Your most magical progrock moments?

Genesis 73-75 performances. Gabriel is The Best!!

Magma: MDK (Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogy DVD).

King Crimson: The Deception of the Thrush (Eyes Wide Open DVD).

ELP: Take a peeble (Beyond the Beginning DVD).

Soft Machine: Beat Club 1970.

Norm Cash wrote: 1. Peter Gabriel's stage entrance (Genesis "Six Of The Best", Milton Keynes Bowl 1982) - To the sound of a heartbeat-like bass drum, six pallbearers clad fully in white (including white faces, gloves, and tall top hats) carry a white coffin on to a stage bathed in a cloud of dry ice and brilliant white spotlights. They place the coffin upright centrestage and just as the drum beat becomes recognisable as the opening to "Back In NYC", the lid opens and out steps Gabriel in his guise as Rael. Fantastic.

Wow. I wish I could have seen that! You describe it so well I have a picture in my head right now! Which is even more annoying because I can only imagine what I missed by... not being born back then...

Pink Floyd: A Saucerful Of Secrets: Pompeï DVD + Shine On You Crazy Diamond: P.U.L.S.E Video

ELP: Take A Pebble + Rondo: Masters From Vaults DVD

Rehearsel 1973: Beyond The Beginning DVD 

The Great Gates Of Kiev: Montreal Concert DVD 

California Jam 1974: Beyond The Beginning DVD

Roger Waters: Time, Perfect Sense, Amused To Death + Each Small Candle: In The Flesh DVD

Yes: And You And I + Ritual: Yes Symphonic Live DVD

Edited by Jeremy Bender

Seeing Live Scenes From NY for the first time

I have the Beatclub DVD too, what a weird person that Jamie Muir is but indeed very special to watch, so vivid, a very big contrast with Robert Fripp, almost a statue!

Thanks gentlemen, great to read your reactions!

On the Recital DVD you can also see that Fish almost touches the ceiling of the Marquee!

Hackett on his Roland guitar synthesizer (it was a bit slow but very sopisticated in those days) was indeed amazing, the light from above, I have some great pictures from that scene, GOOSE BUMPS when those memories come to my mind, he was the Genesis substitute and did a great job!

I'm going to slant this slightly differently. I don't collect videos or DVDs of concerts, so I'll list my Top 5 actual concert moments.

1. Peter Gabriel's stage entrance (Genesis "Six Of The Best", Milton Keynes Bowl 1982) - To the sound of a heartbeat-like bass drum, six pallbearers clad fully in white (including white faces, gloves, and tall top hats) carry a white coffin on to a stage bathed in a cloud of dry ice and brilliant white spotlights. They place the coffin upright centrestage and just as the drum beat becomes recognisable as the opening to "Back In NYC", the lid opens and out steps Gabriel in his guise as Rael. Fantastic.

2. Yes's light show (Going For The One tour, Glasgow Apollo, November 1977) - The first time I ever saw lasers. 3-dimensional "objects" hovered above the audience. Jon Anderson sang "I Get Up, I Get Down" from Close To The Edge in a rainshower of green laser light. I was stunned by the whole experience.

3. Mike Oldfield's Pipe Band (Premier of Tubular Bells II, Edinburgh Castle, 1992) - As the music builds to the "Scottish" movement, a previously solid looking backdrop suddenly becomes transparent revealing a full pipe band in front of the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle. Spectacular.

4. Steve Hackett's guitar synth (Hackett's first solo tour, Glasgow Apollo, 26 October 1978) - Silhouetted by a single spotlight from behind, Hackett launches into "Land Of A Thousand Autumns" with the then-revolutionary Roland Guitar Synthisiser. What a sound!!!

5. Marillion's second gig in Scotland (Kaim Park Hotel, Bathgate, 4 November 1982) - Didn't realise it at the time, but it's good to know I was at this one. They'd opened their tour the previous night in the town of Wishaw, so not quite their first Scottish date, but close! The Kaim Park had a fairly low roof, and when Fish made his first appearance he really filled the whole space from floor to ceiling! Everybody thought "What the hell is this???" They did a great show, and Fish handled the "Gabriel-clone" taunts from the crowd with no small amount of good Scottish sarcastic humour.


There have been any number of other enjoyable moments revolving around concerts such as meeting musicians before and after gigs and even enjoying a drink or two with some of them, but these are 5 of my favourite "in-concert" moments.

I also prefer the original video version from Pompeii but some computer animations are really mindblowing!

If you are a newbie, you can check out the posts on this topic. I'm looking forward to the R30 2-DVD from Rush. I have seen the concert last year (splendid but a bit loud) and a 2-DVD bootleg (USA concert), R30 will be one of the best progrock DVD's of all time!

Like in White Rabbit from Jefferson Airplane.. ..?

Real magic with his white painted face and that tambourin!