Have You Seen Your Favorite Prog Artist Live?

thankfully i have been able to watch Tortoise live twice in 2005 and 2011.  so awesome!! i've watched Mogwai, Allan Holdsworth......

More or less yes - actually, I've seen most of them all in one month, It was last year's April and I saw VdGG in Italy, Blackfield (Steven Wilson being my fave musician) in Italy and The Wall with Waters in Croatia. I also saw ELP in 2010 at High Votlage Festival. So that covers many of my favourite artists. King Crimson (or some version of them) still remains one of my biggest wishes...

hehehe Look 'Kashmir'...
I have seen over 150 concerts in my life so far. And about 15 of them were Prog related. So we are talking about 10%.
That percentage is not big right? And since you say you are young, is normal that you were not able to see many Prog bands. Because there aren't many active any more!
P.S: I Forgot to mention that I have seen also Camel and Dream Theater (twice) live.
But I'm sure I'm still forgetting something...


Edited by The Jester - August 19 2012 at 12:31

I’ve seen Genesis (the And Then There Were Three-tour), Jethro Tull (Stormwatch), King Crimson (early 80s, probably after Beat, they supported Roxy Music), Gabriel (twice, second time after So) and Hammill (also twice, mid 80s).

I’ve never seen VdGG, Yes or Pink Floyd. I’ve seen Think Floyd, though, and their version of Atom Heart Mother was fantastic.

I’ve seen quite a few other prog/prog related acts, too, like Supertramp, ELO, Hackett, Deep Purple, Camel, Bowie and Marillion. The only time I’ve been really disappointed at a concert was when I saw Bob Dylan (not prog – but I’m sure you already knew that ).

I'm lucky to have seen a very big amount of concerts, but very few of them were Prog. And of course almost all I saw them at an old age.
But I'm not complaining...
I have seen Jethro Tul 3-4 times (One was an acoustic concert), Porcupine Tree again 3-4 times, Pink Floyd back at 1988 (at the 'Delicate Sound of Thunder' Tour),  twice Roger Waters performing 'The Dark Side on the Moon' + many Floyd songs, and 'The Wall live' (last year). Also Van Der Graaf Generator (thank God!), Barclay James Harvest (twice),
Fish, and I think that's all!
No Rush, no Genesis, no procol Harum, not MANY in general!
From the non-Prog bands,some of my best concerts were Bauhaus in London (in the reunion they did), Love (The 'Forever changes tour' with full orchestra), Black Sabbath (with Ozzy of course), Iron Maiden at the '7th son...' tour, Rammstein(!) 3 times, (twice in Berlin and one in Athens),  Dead Can Dance at the 'Aion' tour in 1990, and Metallica 4 times, (First time at the 'Black Album' tour, last time 2 or 3 years ago at the 'Great 4' Sonisphere Festival)
That's all I remembered that really worth mention...

[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....

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.

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

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

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.