Lyle Lovett and Shawn Colvin - 3/20/2018 @ The Taft Theater - Cincinnati, Ohio |
I went to the York PA Symphony for Respighi the Pines of Rome.Wonderful,excellent performance of that piece.Also went to hear Harrisburg Symphony play Saint Saens organ Symphony #3,great performance.There is nothing like hearing live violins,like 25 of them on stage.
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Saw Tierney Sutton last night at Side Door Jazz in CT. She and the band were great. It is a nice venue. They will be playing in NYC this week. |
John McLaughlin, Jimmy Herring and their bands--separately and then together (playing tunes from the Mahavishnu Orchestra songbook) at the Paramount Theater in Austin, 11/30/17. Supposedly it was Mclaughlin's farewell tour. He's still at the top of his game and it was great to hear him play those great tunes from the 70's again (as well as his newer material). I hadn't heard Mr. Herring before but he is a fine guitarist with a good band behind him. All in all, a good night out.
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"Dean Lives"
If you have "any interest" in 50-60’s music/entertainment values... this show ROCKS!!! I could not have been more pleased with the whole experience. Just plain old great showmanship!!! Loved It!!! |
King Crimson, Cleveland 11/24/17. A totally awesome show. Last saw them in 1982 at their first US gig after releasing Discipline. Fripp and Levin have lost none of their chops. 3 drummers didn't hurt a bit, either. The hall was the Hard Rock Rocksino. Smaller venue, maybe 1000 or so seats. A great spot to see bands that benefit from smaller places. Recommended!
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Rippingtons - a month ago |
@thepigdog - Not only do small venues count, you actually get extra credit for seeing a show in a small venue!
This last year I saw Bruce Cockburn in a 200 seat room and I saw Richard Thomson in a 450 seat room. Both shows were incredibly intimate and outstanding.
I would always prefer to see a great artist in a small venue over seeing a "mainstream" band in a large arena. However, I did enjoy seeing U2 twice this summer on their Joshua Tree stadium tour...... |
Would have loved to have been there!
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Do small venue (less than 500 seats) count as concerts, most things I see mentioned here seem to be large shows / big sound? if so then we listened and saw Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Dave Alvin at The Bull Run in Shirley Mass 11/3/17. 2 guys playin’, singin’ and tellin’ tales. Had not heard/seen JDG for 15-20 years, saw DA approx 2 years ago. Both were in great form, wonderful selection of old songs. Pretty good venue in a centuries old building. |
9/16/17 YES (ARW) @ Massey Hall. Fully Concur with tom6897. Outstanding! What an honor to get to see these guys in such good form. It has to be nearly 50 years since the first Yes LP was released. The fact that Jon is still in such good form is pretty darn amazing.
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@tom6897 - I missed that show. But, I do love The Fraze. It is my favorite outdoor venue, by a wide margin. I've seen many great shows there, including a few this summer.
Enjoy! |
Queen and Adam Lambert last July. |
09/12/2017 YES, @ FRAZE Pavilion featuring Rick Wakeman, Jon Anderson and Trevor Rabin. Great show!
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Roger Waters at Barclays in Brooklyn 2 nights ago. A real pro as always. |
Deep Purple last week.
Venom few days ago
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I saw U2 again last night at Lucas Oil Field in Indianapolis for the second leg of the Joshua Tree Anniversary Tour. Another great U2 show! Beck was the opening act, He and his band played a great set. Really good. I would love to see them as headliners in a smaller venue. |
Sting at SPAC last week. He is in good voice, I enjoyed the show more than I expected.... I ’m a casual fan of The Police, only have their first 3 LP’s, and Nothing Like the Sun. I have to admit these have collected some dust, with the exception of Zenyatta. Needless to say, I played Outlandos and Regatta since the Sting Concert. I would love to see him with Andy Summers, and Stwewart Copeland. |
I saw dada last night at Southgate House Revival in Newport, KY. Great show. In my book, dada is the best band that never made it big.
