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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2021 18:21:26 GMT -5
I'll Start, Roy Buchanan, live at a venue in Wildwood NJ on his first national tour, that is my number one very best guitar pickin show I ever saw. I was there with Steve Weinglass (now a Hollywood actor, producer, and bitchin bass player) and Joe Citta Jr. and my first wife, then named Pat. Both of the other guys were recent graduates of Berkley School of Music. Roy stunned us to silence with his playing. None of us spoke a word in the way home. About 3/4ths of the way home on the Garden State Parkway, I had to stop at a toll both at which time someone said "whew", not another word was spoken until our good nights a half hour later. After your replies I will post my second best show ever. And on and on........
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Post by jbone on Feb 3, 2021 9:40:43 GMT -5
Hard to choose. J. Geils Band, Jethro Tull, Johnny winter, SRV, The Who, James Harman, Koko Taylor, Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets with Sam Myers, also sort of saw the Allmans, the Dead, and The Band at Summer Jam '73 from about a half mile away. Total sea of people in between.
I think the era is a factor.
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Post by whitefang on Feb 3, 2021 10:51:17 GMT -5
I'm with Bone. Hard to choose. Lessee..... There was my first concert, Jimi Hendrix with Soft Machine and the MC5 opening for him.... ('68) John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra opening for Emerson, Lake and Palmer... ('71) The Bob Seger concert(that wound up part of the "Live Bullet" LP) ('76) How about the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (under Neeme Jarvi) perfomance of Beethoven's 9th symphony( 1991)?  Whitefang |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2021 11:14:34 GMT -5
Neil Young With Crazy Horse, just after he released his Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Album. I sat right in front of the stage, 10 Feet from Niel, center stage at The Electric Factory in Philly. He did his acoustic set by himself first, when he was out there for his acoustic set, it was super intimate between he and the audience. Then he brought out Crazy Horse and they rocked the place big time. One of the best shows I have ever seen.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2021 16:41:36 GMT -5
I was also at the original Woodstock Festival at Max Yasgurs Farm in upstate N.Y. I couldn't wait to get outta there, of course LBI was a mini Woodstock, parties every night lots of good substances. So I beat it outta the Woodstock concert after only one night there.
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Post by whitefang on Feb 4, 2021 11:12:20 GMT -5
The closest me and some buddies got to Woodstock was Parma, Ohio where the car we had died. I liked just about every live show I've seen(with the exception of Steppenwolf and Uriah Heep, both who sucked big time live). Of course, there was ('in '72) Jo Jo Gunne opening for The Mahavishnu Orchestra, or later, The Mahavishnu Orchestra opening for Frank Zappa( '73). John McLaughlin's SHAKTI opening for Weather Report ('76). Or earlier that year, , Jan Hammer Group opening for the final incarnation of the Mahavishnu Orchestra (the "Inner worlds" tour) OK, imagine under the influence of a good hit of mescaline, hearing THESE live! Then too, there was his BELO HORIZONTE tour with the very talented Labeque sisters opening. Blew the ROOF off the place! Whitefang |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2021 13:58:55 GMT -5
I once saw a show at the Arena in Philly, Chicago, The Young-bloods, and Santana on their first national tour. Santana smoked them all, and they were the opening act. Compared to how Santana rocked back in those days I don't think many bands or acts could have followed them, Chicago tried but were not up to it and neither were the Young-bloods.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2021 14:02:11 GMT -5
The worst show I ever saw was Grand Funk Railroad, not because they played bad, they were just way to freekin loud for the venue. (The Electric Factory in Philly which was a relatively small room) My ears hurt for days after GFR and their wall of Marshall's. I liked their recordings but never went to another show they did.
