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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 146 Registered: 05-2005 |
1st gig(local) - Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance, circa 1974 in a tent in Falkirk,next town to where I grew up, and probably the only reason I went because it was such an event. 2nd gig(Glasgow) - Queen, at the time of Bohemian Rhapsody (1975?). This was my first "away" gig, I used to love Queen at the time, now I look back and think "why?" 3rd gig (Glasgow) - The Stranglers/The SLITS 1977. This is the first gig I can now reflect back on and say I enjoyed it. The Stranglers were a bit mysoginistic, and looking back the albums sound a bit dated, but they were one hell of a live act Biggest gig ever. Toss up between Bob Dylan at Stirling Castle(2001), REM at Murrayfield (1995) or David Bowie at Glasgow Apollo (1978). The best was undoubtedly Bowie, but for sheer crowd numbers the REM gig wins it - although I got pissed and kept shouting abuse at them along the lines of them being Rolling Stones wannabees Last gig - Low in Edinburgh last year. This band really come alive on stage. Cant believe Ive not been to a gig for about 6 months - normally average 1 every couple of months but theres not been anybody came nearby I wanted to see recently. Going to see Drive By Truckers next month though. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 109 Registered: 02-2005 |
"1st gig(local) - Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance, circa 1974 in a tent in Falkirk,next town to where I grew up, and probably the only reason I went because it was such an event." I can't tell you how envious I am of that. I've seen tons of great live music in my life, but I'm a huge fan of Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance and his circus tent caravan tour is legendary. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 110 Registered: 02-2005 |
I'll just play my geezer card here and tell all you youngsters about the first gig I attended after moving to the NY area in 1976. I'd read about the burgeoning punk scene in the European press before returning to the States (I'd spent a year in France) and had seen Patti Smith with opening act The Stranglers at the Roundhouse in London in May. I couldn't wait to check out CBGB's. The first time I went there was to see Television. The opening acts were Talking Heads and Suicide... two sets each from all three bands! :o] | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 147 Registered: 05-2005 |
Guy, I wish I could remember more of the gig, but it was 30 plus yrs ago. I would be about 13, and I vaguely remember there being circus acts, and a Scottish comedian called Bill Barclay who was semi famous at the time. I managed to google the following: "The formation of Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance occurs in 1973, and shortly afterwards, they attempt an overly ambitious tour dubbed "The Passing Show." Ronnie, with help from his wife at the time, Kate, becomes consumed with the gypsy lifestyle, resulting in Ronnie taking to the road in pure troubador fashion, to travel and tour. Basically, it involved a giant touring circus, featuring jugglers, fire eaters, dancing girls, and of course, the musicians" I really only went to the gig because my best friend was a big Faces fan. I honestly couldnt tell you one Ronnie Lane song, although wasnt he responsible for that Faces song which has the refrain "I wish that I knew what I knew now, when I was younger" How apt for this post. And jeez, that Television gig - Im so jealous. The only gig I can think of that people might be jealous of me seeing is Joy Division in late 79. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 202 Registered: 03-2005 |
I seem to lack initiative, so I've had some very long stretches with no gigs at all. In my early days I often went to see tripe merely to tag along with others, such as the Village People and Stephen Stills' tedious and bloated Manassas. The first concert I saw all for myself (and all BY myself because I didn't know anybody with my musical taste) was the Jam at Royce Hall at UCLA in 1979. I believe Royce holds no more than about 500 people and it was only half full for this band who were such gigantic stars in the U.K.. "Strange Town" was the new single and it was a heart-racing clarion call to this cultural exile. Because it was the first concert I saw that I chose myself and because I saw it by myself and because Jam were such a deep deep secret in Los Angeles at the time, that memory remains a treasured one. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 208 Registered: 05-2005 |
All lovely gigs gentlemen! My contribtion off the top of my head was seeing The Proclaimers in 1987. They were on their own and no band, they brought a tear to my eye. I shaked Charlie's hand after the gig, or was it Craig's!? | ||
