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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2012 at 01:13
I'll probably forget some, but some of my favorite prog/prog-metal bands I've seen:


Rush
Yes
Kansas
Dream Theater
Porcupine Tree
Opeth
Dixie Dregs
Symphony X
Queensryche
The Steve Morse Band

and some favorite prog-related bands:

Kamelot
Evergrey
Nightwish
King's X
Sonata Arctica


& bands I've seen that aren't favorites:

Marillion
Mastodon
BTBAM
Dillinger Escape Plan
Spock's Beard


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


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2012 at 05:00
Originally posted by Jbird 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.
 
/edit: oops, I didn't see you'd already mentioned Evergrey - I wasn't taken by their studio albums initially but they were impressive live.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2012 at 07:44
seen:
Dream Theater 3x
Rush 
Yes
Steve Lukather

I really wanna see bands like: Myrath, Circus Maximus, Pain Of Salvation, Seventh Wonder etc.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2012 at 16:32
Originally posted by igySK igySK wrote:

seen:
Dream Theater 3x
Rush 
Yes
Steve Lukather

I really wanna see bands like: Myrath, Circus Maximus, Pain Of Salvation, Seventh Wonder etc.
What was Steve Lukather like? I like him with Toto and the Triumvirat album Russian Roulette, but have never heard him solo
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 07 2012 at 02:44
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

I just put my favourites. Everyone is doing lists now. I could have done a list.

My list(s) are my favorites.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 08 2012 at 11:00
Kinda... but no.

It´s King Crimson. I have seen Fripp with G3 (horrible show) and with the League of guitarist (great show). I have seen Trey Gunn (mindblowing) and Tony Levin (with Gabriel, boring as hell)... but never King Crimson Cry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2012 at 20:51
I saw Rush last year, at the Bell Center here in Montreal.
It was great !

I saw Supertramp too, at the Bell Center again, and I must say that I loved the show, more than the Rush show (even If Im a bigger Rush fan overall), they were just at the top of their shape.

But I would absolutely love to see Symphony X live, its my favorite band, I know every tune by heart (or almost!).
I wish they come to Montreal soon.

I would also love to see Dream Theater.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2012 at 21:16
Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Kinda... but no.

It´s King Crimson. I have seen Fripp with G3 (horrible show) and with the League of guitarist (great show). I have seen Trey Gunn (mindblowing) and Tony Levin (with Gabriel, boring as hell)... but never King Crimson Cry

Did you see Fripp tour with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai?  Fripp opened the Chicago show playing his Soundscapes stuff, and a wild-man guitarist (later found out to be Mike Keneally) was playing all sorts of Robert Fripp-like distortion-guitar leads on top of the sound loops!! 

It was INCREDIBLE!!  By far, the best music of the night, and an insight for a new way to use Soundscapes!!  Keneally sounded just like the RF of LTIA days, blew my mind!   Keneally came back onstage later & played with Satriani's band, quite a jaw-dropping performance....two Zappa alums going at it! 

I met Keneally at a local music shop & asked him if any of that were filmed or recorded, and he said that, sadly, it wasn't.

Anyway, sorry you missed Crimso, they never disappointed!  I saw LTIA in Chicago (no Miur, sadly) with, uh, Peter Frampton opening!!   Didn't see them again until Discipline tour (by that time, I knew Fripp personally), missed the Beat show in Chicago because the outdoor venue was flooded, caught 3 of a Perfect Pair in Minneapolis, Thrak in Chicago, and then I lost track of them all.  Sadly, I missed SBB and Red tours!  Can't have it all.  

Saw RF with Soundscapes many times, he should have soloed over his loops like he used to with the Revox Frippertronics!!  I've seen Belew a bunch of times, so many that he sort of recognizes me when he sees me.  Met Broof once, kind of a comedian....

Thank God for all the amazing video that survived those times!!  Here, dig this!!  



  



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2012 at 21:37
Well, some of the more interesting shows....

Fripp
Belew
Yes
Howe solo
Tull
Genesis
Waters
Marillion
Rush
Sabbath
Gabriel
Byrne
Lori Anderson
Tori
Plant
Chicago
Metallica
Throwing Muses
X
Fairport Convention
Ray Manzarek
Spinal Tap
Badfinger
Breeders
Zevon
Santana
Pete Seeger
Cindy Lee Berryhill
Babes in Toyland
Bill Bruford

too many more.....say my fried ears.....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 14 2012 at 12:34
Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Kinda... but no.

It´s King Crimson. I have seen Fripp with G3 (horrible show) and with the League of guitarist (great show). I have seen Trey Gunn (mindblowing) and Tony Levin (with Gabriel, boring as hell)... but never King Crimson Cry

Did you see Fripp tour with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai?  Fripp opened the Chicago show playing his Soundscapes stuff, and a wild-man guitarist (later found out to be Mike Keneally) was playing all sorts of Robert Fripp-like distortion-guitar leads on top of the sound loops!! 

