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Post by jshuey on Apr 14, 2016 11:05:35 GMT -8
Any of you go through these periods where you re-live the music of your past?
Last month - Robert Plant was in town, and did an amazing job covering many of the old Led Zeppelin tunes. His back up band was amazing, and his voice is still superb, Man - the guy can sing. And most amazingly, he still looks like Jesus when back-lit on the stage! I never saw LZ when I was a kid, so this is as close as I'll ever get.
Last week was Ian Anderson - doing a "rock opera" call "Jethro Tull"! Kinda a throwback to the "concept albums" they used to do, but laced with mostly old and some new material. Ian is also still amazing when playing "rock flute" and mandolin. He's lost his upper range - but doesn't try and hide it - he just blatantly misses those high notes when he sings. But man - they nailed many of the classics (especially new day yesterday, living in the past and locomotive breath were mind blowing). And man - he can abuse the flute better than anyone on the planet.
As an aside, I saw JT about 23 years ago sitting on the green here in Indy. A bunch of old-man drunk bikers were next to us, and one of them set their passed-out friend's leg on fire. I was stupid enough to put the fire out, and ended up with a black eye! I was watching for those assholes last week, and perhaps the guy pulling along the oxygen tank behind him was one of them? My wife wouldn't let me take him on though - so I'll never know... Man - I think I could have taken him this time around!
Next Month Yes - or what is left of it, is in Ohio and I have tickets. They are down to one "classic member" - Steve Howe - but he's the one I want to see. I really shouldn't say that - Alan White picked up percussion in the late 70's and played on most of the monster tours. Geoff Downes produced one of the albums, and Billy Sherwood has been in and out of the band since the 80's. This will be my fourth Yes concert and the first since their ill-fated (or ill-conceived) Union tour. It will be an odd set - two of the Tales from Topographic Oceans sets played in their entirety, the whole Relayer album, plus some standards. I'm hoping for Awaken - but doubt that another long 20 minute cut will be in the mix.
So - I figure I'm putting their great grandkids through college - so it's all good!
John
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Post by bobw on Apr 14, 2016 14:33:32 GMT -8
You say the music of your past, but I still listen to it pretty regularly.
The only time I saw Led Zeppelin was in 1969 with the wonderful Blodwyn Pig in support. They were very good but I sort of went off them a few years later.
I saw Jethro Tull a few times in their heyday but last saw them about 4 years ago and they were still great. They didn't do the big hits such as Living in the Past but their new material was really good.
Yes were another band I saw many times in the heyday but I last saw them a couple of years ago when they did The Yes Album, Close To The Edge and Going For The One in their entirety. The first two were still great even without Anderson and Wakeman, although they still had the sorely missed Chris Squire then. I'm seeing them again next month when they're due to do Fragile and a couple of other albums, I didn't see Topographic Oceans listed but that would be worth seeing.
I've also seen Steve Hackett a couple of times in the last two years on his Genesis Revisited tour and they were some of the best concerts I've seen. I saw Genesis dozens of times in their heyday (and I mean Genesis, not the Phil Collins band), and whilst I missed Peter Gabriel's theatrics they sounded just as good. Supper's Ready was phenomenal!
I also saw Family last year in their only reunion gigs, and whilst Roger Chapman's voice isn't what it was 45 years ago they still had it.
Finally, although it was from a later era, I saw Fleetwood Mac last year. I ignored their earlier reunion tours as Christine McVie wasn't with them, but when she rejoined I couldn't resist. I was a great concert but at times it turned too much into the Lyndsey Buckingham tribute show.
Bob
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Post by exoticimports on Apr 15, 2016 4:07:15 GMT -8
The Rainbow/ Riot/ Scorpions concert was the night before my 11th year final exams. In a rare show of maturity, I elected not to go. My friends who did go had a tough time staying awake through the exams.
I for one am grateful that Black Sabbath and Ozzy are still touring, as Into The Void must be experienced live.
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Post by jshuey on Apr 15, 2016 4:22:23 GMT -8
You say the music of your past, but I still listen to it pretty regularly. ..... Yes were another band I saw many times in the heyday but I last saw them a couple of years ago when they did The Yes Album, Close To The Edge and Going For The One in their entirety. The first two were still great even without Anderson and Wakeman, although they still had the sorely missed Chris Squire then. I'm seeing them again next month when they're due to do Fragile and a couple of other albums, I didn't see Topographic Oceans listed but that would be worth seeing. .... Bob Oh - I still listen to these old bands a lot. I have a 6 CD changer in my car, and my son made me put in at least on non-Yes disk a couple years back. There are just a few fairly modern bands worth listing too today - My punk side still likes the Offspring, and my prog side listens to the White Stripes. Counting Crows ain't bad at times.... I never got to see Wakeman or Bill Buford with yes. I did catch King Crismson a few years back with Buford. It was an odd concert and they warned us up front that there would be the occasional meltdown with the recorded loops and such - they ended up just swearing and cursing, and starting over. Chris Squire died last year - this will be the first time I'll see Yes without him on base... And it's interesting that the European tour play list is entirely different than the US play list... - I looked at that last week when I bought the tickets. Europe seems to be a more traditional concert, and the US a "let's play those old 20 minute album sides" tour j |
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Post by exoticimports on Apr 15, 2016 11:40:29 GMT -8
I had eight tracks.
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Post by 58chevy on Apr 28, 2016 10:07:32 GMT -8
I remember the times before 8-tracks. Nothing but AM radio (non-stereo) in the car, nothing but 45 & 33 rpm vinyl on the record player at home. All amplifiers were vacuum-tube. Cars had fins, enormous chrome bumpers, and guzzled gas. Fortunately, gas was only about 25 cents a gallon (even lower during gas wars).
