Originally Posted by Bellhorn04
I had an apartment fire once in my early 20s-- everything I owned (and I didn't own much) was gone. I found it one of the most liberating events of my life (although I had only lived there a couple of months--unlike these other cases noted above, it didn't have much history with it.). (Let's see, what am I listening to--I think it's going to be Donizetti, Fille du Regiment!--probably not among the big hits here!)
The greatest concert I've ever been to, and I've been to over 200, was the Talking Heads in Portland, Maine f(8/6/83) or their Speaking in Tongues tour.
Set List:
First Set:
Psycho Killer
Heaven
Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
Love -> Building On Fire
The Book I Read
Slippery People
Cities
Big Blue Plymouth
Burning Down The House
Life During Wartime
Second Set:
Making Flippy Floppy
Swamp
What A Day That Was
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Once In A Lifetime
Big Business
I Zimbra
Houses In Motion
Genius Of Love
Girlfriend Is Better
Take Me To The River
Encore: Crosseyed & Painless
Other favorite concerts:
The Psychedelic Furs at The Orphium in Boston around 1981 (Mirror Moves tour)
David Byrne at some place in Harvard
Lou Reed at Great Woods
The Grateful Dead Cumberland County Civic Center in the late 70's and ar Oxford Speedway, ME (2 shows and camping) in the 80's.
I'll think or more...
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
They started with Psycho Killer, that would get you going. That band was something else, just so much something the USA wasn't use to. I wasn't too much a fan of it at the time, but later on I found super appreciation for that band.
What was the attraction to the Grateful dead? I feel like I'm missing something there. I know I would have loved being at a concert, but I never really got into the music. I have the feeling if I was in the right mood, it I might have taken more of a liken to it.
Camping for a couple days at a concert is the best. Did that quite a few years in the mountains just out of Tokyo. Top notch artist were there, top notch electronica djs were at night. If I had that "Back to the Future" Delorean, imagine going back and visiting music festivals throughout the ages. Elvis, Buddy Holly, Creedence, Zep....etc.
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
One band I saw during a SNOW STORM LATE MARCH in Austin. First SWSX I been to. It was free in some crappy gas station parking lot. I was thinking, these guys are amazing. I saw them a few times later in the next few years in dive bars.
Then they became so popular they became an official SWSX band and you had to pay for the 350 dollar badge to see them.
Don't Break The Needle - J Roddy Walston and The Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn8M...5cJXwq&index=2
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
The Dead are best live. It's more the experience.
I remember seeing Eric Clapton a few weeks before my first Dead concert, and it was Jerry Garcia's guitar playing that blew me away. He just kept going on and on. Memebers of the band came and went as they rested, but Jerry stayed right there jamming away.
I kept almost all my ticket stubs and made a book out of them in chronological order.
The Who at Pontiac Silverdome was awesome. It was a weeks or so after the Cincy show where people got trampled to death.
I've seen the Who, Pink Floyd, U2, the Dead and of course coming from New England, Blue Oyster Cult 3 or more times each.
I was lucky to see Tom Petty just months before he passed away.
The Tom Tom Club was special.
I'm dying to see Sonic Youth, Cat Stevens, Robyn Hitchcock and the Mountain Goats.
Here's two from the Mountain Goats:
FM
Prana Ferox
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Never heard of this band or song. There is still so much to discover. Think about how so much is out there untapped.
Thanks.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
I'd love to see the WHO and I'm a huge Cat Stevens fan. I can sing Van Morrison's Moondance song anytime, anywhere.
You edge me a bit in years, just a bit. And I was as much as a angry youth as I am today an angry adult. So my beginning music shows years were Metallica and Iron Maiden and Ministry and Helmet. But I grew up on the stuff you listened to and learned to appreciate what I didn't know quite soon after my heavy metal years. If I had to do it all again, I'd be a hippie. But with a shaving razor for the gals armpits.
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In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
I suggest everybody listen to this song. Very sad and poignant, but beautiful at the same time:
The Night We Met - Lord Huron
This Is Us - Jimmie Allen, Noah Cyrus
Yes, that's Miley's sister
I skipped heavy metal pretty much all together.
I was a huge Who fan in college. That's where the "moon" comes from in my site name: Keith Moon.
I recently videoed me singing "Where do the Children Play" and "Oh, Very Young" and posted them on Facebook. I've been told I sound just like him.
Moondance is a classic. One of my favorite Van Morrison songs is...
TB Sheets
It's a great remake of an old John Lee Hooker tune...
TB Sheets
-John Lee Hooker
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
I saw Sonic Youth on the Washing Machine tour and they were disappointing - I'm not sure they played any tracks from Dirty, which is my favorite album by far.
Priorities:
1. Yankees lose
2. Red Sox win
Priorities:
1. Yankees lose
2. Red Sox win
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