The Trews opened up for dada. The Trews were awesome! I had never heard of this band. Now I'm a big fan. Interestingly, they were much better live than I would have ever guessed from listening to recordings and watching videos. |
Mark Lanegan Band / In Detroit at a small place called El Club. Took my son to the show. We had a really good time. The band was great. I've been a Lanegan fan for years so it was good to see him live. He did a lot of his older stuff. |
M C Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger was (one) of her "friends". I just finished listening to "Haw". He did a wonderful version of Tift"s "Traveling Alone" Marvelous!
I really believe I witnessed greatness without knowing it at the time.
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What's funny is, I just put on "Stitch of the World" and immediately got chills. That's what the effect of seeing her live has had on me. I remember feeling the same way after her "Traveling Alone" tour. Wonderful!
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Saw Tift Merritt & friends last night. Always enjoy seeing her live. Her recent lp has taken some time to grow on me. Seeing her perform some of those songs live gave me a much deeper appreciation for them. Her (friends) that comprised her band were fabulous separately and especially playing together. When you experience her live, you feel like she could be your sister, down to earth, no put-ons.
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Seen the ann wilson thing last night.The show was great and her voice is still one of the best in rock.The band was fantastic and they rocked the house for 2 hours. Great time for all... |
Saw Blondie/Garbage last night with my daughter & son-in-law. Very enjoyable! No regrets!
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Saw Two Cellos with my wife and 13 y.o son. Highly over-rated IMHO. However, the hundreds of cello playing middle/high schoolers and most of the women in the crowd, seemed to really enjoy it. This included my wife and son....... |
Took the whole family to see Queen and Adam Lambert in Philly last Sunday. It was a blast!
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Bdp
I know of Fritz and the Fritz story, and I’ve seen a few photos, but I never heard them. Unfortunately.
BTW, Buckingham and Nicks moved to LA after they got a deal with Polydor. Fritz auditioned, but the label just wanted the two of them. Their record flopped, but Buckingham happened to be in-house when Mick Fleetwood walked in looking for a studio and new guitar player. Fortuitous meeting. |
Marty, have you seen any of the pics of Lindsey and Stevie when they were in The Fritz Reiner Memorial Band (original name, later shortened to merely Fritz)? They were just another local San Jose cover band, playing at local High Schools and Teen Centers like the rest of us. There are pics of her on stage in a Prom dress, with a bouffant hairdo! I saw them live only once, as the opening act at the Santa Clara (valley) Folk Rock Festival in the Summer of '68. Also on the bill were The Electric Flag (fantastic!), and The Doors, who closed the show. Maybe it was San Jose's The Doobie Brothers getting a Warner Brothers record deal that inspired them to move to L.A. in '72 or so. They've done pretty well for themselves ;-). |
Lindsey and Christine. Terrific show. The new material works better/rocks harder live than on record IMO. Buckingham's voice was in much better shape than it's been in for years. McVie still has great pipes. The new rhythm section is hard edged and great on the more aggressive material. They skipped a few songs that I'd have loved to hear, but that's usually the case when the band has so much material that I love.
BTW - The Wallflowers opened. Their set started slow, but picked up steam throughout. Coincidentally, given all of the Richard Thompson love recently exhibited in this thread, they covered "I Want to See The Bright Lights" and it was a high light of their set. |
Good to see all the Richard Thompson love here!
My wife and I arrived in Las Vegas yesterday to see tonight's Buckingham McVie show (which stars in about 5 hours). After we checked in and got dinner, we wandered over to Planet Hollywood and bought tickets to see Pitbull. Evidently he's a Big Deal these days and my bride wanted to go. It was a quick show and entertaining enough - he played 75 minutes - although I'm not sure how much more he could have gone on before it got annoying.
The odd part (for me) was the large overlap between "street attitude hip-hop" (not sure that's the right genre, but it's as close as I can come up with) and traditional schmaltzy Vegas spectacle. Loud pop music, highly choreographed, big lazer production, lots of "feel blessed to be here" / thanking the audience speeches, and the requisite scantily clad, top heavy dancing girls. In a way, it wasn't much different from the Rat Pack. I guess it was very different in some ways, but it felt very much "in the Vegas tradition".
Incidentally, while there wasn't a ton of musical ability on display, Pitbull's drummer is a beast.
Later tonight - Lindsey and Christine.
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Seeing Garbage/Blondie in two weeks.
