Subject to reinterpretation and revision but in no particular order:
Kenso
Camel
PFM
Rory Gallagher
Santana
Bill Bruford
Kansas
Thin Lizzy
Jean luc-Ponty
Dire Straits
Honorable Mention
Ain Soph
UK
Dixie Dregs
Banco
Secret Oyster
Subject to reinterpretation and revision but in no particular order:
Kenso
Camel
PFM
Rory Gallagher
Santana
Bill Bruford
Kansas
Thin Lizzy
Jean luc-Ponty
Dire Straits
Honorable Mention
Ain Soph
UK
Dixie Dregs
Banco
Secret Oyster
Not counting NEARfest as those are festivals...(and all 7 I attended were amazing)
Black Sabbath 1975 w/Fire Ballet opening (My 2nd concert ever)
YES in the round MSG 1978
ELP w/orchestra also @ MSG
Rush (Grace Under Pressure) w/Marillion opening (first time seeing Rush, never heard of Marillion before that)
King Crimson 1982 or 3?
Robin Trower & Roy Buchannan
Shakti (2x!!!)
Nektar 1975
Bruford/Moraz
Paul McCartney
YES - Rlayer Tour
MAGMA - House of Blues, Hollywood w/P-Tree
After Crying - Baja Prog
King Crimson - Discipline tour at The Roxy
Jaco Pastorious Word of Mouth - Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Banco - Progfest
Deus Ex Machina - Mr. T's Bowl in Highland Park with Ativism of Twilight and Cal Arts Gamalon Ensemble
Kenso - Progfest
Camel - The Roxy
Gentle Giant - The Shrine Auditorium w/Renaissance opening
Honorable mention -
PFM - Baja Prog
Dixie Dregs - many times
Rite of Spring - LA Phil
Motor Totemist Guild
John McLaughlin and the One Truth Band - Santa Monica Civic
This is another one of those kind of lists that would probably change if I were to do it again next week.
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And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
Yeah, not counting NEARfest and other festivals. This is the best I can do:
Roy Harper - NYC, The Bottom Line, 1997
Roy Harper - NYC, The Knitting Factory, 1998
King Crimson - Syracuse, Landmark Theater, 1982
King Crimson - NYC, Pier 84, 1984
Marillion - Rochester, Renaissance Theater, 1987
Marillion - Syracuse, Lost Horizon, 1990
Talking Heads, Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, 1983
Peter Gabriel, somewhere in upstate new York, 1982
Peter Gabriel, Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, 1983
Magma - NYC, The Knitting Factory, 1999
The original 5 Byrds
Joan Baez (where she introduced Dylan to the world)
Cream (in 67)
4 Who concerts (1967-71)
3 Steely Dan concerts (1972 w/Hodder, Palmer, Skunk & Diaz was one of them)
That's 10. If I had ever been lucky enough to see Love in the 60's, I would have subtracted 1 Who concert
"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
Off the top of my head:
Gentle Giant
Thinking Plague
Genesis (1977)
Yes
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Jethro Tull (1973 - ish)
Camel
Pink Floyd (1973 - ish)
Flower Kings
Renaissance
Allman Brothers
Never seen Kenso, Advent or PFM
Cream-Olympia, Detroit 1968
The Who-Grande Ballroom, Detroit 1969
ELP w/ Curved Air-Eastown, Detroit 1971
Tony Williams Lifetime-Palladium, Birmingham, MI 1971
Genesis-Pease Auditorium, Ypsilanti 1973
Genesis-Grand Valley State 1975
Jane Siberry-St. Andrews Hall, Detroit 1986
Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin-Sam's Jams, Detroit 1990
Ernie Watts & Gamalon-Sam's Jams, Detroit 1990
Jonatha Brooke w/ Kevin Gilbert-The Ark, Ann Arbor, MI 1995
My 10 fav concerts would be any 10 Cardiacs gigs, but it's hard to separate them, so here are the last 10 Cardiacs gigs I attended, in order of chronology only, not preference:
(In 94 I attended every Cardiacs gig - there were only 4, and all were in London)
1. Cardiacs - 10 Dec 94, LA2
2. Cardiacs - 22 April 95, London Forum
3.Cardiacs - 24 May 95, Woughton Centre, Milton Keynes
4.Cardiacs - 26 May 95, The Venue, New Cross
5.Cardiacs - 1 Aug 95, Camden Palace
6.Cardiacs - 17 Nov 95, Camden Forum
7.Cardiacs - 21 June 1996, LA2
8.Cardiacs - 27 june 1996, Chelmsford Army & Navy
- Foreign Service - (hence the 9 year gap)
9.Cardiacs - 11 Nov 2005, London Astoria
10.Cardiacs - 10 Nov 2006, London Astoria
Sadly I couldn't get to any of the November gigs in 2007.
