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Sean-E-Sean
Location: Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc
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Dec 7, 2008 - 12:47pm |
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lollapalooza 1&2
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winter
Location: in exile, as always Gender:
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Dec 7, 2008 - 12:19pm |
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joan_c wrote:Hands down, Yes 90125. The year was 1984 and laser light shows were still a new thing. Went to the concert with my friend Cindy, and there was plenty of broc to go around. The most awesome experience EVAH! Close - I do that a lot. Wish I'd seen that show. I saw them on the Union tour, which was cool - my two favorite lineups (Anderson-Squire-Howe-Wakeman-Bruford and Anderson-Squire-Rabin-Kaye-White).
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triskele
Location: The Dragons' Roost
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Dec 7, 2008 - 12:08pm |
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oldslabsides wrote:The Grateful Dead at the Zoo Amphitheater in Oklahoma City, September 2, 1985. Beautiful evening, good friends, good times. Lots of dancing Deadheads in attendance. Unfortunately the only time I ever saw them, which ironically qualifies it as probably THE show for me. Streaming audio of that show here. i LOVE that website!!
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DownHomeGirl
Location: American Russia Gender:
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Dec 7, 2008 - 12:05pm |
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BillnDollarBaby wrote:Sunday 29 June 2008, Tom Waits, Knoxville TN.
I simply have nothing to aspire to, concertwise, for the rest of my life. It was the show of a lifetime. Hey BDB— not that this has anything to do with Tom Waits, but go see Malcom Holcombe on Saturday 13- Knoxville, TN- Time Warp Tea Room 8:00 PM That dude's a freakin' genius. You won't regret going, I promise. Holcombe kicks in the door of the 'Gamblin' House' By Steve Wildsmith of The Daily Times Staff steve.wildsmith@thedailytimes.com http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20080229/ENT/224468534 Like a disheveled, wild-eyed hermit who calls a cave high up in the Smokies home, Malcolm Holcombe has emerged once again to impart some musical wisdom to the masses. This time, it's in the form of his new album - "Gamblin' House," a record that showcases his signature style: growling, hissing, hollering and singing with a voice that lovers of Bob Dylan would swoon over and guitar-playing that alternates between a murderous choke-hold on the neck and a lover's caress of the strings. This time around, Holcombe teamed up with noted producer Ray Kennedy (who, with fellow Americana maverick Steve Earle, once made up a production team known as the Twangtrust). With Kennedy's help, Holcombe fills out the record with light touches of percussion, banjo and more. It's one thing to describe the record, however, and it's another thing entirely to ask Holcombe to describe the process. He's a product of his environment - the mountains of Western North Carolina - and a conversation with him is filled with off-the-wall analogies, cryptic metaphors and a language that's as foreign as it can be meandering. "I wanted to work with Ray - I've been biting at the bit to get in the saddle with him for a long time," Holcombe told The Daily Times this week. "I got a whiff of the pot boiling over there at Echo Mountain (Studios), and I just went over there and we thought we'd just jump in the pot, you know? Just jump in and turn it up to a nice hot boil. We picked a couple of bones off the side of the road, put 'em in our noses and starting whooping and hollering in the pot. We had a lot of fun. "It was humbling and real spark-ified, you know? He's just a very creative killdare. He let me go ahead and hold the bobby pin, and we just went ahead and put it in the wall socket, so we was able to share the jitters. I was very grateful to be able to collaborate with him. Even though he was a producer, I appreciate him lending an ear to some of the ideas that came up, and once that pot was a boiling, he helped me stir it up a little bit, chop up some meat and vegetables and, hopefully, make it a little palatable to the folks who lend an ear." For those scratching their heads or re-reading the preceding paragraphs, know this - that's just Holcombe. As he sings on the title track of "Gamblin' House," he's got his own set of problems and his own kind of rules. Born in Asheville, N.C., and raised in nearby Weaverville, Holcombe learned to play the flat-top guitar and joined up with a folk group called The Hilltoppers. Playing fairs, dances and shows throughout the small town of Weaverville and thereabouts, he fed his spirit a steady diet of folk, traditional Appalachian ballads and bluegrass. In 1976, he drifted to Florida and, in 1990, Nashville, where he worked odd jobs and soaked up as much of the business side of the industry as possible before going back to North Carolina. He's cut several albums over the years, including one for Geffen, "A Hundred Lies," that earned a four-star review from Rolling Stone. He's been compared to Bruce Springsteen for the way he paints vivid portraits with his songs, turning them into haunting, brooding, moving affairs. There's an ache of loveliness and loneliness, of torment and hope, threaded through each of his songs. It's the groan of weathered timber from an abandoned mountain cabin during a spring storm, the lonesome bark of a coyote on the other side of a ridge or the whine of a locomotive cutting through Appalachian valleys in the dark of night. It's not easy, listening to his songs - there's no clear message, no distinct narrative, that makes a Malcolm Holcombe song easy to follow. Likewise, his performances can be spiritual exorcisms - intense excoriations of the demons that haunt Holcombe's soul. The payoff, however, is in listening and watching with care. One song's meaning ("Cynthia Margaret," for example, about his wife) will dawn clear as a new day, and the furious