Seeing Tift Merritt & friends in four weeks.
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My wife and I attended the Neil Diamond show at the Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita Ks. on Friday last week. Overall a good show though lacking a little in energy, but hey Neil's got to be at least 75 years old and he sounded great. |
I saw Steve Earle and the Dukes again tonight. That's 4 Steve Earle shows for me in about the last 18 months. As always, it was a great show. The highlights for me were Jerusalem, Transcendental Blues and a killer cover of Hey Joe.......
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I saw the Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom and other Chambers Tour tonight at Fraze Pavilion in Kettering, Ohio. Awesome show. The finale of "Pump it Up" and "What's so Funny 'bout Peace, Love and Understanding" is one of the great concert moments of my life.
Interestingly, I just saw Elvis's wife, Diana Krall at the same venue, just last month..... |
Phish in Chicago last Sunday night. The first time I've seen them. Don't know why I waited so long. What a great show. |
I received a call from my sister with the opportunity to see Chris Stapleton in Tulsa at the BOK center. I was a little surprised on how much I enjoyed it, an outstanding show. |
Wicked good. A unique and interesting singer and songwriter too. |
for my money, richard thompson's the greatest living guitarist, mindboggling on acoustic and just as good electric.
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@thepigdog - Agree about Richard Thompson. I saw his solo show in April and it was fantastic. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning is one of my all time favorite songs and he killed it live. |
Richard Thompson is okay, but he's no Jerry Garcia ;-). Love Richard, seen him a few times, have all his albums, as well as all the Fairport Convention ones. |
Richard Thompson. Last Friday @ Westbrook Performing Arts Center. Played solo and only used 1 guitar for nearly 2 hours. When he played and sang Vincent Black Lightning 1952 I swore he has 15 fingers. A really great show and a great 1000 seat venue. It's at the junior high school and sponsored by the city of Westbrook. |
@reubent I did see the show and it could not have been better! Great seats and an outdoor venue so avoided all the sonic issues of an enclosed environment. The performance was just unbelievably good, starting with the fact that the musical theme was the Imperial Bedroom album which is my favorite. 2.25 hours overall that just flew by. Pete Thomas is a way better drummer than I ever realized and of course Steve Nieve is a huge and integral talent and contributor to Elvis' sound. EC actually reminds me of Springsteen in terms of performance work ethic and has a great stage presence. Would love to catch another show on this tour!
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@kjweisner - Did you see the Elvis Costello show last week? Just curious as I'm seeing Elvis Costello and the Imposters next month. I saw Elvis Costello with Larkin Poe and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band last October at the Ryman in Nashville and it was fantastic! |
Saw Diana Krall tonight at Fraze Pavilion in Kettering (Dayton), Ohio with my wife and a couple of friends. GREAT SHOW!
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Last Friday night I took my wife and 13 year old son to see the U2 - Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary Tour show at Papa John's Stadium in Louisville, KY. One Republic opened the show.
All I can say is WOW! Absolutely the best stadium show I've seen in my 40 years of going to rock concerts. U2 is the biggest band in the world for a reason. They have the art of the stadium show down. So good I'm going to go to another show this year. Next one will be floor tickets (standing room) to get a different perspective on the show.
Highly recommended........ |
Pink Martini at the Keswick Theater - second time seeing them there. Good show but the pianist (band leader) was sick which did effect the vitality of the performance. Saw them this past December. Would definitely see them again!
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Oh yeah, Rodney is great live! I saw him on his The Houston Kid tour, at The Roxy Theater. He was accompanied by only a guitarist and bassist, the latter Jerry Scheff (Elvis Presley, T-Bone Burnett), the absolute best bass player I've seen live. And I saw John Entwistle and Rick Danko! |
Rodney Crowell with his guitarist virtuoso
Joe Robinson and talented fiddler, May 29 at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, CA. Joe did a solo opening act. His playing is beautiful and transformative. He did his rendition of "Over The Rainbow". I was in awe. Rodney and his cohorts went on to play a long, generous set. I could have seen them again the next day.
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Last night.
Hall & Oates.....no magic...really bad.
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Tears For Fears........spot on and rocked the house!!!!!
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