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My 5 most memorable concerts - What are yours?

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  • ErrkaPettiErrkaPetti

    @JanKun said:

    @ErrkaPetti said:

    @JanKun said:

    @michael_m said:

    @JanKun said:

    @recycle said:
    Strange: not even an artist of this millenium on this thread

    There's plenty of great music that has been produced since the beginning of this millennium, so one reason could be that this forum is full of aging farts (if that's the case, I definitely include myself in the stink 😄). Another reason could be that nowadays you need to sell one of your kidney to buy a ticket.

    It’s at least 10 to 20 times as much to see a gig now as it was for any that I listed.

    Wondering if Lemmy was already a Bourbon pouch back in 1981 🤔
    I am sure it was a great show !
    NIN is definitely a band I would like to see !
    To me, the best venue is a place that can contain approximately 1000 people. All the best shows I have seen were in this kind of condition. You got this sense of proximity with the artists. In big Arenas, you either have to be suicidal and stand in front of the stage or watch the artist from afar on a big screen. Doesn't really make sense to me, especially with today's pricing standards.
    A few months back, the last very few crumbs of respect I had for a guy like B. Springsteen were blown away when the people behind his fanzine decided to shut down because of Ticketmaster dynamic pricing policy. The answer from the man himself was bittersweet and went something like "we're old and the people around are doing this, so we're doing the same". He was also claiming that it is better that the money from a show goes to the people sweating on stage instead of ticket brokers, which in a way is right. But... the old fart recently sold his whole catalog for 550 millions of dollars, so he is probably not the kind of person in need compared to his hardcore fans who cannot even afford to buy one of his tickets... it is even more ironic when you think about the content and the target of most of his song catalog... Ok I'd better stop this stupid rant otherwise I will end up talking about U2 🤣

    Anyway, very sad times if your only choice is to stream your favourite artist live shows online if you don't have a river of cash...

    In defense of old fart Bruce, there was a talkshow on telli where a guy claimed that Bruce is sending a lot of the money to Amnesty International and the Red Cross…

    Isn’t the fart a socialist?

    Sorry if scratched "the Boss". I probably shouldn't have called him that way but since I also consider myself like an old fart being 45 y.o, I have no problem calling anyone older the same.
    The usage of the word socialist might be wrong in the context of charity, as historically, most of socialist and communist countries didn't allow charity as it implies individual wealth and individual intervention shortcuting the omnipotence of the state. But I think I guess what you meant. To me, a so called "socialist" artist would first use his own power and influence to control the ticket pricing and give back to the fans who put him on the throne where he is sitting now. That's what would be the closest to socialism...
    If he's giving back a portion of what he got to charity, it means the guy still has some conscious and that's great for those organizations as the money is definitely needed. It is terrible to say, but charity is a little plaster applied on an amputed limb: much needed but not enough to stop the hemorrhage.
    On the other hand, I don't know how it works in the states but in Europe, charity donation usually comes with a nice fiscal bonus as well. So I wouldn't call that a pure act of philanthropy. good deeds with benefits is probably a better way to call it. If am not wrong, avoiding extra taxes from a Biden law is the reason why he and a bunch of other old (and less old) farts sold their catalog recently (this includes Bob Dylan and Neil Young to name a few and god I love their music)

    I am honestly not trying to convince anyone here. I am not even considering myself right or wrong, that's just the way I feel about guys like him. To me the world is going the very wrong way, with the worst wealth distribution ever, and all complying artists end up being the Gladiators of the modern times. "panem et circenses".
    No need to start a long and sterile discussion that will take us nowhere, please. Sorry if I hurt your feeling. I used to like and respect him at some point, I just don't anymore. Love or burn your idols, that's totally up to you.

    FYI, I have never listen to Bruce in my life other than been forced thru radio/television - no idol…

  • JanKunJanKun

    @ErrkaPetti said:

    @JanKun said:

    @ErrkaPetti said:

    @JanKun said:

    @michael_m said:

    @JanKun said:

    @recycle said:
    Strange: not even an artist of this millenium on this thread

    There's plenty of great music that has been produced since the beginning of this millennium, so one reason could be that this forum is full of aging farts (if that's the case, I definitely include myself in the stink 😄). Another reason could be that nowadays you need to sell one of your kidney to buy a ticket.

