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Post by mrperson on Jun 20, 2017 20:37:49 GMT
Past 15ish years:
Tool. 1x. Was closer to 20 years ago and I don't remember much because reasons. My lesson in not standing 2-3 rows back from the barrier. Opener was Meshugga, whom I did not like, and I spent the whole time bracing myself against the people in front so my female companions wouldn't get crushed (one, elsewhere, apparently passed out and had to be removed) - it was bad - but fortunately everyone stood still and shut up when Tool came on. But yeah, college, college-shenanigans, etc., occurred........soooo I don't remember the show all that well. Shame. I hope they tour again after the new album. I love their stuff through 2001......not so much since, but who knows. They haven't done much.
Joe Satriani 2x. Sometimes, I just want to listen to a guitar soar. For that, he's your man. Instrumental performances, but damn. Just damn.
Slash w/ back up band "Conspirators" ~4x. Slash rules. Amen.
Joe Bonamassa 3x. Love his live shows, but his only fault is that he sometimes seem to lack the same compassion for the music.....sometimes it's more "look what I can do" sometimes. And his voice. He just wasn't born with a perfect blues voice. But his fingerwork is something else.
Paco de Lucia 1x. What a versatile and utterly brilliant guitarist. We saw him in a Flamenco context. So glad to have seen him before he passed. A master amongst and above masters, and the singers were so damned good at that show.
Black Keys 2x. Great shows. Love these guys.
Yo Yo Ma / Boston Symphony Orchestra 2x. Yo Yo Ma is something else. Divine hands. Maybe the great Rostropovich rivals him but I don't know. His cello is downright angelic.
Keb 'Mo (blues) 2x. Slightly updated old-school blues. See him if you like blues. One show, he brought this 13-15 year old kid out on stage for a few songs on guitar, and that kid was stellar.
Flight of the Conchords (humor) 1x. Funny as hell.
Soundgarden 1x. Actually, for the first time, I wished the amps were turned down just a bit. I actually heard them better while getting more beer than while at the seats. But, that voice. That voice.....
NIN 1x. Reznor puts on a hell of a show, but I more preferred earlier stuff. Pretty Hate Machine and The Fragile (left side), in particular.
Jeff Pitchell 2x. Like SRV but lacking the God-like hands his inspiration had.
J. Geils Band 1x. I'm generally not a fan of generally poppy-stuff, but they played a ton of early bluesy tunes. Peter Wolf can put on one hell of a show, even at what....70ish?
Guns n' Roses Reunion tour - Summer 2016 (July?), Gillette Stadium, MA. Way beyond expectations. I was worried. I'd seen youtubes of Axl with fake Guns n' Roses and he was terrible. He found is voice again, and everyone was having fun. Also, Slash rules. Amen.
Black Sabbath "The End" (I hope not but, yeah) - late August 2016, Mansfield, MA. Again, beyond expectations. They hit almost all my favorite songs (didn't play Hand of Doom or Electric Funeral or Wheels of Confusion, but still)
Coming up:
Guns n' Roses - August 2017, Hershey, PA. (They added more tour dates, so we decided to have our bigger vacation start here for the show, then do a couple 3-day stops in hiking areas on the wake back to MA. Trails, etc, to be planned)
Guns n' Roses - 10/22/17, TD Garden, Boston, MA (They added even more tour dates after tickets/hotel was bought for the last one. This is close. So how dare I not? One my favorite bands since I was in 6th grade or so. A perfect reaction to the things I didn't like about the 80s. Snarling and soaring, mean and bitter. Make up for lost time if you have the chance, I say....)
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jun 20, 2017 20:45:53 GMT
Sunday, June 10, 1979 in the New Orleans Superdome, I was 15 and this was the line up for the Day of Rock & Roll:
Blue Öyster Cult
Boston
Heart
Nazareth
Sammy Hagar
The Doobie Brothers
Van Halen
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Post by kimalysong on Jun 20, 2017 21:54:33 GMT
I saw Live in the 90's I guess when they released Throwing Copper. I don't think I fully appreciated it at the time but I think it's pretty cool.
Last year I finally saw Paul McCartney with my friend who I have known since I was 5. That was definitely special.
Other than that I've been to a few Japanese/Anime related concerts at anime cons
I saw Jam Project twice (and should be seeing them again this summer along with TM Revolution)
I saw a Piano concert by Yoko Kanno (that was amazing)
And I saw Aya Hirano perform live
I've seen a few others but these were definitely my highlights.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 21, 2017 13:52:11 GMT
Damn.. I have seen a few hundred since my 1st gig- Feb 1990 Megadeth on the "Rust In Peace" tour.. Satriani is always awesome..
