Question: One artist you're really glad you got to see

MonkeyZero said:
Fine. STP before Weiland died.
Alice in Chains before Staley died.
Nirvana before Cobain died.
Jesus. I need to branch out from 90's dead lead singer music.
Oh wait, Soundgarden before Cornell died.
What have I done with my musical choices?
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One!
 
Devil is Dill said:
Elvis Costello
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You know, buddy of mine dragged me out to see Elvis because my friend is a bucketlisting, gotta catch em all music fan. And I’m kinda not glad I saw him. The show was all wrong—lame venue, weird crowd, silly wheel of songs reunion show. I couldn’t connect with it and I’ve sort of fallen out of love with an artist I used to dig because that show just put me off.

I’m fairly certain the venue was 90% of it. It’s this awful backyard dump hipster party time outside deal in downtown KCMO. I saw a super shitty DBTs show there too.
 
Peen Simmons said:
You know, buddy of mine dragged me out to see Elvis because my friend is a bucketlisting, gotta catch em all music fan. And I’m kinda not glad I saw him. The show was all wrong—lame venue, weird crowd, silly wheel of songs reunion show. I couldn’t connect with it and I’ve sort of fallen out of love with an artist I used to dig because that show just put me off.

I’m fairly certain the venue was 90% of it. It’s this awful backyard type dump hipster party time outside deal in downtown KCMO. I saw a super shitty DBTs show there too.
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The first time I saw him was at a casino. It was the first show of the tour and the room was not really conducive to a show like that. Also the casino staff was kind of rude. I saw him a few months later and he was playing at a local college theater that holds maybe 1000 people and it was much better, he was actually interacting with the crowd and the set list was better.
 
People, people, people.

ONE artist.

I, too, could name a bunch. Pink Floyd, Earl Scruggs, Zappa...

But I didn't.

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Fuck just one.
My favorites were: Prince in '83, Muddy Waters (+Pinetop Perkins) in '77 opening for Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan at Fitzgerald's in '82, Frank Zappa in '81.

Honorable mentions: B.B King, Los Lobos accoustic, Buddy Rich, The Stan Kenton Orchestra, The Kinks, Ozzy with Randy Rhoads weeks before his death, Taj Mahal, Johhny Winters (Edgar opened), The Brothers Johnson, opened for The Quincy Jones Orchestra, Tedeschi Trucks Band.
 
rickenvox said:
so this thread isn't about painters and sculptors?

Ummm . . . Allen Ginsberg
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Ginsberg came to my college back in the mid-80's, but it was barely announced, so maybe 20 of us showed up. He gave a reading from something he was working on at the time -- some kind of lucid dreaming stream-of-consciousness of seeing a large structure in the distance arcing with blinding light and belching flames and smoke. Weird, unsettling stuff.

I've looked for it in his published works after 9/11 because it seemed eerily prescient, but I've never been able to track it down.
 
just thinking about mostly deceased ones,
The Band
Carlos Montoya
Jerry and the boys of course
Tom Petty
Skynyrd before the crash
Count Basie
Leon Russell
John Prine
Johnny Winter
Lester Flatt, Bill Monroe, Don Reno, Doc Watson, Jimmy Martin, and many more BG old timers, never got to see Earl tho.
 
Carlos Montoya was great, had a drink with him after his set at a tiny blues bar. Super nice guy

I would say BB King but he was 80 at the time and wasn't so animated though played well and was very entertaining. So I'll go with Prince because I went with a terrible cold and still thought it was one of the best concerts I had ever seen
 
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