T1B

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:26 am**

Toddowen wrote:I saw the Stones in an absolutely horrible concert in Philly in '78.

That so? We have something in common, then. Saw 'em in concert in '81 in Boulder. They sucked. The warm-up band was George Thorougood and the Delaware Destroyers, and they pwned the Stones.

To this day, I think the Stones suck after that shit performance. I drove 600 fucking miles to listen to that crap.

Aerosmiths concert sucked also in whatever year it was that they assaulted my eardrums with constant unintelligible feedback.

Best concerts I ever attended.

1. Stevie Ray Vaughn
2. Bachman Turner Overdrive
3. Foghat
4. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:09 pm**

War Wagon wrote:
Best concerts I ever attended.

1. Stevie Ray Vaughn
2. Bachman Turner Overdrive
3. Foghat
4. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.

We agree on something; Zep and Pink Floyd top 2 bands evah....... I'll put AC/DC in at # 3

Best Concerts I ever Attanded:

The Who & Pretenders - 1979 (also my first Concert)
AC/DC - 1982 (For those about to Rock Tour)
Judas Priest - 1981 at Memorial Hall in KCK

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:36 pm**

Leaving out all Dead concerts here are mine (not necessarily in order):

Jesse Colin Young, Joe Walsh and Barnstorm, The Band, CSN&Y with all of their electric, acoustic and solo sets - Day on the Green in Oakland, must have been 1974.

Yes (Focus opened) - 1972 or 73, it was the Close to the Edge tour that they recorded Yessongs from. Top of their form.

Chicago in their early days after their second album

Stevie Wonder - around 1976, with Jackson Browne opening

Sly and the Family Stone - my first rock concert in 1970

ABB, Marshall Tucker Band, Charlie Daniels - New Year's 1974

Steve Miller Band
Van Morrison
Leon Russel
Loggins and Messina
Dave Mason
Tower of Power
Elvin Bishop
Santana
Mahavishnu Orch
etc
etc

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:42 pm**

KC Scott wrote: The Who - 1979 (also my first Concert)

Argh! Not bad for a first concert. [jealous]I hate you![/jealous]

Never got to see The Who, who are a close 3rd behind Zep and Floyd in my estimation of the top bands evah.

My 1st concert was Bad Company in 1977 at Municipal. I simply could not believe how loud that shit was. My ears were ringing for days after I stumbled out of there not knowing which way was up.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:44 pm**

OK - I forgot to Add Metallica saw them in 1998 at Sandstone - They'd have to rank in that top 3 concerts seen.

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Worst concerts

Hank Williams Jr. - Mo State Fair
Journey (The tix were free)
Kansas
The Eagles
Fleetwood Mac

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:57 pm**

Jeez, ranking the concerts I've seen is damn near impossible. One of my first jobs was as a concession hawker at Anaheim Stadium when I was 15 (1976), so I was paid (very little, < $10 ea.) to attend the first four or five concerts I saw. Back then, the stadium was used for festival-syle shows during the summer, and the first concert I went to was Gentle Giant, Gary Wright, Peter Frampton, and Yes. I paid about $3 for a quaalude (the only time I've taken a real one) from someone at the show, and was pretty much passed out on the outfield grass for most of Yes. Other shows I saw that summer and the next included Johnny & Edgar Winter, Jeff Beck w/ the Jan Hammer Group, and Aerosmith; Bob Seger, Montrose, Ted Nugent, and Kiss (although we got kicked out after getting caught rolling doobs and didn't get to see Kiss); Rex, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Ted Nugent, and Lynyrd Skynyrd; Peter Tosh, The Outlaws, and The Rolling Stones; ZZ Top (I don't remember who else was at that one). The first concert I paid to see was Black Sabbath at the Long Beach Auditorium, where I saw a few a kick-ass shows, including Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later (his follow-up band to TYA); Black Oak Arkansas and Blue Oyster Cult; and a few others I'm sure I'll remember later. I've seen BOC about eight times, Ted Nugent five or six times, Bob Seger three times, The Black Crowes and Santana five or six times each. Went to Cal Jam II (Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Santana, Dave Mason, Foreigner, Heart, Bob Welch, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, and Rubicon); saw the Stones w/ G&R and Living Color in LA.