    It’s at least 10 to 20 times as much to see a gig now as it was for any that I listed.

    Wondering if Lemmy was already a Bourbon pouch back in 1981 🤔
    I am sure it was a great show !
    NIN is definitely a band I would like to see !
    To me, the best venue is a place that can contain approximately 1000 people. All the best shows I have seen were in this kind of condition. You got this sense of proximity with the artists. In big Arenas, you either have to be suicidal and stand in front of the stage or watch the artist from afar on a big screen. Doesn't really make sense to me, especially with today's pricing standards.
    A few months back, the last very few crumbs of respect I had for a guy like B. Springsteen were blown away when the people behind his fanzine decided to shut down because of Ticketmaster dynamic pricing policy. The answer from the man himself was bittersweet and went something like "we're old and the people around are doing this, so we're doing the same". He was also claiming that it is better that the money from a show goes to the people sweating on stage instead of ticket brokers, which in a way is right. But... the old fart recently sold his whole catalog for 550 millions of dollars, so he is probably not the kind of person in need compared to his hardcore fans who cannot even afford to buy one of his tickets... it is even more ironic when you think about the content and the target of most of his song catalog... Ok I'd better stop this stupid rant otherwise I will end up talking about U2 🤣

    Anyway, very sad times if your only choice is to stream your favourite artist live shows online if you don't have a river of cash...

    In defense of old fart Bruce, there was a talkshow on telli where a guy claimed that Bruce is sending a lot of the money to Amnesty International and the Red Cross…

    Isn’t the fart a socialist?

    Sorry if scratched "the Boss". I probably shouldn't have called him that way but since I also consider myself like an old fart being 45 y.o, I have no problem calling anyone older the same.
    The usage of the word socialist might be wrong in the context of charity, as historically, most of socialist and communist countries didn't allow charity as it implies individual wealth and individual intervention shortcuting the omnipotence of the state. But I think I guess what you meant. To me, a so called "socialist" artist would first use his own power and influence to control the ticket pricing and give back to the fans who put him on the throne where he is sitting now. That's what would be the closest to socialism...
    If he's giving back a portion of what he got to charity, it means the guy still has some conscious and that's great for those organizations as the money is definitely needed. It is terrible to say, but charity is a little plaster applied on an amputed limb: much needed but not enough to stop the hemorrhage.
    On the other hand, I don't know how it works in the states but in Europe, charity donation usually comes with a nice fiscal bonus as well. So I wouldn't call that a pure act of philanthropy. good deeds with benefits is probably a better way to call it. If am not wrong, avoiding extra taxes from a Biden law is the reason why he and a bunch of other old (and less old) farts sold their catalog recently (this includes Bob Dylan and Neil Young to name a few and god I love their music)

    I am honestly not trying to convince anyone here. I am not even considering myself right or wrong, that's just the way I feel about guys like him. To me the world is going the very wrong way, with the worst wealth distribution ever, and all complying artists end up being the Gladiators of the modern times. "panem et circenses".
    No need to start a long and sterile discussion that will take us nowhere, please. Sorry if I hurt your feeling. I used to like and respect him at some point, I just don't anymore. Love or burn your idols, that's totally up to you.

    FYI, I have never listen to Bruce in my life other than been forced thru radio/television - no idol…

    So no offense, that's great 👍

  • DavidEnglishDavidEnglish
    edited July 2023

    @JanKun said:
    Just wondering what kind of audience attended events like La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich or Philip Glass. Those were extremely avant-garde acts. I have the image of very snobbish audience...

    I don't remember the audience being snobbish -- or even self-aware of the potential historical significance. Though being college-age and naive, I may well have missed that aspect of it.

    Reich and Glass were moving on to larger audiences (and larger venues) when I arrived in NYC in 1975. Places like The Kitchen, CBGB, and The Public Theater were great incubators for upcoming artists, such as Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads, and Richard Foreman. I was mostly interested in avant-garde films, so I spent a fair amount of time at Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, the Whitney Museum, and MoMA.

    A typical La Monte Young, Pandit Pran Nath, or Terry Riley event might pull in 20 to 50 people. There would be lots of students, like myself, as well as artists and musicians. SoHo (South of Houston Street) was just starting out as a community of artists, due to a zoning law change that allowed artists to live where they work. There were no expensive galleries, hotels, or restaurants there at that time. There was one restaurant that had a big sign that simply said "FOOD." You could easily walk for a block or two and not see a single person.

