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Post by Jasoomian on Jun 8, 2014 16:40:05 GMT -5
Willie Nelson
Raffi
Tom Petty
Iguanas
Mike Love (refuse to call that band the "Beach Boys")
Nine Inch Nails
Widespread Panic
Secret Machines
Bad Company
Arcade Fire
Trombone Shorty
Randy Newman
Elvis Costello
Barenaked Ladies
Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Ziggy Marley
Cee Lo Green
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Neville Brothers
Man or Astroman?
Steve Martin
.... and scores other that you've never heard of or I don't remember or don't feel like listing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 17:48:26 GMT -5
Which Pretenders line-up? Cei-U! I summon the brass in pocket! A couple of the later ones ... Saw them in Atlanta in 1/03 for a then-gf's birthday, & while I don't particularly remember them (for some bizarre reason), also with the B-52s at the amphitheatre in Little Rock in 7/98. |
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Post by The Captain on Jun 8, 2014 19:11:58 GMT -5
I'm going to do my list (as much as I can remember) by phase of life...
Junior High/High School
Starship Cinderella/David Lee Roth The Hooters/Loverboy Survivor/REO Speedwagon Cinderella/Bon Jovi Whitesnake/Motley Crue Tesla/Def Leppard Peter Gabriel Genesis Mike and the Mechanics Debbie Gibson - I had to take my sister and her best friend to see this one They Might Be Giants (first time) Soup Dragons/INXS
College/20's
Helmet/Faith No More The Dead Milkmen They Might Be Giants (second time) Nine Inch Nails (three times: first time opener was Marilyn Manson, A Perfect Circle the second time, and co-headlined with David Bowie the third) Tori Amos Smashing Pumpkins Hootie and The Blowfish K.C. and the Sunshine Band/The Village People - I had an ex-girlfriend who loved this stuff The Cranberries/Duran Duran Huey Lewis and the News - this was following a Pirates game, which I'd taken my girlfriend to for her birthday
30's/40's Foo Fighters Third Day (3 times) Tenth Avenue North (3 times) Chris Tomlin (2 times) Rend Collective Experiment
Only regret I have is that I could have seen U2 on the Rattle and Hum tour (my dad reviewed rock music for The Pittsburgh Press from 1972-1989 and got two tickets to every show), but I went to the Pittsburgh Penguins home opener that night. It was early October and the temperature outside (the concert was at Three Rivers Stadium) was around 45 at the start of the show, so it would have been a long and cold night, but I could have seen them for free.
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Post by MWGallaher on Jun 8, 2014 19:36:35 GMT -5
Favorites off the top of my head Alex Chilton (twice) Tav Falco & Panther Burns (twice) I've seen the Panther Burns (with Alex Chilton as guitarist) more times than I can remember. My band did an impromptu song (by invitation) during a break in a Panther Burns set, but Alex regretted the invitation when we did a song that was...err...disrespectful to a hometown idol...and he cut the mike! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 19:49:19 GMT -5
The only concert I've ever been to was a free Beach Boys concert in the park with my dad when I was a kid.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 8, 2014 22:07:40 GMT -5
This week? Steve Earle. The sound system kept goin' out on him, and it was so wet they were afraid to let the (electric) band play, but it was still pretty damn great. Definitely the only country(ish even) show I've been too where there was a lecture about the benefits of socialism.
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 8, 2014 22:16:31 GMT -5
I have never been to a music concert.
My younger brother, on the other hand, has seen the Dave Mathews Band on more than one hundred occasions.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 22:41:08 GMT -5
My sister used to go to the Coachella music festival every year, starting with the first one. She stopped a few years back, got too expensive.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 8, 2014 23:38:04 GMT -5
In the summer of '69, age 14,I had my first job at my granfather's deli. My uncle,5 years older,also worked there and asked if I wanted to go up to Woodstock with him that weekend.
He named the groups scheduled to play there and I wanted to go but stayed behind because I needed the money working instead.Which I'm sure turned out for the better
When my uncle returned he told me he met some girls right away,dropped acid with them and didn't remember anything from the festival. I'm sure if I went,we would have gotten separated,and I would be some scared 14 year old lost in the forest for 5 years.But I would have seen Jimi Hendrix
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Post by Jasoomian on Jun 9, 2014 0:28:14 GMT -5
When you say you've never been to a concert, are you just counting big stadium shows? You've never been to a bar with live music? State fair? Church? Nothing?
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 9, 2014 2:53:05 GMT -5
I'm very strange in that I've never had a desire to attend a concert. I once heard a John Lennon interview where he stated that he was never interested in live performances either since the albums were always the superior listening experience. Granted that's debatable, but I'd have to say I'd agree given that 99.9% of all live performances pale in comparison to the studio versions.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2014 3:01:23 GMT -5
I'm very strange in that I've never had a desire to attend a concert. I once heard a John Lennon interview where he stated that he was never interested in live performances either since the albums were always the superior listening experience. Granted that's debatable, but I'd have to say I'd agree given that 99.9% of all live performances pale in comparison to the studio versions. Then there is the Robert Fripp philosophy...songs/pieces of music are continually evolving as you ply them and become a better musician, and the studio version is just a snapshot, like a baby picture, capturing a song in its infancy but nowhere near an accurate reflection of what it becomes. It all depends on the approach of the musician/artist-those whose live performance try to capture the studio versions note by note he considers bad cover bands of themselves, and in those cases, the studio version is likely better as those musicians spend their entire lives trying to capture that lightning in a bottle a second time and it will never sound that way again (unless you're like Milli Vanilli then you just play the studio version and act like you are performing it). However those who approach each performance as a chance to grow and evolve the song are likely going to give a better live performance and part of the thrill of seeing them live is seeing where the song will go each time it is played. In such cases, the studio version is like a rough draft of the song, and who wants to listen to that? -M |
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 9, 2014 4:30:59 GMT -5
Plus, there is so much more to a concert than just listening to how the notes are played and sung. Go to a Springsteen or Tina Turner show, even an atheist like me can have a quasi-religious experience. The interaction with the audience and the band, the energy brought to the stage, the choreography and light shows...
Also, you sometimes get the chance to see and hear artists do cover versions of songs they never record on album. Springsteen sometimes covers everything from R&B-classics to current pop hits. I saw Gladys Knight do Luther Vandross' "Never too Much" as a playful duet with her handsome backing singer in London in 2009, among many such examples.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2014 4:46:53 GMT -5
One such experience for me, I was at a King Crimson show the night before The Beatles Anthology was set to air on national television here in the States. Belew was a huge Beatles fan and a friend of Yoko Ono and had gotten her permission to perform the track Free as a Bird, the unreleased Beatles track that was set to debut as part of the television special and to be released in the corresponding CDs. So I got to hear the song a night before the rest of the world, performed by a band you would not typically associate with the musical style of the Beatles.
-M
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 9, 2014 5:23:03 GMT -5
One such experience for me, I was at a King Crimson show the night before The Beatles Anthology was set to air on national television here in the States. Belew was a huge Beatles fan and a friend of Yoko Ono and had gotten her permission to perform the track Free as a Bird, the unreleased Beatles track that was set to debut as part of the television special and to be released in the corresponding CDs. So I got to hear the song a night before the rest of the world, performed by a band you would not typically associate with the musical style of the Beatles. -M Awesome! I saw Patti Austin with the WDR Big Band in Essen 5 or 6 years ago, first of three concerts showcasing the music of Duke Ellington. She brought with her a song given to her by the heirs of Duke Ellington (who are friends with her) that she said she was pretty sure had never been recorded or performed live before. That felt pretty historic, and it was a gorgeous ballad. |
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