T1B

Where'd you lern yer numbers, boy?

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

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?

Mister Bushice wrote:

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

well, that explains where they went...

Rack!

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.

I love the smell of whitey melting in the evening.

Shut up 'tard.

Smells like....dried gizz?

like victory

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.

One thing positive about this thread....I sure feel like a youngster.

In 1973 I was freaking EIGHT YEARS OLD.

One of the coolest shows I saw later in life was in Syracuse, at some bar that of course had the obligatory word "Orange" in it. My girlfriend at the time was from a Syracuse suburb (Cazenovia) and insisted we check out some of the Syracuse bars while visiting her folks. Walked into the aforementioned bar and some no-neck dude demanded seven bucks per person to walk in. I asked why and said that there was a band that night, but he didn't say who it was. I forked over the cash and we woud up getting a seat right in front of the stage. The place was NOT crowded at all.

Turned out that the band was Jerry Harrison's "Casual Gods," and he played everything off of their debut album, a bunch of Talking Heads stuff, and some T.Rex ("Children of the Revolution" I seem to recall). During the set break and afterwards he sat with us and talked (I'm thinking that the lack of big audience made the gig more casual). Very cool dude. Great night, especially for $14 admission.

We wound up seeing Jon Butcher is a similar way a year or so later.

War Wagon wrote: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.

Nice melt fuckface, what's it like to be owned by Bushice if he's a known bitch? You had a chance (to attempt) to smack me the first time you responded to my list with those shows. It wasn't until after I gave MB his deserved Rack that you mounted that weak dribble. Continue sucking ass here WW, it may be the only successful thing you ever do.

At the risk of incurring the ridicule of Whitey, (the horrah!) I have to add the Indigo Girls to my list. I also must include The Ramones, Social Distortion, John Hiatt, The Robert Cray Band, and Webb Wilder. Also opening acts like The Motors, The Godz, Legs Diamond, and Willie Nile. Oh, and Warren Zevon, who opened for the Dead when I saw them in Phoenix.

Shows that I've seen? Just off the top of my head here's a few concert bills I recall attending...

The Police, Flock of Seagulls and The Fixx
Judas Priest and Great White
Neil Young and David Allan Coe
Rush and Steve Morse Band
The Romantics, Red Rider and Orion the Hunter
The Firm and Virginia Woolf (Jason Bohnam's band)
Deep Purple and Blackfoot
Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty
Deep Purple and Joan Jett (Joan Jett got booed off the stage)
Eric Clapton
Grateful Dead (2x w/o opening acts)
Grateful Dead with Steve Miller
The Who (2x w/o opening acts)
James Taylor
George Thoroughgood
Pink Floyd
Neil Young with Jewel and The Afghan Wigs
Neil Young and the Blue Notes
Neil Young Solo Accoustic
Bob Dylan (2x w/o opener)
Robert Plant with Stevie Ray Vaughn
Robert Plant with Brother Cain

Of course this doesn't include the many great and not so great local bands I've seen. That would easily triple this list.

Smackie Chan wrote:At the risk of incurring the ridicule of Whitey, (the horrah!) I have to add the Indigo Girls to my list. I also must include The Ramones, Social Distortion, John Hiatt, The Robert Cray Band, and Webb Wilder. Also opening acts like The Motors, The Godz, Legs Diamond, and Willie Nile. Oh, and Warren Zevon, who opened for the Dead when I saw them in Phoenix.

Day-yumm Smackie, that one brought back some memories! I was at that concert with Zevon and the Dead as well. However, the time I saw Warren Zevon at a tiny club in Scottsdale in an acoustic set by himself was one of the coolest, rockingest shows I've ever attended. Damn that guy was solid. The first concert I ever saw was in Tempe for a show that opened with Ted Nugent, followed by Lynard Skynard and Kiss. That show was a fuckin' zoo!

Other concerts, in no particular order:

The Who (twice), especially the one where John Cougar got beaned with a bottle! Low point was Loverboy...ugh.
The Police (twice)
Elvis Costello
Rush -Hemispheres tour
The Replacements (twice - one show unbelievably awesome, one show sucked ass)
Be Bop Deluxe with the Jam (great show!)
The Clash
Paul McCartney (Wings over America tour)
Jackson 5 (way back in the day)
Pearl Jam
Afghan Whigs with Giant Sand and Meat Puppets (one of my favorite shows ever)

And a dozen others that just don't stand out as much as the above group.

Smackie Chan wrote:At the risk of incurring the ridicule of Whitey, (the horrah!) I have to add the Indigo Girls to my list...Oh, and Warren Zevon, who opened for the Dead when I saw them in Phoenix.