    The area was made up mostly of large inexpensive lofts that were formerly industrial spaces. Most of the events that I went to in the area would have 20 to 100 people spread out across a large space. Scorsese's After Hours (1985) is great fun to watch, but it wasn't my experience there at all.

  • HotStrangeHotStrange

    @DavidEnglish said:

    @JanKun said:
    Just wondering what kind of audience attended events like La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich or Philip Glass. Those were extremely avant-garde acts. I have the image of very snobbish audience...

    I don't remember the audience being snobbish -- or even self-aware of the potential historical significance. Though being college-age and naive, I may well have missed that aspect of it.

    Reich and Glass were moving on to larger audiences (and larger venues) when I arrived in NYC in 1975. Places like The Kitchen, CBGB, and The Public Theater were great incubators for upcoming artists, such as Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads, and Richard Foreman. I was mostly interested in avant-garde films, so I spent a fair amount of time at Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, the Whitney Museum, and MoMA.

    A typical La Monte Young, Pandit Pran Nath, or Terry Riley event might pull 20 to 50 people. There would be lots of students, like myself, as well as artists and musicians. SoHo (South of Houston Street) was just starting out as a community of artists, due to targeted city-initiated tax breaks. There were no expensive galleries, hotels, or restaurants at that time. There was one restaurant that had a big sign that simply said "FOOD." You could easily walk for a block or two and not see a single person.

    The area was made up mostly of large inexpensive lofts that were formally industrial spaces. Most of the events that I went to in the area would have 20 to 100 people spread out across a large space. Scorsese's After Hours (1985) is great fun to watch, but it wasn't my experience there at all.

    Man what I would give to be able to go back in time to the early days of CBGB.

  • DaveypooDaveypoo
    edited July 2023

    @HotStrange Y'know, I used to think that until I remember that while a ton of amazing acts played there, CB's was a real $#!+hole. It was just gross. I have nightmares about the bathroom still to this day. 🤢🤮

  • HotStrangeHotStrange

    @Daveypoo said:
    @HotStrange Y'know, I used to think that until I remember that while a ton of amazing acts played there, CB's was a real $#!+hole. It was just gross. I cry nightmares about the bathroom still to this day. 🤢🤮

    Oh I’m sure the bathroom was a sight to behold 😂 I would just want to purely see the bands. So many great acts coming through in their early years.

  • gusgranitegusgranite

    @DavidEnglish said:

    @JanKun said:
    Just wondering what kind of audience attended events like La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich or Philip Glass. Those were extremely avant-garde acts. I have the image of very snobbish audience...

    I don't remember the audience being snobbish -- or even self-aware of the potential historical significance. Though being college-age and naive, I may well have missed that aspect of it.

    Reich and Glass were moving on to larger audiences (and larger venues) when I arrived in NYC in 1975. Places like The Kitchen, CBGB, and The Public Theater were great incubators for upcoming artists, such as Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads, and Richard Foreman. I was mostly interested in avant-garde films, so I spent a fair amount of time at Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, the Whitney Museum, and MoMA.

    A typical La Monte Young, Pandit Pran Nath, or Terry Riley event might pull in 20 to 50 people. There would be lots of students, like myself, as well as artists and musicians. SoHo (South of Houston Street) was just starting out as a community of artists, due to a zoning law change that allowed artists to live where they work. There were no expensive galleries, hotels, or restaurants there at that time. There was one restaurant that had a big sign that simply said "FOOD." You could easily walk for a block or two and not see a single person.

    The area was made up mostly of large inexpensive lofts that were formerly industrial spaces. Most of the events that I went to in the area would have 20 to 100 people spread out across a large space. Scorsese's After Hours (1985) is great fun to watch, but it wasn't my experience there at all.

    Real slice of history. Great to read your experiences.

  • JohnnyGoodyearJohnnyGoodyear

    Just one. This side of fifty years ago. The Tubes, Hammersmith Palais.

  • bygjohnbygjohn

    @JohnnyGoodyear said:
    Just one. This side of fifty years ago. The Tubes, Hammersmith Palais.

