did someone recently mention the talking heads.

good move

I was in a pizza place yesterday for about 25 minutes and just during that time heard a song from the Cars and Duran Duran. Having read this post a few days ago it struck me as funny.

This Gen X-er sees what you did there

Also, I'm shocked anyone alive doesn't know Pour Some Sugar on Me. If you know nothing else by Def Leopard, that song seems ubiquitous.

The Who are legends, obv. Zep as well. Duran Duran was huge, Cars & DL were pretty big too.

Seen a lot of old English dudes in concert. Yes, Black Sabbath, Roger Waters, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, The Who, Stones. Still have to see Radiohead before they get too old!

Radiohead is amazing in concert

Radiohead is great. Really need to see them live. Saw Thom Yorke a couple months ago, and was blown away by both the music and his light show.

Also talking heads is in my top 5 favorite bands of all time. Psycho killer is a great song, but to really appreciate TH you gotta dig deeper. I really believe "remain in light" is one of the best albums ever made. Crosseyed and Painless, The great Curve, Once in a lifetime. Arguably the best 3 concurrent tracks on any album outside dark side of the moon or abbey road

Wish I knew how to embed vids, but their "Live in Rome" show really demonstrates what they're all about. David Byrne also on my must see list.

https://youtu.be/gyDb4szpWmc

As I read the above TH/David Byrne post, I'm listening to a cover of Crosseyed by Delta Nove, a great band outta Long Beach. Synchronicity at it's finest.

Totally agree with the TH sentiment. They really are/were one of the best of their generation (IMO), and woefully under-appreciated.

I passed on DB's show last year, and one of my concert buddies said it was the best show he saw last year. I believe him.

Saw him last month in New York with David J. ****ing excellent. Double Dare is still GOAT live.

Squeeze are touring later this year. Just FYI.

They still got it (IMO)

Favorite Talking Heads song: Life During Wartime.



Back on topic of old Brits, taking the wife to see one of her all time favorites in June: Jeff Lynne & ELO.

I had no idea ELO was a British band.

Apropos of nothing, a friend (different concert buddy from before)(I have a lot of concert buddies. I have eclectic tastes and go see a lot of concerts) claims that had the Beatles stuck together, they would have eventually become ELO. I'm not sure I believe him, but I can sorta see it.

On topic: Saw Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets tour Tuesday night. For an old English musician, he put on a great show! A bunch of early Pink Floyd that I'd never thought I'd see live. Band was great (Nick plays drums, ldo), the Roger Waters character sounded really good, and the two guitarists really did a good job being Gilmour. Nice little tribute to Rick Wright, also.

Another great tune. I've heard the live album stop making sense like a million times, but have never watched all the video.

That little choreographed jig they're doing is super cool. Thanks for posting

I posted this in the Mexico City thread in travel, but figured I'd repeat myself here for the Metric fans. Last week I was having a meal in a fancy restaurant in Mexico City. The restaurant has an inside and outside seating area and we manage to snag one of the remaining spots outside. As we’re wrapping up our meal, a woman walks past us to have a smoke. She looks really cool: shaggy, razor cut blonde hair, dressed all in black, including leather shorts, and she carries herself like a badass. My friend notices her as well and says “That chick looks like a rock star”. We’re still checking her out when she finishes her cigarette and walks back, and I realize its Emily Haines from Metric. I look inside the restaurant and there is the whole band having dinner. I’m a total Metric fangirl and I kind of lose my ****. My friend doesn’t really know them though. She’s also had two more glasses of wine than me, and so she says she’s gonna bum a cigarette off the next band member who steps outside, which turns out to be the drummer. We end up chatting to him for a while. It was funny, because we were playing it cool and not letting on that we knew who he was, while he kept dropping hints that he was a BIG DEAL, which we would just ignore. I asked him how often he went on tour and his reply was, “Not as often as we used to, because, you know…we’re kind of established.” Nope, I’m still not biting! He ended up offering to put us on the guestlist, but we were leaving the next day and couldn’t take him up on the offer. Our conversation ended when the band came out of the restaurant and Emily yelled at him that they were leaving. He gave us both a hug and then ran to join them.

TL;DR I got to be a groupie for 15 minutes.

hahaha....that's pretty cool, Jo

The wife and I made it to see Jeff Lynne and ELO in Anaheim a couple of weeks ago. Great show! If this tour is coming to a city near you I highly recommend checking it out. Lynne still sounds really good. It always amazes me how these guys in their 70's still kick ass.

very cool!

Seeing Peter Frampton at Red Rocks in a few weeks. Will report back.

Dominic, I saw Built to Spill tonight. They were great.

Always wanted to see Built to Spill....did they play a long jam of Going Against Your Mind?

Flew into Denver on Tuesday and my nephew picked me up at the airport. His family is visited his in-laws so it was boys time for the next couple of days. Late wednesday afternoon we headed out to Red Rocks. Stopped along the way for some sandwiches and beer for the parking lot. Once we got to the lot it looked as if it was going to rain. We set up some chairs and ate our sandwiches and drank some beer.

When it was closer to show time we started walking up the hill to enter the amphitheater. Of course that is when it started to rain. Hard. We found a place that was somewhat sheltered and stopped to wait it out. Lots of people were heading back down towards the parking lot and we heard there was a weather delay. My nephew got on twitter for updates, and when the rain eased up we headed back to the car for some more beer.

In the car we were debating when to head back up when he said, "It's probably ok if we miss some of the opening act". What? Opening act? First I'd heard of it (he bought the tickets). He checked the tickets on his phone and, sure enough, there was an opening act. Jason Bonham. The only Bonham I knew about was John, but I thought it might be his son (it was). The rain let up and we headed back up the hill to get in.

The band was already playing when we entered the amphitheater from the bottom by the stage. The actual name of the group was Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience, or something like that. It was basically a straight Led Zeppelin cover band, a really good one, but still only a cover band. Not something I'd pay for as a main act, but as an opener, not bad. The best part was that the storm had moved off to the east and from our seats you could see the downtown Denver skyline lit up and lightning from the storm. They played an abbreviated set due to the weather delay, and then it was on to Frampton.

He started out with some classic 70s songs from Frampton Comes Alive. Then moved on to some of the more recent acoustic recordings. Did three songs from the just released blues album. He then did some songs from his 2006 Grammy winning instrumental album including a really, really good version of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun".

All though the set he would take time between songs and chat to the audience. Stuff like, "here's what I was doing when I wrote this" and "these guys played with me when I recorded this song". It was kind of odd for a venue of this size. Something you expect in a smaller, more intimate place. But it kind of worked. Basically "Old guy reminisces about his career.

He ended with more classic Frampton. At one point another short rain storm blew through that even got a lot of the stage wet, but he just kept on playing. Finale was of course "Do You Feel Like We Do". The band came back out for an encore and did a few songs from the Humble Pie era.

All in all, it was a really good night. His voice wasn't really strong, but not bad for an old guy - I was kind of surprised to learn that he was "only" 69, I expected a decade older, he started young - and singing was never his strong suit anyway. The guitar playing was first rate. It's hard to say if it was as good as it ever was, but in the moment at a live show it was outstanding.


I only got one half decent picture.

Damn, one state away, and he's not playing in Az til Sept 26. That's a lot of dates/miles between now and then. I hope he holds up. Did he talk about his illness?

Maybe I'll search the ticket brokers for a cheap seat in Phoenix in Sept. Seems like it might be worth seeing?

He only mentioned it in passing. Something like "You may know about my situation, but this is what I was meant to do, and I love doing it. I appreciate all of you for coming."


I would do it again. (And might!)