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Bj-1 
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 04 2005 Location: No(r)Way Status: Online Points: 31644 |
 Posted: July 31 2008 at 20:23 |
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First: some Norwegian rock band back in 1998, I think.
Best: Magma in September last year, Roger Hodgson in August last year and Jean-Michel Jarre in August 2005.
Worst: Can't remember actually, but surely something I've seen on a festival sometime.
Last: Iron Maiden on July 24th. Fantastic concert!!
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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jammun
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Joined: July 14 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3449 |
Posted: July 31 2008 at 20:37 |
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Okay, I'll play: First: Paul Revere and the Raiders, probably 1967. Awesome concert.
Best: Yes, Denver, CO in 1972. The single finest performance I've ever experienced. I'm talking religious experience here.
Worst: Allman Brothers, Denver in 1972. As it happens same show as Yes, above. We had to flee.
Last: Eagles, Boulder, CO in 1978 or perhaps '79. Good show. Or maybe it was Dylan, same era.
To define concert, I'm assuming minimum 10,000 capacity. So why was my Last concert in 1978? That's 30 years ago, man! Because I discovered the joys of seeing bands in more intimate settings, where you can actually see the players, maybe actually talk to them, maybe actually have a beer with them. I've seen countless bands in smaller venues (under 500 capactiy) since this time, ranging from Dire Straits to Harry 'Sweets' Edison to Chick Corea and Stan Getz. If it's over $50 a ticket and the venue is over 5000, I ain't there.
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Dick Heath
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Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12818 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 08:17 |
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Cliff Richard (at the London Palladium) - the first...
The best fond memories for Beck Bogart and Appice with Flash as the support circa 1974 at Loughborough University - although Arthur Lee with Love at DeMontford Hall Leicester 2003(?) doing the complete Forever Changes prpbably pips it.
Worst and the first I walked out of
Pink Fairies at Kingston Upon Thames Swimming Baths, autumn 1970 or 71 - the acoustics were atrocious and PF were too loud - I survived 2 songs before it became too painful. (I had enjoyed a full set by the PFs the June before at Royal Holloway College in much better surroundings). More recently walked out on a Level 42 gig: great playing but a really boring choice of tunes - instead went out of the hall and talked for 45 minutes to the support act Steve Lawson, selling CDs in the foyer!!.
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Ricochet
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 27 2005 Location: Nauru Status: Offline Points: 46301 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 08:23 |
wow, you saw that!? the date is 1975, since they played Ricochet. At least that's what the video says. |
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micky
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46838 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 08:30 |
 that must have been bad.... is Mark King still with them? I've drifted away from them but used to be a big fan... usually good enough to just watch him play bass. the man is frickin great.. |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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toolis
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Joined: April 26 2006 Location: MacedoniaGreece Status: Offline Points: 1678 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 08:59 |
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first: Gamma Ray 95 best: Dream Theater 98 (i think), Metallica 99 worse: Helloween (don't remember) last: Tool 2007 |
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-music is like pornography...
sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
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Jared
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Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 20338 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 09:22 |
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first: Manowar, Bristol, 1983. Death to false Metal!
best: Possibly ProgPower I, 2006.Therion/ Threshold/ Pagan's Mind/ Orphaned Land. Beat that line-up!
 worst: Flower Kings, Whitchurch Festival, 2000. So lacklustre, it was untrue. half the audience headed for the bar.
last: Queensryche, Wolverhampton, in June.
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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sleeper
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Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 10:32 |
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First: Ezra opening the Summers End festivel in 06. The start of a very good weekend
Best: Pain of Salvation headlining last years Summers End festivel. Absolutely stunning Last: Spock's Beard at Bilstons Robin 2 at the start of last month. Very good gig, shame Frost* were a no-show though. Worst: Semi-acoustic by John Beck and John Mitchell at Summers End 06. 40 minutes of god awful pop songs from It Bites.  Other quality bands I've seen: White Willow- made me go buy all their CD's after seeing them Strangefish- a band that knew how to have fun Pure Reason Revolution- big energy, excellent performance The Flower Kings- avoided their super long epics and put on a great show for an audience that had been on its feet for two days. Isis- sound much better than on CD. Tinyfish- see Strangefish Threshold Riverside IQ Nightwish Kamelot Magenta |
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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rushfan4
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 22 2007 Location: Michigan, U.S. Status: Offline Points: 66588 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 11:38 |
Edit: I saw Neil Diamond  last night. He is quite the entertainer and puts on a really good show. And everybody can sing along to Sweet Caroline. Coming to America is an awesome song. Almost kind of proggy pop. He uses 2 guitarists, a bass player who uses both an electric bass and at times a stand-up bass. Two keyboardists-I think 1 might have been using a Moog but I'm not too up on equipment stuff. He also has a drummer and a percussionist who were quite good. He also has 4 horn guys playing various brass and 3 back-up singers. I think he is probably my biggest guilty pleasure. Definitely not my normal musical fare. I don't own any CDs from him, and yet this was the 3rd or 4th time I have seen him live and I always seem to enjoy it. Sorry. I hope that I haven't further shattered/soured the rest of your opinions of me. Edited by rushfan4 - August 01 2008 at 16:53 |
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Easy Money
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 11 2007 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 10679 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 12:39 |
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Don't feel bad, I still think of Holly Holy as one of the first prog-rock songs I ever heard, that and Save the Life of my Child by Simon and Garfunkel.
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Luke. J
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Joined: March 07 2008 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 380 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 12:58 |
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First: Unless opera counts, Wise Guys in 2006. Great performance, though the bass vocalist was unable to contribute to the show, as he had bad bruises.
