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MEMORABLE CONCERTS

#101
mike phillips said:
what was a memorable concert for you?
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Sun Ra with a thirty piece band at the Bottom Line in NYC, sitting three feet from the stage directly in front of Sun Ra.

Ornette Coleman double trio; Seattle Opera House.

Miles Davis; Paramount, Seattle.

Mahavishnu Orchestra; Staples High School, Westport CT.

Charles Mingus, unplugged; Jazz Workshop, Boston.

Delaney And Bonnie w/Duane Allman; Mosport Raceway, Canada.

Aerosmith, Comm. Ave. sidewalk; Boston 1971.

Santana, first post Woodstock US tour; Capitol Theater, Port Chester NY.

David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust tour; Tower Theater, Upper Darby Pa.

Hundreds more.:cool:
 
#102
Peter Gabriel -Growing Up tour, Montreal

Iron Maiden -Give me Ed 'til I'm dead tour, 2003, with Dio and Motorhead. Dio was amazing. Montreal

Jethro Tull in 1997. Obviously not classic Tull, but awesome just the same. Jack Singer Hall in Calgary. Figured it was sold out, but we went down to see if there were any scalpers. Got to the box office a little after the support act started and the girl said "sorry, it's sold out," but just as we were going through the door she called out to us to hang on and said "they just released the unused comps, here you go!" She didn't charge us for them and they were row 2, dead centre. Ian Anderson put on a hell of a show. Best luck ever!

Roger Waters "The Wall, Live" 2012, Ottawa. What can I say about this other than it topped Peter Gabriel. The production was stunning, the sound was incredibly good and the music was done perfectly. The Wall is one of my favourite albums and has been since I was a kid. It was one of my formative albums as a musician and seeing it performed by Roger Waters from the 10th row on the floor was just an awesome experience.
 
#105
Passinwind said:
Sun Ra with a thirty piece band at the Bottom Line in NYC, sitting three feet from the stage directly in front of Sun Ra.

Ornette Coleman double trio; Seattle Opera House.

Miles Davis; Paramount, Seattle.

Mahavishnu Orchestra; Staples High School, Westport CT.

Charles Mingus, unplugged; Jazz Workshop, Boston.

Delaney And Bonnie w/Duane Allman; Mosport Raceway, Canada.

Aerosmith, Comm. Ave. sidewalk; Boston 1971.

Santana, first post Woodstock US tour; Capitol Theater, Port Chester NY.

David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust tour; Tower Theater, Upper Darby Pa.

Hundreds more.:cool:
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Holy crap! That's amazing!
 
#106
Beatlemania in the late seventies, my first concert.
Cheap Trick at the OH state fair, my second concert.
Fugazi, they were just epic.
Jesus Lizard twice at a little joint in Columbus, OH called Staches that is sadly no more.
Skinny Puppy
PIL
Black Crowes billed as the OG Jubilee Band at First Ave in Minneapolis.
Rollins Band
The Police, it was the reunion but still great.
Afghan Whigs
Mudhoney
Soundgarden
Naked City
Masada

Bill Frisell. I've seen him multiple times and every time I'm blown away.
 
#112
Passinwind said:
Sun Ra with a thirty piece band at the Bottom Line in NYC, sitting three feet from the stage directly in front of Sun Ra.
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Where the hell did they put a 30 piece band in there? :D

I did sound in there in '96 with a 4 piece trad band and the stage was tight.

I also saw the Black Crowes play there the night before our gig. It was really tight space-wise and louder than hell.
 
#114
wheew heres a few

The Clash
The Residents (rare tour)
Fred Frith
Snakefinger
Husker Du (tiny bar show)
Meat puppets (before anyone knew of them)
Aerosmith (when they were stoned and good)
Queen (amazing)
AC/DC
Kiss (1978 When they were huge)
Mountain
Iron buterfly
Devo (rare Ohio show)
Roger Waters (wall show)
Drive by Truckers
Willie Nelson
Steve Earle
George Clinton
J Geils
Slayer
Black Sabbath

Ton's more but I'm blanking out.
 
#115
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia tour. The band was amazing, but watching Gavin Harrison play drums was incredible. Everything about the band was impeccable, but the drumming was so musical and powerful.

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - first trio tour without Howard Levy (Cuckoo's Nest). Victor broke a strap during a long solo, but never lost focus, even with his tech trying to fix it while he played. Eventually noticed the tech, and started messing with him, but didn't miss a beat, kept on playing.

Dixie Dregs (reunion) - reunion tour with Dave Larue. Tightest band I've ever seen. You could tell they were really enjoying playing together again. Inspirational.