I went to a 2 or 3 show stand of the Dead, and the Indigo Girls were the opening act. I'm proud to say that during that trip, I never made it inside in time for the Indigo Girls once.

I've seen a whole bunch of the same bands you guys have. But the ease with which you guys remember them, and are able to list them, tells me a partied harder than you guys did.


And I really like the way the Heads all preface their "best concerts" lists with "well, besides the Dead..."

Jerry Lee Lewis, Judas Priest, The Tubes, Marshall Tucker Band, Little Feat, Dennis Quaid & The Sharks, Beck ...

Sudden Sam wrote:Delta Moon

I actually saw them once, on the recommendation of one of the posters here.

Pity they scheduled them that their set was overlapped by a Crazy 8's reunion, a band that pretty much took ownership of the U&L about 20 years ago, and played their first show together in about 8 years.


Tough draw for Delta Moon. The scoreboard read something like Crazy 8's several thousand, Delta Moon, a couple of dozen. A Led Zep reunion probably would have paled next to that 8's that night.

Dinsdale wrote: And I really like the way the Heads all preface their "best concerts" lists with "well, besides the Dead..."

Yep RACK and add to my echo of that sentiment, the Jerry Band



Also RACK the JLH concert. Saw them at "Wolf Trap" and that old fart kicks ass.


Circa 1989 - 1992

JLH
Metallica
The Who
Stones (was I there ? I remember camping out for tickets ;) )
Nuclear Assault
Misfits sans Glen

ton of other bands at clubs and stuff I remember seeing that band "This one, likes to call her mama, it's what I said now" or whatever at the Student Union building at GMU.

Phish at a club.



and a few big names I cannot remember right now.

bradhusker wrote: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.

guys? I just closed this thread, after Robert Plant's quotes on the other-worldly astonishing magnificence of the KING, what else can be said?
what else needs to be said, what else begs to be said?
zilch.
case and thread closed.

I saw the Dead, once, at Silver Stadium in Rochester back in '88. It was nothing special. It wasn't the best show I'd ever seen by any means, nor was it the worst.

What made the gig an "experience' was the show OFF the stage - patchouli-doused, tie-dyed and batiked losers whirling like dervishes and doing that rubber-armed Deadhead dance. I saw some balding asshole in the usual Deadhead get-up blowing bowl-hits at his toddler's face and laughing. I met some really nice folks at the show (many of whom insisted that I "had to experience the Phil Zone" and cut me a path in the crowd to the stage...I was about ten feet from Lesh...very nice), but I also saw a great deal of the self-absorbed, drug-saturated stupidity from the nouveau hippies (like the "Parent-Of-The-Year" candidate I mentioned earlier).

Over the years I've developed a greater appreciation for the Dead as musicians/songwriters, but their hardcore fans have always disgusted me. It doesn't help that it was the Deadhead contingent of my fraternity that almost deep-sixed our chapter through their fucking "peace-love-and-tie-dyes" irresponsibility....

bradhusker wrote:

bradhusker wrote: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.

guys? I just closed this thread, after Robert Plant's quotes on the other-worldly astonishing magnificence of the KING, what else can be said?
what else needs to be said, what else begs to be said?
zilch.
case and thread closed.

Sounds like you and Robert Plant had comparable man-crushes on Elvis. How sweet.

Mike the Lab Rat wrote: ... a greater appreciation for the Dead as musicians/songwriters, but their hardcore fans have always disgusted me.....

No you were disgusted by selfish people who happened to enjoy the dead's music. "Hardcore fans" just have a hardcore "appreciation for the Dead as musicians/songwriters".

Most hardcore fans I know are clean shaven, professionals, audiophiles who actually taped shows.


Personally what made the gig an "experience" for me, is when you catch several China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider combos, specifically in one summer you can tell when the band is playing "inspired" vs. just playing. Or rather, as Jerry once said, you can when they're playing the music vs. the music playing them

That and there were some cute hippie chicks wearing paper thin sundresses and no underwear. Patchouli smelled good on them.


I wore a Judge Death Anthrax shirt, my first show.

Sudden Sam wrote:I wish I could remember half the bands I saw in the '70s!

Zep, The Who (front row...Townsend was screaming at a guy to "Start the damn tape loop!"), Sabbath, Faces, Free, ABB, Cactus, the Stones, ELP, Yes, BOC, Wet Willie, The Outlaws...

Bad Company, Kansas, Savoy Brown, Little Feat, Marshall Tucker Band, Skynyrd, Dylan, Lucinda Williams...

Webb Wilder, AC/DC, John Lee Hooker (nearly a religious experience), Leo Kottke, Delta Moon, Chris Thomas King

Tons more...I may have to find those ol' ticket stubs one day...

