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Thunderbird Club

#308,022
Miles_ONeal said:
NP:

My favorite BOC album, and one of my favorite live albums. (Live albums are generally my jam.) I've probably said it before, but I saw them on this tour. When I got the album, I played it on repeat in my dorm room for about a week (yes, manually changing and flipping the vinyl). It can briefly get a bit tedious in a couple of spots (the middle of Seven Screaming Diz-Busters, for instance) but overall, it rips.
BOC complained this was too sanitized. There's another album from the tour (the band's bootleg?) that's a lot more raw. I don't recall details of the music that night as someone near us was burning something really potent. But sanitized or not, this is reasonably close to what I can recall, and I've been a lifelong fan.
Joe Bouchard was (I assume still is) a monster bass player.
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"On your feet or on your knees was recorded in '74 and released in Feb. '75. They recorded some of it at The Paramount here in Seattle, check your liner notes. I was there, they were totally on fire as a band, they could really play and they were writing some really cool songs at the time. "Secret Treaties" is an
all time fave.
 
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#308,025
Miles_ONeal said:
NP:

My favorite BOC album, and one of my favorite live albums. (Live albums are generally my jam.) I've probably said it before, but I saw them on this tour. When I got the album, I played it on repeat in my dorm room for about a week (yes, manually changing and flipping the vinyl). It can briefly get a bit tedious in a couple of spots (the middle of Seven Screaming Diz-Busters, for instance) but overall, it rips.
BOC complained this was too sanitized. There's another album from the tour (the band's bootleg?) that's a lot more raw. I don't recall details of the music that night as someone near us was burning something really potent. But sanitized or not, this is reasonably close to what I can recall, and I've been a lifelong fan.
Joe Bouchard was (I assume still is) a monster bass player.
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Secret Treaties for me.
 
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Happy Thursday. I'm excited to go out to Jules Maes in Georgetown tonight - Yay drinking, I had a week off for the operation, that's enough, Mr. Liver
is twitchy.

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Miles_ONeal said:
The BOC post got me thinking. What are your top 5 (or so) concerts?

Earth Wind & Fire / Uriah Heep (Sep 1973)
Lynyrd Skynyrd / The Who (Nov 1973)
Blue Oyster Cult (Dec 1973)[1]
Fleetwood Mac / Jefferson Starship (Oct 1974)
Fleetwood Mac [w/ Buck&Nicks] (Nov 1975)
Buddy Guy (Sep 2018)

There were plenty in between 1975 and 2018 but none that impacted me like these did. That I can recall at the moment.

[1] The date seems wrong, but from all I can find online (and from who I was with and our lack of experience with potent hallucinogens at the time), this is probably right.
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Bands/acts that were particularly impressive after all these years.
Stevie Ray Vaughn (1st time just when the first album was coming out and later in '83). Jaw-dropping impressive. Never seen anything like it.
Off the top of my head...
.38 Special believe it or not were white hot live.
Blackfoot (same)
Early Sammy Hagar late 70s
Dixie Dregs.
Wet Willy
Bo Diddly. Unbelievably impressive.
Peter Frampton
BB King (great both times early 80s
Old REO Speed Wagon (late 70s)
Chris Stapelton (last yr) Seriously impressive, seriously. They are fantastic live. Great start and it just got better. People would have stayed all night if they kept playing.
A couple odd one's:
John Cougar Mellencamp. While not a fan, he was really good. Maybe being mostly sober helped.
Styx before they started doing the themed albums.
 
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dagrev said:
Bands/acts that were particularly impressive after all these years.
Stevie Ray Vaughn (1st time just when the first album was coming out and later in '83). Jaw-dropping impressive. Never seen anything like it.
Off the top of my head...
.38 Special believe it or not were white hot live.
Blackfoot (same)
Early Sammy Hagar late 70s
Wet Willy
Bo Diddly. Unbelievably impressive.
Peter Frampton
BB King (great both times early 80s
Old REO Speed Wagon (late 70s)
Chris Stapelton (last yr) Seriously impressive, seriously. They are fantastic live. Great start and it just got better. People would have stayed all night if they kept playing.
A couple odd one's:
John Cougar Mellencamp. While not a fan, he was really good. Maybe being mostly sober helped.
Styx before they started doing the themed albums.
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I agree on John Cougar Mellencamp. I’ve seen him twice, first was excellent. The next one was great, as good as the Boss on his Born in the USA show.
Pink Floyd was great, Page & Plant was great. I’ve seen Eric Clapton a couple of times, first time he nearly put me to sleep but the next time some years later was super.
Other great memories, Status Quo , Skyhooks, AC/DC, The Easybeats reunion, The Angels, Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil, Kevin Borich Express, Vs Spy Vs Spy and many others.
Edit: Kenny Wayne Shepheard, Train, Paul McCartney.

Plus some Beatles and Led Zep tribute shows with multiple top singers taking turns. Can be effective.
 
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RedVee said:
Ok couldn’t resist.
My top 6 Aussie* bands factoring in success and coloured by by taste of course.

*Australian = started here, formed, gigged, recorded before moving on.

1. AC/DC
2. Cold Chisel
3. Midnight Oil
4. INXS
5. Crowded House
6. Bee Gees
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...of that list - I'd put the Bee Gee's on top... but that just me.

 
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