Others I've seen:

Robin Trower
Frank Zappa
Dweezil Zappa
Led Zeppelin (summer of '77, fourth show of six they did at the Forum in LA)
Rory Gallagher
Sam Kinnison (comedy and music; Mick Fleetwood was in attendance, and played drums during Sam's band's rendition of Tush; met Kinnison backstage later that year at a Heart/Black Crowes concert in Costa Mesa)
Robert Plant (twice)
Joe Cocker
John Lee Hooker
Ray Charles
BB King
Johnny Winter (twice)
Alice Cooper (twice)
Allman Brothers
Greg Allman
Molly Hatchet
Pat Travers
UFO
Nazareth
Blackfoot
Alvin Lee (as a headliner at the Ventura Theater, and as an opener for Kansas in Phoenix)
Pearl Jam (twice)
X
Cheap Trick
Dramarama
George Thorogood & The Destroyers (a few times)
Oingo Boingo
U2 (twice)
Pink Floyd (twice, including The Wall)
Deep Purple
Rainbow
Primus
Phish (three times)
Grateful Dead (twice)
Violent Femmes
NoFX
Al Stewart
Los Lonely Boys
James Taylor
Leon Russell
Elvis Costello (twice)
Crosby, Stills, & Nash
Neil Young
Rush
Toto
The Kinks
Humble Pie
Steppenwolf
Weird Al Yankovic
Jethro Tull
The Who
Eric Clapton (George Harrison joined him onstage for Crossroads)
Elton John
Widespread Panic
Tori Amos
The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Stray Cats
David Byrne
Tom Tom Club
Blondie
Natalie Merchant
Crash Test Dummies
Michael Penn
Weir & Wasserman
Nick Lowe
Jack Bruce & Friends
Journey
AC/DC
Styx
Smashing Pumpkins
Green Day
Thompson Twins
The Cult (not to be confused w/ BOC)
Stevie Ray Vaughn
David Bowie
Bob Dylan (twice)
James Brown
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (during the encore, Bob Dylan joined him for Rainy Day Women 12 & 35, then Bruce Springsteen joined in for Travelin' Band)
Lenny Kravitz (opened for both Tom Petty & David Bowie)
John Fogerty

And several dozen others. Like I said, ranking them ain't easy.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:58 pm**

Sudden Sam wrote:Where is m2? Defend yourself, man!

What's the point? I was at the last concert Led Zep ever played in America... ever!

But these tards from shitville's such as upstate New York, the midwest, Conn., etc... know much more about that day than I do.

lol!

Derringer was the band that played before the final band that day(Led Zep), and kicked so much ass, that's pretty much all we talked about after the show and for days to come. During their last song "Rock n' Roll Hoochie Coo, Derringer and the other guitar player were throwing their guitars back and forth and ripping cords with each toss. The whole stadium was so amped after the Derringer performance, we couldn't wait for Led Zep to take the stage.

Well, they didn't... for over 2 fucking hours, while "us' as fans stood in over 90 degree weather jammed together like sardines!!! We didn't realize till' the next day what the delay was.

To top it off... Bozo the drummer was so fuckin' drunk, much as the rest of the band, that the fucking idiot fell over his drum set during the second song and there was another 30 minute delay to get the fucking idiot sober enough to continue and re-setup the drum set.

If you've had to hear drunk people talk, you should see how they play! They were the least professional band I've ever seen, and they were booed during their entire set, they were so bad.

I was used to going to Winterland to see concerts, since it had the best acoustics and all the real good bands went there to play, as opposed to going to some giant stadium for the big bucks.

You may have heard of an album called "Frampton Comes Alive"??? It was recorded at "Winterland". The Dead would always play every New Years at Winterland.

By the way, "Winterland" only held around 6,000 people, yet all the best bands wanted to play there, as opposed to a larger venue. The best concert I'd ever seen at Winterland, was a double bill, with Thin Lizzy and Queen. I still have the memory from that concert of how bad KFC and pot smell when they are combined together, and not being able to hear the buses go by as I walked out on the street after the show.

Back on topic...

... What was the reason Led Zep was over 2 hours late to get on stage???

The bodyguards for Led Lep were as wasted as the shit band, and got into a fight with Bill Graham's bodyguards!

Bill Graham was so fucking pissed after the incident, that he said Led Zep would never play in America ever again!

... and they never did!

Fuck that shit band, and I still want my money back!

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:14 pm**

420 wrote: Bill Graham was so fucking pissed after the incident, that he said Led Zep would never play in America ever again!

