Have You Seen Your Favorite Prog Artist Live?

Snow Dog wrote: ClemofNazareth wrote: Kansas, five times between 1978 and 2011.    The Decemberists, sadly only once but at least it was their Hazards of Love tour!   Yes, Genesis and ELP, but all in the 80s so none of those concerts were as good as they could have been.     Emerson Lake and Powell I presume.

You're right.  Honestly I was bored after about 20 minutes or so...

Of my top three bands i've seen RUSH twice, PORCUPINE TREE four times and ANEKDOTEN not once. I hope to remedy the latter as they're supposed to play at Farfest in October and i do have tickets. Most of the concerts i went to in my late teens and early twenties(late seventies to early eighties) were bands who aren't on here like AC/DC, IRON MAIDEN(oops they're here), VAN HALEN, AEROSMITH(late seventies) ,PINK FLOYD, DEF LEPPARD, QUEENSRYCHE, okay a few are on here.

Saw Enslaved too, same tour as Alcest actually.  They were very good.

Triceratopsoil wrote: I would poop my pants if Jaga Jazzist came here or Shining

Shining live is an hour of non-stop sonic assault on your eardrums. It will leave you feeling as if you've been attacked in a dark alley at night and beaten to within an inch of your life. Awesome live band

I'm "only" 35 years old, so I'm too young to have witnessed the great ones, at least in their primes, and Frank Zappa passed away before I had discovered him. I'm still quite happy with who I've managed to see live though:

Pink Floyd - Division Bell tour. My first proper concert when I was 17 years old.
Jethro Tull - twice
King Crimson - Power to Believe tour
Focus
Edgar Broughton Band
Opeth - twice, seeing them again this summer
Cynic
Anekdoten - Walked past my local record shop a few years ago with no intention of going inside. Glanced at the window while passing by and noticed a poster. "Holy jeebus, Anekdoten is playing tonight!!" Bought the ticket right on the spot...
Gong with Steve Hillage Band supporting
Porcupine Tree - Incident Tour. I'm not thrilled about their output from In Absentia onwards, so on the one hand I was happy to have finally gotten to see them but at the same time disappointed that they only played 3 pre-In Absentia songs.
Rush - last year in Dublin
Tool
Mastodon - seeing them again this summer
Meshuggah
Enslaved - half a dozen times or so, they're from my home town.

I've also seen Muse which I didn't really like (way too pretentious for my tastes).

Seeing Steven Wilson, Grace for Drowning tour, tomorrow and Marillion later this summer. I would really like to see Mars Volta as well.




Edited by ColonelClaypool - April 27 2012 at 14:11

ClemofNazareth wrote: Kansas, five times between 1978 and 2011.    The Decemberists, sadly only once but at least it was their Hazards of Love tour!   Yes, Genesis and ELP, but all in the 80s so none of those concerts were as good as they could have been.

My favorite prog artist has changed over the years of those that are waaaay up there.

Pink Floyd - '82 (i think)
King Crimson - 3 times

The absolute highlight has to be Univers Zero who I never thought I'd get to see. I got to see them play Washington DC at Sonic Circuit having driven from Cincinnati for that one night of music (Miriodor as support were also fantastic) I was in heaven that evening.

I flew to France last year for RIO to specifically see Univers Zero-Present-Aranis as One Night In Belgium, midblowingly good.

This year I'm going back to France to get to see Magma for the first time.

Rush, on the Time Machine Tour (St. Louis show).  I should be seeing them again this September.

Kansas, five times between 1978 and 2011. 

Being pretty new to the whole "prog scene", I haven't seen too many. 

Tool, Boise, ID in 2007.  Mostly 10,000 Days material with some of the classics thrown in.  Sadly, no Third Eye.
Porcupine Tree, Los Angeles, CA in 2009 for The Incident tour.  Great, great show.
Rush (twice), Irvine, CA in 2010 during the Time Machine Tour and again with a friend new to Rush in San Diego last June.

Also, does a Pink Floyd tribute band count?  If so, I saw a fantastic, note for note, performance of Animals in it's entirety along with some other PF hits last March.  Fun show, although the wife was quite bored.


Edited by MillsLayne - April 26 2012 at 21:52