larsman
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| It Was Twenty Years Ago Today! @fastfreight - in 1975, Pink Floyd were touring on 'Wish You Were Here', and premiering new material that would come out as 'Animals'. I was there and got some great photos, too. | |
| Top 10 Live Albums @bassbuyer - they can really add up! I got all the Dicks Picks, but I had to pass on ol' Dave. What I do love are those annual deluxe boxes they put out; I've got every one of those since the first one from the 'Live Dead' Fillmore shows... This y... | |
| Whole Lotta Led @tablejockey - interesting you say that, because I did go see Jimi at Baltimore Civic Center on Mother's Day of 1969..... | |
| It Was Twenty Years Ago Today! @bassbuyer - early Montrose was amazing; one of the first shows I saw when I moved to San Francisco was Montrose at Winterland; I'd never heard of them; their first album had just come out, but holy cow they blew me away. I remain convinced that i... | |
| Top 10 Live Albums Not that much into live albums (except my large collection of Grateful Dead box sets, but that's a whole nother thing), but I'll throw in a vote for UFO 'Strangers In The Night' as well, with an honorable mention to Blue Oyster Cult's 'Extraterres... | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @go4vinyl - funny you mention those American bands like Angel, Starz, Legs Diamond, etc; I've got a friend in England, and that was totally what he was in to! Also what he termed '-er bands', like 'Player' and any number of others with similar nam... | |
| Whole Lotta Led I first saw them headline the first night of the Laurel Pop Festival in Laurel, MD in the summer of '69; to say that blew me away would be an understatement. Saw them in Syracuse in the early 70's and Oakland in '77, but I also went to a couple of... | |
| It Was Twenty Years Ago Today! I saw the James Gang open for Led Zeppelin in Syracuse in about 1970 or 71. That was not their first US tour; in fact, I'd seen them a couple years before that at the Laurel Pop Festival in Laurel, MD. Starting around 2006, I started keeping a s... | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? I give it a 6-minute cycle in my DeGritter with distilled water. | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! @drbond + 1 - That's just what I do; distilled water in my DeGritter; works great! @lewm + 1 | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @stuartk - not so much albums as individual songs; wish I could find that list I made up a few years ago of 'prettier Iron Maiden songs' as I had 6 or 7, but two I could suggest right offhand would be 'Still Life' off of the 'Piece of Mind' album,... | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @stuartk - ah yes, that old bugaboo about categorizations - one person's metal is another person's hard rock and yet another person's 'classic rock'. I think it starts getting a bit silly after awhile; there must be at least 10 sub-genres just und... | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @stuartk - Oh, I know you wouldn't, Stuart. I was just curious as to what themes you prefer for hard rock and metal, but now I see that this isn't really your preferred genre anyway. It's all good! Enjoy your week.... | |
| For fans of John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra Loved 'Inner Mounting Flame' and 'Birds of Fire' - some jazz guys at college turned me on to those; that's about as far as I get into 'fusion'. Only saw them once, on the tour where they co-headlined with Jeff Beck back in '75 or so. | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @stuartk - out of curiosity, what themes do you think they should explore instead for aggressive music like this? |