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

- The Replacements before they were revered, and while Bob was still alive
- GG Allin
- The Dead Kennedys (Flipper opened, great show)
- The Clash
- A bunch of the In Utero tour
- Echo & The Bunnymen before cocaine and Pete's death
- Prince in the 80's
- the Spacemen 3
- the Black Angels before "new psych" blew up
- Lloyd Cole when his band was Matthew Sweet, Robert Quine, Fred Maher and one of the Commotions. Sweet Jesus.
- the Flaming Lips before mass adulation
- New Order in 1981
- the Gun Club
- Nick Cave before mass adulation
- Moby in the 90's

I don't dig the whole "I was into their early stuff" bit, but as far as live performances go, I feel like a lot of bands just played better when they had something to prove (not all - U2 was outstanding but entirely the same throughout several stages of their career when I saw them, and Nirvana really didn't do transcendant shows IMO until near the end)
 
Too many to stop at just one:

Randy Rhoads
Ronnie James Dio
Neil Peart
Gary Moore
Cliff Burton

...among others
 
Saw Ronnie Cox a couple years ago. Wasn’t on my bucket list.

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I would be remiss if I didn't mention Big Top. Haven't heard of them, you say? Nay, few had. But if you hung around Boston's clubs in the early 90's, you may have seen one of their few gigs.

Membership in "Big Top" was self-directed, flexible, and voluntary. If you knew a guy named Hyde ("band" "leader"), and were willing to show up without a) practicing; b) any instrument you knew how to play; or c) a sense of decency - then you were in!

You're a bassist? Not tonight! You now play ... trombone! Drummer? How about "tuba player?" Perhaps you're a singer .... have some castanets!

Why was it called Big Top? Because all that was played was circus / carny music.

This whole fucking trainwreck yielded 12-14 people on stage, working away at instruments they couldn't really play, doing long jam versions of "Lady of Spain."

Acid trip trainwreck only covers the first 15 minutes. The remaining half hour was like living in an endlessly looping Jodorowsky movie.

I'm so glad I saw that shit.
 
Danhedonia said:
I would be remiss if I didn't mention Big Top. Haven't heard of them, you say? Nay, few had. But if you hung around Boston's clubs in the early 90's, you may have seen one of their few gigs.

Membership in "Big Top" was self-directed, flexible, and voluntary. If you knew a guy named Hyde ("band" "leader"), and were willing to show up without a) practicing; b) any instrument you knew how to play; or c) a sense of decency - then you were in!

You're a bassist? Not tonight! You now play ... trombone! Drummer? How about "tuba player?" Perhaps you're a singer .... have some castanets!

Why was it called Big Top? Because all that was played was circus / carny music.

This whole fucking trainwreck yielded 12-14 people on stage, working away at instruments they couldn't really play, doing long jam versions of "Lady of Spain."

Acid trip trainwreck only covers the first 15 minutes. The remaining half hour was like living in an endlessly looping Jodorowsky movie.

I'm so glad I saw that shit.
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This is what I'm talking about!

ONE spectacular show.
 
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