Concert attendance

I'm always going to shows, at least one or two a month, and it would be much more if there were more bands I liked anymore. Geez Louise, Sean, I don't believe in superstition, but that's a hell of a show not to have attended when you had tix! I didn't realize Arthur was gigging this way now - I hope I can catch one...

Shubertmaniac: Glad you enjoyed the show, but I tend to take exception to the billing that McCarty + Dreja = The Yardbirds (What was Box of Frogs?). That's less than 50% of the proper lineup - even less if you include all three (actually four, but who remembers the guy before Clapton?) lead guitarists who came and went - and could be argued to consist of the two least crucial members (though I personally don't view it that way - I love both their playing, and they were founding members). But if the band did a good job on the old songs, that's what matters most. I might've met you at the Ramshead under different circumstances, but as things were, I couldn't get myself motivated about this one...maybe I screwed up! :-)

Shubie, are familiar with Gypie's work with roots pub-rockers Dr. Feelgood (not a band on par with the YB's, but not many were/are)? Unfortunately, he was also filling someone else's shoes there - original guitarist Wilko Johnson, who's style he seemed to be copying to a large extent...

Jpfl39, I don't think there's much of an analogy between a band that changes their line-up before their career really begins in earnest (Beatles), or bands that lose members along the way (Stones, Dead), or evolve through different lineups over the course of their continuous history (Byrds), and a band that is 'reformed' with a substantially different lineup 30-odd years after their original demise. But having said that, I think it's clear I blew it big-time, as both a Yardbirds and Dr. Feelgood fan, by not making this gig...

Speaking of reincarnated bands of the 60's, I'm wondering, if you live in or around NYC, if you attended any of the Cavestomp shows there (I don't live there, but traveled to see them - all five years)? And if you know that ? & The Mysterians (all original lineup) will be playing Warsaw in Brooklyn (with The Lyres supporting, a reprise of the first Cavestomp main attraction) on June 17 - I've seen this reunited band three times now over the last few years, and they still kill.