What is the best concert you've ever went to?
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- KVRAF
- 8125 posts since 13 Jan, 2003 from Darkest Kent, UK
I think Low in 2002ish at the Union Chapel, London was just about my perfect gig. Though, in contrast, seeing NoMeansNo in a tiny venue in Whitstable around 1990 (Wrong tour) was more than perfect; one of those times where you're totally engaged for the full duration, hanging on every note etc. Sweaty too.
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experimental.crow experimental.crow https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=6258
- KVRAF
- 6895 posts since 9 Mar, 2003 from the bridge of sighs
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jacqueslacouth jacqueslacouth https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=48379
- KVRian
- 1149 posts since 18 Nov, 2004
The Sunnyboys last ever concert (before reforming) at the Graphics Arts Club, Sydney, 1984. Probably doesn't mean shite to most here but man, they were a freaking awesome band who absolutely smashed it live. I caught them again last year and they still have the chops.
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- KVRAF
- 4801 posts since 1 Aug, 2005 from Warszawa, Poland
Uz Jsme Doma, Warsaw, mid 90's.
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240 - KVRAF
- 37262 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from Scottish Borders
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
I saw Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1973. It was easily the most surprising thing I've ever experienced in a music vanue.
They opened for the Allman Brothers Band. This was at the old Memorial Stadium in Charlotte. A football stadium which fed into the Park Center, a small theatre venue. So Allmans were using Park Center as a dressing room. So huge clouds of marijuana smoke billow out when they opened those doors and came out to watch Mahavishnu. So I'm standing back there a few arm's lengths from Dickie Betts with his gold Les Paul strapped on while he went on about he can't follow this, he can't go on. Yeah, no one had seen the likes of it. They were LOUD, too. McLaughlin in the white suit with that haircut and his white double SG contraption. Cobham was like three drummers at once at times. I knew people who were aware of them at that time, I wasn't. But it was to be blown away, to be there.
Of course Betts and Allmans went on and the audience was back on terra firma. What an anticlimax, only most of the audience was super-enthusiastic about it.
They opened for the Allman Brothers Band. This was at the old Memorial Stadium in Charlotte. A football stadium which fed into the Park Center, a small theatre venue. So Allmans were using Park Center as a dressing room. So huge clouds of marijuana smoke billow out when they opened those doors and came out to watch Mahavishnu. So I'm standing back there a few arm's lengths from Dickie Betts with his gold Les Paul strapped on while he went on about he can't follow this, he can't go on. Yeah, no one had seen the likes of it. They were LOUD, too. McLaughlin in the white suit with that haircut and his white double SG contraption. Cobham was like three drummers at once at times. I knew people who were aware of them at that time, I wasn't. But it was to be blown away, to be there.
Of course Betts and Allmans went on and the audience was back on terra firma. What an anticlimax, only most of the audience was super-enthusiastic about it.
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- KVRian
- 807 posts since 7 Aug, 2015 from H2O
I saw Devo at Bogart’s in late ‘78 or ‘79 (touring on their debut album - before they became “novelty”) - great show in a small place, but not my favorite.jancivil wrote:Shakti [John McLaughlin/L Shankar/Zakir Hussain/Vikku Vinyarakam] at Bogart's in Cincinnati. 1978.
Favorite: 1978 Lou Reed touring on Street Hassle at Park West in Chicago.
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- KVRAF
- 4801 posts since 1 Aug, 2005 from Warszawa, Poland
I'd love having being there, I dig the album. Unfortunately, I was 4 at the time and in a wrong place.Bodhisan wrote:Favorite: 1978 Lou Reed touring on Street Hassle at Park West in Chicago.
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- KVRAF
- 3506 posts since 12 May, 2011
1969 Pink Floyd, Royal Festival Hall, them debuting the Azimuth Generator.
Mid 70s, Blunderbus, a band that played weekends at the Becket on Old Kent Road, featuring Mick McCowshit on drums... Saturday nights were special, then.
Mid 70s, Blunderbus, a band that played weekends at the Becket on Old Kent Road, featuring Mick McCowshit on drums... Saturday nights were special, then.
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- Banned
- 9081 posts since 15 Oct, 2017 from U.S.
Burning Spear at City Gardens 1990something
Don't feed the gators,y'all
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- KVRAF
- 7540 posts since 7 Aug, 2003 from San Francisco Bay Area
I don’t know if it was the best, but my first real rock concert was Dio at the Cow Palace, mid-late 1980s. There was a dragon on the stage, the show ended with a lot of explosions, I got a nice contact high from the guy sitting in front of me, and when it was over we had to push through the crowd of religious protesters to get to the street where my mom was waiting to pick us up.
Incomplete list of my gear: 1/8" audio input jack.
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fluffy_little_something fluffy_little_something https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=281847
- Banned
- 12880 posts since 5 Jun, 2012
I don't like concerts. That whole mass character with zillions of strangers around me, some drunk or stoned. Not to mention artists that - deliberately or not - stray too far from the studio versions of their songs, or crowds yelling along lyrics or behaving inappropriately during melancholic or serious songs. And finally the volume which can ruin one's hearing...
But there are some acts which are known for their great concerts, Sade or Maze for instance.
But there are some acts which are known for their great concerts, Sade or Maze for instance.
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- KVRAF
- 2765 posts since 15 Feb, 2017 from a worn out vinyl groove
I have thought and thought about this..
What is the BEST... hmmm .. not sure if I can really name a best...
I could ofc be arrogant and say the ones that I worked on.. which is kinda true to an extent as I was often the monitor engineer... and what a BLAST that could be.. in many ways
Most of that work was pure rock and roll.. 1970's and 80's.
But during that time I also frequented Ronnie Scotts in London and saw so many of the jazz legends... Ella Fitzgerald, Woody Herman, Airto and Flora, Sonny Rollins and shared space and time twice with Roland Kirk... once before his stroke and once after.. on what was to become his farewell(life) tour... both were .....
yeah yeah yeah....
has to be>>>>
Best was sharing with Roland.. final decision!!!!
What is the BEST... hmmm .. not sure if I can really name a best...
I could ofc be arrogant and say the ones that I worked on.. which is kinda true to an extent as I was often the monitor engineer... and what a BLAST that could be.. in many ways
Most of that work was pure rock and roll.. 1970's and 80's.
But during that time I also frequented Ronnie Scotts in London and saw so many of the jazz legends... Ella Fitzgerald, Woody Herman, Airto and Flora, Sonny Rollins and shared space and time twice with Roland Kirk... once before his stroke and once after.. on what was to become his farewell(life) tour... both were .....
yeah yeah yeah....
has to be>>>>
Best was sharing with Roland.. final decision!!!!
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- KVRAF
- 2765 posts since 15 Feb, 2017 from a worn out vinyl groove
fluffy_little_something wrote:I don't like concerts. That whole mass character with zillions of strangers around me, some drunk or stoned. Not to mention artists that - deliberately or not - stray too far from the studio versions of their songs, or crowds yelling along lyrics or behaving inappropriately during melancholic or serious songs. And finally the volume which can ruin one's hearing...
But there are some acts which are known for their great concerts, Sade or Maze for instance.
Oh fluffy_little_something... there seems to be so much you don't like, for instance pure synth music...
Live is fantastic... yer.. step away from the sterile STUDIO version and capture the here and now... warts an'all.. It's real.. it's happening.. you are part of it...yell and scream.. jump and laugh, you old misery...
