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Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 1:48:19 AM

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I'm gonna let others go first, 'cause I haven't quite decided.

And what's your Dream Band lineup? Players don't necessarily have to be breathing...

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 5:02:14 AM

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This is easy for me, as I've only ever been to one concert in my life.

It was Peter Frampton, and the first time I ever took a .......pill.
Bad bad memories!

To make up for that, I would love to see Tool and/or A Perfect Circle.
I would also love to see Marc Anthony, but I would want to be his only audience.

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 5:04:11 AM

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AC/DC. Awesome. Also Aerosmith, and Cheap Trick with The Ramones opening. Killer!! Melissa Etheridge was great too.

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 5:09:12 AM

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The Dwarves, Bad Brains, the Ramones, Motorhead, Skinny Puppy, Legendary Pink Dots, New Model Army, Murder By Death, Social Distortion, 45 Grave

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 5:14:56 AM

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This is going to be a REALLY rough one for a bunch of people here.

3/29/93 Knickerbocker Arena -- Party before our wedding.

Anything with David Bromberg.

Anything with Al Kooper

84% of the Hot Tuna shows I've seen.

Steve Earle ( w/ Del Mc Band... )

Mickey's Birthday, especially 9/11/88 and 9/11/90 ( Philly )

That whole spring and summer of 90 where Brent was melting down. A personal tragedy, but man, the music.....

No Doubt was good, but it was a festival so it was a short set.

Lenny Kravitz opening up for Tom Petty in 1990 was pretty good, too...

Blues Traveler/Widespread Panic/Dryer Bros. @ Arrowhead Ranch in Sullivan NY...

That's SEEN.

The best SHOW I've ever listened to, "Candide, 1968 -- Bernstein's 50'th Birthday production featuring Alan Arkin as Pangloss and Madeline Kahn as Cunegonde"

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 5:19:46 AM

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Dottie Peoples. She's a gospel singer. Her style reminds me of Patti LaBelle.

About 15 years ago one of the supervisors where I worked at the time was involved with a civic group that was staging an all day concert at a local university gymnasium. We had a small PA system at work and he asked me if I would set it up and operate it for the show and I agreed to help out. We're talking small - an eight channel powered Sunn mixer, two medium sized full range cabinets and two floor monitors with a separate monitor amp. I don't even think we had eight mics for the thing.

So I set up the rig the day of the show. The performers trickle in throughout the day. Mostly local gospel groups from churches and such. Several are just vocal quartets. At some point in the afternoon Ms. Peoples' bus and entourage arrives. She was the headliner of the day. Her manager comes in and surveys the situation and is immediately frantic. "Ms. Peoples can't perform here! Ms. Peoples can't perform here!". I tried to explain the situation but he wasn't receptive at all. A little while later Ms. Peoples came in and visited me at the "soundboard".

I explained the situation and told her it is what it is - I was just a volunteer "hired gun" and evidently there had either been a communication breakdown or the organizers didn't realize that they would need more equipment. She could see that I was visibly upset for having been put in this position. She put her hand on my shoulder and said "Sweetie, don't you worry. We're gonna make it work. It'll be just fine" and she went back to her bus to get ready.

I helped her band load in and set up and again apologized to several of them for the snafu and they just shrugged and smiled and reassured me it would be ok - they had played in tighter gigs - and they went about their business. Ms. Peoples came out and just about blew me away. Patti Labelle has nothing on this lady. Paltry PA or not she sang her heart out and her band played their hearts out - those poor guys couldn't even hear each other. There were maybe 200 people in that gymnasium and she preformed like it was 200,000. It was nothing short of incredible.

While gospel music is not really my cup of tea I have to say that never before or since have I witnessed a performance that rivaled what I saw that afternoon.

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 5:35:40 AM

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so far for me, and i haven't been to many concerts but still, so far it's been the BLS show i went too at the end of last month. 1) i was super hyped to see them, 2) they were better than i was expecting (it all started with ZW playing piano -- pretty well, i might add, and then next thing you know, someone's dropping bombs on your head =p), and 3) their fans are rabid and INSANE and the energy was ridiculous.
it was so much fun; my friend who went with me was like "i can't believe I am actually hoarse!" =p
super fun. super, super fun. lots of neck soreness from headbanging.

to add to that, one of the opening bands, Hourcast, was surprisingly great (but their recordings don't sound as awesome as they do live) and they had this nuclear-powered bass that felt like someone was punching you. you could literally feel it. i seriously almost had an orgasm several times during their set, just because of THAT. =p

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 5:54:31 AM

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quote:

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Dottie Peoples. She's a gospel singer. Her style reminds me of Patti LaBelle.

Holy FUCK, yes!

NYE 2K -- they were, with the DDBB, special guests for the WSP NYE show.