darkness of groans and foot-stomping and violent guitar strokes will give way to a languid, fluid style that transforms him into the kindly old man holding court on the porch of the corner store. "I didn't come up with the ideas for this record by eatin' too much ice cream," he said. "The theme just kind of made itself. A lot of it's about politics, about a country in trouble. Our country's been in trouble for years and years, in my opinion, with this administration, and I think that it's as plain as the nose on the American people's faces. It's time to shake up the White House, and I'm voting for Obama." Suddenly, the homespun homilies and the quaint sayings seem to vanish. There's a serious tone as he discusses the wave of change he feels is sweeping the nation, and he goes off on a tirade against President Bush. He speaks of his experiences touring Europe, and how Bush's shadow falls on the face of every American. He speaks of his past and his future, and of the evolution - of man, of the land, of his music. And suddenly, just a quickly as he began, he falls back into that guarded, affable personality that can be mistaken by the untrained eye as that of a backwoods bumpkin with a guitar. Holcombe, however, is anything but - although it doesn't bother him if that's what you think. "We just had a lot of fun with this record," he said. "I think we were trying to go for just as raw and back-porch pickin' as we could, to just come up with something that's real and raw and right in your face. "I think it sounds like a pretty good record for a crazy man. It's all that reverb, I reckon."
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Dec 7, 2008 - 11:51am |
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The Grateful Dead at the Zoo Amphitheater in Oklahoma City, September 2, 1985. Beautiful evening, good friends, good times. Lots of dancing Deadheads in attendance. Unfortunately the only time I ever saw them, which ironically qualifies it as probably THE show for me. Streaming audio of that show here.
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Dec 7, 2008 - 11:17am |
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Sunday 29 June 2008, Tom Waits, Knoxville TN.
I simply have nothing to aspire to, concertwise, for the rest of my life. It was the show of a lifetime.
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joan_c
Location: Rushing Here, Rushing There Gender:
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Dec 7, 2008 - 10:54am |
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Hands down, Yes 90210. The year was 1984 and laser light shows were still a new thing. Went to the concert with my friend Cindy, and there was plenty of broc to go around. The most awesome experience EVAH!
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triskele
Location: The Dragons' Roost
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Dec 6, 2008 - 7:07am |
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how is it possible to pick just one?
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winter
Location: in exile, as always Gender:
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Dec 5, 2008 - 10:59pm |
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romeotuma wrote:
Leo Kottke was born September 11, 1945, in Athens, Georgia... he is an acoustic guitarist, widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies... Kottke has overcome a series of personal obstacles including partial loss of hearing and a nearly career-ending bout with tendon damage in his hand to emerge as a widely-recognized master of his instrument... So you saw Wikipedia in concert - which tour was that? Seriously, though - cutting and pasting from a source without citing it makes it look like it's your own work, which is generally considered plagiarism. Could you give credit where credit's due next time?
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Dec 5, 2008 - 8:09pm |
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Xeric wrote:Two hours? Wow! I gotta listen to more Dave Matthews! And, you've got to be 16!
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Xeric
Location: Montana Gender:
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Dec 5, 2008 - 8:08pm |
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hippiechick wrote:When I was 16, I went to see the Rolling Stones at the Cleveland Arena. The ticket cost $6.50, I went with a boy I had a crush on, with the most beautiful green eyes...Uh, anyway, Mick came out in a lavender pleated dress that made him look like a giant hummingbird or something. It was awesome!!!!!!
Laura Nyro on Halloween night in Cleveland, can't even begin to guess the year. 1970-something. Everyone was dressed in costume. My friends and I were Nyro-heads; we would drive to different college campuses to see her, and we were blown away every time.
Which leads me to Tori Amos, definitely a Lauro Nyro reincarnate, the first time I ever saw her, at the Vic in Chicago. I took my then 14 y.o. daughter who, standing in line to get in, complained that she was the only one there with her mother. We saw many Tori concerts together after that.
In St. Louis, in 1986, we scammed some free tix to see the Moody Blues in this incredible outdoor ampitheater that was like a copy of something Greek. It started as a beatiful night, but a rainstorm blew in; the Moodies continued to play, in the thunder and lightning, and although I'm ashamed to say that I can;t remember what was playing, I remember that the storm was a perfect accompaniment, and I was blown away.
In 1999 I volunteered to drive my 16 y.o. son and a few of his friends to Indi to see the Dave Matthews Band, because I didn't think they had enough experience to drive themselves. At the very end, they started playing Two Step, and at the exact time, its started raining, and it only rained for the length of the song, and it was an awesome experience to be all dancing in the rain together like that. Then, as we were leaving, we stood right in front of their tour bus, and Dave waved right at us!!! Then we sat in the parking lot for 2 hrs, unable to move, and being entertained by the car next to us, the chick giving her b.f. a blow job for all to see.