Worst: I think Jane, 2006. A local hardcore band. Also, an American jazz trumpet player (do not remember the name) qualifies. His playing was so dull that most of the people were heading to the bar or even left the hall. It was for free, so it is not that bad..
Best: Blind Guardian in 2007. The people were like crazy and the band was in a great mood. The only low point were the support band Astral Doors..
Last: See above, unless musicals count. By the way, I am going to see The Musical Box performing A Trick of the Tail in October.
Sometimes I wish I had been around at some gigs in the 70's/80's, but I think I have to be satisfied with cover bands..
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el böthy
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Joined: April 27 2005 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 6336 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 13:43 |
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First: Red Hot Chili Peppers 2002
Worst: Dream Theater 2008... such a dissapointment, that concert literally made me stop liking DT Best: ...mmm either Battles 2007 or my first Divididos (argentinian rock band, which I dont like that much now but the concert was great!!!) concert in 2002 Last: Muse 2008 |
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Harry Hood
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Joined: August 15 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1305 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 14:12 |
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First: Dave Matthews Band in 2003
Worst: I've yet to attend a bad concert, actually. (Though I've witnessed a few dreadful opening acts ).Best: Fish in DC this year. Ween and Neal Morse were just as good as that show, but they were all very different experiences. Last: Fish Next: King Crimson in Philly, then the Flower Kings in New York, and then Opeth in Philly a month after that. It's been a great year for prog concerts.  |
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 14:35 |
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First... Freddie & the Dreamers... sometime in the 60s
First Prog... Electric Light Orchestra 1971
Best... erm... Floyd @ Wembley 1972 or Floyd @ Earls Court 1973 or Floyd @ Knebworth 1975 or The Wall 1980
 Worse... Metallica @ Big Day Out Milton Keynes 1999
 Last... Marillion @ Cambridge Rock Festival 2 weeks ago
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Pekka
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Joined: August 03 2006 Location: Espoo, Finland Status: Offline Points: 6457 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 14:57 |
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First: A Finnish funkmetalrocketc. band Rasmus in my then-hometown
Kuopio the year 1997. Later they changed their name to The Rasmus and
started making poppier material, which some of you might even have
heard.
Worst: Dream Theater in Helsinki on the Systematic Chaos tour. They did actually play a few good songs, but raped them all in the shredding sections or did only small parts of them in a medley. I've never yawned so much at a rock show, and I wasn't even tired. Best: The three times I've seen Sigur Rós, twice from the front row (one of them an acoustic mini performance in a movie theatre). Fourth one coming in a month, we'll see if it lives up to expectations. Last: It was either Iron Maiden or Circusfolk in July, both very good. |
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rushfan4
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 22 2007 Location: Michigan, U.S. Status: Offline Points: 66588 |
Posted: August 01 2008 at 16:57 |
He didn't perform Holly Holy this time, but that is a very good song. The one song that I haven't seen him perform that I would have liked to was Heartlight, which I have always liked because of its connection with E.T., which was a movie that I just loved as a young 'un.
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Jozef
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Joined: June 17 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 2204 |
Posted: August 02 2008 at 02:26 |
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First: Franz Ferdinand
Best: The Flaming Lips or The Cure Worst: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (Opening for Pearl Jam, they were awful and had no originality) The worst audience would have to go to the folks at the Lou Reed show I saw in April. Very rude and wouldn't stop talking through the show. At one point Lou stopped mid-song and asked "Would you rather me play the song or do you want to keep talking?" Last: Pearl Jam Next: Kill Hannah (Don't worry, it's a gift for my girlfriend, but I'll be seeing King Crimson the next day on the 11th, and Radiohead on the 12th!) I wish I were born earlier though. I'd love to have seen the shows the other users have been posting about about! Other Groups I've seen... Smashing Pumpkins Roger Waters Explosions in the Sky Sons & Daughters Cut Copy Trans-Siberian Orchestra 65daysofstatic Disco Biscuits I will be seeing Radiohead, King Crimson, and Nine Inch Nails as well.  And hopefully ROSfest and NEARfest next year! |
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Plankowner
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 09 2008 Location: Florida Status: Offline Points: 4006 |
Posted: August 02 2008 at 02:55 |
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First: Avatar (later named themselves, Savatage)
(1983) Friends back yard.
Worst: Seether, Breaking Benjamin, 3 Days Grace ... Forget the name of the tour, was a few months ago.
Best: Jazzfest in New Orleans (2 Day, event) (1998) Though the first Livestock (3 day event here in FL) was equally as good.
Last: Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour (Last Tuesday)
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micky
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46838 |
Posted: August 02 2008 at 06:10 |
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first: ELO 1978 Oakland Ca. with my mother who was (is) an ELO freak.
worst: New Kids on the Block 1990 RFK stadium DC... chaperoning 2 teenage girls and the sister of my girlfriend at the time. The ticket was free.. and nothing rules more than seeing girls trying to rip each others hair out... the whole experience ruining by the music though. Oh well....I was well rewarded for my auditory sacrifice though Best: Dave Brubeck and sons. Marquette Mich 1993 in a small college auditorium with maybe 20 people. Got to meet and discuss music with a living legend. Hell of a nice guy as well Last: Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Mastodon, and some sh*t band called Machine Head in Rome's Olympic Stadium last summer. A real experience... and with great company. |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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fusionfreak
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Joined: August 23 2007 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 1317 |
Posted: August 02 2008 at 12:20 |
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First and worst concert:INXS in 1994,I didn't know progrock,fortunately I already had discovered Jimi Hendrix
Best:Magma in 1999 but Acid Mothers Gong in Amsterdam(2006) is not very far
Last:Queen of purple hearts in Burg Herzberg a great one
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I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world
of searchers with the help from crimson king |
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