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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 11:34:37 GMT
I thought it would be fun to see which bands everyone has seen live. My memory isn’t getting any better and I’m sure I’ve missed some due to destruction of brain cells at the time! Sorry about the more obscure bands but I do like progressive metal. I wish I’d seen Genesis, Yes, Led Zep and Gentle Giant in the 70s when they were good(!). AC DC Aliases Animals as Leaders Black Sabbath BTBAM Big Big Train Camel Circles Chimp Spanner Contortionist Dream Theatre Fellsilent Focus Hacktivist Haken Jethro Tull Judas Preist Karnivool King’s X Level 42 Living Colour Monuments Nick Kershaw Ozzy Osbourne Periphery Peter Gabriel Police Porcupine Tree Rush (4 times!) Sikth Skindred Skyharbour Steetband (Paul Young) Tesseract Thin Lizzy To-Mera Undertones Vangellis Vola
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 11:43:34 GMT
I thought I edited my OP to add a few more but seems I quoted my OP. Weird...
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Post by lollygagger on Aug 4, 2019 11:44:55 GMT
I cba to list them all, but Happy Mondays in their pomp were by far the best live band I've ever seen, closely followed by the stranglers and Ultravox before Midge Ure ruined them. I saw Genesis in the mid seventies, you didn't miss much unless you like musicians who have disappeared up their own arseholes.
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Post by lollygagger on Aug 4, 2019 11:47:23 GMT
I thought I edited my OP to add a few more but seems I quoted my OP. Weird... So...delete it! There's a button for that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 11:56:08 GMT
I cba to list them all... Well maybe your brain cells are still intact unlike mine. I also hate you now you’ve told me you saw Genesis in the mid 70s...
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Post by lollygagger on Aug 4, 2019 12:04:07 GMT
I cba to list them all... Well maybe your brain cells are still intact unlike mine. I also hate you now you’ve told me you saw Genesis in the mid 70s... They were a dirge of unending solos. CBA = can't possibly remember them all at my age. Floyd were also a let down on their animals tour, I wish I'd been born 10-15-20 years earlier. I'd have liked to see the stones but they were over the hill too.
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Post by Jim on Aug 4, 2019 12:05:35 GMT
Too many to mention. Used to go and see bands in Manchester, also a good few festivals over the years. Sometimes got closer to the action, as it were, roadying with my Merc 306 for the local PA company. Eg for Tony Wilson's So It Goes programme with several punk/new wave bands. Boom town rats, Mink De Ville, the Damned, Captain Sensible etc.
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Post by lollygagger on Aug 4, 2019 12:11:47 GMT
Nowadays I prefer a good pub band, the nearer you are to the band, the more intimate the setting, the better it is. I saw Gregory Isaacs not long before he died in the Cambridge united Football supporters club. The poor chap was a crack head and some London crew had cajolled him, no doubt with free crack, to come along with their shit jungle disco thing. It took until 4am to prise him out of the dressing room but there was no stage, he wandered among us and he was epically good. Can't get much more intimate than being stood next to the guy. If anyone here saw Hendrix in a small club I'm going to green with envy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 12:32:01 GMT
Nowadays I prefer a good pub band, the nearer you are to the band, the more intimate the setting, the better it is. I saw Gregory Isaacs not long before he died in the Cambridge united Football supporters club. The poor chap was a crack head and some London crew had cajolled him, no doubt with free crack, to come along with their shit jungle disco thing. It took until 4am to prise him out of the dressing room but there was no stage, he wandered among us and he was epically good. Can't get much more intimate than being stood next to the guy. If anyone here saw Hendrix in a small club I'm going to green with envy. Yes, Hendrix was very special. We do a few Hendrix songs in our band. Obviously we do our best not to let the man down. My favourite is Foxy Lady. www.lemonrock.com/banned?page=songs
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Post by lollygagger on Aug 4, 2019 12:45:34 GMT
Nowadays I prefer a good pub band, the nearer you are to the band, the more intimate the setting, the better it is. I saw Gregory Isaacs not long before he died in the Cambridge united Football supporters club. The poor chap was a crack head and some London crew had cajolled him, no doubt with free crack, to come along with their shit jungle disco thing. It took until 4am to prise him out of the dressing room but there was no stage, he wandered among us and he was epically good. Can't get much more intimate than being stood next to the guy. If anyone here saw Hendrix in a small club I'm going to green with envy. Yes, Hendrix was very special. We do a few Hendrix songs in our band. Obviously we do our best not to let the man down. My favourite is Foxy Lady. www.lemonrock.com/banned?page=songs..and I see you have a bash at Little Wing too, one of my favourites but difficult to play convincingly? From your song list I'd enjoy your band in a pub...but IMHO you shouldn't attempt Honky tonk woman with all that distortion and without the blues tuning. Anyway, you're a Southern band I believe so no chance of playing anywhere I could walk home from. I played in a few bands but kind of gave up in my 40's, it's too time consuming and our drummer at that time was so crap we were expending all our energy trying to sound acceptably tight with no room for expression, it put me off for life.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2019 13:48:35 GMT
I'm not that into music so not much
Michael Jackson Glasgow I suppose 1991 ish.
Black Sabbath post Ozzie 1991 ish.
No others.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2019 13:51:43 GMT
Thinking about it I may have seen Glen Danzig about the same time but all I really remember is being completely fucked on weed for about a year so not much to remember!!
At least it put me off smoking for life that's one good thing !
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Post by bluesman on Aug 5, 2019 14:18:11 GMT
The Stones in Sheffield in an absolute downpour. Great stuff. Gary Moore in Portsmouth. Superb Eric at the Albert - Perfect Fleetwood Mac at Cooks Ferry Inn 1969ish Best blues ever (before they became whatever they are now...………….)
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 5, 2019 18:29:53 GMT
Not many for me either. Rolling Stones, New Order, Bauhaus and Oasis. That's it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2019 18:49:42 GMT
Way to many to remember but all the big bands of the 90s, loved a gig or festival... stand outs are prodigy and Metallica, they blew me away, shortest band live had to be oasis, terrible.
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