... and they never did!

You're a complete and utter idiot.

The rest of the band's 1977 shows were cancelled after Plant's son died of some viral infection. Did Graham arrange for that?

In 1980, they were scheduled to play in the US that fall. What stopped them wasn't Bill Graham, but Bonzo doing about 40 shots of booze and asphyxiating. Now, unless Graham personally got the well-known alcoholic Bonham to do those shots and/or positioned Bonzo so that he'd choke on his own vomit, it's pretty damned obvious that it wasn't your "neighbor" who kept Zep from touring in the US.

You talk out your ass so much that you use Altoids as frigging suppositories.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:19 pm**

Winterland had horrible acoustics. It was a fucking skating rink forkreistsake. Better than any sports arena though, so if that's your benchmark then I guess it was OK.

Great shows though and, if you were fucked up enough, the acoustics didn't matter all that much.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:24 pm**

Mike the Lab Rat wrote:
420 wrote: Bill Graham was so fucking pissed after the incident, that he said Led Zep would never play in America ever again!

... and they never did!
You're a complete and utter idiot.

The rest of the band's 1977 shows were cancelled after Plant's son died of some viral infection. Did Graham arrange for that?

Were you disappointed when Santa didn't show again this year?

Mike the Lab Rat wrote:In 1980, they were scheduled to play in the US that fall. What stopped them wasn't Bill Graham, but Bonzo doing about 40 shots of booze and asphyxiating. Now, unless Graham personally got the well-known alcoholic Bonham to do those shots and/or positioned Bonzo so that he'd choke on his own vomit, it's pretty damned obvious that it wasn't your "neighbor" who kept Zep from touring in the US.

You talk out your ass so much that you use Altoids as frigging suppositories.

You're an idiot.

Psst... they never played in America ever again!

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:32 pm**

420 wrote:
Mike the Lab Rat wrote:
420 wrote: Bill Graham was so fucking pissed after the incident, that he said Led Zep would never play in America ever again!

... and they never did!
You're a complete and utter idiot.

The rest of the band's 1977 shows were cancelled after Plant's son died of some viral infection. Did Graham arrange for that?
Were you disappointed when Santa didn't show again this year?

Meaning.....what? That the story was fake? Or that the story of Plant's son dying was a smokescreen for the insidious machinations of Graham?

If it's possible, you get stupider with each post.

420 wrote:Psst... they never played in America ever again!

Your contention was that your alleged "neighbor" was the individual behind that. You've yet to provide a credible shred of evidence to support your argument.

By the way...I'm stating the sun will rise tomorrow.

By your (lack of) logic, if it happens, I'm the Big Kahuna that made it happen.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:33 pm**

Mikey wrote:Winterland had horrible acoustics. It was a fucking skating rink forkreistsake.

Translation:

Halle Berry is ugly... She's fucking black forkreistsake.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:36 pm**

Let's assume you're right, m2ool (always a dangerous assumption), and that you saw a below-par Zeppelin concert. Shit happens. I know this may come as a shock to you, but rock stars sometimes engage in unhealthy lifestyles, and have been known, on occasion, to take the stage in a less-than-sober condition. Bands like Zeppelin (and Aerosmith, The Stones, The Who, et al) who have performed, oh, I dunno, perhaps thousands of concerts, might be cut a little slack if every one of their shows don't go off exactly as rehearsed. Who knows - maybe they realized you would be in attendance at that show, assumed everyone else there was as retarded as you, and figured, "WTF, we don't need to be on top of our game for a bunch of imbeciles like these," and mailed that one in.

But regardless, to base an opinion of a band on one concert is, not surprisingly, very mstool-like. So no one here is really shocked.

You're dismissed. Again.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:48 pm**

Mike the Lab Rat wrote:
Your contention was that your alleged "neighbor" was the individual behind that. You've yet to provide a credible shred of evidence to support your argument.
.

Are you a Bsmack troll???

You want evidence that Bill Graham had his office's across the street from my dad's printing company in the Mission dist???

I guess you also would like the receipt's of Bill Graham, my Dad, and I going to Tortilla Flats for Mexican food at lunch as a kid?

By the way... the Dead Kennedys ran their trip out of the same building across the street as Bill Graham. Just a side note.

You're something else.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:53 pm**

Smackies list had me thinking.