Listen here: ( streaming link available ) http://stash.nugs.net/wsp/991231mp3.asp?artist=6&show=72&cmd=shows

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 6:03:34 AM

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U2.

What made it great was the culmination of a bunch of things. Bono's arm was in a sling. He couldn't play guitar. He asks, "Anybody able to play my guitar?" and out walks Bruce Springsteen to surprise everybody. They played a Beatles tune. Turned out that the opening band were buddies of Bruce. It was the surprise and all that made it great!

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 6:14:29 AM

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Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkA7PObD-sw

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 7:45:29 AM

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killing joke with treponem pal opening (that singers hands are huge!) my first ever gig and just fantastic.

motorhead with the damned opening, absolutely fabulous.

then nick cave and grinderman last year with some art house people opening who were rubbish in my view. but the cave was great.

i've also seen river dance live which i enjoyed far more than i thought i would.

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 8:00:11 AM

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Back in the late 70's I went to a concert in New Orleans that was called (I think) A Day of rock and roll. It was Boston, Heart, Van Halen, Nazereth, I think Blue Oyster Cult, and maybe a couple of others. It was a day of rock and pot and mushrooms and absolute wonderfulness.

When I saw Fleetwood Mac, I did enjoy the fact that I was able to kegal orgasms to Mic's great drumming though.......

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 8:10:35 AM

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I would have to come down to a final choice between the Concert for Bangladesh, and the Rolling Stones...

Can you imagine... George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Ravi Shankar, Billy Preston... ya feel like, yanno, okay I can die now, I've seen everything.

First Stones concert I went to started in the evening. Madison Square Garden. New York City. Terry Reid warmed up while people were still getting seated and lighting up. Then BB King did a set that was a concert in itself. Then Ike and Tina Turner and the Ike-ettes did a set that was a concert-and-a-half in itself. And then, the Stones came on... what a fucking night that was.

I caught Hendrix, too... and a few others. But I have to pretend not to remember to protect my reputation.

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 9:06:56 AM

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quote:

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I would have to come down to a final choice between the Concert for Bangladesh, and the Rolling Stones...

Can you imagine... George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Ravi Shankar, Billy Preston... ya feel like, yanno, okay I can die now, I've seen everything.

First Stones concert I went to started in the evening. Madison Square Garden. New York City. Terry Reid warmed up while people were still getting seated and lighting up. Then BB King did a set that was a concert in itself. Then Ike and Tina Turner and the Ike-ettes did a set that was a concert-and-a-half in itself. And then, the Stones came on... what a fucking night that was.

I caught Hendrix, too... and a few others. But I have to pretend not to remember to protect my reputation.

K.

Oh man, you were at Concert for Bangledesh?

Last Waltz is one I would have loved to have seen live. So much talent, just jamming and having a good time....

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 9:25:59 AM

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"Cream" at the Lowell, Mass auditorium. Jimmy Hendricks at the old Boston Garden.
Jethro Tull at the Newport Jazz Festival.

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 9:30:10 AM

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Piece of cake.......Sinatra at Caesars, and Sinatr, Martin and Davis at Bally's.

That was in the 80's, in my previous life. Lots of really bad times, a few really fucking amazing times.

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 9:48:21 AM

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I'd like to see a Jimmy Buffett concert without all the drunk people puking all around me.

That Sinatra, Martin, Davis line-up would be the shit, too, though!

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 9:49:10 AM

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The Beach Boys/Chicago double header at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City in the mid 70s was probably the best. I just wish I could remember it...

Oh... Almost forgot...

Freddie Mercury, Jerry Garcia, Janis Joplin and Jimmie Hendrix ... just one more time

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 9:50:01 AM

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I've been to quite a few concerts, but the first one I ever went to was the best.

It was in the 80s when stadium concerts had just begun to happen. I went to see Queen at the local football stadium, supported by INXS (with the delicious Michael Hutchence) and Status Quo.

Freddie Mercury was at his absolute peak, and I remember the feeling at the end of the concert when the music, the lights and the 'whole stadium as one, rocking on' feeling began to diminish that I actually got quite tearful.

Just...awesome.

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RE: Best Concerts You've Ever Seen - 6/13/2011 9:50:42 AM

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I'm still reeling from last Tuesday's U2 concert, with Lenny Kravitz opening. OMFG an absolutely incredible, magical, awesome show. Just wow wow wow.

Also along that vein...the first time I saw Paul McCartney - for many reasons. And Crosby Stills Nash & Young - the CSNY2K tour - phenomenal.

Pink Floyd may have made the list but circumstances around the show brought it down for me, which was a total bummer.

As for smaller shows, there's a band call Truth & Salvage Company - they opened for the Avett Brothers. I later saw them in a night club here in town and the blew the doors off the place. Super tight band, amazing music, and they played a song, just for me.

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