    Damn. We had tickets for them, but the tour got cancelled due to the singer falling off the stage. Their idea of “rebooking” was playing some festival or other… 🙄

  • JohnnyGoodyearJohnnyGoodyear
    edited July 2023

    @bygjohn said:

    @JohnnyGoodyear said:
    Just one. This side of fifty years ago. The Tubes, Hammersmith Palais.

    Damn. We had tickets for them, but the tour got cancelled due to the singer falling off the stage. Their idea of “rebooking” was playing some festival or other… 🙄

    Before that show I thought Waybill was just a noisy obnoxious American dude; walked out a true believer.

  • michael_mmichael_m

    @Daveypoo said:
    @HotStrange Y'know, I used to think that until I remember that while a ton of amazing acts played there, CB's was a real $#!+hole. It was just gross. I cry nightmares about the bathroom still to this day. 🤢🤮

    Similar to any other place with a legend around it. I’ve met a few people who went to Woodstock, and most of them don’t have fond memories of it when they’re being honest.

  • AndyPlanktonAndyPlankton

    @Wyvern said:
    4. Knebworth 90 - a who's who - great guitar duet from Clapton and Knopfler, Plant and Page, Pink Floyd, McCartney, and lots of others

    I was at that Knebworth 90 gig too, definitely one of my top 5. The atmosphere in the crowd was one of the best ever. And McCartney singing Hey Jude was probably my top goosebump moment at a gig ever. I vaguely remember Knopfler having to come on with Elton John as Elton was suffering from anxiety at the size of the crowd ? Also Genesis and Quo played

    Far too many great gigs to list a best 5 though

  • yowzayowza

    No particular order, I’m not counting.

    First ever concert- Led Zeppelin Hampton Coliseum. Opened up with Immigrant Song which was recognized when the 3rd album was released months later

    Genesis with Peter Gabriel.
    Mosque in Richmond VA
    Lamb Lies down on Broadway

    King Crimson-Warner theatre, DC
    Double Trio tour - Front row seat

    Pat Metheny PMG Richmond VA- plays the White Album before it was released in a small club called the Pass

    Metheny- PMG Richmond, VA Imaginary Day front row seat

    Return to Forever Mosque Richmond VA

    I’ve seen Metheny, Holdsworth and Yes many other times

  • JeffChasteenJeffChasteen

    @JohnnyGoodyear said:
    Just one. This side of fifty years ago. The Tubes, Hammersmith Palais.

    “…a baby’s arm holding an apple!”

    A very nice use of an obscure “literary reference” by Waybill, Spooner, and company.
    I loved that debut record. Damn, I’m gonna go listen to it now.

  • JeffChasteenJeffChasteen

    @Daveypoo said:
    @HotStrange Y'know, I used to think that until I remember that while a ton of amazing acts played there, CB's was a real $#!+hole. It was just gross. I cry nightmares about the bathroom still to this day. 🤢🤮

    It was a nightmare, and I have had the misfortune of being in some of the filthiest unrest rooms in the world.

  • JeffChasteenJeffChasteen

    @DavidEnglish said:
    1. Ali Akhar Khan at Town Hall in NYC (1976) - Most definitely, the best musical performance I've ever attended. He was one of the great all-time musicians.

    1. Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians at Town Hall in NYC (1976) - It was the premiere. I think I got in free, because I was writing about it.

    2. La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano somewhere in SoHo in NYC (probably 1977) - The piece runs about six hours, so there were cushions on the floor, and people would come and go throughout the performance. It was the same location where I was able to hear Pandit Pran Nath sing quite a few times. Pran Nath was sometimes accompanied by Terry Riley or La Monte Young.

    3. The Chieftains at Avery Fisher Hall in NYC (Saint Patrick's Day, probably 1976 or 1977) - I got in free, because I knew one of the ushers. We were fellow students at NYU. She worked there part time, so she snuck me in. People were dancing in the aisles.

    4. Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers Band at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC (probably 1973) - I think it started around noon or early afternoon and went into the evening. The two bands would switch back and forth, with both bands playing together at the end. I remember that there was a bare-breasted woman who kept trying to get on stage.

    David,
    I am now looking at you with eyes of the brightest green.
    Those legendary loft shows must have been phenomenal.

  • MrStochasticMrStochastic

    These are memorable to me mostly because of the contrast with how concert venues have changed:
    All from my youth (sorry) and that ancient time when there were concerts like this:

    Led Zeppelin at the Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater. A small theater in the round so it was kind of like seeing them in a big living room. I think this was just after their first album was out. Cheap tickets for being in the 3rd row. And their sets were long. Jimmy Page did a kind of solo acoustic improv thing while sitting in chair too.

