So then, what was the BEST concert you ever attended?

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Lady T,

You are in one of the best places in the world for live music. Bob Wills is still the king.

hf

 

[dreadnut]

Carlos and Eric on the same bill? That musta been a killer concert Scratch! :shock:

One guy who put on a heck of a concert was Corky Seigel, saw him a couple times.

Not rock, but I saw what is arguably the two top bluegrass bands in the iindustry a couple years ago, Del McCoury Band, and Alison Krause & Union Station. Seeing Jerry Douglas play with Union Station was worth the price of the tickets all by himself.

 

[ladytexan]

Lady T,

You are in one of the best places in the world for live music. Bob Wills is still the king.

hf

Yep, it is a great place for live music for sure. The Steel Wheels were in town a couple of weeks ago. Always someplace has live music....no covers where full tip jars abound. :wink: We appreciate our musicians/artists around these parts.

I agree with you, hf, Bob Wills is still the KING! 8) However, we do miss SRV, too.

 

[Scratch]

Carlos and Eric on the same bill? That musta been a killer concert Scratch! :shock:

One guy who put on a heck of a concert was Corky Seigel, saw him a couple times.

Not rock, but I saw what is arguably the two top bluegrass bands in the iindustry a couple years ago, Del McCoury Band, and Alison Krause & Union Station. Seeing Jerry Douglas play with Union Station was worth the price of the tickets all by himself.

Heckuva concert from what I remember, Dread. Active duty at the time and quite concerned I would encounter a random pee-test back in Dayton within the next few days. :shock: Second hand jive was pretty thick as I recall... :lol: :lol:

Eric and Carlos duelled guitars as an encore. Never forget that...

I'd mortgage the house to see Alison Kraues & Union Station!!

 

[Emory]

My all time best was final day of the "Northern California Folk Rock Festival" in Santa Clara late May 69. Rock festival before Woodstock and them becoming "trendy"....
Oh yeah, final performance was (supposedly) last performance of Jimi Hendrix Experience as originally put together. Free LSD for appetizers (very high quality too, I have heard ). Star Spangled what? Hmm sounds familiar, but not... PA system went out at one point, so Jimi used natural delay off of grandstands about 1/4 mile back from stage.
He was God that day. Saw him 3 times. .333 not bad batting average..
Notes: Saw Santana and Clapton on that same tour. Very good (duh). Return to Forever: jeez what a band! Could play anything and everything better than anybody... Al Dimieola was also there... Stones during Paint It Black period made my hair feel like standing on end in 66... Another great one was original Mahavishnu along with Taj Mahal opening with unknown Pointer Sisters backing up a bit. Interesting mix. But Opened with Birds of Fire... more hair standing stuff.

 

[adorshki]

but I don't find it difficult to remove politics from an appreciation of good music.

Then what in the world are you doing here?
(sorry, couldn't resist....)
:lol:

 

[southernGuild]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxHu_71sU1E[/url]
" I always liked that guy that interjected his little 'Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaw' in so many of those songs.

I was going to ask...."do they still celebrate 'Bob Wills day" in Texas? But then I just looked it up. Yes indeed! 8)
http://www.bobwillsday.com/vnews/displa ... 373407f71f

This one I knew as a child. The song has it all! Horns, fiddles, pedal steel, a few guitars.....( except for the trademark, "Ahhhhhhh-Haaaaaaaaaw")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvX8MijgeW8

Wish I still had those old records. ( Mom lost them to Hurricane Katrina)

 

[Los Angeles]

The lifetime award goes to Philip Glass conducting and performing the soundtrack to Koyaanisqatsi in an orchestra pit as the film played on stage. This was at the Chicago Theatre maybe 7 years ago. I've never EVER felt anything like it.

Best concert in the past year goes to Sleigh Bells at FYF in September. Gleeful, aggressive and sexually charged. What a show!

 

[jte]

"Best" is a tie. Either Joni Mitchell with the L.A Express (Robben Ford playing his Starfire IV) around 1974 or 5. Other was Tower of Power opening for Rare Earth. There was supposed to be another band in front of TOP, but they got snowed into Chicago and couldn't make it. TOP played about 45 minutes, then the crew came out and switched gear around. Rare Earth played about an hour and were done. They also weren't very good. There's a reason very few lead singers play drums at the same time...