Just too many metal bands to mention LOL..
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Post by Digi on Jun 21, 2017 14:30:59 GMT
Oh, just recently I was trying to put together all the shows I've been to!
2000:
Smash Mouth (shut up, I was like 14 or 15)
Barenaked Ladies
2002:
Blink 182 & Green Day (co-headlining the Pop Disaster Tour)
Tool (Lateralus tour)
Our Lady Peace (Gravity tour)
2003:
Matt Good (Avalanche/first solo tour)
The Dears
Matt Good (again)
Deftones (self-titled album tour)
2004:
A Perfect Circle (Thirteenth Step tour)
Matt Good (Put Out Your Lights tour)
2005:
Bedouin Soundclash (not a fan, but they were playing NYE in Toronto)
2006:
Matt Good (solo acoustic tour)
Tool (10,000 Days tour)
2007:
Metric (played my uni during frosh week)
Virgin Festival Toronto:
- MIA
- k-os
- Mutemath
- Interpol
- Arctic Monkeys
- Tokyo Police Club
- Stars
- Metric
- The Killers
- Smashing Pumpkins 2.0
k-os (at my uni bar. Not a fan, I was on a date)
2008:
Metric
Matt Good x2 (consecutive nights, Nothing to Hide tour)
Rise Against (Appeal to Reason tour)
The Edge Jingle Bell Rock (mini-festival hosted by a Toronto radio station) :
- The Dears
- Tokyo Police Club
- Metric
2009:
Edgefest (summer festival held by the same Toronto radio station) :
- The Arkells
- Metric
- alexisonfire
USS
2016: (not sure why I went 7 years without, but here we are)
Muse
July Talk
Weezer
The Tragically Hip
2017:
USS
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2017 14:46:05 GMT
Way back in 1980, synthesisers finally found their way into popular music. Young people splashed their faces with thick layers of make-up in the style of 1920s/1930s films. The term New Romantic was launched, which described this 'fusion' of post-punk attitude with the futurist sounding elements of electronic music ... and I loved it. I loved to bits. Electronic music is my very favourite thing. So when Doctor Who ditched the chamber music that it had used for incidentals for many years and introduced wizardry from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to score its stories, things fell very much into place for my young mind (this is one of the many reasons Series 18 is my favourite period from Doctor Who).
Anyway - John Foxx, who had a few years before formed Ultravox, begun a solo career with the single 'Underpass.' Not only was it an early example in the UK of Kraftwerk-style minimalist electronica, the lyrics also sang of industrial isolation, shadows and rain in cold, detached lyrics - not only this, but people could sing 'Underpants' as the chorus in a wilful misreading of the lyrics, for comedy effect. Such an extravagance must result in a surefire hit? Well, number 31 anyway! And John Foxx's underrated phase as a popstar had begun. A stripped down electronic album 'Metamatic' followed, before he reverted to guitars and synths and gradually lessening populist appeal before all but disappearing in 1985.
Please forgive this ramble. It's just that his songs, especially earlier ones, had a profound effect on me. They MEANT something. So when he reappared in 1997 with new albums, his own record label, and some live concerts, how could I not attend?
Hearing those songs from all those years ago, performed live, and seeing this enigmatic figure behind a flurry of dry ice and a bank of synths almost tipped me into another dimension. No, really: it did! Years later he toured the anniversary of 'Metamatic', and I loved it so much, I actually couldn't hear anything for hours afterwards.
Live music can be the most wonderful thing. For me, it was almost worth waiting, what, 17 years to hear some of the most amazing music performed live with a small crowd of like-minded people.
Wonderful, wonderful stuff. I'm going to play some now.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jun 21, 2017 15:54:55 GMT
Ive been to many down the years. This list wont be of all but a good selection i think
Whitesnake - Restless Heart Farewell Tour 1997
Black Sabbath - The Last Supper 1999/The End 2017
Deep Purple - A Band On Tour 1998
Big Day Out Festival 1999
Iron Maiden - The First British Gig with Bruce and Adrian back in the band 2000
Sugar Coma - What was their final gig before they went on indefinite hiatus, (although they did get back together for a gig in 2013) 2004
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 11:24:46 GMT
I guess this is the gig thread?
I saw Rolo Tomassi last night at The Garage in London. Brilliant!
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Post by mrperson on Apr 8, 2018 15:42:57 GMT
D3 2018: Satriani, Petrucci, Collen. (2/15/18).
Satriani was my favorite, predictably.