    Around the same period saw Cream at a small bar/nightclub also in Mpls. They just played at the back of a room on a ‘stage’ that just put them up a couple feet from us standing in the audience.

    Same bar I saw Van Morrison while he was still in ‘Them’. It seemed pretty gritty.

    I saw Jimi Hendrix at the Mpls Auditorium. Memorable because it was such a crappy concert. First he was super delayed coming out and then the show was very short and lackluster from what I expected. He must have been having a bad day.

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]

    When I read all your experiences in the 70 ‘ I feel like a baby here. Some are really old here but with unique experience of crazy time

  • JeffChasteenJeffChasteen

    @Lady_App_titude said:

    @JeffChasteen said:

    Lynyrd Skynyrd 1977 (last show of the real band)

    YES! I was lucky to have seen Skynyrd in like 74-ish, when Freebird was still a brand new hit on the radio. Yes, hard to imagine ... the original band, doing Freebird when it was a new song! I was lucky enough to catch a lot of classic rock bands in the 70s just when they were hitting it big, like Golden Earring just when Radar Love broke, Heart (twice!) when they first hit, Aerosmith, Toys In The Attic tour (Sweet Emotion, Walk This Way), Joe Walsh just after Rocky Mountain Way came out, Lou Reed right at the time of Rock n Roll Animal, ELO, J. Geils Band, Steve Miller... Many other examples ... Basically, if you were alive and could afford a concert ticket during those years... I'm remembering so many just now... But none of these would be on my top 5.

    I am so envious that you saw Aerosmith during the Toys In The Attic tour. They were on fire at that time.
    In just a few years began the late 70s teenage trend of “Walking out on Aerosmith because they suck so much live now because of too much booze, blow, and ego, but we are still going to listen to Toys In The Attic and Rocks on the way home because they are such great records!”
    I don’t know if you were in the states at the time, but that was such a common American teen phenomenon between 78-81.

  • JeffChasteenJeffChasteen
    edited July 2023

    @Lady_App_titude said:
    My top 5 most memorable are probably going to be all prog rock shows in the 70s, due to the combination of supreme musicianship with the most outrageous stage shows of all time. In many ways impossible to describe and do it justice without being there. But let's see... In no particular order...

    1. Jethro Tull - War Child tour. Ian Anderson prancing around in purple tights and a codpiece, playing flute on one leg, Jeffery Hammond Hammond in a zebra-striped suit where at one point a two-man-zebra creature would appear and shit out tennis balls, which he proceed to juggle! A female string quartet dressed as angels, floating above the band... Just the most amazing live performers ... Nobody could put on a show like Tull in the 70s.

    2. ELP - Brain Salad Surgery tour. Big Stadium with quadraphonic speakers where at one point the sound would spin around the audience. Keith Emerson throwing around a 300-lb Hammond organ, stabbing it with knives and doing feedback tricks like Jimi Hendrix! Just unbelievable!

    3. Yes - Yessongs tour. Anderson, Howe, Squire, Wakeman, and White. Roger Dean stage sets. Just an absolute peak period for one of the greatest prog bands.

    4. Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Center of the Earth. One of the most excessive stage shows ever... Full orchestra and choir, narrator, giant inflatable sea monsters. I was one of the lucky few to catch this famously over-budgeted, under attended tour, and had third row seats! So memorable! Unlike anything else in my life.

    5. Todd Rundgren and Utopia - Ra tour. By far the most elaborate stage show I've ever seen, maybe the most expressive and excessive ever. Giant fire-breathing sphinx that shot lasers out of its eyes. Flame throwers around the stage, fog, wind machines, a water fountain surrounding the drum kit. Roger Powell playing his famous "Powell Probe," the first keytar. All taking place on a giant pyramid stage where at one point Rundgren would climb up the pyramid whilst playing this amazing ankh-shaped guitar, stand at the top and solo above the band, then jump off! Later followed by the smashing of a "glass guitar" made out of ice. Never seen anything like it. The limits of possibility redefined. Can't begin to describe... Mind permanently blown. And once again was lucky enough to have third-row seats! This Youtube video kinda captures the basics:

