Have You Seen Your Favorite Prog Artist Live?

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

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

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.

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...

lazland wrote: Dean wrote: Dean wrote: including The Wall.   lazland wrote: EDIT: Forgot The Wall at Earls Court - superb!   [QUOTE=akamaisondufromage] And I saw The Wall at Earls Court first time around.   wtf! all three of us at the same gig?!?!?! (well, perhaps not - it was over six nights, but even so - wtf!)

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I caught Shakti when they toured different locations in the country earlier this year.  It was an out of the world concert.  Most of my favourite PROG artists are from the 70s and they either don't play live anymore or even if they do, are not likely to come this side.   I love Radiohead to pieces but don't think it is very likely they will ever come to India. 

no, but my mom and dad were on ELP and pink floyd ,lucky 

Edited by PyramidMeetsTheEye - April 28 2012 at 16:20

lazland wrote:  I was the spotty kid picking his nose halfway up

I saw the best concert I've ever been to so far last summer. Rush!!!
But my favorite is slowly turning to Opeth. Who I will be seeing tomorrow. :P