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    1. Banco
    2. After Crying
    3. Miriodor
    4. Spaced Out
    5. Three Friends
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    Banco
    Porcupine Tree
    Kenso
    Hidria Spacefolk (The BEST Sunday morn "wake-up" of all)
    Cabezas de Cera

    Honorable mention goes to the "pre-show" right before UK's performance on the final night. Rob's performance of "Yelling at the Audience" was not to be missed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by progcd54 View Post
    Banco
    Porcupine Tree
    Kenso
    Hidria Spacefolk (The BEST Sunday morn "wake-up" of all)
    Cabezas de Cera

    Honorable mention goes to the "pre-show" right before UK's performance on the final night. Rob's performance of "Yelling at the Audience" was not to be missed.
    Damn.....I forgot about Hydria Spacefolk. That performance was amazing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveSly View Post
    Damn.....I forgot about Hydria Spacefolk. That performance was amazing.
    Hidria may be the band I blew off due to my working, because I could only see so many per day, that I most regret missing. :-(
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    Fish was one of my top five for sure. Mainly because there are probably only a handful of shows he's done in sit-down venues, so it was a rare opportunity to enjoy him in comfort.

    Others would probably include Three Friends, UK, Magenta, and Gong.

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    It's hard for me to pick just five. I'm leaving many out but here's five ones that I really enjoyed.

    Happy the Man
    Kenso
    Anglagard
    Steve Hackett
    Solaris

    My favorite NEARfest moment came on the U.K. Encore when Jobson and Wetton played Rendezvous 6:02. It's not one of my favorite U.K. Songs but that moment sent shivers down my spine.


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    I was at all the NEARFests, so a lot to pick from:
    Banco-2001
    Kenso
    Ange
    The Enid
    Camel

    If VdGG had played Plague of Lighthouse Keepers at Apocalypse, that might have topped them all, but they would probably be my next choice...

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    I've always been more a fan of the undercard than the headliners:

    1. Gosta Berlings Saga (2012)
    2. PFM (2005)
    3. Anglagard (2102)
    4. Hidria Spacefolk (2004)
    5. Echolyn (2008)
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    Quote Originally Posted by mozo-pg View Post
    I agree KBB was an excellent show.
    Quick funny story about KBB....

    When their set ended, I was backstage stage left. One of the War Memorial house staff was there manning the curtain (or whatever he was doing). Long story short, he turns to me and says "Wow, those girls were good!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nearfest2 View Post
    Quick funny story about KBB....

    When their set ended, I was backstage stage left. One of the War Memorial house staff was there manning the curtain (or whatever he was doing). Long story short, he turns to me and says "Wow, those girls were good!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nearfest2 View Post
    Quick funny story about KBB....

    When their set ended, I was backstage stage left. One of the War Memorial house staff was there manning the curtain (or whatever he was doing). Long story short, he turns to me and says "Wow, those girls were good!"
    Are you saying girls can't be good?


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    I can't recall all the years exactly, but these are the ones that I think would be my top five (although there were many, many, many great performances over the years at NF):

    Kenso
    Banco (the first time)
    Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
    Alamaailman Vasarat
    Nathan Mahl
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    2005, 2001, 2003, 2003, 1999 respectively

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    There was a certain charm about the 99 festival


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    Quote Originally Posted by Fracktured View Post
    There was a certain charm about the 99 festival
    Interesting term for it. To this day, Rob and I don't know how we pulled that off.

    - There was no backstage. We had to leverage a hallway for the equipment.
    - Our sound and lights crew left without notice for dinner one of the nights, sending us into a panic.
    - Food and vending were in the same small room together. Both were minimal.
    - Solaris wouldn't leave the stage. "You want more Solaris?!" We had a hand on the main power switch during that drama.
    - We stayed until 3:00 am cleaning up the venue each night. There were no after-parties.
    - Rob, his wife at the time, and Jason Kochel all slept at my house in Allentown for the weekend.
    - Mike Potter gave me some homebrewed stout that exploded in the trunk of my car.
    - Neal Morse lost his voice just before Spock's Beard's encore.
    - Then there's the Ryo keyboard incident with Crucible.

    I can only imagine what the IQ guys thought when they walked into Zoellner in 2005 after playing Foy Hall 6 years prior.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nearfest2 View Post
    Interesting term for it. To this day, Rob and I don't know how we pulled that off.

