All About Eve, 1989, pretty much the front row. So great I passed out. Ok, maybe I had flu and went anyway and it wasn't entirely due to my crush on Juliane Regan.
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Your most memorable live show
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All About Eve, 1989, pretty much the front row. So great I passed out. Ok, maybe I had flu and went anyway and it wasn't entirely due to my crush on Juliane Regan.
King Crimson + Strawbs 10/15/73 Santa Monica Civic. Fripp, Wetton, Cross and Bruford were otherworldly that night. Was that really 50 years ago? How'd that happen.
SCotS tossing out fried chicken at the Electric Factory.
Michael Manring front row. I can still hear the clicks from his Zon tuners.
Pink Floyd, Division Bell, Yankee Stadium
To name a few.
Michael Manring front row. I can still hear the clicks from his Zon tuners.
Pink Floyd, Division Bell, Yankee Stadium
To name a few.
Saw Sun Ra and the Arkestra at the Melody Ballroom in Portland some time in the 90s. Amazing show in spite of their advanced ages. Sun Ra himself was kind of barely there, but the band was a-cookin'.
I'm too young to have caught many of the jazz greats before they were past their prime or gone, but I did get to see Miles, Sonny Rollins (a couple times), McCoy Tyner, and a bunch of blues greats like John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, Albert Collins, etc., and a fair share of Latin/Latin jazz greats like Tito Puente, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Arturo Sandoval and Los Van Van when Juan Formell was still alive and Pupy Pedroso was still in the band. Poncho Sánchez always puts on a good show.
Most memorable shows though? probably opera. Aida at an outdoor stadium in Lisbon in the 90s, and Philip Glass's Orphée and Galileo Galilei, both staged by Portland Opera (2009 and 2012).
Most memorable rock show? Dylan at Alpine Valley, Wisc., some time in the 80s, I swear he was singing straight to me, but that might have been the drugs talking. (Not surprisingly, a couple of the worst rock shows I've been to were also put on by the notoriously moody Mr. Zimmerman.) Runner up: Tom Petty in the early 90s with the late great Howie Epstein, and again in 2014 when Ron Blair had rejoined, both top notch shows.
Man, I would have loved to have seen The Tubes....crazy stuff. That must have been an awesome show!
I went because I really liked a couple of their songs-Talk to Ya Later and She's a Beauty. I knew nothing else about them but yeah it was cool. And it was at the college I was attending so it was convenient.
My first - Berlin Airlift -
will always have a special place in my heart. Also Earth, Wind & Fire at the Cap Center, 8th row floor, when Doug Henning did the stage show. King Crimson Discipline tour at Merriweather Post Pavilion. So many other great shows, but those stand out.
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1. Yngwie Malmsteen at Daytona's outside of Baltimore around 98. He made us wait 2 hours after the opener. I was right in front of him. He had a great band and the show perfect. It was the end of his prime.
2. Black Sabbath/Ozzy/Pantera/Type O/etc. at Nissan Pavillion around 99. The lawn seaters tore up the sod and it cascaded to the front where we were. I almost hit Phil Anselmo with a chunk. Then there was a mini riot at the end of the Black Sabbath set that destroyed a lot property. Made the news.
3. Rush "farewell" tour from the 7th row. One of the best stage productions I have ever seen and I knew I would never see them live again.
2. Black Sabbath/Ozzy/Pantera/Type O/etc. at Nissan Pavillion around 99. The lawn seaters tore up the sod and it cascaded to the front where we were. I almost hit Phil Anselmo with a chunk. Then there was a mini riot at the end of the Black Sabbath set that destroyed a lot property. Made the news.
3. Rush "farewell" tour from the 7th row. One of the best stage productions I have ever seen and I knew I would never see them live again.
Gogol Bordello is a force one should witness live.
As an audience member, King Crimson. As a musician, the Mariposa Folk Festival.
Level 42 at the Back Room in Austin in October 1987.