| Andy Robinson Member Username: Andyblue Post Number: 14 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yup, I saw the Proclaimers at Glastonbury at about that time - as I remember thay were on early on the Sunday morning none of my mates made it out of the tent and the start was delayed while they were interviewed by some dodgy yoof programme - I can't remember what it was but Sunday Lunchtime (?!) - Magenta de Vine and Janet Street Porter spring to mind . . . Loved the band mind. First gigs were pretty dodgy in a Heavy Rock youth - Saxon was the first and then Gillan a couple of times and UFO. First proper gigs were at college but I can't remember the good ones (saw Gary Glitter and Rocky Sharpe) a couple of pretty good reggae bands. Greatest regret was not seeing The Smiths who cancelled the gig to appear on Top of the Pops. Proper gigs and Festivals followed when I grew up e.g. the aforementioned Glastonbury and then some Reading Festivals when they got good. Saw and fell in love with Jonathan Richman, Band of Holy Joy, Martin Stephenson, Fatima Mansions, The Pogues, Billy Bragg Favourite gig was probably a toss up between Richard Thompson around 1999 at High Wycombe, Go Betweens at London when I was at the front and everyone else turned up late (and The Barbican), Billy Bragg at Bristol with The Blokes for the first time and a Cathal Coughlan gig in 1991 when he played solo and I took my future (now ex) wife to try to impress her - I think I failed. She doesn't really get the music I like anyway - I took her to see Jonathan Richman too and during our marriage she bought Deacon Blue and Westlife. Oh well . . . Greatest disappointment was Bob Dylan last year. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 217 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andy THE GOBETWEENS MUST MAKE UP FOR THE NOT SEEING THE SMITHS!! Wished I could of got ot the Barbican. I saw The Smoiths a few tijmes, last ever toiur too, it was like a TV show. It was all colourfuI, they looked incredible, all sharp suits, neat quiffs, beautiful guitars, fancy light show, you name it! When they went off ths stage that was it, I felt like someone had just chopped off my arm, they weren't going to be around much longer... played this morning this old GoBetweens video I have of them playing this nicotine wall stained social club in northern England in '82 or '83. Its remarkable, they were incredibley tight, but oits great just to see the original 4 if you like. I suppose it gives me an indication of what it must of been like to see Television or someone for the first time. Its available from Visionary in Blackpool England if anyone wants it. I might try a digital convertion. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 47 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was going to suggest a First Gig Thread ! but this will do nicely. Are you sitting down ? THE SWEET in 1973 at the Free Trade Hall Manchester. Bloody awful ! I was only 10, the average age was probably 14-16. I had older cousins who managed to get tickets but it's still no excuse. The Smiths at Sheffield in 84, (I would like to know the name of the support, just one guy in "postcard clothes" who remembered "Felicity" about 15 times and then left stage right.In 1985 Sheffield and Nottingham '86. The middle one was probably the best. Supported by James. Although I have a bootleg video of the Nottingham gig which I must try and get put on DVD at sometime. The Bunnymen 1982 at the Sheffield Poly Nelson Mandela Building (How 80's is that ??)stands out as one of the best.Pattinson and De-freitas could conjure up atmosphere from nowhere giving Mac and Will Sergeant huge scope to be incredibly cool and enigmatic in a way that The Edge and The Bonio cannot match no matter how hard they try... and they do try hard ! | ||
| Rob Robinson Member Username: Rsub8 Post Number: 31 Registered: 05-2005 |
Guy, what can one say. Right place, right time!!!  My first gig ever was an arena monstrosity: Joe Cocker warmed - up for Traffic. But I was too much of a concert greenhorn to really appreciate what I was taking in. My first gig in NYC was The Dickies, at the long-defunct but famous Mudd Club down on White Street, around 1981 +/- 1 year. It was a great, sweaty show. My favorite gigs (I was quite the prog-rocker fan for awhile): Genesis in 1976 (first tour post PG) at an intimate classical concert hall; P.G. himself in 1977 and 1978. The warm-up bands were, respectively, Television and Jules and the Polar Bears! P.G. himself appeared on stage (sitting on the edge of, with house lights still up, holding wireless mic) BEFORE Jules & Co. appeared. Said, “Hi, I’m Peter, you’ll see more of me later; just want to draw your attention to the band you’re about to hear, etc.” Only time I’ve EVER seen the headliner plug the warmup. And this was Peter Gabriel doing the plugging, for Christ’s sake. Here’s a nightmare lineup I once took in: Styx, Starcastle, and The Blue Oyster Cult! And Blue