prog-concerts you’ve been to...

Fun memory exercise since I don't keep track of concerts I've been to. Prog and prog-related only, and I'm probably forgetting some...

Opeth 2x
Dream Theater 2x
Present
Los Jaivas
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Dixie Dregs
Ahleuchatistas

Sigur Ros 3x
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Dungen
Mogwai
Slint
Pere Ubu
Behold... The Arctopus
Time of Orchids

NEARfest 2000 (Thinking Plague, DFA, Anekdoten, Happy the Man, Transatlantic, Il Balletto di Bronzo, Par Lindh Project, Iluvatar, Nexus, North Star)
ProgDay 2000 (Hoyry-kone, Malibran, Tiles)
ProgDay 2005 (Far Corner, The Spacious Mind, Happy the Man, Glenn Phillips Band)


Of all these I think Present, Hoyry-kone, and Los Jaivas were the best... Thinking Plague, DFA, Far Corner, Sigur Ros not far behind.

Tribute to pink floyd @sl*gthuset, malmö, sweden

    Yes(once), ELP(once but not in their heydey), Jethro Tull(Ian Anderson was hoarse), Peter Gabriel(at an Earth Day festival), Kansas(my first concert  ever-I was a teen), Styx, Pink Floyd at RFK in Washington DC, Crack the Sky 3X(an  "art rock" band  popular in the Baltimore  area). Does Steely Dan count(probably not but 2X).

Well, let's see...I've seen:

Pink Floyd (twice) at the Oakland Colosseum on their Division Bell tour.  They played three nights, and I saw the first night (from directly in front of the sound board) and the last night (from the nose bleed section)

Rush (twice).  Once on the Power Windows tour (with The Fabulous Thunderbirds opening ) in the Coasta Mesa Ampitheatre (Coasta Mesa, CA), and once on the Roll The Bones tour in Frankfurt, Germany.  Primus opened for this show, and was practically booed off the stage.

Yes (twice).  Once on the (Re) Union tour in Frankfurt, Germany (no opening act), and once at Shoreline Ampitheatre (Mountain View, CA) for the Talk tour...again without an opening act.

Genesis - Once in L.A. (I think it was the Forum) on the Invisible Touch tour...always wished it was the Foxtrot Tour though

Rick & Adam Wakeman - Santa Cruz, CA (can't remember the club) and Pearl Harbour & The Explosions opened...they were actually quite good.  This would have been around 1996/97.

King Crimson - 2004 at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta on The Power To Believe tour.

Roguefest 2004 - Atlanta Shakesphere Tavern - Featured local prog bands Z-Axis, Farpoint, Cobweb Strange, Lord Only, Timothy Pure, The Bell Jar, and Man On Fire.

Roguefest 2005 - Atlanta - Featured Land Of Chocolate, The Red Masque, Izz, Farpoint, Z-Axis, Cobweb Strange, Unbounded Sky, Brass Knuckle Surfer, The Lost Boys, and Man On Fire. 

Devo - Yes, Devo...quite a proggy show actually!  It was for the Peek-A-Boo tour, and I would guess around 1983/84.  The guitarist broke his ankle during the show, and got so pissed that he smashed his guitar during a rousing rendition of Hendrix's Fire.  A very good show!


I have had the pleasure of being in a band (Mind's I) in the early/mid-90s that opened for:

Kansas - I guess it would have been the Live From The Whiskey tour, at the Caberet in San Jose, CA

Brand X - I can't recall what album they were supporting, but they bored me to tears.  At the Caberet.

IQ/Enchant - This was (from what I understand) IQ's only US tour date for the Ever CD in 94 and Enchant was (if I recall) supporting an early version of Blueprint Of The World.

Vanden Plas - Ramstein, Germany in a little club called The Oasis.  They were not that impressive.  This would have been around 1990/91.



Edited by BigHairyMonster

   Well, in the 70's (maybe late 60's .. Led Zep/Blodwyn Pig) Bath Festival 1970, Floyd + many great bands (Zep/Byrds/Santana/John Mayal/Flock/Johnny Winter .... )non progs Free/Taste and Rory Gallagher.  Weeley Festival 1971 King Crimson/Caravan/Gong/Barclay James Harvest/... Crimson again Wishbone Ash/ELP/Genesis/Focus etc at the Oval 1972. Focus several more times 72-74 (twice with back stage pass)Floyd 73/74 Genesis again 75,John McLoughlin (alas not Mah Orch) with Shakti/ Weather Report/Billy Cobham/Brand X/Chick Corea RTF (finest performance i've ever witnessed for 60p at Chatham 1975) and again 1976/Al Di Meola/PFM/....alas I missed Yes AND Gentle Giant. Got to see Yes last year @ Wembley and IQ and recently Australian Pink Floyd - well recommended.

 Alot I cannot recall at present although I can remember seeing the .................................Sweet in1970 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dream Theater & Symphony X ---> 2005

Jethro Tull ---> 2005

Fragil ---> 2004

Rata Blanca ---> 2004

Molotov ---> 2004

 

Recently..well in the past year or so ive seen

IQ, Pineapple Thief, and The Tangent at last years Progsfest

Opeth

Hawkwind

Oceansize

Porcupine Tree

The Magic Band

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Edited by Petra

Single Coil wrote: Rush - 13 times Yes - 3 times Rick Wakeman - In a bar in Canada Adrian Belew - Solo Acoustic (5 or 6 songs only) Dream Theater & Symphony X - Gigantour Kamelot - Next Month !

Not bad ... a good mix of single coils and humbuckers!

I've seen Rush last summer, a few months ago I saw Mars Volta.

My First was In Cahoots with Phil Miller and Pip Pyle (National Health Hatfield and the North) in 92. I was so inside the Canterbury rock that I couldn't miss to meet them.

Then Gong few month later, with David Allen, Didier Malherbe and Pip Pyle again.

Following the Caravan of dreams with Richard and David Sinclair.

I think it was the same year when I saw the reunion of Emerson Lake and Palmer.

Than a long break until I saw King Crimson the double trio 1995.

Roger Waters in the flash tour 2002.

In few days I hope to see Adrian Belew...

That's it.