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Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra-Debussy-Jeux-Franck Symphony, Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 -Radu Lupu-NAC Ottawa-1989
Bruckner Great Mass-Ottawa-1990
ELP-1993-Ottawa Congress Center
Rush-Ottawa Civic Center-1977 with Max Webster
Styx-Ottawa Civic Center-1977 with Prism
The Stampeders-1977
Teaze-1977
Canada World Music Festival-Toronto-1979-Moxy, Goddo, The Ramones, Nazareth, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith
Octavian-1977
Rose-1977
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"and what music unites, man should not take apart"-Helmut Koellen
Not in any particular order.
1- Black Sabbath (1980)- Heaven & Hell tour
2- KISS- (1977) Love Gun tour. My first show. KISS were my favorite band at the time and are who inspired me to pick up the guitar. I saw a show from this era recently and it didn't hold up, but the memory of the show is different from a 12 year old perspective instead of a 48 year old one. This made me love the whole concert experience
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3- Marillion (1986) Misplaced Childhood tour. They headlined a tiny club in Seattle. They were my favorite new band at the time since picking up their first album in '83.
4- Jethro Tull (1984) Under Wraps tour. Not their best tour, but my first chance to see them in Seattle after I had started listening to them in '80.
5- Frank Zappa (1984) Them or Us tour. Same reasoning as Tull.
6- Roger Waters (1987) Radio KAOS tour. My first time seeing any Floyd played live. Third row tickets in the center. Loved it.
7- Kenso- (2000) The last LA PF. Mind blowingly good. They were just as good at NF 5 years later.
8- King Crimson (1984) Three of a Perfect Pair tour. Same reason as Tull & Zappa.
9- Kansas (1978) Point of Know Return tour. My first "prog" show, though I didn't know it at the time. This was my 13th B-day present from my folks.
10- Magma (1999) Headlining in SF. Wow.
I've seen hundreds of shows and enjoyed so many of them that this list could change tomorrow. Most of the shows I listed were early influences on me and shaped my musical tastes. I could just as easily name 10 more modern era shows. There's something about the first few years of going to concerts that remains a fond memory.
I couldn't even begin to narrow it down to ten.
Top 10
1. Univers Zero & Miriodor - Washington '10
2. King Crimson - NY Town Hall '01
3. Pink Floyd - Manchester '87
4. Rainbow - Leeds '81
5. Leonard Cohen - Birmingham '85
6. Eric Clapton - London '85
7. Atomic Rooster - Newcastle '83
8. Hawkwind - Newcastle '82
9. Secret Chiefs 3 - Boston '13
10. Steve Wilson - Columbus '09
Honorable Mentions
Motorhead - Newcastle '83
AC/DC - Newcastle '81
Rush - Glasgow '87
Jethro Tull - Stamford '02
Arlo Guthrie - Stamford '03
Queen - Newcastle '85
Rolling Stones - Newcastle '89
Aristocrats - Columbus '11
Decemberists - Columbus '10
Radiohead - Cincinnati '11
Crimson Projekct - Covington '11
Groundhogs - Newcastle '83
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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.
1. Paul McCartney - at Safeco Field in Seattle this summer. Got to see a legend, and heard everything I could have hoped to hear, plus a surprise encore with the surviving members of Nirvana. Perfect night.
2. Yes - Union tour. First ever concert. The eight-man "Awaken" was out of this world.
3. King Crimson - Thrak tour. First and only time I've ever seen them. Got autographs from everyone but Fripp.
4. Neil Young - HORDE festival, 1997. Performed in the middle of a raging summer storm. Water was gushing down toward the stage, main power went out, but Neil and the Horse just kept going. People crammed down around the stage to hear the music through the stage monitors. Best part? Neil was playing "Like a Hurricane."