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Post by jshuey on Apr 28, 2016 13:01:13 GMT -8
I lost most of my 8-tracks in 1979 - and just switched to vinyl after that. I was out driving around one spring with my future wife. We were taking a botany class, and saw a shrub in bloom. I zoomed up the shrub, set the emergency break and we hopped out to take at look.
Every thing went down hill from there - literally. I was on a boat ramp, and as I turned around, my car was halfway down and gaining speed. Both the driver's and passengers doors were wide open - which was a good thing, because it sank pretty quickly - it would have floated out to the middle of the lake otherwise. The engine was still running... the whole thing took something like 20 seconds to transpire.
Anyway, the shoreline was littered with the crap from my car - which was mostly textbooks and 8-track tapes. They just didn't work very well after that (as opposed to the way they didn't work well to begin with!).
Insurance covered everything - they determined that the emergency break was defective (but my dad made it pretty clear that it was the driver's brain that was at fault).
John
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Post by coloradeo on May 1, 2016 14:50:47 GMT -8
I saw the Scorpions last year. Didn't expect the lead singer to be able to hit the high notes. He rested through a few songs saving himself, but then nailed a few high ones! They were awesome!
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Post by exoticimports on May 4, 2016 4:17:00 GMT -8
And on another note, AC/DC canned Brian Johnson and replaced him with Axl Rose.
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Post by leptraps on May 4, 2016 7:58:41 GMT -8
I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and my Grand Mother was a patron of the Cleveland Orchestra. I heard lots of Great music. My wife got me tickets for my birthday and we will hear Beethoven's The Emperor Concerto at Severance Hall.
Now that is 70's classical music at it's best, 1870 that is.
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Post by exoticimports on May 5, 2016 5:33:06 GMT -8
I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and my Grand Mother was a patron of the Cleveland Orchestra. I heard lots of Great music. My wife got me tickets for my birthday and we will hear Beethoven's The Emperor Concerto at Severance Hall. Now that is 70's classical music at it's best, 1870 that is. I was at an Ozzy concert and he opened with a piece by Orff. What is THIS? I wondered? And thus began my love for classical. Not all classical, as I can't stand any of the Russian stuff and unlike most Bach is my preference. I've had the joy to experience the period correct Brandenburg Symphony in Sydney, as well as the dynamic VNSO at the Hanoi Opera House (they are MUCH more relaxed that we stuffy European-types, though they haven't caught on to drinks before and reception after.) There is a fun trend to do heavy metal and such with symphonies, and the results are quite interesting. From Jethro Tull by LSO to Black Sabbath done in druid, one can see the close relationship between metal and classical. Chuck |
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Post by leptraps on May 5, 2016 6:46:07 GMT -8
I love the Symphony. Can not stand opera. One of my favorite pieces is Beethoven 9th Symphony, Ode to Spring.
I have heard some great music by some great Orchestras. Dvorak's New World Symphony, All of Tchaikovsky and Rimsky Korsakov just to name a few.
And they call rock and roll music. How about that country music. I hear that here in Kentucky everywhere. Somebody should teach the how to tune a fiddle. Red Necks, White Socks and PBR, YEE HAW.....
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2016 8:38:16 GMT -8
The 70's would have been an interesting era to experience. Crazy train and rock you like a hurricane were the first two songs I learned on the guitar, there was definitely some good music from the RnR hairbands.
The college I attended has one of the nicest concert halls in the country IMO (Stephens Performing Arts Center), and was able to hear performances from the likes of Chopin to Vivaldi. The girl I was dating at the time played piano and got us in to a faculty piano recital. It was a private event, with only about 30 people in the entire hall, and it is one of my most memorable experiences. Seeing a symphony in person is something everybody should do at least once in their life. Since we're on the topic of classical music, here is my favorite classical piece from maestro Trepat-his performance of Solea is godlike.
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Post by bobw on May 11, 2016 4:36:59 GMT -8
And it's interesting that the European tour play list is entirely different than the US play list... - I looked at that last week when I bought the tickets. Europe seems to be a more traditional concert, and the US a "let's play those old 20 minute album sides" tour. So I went to see Yes last night at the Royal Albert Hall. They started with a video tribute to Chris Squire and when they played Fragile all the way through they respectfully left out "The Fish". They started with the whole of a 1980 album called "Drama", which I hadn't heard before and don't particularly want to hear again. They then played a random selection of other songs (including the awful "Owner of a Lonely Heart"), the best of which was "Siberian Khatru". They then played the whole of "Fragile" which was the highlight of the evening, followed by the wonderful "Starship Trooper" as an encore. Steve Howe mentioned that they were going to play sides 1 & 4 of "Tales from Topographic Oceans" on their forthcoming US tour and that if it was successful they'd bring it to England next year. Steve Howe was the only original member apart from Alan White who played on some of their early stuff. The singer and keyboard and bass players were all very accomplished and did their best impersonations of Anderson, Wakeman and Squire. However the material didn't live up to the last time I saw them a couple of years ago when they did "The Yes Album" and "Close to the Edge". I have to say I think I'd rather hear the two sides of "Topographic Oceans". Steve Howe can still play but is really showing his age; all he was missing was a black cloak and a scythe! Bob |
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Post by joee30 on May 13, 2016 15:17:58 GMT -8
Leroy. That country music you talk about has been torn by what the country purists call Real country, and Pop country. Lol If the song talks about gals in daisy dukes, lots of tailgating, drinking, and trying to be redneck, and add some of the noise lids today call "Dubstep" and rap, then it's more than likely that is Pop country. It's garbage for the most part. Pop country artists are Florida/Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, Jason, Aldean, and many more. The purists hate this stuff with a passion.
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