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Tsevir Leirbag 
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 Topic: Luck/Badluck
Posted: July 14 2009 at 14:44 |
Are there any shows that you've seen that you consider yourself lucky to have seen them? //
Are there any shows that you missed recently and that you'd have liked to see?
Shows that I've seen: Roger Waters, VDGG, Radiohead, Paul McCartney
Shows that I missed: Opeth and Le Orme
EDIT: I will finally probably see Le Orme! 
Edited by Tsevir Leirbag - August 15 2009 at 16:54
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Captain Capricorn
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 14:59 |
I had to choose between seeing James Brown or Parliament ...I chose Parliament, which turned out to be an absolutely phenomenal show, but then JB died only a few months later ...I'll never get that opportunity again 
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Tsevir Leirbag
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 15:07 |
 Captain Capricorn wrote:
I had to choose between seeing James Brown or Parliament ...I chose Parliament, which turned out to be an absolutely phenomenal show, but then JB died only a few months later ...I'll never get that opportunity again |
Sorry for you. Well, in the shows that I've missed, I forgot Jeff Beck. It was the same day I saw VDGG. But I don't regret my choice  Oh, did I say that I already bought the tickets for Jeff beck when I heard of VDGG's gig? 
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Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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rdtprog
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 15:21 |
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Lucky to have seen Echolyn for 5 $ in a small bar.
Lucky to have seen PFM for a rare appearance in my hometown
Lucky to have seen Porcupine Tree for the Fear of... Tour
Unlucky to have seen only half of a Flower King concert because of a "electrical failure"
I would like to see KIng Crimson someday, Pain of Salvation and Transatlantic
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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 15:24 |
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Saw Grobschnitt do Solar Music when I was just 16. It was on the Rockpommel`s Land tour. First half was Rockpommel`s Land second part was Solar Music. Was on a school trip to West Germany and we were billeted with German students in their home. The guy I was staying with had an older brother that brought us to the show. Absolutely mindblowing. It was the show in Muhlheim that was made into Solar Music Live LP.
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Tsevir Leirbag
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 15:26 |
rdtprog wrote:
Lucky to have seen Echolyn for 5 $ in a small bar.
Lucky to have seen PFM for a rare appearance in my hometown
Lucky to have seen Porcupine Tree for the Fear of... Tour
Unlucky to have seen only half of a Flower King concert because of a "electrical failure"
I would like to see KIng Crimson someday, Pain of Salvation and Transatlantic
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PFM?! Yeah, I could call it INCREDIBLY lucky  Me, I'd like to see Yes, or PF if they were still with Waters 
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Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Epignosis
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 15:27 |
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Lucky- Yes's Masterworks Tour with Kansas
Unlucky- The Decemberist's current tour
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 15:48 |
Epignosis wrote:
Lucky- Yes's Masterworks Tour with Kansas
Unlucky- The Decemberist's current tour
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Lucky - the Decemberist's current tour (best show I've seen in years!)
Unlucky - Yes' 2008 U.S. tour (canceled after I bought tickets).
I'll throw in Neil Young's Shocking Pinks tour of 1983 as the unluckiest concert I did attend. That album was so bad David Geffen sued him over it! I saw him in Wichita Kansas and it's the only time I ever saw Young where fans actually booed him. There was an old stoned hippie sitting next to me who starting crying 
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Albert Camus
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JROCHA
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 15:50 |
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Lucky: Radiohead,Rush,and The Mars Volta on their first tour in support of Deloused. - Many more
Unlucky - Sigur Ros
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Bitterblogger
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 17:11 |
Lucky--Yes w/Moraz in '75 (my 1st ever)
Unlucky--passing over UK/Tull in '79 to see Stephen Stills. Biggest regret ever.
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CPicard
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 17:18 |
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Lucky: saw Aranis on the 17th of June at the Triton, Les Lilas, near Paris.
Unlucky: didn't know Voïvod was on stage in Paris the 18th of June. Meeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrde !
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Wizbat
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 17:51 |
lucky.. seen a load of good gigs over the years.
Unlucky.. had a ticket to see GTR at hammy o and got chicken pox so couldn,t go!!
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Isa
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 19:33 |
Lucky: Opeth-Enslaved in LA  best metal show I've seen yet! Unlucky: missing Return to Forever because of a school priority... 
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rosenbach
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 19:54 |
Vibrationbaby wrote:
Saw Grobschnitt do Solar Music when I was just 16. It was on the Rockpommel`s Land tour. First half was Rockpommel`s Land second part was Solar Music. Was on a school trip to West Germany and we were billeted with German students in their home. The guy I was staying with had an older brother that brought us to the show. Absolutely mindblowing. It was the show in Muhlheim that was made into Solar Music Live LP.
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Wow, that was REALLY lucky! One of the best live albums to me.
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Dellinger
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 21:59 |
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Lucky: Rick Wakeman in Hampton Court Palace.
Unlucky: Many years ago, my grandmother told me, while we were eating our meal, that in that very day Focus was having a concer in the capital of my country, Mexico (I live 3 hours on car from the capital); If I had known, perhaps I would have gone. Some years later, while I was investigating a bit about Il Balleto di Bronzo, I learned that that tour from Focus also included Il Balleto di Bronzo, which I now know and like a lot.
I also consider unlucky that I didn't know Pink Floyd at their last world tour, so I didn´t go. Nor did I know Yes the last time they toured with Jon Anderson and Wakeman (I think that happened at about the year I started buying their albums).
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Shot.By.His.Own.Son
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 22:09 |
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Lucky: Opeth with the amazing prog band Three. Xavier Rudd with Mishka
Unlucky: Opeth with Enslaved, Behemoth with Gojira Had Tickets for both of those but both times had to give them to a friend
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Shot.By.His.Own.Son
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 22:12 |
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I also Failed to mention that the Three/Opeth show I saw was Progressive Nation '08 and where I was Dream Theater and BTBAM did not play which sucked.
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Tsevir Leirbag
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Posted: July 14 2009 at 22:42 |
JROCHA wrote:
Lucky: Radiohead,Rush,and The Mars Volta on their first tour in support of Deloused. - Many more
Unlucky - Sigur Ros
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Radiohead? What tour?
I saw them during In Rainbows tour, it was amazing!
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Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Progosopher
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Posted: July 15 2009 at 00:08 |
Lucky: Stevie Ray Vaughan just months before he died in the helicopter crash and Andres Segovia just a couple of years before he passed away. On a brighter, more proggy note: Jon Anderson performing with Kitaro where Midori was also in the band, and the Dream Theater - ELP - Deep Purple powerhouse show.  One more: Rainbow in Winterland where I survived the riot caused by Dio throwing part of his microphone stand into the audience. 
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Asphalt
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Posted: July 15 2009 at 00:27 |
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Lucky: Seeing Cynic 2 years ago, when they reunited, seeing Anekdoten a year ago in a small pub in Leuven.
Unlucky: I had to go back home from Belgium on the 19th of June. On the 20th there was a Dillinger Escape/Between the Buried/Meshuggah gig in Bruxelles. Still regret it.
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, and blowing off the Paco de Lucia/Al Di Meola/John McLaughlin concert on a certain Friday night in San Francisco. I am still kicking myself for that one. 