Not including any Dead or related, here’s what I can think of (I know I’m missing a bunch)…

* Seen more than once

Ted Nugent*/Van Halen - 1st show ’78 VH kicked Teds ass, I had never heard them before
Dylan*
BOC*
Nazareth
ZZ Top
Aerosmith
CSNY
Rush*
Max Webster*
Pink Floyd
David Gilmour
Dave Mason
David Johansen
Living Colour
10,000 Maniacs*
Frank Zappa
Dicky Betts
Greg Allman*
Allman Bros*
Govt Mule
Traffic
Police*
Sting
Los Lobos
Bella Fleck & Flecktones
BB King
Santana
Neil Young
Stones
Who*
Black Sabbath (reunion)
Ozzie*
KISS*
AC/DC
Plant/Page
Blues Traveler
Violent Femmes
Merle Saunders*
Robin Hitchcock
Flock of Seaguls
Go-Go’s
Cyndi Lauper
Loverboy
Jackson 5
The Bangles
Hall & Oates
Rossington Collins Band
Scorpions*
Bon Jovi
Dave Matthews
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Pearl Jam
Jefferson Airplane
Hot Tuna
Rainbow
Molly Hatchet
Phish
Foreigner
Black Crowes
Heart
Cheap Trick
Springsteen*

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:03 pm**

mvscal wrote:It's pitifully obvious to everybody that you're lying. I almost feel embarassed for you.

Carlos, this isn't a political thread... I suggest that you wonder off, before you become lost.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:06 pm**

I left Traffic, Los Lobos, The Cars, The Pretenders, Michael Schenker Group, Dave Matthews Band, Barry Manilow (for obvious reasons), and John Mayall off my original list. I'm sure there are many others I'm missing.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:06 pm**

The Whistle Is Screaming wrote: Flock of Seaguls
Go-Go’s
Cyndi Lauper
The Bangles

I hope you scored free tics from some hot babe who wanted to sit on your shoulders at the show and then later on your face in the back seat of your Pink Cadillac.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:15 pm**

War Wagon wrote:
The Whistle Is Screaming wrote: Flock of Seaguls
Go-Go’s
Cyndi Lauper
The Bangles
I hope you scored free tics from some hot babe who wanted to sit on your shoulders at the show and then later on your face in the back seat of your Pink Cadillac.

[dinsdalesque] WW, I certainly didn't pay for any of those shows, nor many of those listed. It's good to know people in the business and those who get comp tickets.[/dinsdalesque]

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:19 pm**

mvscal wrote:
420 wrote:
mvscal wrote:It's pitifully obvious to everybody that you're lying. I almost feel embarassed for you.
Carlos, this isn't a political thread... I suggest that you wonder off, before you become lost.
Right. This is an 'mstoolsample caught in yet another lie' thread.

What I heard...

mvscal wrote:Pay attention to me... I only have 13,000 posts, and my day job is extremely challenging.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:36 pm**

m2ool wrote:

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:02 pm**

Screw_Michigan wrote:
m2ool wrote:

Psst...

You dropped something.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:05 pm**

420 wrote:Psst...

You dropped something.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

velocet

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:22 pm**

velocet wrote:
420 wrote:Psst...

You dropped something.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

velocet

Well, yeah.

Nothing says a relaxing evening like those things.

Just don't take them when you're in Michigan.

You may end up fondling sheep, as Screw_Michigan told us about.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:40 pm**

Hey Melvin, you never did address that issue of you only being, like 11 years old at the last Zep concert.

Wat up wit dat?

Sin,

Inquiring Minds

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:47 pm**

Aight, then. Back on topic. When I first heard this track off the Physical Graffitti album, i was all like HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!

Rocking my brains out back in 1975. This is the one that officially made me a Zep Head for life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxdUNki ... ed&search=

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:50 pm**

War Wagon wrote: Rocking my brains out back in 1975.

well, that explains where they went...

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:55 pm**

420 wrote: Well, yeah.

Nothing says a relaxing evening like those things.

Just don't take them when you're in Michigan.

You may end up fondling sheep, as Screw_Michigan told us about.

suck ren faire dick much? fucking tard. keep backpedaling, you make dins look like an honest man of conviction.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:15 pm**

Mister Bushice wrote:
War Wagon wrote: Rocking my brains out back in 1975.
well, that explains where they went...

Oh do shut up you incessantly boring twat.

Here, listen to this one instead of being an annoying bitch.

