FYP

Saw The Cure in London in 1990 at some big park in an all-day festival with three other bands. Ton of people there. Also like 100+ degrees which Londoners aren't exactly used to. People would pass-out and have heat-exhaustion and dehydration issues, and they would be lifted up and passed across the crowd to reach the side where they could get some air. Awesome concert though.

Saw the Smashing Pumpkins in 1992 at a little bar with maybe 250 people totally squeezed in there.

Saw Verve in 1994 (before they changed their name to The Verve) with about 100 people in Cincinnati. Nobody had really heard of them at that point.

For a kind of bizarre David Bowie/Sex Pistols cross: The Psychedlic Furs. My favorite band ever. They are still touring and still are quite good. Need to see them at a good concert venue where you can get near the stage. If it's a theater with assigned seating then it will not be good and you shouldn't go. Been there done that. have seen the Furs about 12 times in total I think.

I would be perfectly happy turning this into the All Psychedelic Furs thread...but I would be afraid of being the only one participating.

So ****ing lucky.

They came to OKC in 95 for their Mellon Collie tour and it was right around my birthday, I was like 15 iirc. I was a HUDGE pumpkin head, even shaved my head cause Corgan did. The only thing I wanted for that birthday was to go see them live. My father didn't let me. The next day I had to go to school and all the other kids were talking about how great it was ... I lied and said I was there too. One of the greatest missed opportunities of my life. Something I'll never ever ever forget.

They're coming to Oklahoma later this month for their Oceana tour but I don't have the money to go :/

Probably the song where Richard Butler sounds the most like David Bowie imo



As well as this one that I can't embed:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25...t-in-you_music

furs are pretty decent imo

Yeah, this one was pretty sick. And I totally lucked out. Friend of mine had played some bootleg cassette something-or-other with them to share with me otherwise I would never have known about them. I was 21 in Madison, Wisconsin and some bar was doing a Thursday night summer concert series....mostly jazz or folk or blues and maybe 30 people would show up. But they booked Smashing Pumpkins early and by the time the concert came around their popularity was surging.

When I got there I found out the whole thing was sold out. It was crushed inside. There were 300 people in line outside hoping to get in with like no chance. It was stupid. I was going to leave.

Made friends with the chick in line in front of me. She just started asking random people walking in and out "got any extra tickets?" It was stupid. People were laughing. Ummm, if anyone had extras they could sell them for $50 right there and then. But I was clowning around with her just asking all the rando's.

Then this totally stoned idiot says, "ummm, yeah. My buddy inside has a couple we didn't use." And we're like "WHAT?!" "Okay, I'll go get him."

And I'm telling the girl how there is no way possible the super-stoned guy is even going to remember our conversation by the time he gets to the door and just not a chance he actually is coming back with tickets. Like 5 minutes later, he came back. He said, "well, they're $5. You missed the opening band, but I'm still going to ask for $5 because that's what we paid." He was acting like he thought he was ripping us off and was trying to get away with it.

So me and the girl went "WOOT!!!" and skipped our merry way past like 100 more people in front of us and right through the door.

It was hotter than hot and a total sweat-pit. Girls were taking their shirts off and just watching the show in their bras. Between bands they were playing all sorts of disco and everyone was going crazy. And then Smashing Pumpkins came on and they were insanely insanely good.

Concert experience I'm most jealous of is a good friend of mine who got to see Roger Waters performing The Wall in Berlin in 1990.

Probably the one artist I most regret not going to see is Michael Jackson. Freak though he may have been, he was quite the performer. Next on my list would be Prince, who I might still have a chance to see, but I haven't been to a concert for quite a while.

Seattle and Spokane for Psych Furs, Bobo. Looks like two good venues. Make a road-trip. Let them blast your ears out!! Totally worth it.

I can't even go to see them on this coming tour. When they come to my region for FOUR freaking dates in a row at nearby cities and venues, I'm on a damn hockey road-trip.

