Have You Seen Your Favorite Prog Artist Live?

I've seen Dream Theater twice, but I've never seen Rush, Transatlantic nor Porcupine Tree! Hope someday! 

Dean wrote: Jbird wrote: prog/prog metal bands that are still together that I'd like to see someday: Vanden Plas Seventh Wonder Myrath Threshold Circus Maximus Andromeda Enchant (they still play the occasional festival I've only seen Threshold from that list, and Vanden Plas would be on my wishlist.   /

Nope. But there are not so many opportunities in Czech Rep. I' ve seen only Deep Purple and although it was great, i missed Jetro tull, VDGG or Jon Anderson and Dream Theater and I will always regret. And Rush will probably never come.My bro was more succesful (he's older and has more money) and he has seen almost all of those. 

I've seen Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and also Mr Waters when he hold the Wall concert in Berlin. 

Nov wrote: Genesis - many times Camel - many times The Flower Kings - a few times Yes - a few times Pink Floyd - a few times Rush - a few times Spock's Beard - a few times Porcupine Tree - a few times Marillion - a few times IQ - a few times Dream Theatre - a few times Transatlantic - twice Caravan - once Jethro Tull - once Strawbs - once ELP - once

Dean wrote: Gerinski wrote:   I saw both Threshold and Enchant together, well.... kinda.   Threshold was playing as supporting act for Enchant, it must have been 1995 or 1996 in Barcelona. After 2 or 3 songs Threshold's singer got pissed off by bad sound, he started complaining to the mixing table guy, then started cursing blaming the venue (it was in very a normal small venue were many concerts were organised) and suddenly threw the microphone to the ground and left the stage. The rest of band members looked to eachother and decided to also stop and follow him to the backstage.   I do not remeber the sound itself being particularly bad but they were very loud and the gitarists played heavily distorted.   A bit later Enchant played their show and it was magnificient, they sounded crystal clear, so powerful yet so clean and with such finesse, Douglas A Ott really impressed me. They were so cheered by the audience, which must have pissed Threshold's Glynn Morgan off even more  This must have made the Threshold guys realise that if they did not sound well it was their own fault only and they must have felt guilty because at the end of the show to compensate the audience they gave each of us one of the albums which they had intended for merchandising, I got Psychedelicatessen. I found it nice of them.   So with only 3 or 4 songs I don't really think I can say that I have seen Threshold live (although I did include them in my list ) I've seen so many support bands suffer from poor sound I do wonder whether it is the band's fault. Sometimes I know it is if the band did not turn up for a sound check, but usually the sound engineer can get the sound sorted within a few minutes of the first song. Again, the band being overly loud or distorted is the sound engineer not the band themselves, a band's onstage back-line equipment is simply not powerful enough to be loud. This happens far too often to be "co-incidence" - I can't recall one single gig I've been to where the support act sounded perfect and the headline sounded crap - it's the other way around every time.

It also has to be remembered that what the band hear through the monitor speakers is not what the audiance hears. Those are set up specifically for each musician to hear the rest of the band in specific mix so they can hear their cues from each other. If Glynn couldn't hear the drums or the bass or whatever clear enough then he probably would have got annoyed. Its a shame, these days Threshold give an absolutely storming performance live.

And I have to agree with Dean, too many sound engineers couldn't care less about the opening acts.

I haven't seen Genesis live and I seriously doubt I ever will. But, luckily, I did saw Peter Gabriel and Opeth twice.

Several of them actually. Jethro Tull twice, Fish, Procupine Tree and Opeth once. Quite surprised that these great artists are even better live.

I've certainly seen a lot, if not most of my favourite bands (around 5 - 700 gigs in total), some a lot or at least a few times like Yes - 10 times at least, J Tull - about 12 times, Rush - 3 times, Genesis - twice (sadly not with Gabriel). Prog bands I'd love to see that I haven't already would include Echolyn, Anekdoten, Anglagard, Threshold, PFM and numerous Italian bands, Nemo, King Crimson, Beardfish and Symphony X. Non-prog - always wanted to see Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.

[QUOTE=Master of Time]Just got back from my first prog concert, Yes with Procol Harum. So I can now say I have seen my favorite prog band live. Now we just need Peter Gabriel to get back with Genesis and come to Utah along with Beardfish, Spock's Beard/Neal Morse, and The Enid.[/QUOTE

Spock's, Neal and the Enid are awesome live!

I've seen a lot pf prog bands that I'm fond of that I thought I'd never see, such as ELP, Caravan and UK. The only favorites that I haven't seen are Pink  Floyd and King Crimson (Probably never get to see those!) Though I'm sure there are many more I'm forgetting.

Something always prevents me home from seeing Hawkind as well....