Petrucci was impressive but frankly all the shredding ended up getting repetitive. Not nearly as inventive as Satriani.
Collen played a hard rock/blues band that was pretty interesting. I have to remember the name.
Coming up:
Keb Mo' 5/24/18
Ozzy 9/6/18
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 9, 2018 2:33:05 GMT
Coming up :
11th April -Primus
21st April- Destruction
27th April- Ross The Boss (ex Manowar guitarist)
5th May- Bulletboys
16th May - Death Angel/Sepultura
17th May- Adlers Appetite (ex GNR original drummer)
18th May - Europe
7th June - Mr Big/Extreme double header
17th July - Machine Head
30th July - Mortiis
28th August - Gene Simmons/Ace Frehley
(May is a busy month- 3 gigs in 3 nites)
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Apr 9, 2018 12:48:08 GMT
Will definitely be seeing:
Def Leppard/Cheap Trick December 2018
Should be seeing:
Iron Maiden - August 2018
Last gig I saw:
Alice Cooper/The Mission/The Tubes November 2017
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2018 17:34:18 GMT
Wow, lots of fans of awful old metal bands lol
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 11, 2018 5:13:21 GMT
Wow, lots of fans of awful old metal bands lol LOLZ Old is relative to your age and how long you have been a fan... For me- mid to late 80's been a fan. |
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Post by glutamodo on Apr 11, 2018 6:06:12 GMT
For me, the first was the worst. In the mid 1980s the southern/country rock singer Charlie Daniels came to Fort Collins (Colorado) and my parents decided to go, and I got to go with. I was in my mid-teens. The venue: The Lincoln Center, basically a medium sized theatre, made out of concrete and cinder blocks. Not very good acoustics and then Daniels goes and turns the volume up high enough to play a huge stadium. It was so bloody loud that you actually had a hard time hearing it. I think I would have had a better experience if I had sat outside in the parking lot.
Maybe that's why I later latched onto Gordon Lightfoot as a fan, and I've probably seen him and his band play around 20 times over the years, in 5 different states plus Massey Hall a few times in Toronto. Gordie is known for the opposite, turning the volume down too far!
R.E.M. - that was the first concert I ever bought tickets for myself and am glad to have gone, that was the only time I ever saw them live, October 5, 1989 in Denver. My brother was with me, but unbeknownst to me, he apparently ingested some sort of mood-altering substance (he never admitted to me what) that got him ill enough that he spent most of the show curled up on his seat. Blissfully unaware of that, I ignored him and just enjoyed the show.
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Post by Ela on Apr 12, 2018 4:47:02 GMT
Maybe that's why I later latched onto Gordon Lightfoot as a fan, and I've probably seen him and his band play around 20 times over the years, in 5 different states plus Massey Hall a few times in Toronto. Gordie is known for the opposite, turning the volume down too far! I saw Gordon Lightfoot in concert once, very long time ago. I can't really remember offhand all the concerts I've been to. I've seen The Moody Blues in concert. My parents used to sign us up for classical music concert series. I've been to a lot of orchestral and choral music concerts throughout my life (and sang and played in a few, strictly amateur). When I lived in the NY area, my spouse and I signed up for a string quartet series at Carnegie Hall. Also, we used to love to go to concerts of the Waverly Consort (a choral group specializing in early music, including early instruments). |
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 13, 2018 13:51:42 GMT
Foreigner/Cheap Trick were announced today to tour Australia- Cheap Trick are Only playing my home state for some reason.. H3ll yes we will be there.. !
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Post by iainmclaughlin on Apr 13, 2018 17:18:21 GMT
I regret choosing not to go and see Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack on their final tour. I thought he'd be old and past it, and he probably was, and Dean Martin had either quit the tour by then or was showing that he didn't want to be there (he was mourning the death of his son and Sinatra thought getting him on the road might help - it didn't) but still... it was Frank Sinatra and I'd love to have seen him live.
I saw the Rolling Stones on tour in the late 80s - I still have the t-shirt, though it has long-since faded from black to light charcoal. I want to see them again. Bruce Sprinsgteen is also on my must-see list anlong with what's left of The Who.
Suzy Bogguss in the late 90s was fabulous in Glasgow.
The first big name gig I saw was probably Kim Wilde in the early 80s. They hadn't sold out the tickets for her tour date in Dundee so they gave out some tickets to school. My hormones still thank them for that. Talking of school, I was at school with the guys from Danny Wilson. Kit was in my year and I got on with him very well. I remember seeing them (some of them anyway) play a gig at school as Custard Hands and the Normal People. Well, it was the 80s and some things acceptable in the 80s. They were pretty good and dropped the Scooby Doo theme into the middle of a cover of... I can't remember what. I did enjoy it though.