Oyster Cult and AC/DC. Better: Be-Bop Deluxe (Modern Music tour, and all dressed in business suits, just like the album cover) warmed up for (uh, again) The Blue Oyster Cult... I agree, The Stranglers were awesome in concert (saw them on The Raven tour). Also saw The Damned on their sort-of reunion tour ca. Strawberries. More all-time favorite gigs: Howard Devoto in Cleveland, Ohio in the basement of the Agora. A real stunner. FATIMA MANSIONS in Long Branch, NJ (!) at a place called The Brighton Bar (believe it or not). On Brighton Ave... A gig somewhere in New York fell through, learned about this on a rainy night by word of mouth (and some internet fan sites still think the gig happened in Long Island or somewhere). There was only about 20 people there. Cathal and Andrias O’Gruama hung around after the show, had a chance to talk. Quite a nice couple of guys. The Chills at Maxwell’s... The Wedding Present at Maxwell’s (and I treated a friend and her friends to the show, who actually was getting married a few days later). Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians at Maxwell’s (Element of Light tour). Now THAT was a great show. (Guy, I suppose that you were working there then?) I’ve seen RH a half dozen times and this was by far the best. Buzzcocks, Philly... PJ Harvey, Philly and then NYC a couple nights later... Echo and the Bunnymen in Chicago (Killing Moon tour). REM in Cleveland (Murmur tour). X in Cleveland (Under The Big Black Sun), same place as REM. REM in Chicago again, just before they hit the big time. A group of folks in the audience spontaneously started a slamdance during their encore of Boxcars. My date looked on in amusement as joined in... Minutemen, Club Metro, Chicago... March Violets, same place... OMD, same place... Richard Hell, Cubby Bear Lounge, Chicago. Anton Fier was playing drums. Mid-song, Anton abruptly jumped up and over his drums and chased an audience member around the room (he yelled, “I WAS WATCHING YOU, Asshole”) who was tossing ice cubes at him. It was hilarious. The Embarassment, in Columbus, Ohio at Mr. Brown’s... The Gun Club, Crazy Mama’s... The Individuals, same venue... The Dream Syndicate in Columbus (Days of Wine and Roses tour, with Kendra and Karl), Mr. Brown’s... The Neats, same place... Richard Thompson, Columbus, Stache’s... True West (post Tolman, unfortunately), the old Lone Star Saloon with the giant dragonfly down on 5th avenue - saw all three nights in a row... Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, at the “new” Lone Star, uptown... Chris Spedding, same place... And these were just a few of my favorites. (I’ve mentioned a few others here before.) I've probably also forgotten some more. Nice thread, interesting reading! - | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 48 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw PG do that too on his 1980 tour in the UK when he introduced the support (Random Hold). It always stayed with me as a genuine gesture too. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 111 Registered: 02-2005 |
Kevin, Ronnie Lane made some really wonderful records. Any Go-Betweens fan would love “The Poacher” from the first Slim Chance album “Anymore for Anymore” – it’s a baroque roots-pop gem featuring lead-oboe (where’s that fantasy G-B’s cover thread?). That whole album and the two that followed are filled with his distinctively soulful take on Pastoral English Music Hall Roots Rock. He’s one of a kind. ***** The CBGB days were great and I got to see all the bands there that were part of that scene – Patti Smith, Television, Ramones, Talking Heads, Suicide, Blondie, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Erasers, Mink DeVille, Dead Boys, Feelies, Cramps… a long list, most of them on multiple occasions. After that, all the No Wave bands – DNA, Contortions, Mars, Theoretical Girls, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Robin Crutchfield, Come On. I also saw all the bands that came through town from other regional scenes – Pere Ubu, Real Kids, DMZ, B-52’s, and the one’s that paid tribute from the UK – The Damned, The Jam, Wire, X-Ray Spex… I even saw the friggen Police there (lame). In my years working at Maxwell’s I saw all the local and national indie bands – I’ll start the list with REM (played there three times). Add to that The Replacements, Husker Du, Lyres, Mission of Burma, Sonic Youth, Swans, Uzi, Yo La Tengo, Love Tractor, Fugazi, The dB's, Let's Active, Pylon, X, The Blasters, Rain Parade, Dream Syndicate, Long Ryders, Meat Puppets, Method Actors, Human Switchboard, Minutemen, Feelies, Raybeats, Bongos, Fleshtones, Soundgarden, Green River, Melvins… visiting UK dignitaries such as New Order, A Certain Ratio, Delta 5, Medium Medium, The Mekons, The Fall and from Australia The Go-Betweens (!) not to mention The Church, Celibate Rifles and a laterday incarnation of The Saints. I probably saw another 1000 bands in my nine years working there. If I hadn't quit in 1987 I'd have seen Nirvana, Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine and Beck come through the club in the following year or two as well as all the NZ bands. I love LIVE music and moving across the street from Maxwell’s the summer before it opened was an incredible serendipitous gift. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 199 Registered: 05-2005 |
