I recall attending); lots of folk types like James Taylor, John Hartford, Joan Biased, etc.
For the life of me, I know I went to many others, but can't recall them! They all impacted me and my playing, but none of them changed my life significantly. If you can remember the 60's, you really weren't there!
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I wish I could remember a life-changing concert from my youth! I lived in Dayton, OH as a teen during the 60's and it wasn't exactly a hot destination for the top groups of the time.
For the life of me, I know I went to many others, but can't recall them! They all impacted me and my playing, but none of them changed my life significantly. If you can remember the 60's, you really weren't there!
Dayton became the hot spot for funk in the '70s (Ohio Players, EWF, Heatwave). Guess you just missed out.
I guess I should include one concert that really did have an impact on me. We went and caught West, Bruce and Laing about 8 months before their first record. We got there 4 hours early for a general admission show at McGaw Hall in Evanston, IL. I was about 25 feet from Jack Bruce. I went home and wanted to throw rocks at my bass! Watching him play, doing figure 8's with one finger was just amazing! Spencer Davis opened. I still have a bootleg of that show, courtesy of one of my friends, who snuck in a $10 Panasonic cassette deck. You hear him swearing as much as the band.
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"more uninhibited than the accounts might indicate"
Even more?! :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
I honestly think so. Cameras weren't everywhere. There was a lot going on. I'd say large numbers of people were letting go of their inhibitions in ways that might be hard to imagine for people who weren't there. I especially think the free love aspect of Woodstock was beyond what I had thought it was. It's doubtful that free love has ever been in operation on such a scale and most likely such a thing will never be repeated. Needless to say, society has moved too far away in another direction for that.
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And it's all worth $$ to collectors....
Settled some bills and secured more junk... ;D
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I have seen lots of good and bad gigs. Most life changing was The Classic Ruins, Dogmatics and Uncalled For at Cantones in Boston. Early 80s - I can't remember, but I was in high school and underage. It was fun and loud and didn't look that hard to pull off.
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I have seen lots of good and bad gigs. Most life changing was The Classic Ruins, Dogmatics and Uncalled For at Cantones in Boston. Early 80s - I can't remember, but I was in high school and underage. It was fun and loud and didn't look that hard to pull off.
You saw the Dogmatics? I'm impressed!
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I was too. I saw them several times.
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Only a couple concerts come to mind as really mind-blowing.
Peter Gabriel at Madison Square Garden, 1986, on the So tour. Tony Levin on bass, of course.
Sleater-Kinney on their final tour. (Heresy - no bass!) I had seen them a couple times before and always enjoyed them, but I had thought their records were kind of downhill after Dig me Out. So I was really unprepared for the onslaught of ferociously sexy and intensely moving rock that hit me at this show.
Mike Watt at the Knitting Factory on one of the Contemplating the Engine Room tours - Nels Cline was on guitar. I hadn't bought the album yet so this was the first time I heard the "opera". Watt was great fun to watch beating the shit out of his strings as usual. Nels Cline was the revelation though. I hadn't heard him before and he has been one of my favorite guitarists ever since.
I've seen the Who a few times between 1982 and 2006, and have tickets to the Quadrophenia thing, but none of them have been life-changing really. I'm not really expecting much from this tour either.
All the other life-changing concerts I saw were bands nobody has ever heard of in tiny clubs. Mostly my friends' bands from college. They had a huge impact on me. And probably none of that would ever translate to anybody who wasn't there. Stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR8e-KR3LwY&list=UUbfb_o--kPgG-dYjsYhsvgw&index=15&feature=plcp
or this http://www.myspace.com/challengeofthefuture
or this http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/beekeepermusic2
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Friday October 21st 1977 - the news broke that morning over here that there had been a plane crash in Mississippi that took the heart out of a Southern (by the Grace of God) band - over the years most of the others have followed their friends...
That night, Bob Seger was scheduled to play the Hammersmith Odeon; the audience was somewhat subdued, understandably...
An anouncement went over the PA system and they asked for a minutes silence, and they got it - you could have heard a pin drop... at the end of 60 seconds the sounds of the opening of Freebird came over the PA system and the place just went bananas...
As the fade out occurred the curtains went up and out came Bob Seger and he said, "Lets hear it for Lynyrd Skynyrd...!"
Once it started to settle, Drew Abbot started to crank out Nutbush City Limits and a stunning set ensued... Turn The Page was a magical rendition dedicated to those the road has taken...