What's The Best Concert You've Seen?
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Brick Top
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If you saw my message about the last time I saw Tull and how Ian Anderson couldnt hit high notes that may explain the different version of Aqualung. Some songs I heard them play the last time were different versions and if you paid attention what was largely different was lack of high notes where either it would go down or stay roughly the same but change rhythm a bit and there would be a different inflection in the vocals that I guess was added to make it appear to be changing while not really changing in pitch.
I may be wrong, and I hope I am, but I think Ian Andersons voice is shot and he cant pull off what he used to so he changes things and like in the case I mentioned about the last time I saw Tull he relied on electronic assistance to alter his voice raising it when and where he couldnt.
It was sad to me. It was sort of like seeing an old Muhammad Ali not able to dance on his toes anymore and with slow hands taking a beating instead of dishing one out.
tipsgnob
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Twistyman
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You're lucky.. I was outside in the park outside the arena when they played in Montreal....
Got shit from the folks for taking off..I was 10 or 11... 64 I think.....
tipsgnob
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I was 12 and it was my first concert. my brother was in college in memphis and I went to visit. when he informed me we were going to the beatles concert I almost shit myself.....
Cheech Wizard
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Twisty and Bricktop you are my kind of music lovers.. I swear, the best show I have seen, and Ive seen a bunch in my time, was Neil Young. I always loved him, always, have all his albums and he was just amazing! I have met and hung out with Phish, Les Claypool and Leon Russell.... I love music. I dont watch tv, my house is just always filled with music... Im a huge Byrds fan also. You guys ever listen to Roy Buchanan? He is a phenominal guitarist.. if you are into the Band you maya heard of him. I believe I read he almost joined the Band before they got Robbie Robertson...
Twistyman
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The Messiah will come.. great tune... I see you put Leon Russel, I was always a big fan of his... I was lucky to see all the big acts except for the Who.. Elton John, Van Halen.. those are the only mega bands I never got to see.... At Live 8 Neil Young played.. it was his 1st show after his aneurysm ..... and a fine job he did...
Brick Top
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While not my favorite performer, music and style-wise, I will say that Neil Young is highly talented. His stuff is just not my cup of tea and then with me be being a Tar Heel, living in North Carolina, well as it has been said " a Southern man don’t need him around anyhow." Regardless his is highly talented and I have heard that he puts on a great show.
I mentioned it before but an old girlfriend, not old as in she was old but as in one from the past, wanted us to go see Elton John and again I always thought he was a highly talented musician but being a Black Sabbath and Lynyrd Skymyrd etc. sort of guy I wasn’t thrilled to go but so she wouldn’t cut me off for a week I went.
Well it turned out to be such an utterly fantastic show that before we got more than about a dozen steps or so from our seats I told her if he comes back to town we had to see him again.
Even if some performer or groups music isn’t your favorite if they are really electric or really nuclear on stage it will more than make up for the fact that when listening to the radio you may turn the channel when one of their songs come on and you can have a really great time and love every minute of it.
Somewhere around six or eight years back I saw Skynyrd and Peter Frampton opened for them. I was really pumped to see Frampton, plus of course to see Skynyrd again, but I had to feel really bad for Frampton right after he came out on the stage.
When he was introduced the females in the crowd screamed their heads off and when he walked out and was mostly bald and what hair he had was very short and his cheeks were sagging and he didn’t look like he did on the cover of Frampton comes alive with long flowing wavy hair and that cute young face they all stopped screaming like someone flipped a switch and you could hear a loud gasp like they were expecting the 70’s Frampton and were totally shocked.
Well he played and he played his ass off. I think his guitar work was better than in the past, he sounded cleaner and every bit as fast if not faster. His show was great but the babes were sure disappointed by what they saw.
I like some of The Band’s work but not as much of it as many people did. To me their songs were either great or not good. It was like, according to my taste in music, there were no or at least very few average or just decent songs. They were the best or the worst with no middle ground going by my taste.
But then I could say the same about a handful of other groups I liked. I loved some Alice Cooper songs and others I wondered why they spent the time and money to bother to record them. Some Deep Purple songs were like that too in my opinion.
Someone who has had a great career and been in a number of big bands and then went off on his own, though he did not always play music that was really my favorite type of music, but who I think is one of the very most talented musicians of my lifetime is Steve Winwood.