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Post by whitefang on Feb 10, 2021 11:08:02 GMT -5
Speaking of loud---- We weren't at the show per se, but near the middle of the Detroit River behind Cobo Arena when Ted Nugent had a show there. And we could actually hear it way out in that boat!  Felt sorry for the folks in there. But while going through my DVDs of the first five seasons of NBC's "Saturday Night" and seeing tow of his appearances on that show I'd have to backtrack and say the most unique and pleasant live shows I've ever attended was when we went to see LEON REDBONE at the Royal Oak theater in '78. Think what you like, but in my opinion, Leon was probably one of the most original acts in music in the '70's to the early '80's. Bear in mind that when I saw him, he was still wearing that huge Panama hat and playing his mahogany Martin. This clip is from '12 I think..... Whitefang |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2021 13:10:49 GMT -5
I was never a big fan of Leon Redbone, but he was unique in what he did, which he did very well. I never saw him in a live show however. Maybe seeing him live instead of in a 3 minute TV appearance, would have given me a different take on him and his works.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2021 13:17:26 GMT -5
Eric Clapton with Derek & the Domino's on that bands first national tour, I saw them at the Electric Factory in Philly that night. That is the cleanest bit of guitar work that I have ever seen. Clapton was flawless that night. And the band was stellar as well, not as exciting as Cream for me, but still super excellent.
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Post by jbone on Feb 10, 2021 18:35:58 GMT -5
My first real concert was J. Geils in 1973. To me it was a great show, they were the total party boogie blues band package. Magic Dick on harp, J. Geils on guitar, and Peter Wolf on vocals, they killed. I saw many more over the years, The Who, Jethro Tull, Johnny Winter, Gary Wright, Head East, Santana, Tom Petty, John Campbell, Chris Whitley, SRV twice, Tab Benoit twice, James Harman three times, Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets with and without Sam Myers, Taj Mahal, Buddy Guy, Duke Robillard. Grateful Dead, The Band, and The Allmans, but I was like 3/4 of a mile from the stage- no lie- and it was just pandemonium. Joan Baez. Bob Dylan twice. Young gospel blues guy back in '03 or so, Slick Ballinger. Some of the old delta guys like Robert Belfour, Honeyboy Edwards, and Pinetop Perkins. Albert Collins. Willie King.
Some I didn't care for, I thought Buddy Guy was a total hot dog, never finished a song he started the whole concert. Taj was into a kind of funk rock thing that I didn't like, I'd been expecting something much more organic, Head East was just one more early hair band. SRV was definitely so damn loud, it hurt. But made sense after a little while. I actually saw his brother Jimmie once and liked him better!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2021 19:22:11 GMT -5
Some I didn't care for, I thought Buddy Guy was a total hot dog, never finished a song he started the whole concert. I saw Buddy Guy with Junior Wells back in the day at a local club called the Rip Tide. I was sitting 10 feet from center stage and they put on a great show. Buddy came out with a Gibson ES 335 style guitar (Same style as BB King used) Anyways he started out playing the thing without any amplification and that room full of people were not paying any attention at all to the stage, slowly but surely the crowd started shutting up until you could hear Buddy's acoustic only pickin. At that time he bumped up the volume a little bit, then a little bit until the band jumped in I enjoyed the show a bunch. |
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Post by jbone on Feb 10, 2021 22:22:06 GMT -5
He did a great acoustic work woith Junior Wells which informed some of our style in J and J. Alone and Acoustic. But the time sure came when he went balls out high volume wank.
I got to see BB King in Little rock of all places I just remembered.
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Post by whitefang on Feb 11, 2021 11:06:39 GMT -5
I saw Buddy Guy with Junior Wells back in the day at a local club called the Rip Tide. I was sitting 10 feet from center stage and they put on a great show. Buddy came out with a Gibson ES 335 style guitar (Same style as BB King used) Anyways he started out playing the thing without any amplification and that room full of people were not paying any attention at all to the stage, slowly but surely the crowd started shutting up until you could hear Buddy's acoustic only pickin. At that time he bumped up the volume a little bit, then a little bit until the band jumped in I enjoyed the show a bunch. Y'know, B.B. was playing a 335 when I saw him at the Grande in '68. But I've seen old LP covers of his that showed him slinging a Gibson Fat 400, much like Chuck Berry did too in earlier times. And too, B. B. wore a very oily looking "process" hair style. We're talking late '50's here. But too, DBM... Redbone is pleasant listening from a recording. Try "On The Track" and learn that even REAL old tunes can be good listening. WEATHER REPORT too, was a good show. Both times I saw them. Whitefang |
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Felt sorry for the folks in there.