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Post by doomlord on Apr 15, 2018 16:36:49 GMT
Jean-Michel Jarre - Desination Docklands, Victoria Docks, London, 8th October, 1988. I was 17 at the time and it was my first time venturing into London and my first major concert. Being a fan of Jarre since my parents introduced me to Oxygene and Equinoxe in the late 70s and this strange electronic music that seemed to be coming to the forefront in popular music, the unusual and distinct sounds called to my sci-fi ear (thanks to the Doctor Who theme). I went with a few friends of the same age and without parents, travelling on the train all the way from North Wales and we made a day of it seeing what we could of London before making our way to the Docks. It was all held place in the disused and neglected docklands with towering cranes and old millhouses setting the scene. It was like watching the Phoenix rising from the flames as the place became alive again...on such a huge scale.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2018 22:12:44 GMT
Jean-Michel Jarre - Desination Docklands, Victoria Docks, London, 8th October, 1988. I was 17 at the time and it was my first time venturing into London and my first major concert. Being a fan of Jarre since my parents introduced me to Oxygene and Equinoxe in the late 70s and this strange electronic music that seemed to be coming to the forefront in popular music, the unusual and distinct sounds called to my sci-fi ear (thanks to the Doctor Who theme). I went with a few friends of the same age and without parents, travelling on the train all the way from North Wales and we made a day of it seeing what we could of London before making our way to the Docks. It was all held place in the disused and neglected docklands with towering cranes and old millhouses setting the scene. It was like watching the Phoenix rising from the flames as the place became alive again...on such a huge scale. That must have been an amazing experience. Jean-Michel Jarre has never quite equaled Oxygene/Equinoxe/Magnetic Fields for me. I wish he'd do for the latter two albums what he has done for Oxygene and release 'updated' versions, or re-imaginings. Nice to see you posting again, doomlord.  * My fondest remembered concert would be John Foxx in 1998. He was a huge influence on me in the very early 80s with his minimalist electronic music. And then in 1985 he ... completely disappeared, which left me pretty bereft! So when he not only released two albums out of the blue in 1997/8 and a modest live tour, it was a dream come true. To hear those ancient (so it seemed) songs from my youth loud and live was an almost surreal experience. Bless him. And he's still recording now. |
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Post by doomlord on Apr 21, 2018 16:06:31 GMT
Jean-Michel Jarre - Desination Docklands, Victoria Docks, London, 8th October, 1988. I was 17 at the time and it was my first time venturing into London and my first major concert. Being a fan of Jarre since my parents introduced me to Oxygene and Equinoxe in the late 70s and this strange electronic music that seemed to be coming to the forefront in popular music, the unusual and distinct sounds called to my sci-fi ear (thanks to the Doctor Who theme). I went with a few friends of the same age and without parents, travelling on the train all the way from North Wales and we made a day of it seeing what we could of London before making our way to the Docks. It was all held place in the disused and neglected docklands with towering cranes and old millhouses setting the scene. It was like watching the Phoenix rising from the flames as the place became alive again...on such a huge scale. That must have been an amazing experience. Jean-Michel Jarre has never quite equaled Oxygene/Equinoxe/Magnetic Fields for me. I wish he'd do for the latter two albums what he has done for Oxygene and release 'updated' versions, or re-imaginings. Nice to see you posting again, doomlord . * My fondest remembered concert would be John Foxx in 1998. He was a huge influence on me in the very early 80s with his minimalist electronic music. And then in 1985 he ... completely disappeared, which left me pretty bereft! So when he not only released two albums out of the blue in 1997/8 and a modest live tour, it was a dream come true. To hear those ancient (so it seemed) songs from my youth loud and live was an almost surreal experience. Bless him. And he's still recording now. It would seem that we share the same admiration for this genre of music I can imagine how wonderful that John Foxx experience must've been for you, I've just been looking at some of his footage from his Roundhouse sessions... brilliant! I'm posting again as there is a distinct air of tranquillity again. I had actually left but then a couple of days later I found that I was suspended. Glad to be back @experience1 , thanks. Anyway, back to your first thought, indeed, I don't think JMJ will ever surpass his first three albums, I think that's a given but it's not to say that his own evolution has given us some incredible results... well, apart from his Sessions 2000 and the following Geometry of Love albums. Here's something you might like and it's almost as good as the real thing, Equinoxe II. soundcloud.com/elektronalin/equinoxe-3It's a fan made project but it certainly captures the spirit of the original 1978 album. |
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