    Since you cited The Journey To The Center Of The Earth show, you may enjoy this piece about Wakeman’s subsequent ambition/madness for even bigger productions:
    https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/06/the-stranger-than-fiction-secret-history-of-prog-rock-icon-rick-wakeman

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  • JeffChasteenJeffChasteen

    @mambonassau said:
    There are plenty, but a formative few:

    Hum & Angie Heaton - the Cowboy Monkey in Champaign, IL, ca. 2003: This was their warm-up show for that year's Furnace Fest. Hum hadn't played a show in a few years, and we were all convinced they had broken up. A couple hours before the show, a promoter buddy of mine called every Hum fan he knew and said, cryptically, "It's happening"; we all immediately knew what he meant, so the place was packed. The fact that Hum opened for local alt-country maven Angie Heaton (RIP) added a sweet, communal vibe to the proceedings.

    Radiohead & the Beta Band - Grant Park in Chicago, IL, 8/1/01: I've seen Radiohead a couple times since, including one 2003 concert with Steve Malkmus & the Jicks, but this is the show that stuck to my ribs, mostly because I was a rabid fan of the band from The Bends through Amnesiac. (The show also featured the Beta Band right around Hot Shots II, which was essentially the peak of their powers.)

    Fugazi, Shipping News, & Rachel's - Spectrum Cultural Center in Louisville, KY, 4/4/02: During its tenure as a band, Fugazi was essentially the best live act on the planet - all live-wire athleticism, sonic telepathy, and explosive noise. The crowd was also very welcoming to art-music ensemble Rachel's and mostly instrumental math rockers Shipping News, both of which featured the dearly departed (and much-missed) Jason Noble. After the show, I met Guy and spotted members of Faraquet doing Dischord merch, which further blew my 18-year-old mind.

    Sonic Youth, Stereolab, & Quixotic - Riviera Theater in Chicago, IL, 6/10/2000: I've seen SY several times (their show at CMJ 2004's opening night in NYC, with Gang Gang Dance, sticks out), but the addition of Stereolab really pushes this one over the top in my memory - I'd never heard synths burble and pan like that before, and the Sadier/Hansen vocal mind-meld was in full force. Quixotic's set had an almost Raincoats-y, ramshackle charm, and SY managed to transcend their iffy NYC Ghosts and Flowers material by being, y'know, Sonic Youth.

    Deerhunter & Battles - the Ottobar in Baltimore, MD, 7/21/07: This one was really just a blend of a) being surprised by Deerhunter, whose records gave little indication of how titanic they would be live, and b) seeing Tyondai Braxton (soon to depart Battles) expertly play like three instruments at any given time. I was also halfway through grad school and burnt out on my campus-centric life, so this concert memorably kinda/sorta revived my sense of self.

    Calvin Johnson & Wolf Colonel - Unitarian Universalist Church in Urbana, IL, ca. 2002: While I did see Dub Narcotic Sound System a number of times, frontman/K Records magnate Calvin Johnson always made the most sense when unadorned - that is, a man, a bellow, a classical guitar, and some truly idiosyncratic dancing. Clearest memory: Johnson, barely visible from the choral pews behind the dais, crooning a micless call and response with Colonel's Jason Anderson.

    I was a music writer for years, so there are literally dozens of others! (I have also seen good stuff in the last decade, I swear.) Just stopping because, frankly, I'm at my Place Of Business and need to get down to work.

    I certainly agree with you about the power of Deerhunter live. I had heard the early recordings and just dismissed them as being twee and NMHotel-ish. However, they came to town in 2006 to play a date with some of my friends, and they were fantastic. I suspect my friends regretted that decision.

  • RichtownsRichtowns

    Such great bands listed here so I have to add some more. London is my gig place, lovely memories

    Magic Mushroom band - The Crypt 1988
    Hawkwind - The RoundHouse 1992
    Butthole Surfers - Town and Country 1995
    Psychic TV - Limelight 1997
    &
    Black MIDI - Railway Tavern 2021

  • PoppadocrockPoppadocrock

    @mangecoeur said:
    I hate to 'rank' the best, but the top memories (sometimes for the band, sometimes the venue, sometimes just because it was a great time!)

