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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Feb 18, 2009 - 01:29am PT
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Oh you guys, the bands I most wanted to see but didn't were Jimi (croaked), Bob Marley (redrocks concert cancelled due to cancerous foot break on Bob's part,) The Kinks, (reno concert canceled because of another foot break,then they broke up), I also kick myself for passing on Maynard ferguson ( he was playing in Laramie, as was Fleetwood Mac, one night. I opted for somebodies eiger slideshow) and sigh, James Brown, not sure what was up, that night.
I'm glad though, that I got to see the Bonedaddies twice.
My Little bro saw Jose Felliciano at some Bay Area gig, when this odd ball vocalist, Bobby McFerrin, did the sound check beforehand-"who was that guy?"
Also glad to have seen the firesign theatre live, twice.
And of course, Laurie Anderson, in Tempe.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Feb 18, 2009 - 01:35am PT
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Ooh, I forgot about seeing Maynard Ferguson. That dude could really wail! It is amazing what heroin seems to do for trumpeters, isn't it?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 18, 2009 - 01:53am PT
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By way of explanation to Locker and others;
The Allman Brothers Live at The Fillmore East was recorded at 4 shows in March '71 as well as the final one which closed down the hall for good in late June.
I was lucky enough to get tickets to 2 of the March shows including the one with the bomb scare after the Johnny Winter set.
At one of them was a young Kyle Copeland who I would not meet until we both had climbed in the Utah desert.
Then, by dint of climbing skill no less, I was able to get into the private party that closed the great venue. Outside of THAT one was my friend Eddie who refused to follow my climb.
Three years later I was pondering what to call my route on the Diamond when I got a letter from Eddie starting, "are you still hiding out in your perverted vertical sanctuary?"
For over a quarter century The Allman Brothers, Live At The Fillmore East stood as a rock classic, but something was afoot.
The sound engineer, intimately familiar with the original tapes, remastered the the whole double album and rereleased it on CD.
A few months later I took Kyle, already quite ill from the Crohn's, for his last ride up onto the canyon heads above Moab in my E320 (GREAT sound system) and played the remastered CD without telling him.
It was hilarious to see the look on his face. He thought he was trippin'. A whole new version of what he had come to know (just as intimately as the engineer!)
Check out both.
Duane Allman was the master; did studio work at Mussel Shoals with EVERYONE!
He died only months after closing down the Fillmore.
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Brian Kimball
Sport climber
Westminster, CO.
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Feb 18, 2009 - 02:08am PT
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http://www.myspace.com/jimmyherringofficial
This guys new album is off the hook...REALLY! Jimmy Herring is on fire most recentley touring with Widespread Panic.
I think musicaly the best shows I have seen would have to be Widespread Panic/especially this year with Jimmy. Check it out for yourself WWW.PANICSTREAM.COM the NYE show this year in Denver was good and the show the night before WOW just listen to that Pigeons>Maggot Brain>Drums>The Other One Jam>Maggot Brain>Pigeons...I mean its like 45 minutes long but it will blow yer fricken mind man.
A few really tight Phish shows.
A Blues Traveler show at Red Rocks or two when Bobby was still alive.
The only Grateful Dead shows I saw were in 95' and although life transforming I would not call them tightly played shows.
What about Derek Truck Band...anyone seen them. I will be attending my first DTB show here in Denver in April and have to say with the release of thier new album Already Free I am pretty psyched to see the kind of energy and heat that they could bring.
The Derek Trucks Band-Already Free= MINDBLOWING SOULFUL ALBUM!!
WIDESPREAD PANIC.....AGAIN---WHAT ABOUT THE 2ND NIGHT IN ASHEVILLE, NC. @ THE CIVIC CENTER.....DUDE-BRO-SERIOUSLY CAN YOU GET ANY MORE TIGHT BUT LOOSE THAN THAT...PURE FIRE AND SERIOUS HEAT......