Okay Sam, that opened up some memory gates. Other memorable shows, for one reason or another:

Bachman Turner Overdrive, Yes (twice-once with the original lineup, once with those weird-ass Buggles guys), AC/DC, BOC, Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers (Tom Johnston era, fuck Michael McDonald!), Jeff Healey Band, Robert Cray, INXS, Tower of Power...

...and I would be remiss not to mention one insanely funny night of stand-up with Sam Kinison. Motherfucker was nailz!

btw-trollhusker's man-crush on Elvis is more than a little creepy. Keep yer eyes and lips off'a another man's leather-clad waistline pervo.

The Whistle Is Screaming wrote:

War Wagon wrote: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.

Nice melt fuckface, what's it like to be owned by Bushice if he's a known bitch? You had a chance (to attempt) to smack me the first time you responded to my list with those shows. It wasn't until after I gave MB his deserved Rack that you mounted that weak dribble. Continue sucking ass here WW, it may be the only successful thing you ever do.

Deserved Rack? For a miserable ankle biting drive-by?

Only an idiot would think that rated a rack. Kinda like the same idiot who would go to see Cyndi Lauper and then brag about it.

Fuck you, pussy.

Can somebody check the rule book to see if the rack in question is indeed one that can be counted in the posters ERA ?

Sudden Sam wrote:Nuthin' better than seein' a good band in a smaller club.

Saw Kim Simmonds (Savoy Brown) at a little place in Montgomery a few years ago. Sad that there were only about 7 people there, but he and one bandmate did several awesome acoustic blues sets.

And Chris Thomas King's acoustic set for a bunch of us sittin' on folding chairs in a small room was as good as it gets.

The last big venue things I've been to were Lucinda Williams opening for Dylan and a thing with Nugent, Gov't Mule and ZZ Top at Birmingham's Oak Mountain Amphitheater. Mule acted like they didn't feel like playing (very disappointing), but ZZ Top played mostly old stuff...the real stuff, not the synthesized, commercialized crap. They were really good.

RACK the small club take.

There's a place in Solana Beach called the Belly-Up Tavern (still there I think) that we used to frequent. You couldn't fit more than a couple of hundred in there. Saw Bonnie Raitt there a couple of times before she hit it big, and she was great. Also John Lee Hooker and Lightnin' Hopkins - both great performers.

The Spreckels Theater in downtown San Diego has been there since 1915 and holds less than 2,000 seats is a great venue. I've seen the Flecktones there twice. The Summerhouse Inn in La Jolla has a small club on the top floor where a long time ago I saw Les McCann and Eddie Harris ("Compared to What") and Stanley Turrentine. Great shows.

The Blue Note in Greenwich Village - saw the Elvin Jones Quartet (one of the great all-time drummers) there in 2001.

Went to the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach a few times. Remember seeing Canned Heat there.

Anybody growing up on LA or NYC in the 60s, 70s and 80s had lots of opportunities to see great talent in local clubs.

Mike the Lab Rat wrote:Over the years I've developed a greater appreciation for the Dead as musicians/songwriters, but their hardcore fans have always disgusted me. It doesn't help that it was the Deadhead contingent of my fraternity that almost deep-sixed our chapter through their fucking "peace-love-and-tie-dyes" irresponsibility....

And here I thought it was "Peace, Pot and Microdot".

Though to be perfectly fair to the patchouli doused wing of AXP, they have managed to keep their variant of the "Alternative Fraternity" alive for the past 16 years. Which is about 14 years longer than I was expecting it to last.

BSmack wrote:Though to be perfectly fair to the patchouli doused wing of AXP, they have managed to keep their variant of the "Alternative Fraternity" alive for the past 16 years. Which is about 14 years longer than I was expecting it to last.

Without getting too esoteric for the rest of the board...

Those idiots at our alma mater who are insisting on reliving the 60's as seen through the 80's are kept on life support solely through the funds illegally earned through that distortion of the all-campus party we used to throw. All it would take is one bust by the troopers or sheriff's department or (more likely) a lawsuit after an alcohol-fueled tragedy and they're toast. As it is, their attempt at trendy anti-establishment iconoclasm (drug use in and desecration of the chapel attached to the local Episcopalian church) has shown them for the pathetic faux hippies they are.

And now they apparently worship the String Cheese Incident.

And Sanduleak.

Toddowen wrote:

Smackie Chan wrote:The Tubes

I was waiting for you to 'fess up to seeing them, smackie.

In fact, I've a feeling you've seen them a couple of times. At least twice in the '70s.

Nope, only once. And during the '80s. In Salt Lake City.