    Thom Yorke at Montreux Jazz 2019 (Although this year's performance by Worakls Orchestra at Montreux is giving that gig a run for its money)
    Muse, with a warm up act by the Arctic Monkeys, Paleo 2007
    Arcade Fire, Roundhouse 2013
    Amon Tobin, Electric Brixton 2016 (although slim consolation for having missed out on his ISAM tour)
    Youngblood Brassband, in a random pub in 2008

    Bonus for bragging rights (not actually a huge fan): Mumford and Son 'before they were famous' in Rote Fabrik circa 2009

    Yea Arcade Fire put on a hell of a show.

  • Danny_MammyDanny_Mammy
    edited July 2023

    Jeff Healey I guess because i bought a guitar after that concert,
    Prodigy in some field when i was fucked before they were big.
    Herbie Handcock at the blue note, he had a bad back and played crazy uncomfortable pain for the first 30 mins then turn it into some beautiful rose garden
    Portishead at a Bristol summer park thingy back in the day.
    Some dude playing Brahms at the Concertgebouw blew my mind

    Saying that I have little nostalgia, I far more enjoy playing music in the now than any concert I went to.

  • WyvernWyvern

    @AndyPlankton said:

    @Wyvern said:
    4. Knebworth 90 - a who's who - great guitar duet from Clapton and Knopfler, Plant and Page, Pink Floyd, McCartney, and lots of others

    I was at that Knebworth 90 gig too, definitely one of my top 5. The atmosphere in the crowd was one of the best ever. And McCartney singing Hey Jude was probably my top goosebump moment at a gig ever. I vaguely remember Knopfler having to come on with Elton John as Elton was suffering from anxiety at the size of the crowd ? Also Genesis and Quo played

    Far too many great gigs to list a best 5 though

    You'll remember it lashed down with rain when Floyd came on at the end😀

    McCartney doing Hey Jude was truly magical. Hard to believe it was over 30 years ago.

  • qryssqryss

    @yowza said:

    Genesis with Peter Gabriel.
    Mosque in Richmond VA
    Lamb Lies down on Broadway

    I am insanely jealous. This album has a special place in my adolescent years.

  • Lady_App_titudeLady_App_titude

    @JeffChasteen said:

    Since you cited The Journey To The Center Of The Earth show, you may enjoy this piece about Wakeman’s subsequent ambition/madness for even bigger productions:
    https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/06/the-stranger-than-fiction-secret-history-of-prog-rock-icon-rick-wakeman

    Great article! Yes, I knew about King Arthur on ice, etc. I really think that Journey was the best thing he ever did. Also, Yes around that time. Fragile and Close To The Edge were their best albums.

    I am so envious that you saw Aerosmith during the Toys In The Attic tour. They were on fire at that time.
    In just a few years began the late 70s teenage trend of “Walking out on Aerosmith because they suck so much live now because of too much booze, blow, and ego, but we are still going to listen to Toys In The Attic and Rocks on the way home because they are such great records!”
    I don’t know if you were in the states at the time, but that was such a common American teen phenomenon between 78-81.

    Yes, saw that Aerosmith tour then didn't see them again until like 2000-something. Didn't see hardly any concerts at all after the 70s. Traded the big concerts and arenas for the dance clubs and smaller venues in the 80s.

  • JohnnyGoodyearJohnnyGoodyear

    @michael_m said:

    @Daveypoo said:
    @HotStrange Y'know, I used to think that until I remember that while a ton of amazing acts played there, CB's was a real $#!+hole. It was just gross. I cry nightmares about the bathroom still to this day. 🤢🤮

    Similar to any other place with a legend around it. I’ve met a few people who went to Woodstock, and most of them don’t have fond memories of it when they’re being honest.

    Much like my first marriage.

  • qryssqryss

    @recycle said:
    Strange: not even an artist of this millenium on this thread

    This is almost true - and puzzling.

    Two of my five are artists of this millenium: Daughter and Hania Rani.

    Without intending to diminish anyone's valued experience, this does puzzle me. We all love music here (presumably) yet we seem to hark back to our early days. Does that reflect the influences these concerts had on our formative years? Or have we stopped going out? Or, perhaps worse, have we stopped loving new music?

    FWIW I seek out and love new acts all the time. If this were a top ten list I would have had London Grammar and Fred Again.. in there. Probably Vera Blue and Billie Eilish as well. King Princess? Phoebe Bridgers? Telenova? These are all fantastic musicians live.

    I'm curious.

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