DONT BELIEVE ME www.panicstream.com stream the Asheville show for yourself or the Denver shows you can even download a free copy of any of those shows for your I-POD all of the site. There is also some great recent Gov' Mule shows on www.panicsteam.com as well along with a SUPER SICK NASTY STEVIE WONDER SHOW FROM DENVER, CO. this past summer. Unfortunately I didn't get to rig that show and missed it but still a very fine musical performance indeed.
U2 is awesome live with great energy but I do not think they bring that high of a level of musicianship.
I work in production so I see it all and right now the best live guitarist breathing is definately Jimmy Herring hands down!!!
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Brian Kimball
Sport climber
Westminster, CO.
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Feb 18, 2009 - 02:24am PT
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oh piton ron...I wish I could have been at one those The Allman Brothers shows back then-dam. Although those Beacon Theatre shows they have been doing for the last years sound so good it makes we want to get on a plane and go check it out for myself.
I JUST REMEMBERD...I was like 15 and it was like 1992 or something like that ANYWAY we went to see House of Pain @ the Gothic Theatre in Denver, CO. and on the ticket was an opening band that NO ONE in the place had really ever heard of before but they had such a sweet name that we all decided we better come early to scope their set. The band comes out all hiped up and super energetic in this small little theater-ligths go out and ba baa baaa baaaaaa baaaaaaaaa bopppp---boom boom bapp A-O IT'S JUST ANOTHER BOOOOOOOMB TRACK....YEAH...IT GOES 1-2-3 AND IT'S JUST ANOTHER BOMB TRACK. This floppy haired dready guy named Zach ripped the roof right of the joint almost litterally....I can still remember him screaming FREEDOMMMMMM, FREEDOOOOOOMMMMMMMYEAHHHHHHHHHHH.
We all forgot who we really came to see and could really care less at this point because the new school RAGE AGAINT THE MACHINE had just BLEW OUR MINDS with a full power sett-KABOOOMM!
The next day at school we all had our RAGE shirts on like yep we are the only ones at this school who know how bad ass this band really was but by the end of that quarter everyone in the "smoking section @ Arvada West High School" knew that Rage Against the Machine album word for mutha f'in word.
FREEEEEDOOOOOMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYEAAHAAHHHHHHH FREEEEEEEEDOOOOMMMMM
He even had an American flag-flying it around and he was PISSED!
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tradchick
Trad climber
White Mountains
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Feb 18, 2009 - 07:43am PT
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Pink Floyd 1977
Led Zeppelin 1977
Roger Waters 2006 - Better than when I saw Pink Floyd. He played all of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you were Here and Animals, selected Wall. And I could remember it this time, lol!
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troutboy
Trad climber
Newark, DE
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Feb 18, 2009 - 09:01am PT
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I got to the old worn Station Inn a little early.
Station Inn....now there are some memories. Saw so many then unknowns, now legends
Favorite Concerts:
Pure Prarie League - The Epicurean, Cincy Ohio about 1972
Memorable because it was my first concert, 14 YO
Doc Watson and David Grisman, Wilmington, DE about 4 years ago
James Galway, Bowling Green, KY 1978 or so. Wife and I were both there (each with different dates) but only figured that out years later.
Dylan, Tower Theater, Philly, mid-90's
New Grass Revival, some bar in Bowling Green, KY 1978.
Little Feat, Univ of Delaware, late 1980's Small venue, great show even w/o Lowell George
I prefer small venues and no crowds, but hard to beat Woodstock and Allmans at the Fillmore. Classic.
TS
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Feb 18, 2009 - 09:35am PT
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Reilly
Pun accepted! :-)
Andre and Bilgram did a program together, and though I don't have
the actual program of their music, I have a feeling they
did some of the following
Purcell Suite in D Major
Trumpet Overture
Trumpet Tune I & II
CPE Bach
Sonata in G Minor
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet
Sonata in G Major
(if you're familiar with the Musical Heritage Society, google it if not), they did a recording together, I have the vinyl copy,
MHS 3410. It may be available on CD now, though I'm not sure.