What a list Randy. What did you think of Celibate Rifles live? They play near where I live every Christmas (used to be Christmas eve, now it's the 23rd) as they are Northern Beaches boys too. (Northern Beaches of Sydney). They always put on an incredible show. I got damn drunk at the last one. The singer, Damian Lovelock, teaches a class at the gym I go to. He's also a huge football fan and works on the football program for SBS TV here. I had a chat with him one night about the band and football. He had just gotten onto an exercise bike though, so I didn't stay talking for very long! He's a lovely bloke. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 200 Registered: 05-2005 |
I meant: What a list Guy, of course. Sorry Guy. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 51 Registered: 04-2005 |
Can you reminisce about last night? Saw the jazz group Third World Love play last night in a small village hall here in the Dordogne, France (like in July of last year). Utterly amazing experience: another wonderful evening of inspired improvisation, constantly changing rhythms and the musical empathy of the gods. And they are so young. Music like that has to be seen live (with CDs being a pale reflection of a performance) with the enjoyment of watching the musicians playing off each other. If anyone happens to be in Toulouse tonight, they are playing there. http://www.toulouse.fr/fr-32/culture-135/agenda-culturel-136/musique-183/centre- culturel-henri-desbals-269.html | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 539 Registered: 03-2005 |
I can't find our old thread on recently attended gigs; I guess it slipped into the archive. Last night I went to the Hollywood Bowl to see Neko Case, Ryan Adams and Willie Nelson. I went for Case who put on a decent but necessarily truncated set. "I Wish I Was the Moon" made the cut so I was happy. She seemed to be fairly intimidated by the venue but did let us know know that they'd all be peeing in their pants once they got off stage. Dunno if I like Ryan Adams. The songs were good but he subjected us to long boring instrumental stretches between them. Dunno about that hair over the eyes routine and "Batman" t shirt. My "ersatz" buzzer was going off. Willie Nelson . . . . for me it was all about watching him play guitar. He even did a Django Reinhardt number. He wasn't Django but that old geezer is a great player. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 742 Registered: 03-2006 |
Color me envious, Randy. That sounds great and I would've loved to have seen Willie (not to mention Neko)...his guitar playing is fascinating to watch and hear (I'm sure had his famous old beat-up guitar, with the huge gaping hole in it)...Ryan Adams is starting to seem not worth the bother to me - too erratic...I've laid down hard cash for too many of his records that just sucked (he puts out one a month). Never again. The one RA moment I can swear by unequivocally is the record he made with his old group, Whiskeytown, called "Strangers Almanac". That was just up the road from me - gotta get up off my arse and start seeing some of these shows. Everything, it seems, is in LA. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 558 Registered: 04-2005 |
That's quite a bill. I've never really listened to Willie, I have to admit, but I'm sure he'd be brilliant live. Shame Neko had such a short set. Is Ryan Adams really a bigger name than she is these days? Speaking of gigs, I haven't been to one in ages, but am probably going to see Mission of Burma with 50 Foot Wave (Kristin Hersh's "punk band") on Friday, which should finish off whatever is left of my hearing. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 540 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kurt, I'd never really honestly listened to Willie either so the show was a real treat even if he did rush his way through some of his old chestnuts. He seemed to be much more interested in being a guitarist than anything else and that worked just great for me. Yes, Hardin, it was the guitar with the gaping hole where the pickguard should be. I was wondering what sort of pickup he was using to get that fat, almost Gibson-like sound. Ryan Adams does seem to be bigger commercially than Neko. Not in my universe though. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 541 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kurt, I'd never really honestly listened to Willie either so the show was a real treat even if he did rush his way through some of his old chestnuts. He seemed to be much more interested in being a guitarist than anything else and that worked just great for me. Yes, Hardin, it was the guitar with the gaping hole where the pickguard should be. I was wondering what sort of pickup he was using to get that fat, almost Gibson-like sound. Ryan Adams does seem to be bigger commercially than Neko. Not in my universe though. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 227 Registered: 07-2005 |
