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    '79, may have been '80, UK (trio) opened
    Fragile
    Tales
    Selling England
    Lamb
    Ummagumma
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    The Power And The Glory
    '76, opening for Renaissance
    Trilogy
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    Philippino cover band playing Floyd/Wall at the enlisted club in Guam
    (rather surreal, but enjoyable 24 rum and cokes later.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by markinottawa View Post
    Saw Chris as the warm up for Supertramp at a high school auditorium just before Crime was released
    Now I'm impressed... Supertramp in a high school??

    Quote Originally Posted by alucard View Post
    According to my taste and concert experience THIS concert was obscure and I had already seen De Burgh as solo support act for Yes.
    De Burgh opening for Supertramp and Yes??

    But then again, I don't know the stuff he was doing in the 70's

    I guess I should investigate
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post
    Now I'm impressed... Supertramp in a high school??


    De Burgh opening for Supertramp and Yes??

    But then again, I don't know the stuff he was doing in the 70's

    I guess I should investigate
    He was playing and singing folky songs on a 12 string acoustic in 1977
    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post
    Now I'm impressed... Supertramp in a high school??


    De Burgh opening for Supertramp and Yes??

    But then again, I don't know the stuff he was doing in the 70's

    I guess I should investigate

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    Quote Originally Posted by alucard View Post
    He was playing and singing folky songs on a 12 string acoustic in 1977
    indeed. It was very much singer/songwriter type stuff. I don't think further investigation is really required.

    As for the high schools, a number of 70's bands played smaller Ottawa high school auditoriums, including Supertramp, PFM, Renaissance, JJ Cale

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    Aqualung
    Broadsword tour (my first ever live gig!)
    Tormato ( it didn't put me off )
    ABWH
    And Then There Were Three (didn't put me off either!)
    We can't Dance tour
    The Wall
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    Live Playing the Fool
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    Trilogy
    Black Moon tour
    A Farewell to Kings (still my favourite)
    R30
    The Enid - Touch Me
    Parallel or 90 degrees in Rotherham - they were obscure when I saw them.

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    Oh goody - a list thread!

    Tull album: maybe Aqualung or Songs from the Wood
    Tull tour: Never saw them live. Was only ever a casual fan.
    Yes album: The Yes Album
    Yes tour: Drama 1980, Colosseum in Richfield, Ohio
    Genesis album: bought A Trick of the Tail, Wind & Wuthering, ...And Then There Were Three all at the same time in 1979
    Genesis tour: Duke Tour 1980, Colosseum in Richfield, Ohio
    Floyd album: either Dark Side of the Moon or Meddle... can't remember
    Floyd tour: Never saw them live
    King Crimson album: In the Court of the Crimson King
    King Crimson tour: Discipline 1981, E.J. Thomas Hall in Akron, Ohio
    Gentle Giant album: Three Friends
    Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): Nada. Zip.
    ELP album: Brain Salad Surgery
    ELP tour: Never saw them live
    Rush album: Caress of Steel
    Rush tour: Moving Pictures 1981, Colosseum in Richfield, Ohio (saw them two nights in a row. FM opened.)
    Obscure album: FM - Black Noise
    Obscure show: Can't think of anything that would qualify as "obscure."
    [Edit] Okay, for obscure, I'm going to go all non-prog and put in Hank Williams Jr. and the Bama Band, sometime around 1982/3 at Music Hall in Cleveland, Ohio. My then-girlfriend's brother & his wife had tickets but couldn't go, so we inherited them. The show was actually quite good. The Bama Band really floored me with their musicianship, ... but MAN, was that crowd ever ROWDY!
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    Quote Originally Posted by markinottawa View Post
    indeed. It was very much singer/songwriter type stuff. I don't think further investigation is really required.
    Well, Austrian prog band Eela Craig covered A spaceman came traveling, which was written by Chris De Burg


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    Tull album: Think As A Brick
    Tull tour: Something in the mid/late 2000s
    Yes album: Fragile
    Yes tour: Something in the mid 2000s
    Genesis album: The Lamb...
    Genesis tour: no dice for me here
    Floyd album: Dark Side...
    Floyd tour: no dice for me here either
    King Crimson album: Discipline
    King Crimson tour: 08 tour
    Gentle Giant album: Interview
    Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): swing and a miss
    ELP album: BSS
    ELP tour: swing and a miss again
    Rush album: 2112
    Rush tour: nope
    Obscure album: Yezda Urfa - Sacred Baboon
    Obscure show: I don't get to a lot of shows so idk...probably Magma
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    I wouldn't consider Chris De Burgh obscure.
    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    Dreadful would be more accurate.
    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    I wouldn't agree with that either, but that's a matter of taste.
    I had friends in college who were fans of the Chris Deburgh album "Spanish Train & Other Stories." I probably heard it once back then, I'm listening to it now on YouTube. It's kind of enjoyable, a little Jim Steinman, a little Fruup.

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    A little dreadful
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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    I wouldn't consider Chris De Burgh obscure.
    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    Dreadful would be more accurate.
    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    A little dreadful
    Maybe. Marillion was likened to Chris DeBurgh in a review several years back, and they had to lick their wounds for a while! I'm sure you agree with that though.

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    The case for the prosecution rests.
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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?
    There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.

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    Lighters on!

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    Tull album: Aqualung
    Tull tour: The Stormwatch tour. December 1979(80?)
    Yes album: Yessongs
    Yes tour: March 1984, Cow Palace, SF 90125 tour.
    Genesis album: Live
    Genesis tour: March or April of 1977, WW tour.
    Floyd album: Dunno. Probably DSotM.
    Floyd tour: Never seen 'em.
    King Crimson album: Bought cassettes of Poseidon and Lark's the same day.
    King Crimson tour: Discipline tour.
    Gentle Giant album: Octopus, bought that same day. Hellofa day.
    Gentle Giant tour (bonus points for seeing ONE!): I went to a show in June of '80, but got very sick and had to leave before they came on.
    ELP album: Pictures
    ELP tour: August 6, 1977. Works I tour.
    Rush album: Exit...Stage Left
    Rush tour: Another one I've never seen.
    Obscure album: Smoke Arise, The Survival of Saint Joan.
    Obscure show: Does Gamma count?

    ETA: I suppose some of the bands at 2002's NEARFest are probably more obscure than that. (Gerard? La Torre del'Alchemiste?)
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