Organ and Trumpet, a match made in heaven, sort of like the fiddle & banjo. . .
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana (the other Mideast)
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Feb 18, 2009 - 10:14am PT
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Oh yea, well here's short list #2:
Billy Idol/The Cult-'87 LA
Rush-Fresno '89-ish
Judas Preist-Fresno'89-ish
Van Hagar-Fresno-'90
Pearl Jam/Bad Religion-Casper-'94
Bob Dylan-Casper-???
George Clinton-Laramie-2003/4?
BAM!
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wtfd
climber
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Feb 18, 2009 - 11:00am PT
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lambone mentioned them
bela fleck and the flecktones-3 guys playing the stand up bass at once, mind blowing.
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east side underground
Trad climber
Hilton crk,ca
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Feb 18, 2009 - 11:03am PT
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return to forever, weather report, grateful dead
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Feb 18, 2009 - 11:04am PT
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Sammy Hagar and Ted Nugent in concert togather in our small college gymnasium at CWU, Ellensburg, WA in 1981
Incredible, I thought the roof was going to cave in.
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dmalloy
Trad climber
eastside
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Feb 18, 2009 - 11:20am PT
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Brain asks..."What about Derek Truck Band...anyone seen them."
Funny that I spent about 5 years pursuing live music experiences up and down the East Coast and around the country - some highlights being Widespread Panic shows in Johnson City, TN and New Orleans, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe from midnight to 5am on two successive sweltering August nights at the Knitting Factory in NYC, Mofro rocking a tiny crowd of survivors at the Maple Leaf in the Big Easy.
But when this thread came around, there were two shows that popped into my head -
a Medeski Martin and Wood acoustic show, played at a building on the Lower East Side that had once been the first synagogue in New York City (built in 1850 or something). So much of the music was slow, haunting and exploratory, but when they did get it rocking as a standard trio, all my hairs stood on end (and I was, by my own standards of the time, relatively sober). The building, the virtuosity of the players, the new experience of watching them make it go with amplification only for the double-bass and a few other instruments, all combined into something amazing.
and a show played by the Derek Trucks Band, probably in 1998 or so, at a tiny little club in New York - I don't even begin to remember where or the name, but it was jazz-club style, all tables and chairs and everyone sitting down. So those guys had a totally enthusiastic crowd at their mercy, and proceeded to completely deconstruct every jam, outrageous interplay and exploration, with Derek (who was about 17 at the time) stepping up on occasion to bring it all back to the groove and then unfurl outrageous licks. Really quite something, has totally stuck with me.
Like anything, a DTB experience 11 years later, in a big venue, won't be anything like the same - but he has continued to grow as a musician, and I am happy to have that experience stowed away in a corner of my mind to remember how ecstatic music can make a room full of people.
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troutboy
Trad climber
Newark, DE
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Feb 18, 2009 - 12:09pm PT
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re Porter Wagoner:
Oh, yea I remember. You want hell, try having the lyrics to "The Carroll County Accident" running through your head on a 30 hour cave trip.
"bela fleck and the flecktones-3 guys playing the stand up bass at once, mind blowing."
Victor Wooten is one of the best electric bass players around. And how can you not love someone who goes by the name of Futureman (actually Victor's brother, Roy) and plays the "Synthaxe Drumitar".
I had some friends who were sat the Who concert in Cincy where the crowd essentially forced the unfortunate folks in front of the line through wire-reinforced glass doors. They basically described what Dingus did. Impossible to resist the push, you just went with the "flow" and somehow they got out unscathed. If you went down, you were history.
TS
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 18, 2009 - 12:37pm PT
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Dingus, that is a very scary story - who knew that's how they did it?