I'vea staggering number of Ryan Adams cd's but none I've really loved, possibly Gold, when it first came out -but I have not played that for ages.I prefer his old partner, Caitlin Cary's LP-Begonias myself though,less pretentious. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 31 Registered: 04-2005 |
My 1st gig was the Pet Shop Boys at the NEC BIrmingham in about 1989. I remember having to take the day off school to go...every one's a winner. I had to go with my brother, who had no interest, but I wouldn't be allowed to go otherwise! Following that was, I think, Tanita Tikaram at the Royal Court in Liverpool. My first 'solo' gig, well without supervision, and local! The Biggest gig(s) I've attended was Oasis at Knebworth, and REM at Milton Keynes. These were a pain too far to travel, to far away from the stage, and basically a little day festival! The Last Gig I attended was Broken Social Scene at The Lomax in Liverpool. Excellent, this band really should have been bigger, but we all know another band who should have been huge. And Finally, Next Week I'm off to See Peter, Bjorn And John at The Lomax in Liverpool. I've got about 10 gigs lined up until Christmas, oh what a busy little boy I am! Cheers Jon | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 184 Registered: 04-2006 |
my 1st gig was mafred mann's earth band in around the atch/angel station phase. you have to imagine that i lived somewhere in the diaspora. punk? never heard. and to visit concerts as a 15716 year old guy wasn't eays. we had to go with the railroad. on the way to. not a problem. but back. we had to go earlier to reach the last trains. or another emabarrasment was that the parents had to pick us up (happened at my first zappa gig 1980). that was really shit. visiting concerts became easier when i bought my first car (a vw käfer (beetle)if anyone is interested in that). and not to forget punk and postpunk happened then also in our diaspora.... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 185 Registered: 04-2006 |
errors above: mafred i/o manfred and atch i/o watch. 15716 i/o 157/6. eays i/o easy. emabarrasment i/o of embarrasment. oh my god, so many faults. sorry guys. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 543 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andreas, were you in the old DDR? | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 186 Registered: 04-2006 |
no, randy. i am not from the GDR (DDR). i am a good ole' southerner. a swabian. province called Baden-Württemberg (left to the province bavaria). i lived at the countryside. the gigs just happened all many,many miles away.it was always like a journey round the world. railroad, subway, bus. and the last bus was on its way back home around 11 p.m.. but that was not the only reason why i called it a diaspora. punk didn't happened at the place where i lived. all looked and were more like hippies, listening to the same old stuff. the radio stations played the dinosaurs of rock. that was my focus at that time. a diaspora. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 545 Registered: 03-2005 |
Gee, Andreas, that sounds like my hometown and I was in California. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 191 Registered: 04-2006 |
a gig worth to tell: in may 2000 the label city slang celebrated their 10th birthday with a festival. bands which played were (as i can remember): freakwater, lambchop, built to spill, wheat, calexico, yo la tengo and the flaming lips. it started slowly early in the evening and ended furious around 4/4.30 early in the morning. yeah, lambchop played their soulful NIXON takes. calexico and the mariachis made enthusiastic brass music. built to spill let the strings of the guitar jingle and yo la tengo's gig ended early due to electric shocks which hitted ira kaplan several times. they came out once more, after it seemed that the crew solved the problem. but they didn't and YLT were not very amused- and that was it. in the meantime it was very late and regardless that the flaming lips should play as the finalist most people left the hall after nothing happened on stage except some trials to solve this electric problem(s). after nearly six hours standing on my feet, after the tiredness affected me i thought about going home,too. but i and just a handful of fellows stayed the course and around 3.00 a.m. something happened. beside the stage the lips began to build up their own stage. a screen, a big gong, instruments. and then they began to play. or similar to that. tired as i was i felt in a parallel universe. wayne kramer hit the gong as loud as he can and a totally freaky show started. it blewed me somewhere. it felt like i was on drugs. around 4.30 a.m. an absolutely impressive show was over. i left the concert hall, my head felt like a bloated balloon, i drove home, arrived at around 5 a.m., went to bed and at six o'c lock in the morning the alarm-clock belled. time to go to work. don't ask me how i survived that day. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 794 Registered: 05-2005 |