I guess it's the whole experience that makes shows the best for me.
Two hours? Wow! I gotta listen to more Dave Matthews!
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Dec 5, 2008 - 7:45pm |
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When I was 16, I went to see the Rolling Stones at the Cleveland Arena. The ticket cost $6.50, I went with a boy I had a crush on, with the most beautiful green eyes...Uh, anyway, Mick came out in a lavender pleated dress that made him look like a giant hummingbird or something. It was awesome!!!!!!
Laura Nyro on Halloween night in Cleveland, can't even begin to guess the year. 1970-something. Everyone was dressed in costume. My friends and I were Nyro-heads; we would drive to different college campuses to see her, and we were blown away every time.
Which leads me to Tori Amos, definitely a Lauro Nyro reincarnate, the first time I ever saw her, at the Vic in Chicago. I took my then 14 y.o. daughter who, standing in line to get in, complained that she was the only one there with her mother. We saw many Tori concerts together after that.
In St. Louis, in 1986, we scammed some free tix to see the Moody Blues in this incredible outdoor ampitheater that was like a copy of something Greek. It started as a beatiful night, but a rainstorm blew in; the Moodies continued to play, in the thunder and lightning, and although I'm ashamed to say that I can;t remember what was playing, I remember that the storm was a perfect accompaniment, and I was blown away.
In 1999 I volunteered to drive my 16 y.o. son and a few of his friends to Indi to see the Dave Matthews Band, because I didn't think they had enough experience to drive themselves. At the very end, they started playing Two Step, and at the exact time, its started raining, and it only rained for the length of the song, and it was an awesome experience to be all dancing in the rain together like that. Then, as we were leaving, we stood right in front of their tour bus, and Dave waved right at us!!! Then we sat in the parking lot for 2 hrs, unable to move, and being entertained by the car next to us, the chick giving her b.f. a blow job for all to see.
I guess it's the whole experience that makes shows the best for me.
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Peace_tode
Location: Atlanta Gender:
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Dec 5, 2008 - 6:54pm |
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Prior to this year, my all time BEST SHOW EVER was Peter Gabrial on the "Secret World Tour" in '92", truly magnificent even today. But.... the Eagles "Long Road Out Of Eden" tour was such a masterful production backing an amazing band , it has topped all my past experiences in live music.
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Peace_tode
Location: Atlanta Gender:
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Dec 5, 2008 - 6:45pm |
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TowserTunes wrote:Rush opened their first tour in five years at the Chevrolet theater in Wallingford CT after Neil lost his wife and daughter...From the first chord of the opening song - Tom Sawyer - it was awesome and I have seen the 7 other times before and since. Oh and they closed the show with Wont Get Fooled again as a tribute to John Entwistle.
That has been discussed as a VERY emotional and important show. Read the book Ghost Rider by Neil Peart to gain the full understanding.
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TowserTunes
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Nov 10, 2008 - 1:47pm |
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Rush opened their first tour in five years at the Chevrolet theater in Wallingford CT after Neil lost his wife and daughter...From the first chord of the opening song - Tom Sawyer - it was awesome and I have seen the 7 other times before and since. Oh and they closed the show with Wont Get Fooled again as a tribute to John Entwistle.
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Hairfarmer
Location: The birthplace of Rock & Roll, baby. Gender:
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Nov 6, 2008 - 9:29am |
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romeotuma wrote:
Yeah, but what about Terry Jacks?
Nope, they didn't do Seasons In The Sun. I'd have remembered that.
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Hairfarmer
Location: The birthplace of Rock & Roll, baby. Gender:
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Nov 6, 2008 - 5:46am |
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Don McMinn (local blues artist) and his "Rum Boogie Band", at the Beal Street Music Festival in 1986, with special guests:
Ruby Wilson
Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love & Don Nix (The Memphis Horns)
Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn & Booker T. Jones (Booker T. & The M.G.'s)
Albert King
All playing in a revival tent that held approximately 150 people. For about four hours. It was the second concert I ever went to.
It was also the night I discoverd wher one of my college buddies had dissapeard to after first semester. She'd gotten married to Don Nix!
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mem_313
Location: Beachside, Paradise Gender:
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Nov 5, 2008 - 10:59pm |
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Peter Gabriel - Talk Tour. that man is amazing. Saw Stevie Ray Vaughn play at my small college bar I was working at in 1980. Now THAT was an amazing show.
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mem_313
Location: Beachside, Paradise Gender:
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Nov 5, 2008 - 10:57pm |
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JustJanis wrote: You betcha. Yikes, I think I just did a Sarah Palin impersonation....... lol...
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JustJanis
Location: The Pacific Northwest Baby!!!! Gender:
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Nov 5, 2008 - 9:46pm |
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Rod wrote: Dave is always a great show!
You betcha. Yikes, I think I just did a Sarah Palin impersonation.......
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