The Back Room held maybe 750 people packed full. I was standing close enough to the stage to touch Mark King's monitor. It was, IIRC, the only tour Level 42 ever did in the US beyond opening dates for some arena acts.
The Back Room was a bit on the wrong side of the tracks and was mostly a blues and heavy metal club. Who knows how Level 42 ended up playing there, given the other options in Austin even then (they should have played at Liberty Lunch). I don't think they loved the situation. In the Michael Cowton biography book, they described it as a "tiny venue outside of Dallas" which I suppose was not technically wrong. It was the original lineup, but it ended up being Philip Gould's last show with the band, to this day I think.
I was close enough to hear the stage amps more than the FOH, which was really cool because of the sound separation. Bass in the middle, guitar over here, keys over there. Just like I was the one playing. The band was wicked tight.
I went with a buddy who has since passed. He collected setlists, he would run up after the shows and grab them off of the floor or whatever they were taped to. Over the years he got setlists from the Fixx, Modern English, Thomas Dolby, Civil Twilight, and dozens more. And he got this one. It's somewhere in his stuff; I hope his kids understand how cool it is.
The Back Room held maybe 750 people packed full. I was standing close enough to the stage to touch Mark King's monitor. It was, IIRC, the only tour Level 42 ever did in the US beyond opening dates for some arena acts.
The Back Room was a bit on the wrong side of the tracks and was mostly a blues and heavy metal club. Who knows how Level 42 ended up playing there, given the other options in Austin even then (they should have played at Liberty Lunch). I don't think they loved the situation. In the Michael Cowton biography book, they described it as a "tiny venue outside of Dallas" which I suppose was not technically wrong. It was the original lineup, but it ended up being Philip Gould's last show with the band, to this day I think.
I was close enough to hear the stage amps more than the FOH, which was really cool because of the sound separation. Bass in the middle, guitar over here, keys over there. Just like I was the one playing. The band was wicked tight.
I went with a buddy who has since passed. He collected setlists, he would run up after the shows and grab them off of the floor or whatever they were taped to. Over the years he got setlists from the Fixx, Modern English, Thomas Dolby, Civil Twilight, and dozens more. And he got this one. It's somewhere in his stuff; I hope his kids understand how cool it is.
Hhmmm, I took my son to see Tool a couple years ago. Their light show was amazing - the normal screen behind them, but a light curtain in front on some songs. Made it look 3D. Author and Punisher opened. Nobody I talked to was as impressed as me, but it's one guy controlling everything, on a machine he designed and built himself!
And the Metallica show where they faked all the breakdowns and fires and sparks, then came back out with little amps like a garage band.! Plus COC opened!
And the Metallica show where they faked all the breakdowns and fires and sparks, then came back out with little amps like a garage band.! Plus COC opened!
The memorable Torch! Only a few times for me there. Lots of fun. Gets a nice crowd.
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Well memorable would be:
1) My first concert Beach Boys...just a fun time.
2) Going to the FIRM concert and no ticket till I got there. A guy pulled up next to us and said anyone need a ticket my girl couldn't go. So I gave him $10 and we walked all the way to the 2nd row dead center...WOW...(and to top it off I met the whole band afterwards at the hotel they were staying at.)
3) Was actually last week when I went to see Ted Nugent. WOW what a guitarist. Sometimes you forget how good a musician he is until you see him live. More energy and talented band than I've seen in a while.
1) My first concert Beach Boys...just a fun time.
2) Going to the FIRM concert and no ticket till I got there. A guy pulled up next to us and said anyone need a ticket my girl couldn't go. So I gave him $10 and we walked all the way to the 2nd row dead center...WOW...(and to top it off I met the whole band afterwards at the hotel they were staying at.)
3) Was actually last week when I went to see Ted Nugent. WOW what a guitarist. Sometimes you forget how good a musician he is until you see him live. More energy and talented band than I've seen in a while.