you must have been on some drugs andreas if you saw wayne kramer play with the Flaming Lips!! sorry to pull you up, just joking. sounds like an amazing gig. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 193 Registered: 04-2006 |
kevin, it seems that i am still confused after all that years.... i naturally mean wayne coyne. but to see wayne kramer (and mc 5 ) live would be pretty nice, too. i read that their 2003 gigs were powerful. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 248 Registered: 04-2006 |
i had the luck to see and hear mr. bill monroe, that grandseigneur of bluegrass, live at the grand old opry. he played a couple of tunes and i am convinced that no one of the concertgoers there didn't enjoyed bill monroe's playing as much as me. at least when i think of the applause. i freaked out and all the others -seemingly- applauded friendly but not enthusiastic. short after this gig bill monroe died. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 857 Registered: 03-2006 |
I'm no Columbo, Andreas, but that sounds mighty suspicious. Right after you saw Monroe, he died? | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 249 Registered: 04-2006 |
maybe i applauded too loud.... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 122 Registered: 04-2005 |
On the subject of grand old men of the country world, I saw the Louvin Brothers (before the Everlys, but far far more miserable for thse who don't know) play in a hotel in Penicuik, just outside Edinburgh. Can't remember which year exactly, but the Proclaimers were there too and they had just become famous. A bizarre, but very enjoyable evening surrounded by very serious C and W fans with rare Johnny Cash albums under their arms. Rather unfortunately one of the brothers had died 20 years before, but had been replaced by one of the Whitstein brothers. It was a pretty intense and authentic performance. And made me realise that liking C and W comes to all of us eventually. | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 12 Registered: 10-2006 |
Talking Heads in Cologne 1981 The Remain in Light Tour stops at a so-called Jazz Festival in a small Open Air site. If the festival name wasn't enough we had to suffer through Jimmy Cliff and Andreas Vollenweider (I hope that none of you ever had to listen to this Swiss guy with a harp). Matters improved with Tom Tom Club before TH got on stage for a really memorable gig. For all the Aussies here - I once saw Bruce Cockburn at the ampitheatre in Kuranda. The location is nice It was a warm summer night, the open air site fitted no more than 2,000 people, and the band was in super form. As much as I liked the early TH output, Remain in Light was always my favourite album. Also memorable Patti Smith fully stoned 1979 in Essen, trying to play the Oboe, which no one apart from me seemed to appreciate. Of course the GoBees/REM 1989 (the GoBees are the only support act I have ever seen which had to play encores), plus the GoBees 2005 in Hamburg (every word Dave wrote in his review is true). Many more probably deserve credit as well such as Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the Walkabouts, The Cure, Television etc... The funniest ever was The Jazz Butcher sometime in the mid-80s, what a laugh... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 259 Registered: 04-2006 |
poor john b., adoring andreas vollenweider must be like a masochistic exercise. but, in the depth of my little brain there is a remembrance that his first album contains some tracks that are not bad. but he soon drifted into that esoteric sound, which was/is truly disgusting. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 853 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andrew that's wher I come from Penicuik! Turn right before the Glencourse Barracks and up the hill to Milton Bridge!! Was the hotel the only main one in the centr opposite the council building do you know? Cheers for the Josef K CD, what year was it, i think it must 've been 81? Very good quality. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 144 Registered: 04-2005 |
Spence Sorry I really can't remember the name of the hotel of the Louvin Brother(s) concert: if you were coming from Edinburgh direction it was before the centre of Penicuik and you took a road off to the right to get to it. Any help?! The Josef K CD was 2/8/81 Bristol. |