    - There was no backstage. We had to leverage a hallway for the equipment.
    - Our sound and lights crew left without notice for dinner one of the nights, sending us into a panic.
    - Food and vending were in the same small room together. Both were minimal.
    - Solaris wouldn't leave the stage. "You want more Solaris?!" We had a hand on the main power switch during that drama.
    - We stayed until 3:00 am cleaning up the venue each night. There were no after-parties.
    - Rob, his wife at the time, and Jason Kochel all slept at my house in Allentown for the weekend.
    - Mike Potter gave me some homebrewed stout that exploded in the trunk of my car.
    - Neal Morse lost his voice just before Spock's Beard's encore.
    - Then there's the Ryo keyboard incident with Crucible.

    I can only imagine what the IQ guys thought when they walked into Zoellner in 2005 after playing Foy Hall 6 years prior.
    Yeah and on top of all that it was the hottest weekend of the year


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    Sleepy Time Gorrilla Museum, my first NF I think.
    Almailmman Vaserat , cant beat thrash brass
    Hydria Spacefolk, cool spacey
    Magenta , very hot
    Liquid Tension Experiment, kill the wabbit!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nearfest2 View Post
    Interesting term for it. To this day, Rob and I don't know how we pulled that off.

    - There was no backstage. We had to leverage a hallway for the equipment.
    - Our sound and lights crew left without notice for dinner one of the nights, sending us into a panic.
    - Food and vending were in the same small room together. Both were minimal.
    - Solaris wouldn't leave the stage. "You want more Solaris?!" We had a hand on the main power switch during that drama.
    - We stayed until 3:00 am cleaning up the venue each night. There were no after-parties.
    - Rob, his wife at the time, and Jason Kochel all slept at my house in Allentown for the weekend.
    - Mike Potter gave me some homebrewed stout that exploded in the trunk of my car.
    - Neal Morse lost his voice just before Spock's Beard's encore.
    - Then there's the Ryo keyboard incident with Crucible.

    I can only imagine what the IQ guys thought when they walked into Zoellner in 2005 after playing Foy Hall 6 years prior.
    Ahh......but it was great for those of us in the audience. I still have very vivid memories of that whole weekend.

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    Pick just five? Well, the two times Magma played NEARfest are probably the top two there. How do you top God tapping you on the shoulder and saying, "Hi! How are ya?!". The band premiering their the new, not yet released (or even recorded, really) album on each occasion helped too!

    After that, it probably reads something like:
    Djam Karet (2001)
    PFM (whichever year it was that they played the pre-show, and I got a great photo of the singer throw ing his mic stand in the air at the end of the set)
    Il Balletto Di Bronzo (2000)

    There were so many great bands, I sometimes have trouble who played which year.

    Edit: If Steve Feigenbaum gets to post six, then so do I. Besides, I just figured out how you top seeing God: doing an instrumental Bohemian Rhapsody, as an encore, with audience participation. I was full on crying during that, as I croaked out every single damn word (except for the first couplet, because I didn't know they were doing it beforehand, and didn't know what it was at first, and didn't catch on until I heard everyone else sing the second line). Thank you to California Guitar Trio for that one.

    And I also remember really enjoying Camel...one might not calling it dancing, as such, but I have a vague memory of being in perpetual motion during their performance.

    Oh yeah, and Nektar. I mean, c'mon, they played Remember The Future in it's entirety! And A Tab In The Ocean.
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    Miriodor - 2002
    SGM - 2003
    Anglagard - 2003
    Magma - 2003
    Present - 2005

    All of these particular shows blew my mind in one way or another.

    My two favorite "virtual" shows: Albert Marcoeur and Cardiacs
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveSly View Post
    Damn.....I forgot about Hydria Spacefolk. That performance was amazing.
    Hell yeah!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve F. View Post
    Hidria may be the band I blew off due to my working, because I could only see so many per day, that I most regret missing. :-(
    Next best thing I would imagine ....

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    Quote Originally Posted by chalkpie View Post
    Next best thing I would imagine ....

    cover_38422117102008.jpg
    That release is how I know how much I regret missing them!
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    Went to the two Trenton years as a teenager.


    1. Camel (2003)
    2. Steve Hacket (2002)
    3. Caravan (2002)
    4. Anglagard (2003)
    5. Flower Kings (2003)


    I'd very much like to give Echolyn a nod, but that would be historical revisionism. By the time they came on in 2002 I was exhausted of unfamiliar music and a bit bewildered by this strange band. I've since re-watched the show and am incredibly impressed by the performance of who has become my favorite prog band. Mei is one of my favorite records of any genre. I guess its cool that I was there for its live debut, but in 2002 my brain was fried and I don't think I even stayed for the encore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fracktured View Post
    Yeah and on top of all that it was the hottest weekend of the year
    You're right! I forgot that we overloaded the air conditioning system and it stopped working properly!!
    Chad

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