Kevin's Watch

Ahh here we go, got the right thread now.

John Cougar-Mellencamp 1990 - Rod Laver Arena.
Closely followed by Violent Femmes 1992 - Metro.

after the Watt show... Brad at numbers.

the set was fantastic, Jeremy spoke to Julie and me from the stage! and we met the band after. Julie sending the drummer after Jeremy.

so many good shows to pick from...some that stick in my mind:

1975 (i think) Warchild Tour Jethro Tull
1977 (Thanksgiving Day) Songs from the Wood Jethro Tull
1979 Yes In the Round (squire's bass solo, still gives me chills thinking about it!)
1979 or 1980 (don't remember) Queen
1999 OK Computer Radiohead

honorable mentions...
George Winston in 1987, i think
Rickie Lee Jones at The Fillmore around 1995 or so
Aerosmith Pump Tour in '88 or '89
Warren Zevon around '93 or '94 at Noe Valley Ministry (a church!)
and of course,
2004 Chris Whitley at 12 Galaxies
i also saw him this past July altho it wasn't a very good show,
he was obviously ill. but i met him and got a good photo.

i saw radiohead in the uk a few years ago and they were top.
jack johnson and a guitar in a tiny venue in adelaide was fantastic.
the best live band i've seen-not my favourite gig though-are 'and you will know us by the trail of dead'.

Damn, I've seen so many concerts that I'm really not sure which is the best.
hmm....
A toss-up with Alice Cooper (My 1st concert), & Pink Floyd (2 times).



Somewhere there's another thread where I posted a short list of "most rememberable" concerts I've been to.

The "Everything Went Heavier" mini-festival in August. I mention this partly because it was great, but mainly because of a tremendous band called Evil Scarecrow. Musically reasonbly good, though not amazing, their standout quality is their sense of humour. Spontaneously playing the theme tune from Countdown between songs made my night.

A perfect circle... it was the first concert that I really got into and Maynard is... amazing.

Also, Monty at Warped Tour last summer... they were amazing and they're so unheard of that everyone was at the main stage listening to Fall Out Boy. It was really personal.

Hmm, there are a few:

* Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe concert. Totally blew me away. I had never been to see 'Yes' in concert so seeing this lineup was awesome! No opening band, just each band member coming out on his own and playing about 15 minutes of solo stuff (Bruford and Levin (bassplayer) did a duo).
The the 'Yes-stuff' came out! WOW! Awesome.

* Bill Bruford w/ Earthworks - Bruford has a fabulous jazz band that he formed in the 80s. It is a tight, modern jazz bank with some layful and soulful songs that instantly made me a fan. And to see him live in a small club with these guys (who sees jazz in a stadium?..) was a 'never-forget' moment.

* Mr. Bungle - When this band toured for their first album, they all wore masks to hide identity. But they are no Slipknot! No, these are the tightest, hardest, funnest (?) rock bank on the planet (well, they were until they broke up). Absolutely unforgetable show. At one point when one obnoxious fan kept gettnig up on stage (despite the bouncers) and prancing around before stage diving... Mike Patton (the lead singer) interrups his singing for a second to pound the guy across the hear with his microphone. The guy leaps into the crowd to escape, only to realize that his head had been opened up by the blow. Patton also realizes this, and for the next number, he quickly confirs with the bank and they break into a Doris Day number (can't remember the title, but is a sad, "I'm Sorry" type song), that Patton seranades the bleeding guy with...

Trying to see if I can remember all the concerts I ever saw in High School.
**OOOOMMMM (lava lamp)**
Yes US debut of Tales From Topographic Oceans-New Haven Collusiem
The Mahavishnu Orchestra 6 times
The Grateful Dead at the Waterbury Palace
Paul Winter Consort-UConn, Storrs
Judy Collins-UConn, Hartford
Dave Mason-UConn, Hartford
Wet Willie, Louisiana LeRoux, The Marshall Tucker Band & The Allman Brothers Band-New Haven Collusiem (what a show! )
Aerosmith at the Waterbury Palace
John Mayall and the Blues Breakers-Yale

shows I missed and was upset about: Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention (they were sold out at the Palace but put huge speakers outside and we were dancing in the streets!), Jethro Tull in Boston (the Passion Play Tour) Leo Kotke and Tim Wiesberg

show I missed and was extremely upset about: Leon Russell (I think he got sick and canceled)!!!!

that be some cultcha!

The best live experience I've had has to have been this year's Wacken Open Air festival. Three days of metal in Germany

Weather could've been a bit better, though... but there were just so many top acts. Especially Dissection. And the stage shows of some of the headliners... I don't like Nightwish, but when they finished off the first night with pyrotechnics and fireworks... I oohed and aahed along with everyone else



Best single gig ever... probably tied between In Flames in April 2004 and the Pixies in June 2004. Both incredible. I was very lucky to get a ticket for the latter, too. But my friend got a pair for his birthday and the rest was history.

Cheval: when did you see Floyd?

I saw them in Foxborough , Mass back in ?88? for the Momentary lapse tour.

somberlain, you truly were lucky to get a ticket for the pixies, i considered selling my soul for one of those tickets but was talked round by my girlfriend. have you ever seen radiohead live?? i saw them in oxford in the uk about 3 years ago supported by beck and they blew me away.

sgtnull wrote:Cheval: when did you see Floyd?

I saw them in Foxborough , Mass back in ?88? for the Momentary lapse tour.

That was about the time I seen them also at Tampa Stadium. (The old sombrarro)
Then caught them a few years later (same place) when they toured for The Division Bell
Also, years before those shows, got to see Roger Waters (Radio K.A.O.S.)
and a few weeks later, David Gilmour (About Face)

I can now die a happy man.

Wow,I have seen quite a few but Stevie Ray Vaughn when I was 14 still has to rank right up there.

tazzyjoe wrote:somberlain, you truly were lucky to get a ticket for the pixies, i considered selling my soul for one of those tickets but was talked round by my girlfriend. have you ever seen radiohead live?? i saw them in oxford in the uk about 3 years ago supported by beck and they blew me away.

Oh, I know. I even got to see them twice that year

But as for Radiohead, not yet. I was offered a ticket (not for free) a couple of years ago but I was only just getting into them and turned it down. How I hate myself for that now. But they've confirmed that they'll be playing *sometime* next year, and I intend to go to as many UK dates as I can afford.

Cheval: man i am so jealous. bother Waters and Gilmour should be in the us next year. we are going to try and see them both. i could have seen Waters last time out, but my wife insisted that her nephew's wedding was more important.

Rumor has it that Gilmour will tour in the U.S. early-mid 2006 to promote a solo album.
(or is that a solo CD? Albums seem absolete nowadays)

I haven't read anything about Waters yet, but keeping my fingers crossed.
He's so much more theatrical on stage than DG.

Waters is releasing two albums in 2006. a sequel to Pros & Cons and something else. (i can't remember)

I saw Eric Clapton in Knoxville TN roughly about 15 years ago. He played for almost 4 solid hours. I've never seen anything like it since.

One of the best vocal performances I ever witnessed was a short 1 hour show done by Merle Haggard in Tunica, MS. Merle was in spectacular form that night.

dlbpharmd wrote:I saw Eric Clapton in Knoxville TN roughly about 15 years ago.

The closest to a stage I've been was Clapton - 1981.
(About 10 feet away - general admission)
It was packed so-o-o tight around the stage that my cousin actually lifted his feet off the floor
and was held up by the crowd for a few seconds. We felt like sardines packed in a tin.
But what a great concert! (Only played for just over 2 hours though. )