Anastasia, if I had made my short list number up to #10, the time I saw Pavarotti in solo concert in Boston would have been on it. My parents and I and about a dozen other people were seated, oddly, onstage. The concert didn't start until 8 PM, which was late for my folks...My Dad kept dozing off and I was mortified lest he start snoring! Really incredible voice (Pavarotti, not Dad).
These days, something starting at 8 PM is kind of late for me (yes, I am over 50), which is why I rarely go to live music performances anymore. I'm the one who would be dozing off! Well, to everything, there is a season...
Those who mentioned Bowie and Jethro Tull - those are ones I missed that I would REALLY have liked to see, but the rest of the stories and lists were also very fun to read.
Phyl
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nutjob
Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
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Feb 18, 2009 - 12:47pm PT
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Santana
Guitar Summit: Joe Pass, Leo Kottke, Paco Pena, Pepe Romero
Dire Straits
Neil Young
my first Santana concert 1989/90 in a gymnasium at Cal Poly SLO. The place was packed, walls were sweating, music was throbbing. I was ambivalent before that, became lifelong #1 or #2 favorite after that.
In the months before he died, I saw Joe Pass sharing a stage with Leo Kottke, Paco Pena, & Pepe Romero. I got tickets because Pepe's brother Celine was my guitar teacher while I was at UCSD. It was utterly amazing seeing four totally different musicians (jazz, flamenco, classical, countryish-slide-whatever-you-call-Kottke) finding ways to make their stuff gel together... that was also my first experience of Joe Pass and Leo Kottke. I got the chills while typing this, just remembering that show.
Dire Straits On the Night tour... awesome live versions of their recorded songs, blending outside musical influences... weaving the good parts of country into their classics, really nice jazzy too.
Neil Young on a stage by himself all acoustic. It's cool the way he dips his harmonica in the bucket and flings the water off between songs. And playing Like a Hurricane on that organ... wow.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Feb 18, 2009 - 12:53pm PT
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James Brown 1968 or 69 in Oakland
Bob Dylan 1965 at the Berkeley Community Theater
McCoy Tiner Kimballs East? 1980's
Pharoah Sanders Santa Cruz 1980's
Miles Davis, Monk, Evans, Cecil Taylor Quartet Greek Theater, Berkeley 1960's
Rolling Stones opened with Seal, Oakland 1994
The Tubes, Santa Cruz 1975?
Bonny Raitt Santa Cruz 1975?
Sylvester SF 1970's
Charles LLoyd Quartet with Keith Jarrett Santa Cruz 1967?
Gato Barbieri Santa Cruz 1976?
Phillip Glass Aptos 1990?
Arvo Part at Mission San Juan Bautista (world premiere piece)
Betty Carter and Ray Charles at Paul Masson 1980's
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jahil
climber
santa cruz, ca
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Feb 18, 2009 - 01:40pm PT
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In no particular order:
Gang of Four Lyceum Ballroom, London 1979
The Pop Group London 1978 ish
The Clash Victoria Park, London 1978
Aswad in Notting Hill Gate 1980 ish
Ornette Coleman and Prime Time London 1982
James Blood Ulmer London 1980
Miles Davis Hammersmith Odeon 1982 ish
Sweet Honey in the Rock Santa Cruz 2008
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.
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Brian Kimball
Sport climber
Westminster, CO.
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Feb 18, 2009 - 02:06pm PT
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DID ANYONE CHECK OUT THE MUSIC ON...
http://www.myspace.com/jimmyherringofficial
What do you all think? Pretty tight?
I have only seen Medeski (with) Martian and Wood once @ the Boulder Theater but MAN was that show ROCKIN'.
And yes luckly this Derek Truck show I will be attending in April will be at the Gothic in Denver one of my favorite little theaters. Its not a intamite little bar with 100 people but still small like maybe 500 people.
Buy his album...The Derek Trucks Band~Already Free
ohhhh mannnn is it gooooodddd!!!
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