5. VDGG - Trisector tour. Great to hear "Man-Erg" and "Lemmings." Stood so close to the stage I could see Banton working his feet on the organ pedals.
6. Roger Hodgson - summer 2012. Roger was all smiles, all night, and his enthusiasm rubbed off on the audience. "Fool's Overture" was amazing.
7. Yes - Masterworks tour. First and only time seeing "The Gates of Delirium" performed.
8. ELP - Black Moon tour. Got to shake Keith Emerson's hand!
9. Rush - Time Machine tour. Because it was Rush.
10. Yes - Talk tour. Farewell to Trevor Rabin. He really went out on a high note.
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Oh geez...a few that come to mind:
1. The Other Ones November 2003: not only did they do Saint Stephen and Born Cross Eyed, but during the intermission, Robert Hunter came out and sang a few songs solo, including Ripple. And I was in the third row. And we made eye contact during Ripple!)
2. California Guitar Trio at NEARfest 2001: The band comes out for the encore, and without any announcement starts playing, the audience applauds, and apparently a memo was passed around because I didn't know there was going to be audience participation, as everyone else joined in singing..."Is this the real life, is this just fantasy...". HOLY SHIT! It was Bohemian Rhapsody!!!! And they did the entire song as an instrumental, and we sang along. As a life long Queen fan who never got to see the real band live (I did eventually get to see that Queen+Paul Rogers deal in 2005), that really made my weekend.
3. Yes Taft Auditorium, Cincinnati, November 1999: They did Hearts, Awaken, and Jon even teased us with a bit of Nous Sommes Du Soleil. A very emotional night for me.
4. Yes Radio City Music Hall 2002: Rick did his nightly keyboard cadenza on the house pipe organ. And the band was just so perfectly "on" that night.
5. Magma NEARfest 2003: Dammit, they played KA and MDK! Both in their entirety! What more do you want?
6. Cleveland Orchestra performing Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1: One of the greatest of all orchestral pieces, and to hear it live performed by the internationally renowned Cleveland Orchestra was simply divine. I was pretty much having a spontaneous orgasm as the final movement unfolded.
7. Cleveland Orchestra performing Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring, with Pierre Boulez conducting: I literally had to suppress the desire to headbang. It was that intense!
8. Pink Floyd May 1994: Rainy day in Cleveland. Lasers bouncing off the wall across the stadium from the stage during the Sorrow intro. Raindrops visible in the lasers during Wish You Were Here. Hogs descending from the lighting towers at the end of One Of These Days. And the film projection screen lifting up from behind the backline at the start of Shine On You Crazy Diamond. And that mirror ball!
9. The Who 2000: The one time I saw The Who where it really sounded like the 70's model. They stretched out during My Wife, and played stuff like Anyway Anywhere Anyhow and The Relay. And Thunderfingers demonstrated why they called him that during 5:15. Definitely the
best of the times I got to see them live.
10. Gong Family Uncon 2006: First time in Europe as an adult, first time in Amsterdam, and first time seeing either Steve Hillage or Tim Blake perform live. Glissando Orchestra was pretty amazing too.
Hmm.
I guess if I can't include individual performances at festivals, the best list goes like this:
1. King Crimson, 1995 (Denver, Cincinatti, and New Orleans - all were great)
2. Echolyn, Orion Studios, 2004(?)
3. Phideaux, Orion Studios, 2010 or 2011
4. Consider the Source, 2012
5. U2, Las Vegas, 2004
6. Radiohead, 2004 or 2005
7. Porcupine Tree, 2006
8. Steven Wilson, 2013
9. Peter Gabriel and the New Blood Orchestra, Philly, 2011
10. Renaissance, 2009
Ok, i cheated with the number a little, but this was hard to narrow down!
but UK '78, Zappa '78, Oregon 1998 and a couple of BLUE shows '98 would be up there. Oh, yeah. Steven Wilson earlier this year, too.
peter gabriel, “us” tour (hamburg 1993 and roskilde 1994)
MARiLLiON, “afraid of sunlight” tour (hamburg 1995)
neil young & crazy horse, “broken arrow” tour (hamburg 1996)
SPARKS, “hello young lovers” tour (hamburg, 2006) > this might well be the best gig that i ever saw.