It was INCREDIBLE!!  By far, the best music of the night, and an insight for a new way to use Soundscapes!!  Keneally sounded just like the RF of LTIA days, blew my mind!   Keneally came back onstage later & played with Satriani's band, quite a jaw-dropping performance....two Zappa alums going at it! 

I met Keneally at a local music shop & asked him if any of that were filmed or recorded, and he said that, sadly, it wasn't.

Anyway, sorry you missed Crimso, they never disappointed!  I saw LTIA in Chicago (no Miur, sadly) with, uh, Peter Frampton opening!!   Didn't see them again until Discipline tour (by that time, I knew Fripp personally), missed the Beat show in Chicago because the outdoor venue was flooded, caught 3 of a Perfect Pair in Minneapolis, Thrak in Chicago, and then I lost track of them all.  Sadly, I missed SBB and Red tours!  Can't have it all.  

Saw RF with Soundscapes many times, he should have soloed over his loops like he used to with the Revox Frippertronics!!  I've seen Belew a bunch of times, so many that he sort of recognizes me when he sees me.  Met Broof once, kind of a comedian....

Thank God for all the amazing video that survived those times!!  Here, dig this!!  



  

hey, Chuck, i know i've said this before, but i'll say it again, it must have been totally awesome when you saw Triumvirat open for Fleetwood Mac in the seventies!Thumbs Up And considering it was the band with the Jurgen Fritz, Helmut Koellen, and Hans Bathelt lineup-man, i bet that is a memory you will hold on to.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 14 2012 at 12:45
Oh yeah Hawkwind and More Hawkwind i first saw them at the Reading festival 1975 and have lost count how many times i have seen them since.  would be well over 500 times in so many various settings festivals small clubs  etc one  my fav venue's  to see the hawks was always Hammersmith Odean they always did good gigs there.

Then  there the gig i saw them do on flatbed truck in  laybye at the side of the Rd and of course the wonderful and infamous Treworgey Tree Fair  there really isn't nothing like a Hawkwind Gig.  


Will have to sit have a think and make a list of all the Porg bands i have seen over years memory not what it was haha.

will be back with said list later . also have to give a shout out to the Gong Family which also  seen many times over the years and in many different guises .

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2012 at 07:11
I've seen my favourite band, Porcupine Tree. Also seen Opeth, another of my favourites.

Still want to see Dream Theater.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2012 at 21:34
I've seen Jethro Tull in the nineties, so yeah! 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2012 at 07:12
Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:

Zappa retired from touring before I started going to shows.  I did see his son though, before I retired from going to shows.

Also seen Rush (3 times, I think), the Jethros, the Moodies, Neurosis (opening for Pantera!), Kansas, Floyd (post-Waters), Primus, Tool (with Meshuggah opening) and that's all I can think of.  (Do TSO count?)




Don't know how I missed Mr. Bungle.  Saw 'em twice - once in the "masked" era, and once on the California tour with the Dillinger Escape Plan opening.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2012 at 12:32
Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:

Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:

Zappa retired from touring before I started going to shows.  I did see his son though, before I retired from going to shows.

Also seen Rush (3 times, I think), the Jethros, the Moodies, Neurosis (opening for Pantera!), Kansas, Floyd (post-Waters), Primus, Tool (with Meshuggah opening) and that's all I can think of.  (Do TSO count?)




Don't know how I missed Mr. Bungle.  Saw 'em twice - once in the "masked" era, and once on the California tour with the Dillinger Escape Plan opening.


Sorry i did not address your question above about the TSO until now. Are you referring to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra? If so, yeah, that would count
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 23 2012 at 18:58
I recall writing this down before, but maybe not here on PA:

1. Saw Kansas a few times between 1976-1978
2. Saw Yes - GFTO tour, 1977.  Absolutely, the BEST concert I ever remember!
3. Saw Camel in 1978.
4. Saw UK as an opener for Jethro Tull, 1979.
5. Saw Peter Gabriel a couple of times, 1982-1984.

Then, I got married in 1985 and never had extra money to go see concerts anymore...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 23 2012 at 21:52
Unfortunately, I am too young to have seen most of my favorite bands at their peak, or even at all. I have, however, seen Yes twice and Rush twice. I'm going to see Tull on their upcoming tour, and I hope that that'll be a good show. I would also love to see PT live.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 23 2012 at 21:53
Nope, though I saw a band that was (at the time) my favorite, Magma.  Awesome, awesome show.  Cardiacs don't play live because of Tim's illness, so I can't ever see my current favorite live. Cry

Devin Townsend live was utterly amazing, too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 23 2012 at 22:12
My favorite is Rush. Haven't seen em yet, but got tickets in September! Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2012 at 17:34
Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:


Sorry i did not address your question above about the TSO until now. Are you referring to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra? If so, yeah, that would count


Fraid not.  Trans Siberian.


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