Anyway, the night was still young, there was a blizzard outside, and hardly anyone left the building. So, after about 40 minutes, TOP's crew came back out and they played for about two hours. I only wish I'd had a better understanding to bass/drum relationship back then (this was while I was still in high school, around 1972), having had the opportunity to see Rocco and Garibaldi together in their prime.

Honorable mention goes to a NAMM show jam with Larry Carlton, Bruce Bolten (Gibson's A&R man), Ralphe Armstrong (Jean-Luc Ponty, Mahavishnu, etc.) and Larry Londin (Rodney Crowell's Cherry Bombs and some guy named Elvis, among a host of others) on drums. Carlton said something like "Let's just vamp over an Amin7, and we'll use a Db 9 as the release chord. Larry you just start it off." I was standing about two feet away from Ralphe and about six feet from Carlton. It was jaw dropping....

John

 

[adorshki]

Love it, JTE. 8)

 

[bluesypicky]

Love it, JTE. 8)

+1 Nice sample! 8)

 

[adorshki]

The lifetime award goes to Philip Glass conducting and performing the soundtrack to Koyaanisqatsi in an orchestra pit as the film played on stage. This was at the Chicago Theatre maybe 7 years ago. I've never EVER felt anything like it.

Speaking of feeling things, you reminded me of Phil Lesh playing his giant bass-thingy at an AIDS benefit concert in the Oakland Coliseum in '86 or '87 I think it was.
The thing was laid out like a pedal steel except it was so big he could use his leg to fret it. :shock: At least that's how I remember it. :lol:
For sure he was using some batons on the thing that were like small baseball bats and he could hit the strings or use 'em like a slide, and he started a drone going.....after about a minute of that I realized I could literally feel the concrete pad I was sitting on vibrating..... :shock: :shock: :shock:
You can't convince me he didn't do a little testing at the sound check to find the resonant frequency of the whole d--n stadium. Or h-ll, maybe he just found it during the solo and went with it... :lol:
I literally started wondering if chunks of concrete were gonna start breaking loose and began looking for a place away from possible falling objects.
I solemnly swear I was under the influence of nothing stronger that day than what can currently be legally obtained at many dispensaries throughout the region.
8)

 

[TonyT]

The lifetime award goes to Philip Glass conducting and performing the soundtrack to Koyaanisqatsi in an orchestra pit as the film played on stage. This was at the Chicago Theatre maybe 7 years ago. I've never EVER felt anything like it.

Speaking of feeling things, you reminded me of Phil Lesh playing his giant bass-thingy at an AIDS benefit concert in the Oakland Coliseum in '86 or '87 I think it was.
The thing was laid out like a pedal steel except it was so big he could use his leg to fret it. :shock: At least that's how I remember it. :lol:
For sure he was using some batons on the thing that were like small baseball bats and he could hit the strings or use 'em like a slide, and he started a drone going.....after about a minute of that I realized I could literally feel the concrete pad I was sitting on vibrating..... :shock: :shock: :shock:
You can't convince me he didn't do a little testing at the sound check to find the resonant frequency of the whole d--n stadium. Or h-ll, maybe he just found it during the solo and went with it... :lol:
I literally started wondering if chunks of concrete were gonna start breaking loose and began looking for a place away from possible falling objects.
I solemnly swear I was under the influence of nothing stronger that day than what can currently be legally obtained at many dispensaries throughout the region.
8)

And by the region, he means Thailand.

 

[Bikerdoc]

Jimi Hendricks, Janis Joplin, and Iron Butterfly....Coball (sp) Hall in Detroit....1968or 69

Peace

 

[dreadnut]

Wow Doc, true icons all three. :shock:

 

[davismanLV]

jte, I gotta agree that Joni Mitchell and the L.A. Express was a truly phenomenal show!!

 

[adorshki]

I solemnly swear I was under the influence of nothing stronger that day than what can currently be legally obtained at many dispensaries throughout the region.
8)

And by the region, he means Thailand.

In Thailand they've dispensed with dispensaries. Here in the Free California Republic they're enagaging in creating a brave new world of medical jurisprudence.
And clean air etiquette at outdoor concerts.
Now back to our regularly scheduled thread.
:lol: