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wtfd
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Feb 19, 2009 - 11:27pm PT
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how many skynard members are still alive? isnt it just the drummer or something?
my first dead show, in 89 or something was a hoot, i ran away from home and flew to oakland, my first show with a fat darkstar.
kinda heady for a 15 year old kid...
another good one was phil and phriends in kansas, willie nelson opened up and jesus, talk about a mixed crowd, it was either cowboys with sh#t kickers, or dreadies with patchwork skirts, OIL AND WATER. what an interesting vibe that show had.
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Beatrix Kiddo
Mountain climber
Littleton
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Feb 24, 2009 - 10:31am PT
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Brian. . .we alternated sides od the stage each night. Chilly Water was one of the coolest I have ever heard it!!!! We were HIGH up, like row 20 or something. I don't remember. Yeah, I love the boys too. I hear they may come back this summer but it has not been confirmed. Are you going to the Orange Beach shows? I was ther 4/20 last year. What a time. I loved when they played Airplane and it started raining!!! Then the finish with Aint Life Grand. . ..OH MY GOD!!! Drop me a line if you want to get to any shows. I'll travel.
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seamus mcshane
climber
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Feb 24, 2009 - 10:40am PT
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Phish @ Coach House 1992.
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Feb 24, 2009 - 10:47am PT
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Neil Young has never disappointed.
Also saw the Dead about 18 times, Hot f*&king Tuna, Dire Straights, all good.
But this had to be the most fun:
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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Feb 24, 2009 - 10:53am PT
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LOL!!! locker that's so funny...
I was reading through this thread and couldn't help but realize just how many old farts there are around here.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Feb 24, 2009 - 12:42pm PT
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Watch it there, Nature. . .
Us old farts pay our sushi bills on time!!!!
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richross
Trad climber
gunks,ny
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Feb 24, 2009 - 02:14pm PT
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I saw the Band of Gypsies,New Years Eve 1969-70 at the Fillmore East.I got to see both Friday night shows.
The second show I got to see because I panhandled a ticket outside the entrance.
I said "spare ticket" not really expecting to get one.
Some guy just handed me a ticket as he was walking in!
Here's a program cover from the period.
I remember one night at the Fillmore waiting to get in.A taxi stops in the front of the theater.
A known groupie who I had seen there before gets out,walks up to the door,flashes a boob to the ticket taker and walks in.
I was fifteen years old at the time and got a laugh out of that.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Feb 24, 2009 - 02:19pm PT
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Feb 24, 2009 - 03:55pm PT
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I like the blues and classical. I'll skip listing the best live classical concerts that I have heard, if nobody minds.
I was at the BB King concert at the Fillmore in 1967 (I think). I was a teenager and had listened to King's electric guitar on as many records as I could find. When Graham booked him at the Fillmore, I couldn't miss it. The place was packed. King's popularity was waning amongst blacks but he had a devoted, but heretofore secert, following amongst young white listeners. This concert was one of the first he played to a large white audience. You could tell that he was trilled by the whole concert. At the end, Graham announced that the concert was over, but we were all invited to the private party that started immediately. He also announced that King's band had to catch a plane to LA but they would leave their instruments on the stage and if anyone in the audience wanted to jam with Mr. King, they could just come right up. The place was full of SF's best musicians. What a jam.
I have always been a big fan Clapton--in Squaw Valley in the early 70s, I think I drove Chris Jones and Bev Johnson nearly crazy with my over loud record playing of all the albums Clapton had recorded. But I had not kept up in middle age. So, in the 90s, two friends and I decided to attend a Clapton concert at the local arena. One of my friends is a trained classical bassist but is an executive at the Cleveland Orchestra and another was a classically trained percussionist who sat in on Orchestra recordings and when traveling bands needed a quick replacement when in town. His day job was as an MD and he played in a well know local blues band in a run down tavern near Case Western University, during the week. Anyway, as a group we had bonefides in the musical arts.
A good two months ahead of time I purchased the tickets for the main floor and, immediately, the Orchestra exec asked for them. On the way to the arena, I asked him where we were sitting and he smiled and said he didn't know. When we arrived, he walked up to the will-call and was handed tickets in the third row center.
We were well under the big speaker banks blasting the arena and so the sound we heard was mostly from the monitors on the stage. We were close enough to see the checking and adjustments signals amongst the musicians on the stage. There were not many mistakes of any sort--rare in a live performance--an it usually means that everything is clicking, which feeds its own intensity. We even caught some of the jokes and funny bits that stage musicians catch in their cocoon of light. Clapton and his band were absolutely on that night.
At the end of the show, my orchestra friend, who was not a rock or Clapton fan, said simply that it was probably the best live show he had ever seen.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 20, 2015 - 06:33pm PT
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One time, I can't recall too well, I saw Country Joe and Nita up in Chico.
I think Joe opened for her and all I really remember is her resounding a cappella rendition of Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,
Other than that it would have to be Bob Dylan and The Band on the 1966 world tour.
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Starting around the same era and then going round & round
Ritchie Havens (Berkeley Folk Festival on campus), John Fahey, Doc Watson, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Butterfield Blues Band, Electric Flag, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane ... James Brown, John Hammond, Marvin Gaye (on the basketball court & at his studio), Van Morrison, Dan Hicks, Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Charles Lloyd, Asleep at the Wheel, Chuck Berry
and Michele saw Buddy Holly
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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May 20, 2015 - 07:21pm PT
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Not Necessarily in any hierarchical form, except in terms of my memory (recall).
The Allman Brothers Band
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble
Frank Zappa
Bob Dylan
Merle Haggard
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Wet Willie
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Little Feat
Grateful Dead
Count Basie and his Orchestra
Leon Russell and the Shelter People
James Taylor and Friends
Roy Buchanan
B.B. King
Burning Spear
(too much?)