So unfair.

I wish I could have seen Hendrix and Zappa and Nirvana and Layne Staley AIC imo. Lots of bands I wish I could have seen though.

Top on my list to see aorn are the Pumpkins just to try to make up for not getting to see them as a teenager, the Pixies if they tour again, Dinosaur Jr. and Shellac. Really really want to see Shellac imo.

Joy Division wins

gg

Pink Floyd in the 90s is the one that got away for me. Had a chance to see them and did not go.

Huge regret

DB & DG (classic)

In the '80's only made it to a couple major concerts, Bowie was one of them, Chicago was the other. Both fantastic. Late '90s caught the Who, Kiss, Stray Cats and Brian Setzer post Stray Cats.

Couple years ago had a cool experience. Was technical directing one of those NBC Holiday on Ice Shows and REO Speedwagon was the musical guest. Their manager stopped in the TV truck to go over the song list and clue us in on what to feature. I mentioned to him that I worked with Sean Cronin, the lead singer's brother when he was the weekend weatherman at the station I started out at. About an hour later Kevin Cronin comes into the truck and asks "Who knows my brother?" and we had a fun chat. The entire band joined the crew at the wrap party and the hotel and a great time was had by all. Very cool of them.

While I was searching for the DB vid w/PF I decided to listen to a few tracks from the early Syd Barrett days...so awesome...anyway, came across this old interview with SB and RW that I've never seen b4. OMG ITS PRICELESS!

What is it you do/did? And how did you get to be working for a poker book publishing company?

lol Hans guy what a dbag imo


he found pink floyd to be boring and too loud

lolz

Still do video production. Not on the payroll here. My company runs the retail operation for 2+2. Was introduced to and have been friends of Sklansky & Malmuth for over 15 yrs.

Me a couple days ago after switching the Martinez/Chavez international feed:

...the pink floyd...and i don't want to prejudice you...

oh rly

(interesting stuff PP btw)

awesome floyd vid


lololololololololol at Hans Keller

Awesome. Since we're on the topic of music

Any music videos or concert films you've really liked or thought were done really well, from a professional standpoint? What about disliked or thought were done terribly?

Cant think of any that really sucked. Queen at Wembley Stadium was one of the first Blue-Ray DVDs that I bought. Thought that was pretty good.

I suppose we are just going to do R&R.....Huge blues fan

Allman Brothers post Duane several times
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Blood Sweat Tears
Dickie Betts and Great Southern
Jimmie Buffet
Chicago played at my HS freshman year- Chicago I
CSN
Clapton-Slow Hand
ELO- Face The Music
Dan Fogelberg- Souvenirs
Foreigner
Peter Frampton- Comes Alive
Fabulous Rhinestones
J Geils
Grateful Dead (sin to not just say The Dead.....)
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick
Journey- just a month ago in Boise (w/Loverboy)
Kansas- Song for America
Kiss- Dressed To Kill
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Second Helpings
Dave Mason
Van Morrison- His Band and Street Choir
The Outlaws- The Outlaws, Lady In Waiting
Bob Seger- Night Moves
Bruce- The Wild, Inno,E St, Born To Run
Rod Stewart
Santana
Southside Johnny
Robin Trower- Bridge of Sighs
Jesse Colin Young
Neil Young- Harvest, Zuma
Yes
ZZ Top

Lol, I started the list and then had to backtrack and look through my music collection (which is why this is alphabetical). Fairly certain there are a few missing. Lived in northern NJ and it was 45 minutes to Madison Square Garden. Also during college, my frat house had 3 members on the Concert board.....my worst seats were probably 8th row..though can't say for sure with the haze all around.

Best: I was caught in the early Bruce hype so....Born To Run. Black Sabbath and Robin Trower.

Missed: of all the regrets, I really didn't get into the Stones until much later in life. Had a few shots at them in the early/mid 70's....just never pulled the trigger. Still want Zep.