He is amazingly talented. I am just going by memory here and cannot remember the name of the CD off the top of my head but he had a home built with a recording studio and he wrote all the songs and laid down every track of every instrument and of course the vocals and mixed it all himself. That’s a pretty talented guy.
Besides all the other things he was a part of you cannot forget one of the real classics that he co-wrote and did the vocals to and that is "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys."
That song was like a whole career in just the one song. Then with songs like "Can’t Find My Way Home" he seldom did anything that was not impressive even if it is not as hard of rock as some may like etc. Toss in songs like "While You See a Chance" and "Valerie" and you have to say bravo. It is all just so damn good that you have to appreciate it regardless of what your normal tastes are.
tipsgnob
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I saw frampton about ayear ago at the opryland hotel...he did black hole sun..it was awesome.
Brick Top
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He is very talented. I think that even as big as he was at one point to a degree he has been overlooked or underrated because he did not maintain the massive success he achieved with "Frampton Comes Alive."
But then how could someone maintain that level of success?
The Rolling Stones went through periods of less than high quality music. At times they might have had a good song or two on an album but the rest were mediocre.
At one point Aerosmith was hardly heard from and then the worked with Run DMC and redid "Walk This Way" and a whole new generation found them and suddenly they were filling arenas again.
A fantastically talented group, Queen, had all but died out when it came to having a following and then "Waynes World" came out and again a whole new generation heard "Bohemian Rhapsody" and their CD sales shot through the roof.
So regardless of talent it is hard to remain on the top of the mountain. The other trick, that is not easy to accomplish, is to remain together long enough to get a good core following and then also of course to have enough hits of high enough quality that again younger generations will like them.
Many bands of the 60s and early 70s had some of the very most talented and famous names of rock today but they did not stay together long and never reached their zenith together but had they remained together they would be beyond just legends today. Then of course had they not broken up some other famous bands would never have been created and much great music would never have been written and recorded and performed so I guess things tend to balance out in the end.
The cream will always come to the top even if they are no longer members of Cream.
Brick Top
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What year was that in? If it was back in their heydays it must have been really fantastic but even if later I am sure it was still darn good, at least as long as Freddie Mercury was still alive. After Freddie died Queen was not the same and it never will be. Maybe he was a pickle kisser but he was a damn talented pickle kisser and not someone that you can replace no matter how hard you try because the sound will never be the same.
It is like Van Halen and Van Hagar (Van Halen with Sammy Hagar). Both were great but when Sammy performed older songs previously sung by "Diamond" Dave (David Lee Roth) they just never sounded right.
But the same can be said with "Diamond" Dave singing songs that were originally sung by Sammy.
Sammy cant make "Jump" sound right to save his life and "Diamond Dave" cant make "Finish What You Started" sound right either.
Different styles and different voices and they just cannot replace each other and sound right. They can sound good and be entertaining but they will never sound right or be the same.
A little funny, or at least funny to me, story is I was once on the radio while taking a leak at a Van Halen concert in Raleigh when Sammy Hagar was with the group.
A guy from a now non-existent rock station that was the only good rock station around here, WRDU, which was bought out and turned into ANOTHER Country music station, was asking all the guys at the long urinal taking a leak "Eddie or Sammy?"
Everyone said "Eddie" until he got to me and I said Sammy." Well I am a MAJOR Eddie Van Halen fan but I figured that someone had to say "Sammy" so I did so instead of just moving on to the next guy like he did with all the rest he asked me a few questions so I got to be on the radio while draining my lizard at a Van Halen concert.
Not exactly what I would call my fifteen minutes of fame but it was still cool to me.
tipsgnob
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I think it was 1978.....
Brick Top
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tipsgnob
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queen was simply amazing in concert....
Twistyman
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That they are... I missed them on my list... they sound just like the album which is hard to do live... Theres a good show I saw on PBS that has Brian May in a studio showing how they did all the different tracks, and what the sounds were......
Cheech Wizard
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Brick Top, funny you mentioned Steve Winwood, I just saw him perform a few weeks ago at a casino in CT and he was phenominal! and Twisty, yes, I really dig Leon Russell... I think he rocks, and I actually brought my grandma to see him because she is a fan also! I have a really, really cool grandma... real cool for a lady in her late 80s...