YES, “union” tour (oldenburg, 1991)
YES, “the ladder” tour (offenbach, 2000) > best YES gig that i ever saw
CARDiACS (london, 2007)
RUSH, “r30” tour (hamburg, 2004) > seen them a few times, this was the best
OCEANSiZE, “everyone into position” tour (hamburg 2005) > walked in completely uninitiated and went through that eureka moment of discovering a very, very great band indeed. they are sorely missed.
nick‘n’neal (hamburg, 2000) > this being nick d'virgilio and neal morse busking in a pub on hamburg’s reeperbahn. it was on the eve before SPOCK’S BEARD’s support of DREAM THEATER in hamburg (where the former totally and utterly destroyed the latter, but i digress...). during the process of the evening all other members of DT and SB ended up on stage playing along and created many impromptu performances, jams and combinations. i paid ten marks at the door and was in heaven for what must have lasted at least four hours with several interdispersed intermissions. when people weren't performing, they became regular audience members and were happy to share a beer and a chat with anyone. that included john myung and james labrie and, of course, ryo okumoto and mike portnoy turned out to be a royal hoot! i have since gone off both bands in a big way (just moved on musically) but this evening stands out as special, don't you agree?
these are in no particular order of importance and they (and their argumentation) have been listed straight off the top of my head.
Progeezer Steve (Prog name: The Ancient Voice of Pangea And Before), has a mighty list there, save for the Steely Dan........
Philsunset (not sure I know you, but may I please christen your Prog name as, Giver Of The Original Mitochondrial Coils) ? Nice list, also.
Where's Mogrooves (Prog name: Cosmic Librarian Of All Things Senescent) ? His list is sure to make us all green with envy. Please chime in, Dude........
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Too many to mention over the past 30 years but Transatlantic at Manchester Academy on the Whirlwind Tour were exceptional. They have that rare ingrediant of playing epic prog music whilst still obviously having fun playin it! I don't know of any other prog band that involves the audience to the level they do!
I hate it when Steve pulls out stuff like that and I get so jealous I want to bite the heads off whippets....
Ray Charles----Detroit 1980 (it will never be beat)
Ray Charles---Stratford, Ont, 1983
VDGG---Toronto, Trisector Tour
Yes---London, 35th Anniversary Tour
Trans Siberian Orchestra---Toronto, 2009
Pink Floyd----Cleveland, 1978
Moscow Symphony Orchestra----Moscow (I took a 1 month course in Russia), 1982
DiMeola, McLaughlin, DeLucia----Toronto, 1980
Phideaux----Pittsburgh, 3RP II
Gandolf Murphy and The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams----Summerfolk Festival Owen Sound Ontario, 2011
When thinking about this, I was amazed as how many bands I saw in the 70s and how crappy the sound was.
"The woods would be very silent if the only birds that sang were those who sang best..." - Henry David Thoreau
Magma- Martyr's, Chicago
Jimi Hendrix, Soft Machine, MC5- Masonic Auditorium, Detroit
Jimi Hendrix, Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys- Cobo Hall, Detroit
Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Frosty- Easttown Theater, Detroit
Mothers of Invention, Charging Rhinocerous of Soul- Grande Ballroom, Detroit
Doors- Cobo Hall, Detroit
Sun Ra- Stables, E. Lansing, MI
Weather Report- Michigan State U, E. Lansing MI
Miles Davis- E. Lansing
Who, Amboy Dukes, Southfield High School Auditirum, Southfield, MI
I'm not lazy. I just work so fast I'm always done.
i was still fairly new to CARDiACS-land and splashed out on a low-fare flight and a blanket under my arm. couldn't believe seeing william d. drake next to me and having a short chat. just a fantastic concert at the time, but, of course, this being just about the last one, it only grew in stature over the years. and, judging by the online banter of long-time devotees, it definitely must have been a fine one indeed. can't disagree!
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