No video, just the pure studio version. This should make even a cunt like you forget all about ankle biting for at least 5 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqGwtONA ... ed&search=

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:08 am**

420 wrote:
Mike the Lab Rat wrote:
Your contention was that your alleged "neighbor" was the individual behind that. You've yet to provide a credible shred of evidence to support your argument.
.
Are you a Bsmack troll???

You want evidence that Bill Graham had his office's across the street from my dad's printing company in the Mission dist???

I guess you also would like the receipt's of Bill Graham, my Dad, and I going to Tortilla Flats for Mexican food at lunch as a kid?

Let me 'splain this to you, mTallTale...

Most of us doubt that Graham was your "neighbor" in any real sense - backyard bbq's, borrowing tools, etc.

But that, IMNSHO, is not the crux of the biscuit.

You claimed that it was Bill frigging Graham who somehow single-handedly kept Zep from ever playing again in the US....without a shred of factual evidence to document exactly how Bill maneuvered to have Plant's son get a lethal viral infection or get Bonzo so hammered that he choked on his own vomit.

Bill Graham had precisely ZERO to do with Zep not playing again in the US, and any statements on your part to the contrary are bald-faced lies.

Until such time as you present actual evidence (not circumstantial crap) proving that Bill Graham successfully took steps to keep Zep from performing in the US again...you are a liar, plain and simple.

You're something else.

Coming from a piss-poor prevaricator such as yourself, that means bunches.

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:44 am**

Where'd you lern yer numbers, boy?

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:58 am**

Hey

I've seen a lot of bands you guys have.

I'll be adding Steely Dan to my list in 3 weeks.

Memerables....

Hagar, Boston & Eddie Money
Zappa at Maples Center (Stanford U)
The Who 4 times now but the tour with The Clash was wicked. (LA Col)
The Dregs
Emerson Lake and Palmer in Quad Sound

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:58 am**

420 wrote:
Sudden Sam wrote:Where is m2? Defend yourself, man!
Bill Graham was so fucking pissed after the incident, that he said Led Zep would never play in America ever again!

No, what Bill Graham said was that Zeppelin would never play on one of his bills ever again. Which of course turned out to not be true as Zeppelin (minus Bohnam of course) was the featured act at the the Bill Graham produced American edition of Live Aid.

Any other idiocy you would like to spew?

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:19 am**

Mister Bushice wrote:
War Wagon wrote: Rocking my brains out back in 1975.
well, that explains where they went...

Rack!

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:35 am**

Rack? Bitchice is a known bitch.

Just what knda' faggoty ass nancy boy are you TWIS? Do you have to squat to piss?

The Whistle Is Screaming wrote: Flock of Seaguls
Go-Go’s
Cyndi Lauper
The Bangles

And you're proud of this resume to the point of listing them. Couldn't resist sharing that, now could you?

Free tickets? You couldn't pay me to sit thru one of those queer as folk fests. But here you are listing all the concerts you've attended like that's some badge of honor.

Guess what? You just outed yourself as a flaming faggot.

Congrats.

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:39 am**

I love the smell of whitey melting in the evening.

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:45 am**

Shut up 'tard.

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:47 am**

Smells like....dried gizz?

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:53 am**

like victory

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:48 am**

las vegas, august, 1969, main showroom of the international hotel, ELVIS IN PERSON,
with a 32 inch waist, tanned and clad in all black, the king appears GOD-LIKE, there is a tremendous amount of love in the room that night, as Robert Plant of the rock super-group, Led Zeppelin would recall years later, "his voice was so fucking beautiful", "I could feel the tears welling up in my throat", "when he began the first few bars of "Reconsider Baby", I was gushing like a little school girl",

NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING, you guys can say, about ANY concert, past or present, can even approach what I just posted.
when robert plant, who himself is a ROCK GOD, recalls THE KING, in such respectful and reverential fashion, IT SPEAKS VOLUMES,
since not a soul in this forum, is as accomplished in the music world as the frontman for led zep, it is safe to assume, that on those hot summer nights in vegas in 1969, the ULTIMATE live experience took place like never before or since.
and, may I say, DONT GET ME WRONG, I am a huge zep fan, a giant floyd fan, I love the who, BUT WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, when its time to GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS,
THE KING STANDS ALONE.

might as well close this thread.

T1B

Led Zeppelin Trifecta

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