So far my faves have been, in no particular order:
Gosta Berlings Saga at NearFest
Aranis at NearFest
miRthkon & MoeTar at Orion
Beardfish at Orion
Janel & Anthony at The SpaceBar
Theifs at La Maison Francaise
Dr Nerve at ProgDay
Mike
So far my faves have been, in no particular order:
Gosta Berlings Saga at NearFest
Aranis at NearFest
miRthkon & MoeTar at Orion
Beardfish at Orion
Janel & Anthony at The SpaceBar
Theifs at La Maison Francaise
Dr Nerve at ProgDay
Mike
Santana - Best High Energy, 40 min of instrumentals from Shapeshifter
Tangerine Dream - Best value, $40 for 3+hours of dream sequencing
Joe Lovano/Dave Douglas - doing Coltrane
Blew it- Hiromi 3 times, Steven Wilson
I caught Three Friends six times, specific shows would be L'Assomption, Quebec City and Tel Aviv that seemed to stand out a bit better. Pucifer was musically intersting for 2/3rds and visually interesting. John Fogerty was a hits package well done. Mellencamp was a hits package, updated, with moral undertones. David Boxcar Gates in my backyard was a bluesy good time. Yardbirds and Northern Pikes were good nights. Faust I survived, and enjoyed some parts of them. Roger Waters The Wall wasn't to my liking, but stadium shows rarely are to me.
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I recently had the pleasure of seeing Trojan Horse, The Fierce and The Dead and Knifeworld play in Leeds (UK) all three bands were superb and to be honest a breath of fresh air.
Other highlights this year for me were The Flower Kings at Holmfirth and the wonderful Beardfish in Quebec.
Really looking forwards to seeing District 97 at Celebr8 next year.
Pendragon at the Musician,Leicester were superb and The Flower Kings at Leamington Spa Assembly back in september were in blistering form.
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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Been to many concerts this year but the ones that blew me away in no particular order
District 97
IZZ
Insomnium
Alestorm
Nightwish
Kamelot
Tori Amos
IQ
Karmakanic
"I got an idea, an idea so smart my head would explode if I even began to know what I was talking about."
- Peter Griffin ("Family Guy")
Haven't been to many shows this year, but I got to take my 10-year-old son to his first concert ever with Tangerine Dream. Just wish the place had been filled a bit more. But that same son's piano recital cost me a chance to see Marillion.
Peter Gabriel absolutely crushed it as far as I'm concerned, though.
nice to see PE's upgrade the forum
Tops for me.
Aranis at Nearfest.
MoeTar at the Orion
Doctor Nerve at ProgDay
Ian Anderson-TAAB 1 and 2
Asia-XXX Tour
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (Not prog, but wow!)
Looking forward to Rush next week...can predict it would be on this list as well.
Rosfest- Karmakanic, Hasse Froberg and Musical Companion, Agents of Mercy, and Sanguine Hum
Iron Maiden- with Alice Cooper- Newark New Jersey
Buckcherry- Huntington, NY
Coheed and Cambria- Record Release show- Amityville, NY
Mastodon/Opeth/Ghost- New York City
Mike Keneally and Rick Mulsalam- New York City
Rush- Newark NJ, and Brooklyn, NY
Geoff Tate- Amityville NY and New York City
Don Cassidy
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top of my list would have to be Sabbath in Birmingham as their warm up date for Download festival
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Nightwish
Marillion
Rival Sons
Ian Hunter
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I have gone to very few shows this year for some reason, but all have been great: Blue Oyster Cult-NYC, Accept/Kreator-NYC, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson 'Thick as a Brick 1 &2' -NYC, Steve Smith & Vital Information-Boston, and Symphony X & Iced Earth-NYC
My first post on the new site. In no particular order:
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine - Hamilton
Gosta Berlings Saga, Aranis, Renaissance, Il Tempio delle Clessidre @ Nearfest
Rocket From The Tombs- Hamilton
Rammstein - Cleveland
Fred Frith - Guelph Jazz Fest
These days, there are just too many hurdles to go see many shows, but...
Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I had to put them in bold because not only did I wait about 8 years to see them, but they were fantastic!
Biggest regret: not seeing Aranis at NF. Couldn't justify the expense. How good were they?
WTH? Didn't you go see GYBE?
Couldn't get to that one Hal. Lucky I saw em last tour. I have to start writing down somewhere the shows that I see. I'm sure I'm missing something else spectacular I saw this year LOL.
Going to see what looks to be a great show tonight - Lydia Lunch Retrovirus. Apparently she's got a killer band with her including ex-Sonic Youth drummer. Really looking forward to what should be an interesting night to say the least.
Lydia Lunch's band tonight:
Bob Bert (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore)
Algis Kizys (Swans)
Weasel Walter (Flying Luttenbachers, Cellular Chaos)
Gonna be deadly, methinks.
Besides the already mentioned Holdsworth/Donati time explosion (in which Allan got lost, Einstein cackled and God said "See? I TOLD you that the Big Bang and the book of Genesis were in agreement"), I also was blessed to see:
IZZ and District 97 - every bit as great as you'd imagine and then some!
Flying Colors - and a guitar player named Esteban...
UK with the unconventionally brilliant Gary Husband on drums - YEAH!!!
... and all the other great acts at NF Apocalypse....
Moon Safari, Wobbler @ Summer's End
The Tangent, Magenta & Tinyfish @ Celebr8
The Aristocrats @ The Robin 2
Lydia Lunch and Retrovirus were sensational last night.
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