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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May 20, 2015 - 09:11pm PT
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Ravi Shankar w/ Ali Raka at the Roxy on Sunset Blvd.
Michael Hedges, Kauumba in Santa Cruz, Min-blowing-d.
Jerry at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz. I still have the stub, $6.
Neil at the Cat.
Ry Cooder, solo at UCLA
Cowboy Junkies at the Cat
Super amazing, Burning Spear at the Cat
I also saw some stellar Dead shows, heck if I can remember the standouts. There was one at Winterland after they got back from Egypt that I was pretty stoked up on.
Aw man, and a couple of more.
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Bob Harrington
climber
Bishop, California
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May 20, 2015 - 09:40pm PT
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I think the most memorable live performances I've seen have been small venues. From way back, when I was in high school, one that really impressed me was Herbie Hancock at a little jazz club in San Francisco, around the time of Headhunters.
More recently, a few years ago, David Lindley here in Bishop at the Inyo Council for the Arts, right on Main Street across from the Mountain Rambler. He plays in Bishop every few years, either at Millpond or at the ICA. Sitting in the ICA listening to him, seated close, his Weissenborns sounded so beautiful, I felt so blessed and lucky to be there. His live shows are a kick. I think I've seen him six times in Bishop.
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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May 21, 2015 - 12:20am PT
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Group 87 at a pizza joint in Berkeley 1981 (or so).
Mark Ishsm & Patrick Ohearn, Bozzio on the kit.
Magic.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Sep 26, 2016 - 09:09am PT
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jahil said:
I use to climb in the gym with someone who is a dead head. One time I was leading and they started playing the dead on the gym music system, she completely spaced out. I get panic attacks now whenever I hear the Grateful Dead.
Just bumping a funny quote that made me laugh!
I was never really exposed to the Grateful Dead as a youngster (though my mom did have a New Riders of the Purple Sage album that I somehow never explored), and I couldn't understand the cultish hippy fascination with that "countryish music". I assumed it was just all about the druggy experience. As I've grown in music, I've come to appreciate them more and enjoy their vibe. And Jerry's use of the Mutron effect in the late 70s- a high pass filter with cutoff frequency and Q changing as a function of the input envelope is pretty cool!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 26, 2016 - 09:36am PT
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Nice thread, thanks to you all. Lots of memories, good ones.
I watched Porter Wagoner on the TV most weekends. The Nashville Sound sucks, Dingus, for sure. Bill Anderson: ugh! I like Grandpa Jones, though.
My list of the most memorable:
Captain Beefheart's opening soprano sax solo for Frank Zappa in Evansville, Ind.
Lester Flatt, went with my grandma, just a few months before his death.
Grateful Dead at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, unfortunately Pigpen was dead.
Harry James at the Crazy Horse in Costa Mesa. A date dragged me there against my will. He was unbelievably great that night. Just a couple of months before his death.
Gil Shaham at the Hollywood Bowl playing a Mozart violin concerto. The look of joy on his face was as good as the music emerging from his instrument.
Charles Dutoit conducting the LA Phil in a suite from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.
Don Preston Quartet in a bar in Sierra Madre. We were walking home from dinner when I heard King Kong. We went in a caught the last half of the show. It cost us two gin and tonics to see some great jazz.
Yuja Wang earlier this year at the Hollywood Bowl playing Rhapsody in Blue. When she finished 10,000 people leaped to their feet.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Sep 26, 2016 - 09:57am PT
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Nice list Gary. Just so you know though:
Yuja Wang earlier this year at the Hollywood Bowl playing Rhapsody in Blue. When she finished 10,000 people leaped to their feet. Every time I've seen Rhapsody in Blue performed at the Bowl (at least three times), it's always brought the crowd to their feet. It's such a solid, well loved piece and never disappoints. What surprised me was when Esa Pekka Salonen did the same performing Mahler's 1st Symphony. Kind of a longer, eclectic piece. At the time Mahler wrote it, they pointed to his tinkering with formal symphonic structure as evidence that Jews were corrupting Western society. It is an amazing symphony however, and Salonen just brought out the magic.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 26, 2016 - 10:06am PT
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Fat Dad, Yuja's performance was really sublime, but I get your point. All that wine does something to the Bowl crowds.
I should have added Salonen to my list somewhere. I miss his programming, so eclectic.
And I should add a 12 year-old girl, whose name I forget, for her wonderful Haydn piano sonata #50 performed at a Colburn School recital. She is a tiny thing with a quiet little voice who became a monster at the keyboard.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 26, 2016 - 10:10am PT
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Not in any order:
Jimi in his home town - hands down the best rock show
Herbie Hancock at a small club in Seattle
The Doors with their singer at his messianic best
Led Zeppelin on their first tour
Louis Armstrong
Art Blakey with his new trumpeter- some 18 yr old named Wynton Marsalis
Claudio Arrau doing Brahm's 2nd
Ashkenazy doing a whole recital of Scriabin
Maurice Andre while sitting dead center 7th row
Paco de Lucia - hard to pick which show was best of the 5 I've seen
Andres Segovia
Yeah, that's the short list :-)
OK, Gary, since you mentioned Lester Flatt I'll add Mark O'Connor - any show of his
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 26, 2016 - 10:14am PT
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Wynton Marsalis! I forgot, saw him at Royce Hall a few years ago with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
The band had left the stage, show over. The crowd was exiting the hall with just the rhythm section comping along quietly. Most of the crowd was gone when Marsalis came back out and played another 15 minutes. Best part of the show!
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