Couple more I left out - The Moody Blues (twice) & The Steve Miller Band.

I saw Steve Miller twice and the Moody Blues once.

Imagine that.

OK, the three I never saw but really wish I could have:

Zepp
Floyd
Skynrd ( The real one)

Mikey wrote:I saw Steve Miller twice and the Moody Blues once.

Imagine that.

The last time I saw the MBs, I thought a couple of 'em were gonna break their hips when they started trying to the obligatory synchronized rock star dance w/ guitars near the front of the stage. It's actually pretty sad to see aging musicians when they're well past their primes. When I saw John Lee Hooker, he was damn near 80, had to sit through the whole show (all 45 minutes of it) and couldn't remember most of the lyrics to his songs. Johnny Winter is another example. Saw him in either late '04 or early '05, shortly after he'd had a hip replacement. Again, he sat through his whole set, and relied on his reputation more than ability, which while still formidable, was a far cry from his younger days when he was both a rocker and a bluesman. Now, he's strictly blues. The one exception I can point to was Ike Turner. Saw him a few years ago in Santa Barbara, and even though he was in his 70s, he looked like he was about 45. Didn't have the moves of the days when he was still beating up on Tina, but was still entertaining.

KC Scott wrote:OK, the three I never saw but really wish I could have:

Zepp
Floyd
Skynrd ( The real one)

Saw all three. Some of the ones I wish I woulda seen include ELP, Hendrix, The J. Geils Band, and the Sex Pistols. Many others, of course.

I saw the Moodys in the early-mid 70s. They were still pretty spry then.

Another great show that I saw several times was a band the was real popular in the Bay Area but for some reason never got a lot of national recognition...Cold Blood. OMG I had a jones for Lydia Pense in her tight hip hugging velour bell bottoms. She could belt out some blue eyed R&B like nobody else.

Saw Synkyrd once and they sucked ass. ABB wannabe's with less than half the talent.

Mikey wrote:Saw Synkyrd once and they sucked ass. ABB wannabe's with less than half the talent.

Skynyrd were extremely talented, despite what you may have thought of their concert.

The Almann Brothers only wish they had that much talent.

War Wagon wrote:There's no such thing as a bad Zep tune. You have to be in the mood for a melody to fully appreciate this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WBXxAAx4ug

I'm not particularly fond of "Hats off to Roy Harper".


Though my favorite Zep song is on that album, "Friends".



Hendrix, Beatles, CSNY, Zep, and the Who. My personal top 5. At least for now.

Jay in Phoenix wrote:

Sudden Sam wrote:I wish I could remember half the bands I saw in the '70s!

Zep, The Who (front row...Townsend was screaming at a guy to "Start the damn tape loop!"), Sabbath, Faces, Free, ABB, Cactus, the Stones, ELP, Yes, BOC, Wet Willie, The Outlaws...

Bad Company, Kansas, Savoy Brown, Little Feat, Marshall Tucker Band, Skynyrd, Dylan, Lucinda Williams...

Webb Wilder, AC/DC, John Lee Hooker (nearly a religious experience), Leo Kottke, Delta Moon, Chris Thomas King

Tons more...I may have to find those ol' ticket stubs one day...

Okay Sam, that opened up some memory gates. Other memorable shows, for one reason or another:

Bachman Turner Overdrive, Yes (twice-once with the original lineup, once with those weird-ass Buggles guys), AC/DC, BOC, Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers (Tom Johnston era, fuck Michael McDonald!), Jeff Healey Band, Robert Cray, INXS, Tower of Power...

...and I would be remiss not to mention one insanely funny night of stand-up with Sam Kinison. Motherfucker was nailz!

btw-trollhusker's man-crush on Elvis is more than a little creepy. Keep yer eyes and lips off'a another man's leather-clad waistline pervo.

hey jayfag? yeah, you heard me correct, your a fairy faggott,
those were robert plants quotes, you sick fuck, he's not gay, he's just smart, smart enough to know what kicks ass,
you on the other hand, just like to suck cock,
you filthy pervert/loser.

best classic rock acts i've seen:

yes (97 and 03)
neil young (03)
AC/DC (00) it's worth seeing AC/DC to see them play for those about to rock, period.
rush (02 and 04)
tom petty (99 and 05)
blue oyster cult (02)

worst (performance based):

aerosmith (98)
steve miller (99)
lynyrd skynyrd (99) they were embarassing
zz top (99) ditto
ted nugent (00)
kiss (00)
reo speedwagon (00)
styx (00)

in between:

skid row (00) hearing 18 and life was pretty cool, but mostly i didn't enjoy the show.
foghat (02) could have been better