"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
I do, and it's a first class session, but for me, Spoors is, by "orders of magnitude" the better recording.I keep returning to Spoors, and like all great,challenging music, it reveals more of itself to me with each listen.It scratches an itch(for me) unlike almost every other record of its ilk.
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Curved Air in their heyday is a big one for me as well. I'd love to see the group now though,
if they will come to the US as promised some years ago.
Unfortunately this list would be longer than the list of bands I have seen... a small piece of it off the top:
Hendrix
Henry Cow
Eric Dolphy
Captain Beefheart
The Move
Patto
Atomic Rooster (Death Walks Behind You period)
Darryl Way's Wolf
Groundhogs (Split - Hogwash period)
Soft Machine
Mahavishnu Orch. (IMF - Birds of Fire period)
Charles Mingus
Rory Gallagher 74'
Back Door
Patto
John Stevens Away
East of Eden (Mercator - Snafu period)
Tipographica
Embryo (early 70's)
Trettioariga Kriget (early 70's)
New Trolls (UT period)
YES 71-85 ( didn't first see them until 87)
Genesis 71-80 (I could skip them in the eighties)
ELP 71-78
Gentle Giant
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
VDGG 70-78
Just about any prog or classic rock band in the seventies or even earlier.
Oh crap how could I forget? I'd have liked to have seen P-Funk back in the 70's, preferably when Eddie Hazel was in the band, but the Michael Hampton era would have been cool too.
Also would have liked to have seen the mid 80's P-Funk All Stars, when Clinton had Eddie, Michael, Blackbyrd McKnight, Gary Shider, and Boogie Mosson ALL onstage together.
Only one - King Crimson 72-74.
Didn't get to see Bruford play until 2000.
Beethoven - 5th, 6th or 9th symphonies - Premier performances
Samurai(the British one)-1971
Yes- 1972
Nektar- 1976
Web-1970
Genesis-1973
Greenslade-1973
Gentle Giant-1975
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
As a result of my chronology and geography from 1966-1971, I've seen almost every icon/legend out there, but my biggest regret would be 2 bands, 1 prog-1 not.
The Andy L./Peter B. "Moonmadness" tour with The Humps
Buffalo Springfield
As far as the band who I'm most grateful that I didn't miss, that's easy. Arthur,Johnny,Bryan,Ken & "Snoopy"
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
I forget what I posted further back in this thread (probably Genesis at a show where Gabriel wore the fox costume), but whatever was Kate Bush's first public show would have been very cool too.
Another one I just realized I left off my list:
Performances of Stockhausen's Mantra, Sternklang, the Mikrophonie pieces, Sirius, Kurzwellen, Harlekin (I'd like to have seen a young Suzanne Stephens perform this one), and a few others come to mind. Not necessarily the world premieres ( I know someone who did see the world premiere of Sirius at the planetarium in Washington DC, though it was still a "work-in-progress" at the time), just ones where the music was played the way Herr Karl intended to it sound.
And let's not forget Tangerine Dream, circa 1970-1977 (but especially the US tour in 1977)
Morton Subotnick circa 67-68 (hell, I'd have settled for 2013, but ya know how that goes)
Kraftwerk (Schneider/Dinger/Rother lineup)
Sun Ra Arkestra, circa 65-74
While reading Jimmy Carl Black's memoirs JCB mentions a club date in LA in 1969 with Zappa/MoI,with Beefheart/Magic Band supporting,(this was right after they recorded TMR),and opening the show, on their first US tour..Jethro Tull.
Now THAT'S a triple header worth a trip in the wayback machine.
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
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