Most memorable for non-musical reasons:
They Might Be Giants - Apollo 13 tour. they invited the crowd to "break the fire codes and polka in the aisles!" Almost everyone did. Then they went on stage and kept dancing. The band backed up as about 200 kids jumped around on the front of the stage...which was a cover over an orchestra pit. And it collapsed. It was like a curtain fell, and suddenly the band was just standing there. No one was seriously hurt, besides a broken leg. The Giants played acoustically while the mess was cleaned up and the hurt were attended to. They finished the show and went to the hospital to check on the injured.
 
#116
I've Lived in San Francisco for the past 26 years and grew up in and near NYC so my concert experience is broad in scope and deep in expansiveness.

I'll relegate comments to bass related things:

Saw Jaco Pastorious at the Blue Note in Manhattan in 1987.
He blew the roof off the joint.

I've seen Stanley Clarke a number of times - the best though was with Jean Luc Ponty and Bela Fleck at Strawberry Music Fest near Yosemite in 2008. Stanley did a 20 minute upright bass solo that astounded. I've also seen him throw down some heavy ass Pfunk at Yoshi's in Oakland.

Oteil Burbridge with the original Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit at Slim's in SF. Oteil blew my mind with his modern day Slam Stewart vocal and bass solos.

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones at the Fly Me to the Moon Saloon in Telluride, CO in 1990.
Yikes was Victor insane.

My favorite bass related experience though was a Windham Hill solo event at Embarcadero Center in SF sometime around 1996. Will Ackerman was trading sets with Michael Manring on a temporary stage set up in a mall under this SF office complex during lunch time.

During the second Manring set he donned 2 basses and did some impressive tapping and looping stuff. Toward the end of the set I yelled out, "Go for 3 basses."

Next thing I know I'm standing on stage holding the third bass cradled in my arms with Manring gamely laying down grooves and madly tapping and manipulating all 3 basses.

That was by far the best seat in the house and my favorite concert going bass related experience.
 
#117
Mott the Hoople with Kansas 1974
Wishbone Ash with Foghat 1974
Climax Blues Band 1974
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes 1974
Kiss 1975
ZZtop 1976
J Giels Band 1976
Yes with Donovan 1977
Aerosmith 1977
Pink Floyd 1977
Supertramp 1977
Heart 1977
Toto 1978
Foghat 1978
REO Speedwagon 1978
Ted Nugent - Grand Slam Jam 1978
Eagles with Pablo Cruise, Cheap Trick 1978
Kansas 1978
Supertramp 1979
Heart 1979
Journey 1979
Bob Seger and Silver Bullet 1977, 78, 79 and '80
Marshall Tucker (right after Tommy died) 1980
Waylon Jennings with the Crickets 1980
Allman Bros Band 1980
Doobie Brothers 1980
Atlanta Rythmn Section 1980
Charlie Daniels Band 1980
Outlaws 1982
Styx 1982
Marshall Tucker 1982
Charlie Daniels and Marshall Tucker 1983
Fabulous Thunderbirds 1986
Greg Allman Band 1987
Stevie Ray Vaughn 1988
Little Feat 1988
Dan Fogelberg 1988
Rush 2010
Steely Dan 2010
Johnny Lang and Buddy Guy 2012
Rodger Hodgson 2012

I saw many others but those were not "memorable"
 
#119
I lived in NYC for a few years, and while there my wife and I went to see Stevie Wonder at Madison Square Garden. Stevie and his band were awesome enough (his voice still sounds phenomenal), but he also brought out Tony Bennett to sing "For Once In My Life" and then Prince came out to play a guitar solo on "Superstition" (didn't sing a word, just walked out, played a killer solo, then walked off stage).
 
#120
JMimbs said:
My first concert, seeing the O.C. Supertones.

Seeing Stryper and getting to meet both guitarists after the gig.

Seeing Blind Guardian with Leaves Eye's opening for them.

Seeing Rush.
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I saw the O.C. Supertones a looooong time ago. They were great. I saw a lot of other great Christian artists in my youth group years - David Crowder Band (amazing), Jeremy Camp, John Reuben, Newsboys, etc.

My most memorable concerts though, are these:

Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan in 2009
Willie Nelson again in 2011 (I think)
Buckwheat Zydeco
Mike Gordon Band
And the best of all was the most recent: Willie Nelson yet again just last week. He was incredible. There was so much soul and emotion. And that old Martin has to be one of the best-sounding guitars in the world.

I am anticipating a show in September of Tegan & Sara (my favorite modern band) with Fun. It's going to be awesome!
 

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